Southern View: May 21, 2019

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Braun eyes national top 10
• By Jacob Page
CASHMERE HIGH School’s
Liliana Braun will head to the
national secondary schools’
cross country championships in
Timaru next month with a win
under her belt against some of
her Canterbury rivals.
She won the Canterbury
schools’ senior road race title a
fortnight ago, which just alluded
her last year and is now aiming
for a top 10 national ranking at
Timaru’s Ashbury Park on June
15.
“In year 9 and 10, I came
second so it’d be great to get
another medal in my final year,”
she said. The 17-year-old year
13 student prevailed in a time
of 10min 52sec over the 3km
course at the A&P Showgrounds
and was able to go better than
her runner-up finish in the same
event 12 months ago.
“I’ve just come off a big
training break, so I was just
seeing how I was going, but it
was good to win.”
Liliana, who is part of the Port
Hills Club, competes in athletics
over summer and cross country
in winter.
She does the 3000m and the
steeplechase on the running
track.
“I find cross country easier
because it’s more interesting, but
physically it is tougher with the
mountains and terrain,” she said.
Liliana began running when
she was in year 6 at Beckenham
SPEED: Cashmere High School’s Liliana Braun, front, will look
to impress at the national secondary schools’ cross country
championships in Timaru, next month.
PHOTO: CASHMERE HIGH SCHOOL ​
Primary School and was selected
for a Canterbury team, which
travelled to Wellington for an
inter-provincial meet.
“Year 8 or 9 I started training
properly and it’s been that way
ever since,” she said.
Liliana trains six days a week,
with a longer run on the weekend
for an hour in the Port Hills.
SPORT
She enjoys the varied nature
of cross country running and
began doing the steeplechase in
an effort to make running on the
track more interesting by adding
hurdles.
“I’d like to one day get to the
world junior level and see how
far I can go after that,” Braun
said.
• By Jacob Page
HILLMORTON HIGH School
trampolinist Maddy Moore has
three words to motivate her and
plenty of medals to show for it.
The 13-year-old is a two-time
Canterbury champion, the reigning
Top of the South age-group
champion and hopes to add a
South Island title when she competes
at her club, Olympia Gym
Sports, on June 18.
After two years in the sport,
Maddy has 13 medals that all
hang on the words “earned, never
given” made for her by her stepfather.
She does up to 12 hours a week
of training and also plays netball
as a wing attack on the weekends.
“It does seem like a lot of training
sometimes, but when I’m
bored I think about competing at
nationals and trying to win there
and that gets me motivated.
SUCCESS:
Hillmorton High
School’s Maddy
Moore, 13, after
winning the Top of
the South
age-group
trampoline title.
PHOTO:
NATASHA MOORE ​
Maddy eager for more
trampolining medals
“I look at the medals and I
realise I’ve achieved a lot but it’s
gone by so fast too,” she said.
The nationals will be held in
Auckland in October.
Maddy placed seventh last year
at the national competition.
Two years ago, she did a recreation
class and was asked if she
wanted to join a development
squad.
“I used to jump on the
trampoline at home and I used to
do cartwheels all the time,” she
said.
There are two component, a
step and a voluntary routine
during competitions.
“You want to be high in the air,
doing flips and for me, making
sure that my toes are neat when I
do them for the judges.”
She hopes she can compete
internationally next year, but is
eager to claim a national medal
first.
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