Where our Olympic athletes went to school

What school did you go to?

It’s a common question - and if New Zealand’s Olympic athletes in Rio asked each other, they’d get a wide range of answers.

From Kerikeri down to Invercargill, 116 different high schools played a part in producing the 202 athletes who represented their country at the Rio Olympics.

West Auckland high schools can lay claim to seven athletes with Avondale College, Green Bay High School and Kelston Boys High all producing some of the countries best.

Avodale College alumni and football fern Jasmine Pereira says it was ‘‘surreal’’ to think that she was now an Olympian.

‘‘It wasn’t so long ago that I was one of those kids in school assembly looking up to those athletes going to

‘‘It wasn't so long ago that I was one of those kids in school assembly looking up to those athletes going to the Olympics’’

Jasmine Pereira

the Olympics, thought it was pretty amazing, so to be part of it is quite special,’’ she says.

Auckland Grammar and Hamilton Boys were the pick of the nations educators, with eight representatives each. Six athletes did not attend high school in New Zealand.

The smallest school to play a part was Solway College, home to just 137 students.