Waka Ama 2017
The Queen Lili’uokalani Experience
After a long 8 hour flight, a full day of shopping at Ala Moana Shopping Centre in Honolulu, and a second flight to Kona, we finally arrived at our hotel for the week. Day 1 On our first day in Kona the team headed down to the race base at Kamakahonu...
1 Week Till Hawaii
FINALLY MADE 30KM Our team has started to dial down trainings as we get closer to Hawaii, however over the last couple of Saturday trainings our team was finally able to meet our goal by reaching 30km at training. As you can see the weather hasn’t...
2 Weeks Till Hawaii
GYM TRAINING To make sure our team is performing at the best of our ability, the university has provided us with free gym memberships, as well as our own personal trainer. Each of us met with the PT individually and completed a basic fitness test, and from this our...
3 Weeks Till Hawaii
On Water Training After The Great Waka Ama race finished our team had a break from trainings for about a week, then we got back into it starting with two on water trainings a week, one on Monday nights after uni and the other on Saturday mornings. Then in May we...
Engineering Students Journey to Hawaii
With only 6 weeks left to go we thought we better let you know how things are going. So if you didn’t know already, The University of Auckland's Engineering Waka Ama Team is currently in training to go and compete in Hawaii at the end of August. Who are we? We are...
