Old Boys of the Year
These are our Tauranga Boys' College Old Boys' of the Year.
2009 - Mahe Drysdale
Mahe is an Olympic rowing gold medal winner and 5 time world champion in the single sculls. He won the supreme Halberg award in 2006 and was awarded Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2009.
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2010 - Sir Bruce Ferguson
Sir Bruce was Chief of Defence Force 2001-2006, he is Knight Companion of NZ Order Of Merit and a former Director of the Government Communications Security Bureau.
2011 - Ian Mune
Ian Mune is an actor, director, scriptwriter, author and producer. He wrote the movie Goodbye Pork Pie and directed There Came A Hot Friday featuring Billy T James, and What Became Of The Broken Hearted, the sequel to Once Were Warriors. Ian was awarded an OBE in 1991.
2012 - Dr Bryan Gould
Dr Gould is a past Vice Chancellor of University Waikato. He served as a British MP from 1974-1979 and 1983–1994. Dr Gould was a member of the NX Labour Party Shadow Cabinet from 1986-1994 and in 2003 was awarded Companionship of New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education.
2013 - Tom Roper
Tom is a well known and successful local businessman in commercial property investment and land development. He has been a board member for local organisations including Trust Bank, Priority One and Riding For The Disabled and is past Chairman on the Waipuna Hospice Foundation Board.
2014 - Nigel Brown
Brown has been a full-time artist since 1972. He has exhibited extensively in public and private galleries throughout New Zealand and has had several touring exhibitions. Brown was awarded the Order of NZ Merit for Services to painting and printmaking in 2004 and in 2005 Brown was awarded a three week residency in Russia hosted by NZ’s then ambassador in Moscow.
2015 - Bill Holland
Bill's has been awarded a Tindall Foundation award for outstanding contribution to the local community. The award notably recognised Bill's leadership in establishing the Tauranga-based Acorn Foundation in 2003. Bill was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) in 2012, is a former TBC Board of Trustees Chairman and Chairman of TECT.
2016 - Steve Saunders
A winner of the 2014 Westpac Tauranga Business Awards "Excellence in Business Leadership" Steve is director and founder of Callahan Innovation licensed WNT Ventures, a technology focused business incubator. He is a director of Landcare Research, board member of Tauranga’s Enterprise Angels network, Priority One board member and Managing Director of the Plus Group of companies.
2017 - Rod Gover
Rod is a mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is currently employed as Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Auckland. Rod was Head Prefect in 1979 as well as Dux and a Maadi Cup/Springbok Shield winner, before going on to become a Rhodes Scholar.
2018- Kane Williamson and Peter Burling
Jointly awarded TBC Old Boy of the Decade
ESPN has commented that by the time Kane Williamson retires from cricket he will be New Zealand's greatest ever batsman. Currently captain of the Black Caps across all three formats, Kane has a test average over 50 and 21 test centuries, the most of any New Zealand batsman. He has a T20 strike rate of 121 at an average of 31, a 46.3 average in ODIs. He has amassed more than 6,000 ODI runs and more than 11,000 test runs, alongside winning the inaugural World Test Championship.
Peter Burling is an Olympic gold medalist (2016) and Americas Cup winner with Team New Zealand (2017). He is a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit and the 2015 and 2017 World Sailor of the Year. Peter was also watch captain and helmsman with Team Brunel on the Round-the-World 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race, finishing 3rd overall in the closest finish in the history of the race.
2019
Not awarded.
2020 - John Bracewell
Having started his cricketing career playing for the TBC first 11 from 1973-76, John went on to play 41 test matches for New Zealand between 1980 and 1990, as well as 53 ODIs. He was just the second New Zealand cricketer to score 1000 runs and take 100 wickets in Test cricket. Bracewell also coached the Black Caps between 2003-2008.
2021
Not awarded.
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