Selwyn Times: May 17, 2016

SELWYN TIMES Tuesday May 17 2016 17
for young Kiwis
IN ACTION: Bella Forbes playing for the Berkeley
university hockey team in California.
“If a chance came up and
it fit with what I wanted to
do I wouldn’t say no to it,
but New Zealand is a pretty
cool place. I think I would
always want to come back
to it.”
She is now working two
jobs while she prepares to
head to the school in August.
For 19-year-old Bella
Forbes, a scholarship did not
work out so well.
She was accepted into
Berkeley University of
California, which is fourth
ranked in the world, on a
four year hockey scholarship
worth more than $250,000.
But after six months there,
she gave it up to return to
New Zealand.
The level of competition
there was something she had
not been prepared for, she
said.
“To get into Berkeley is
so strenuous, people have
been studying since they
were eight-years-old to get in.
So it’s really competitive in an
academic sense, which meant
people wouldn’t share notes and
petty things like that.”
That carried through to the
hockey field, where she said
the coach was there to win and
worked the girls incredibly hard.
“Towards the end I remember
ringing my mum saying I don’t
want to play hockey at all anymore,
it was that bad. I was used
to having supportive coaches, but
she treated it like it was a job and
we were her employees.”
But in spite of her own decision
to leave, she would still
recommend that others take a
scholarship.
“I think people have to take a
shot. You’ll regret it if you don’t.”
She said it had taught her a
huge amount about the world,
and about herself.
“It was good to get out of
my comfort zone, because
I’m a real home bod. The
people were really nice.
And it was huge, people
who haven’t gone there
can’t comprehend how massive
the place is.”
She had wanted to study
in the US for years, partly
inspired by her father who
had to turn down a scholarship
there.
“My dad is a commonwealth
swimmer, so
when he was my age he
was offered a scholarship.
But back then they weren’t
full scholarships so he was
going to have to pay crazy
amounts of money to go,
which he didn’t have.”
She said her goal was
to study commerce, and
her skill at hockey was her
way in.
She used an agent to apply
for universities and get
in touch with coaches there,
but said it was still about a sixmonth
process dealing with the
16 schools which approached her.
She is now settled back in
Christchurch, studying commerce
at Canterbury University
and playing club hockey.
But she said she had made
lifelong friends while she was
there, and wouldn’t rule out going
back to the US for postgraduate
study.
Ellesmere golf results
The Eagles Golfing Society
of New Zealand attended the
Ellesmere Golf Club day last
weekend.
A stableford competition was
played by a field of nearly 70.
Men division 1: Aaron Chapman
nett 41, 1; Blair Franklin
nett 39, ocb, 2; Russell Chapman
nett 39, 3, Gavin Milne nett
36, 4.
Men division 2 – Dave Neil
nett 41, 1; Bruce McDonald nett
39, 2; George Murphy nett 37, 3,
James Cochrane nett 35, 4.
Lincoln golf results
Lincoln Golf Club played a
combined field morning versus
afternoon stroke competition.
Stroke – A Bell, nett 60; C
Greer, nett 60, B Goodhew, nett
Rugby results
Ellesmere Rugby Sub Union
results.
Luisetti Seeds division 1
– section 1: Lincoln 31 Methven
17, Burn/Duns/Irwell 41
Rolleston 0, Glenmark 27
Kaiapoi 24, Southbridge 48
Hampstead 24, Saracens 52
West Melton 10.
Luisetti Seeds division 1 –
section 2: Waihora 14 Ashley
Men division 3 – Johnny Van
Der Westhuizen nett 44, 1; Ken
Hearn nett 41, 2; Pat Malloy nett
37, 3; Stu Chamberlain nett 35,
4.
Ladies – Noea Harrison nett 39
ocb, 1; Sandra Chamberlain nett
39, 2; Diane Boon nett 35, 3.
Twos – Hole 2 Sue Whelan,
Gavin Milne; Hole 9 Gavin
Milne; Hole 14 Aaron Chapman
and Bryan Jager.
Nett eagles – Hole 14 Bryan
Jager
61, B Small nett 65.
Nearest pin – Junior: A Fowler
Nearest pin – Senior: G Shirley
Halswell Super Liquor prize –
A Bell.
13, Oxford 42 Southern 25,
Rakaia 31 Ohoka 6, Darfield 39
Hornby 21, Celtic 62 Prebbleton
14.
Ellesmere division 2:
Prebbleton 40 Kirwee 12,
Darfield 45 Hornby 14, Lincoln
26 Banks Peninsula 17.
Southbridge 42 Springston 20,
Burn/Duns/Irwell 21 Diamond
Harbour 10, Rolleston bye.
•More sport, pages 18 & 19
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