Nor'West News: October 31, 2017
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10 Tuesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
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MIDGETS • SPRINTCARS • TQ’S • 1/4 MIDGETS<br />
SIX SHOOTERS • MODIFIED SPRINTS<br />
Burnside’s sporting<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
PROMISING GOLFER Amelia Garvey<br />
won the Principal’s Cup for outstanding<br />
achievement at the Burnside High School<br />
sports awards.<br />
The talented 17-year-old golfer collected<br />
one of six awards handed out at the<br />
Aurora Centre.<br />
Amelia won the Canterbury secondary<br />
schools’ stroke play title, and finished second<br />
at the nationals with the school’s mixed golf<br />
team.<br />
She qualified for the LGPA New<br />
Zealand Women’s Open earlier this<br />
month and made the cut<br />
to play the full<br />
four rounds.<br />
In March,<br />
she won the<br />
New Zealand<br />
women’s<br />
amateur<br />
stroke play<br />
championship<br />
recording a<br />
winning score of 15<br />
under par which saw her<br />
finish six shots clear.<br />
She also won the South<br />
Island women’s stroke play<br />
championships in February.<br />
Amelia was recently named<br />
New Zealand Eagles Golfing Society<br />
golfer of the year. Other winners<br />
of the title over the years includes<br />
Stuart Jones, Bob Charles, Danny<br />
Lee, Tim Wilkinson and Lydia<br />
Ko. She is also a member of the<br />
Canterbury women’s golf team.<br />
STANDOUT:<br />
Amelia Garvey <br />
won the<br />
Principal’s Cup<br />
for her efforts<br />
on the golf<br />
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Five other Burnside<br />
High School sports<br />
awards were handed<br />
out on the night:<br />
•Tsubasa Nisbet, 17, won<br />
sportswoman of the<br />
year after a standout<br />
year with both the<br />
Burnside basketball<br />
and volleyball teams.<br />
As well as playing in the<br />
senior volleyball team,<br />
she coached a junior<br />
girls team this year.<br />
She has also been the<br />
girls basketball most<br />
valuable player for the<br />
last four years and is<br />
the senior captain. She<br />
was a member of the<br />
Canterbury Wildcats,<br />
Canterbury under-19s<br />
and the New Zealand<br />
under-18 women’s team<br />
TOP ATHLETES: Tsubasa Nisbet was named<br />
sportswoman of the year and Alexander Zhou won<br />
sportsman of the year.<br />
which came second<br />
at the FIBA Oceania<br />
Championships.<br />
•Alexander Zhou, 17,<br />
won sportsman of the<br />
year and is captain of<br />
the Burnside boys table<br />
tennis team.
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