The Star: September 06, 2018
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 3<br />
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News<br />
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Now<br />
• By Jacob Page<br />
WEDDING RINGS and boxing<br />
gloves go hand-in-hand for a<br />
husband and wife team who will<br />
compete at the New Zealand<br />
amateur championships next<br />
month.<br />
Sam and Tegan Clark have<br />
been named as part of the<br />
Canterbury team which will be<br />
eyeing up national titles on home<br />
soil for the first time since 2010<br />
at the Hornby Workingmen’s<br />
Club.<br />
Sam said while they met<br />
outside boxing eight years ago,<br />
he was aware Tegan was a handy<br />
boxer.<br />
“I remember I hadn’t paid<br />
much attention that she was a<br />
boxer but I remember watching<br />
her in the gym one night and<br />
thinking she was better than<br />
most of the boys,” he said.<br />
“We had a round of training<br />
together (on Monday night) but<br />
it’s not something we do often<br />
because it’s a weird match-up.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> couple got married earlier<br />
this year and have two children<br />
together, Alexia, 4 and Andre, 3.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> kids come with us to our<br />
trainings on a weekly basis and<br />
have their own pair of gloves,”<br />
Tegan said.<br />
Tegan, 25, returned to the ring<br />
12 months ago after having six<br />
years away to start their family.<br />
She won five national titles at the<br />
junior level and was eager to add<br />
an elite title to it next month.<br />
Tegan will compete weekend<br />
in an attempt to qualify for the<br />
world championships in India<br />
in November. Her ultimate goal<br />
is to make the Olympic squad at<br />
Tokyo 2020.<br />
“It was tough watching Sam<br />
on the sidelines and watching<br />
the other girls fight and know I<br />
could do a better job,” she said.<br />
She said having Sam there is a<br />
great motivator. “We don’t spar<br />
together but we keep each other<br />
on the straight and narrow in<br />
terms of diet.<br />
Tegan starting boxing at<br />
10-years-old when her dad, Lee<br />
Madden was the coach at the<br />
Woolston Boxing Club.<br />
“I was always getting in to the<br />
ring and jumping on things and<br />
shadow boxing,” she said.<br />
“I always promised dad I<br />
would get back into it after<br />
having the kids.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> couple now box for the<br />
Smiling Tigers Gym.<br />
Sam, 30, has represented<br />
New Zealand twice in the past<br />
year and is looking for his first<br />
national title in four attempts.<br />
•New Zealand Amateur<br />
Boxing Championships, page<br />
42<br />
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Couple take their corners<br />
MITICA<br />
DYNAMIC DUO: Sam and Tegan Clark, who were married in<br />
February, will look to bring home New Zealand titles at the<br />
New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships.<br />
PHOTO: MARK FULLER <br />
Thursday <strong>September</strong> 6 <strong>2018</strong><br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
in brief<br />
Redcliffs School<br />
evidence to be heard<br />
Evidence from the Friends of<br />
Redcliffs Park will be heard by<br />
the Workforce and Education<br />
Committee this month, after it<br />
decided to take a petition from<br />
the group further. <strong>The</strong> petition<br />
called for urgent legislation to<br />
reinstate Redcliffs School on<br />
its former site. Chris Doudney,<br />
who created the petition on<br />
behalf of the group, received<br />
email confirmation from the<br />
select committee yesterday that<br />
they would hear evidence from<br />
the group at a hearing set for<br />
<strong>September</strong> 19 in Christchurch.<br />
Council considers<br />
$30m housing loan<br />
<strong>The</strong> city council is considering<br />
lending $30 million to the<br />
Otautahi Community Housing<br />
Trust so it can build 130 new<br />
social houses. It will also use<br />
the loan to replace 50 of the<br />
existing ‘old and cold’ council<br />
units it leases with 50 new<br />
warm, dry units.<br />
Guilty plea to driving<br />
charges<br />
A 32-year-old man has pleaded<br />
guilty to three charges after<br />
fleeing police in a stolen car,<br />
which ended up on its roof.<br />
Robert Allan Luchford was<br />
charged with receiving a stolen<br />
Toyota Hilux Surf, dangerous<br />
driving on Withells Rd, and<br />
failing to stop for police, on<br />
August 16. Luchford drove on<br />
the wrong side of Yaldhurst<br />
Rd at speeds of up to 105km/h<br />
in a 50km/h area and almost<br />
collided with a police car<br />
before the vehicle overturned.<br />
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with seismic sensors<br />
<strong>The</strong> city council is installing<br />
a network of seismic sensors<br />
that will help build earthquake<br />
resilience. As part of its<br />
Smart Cities Programme it<br />
is $765,000 over three years<br />
on installing and monitoring<br />
ground accelerometer sensors<br />
at 150 locations.<br />
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