This year the athletics Auckland Champs are being held over a few weeks.
Yesterday the champs kicked off with the hurdles, which Mulan and Miya both competed in.
Miya came second in the Under 14 Women 80m hurdles:
While Mulan ran her first ever 100m hurdles race, coming third in the Under 18 Women's event:
The results are here.
The NCEA school exam results came through a few days ago. We looked eagerly at Mulan's numbers.
And well done her!
As always, as with any on-the-day performance, be it athletics, music, dance or academics, there were some bits where Mulan performed smoothly, while other bits were a little under what we know she can sometimes do. It's a snapshot in time, not an overall judgement. Important, interesting and useful, but only in its context.
Having said that, overall it was a very satisfying result and something to be proud of. I think it appropriately reflects what Mulan put into it -- her time, effort, seriousness, diligence, and, most importantly, investment-balance with the various other life areas in which Mulan is involved. She put time and effort into her academic studies, but it didn't take over from also equally putting time and effort into her dance, music and athletics, to also achieve well in those.
So, Mulan passed NCEA 1 with excellence endorsement.
She got excellence endorsements in Maths, Science and Music, while she got merit endorsements in English, Accounting and PE.
She passed all 121 credits she sat, with 79 at excellence level and 42 at merit level.
Along with doing NCEA level 1, in her extension English class she sat a level 2 unit. We were delighted that she passed this with merit, as in some of her earlier practices she hadn't done quite so well.
On the other hand, she didn't do quite so well in one of her Accounting units, getting merit rather than excellence. Even though the rest of her Accounting was all excellence, with the bad luck of the points calculation system this dropped her down to merit endorsement overall in Accounting. A little sad after she did so well in her school Accounting results, but that's the idiosyncratic nature of on-the-day performances.
Well done Mulan. Super proud of her!
Our family holiday this summer was down in Whanganui (mostly).
It was just a short trip, leaving on Wednesday 4th and arriving back home on Thursday 12th.
It was Whanganui this year because once again we were at the North Island athletics Colgate Games (like we did last year in Wellington and the year before in Inglewood). This year it was just Miya competing, as Mulan is too old (14 and unders only).
I'll write some more on this post but for now here's the important bits:
Here's Miya coming 4th in the final of the Grade 12 80m hurdles (15.24sec):
And here she is clearing 1.40m in the high jump to come 4th:
Both were new PBs for her. She did the shot put and discus too, but didn't throw as well as she sometimes does. She was also in the club's second relay team for her age, and they came 6th. The results are here.
