Selwyn Times: December 18, 2019

SELWYN TIMES 19
Selwyn’s stellar year in sport
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz
Wednesday December 18 2019
Reporter Jacob Page
takes a look back at the
sporting highlights in the
district during 2019
SPORT
TALENT: Former Lincoln Combined captain Wil Gualter capped
a strong UC Championship campaign by making the New
Zealand schools’ team, a first for a Lincoln College student. ​
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College and
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Club swimmer,
Ella Benn
proved to be a
national record
breaker this
year. PHOTO:
GEOFF SLOAN
FROM THE club triumphs, to
national records, selections and
personal accomplishments, it
was a big year for sport in the
district.
Southbridge claimed their
third title in four years with a 16-
12 win over Darfield at Prebbleton
Oval thanks to some resolute
defence in the final 10min.
The result also meant Darfield’s
113-year wait to win the
shield for the first time would
stretch at least one more year.
There was no Ellesmere team
in the final of the Country
Combined competition after
Glenmark-Cheviot beat Southern
in extra time in the final
after game was deadlocked at
31-all after 80min.
Darfield flanker Haigh Jebson
was named senior player of the
year at the annual Ellesmere
Rugby Awards in October.
Lincoln prop Isaac Roth was
named under-21 player of the
year after propping the Ellesmere
scrum to a Southbridge Shield
victory over North Canterbury.
Lincoln No 8 Sam Henderson
was named under-19 player of
the year.
Scott McIlroy was named
rugby personality of the year.
Kim Thackwell was recognised
for her long-time commitment
to rugby with both Prebbleton
and Ellesmere by being named
volunteer of the year.
Jebson capped a strong club
campaign with being a key
member of Ellesmere’s Southbridge
Shield winning team during
the representative season.
Lincoln Combined captain
and utility back Wil Gualter
was named in the New Zealand
schools’ team, the first such honour
for someone from Lincoln
High School.
The Lincoln Combined team
finished ninth in the UC Championship,
while they did earn a
spirited draw against competition
heavyweights, Christ’s College,
they struggled for consistency
throughout the season.
Broadfield beat Greenpark
A 63-50 in the Selwyn premier
netball final in September after
being the team to beat for much
of the season after qualifying
top-of-the-table.
The result was a level of
revenge after Greenpark A had
upset Broadfield by one goal in
the decider 12 months ago.
Leeston-Southbridge won both
the premier 45-over competition
and the twenty20 title in Canterbury
Country cricket.
Selwyn Swim Club’s Ella Benn
and Celyn Edwards each excelled
in the pool.
Benn broke the New Zealand
women’s S9 100m butterfly
record during the national shortcourse
championships at Auckland
in October. with a time of
1min 27.80sec.
Benn was also named female
para-swimmer of the year at the
Canterbury West Coast swimming
awards.
Edwards earned two top eight
international rankings in the
World Para-Swimming Championships
at the London Aquatic
Centre, in September.
He was New Zealand’s flagbearer
at the opening ceremony,
swam a personal best to finish
sixth in the final of the men’s
100m S8 backstroke with a time
of 1min 12.94sec.
He backed that up with eighth
in the 100m S9 butterfly final in
a time of 1min 09.03sec.
The multi-talented Lincoln
High School sports woman
Millie Thompson excelled at
multiple sports this year.
FINALLY: Broadield A won the Selwyn premier netball title 63-
50 over Greenpark A in September after they came up short by
one goal in the decider a year earlier.
WINNER: Southbridge captain
Luke Palmer holds up the
Coleman Shield after his team
hung on for a tense 16-12 win
over Darfield in the final at
Prebbleton Oval, in July.
PHOTO: KAREN CASEY
In equestrian Millie is part of
the New Zealand under-21 dressage
team.
Millie was captain of the first
XI girls hockey team and was
awarded most valuable player for
the season.
She was selected in the Canterbury
women’s under-18 hockey
team and is also co-captain of
the Lincoln High School mixed
touch team.
She is also a New Zealand
touch rugby representative being
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selected in the under-20 touch
team which will be playing Australia
in January.
Lincoln cyclist Henrietta
Christie continued her winning
ways winning the South Island’s
Calder Stewart road race series
last month.
Henrietta was selected as a
member of the New Zealand
junior women’s cycling team in
the under-19 age-group.where in
the individual time trial where
she earned a bronze medal.
National under-17 cross country
mountain bike champion
Ethan Rose also had a big year.
His big achievement for the
year was finishing second in the
Oceania Mountain Bike Championships
in Bright, Victoria,
Australia in April.
Ethan was the top under-17
rider at the national secondary
schools’ mountain bike championships
in Dunedin in October
where he was first for his age in
the endurance race, sixth in the
down hill event and first in the
cross country.
He also earned top honours
in the national under-17 cross
country championships in Rotorua
during March.
Lincoln High School and
Selwyn United defender Zoe
McMeeken was part of the New
Zealand under-16 football team.
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