Verdon College senior prizes Dux
Sports
Athletics: intermediate boys Lachlan Baird, senior boys Jack Leadley, senior girls Abby Humm, best performance shotput or discus Mark Lieshout. Basketball: most improved player senior girls Shaney King, most valuable player senior girls Sahdina Anderson, most improved player senior boys Caleb Stodart, most valuable player senior boys Hamish Knight, contribution Mark Lieshout. Cricket: best allround Jacob Downing, most improved player Sam Downing. Crosscountry: senior boys champion Samuel Thornbury, senior girls champion Claudia Baird. Cycling: best senior cyclist performance Ella McCabe and Caitlin Breen, best offroad cyclist Connor Douglas. Football: most improved player girls Amy Crosswell, most improved player boys Jacob Downing, most outstanding player boy Laurent Edwards, 1st XI golden boot award Charles Abalos, best team spirit Dylan Holland, most outstanding player girls Jacinta Henderson, most valuable player Teagan Cross. Hockey: player of the year boys Lachlan Baird, captain’s trophy Scott Thurlow. Netball: most improved senior player Emily Calvert, most outstanding senior player Emma Hurley, senior A netball captain Distance Takamori, best team spirit Khyla MatiuWatson, most valuable contribution Holly Crosswell. Rowing: most valuable contribution Xavier Wright. Rugby: most improved player 1st XV Josh George, most valuable player 1st XV Thomas Lewis and Xavier Wright, best team spirit Thomas Lewis and Xavier Wright, most improved player under 17 Aidan de Ruyter, most valuable player under 17 Joel Baker. Girls rugby: most valuable player girls under 18 Amy Crosswell. Softball: most valuable player boys Scott Thurlow, most valuable player girls Haley Thurlow. Swimming: senior girls champion Kathy White, senior boys champion Samuel Thornbury. Triathlon/multisports: triathlon and multisport trophy Lachlan Baird. Touch rugby: most valuable contribution Distance Takamori. Volleyball: most outstanding contribution girls Kate MacManus, most outstanding contribution boys Bradley CarsonFearn. Water polo: most valuable player senior boys Mark Lieshout, most valuable player senior girls TeilahRose Templeton.
Special sports awards
NZ representative triathlon Sam Thornbury, NZ representative kick boxing TJay Pikia, best allround sportswoman TeilahRose Templeton, best allround sportsman Lachlan Baird, most outstanding sporting achievement Samuel Thornbury.
Cultural awards
Public speaking: senior public speaking Lisa Satoro, senior debating Kaitlyn CalvertShandley. Music: best conductor of house choirs Anthony Pereira, best accompanist of house choirs Sam Cullen and Tom van Eeden, outstanding contribution school music Samuel Cullen and Ryan Isaacs, senior instrumental Alexander Lindsay, outstanding contribution choral music Izaak Sanders, most promising music pupil Gabriel Lal, senior singing Ryan Isaacs. Drama: intermediate drama Jacob Collie/JemmaKate Holst, senior drama Mikaela Goodall, most entertaining performer Thomas Lewis, outstanding contribution school productions Sam Cullen and Ryan Isaacs.Writing: award prolific writing Autumn Marshall, special cultural award: senior contribution culture Sam Cullen.
Champagnat service awards
Year 11: Holly Crosswell, Keisha Crooks. Year 12: Kate MacManus, Bradley CarsonFearn, Claudia Baird, Breana Fahey, Kate Harrington, MadisonPaige Ridder, Dominic Fagerlund, Bethany Hughes, Destiny Naunau, Grace Prendergast.
Year 13: Thomas Lewis, Anthony Pereira, Kaitlyn CalvertShandley, Izaak Sanders.
Year 11
Meritorious achievement: Rebecca Hanning, Mya Peterson, Dominic Sutherland, Charles Abalos, Laurent Edwards, Jessica Mennell, Kaye Daleon, Charlotte Sherriff, Distance Takamori, Joaquin Diamse, Makensie Waddell, Emily Calvert, Aidan de Ruyter, Emma Hurley, Mia Segun, Audry Medina Osorio, Jan Janerol.
First: agriculture Keisha Crooks, religious studies, accounting, scientific mathematics Jan Janerol, information and communications technology Robert Reid, geography Mia Segun, English senior literature Mia Segun, mathematics and statistics Joaquin Diamse, design textiles technology Holly Crosswell, music Alexander Lindsay, Maori Ashanti McLean, graphics Charles Abalos, food and nutrition Emily Calvert, physical education, business studies, science Lachlan Baird, history Laurent Edwards, workshop technology Connall Breen, art Dominic Sutherland, Japanese Kaye Daleon, French Makensie Waddell.
Year 12
Meritorious achievement: Cheanna HendersonBlair, Bethany Hughes, Willow Gush, Amee HopeJohnstone, Hannah Morton, Claudia Baird, Chamique Mamolo, Emily Milne, Rebecca Payne, Rebecca Shirley, Lisa Satoro, Breana Fahey, Bradley CarsonFearn, Kate MacManus, Mathew Brooks.
First: agriculture Sam Perriam, tourism Kegan Tuffley, graphics, art Molly Batt, music Brendan Peters, finance, religious studies, mathematics with statistics, drama Mathew Brooks, English Bethany Hughes, chemistry, geography Jack Pagan, digital technology Dominic Fagerlund, physics, scientific mathematics, history, biology, design textiles technology Kate MacManus, physical education Breana Fahey, Maori Hurihia Tawaroa, gateway Samantha Ward, food and nutrition Julianne Diamse, hard materials technology Rick Grotemarsink, French Pierre Fabre, Japanese Cheanna HendersonBlair, Spanish Audry Medina Osorio.
Year 13
Meritorious achievement: Stephen Macann, Samantha Mennell, Anjelina NikoraWilson, Stacey Wilde, Autumn Marshall, Janina Baldomar, Kaitlyn CalvertShandley, Izaak Sanders, Tane Tamati, Olivia Brown, Sarah Hoffman, Lance Daleon, Hayley Lockett.
First:agriculture agribusiness trophy Hayden Reid, workshop technology Rory Horn, chemistry, accounting Dylan Holland, classical studies Autumn Marshall, mathematics with calculus Samantha Mennell, English, physics, biology, religious studies, Kaitlyn CalvertShandley, economics, food and nutrition Hayley Lockett, physical education Samuel Thornbury, mathematics with statistics Lance Daleon, art, design textiles technology Isaiah Okeroa, most dedicated art pupil Patrice Brookland, history, music Sam Cullen, geography Tane Tamati, graphics Stephen Macann, passion and performance in history Thomas Lewis, Maori Tyra Dunn.
Blues awards
Sam Cullen academic, cultural music; Olivia Brown academic; Sarah Hoffman academic; Kaitlyn CalvertShandley academic, cultural; Tane Tamati academic; Dylan Holland academic; Lance Daleon academic; Autumn Marshall academic; Samantha Mennell academic; Izaak Sanders academic; Anjelina NikoraWilson academic; Mikaela Goodall academic, cultural; Samuel Thornbury academic, triathlon; Patrice Brookland cultural dance; Ryan Isaacs cultural music; Samuel Downing cricket; Sahdina Anderson basketball; Xavier Wright rowing; Tyra Dunn basketball; Mark Lieshout outstanding contribution sport.
Scholarships
University of Otago Leaders of Tomorrow Entrance Scholarship Thomas Lewis; University of Otago New Frontiers Entrance Scholarship Matilda Boyle, Sarah Hoffman, Hayley Lockett, Samantha Mennell; University of Otago Performance Entrance Scholarship Mikaela Goodall, Abby Gear; University of Otago Maori Entrance Scholarship Abby Humm, Autumn Marshall, Anjelina NikoraWilson, Kaitlyn CalvertShandley, Tane Tamati; Otago Polytechnic Principal’s Leadership Scholarship Isaiah Okeroa; Annette Townley Scholarship achievement arts/ music Stacey Wilde.
Special awards
Bishop Boyle Trophy Ryan Isaacs; overcoming significant challenges Connor Douglas.
Special academic awards
Patricia Beehan Scholarship Sam Cullen; scholarship (outstanding contribution community spirit) Anthony Pereira; excellence in Maori leadership Destiny Naunau; year 13 Verdon citizenship Thomas Lewis; outstanding courtesy and cooperation Izaak Sanders; head boy Thomas Lewis; head girl Kaitlyn CalvertShandley; founders’ award Sam Cullen; proxime accessit Kaitlyn CalvertShandley; dux Dylan Holland.