East Helena High School’s new principal has a thorough background in competitive sports, which drives his belief that improvement in students is key.
Paul Condon, 57, is from Christchurch, New Zealand, where he grew up around Polynesian culture and was raised in a Māori household.
He said Māori people tend to be the smallest of the Polynesians, while Samoans are the biggest and strongest and Tongans are the most aggressive.
Condon learned this through his day-to-day life, but understood it when he played rugby. The sport with a ball slightly smaller than a National Football League football and goal posts at each end of a pitch filled with physicality and speed became a part of Condon’s life.
The new principal managed to climb the ranks of the sport and made it one level below professional rugby.
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