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20 Wednesday <strong>April</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Netball star makes national team<br />
AN ELLESMERE College<br />
student is showing her potential<br />
as a future netball star after<br />
being named in the New<br />
Zealand under-13 Maori netball<br />
team.<br />
Ella Gibson was selected after<br />
taking part in the New Zealand<br />
National Maori tournament<br />
in Gisborne over the Easter<br />
weekend.<br />
The year 9 student has been<br />
playing netball now for seven<br />
years, initially playing for her<br />
primary school in Palmerston<br />
North, where her coaches<br />
marked her as a player to keep<br />
an eye on.<br />
After her family moved to<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> four years ago, Ella signed<br />
up to play for her new primary<br />
school team and the Ellesmere<br />
Combined Netball Club.<br />
On the court, she has demonstrated<br />
she has a high athletic<br />
ability and is developing a strong<br />
understanding of the game.<br />
This year she has joined the<br />
Kereru Netball Club based in<br />
Christchurch.<br />
After her efforts last season,<br />
Ella was chosen for the Te<br />
Waipounamu under-13 training<br />
squad.<br />
The squad came together<br />
over the Christmas holidays to<br />
develop their skills and on court<br />
partnerships in preparation for<br />
the National Maori tournament.<br />
Although she plays goal attack<br />
for her club team she was asked<br />
to play goal defence for the tournament<br />
team.<br />
PROMISING: Ellesmere<br />
College student Ella<br />
Gibson has been<br />
selected in the New<br />
Zealand under-13 Maori<br />
netball team. <br />
Ella’s skill base meant she<br />
was able to adapt to the “new”<br />
position and obviously did a<br />
great job, being the only one of<br />
her team to be chosen for the<br />
national team.<br />
The tournament team was<br />
named after two days of intense<br />
competition, where they played<br />
nine games.<br />
The Te Waipounamu team had<br />
mixed results, winning five of<br />
their nine games and eventually<br />
coming fifth in Gisborne.<br />
At the prize-giving, Ella was<br />
completely surprised when she<br />
was named in the tournament<br />
team.<br />
“It was a bit of a shock,” she<br />
said.<br />
“Being named in the team<br />
was a real honour because there<br />
were so many good players at the<br />
tournament,” she said.<br />
Ella would eventually like to<br />
play for the Silver Ferns but she<br />
knows it’s going to take a lot of<br />
hard work and practice to get<br />
there.<br />
Ella’s athletic abilities<br />
are not restricted to playing<br />
netball.<br />
She is a keen cricketer having<br />
made Canterbury Country<br />
rep sides for mixed cricket and<br />
making the Canterbury teams<br />
for girls cricket as a bowler.<br />
She also plays basketball and<br />
has been named in the college’s<br />
senior squad this year.<br />
DUNSANDEL TEEN racer<br />
Kane Botherway has won a New<br />
Zealand grass kart title after<br />
coming close on three previous<br />
occasions.<br />
Kane, 13, won the<br />
intermediate class at the New<br />
Zealand grass karting champs<br />
at the Christchurch Grass<br />
Karting Club in Ohoka. After<br />
finishing fourth, second and<br />
third in previous national<br />
championships, Kane cracked<br />
the top of the podium this time<br />
round.<br />
Eighteen karts were entered in<br />
the intermediate grade. The<br />
fiercely contested grade<br />
saw six karts all vying for a<br />
podium finish going into the<br />
last heat. Fellow <strong>Selwyn</strong> racer<br />
and Kane’s friend, Jack Nairn,<br />
had a nasty spin out in the final<br />
SPORTS<br />
SELWYN TIMES<br />
Botherway finally<br />
wins grass kart title<br />
after three attempts<br />
SIDEWAYS: Kane Botherway<br />
powered his way to victory in<br />
the intermediate class at the<br />
NZ grass karting champs.<br />
race resulting in damage which<br />
stopped him from finishing.<br />
Kane drove to victory in<br />
the final heat to secure the<br />
intermediate class title ahead<br />
Blake Finlay in second overall<br />
and Hamish Pettigrew third<br />
overall.<br />
PHOTO: TJ<br />
PHOTOS<br />
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