WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 THE DOMINION POST dompost.co.nz B13 with Liam Hyslop email:
[email protected] COLLEGE SPORT (04) 474-0279 Double hoopla for Rongotai youngsters BASKETBALL immensely. ‘‘We were blessed to fore this year’s win. talent at the school was having have those guys coaching us.’’ The past 15 years have not been kids train with the New Zealand RONGOTAI COLLEGE is on the Tupu, a Rongotai College old so kind to any Rongotai team. Basketball Academy. verge of a return to basketball rel- boy and teacher at the school, said The senior team has been in Both To’o and Vaigafa are part evance. they had tried to instil a ruthless and out of the premier division of it and were playing for the acad- That’s if their junior team is winning mentality into the team since 2006, dropping as low as the emy in Las Vegas when Rongotai anything to go by, having won the which they hoped would continue third-tier division two, while the suffered their only loss of the Wellington (Thompson Cup) and as they moved into the senior juniors’ best finish was a second to season, 67-62 against Wellington lower North Island junior titles team in the coming years. Wellington College in the 2010 College in round eight of the Wel- this season, losing just one game ‘‘That winning culture and Thompson Cup. lington competition. out of 19 along the way. mentality is important with this Tupu said installing an attract- Those two also combined to Shooting guard Ezrah Vaigafa group moving forward.