Secondary Sport

Dunedin's Sarah MacGibbon is set to compete internationally after taking top honours at the North Island ice skating championships last month.

Working for the Otago Secondary Schools Sports Association during the past six years has given me many rewarding and satisfying experiences.

Harry James was a promising tennis player when he met United States great Andre Agassi in Queenstown four years ago. That brief meeting instilled in him a burning ambition to reach the top.

The English sisters make a habit of winning races in tandem.

Bayfield High School Bayfield runners are going well with some good performances in recent events. Following the successful school cross-country and the Logan Park road race, the team grew to 24 with six teams competing in the Caversham road relay.

A total of 84 Wakatipu High School pupils in years 9 to 13 braved ice-cold temperatures in water and difficult terrain on mountain bike and foot for their annual triathlon at Moke Lake yesterday. Challengers swam 200m around buoys in the lake, then cycled on a 10km loop before running 6km to the finish line. James Beech captured the action.

Samantha and Shannon Hope are the proverbial two peas in a pod. Not only do they look alike, but both are excelling in duathlon, triathlon and the national junior mountain biking scene.

For many 16-year-olds, handling schoolwork is hard enough without pursuing sporting ambitions, but for Mackenzie Haugh it is all in a day's work.

Andrew Whyte (South Otago High School) and Rebekah Greene (St Hilda's Collegiate) rewrote the record books with dynamic running in Wellington yesterday.

Rebekah Greene (St Hildas) will start as favourite to win the junior girls 1500m and 3000m double at the New Zealand secondary schools championships at Timaru next month.

Michael Collins might be the next big thing in rugby but his skills are not lost to the summer code just yet.

They did it on the cheap. The repaired St Hilda's Collegiate School rowing skiff proved seaworthy on Otago Harbour yesterday.

The Kavanagh College pair of Zoe McBride and Hannah Duggan retained their golden glow on Otago Harbour yesterday.