Sports
Sport is an integral part of Rosmini life, and the school has enjoyed success at regional level in many sports, particularly rugby. The College's Senior basketball team won a New Zealand National Secondary Schools title in 2011. In 1980, the College's Senior football team won the National Secondary Schools Football Championship.
The school has produced five All Blacks - Blair Larsen, Graham Dowd, Liam Barry, Rudi Wulf and Anthony Boric. Rosmini has also produced three Black Caps - Martin Snedden, Chris Pringle and Chris Drum. Adrian Blincoe, a Rosmini Old Boy, competed in the 5000m Men's race in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Martin Brill represented New Zealand in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1988 Seoul Olympics at Fencing, achieving 15th place and 7th place respectively in the Épée at those events - the best results achieved by any New Zealander in Olympic fencing to date. Another ex-Rosmini pupil, Paul Lyons, has also represented New Zealand at fencing.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)