Natabua on games ‘mission’
NATABUA High School will be fielding one of the largest contingents in the 2021 Coca-Cola Games this week at Suva's ANZ Stadium.
About 100 athletes will be carrying the hopes of the Western Division giants.
“We will be taking a 100-strong athletics squad and it has been one of the largest contingents that we have taken to participate at the Fiji Finals,” said school principal Virendra Sharma.
“Although it is an inexperienced squad compared to yesteryears, the coaches have done their best to ensure the athletes give their 100 per cent.
“The Lautoka-Yasawa athletics zone competition offered us an excellent opportunity to gauge our strength and weaknesses hence appropriate strategies have been adopted. It will be a very tough competition.”
Sharma said NHS would try its utmost best to replicate the historic achievements in 2015 when it was crowned the overall boys division winners and the first secondary school in the Western Division to create history. A feat repeated in 2017.
“We have learnt from our weaknesses all these years and we realise that other schools have really stepped up.
“The expectations are high for NHS each year and we will not be making the numbers because every school participating at the Fiji Finals hold a firm belief that they will take out the title. Natabua High School is no exception.”
The Lautoka-based school finished fourth in 2019 in the boys division with 13 medals winning four gold, two silver and seven bronze medals while the girls finished with a solitary bronze medal.
Ratu Kadavulevu School is the defending boys champions and ACS will be defending the girls division.