Sport
Hamilton Boys' High School fields a number of sports teams in a variety of codes. In recent years it has won the New Zealand secondary schools competitions for rowing, cricket, rugby, touch rugby, rugby sevens and clay target shooting. Its football and hockey teams are also often in the top ten teams in New Zealand.
In particular, the school has won the Gillette Cup for schoolboy cricket three times since it was established in 1990, and it has won the Maadi Cup for rowing Eights seven times and the Springbok Shield for Fours fourteen times (a national record), including six years consecutively as well as many other national rowing titles.
The school is one of the Super 8 schools.
Hamilton Boys' High School competes regularly against another Hamilton school, St Paul's Collegiate. The two schools are traditional foes, and games between them generate intense but good-natured rivalry.
In 2009 the school won the national secondary rugby championship school for the second year in a row defeating St Bede's College in the final 17-0 and went on to win the 2010 Sanix World Rugby Youth Invitational Tournament, beating Truro College 40-8.
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