Southern View: November 17, 2022

Thursday November 17 2022 7
ZONTA SPORTS AWARDS
MISCHIEVIOUS
“ATTICUS”
I want to introduce you all to the newest
member of the McMaster & Heap Family, a five
month old red Mandalay kitten who I fell about
by accident really.
Rangi Ruru rowing.
• From page 5
Category five: The
awards for the most
outstanding team of
young sportswomen and
sportsmen or mixed team.
Girls winner: Rangi Ruru
Girls’ School, rowing eight.
Highly commended:
Burnside High School,
beach volleyball.
Christchurch Girls’ High
School, rugby. Christchurch
Girls’ High School, hockey.
St Andrew’s College,
basketball. St Margaret’s
College, rowing pair. St
Margaret’s College, hockey.
St Margaret’s College,
netball.
Boys winner: Christ’s
College, basketball.
Highly commended:
Christ’s College, rowing.
St Andrew’s College,
hockey. Finalist: Haeata
Community College, rugby
league.
Category six: The award
for the best all round
young sportswoman and
young sportsman who has
achieved in more than one
sporting code.
Category seven winner
– Darfield High School.
Girls
winner:
Karereatua
Williams,
St Andrew’s
College,
basketball.
Karereatua
Highly
Williams
commended:
Kyla Lynch-Brown,
Avonside Girls’ High
School, basketball, rugby,
rugby league, touch.
Aaliyah Metcalf, Lincoln
High School, netball, Ki-orahi,
volleyball, athletics.
Finalists: Phoebe Hunt,
Avonside Girls’ High
School, orienteering,
football, canoe polo, rock
climbing, adventure racing.
Abbey Moody, Rangi Ruru
Girls’ School, water polo,
athletics. Penelope Taulafo,
St Andrew’s College, hockey,
volleyball, rugby. Jess
Vogel, Villa Maria College,
athletics, netball, netball,
touch rugby, rugby league.
Boys
winner:
Daniel
Malcom,
Middleton
Grange,
Daniel
canoe polo,
volleyball,
basketball.
Malcom
Finalists: Jacob Clements,
Christ’s College, waterpolo,
basketball.
Category seven: Most
Innovative school sport
or physical activity
programme: Winner:
Darfield High School,
Alexis-Rose Sinclair-
Dockerill, multisport squad
programme.
He’s truly a stunner – confident, playful, so
sweet yet mischievious. He’s well and truly
firmly found his place in our home and the
other pets adore him.
Recently he got
into a little bit
of trouble, and
chewed up some
of my hair from
the shower. I
was away visiting
our son Dylan in
Houston and he
must have missed
me so much. He
started with a few
vomits, then had a
day of being back
to his sprinting pace,
gobbling up his
food and then another
major vomit directly in
front of Steve.
Steve bundled him
up and took him to
work. The joys of
having vets as parents.
Initial blood testing
and radiographs of
his abdomen were
normal, so Steve
placed him on
intravenous fluids and
gave him medication to prevent vomiting.
When he continued vomiting we asked
Richard Lucy to ultrasound his abdomen,
which proved highly suspicious for a linear
foreign body, stretching right through his
small intestines, causing the bowel to bunch
into a ball, which could have proven fatal.
Lynne our surgeon was on hand to swiftly
take the wee guy to surgery. He was a star
under anaesthetic and Steve could almost
catheterize him on his own. He was so
gentle and well behaved with needles.
Lynne removed from his small intestines a
wad of my hair and he’d also chewed part of
a kitchen scour scrubber!!! He was sutured up
and within an hour he was up walking around
, ready for his next adventure.
He’s an absolute delight but he’s going to
keep us all busy, picking up any potential
object lying around the house we think he
might grab at.
Dr Michele McMaster
Christ’s College basketball.
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