Western News: November 05, 2019

10 Tuesday November 5 2019
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WESTERN NEWS
Burnside High’s top sporting talent
• By Jacob Page
TABLE TENNIS players had
a night to remember at the
Burnside High School sports
awards.
They took away two of the
major awards, with Sang-Yong
Park named sportsman of the
year and the mixed A table
tennis squad – made up Jiayl
Zhou, Avon Liu and Sang-Yong
– winning team of the year.
Talented New Zealand cyclist
Sami Donnelly
took home the
Principal’s Cup
for outstanding
achievement in
sport.
Footballer
Ellena Firth
was named
sportswoman
Jiayl Zhou
Avon Liu
of the year,
while Haley
Grimes won the
contribution
to sport award
for her efforts
on the netball
court during
her time at the
school.
Sang-Yong
won his third
straight New
Zealand
secondary
schools’ teams table tennis
title in September and finished
second in the under-19
individual category. At the South
Island age-group championships,
he finished first in the under-18
singles, doubles and mixed
doubles. He also competed at the
Oceania junior championships
in Tonga, where he was part of
the boys team which claimed
silver and also earned a mixed
doubles bronze.
Ellena was captain of the
Burnside High School first XI
which won the Canterbury
secondary schools’ title. She was
also part of the national leaguewinning
Mainland Pride side
and the Coastal Spirit premier
women’s team which reached the
final of the New Zealand Cup
knockout tournament.
Sami continued her stellar
progression in track cycling.
She took silver in the team
pursuit at the junior world track
Left –
Sportsman of
the year
Sang-Yong
Park and
sportswoman
of the year
Ellena Firth at
the Burnside
High School
sports awards.
PHOTOS: JON
DAVIDSON
NICE JOB:
Haley Grimes
(right) took out
the contribution
to sport award
for her efforts
on the netball
court.
championships in Germany in
October. She also finished 16th
in the omnium. Sami earned a
silver medal in the individual
pursuit at the national track
championships.
Meanwhile, Haley’s netball
season will start in February as
an umpire for the netball trials
and pre-season tournaments.
Over the past season, she
coached a year 9 team which
SPORT
finished third in their division.
Haley was the venue controller
for the Wednesday netball
competition at the Burnside
High School courts and was also
in charge of four of five games
played each week during terms
two and three. She umpired
the Wednesday and Saturday
netball teams and the senior A
team in the SuperNet Reserve
competition on Wednesday
nights.
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