Nor'West News: April 24, 2018

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• By Jacob Page
TWO PROMISING young
players from St Margaret’s
College and Cobham
Intermediate have won Tennis
Canterbury awards.
Abby Mason (right), 14, was
named junior female player of
the year after she excelled in her
age group and beyond.
Cobham’s Diego Quispe-Kim,
12, took home male junior player
of the year. Diego trains with his
father Juan 20 hours a week and
models his forehand and serve off
world No 1, Spaniard Rafa Nadal.
Diego is fresh off his national
12s singles victory at Wilding
Park in January. He is eager to
add the 14s, 16s and 18s titles in
the coming years.
Abby was the youngest
member of the St Margaret’s
senior A team which won the
South Island championships and
made the semi-final at nationals.
She was part of the Elmwood
Tennis Club premier team which
won the Canterbury metro
competition and was runner-up
at the 14s national tournament.
Abby said her highlight
over the past season was
SPORTS
St Margaret’s, Cobham
players take out top
junior tennis awards
being selected for the New
Zealand team which played
in the Australian nationals at
Melbourne’s famed Rod Laver
Arena. Winning the Tennis
Canterbury award made her
reflect on her season.
“I remember looking up to the
older girls who won this award
and to win it is recognition of
how things have gone,” she said.
Her father Rhett Mason was a
former junior Davis Cup player
and the pair play mixed doubles
competitions alongside each
other. “Dad was the one who
introduced me to the sport by
throwing balls at me when I was
two or three, so it’s great to be
able to share his passion.”
Medals, records for St Andrew’s
student at swimming champs
ST ANDREW’S College
student Taiko Torepe-Ormsby
was the standout Swimming
Canterbury West Coast athlete
at the national age group
championships in Auckland.
Taiko, swimming for the
Wharenui club, won five gold
medals and set a new national
age group record in the 14-years
50m backstroke. Taiko shaved
0.46sec off Ross Dunwoody’s
1996 record, finishing in a time
of 27.11sec.
He also broke six SCWC
records and is now the 14-yearold
age group champion in the
50m freestyle, 50m backstroke,
100m backstroke, and 50m and
100m butterfly.
He also won silver in the 100m
freestyle, and bronze in the
200m backstroke.
QE II club member Zeke Pine
claimed all three 16-year-old
age group champion backstroke
titles, winning gold in the 50m,
100m and 200m backstroke,
He won silver in the 100m
breaststroke and broke the
SCWC record on his way to
a bronze medal in the 200m
individual medley.
Waitaha club’s Zach Knowles
came out firing on debut,
claiming the age group title in
the 13-year-old 100m freestyle.
Zach also came away with
silver medals in the 50m
backstroke and freestyle and
FAST: Taiko Torepe-Ormsby broke a 22-year-old New Zealand
age group record in the 50m backstroke.
PHOTO: BW MEDIA
200m freestyle, and bronze in
the 50m butterfly.
Aquagym’s Louis Clark
claimed his first age group
title in the 16-year-old 1500m
freestyle. He followed that
up with a silver in the 200m
individual medley and 400m
freestyle. Clubmate Hannah
Bates won silver in the 200m
individual medley and 400m
individual medley, and bronze
in the 100m butterfly and 100m
freestyle.
Jasi club’s Quinton Hurley
broke the SCWC record on his
way to a silver medal in the
1500m freestyle.
Other results:
Kaylee Jackson (QE II) –
silver in the 50m and 100m
breaststroke; Thomas Mac-
Gibbon (Wharenui) – silver in
the 50m backstroke; Lochlan
McKenzie (Vikings) – silver
in the 200m breaststroke;
Natasha Johnson (Aquagym)
– bronze in the 50m freestyle
and 50m butterfly; Bryn
Rumble (QE II) – bronze in the
100m backstroke; Zac Baker
(Wharenui) – bronze in the
200m butterfly; Ella Thyne
(Vikings) – bronze in the 50m
breaststroke; Arowa Wilson
(Wharenui), broke the SCWC
12-year-old age group record
for the 50m freestyle.
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