The Rosmini College Senior Premier Basketball team, winners of the Schick Secondary Schools Nationals in both 2017 and 2018, travelled to Greece in the last school holidays to compete in the International School Sports Federation (ISF) 25th Basketball World Schools Championships.

The ISF Tournament, which is contested every two years, was this year held on the island of Crete. The Rosmini team consisted of Kainoa Lepou, Cian Emery, Tom Seuren, Thomas Morgan, Marvin Williams-Dunn, Terence Abdon, Jayden Boucher, Sean Murphy, Taine Murray, Reihana Maxwell-Topia, Jason Mittef and Tyler Martin.

Matt Lacey coached the team with  assistant coach, Sonny Tuaputa and managers Nick Turpin and Ambrose Samuels. Rosmini played in Group F, beating Bulgaria 74–47, then had a narrow and agonising loss to North Macedonia 65–67. Wins over China 53–32 and Croatia 63–36 followed.

Rosmini moved into the top eight and lost to Belgium 59–47, but rallied to beat North Macedonia, this time 56–52. The team went into a fifth place play-off against host nation Greece, which Greece won by the narrowest of margins: 69–70.

Rosmini College Year 12 student Taine Murray, 17, of Albany, was named as part of the 'All Star 5' for the tournament. He said: “Finishing sixth in the world was an amazing experience!” The other highlights for Taine included 'playing against schools and academies from all over the globe, visiting the Acropolis in Athens and the cultural night'. For the cultural night,  Rosmini, together with St Peter's Cambridge girls (who finished fifth), performed a waiata and a haka in front of players from 28 different countries.