North Canterbury News: July 08, 2021
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Area School’s Sport Tournament<br />
The NewZealandAreaSchool’s Associationnationaltournamenthas<br />
been an important part of the life for area school pupils since 1994<br />
when therewas an informalget-togetheratMercury BayAreaSchool.<br />
The first official New Zealand Area School’s tournament was held in<br />
Dunedin in 1995, thebrainchildofRon Morgan from MercuryBay.<br />
This year itisbeing held back inDunedin from <strong>July</strong> 18 to 21, at the<br />
EdgarCentre, with around 300 students expectedtoattend.<br />
The contributing schools are grouped into four regions: <strong>North</strong>land,<br />
Central (the <strong>North</strong> Island south ofAuckland), Topofthe South<br />
(South Island north of Oamaru) and South ofthe South (Otago and<br />
Southland).<br />
With area schools, whichcater forstudents from Year 1to13, tending<br />
to be rural, Ron was keen to introduce atournament toprovide<br />
students with high level sporting opportunities. The tournament is<br />
aspecial concept for many of the students, also providing asocial<br />
aspect, which is just as important asproviding the students with a<br />
competitive sporting event.<br />
It is amulti-code event which includes rugby, netball, basketball,<br />
football, volleyball and Ki oRahi, aMaori ball game. Ineach code<br />
Amuri<br />
Area School<br />
thereisaround robin competitionfollowedbya<strong>North</strong>IslandvSouth<br />
Island game, from whichtournamentteams areselected.<br />
Before the tournament, each of the four regions has aregional<br />
tournament which usually lasts three or four days ataschool in<br />
their region. Pupils are selected from the regionals for the national<br />
tournament.<br />
With thesize of theschools involved, pupils usually play in more than<br />
onecodeevery day.<br />
Oxford<br />
Area School<br />
Team Sponsors:<br />
Oxford Lions, Oxford Club,<br />
Oxford Area School BOT<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Abby Taylor<br />
Football<br />
Luke Chisnall<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Herewini<br />
Rata-McLeod<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Hurunui<br />
College<br />
Rugby<br />
UNITED RUGBY CLUB<br />
Rugby, KioRahi<br />
Mateo Jamieson<br />
Cailey Hollard<br />
Josh Gunn<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Rugby, KioRahi<br />
Sponsored<br />
by<br />
Netball<br />
Rugby, Ki oRahi,<br />
Basketball<br />
Sponsored by<br />
Rugby, Ki oRahi,<br />
Basketball<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Sponsored<br />
by<br />
Nathan Kay<br />
Arie Newall<br />
Rugby, Basketball<br />
Ashleigh Lawler<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Netball<br />
Ashley Riley<br />
Netball, Basketball<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Sean Hassall<br />
Volleyball, Football<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
HanleyFarming<br />
Ebony Varnam<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Netball<br />
MG HARRIS<br />
Jonny Charlwood<br />
Sponsored by<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Rugby<br />
Will Neill<br />
Rugby<br />
Alexander Sillars<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Football<br />
Oxford and<br />
Districts<br />
Lions Club<br />
Shaugn Kilgour<br />
Football<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Tahlia Beck<br />
Ella Ferguson<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Basketball<br />
Netball, Ki oRahi<br />
Team Sponsors<br />
CraigKeanContracting Ltd<br />
Amuri<br />
Helicopters<br />
<strong>North</strong><strong>Canterbury</strong>Tyres<br />
Rugby, Basketball,<br />
Football<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Earl Cacho<br />
Sponsoredby<br />
Josh Evans<br />
Rugby<br />
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