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The McEvedy Shield is an annual athletics competition held in Wellington

Wellington

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, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, for four of the region's boys' secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

s. It is the largest annual athletics meet in the Southern Hemisphere

Southern Hemisphere

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, in terms of its number of athletes competing.

It was first held in 1922 and has become one of the highlights of the sporting calendar for the schools involved. The wooden shield, which is presented to the winning school, was donated in by Dr Patrick F. McEvedy to promote the spirit of athletic competition between the participating colleges.. An old boy of St Patrick's College, Wellington, Dr McEvedy went on to represent England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

in rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

.

The 2011 competition was held at Newtown Park on Tuesday 1 March.

Patrick McEvedy

The shield was donated by Patrick Francis McEvedy
Pat McEvedy
Patrick "Pat" Francis McEvedy was a rugby union player from New Zealand.) in 1922...

(17 March 1880, Taumata -- 2 March 1935, Wellington) in 1922. McEvedy attended St Patrick's, Wellington, from 1895 to 1898, before going to Guy's Hospital

Guy's Hospital

Guy's Hospital is a large NHS hospital in the borough of Southwark in south east London, England. It is administratively a part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. It is a large teaching hospital and is home to the King's College London School of Medicine...

in London

London

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to train as a doctor. He toured New Zealand in 1904 with Bedell-Sivwright's British team and again in 1908 with the Anglo-Welsh team. He later returned to Wellington and was Wellington Rugby Football Union

Wellington Rugby Football Union

The Wellington Rugby Football Union is the official governing body of rugby union in the city of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand...

President 1931-1933 and NZRFU President 1934-1935.

Events

The competition features fourteen track and field events across four age groups - under 14 years, under 15 years, under 16 years and over 16 years. For each event in each age group, four points are awarded for first place, three points for second place, two points for third place and one point for fourth place.

Track

100 metres

The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

, 200 metres

200 metres

A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

, 400 metres

400 metres

The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...

, 800 metres

800 metres

The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...

, 1500 metres

1500 metres

The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...

, and 3000 metres

3000 metres

The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...

, 80 metre hurdles

Hurdling

Hurdling is a type of track and field race.- Distances :There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. The standard long hurdle race is 400 meters for both men and women...

, 100 metre hurdles, 110 metre hurdles and 4 x 100 metres relay

4 x 100 metres relay

The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

Field

High jump

The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

, long jump

Long jump

The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

, triple jump

Triple jump

The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

, javelin

Javelin throw

The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

, discus

Discus

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and shot put

Shot put

The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

Participating Schools

Wellington College

Wellington College (New Zealand)

Wellington College is a state secondary school for boys in Mount Victoria in Wellington, New Zealand.-History:Wellington College opened in 1867 as Wellington Grammar School in Woodward Street, though Sir George Grey gave the school a deed of endowment in 1853. In 1874 it opened at its present...

and St. Patrick's College, Wellington

St. Patrick's College, Wellington

- History :Founded by Archbishop Francis Redwood SM, St Patrick's opened on June 1, 1885 with nine day-boys and twelve boarders.The College represents one of the earliest educational establishments of the Society of Mary the religious congregation whose members accompanied Bishop Jean Baptiste...

are the only schools that remain from the original competition in 1922, with Rongotai College

Rongotai College

Rongotai College is an all-boys state secondary school in the south-eastern suburb of Rongotai in Wellington, New Zealand. The students are aged 12 to 19.The decile 6 school has a roll of over 650 students...

first competing in 1928 and St Patrick's College, Silverstream

St. Patrick's College, Silverstream

St Patrick's College is an Integrated Catholic boys' day and boarding Secondary School located in Silverstream, Upper Hutt, New Zealand. It was established by the Society of Mary in 1931 when the original St Patrick's College, Wellington was intended to be moved to a larger site more suited to a...

taking part in the school's first year of existence, 1931.

Over the years there have been a number of schools that have taken part in the competition, including Hutt Valley High School

Hutt Valley High School

Hutt Valley High School is a state co-educational secondary school located in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. It is a uniformed school, with the uniform coming under review roughly every 5 years by the order of the Board of Trustee’s. The current principal is Ross Sinclair...

, Scots College

Scots College, Wellington

Scots College is a private boys' primary and secondary school located in the suburb of Strathmore Wellington, New Zealand. The College comprises both the primary and secondary institutions - the primary school section is typically referred to as the Preparatory School and has its own Head Teacher...

and Wairarapa High School (which shared the Shield in 1925 with Wellington College, and won outright in 1927). In the early 1980s it was decided that only the four traditional boys' schools would be able to compete.

In 2009, Scots College's attempt to rejoin the McEvedy Shield was unsuccessful.

Schools	First Competed	Last Competed	Total Competed	Wins
St Patrick's College, Wellington	1922	2011	89	17
St Patrick's College, Silverstream	1931	2011	80	14
Wellington College Wellington College (New Zealand) Wellington College is a state secondary school for boys in Mount Victoria in Wellington, New Zealand.-History:Wellington College opened in 1867 as Wellington Grammar School in Woodward Street, though Sir George Grey gave the school a deed of endowment in 1853. In 1874 it opened at its present...	1922	2011	89	48
Rongotai College Rongotai College Rongotai College is an all-boys state secondary school in the south-eastern suburb of Rongotai in Wellington, New Zealand. The students are aged 12 to 19.The decile 6 school has a roll of over 650 students...	1928	2011	83	7
Hutt Valley High School Hutt Valley High School Hutt Valley High School is a state co-educational secondary school located in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. It is a uniformed school, with the uniform coming under review roughly every 5 years by the order of the Board of Trustee’s. The current principal is Ross Sinclair...	1926	1980	54	3
Wairarapa College	1925	1951	24	2
Scots College	1922	1980	51	0
Wellington High School Wellington High School Wellington High School is a co-educational secondary school in downtown Wellington, New Zealand. In 2005 the roll was approximately 1100 students. It was founded, as Wellington College of Design, in the 1880s with the intention of providing a more appropriate education for the Dominion than the...	1922	1956	28	0
Hutt Valley Memorial College	1922	1956	16	0
Wellesley College Wellesley College (New Zealand) Wellesley College is a boys-only independent primary school in Day's Bay, Eastbourne, New Zealand.-History:Day's Bay House was built in 1903 for the Wellington Steam Ferry Company Limited which had made the heart of Day's Bay a destination resort and sports complex...	1922	1951	8	0
St Bernard's College	1953	1975	5	0
Naenae College	1953	1956	4	0
Heretaunga College Heretaunga College Heretaunga College is a secondary school located in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. It is co-educational and has approximately 800 students from Year 9 through to Year 13 ....	1953	1956	4	0
Raumati District High School	1954	1956	3	0
Onslow College Onslow College Onslow College is a decile 10 co-educational state secondary school located in Johnsonville, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. The school opened in 1956 to serve the city's rapidly-growing northern suburbs. The new Principal will be Mr. Peter Leggat, and he will begin at the start of the School...	1956	1956	1	0

Venue

The competition is held at Newtown Park

Newtown Park

Newtown Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Wellington, New Zealand. It is currently used mostly for football matches and athletic events. The main pitch has a 400 metre, all-weather rubberized athletics track around it, as well as the spectator stands and the corporate loungue...

, Newtown. Held during school hours, the entire student body of each school assembles to support its team. Because of the large number of spectators, the schools take turns sitting in the main stand. Each year two schools watch from the surrounding grass banks.

It has previously been held at the Basin Reserve

Basin Reserve

The Basin Reserve , is a cricket ground in Wellington, New Zealand, used for Test, first-class and one-day cricket. Some argue that its proximity to the city, its Historic Place status and its age make it the most famous cricket ground in New Zealand...

, Athletic Park

Athletic Park (Wellington)

Athletic Park was a well-known ground used mostly for rugby matches in Wellington, New Zealand. The ground was also the inaugural home of New Zealand's principal knockout football tournament, the Chatham Cup ....

and on the St Patrick's College grounds at Silverstream

Silverstream

Silverstream is a suburb of Upper Hutt in the lower North Island of New Zealand. It is at the southern end of the city close to the Taita Gorge, which separates Upper Hutt from Lower Hutt...

Results

Wellington College is the current shield holder. The college has won the Shield more times than any other school (48 in total). The College has won the Shield in twelve of the last seventeen years (exceptions were when St Patrick's College, Silverstream won in 2002 and 2003, and St Patrick's College, Wellington won in 1998, 2008 and 2010).

St Patrick's College, Silverstream has won the Shield fourteen times, and holds the record for the most consecutive Shield victories, winning six years in a row (1968 to 1973).

Rongotai College has triumphed seven times. The last occasion was in 1989.

Scores

2011

Place	College	Points
1st	Wellington College	184
2nd	St Patrick's College, Silverstream	150.5
3rd	St Patrick's College, Wellington	137.5
4th	Rongotai College	68

2010

Place	College	Points
1st	St Patrick's College, Wellington	185
2nd	Wellington College	172
3rd	St Patrick's College, Silverstream	100
4th	Rongotai College	85

2009

Place	College	Points
1st	Wellington College	182
2nd	St Patrick's College, Wellington	173
3rd	St Patrick's College, Silverstream	100
4th	Rongotai College	83

2008

Place	College	Points
1st	St Patrick's College, Wellington	174
2nd	Wellington College	160.5
3rd	St Patrick's College, Silverstream	125
4th	Rongotai College	76.5

2007

Place	College	Points
1st	Wellington College	176
2nd	St Patrick's College, Wellington	137
3rd	Rongotai College	126
4th	St Patrick's College, Silverstream	97

2006

Place	College	Points
1st	Wellington College	175
2nd	St Patrick's College, Silverstream	153
3rd	St Patrick's College, Wellington	117
4th	Rongotai College	94

2005

Place	College	Points
1st	Wellington College	175.5
2nd	St Patrick's College, Silverstream	135
3rd	St Patrick's College, Wellington	129.5
4th	Rongotai College	95

2004

Place	College	Points
1st	Wellington College	211
2nd	St Patrick's College, Silverstream	130
3rd	St Patrick's College, Wellington	103
4th	Rongotai College	96

2003

Place	College	Points
1st	St Patrick's College, Silverstream	182
2nd	Wellington College	163
3rd	St. Patrick's College, Wellington	108.5
4th	Rongotai College	81.5

Individual results, times, distances and current McEvedy records can be viewed at http://rongotaiathletics.weebly.com/mcevedy-results.html

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