The Star: July 18, 2019
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• By Jacob Page<br />
THREE basketballers will get the<br />
chance to learn from Kiwi NBA<br />
star Steven Adams this weekend<br />
in Christchurch.<br />
Cashmere High players Louis<br />
Oskam, St Andrew’s College player<br />
Mac Stodart and Christ’s College’s<br />
Mason Whittaker will also<br />
take part with Cashmere player<br />
Tom Webley selected but unable to<br />
attend through injury.<br />
Oskam was determined to show<br />
off his skills on the court this year.<br />
Now the <strong>18</strong>-year-old has been<br />
rewarded for his patience after he<br />
was selected to be part of the Steven<br />
Adams Invitational training session<br />
at Horncastle Arena on Sunday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> event is a chance for some of<br />
the best secondary school players<br />
in New Zealand to learn from the<br />
Oklahoma City Thunder NBA centre<br />
and other skilled coaches.<br />
Just 12 months ago, Oskam<br />
was selected but missed out on<br />
the camp due to injury. He also<br />
missed Cashmere High’s national<br />
secondary school championship<br />
campaign as well.<br />
Oskam tore the meniscus in his<br />
knee last year and then tore his<br />
MCL at the South Island championships,<br />
which made him miss the<br />
team’s premier tournament.<br />
“In the back of my head I knew I<br />
had next year so I wanted to work<br />
hard to get back,” he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> year 13 student, who has<br />
been part of the Cashmere High<br />
senior team for the past four<br />
seasons is determined to finish his<br />
school career on his terms.<br />
“My first reaction was that it<br />
made me really excited and I was<br />
glad to get an opportunity at it<br />
again,” he said.<br />
Oskam said he believes he has<br />
learnt how to use his size to improve<br />
all the areas of his game.<br />
He also takes his leadership role<br />
seriously.<br />
“We have to maintain our<br />
standards and push harder to<br />
be better at nationals, the senior<br />
guys feel a responsibility to keep<br />
improving.”<br />
Oskam hopes training and<br />
learning with top coaches at<br />
the camp will help him achieve<br />
his dream of playing college<br />
basketball in the United States<br />
next year.<br />
ON THE RISE: Cashmere<br />
High’s Louis Oskam has been<br />
selected to take part in the<br />
Steven Adams Invitational<br />
camp at Christchurch’s<br />
Horncastle Arena on Sunday.<br />
news online at www.star.kiwi 19<br />
Three to train with superstar Adams<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> continues showcasing the city’s<br />
successful young people. If you have a story to tell,<br />
email jess.gibson@starmedia.kiwi<br />
YOUNG, SUCCESSFUL<br />
& on the move<br />
Thursday <strong>July</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2019</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
UN youth<br />
trip for Villa’s<br />
head girl<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-<br />
Harding<br />
ONE OF the biggest messages<br />
Villa Maria College’s head girl<br />
Eadaoin Roughan tries to pass<br />
onto her fellow students is to “give<br />
everything a try.”<br />
“Giving it a go won’t hurt anyone,<br />
you can only grow and learn<br />
from it,” she said.<br />
So while Eadaoin, 17, didn’t<br />
know a lot about the United Nation<br />
Youth New Zealand’s Global<br />
Development Tour 2020, she<br />
decided to take her own advice by<br />
applying for the trip.<br />
She is now one of 22 students<br />
from across the country selected<br />
for a month-long tour of Europe<br />
and New York to learn about the<br />
UN’s Sustainable Development<br />
Goals in action.<br />
Eadaoin has been chosen alongside<br />
Lincoln High School’s Maria<br />
Mendoza Nieto and Sujean In of<br />
St Margaret’s College.<br />
<strong>The</strong> tour, which begins in January,<br />
will see the delegation travel<br />
to London, Rome, Vienna, Berlin<br />
and Paris.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sustainable Development<br />
Goals are the UN’s blueprint<br />
addressing global challenges<br />
including poverty, inequality,<br />
climate, environmental<br />
degradation and justice.<br />
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