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6 Thursday <strong>November</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />

Sports stars receive Zonta awards<br />

THE 31ST Zonta sports awards<br />

event, organised by the Zonta<br />

Club of Christchurch South,<br />

was held recently at the Hornby<br />

Working Men’s Club.<br />

It was a very inspirational<br />

night with 314 attendees. Nine<br />

individual winners and two<br />

team winners were announced,<br />

together with a number of highly<br />

commended certificates awarded<br />

as the standard was so high.<br />

Tessa Morrison, a member of<br />

the inaugural Tauihi Basketball<br />

League, spoke of her life journey<br />

in sport and her continued<br />

advocacy for equality and<br />

fairness in sport and for using<br />

sport to connect with young<br />

people.<br />

Final results:<br />

Category one: The<br />

award for the most<br />

valued contribution to a team<br />

by a young sports woman or<br />

sports man who is not eligible for<br />

nomination in categories four or<br />

six.<br />

Girls winner: Reed McHugh,<br />

Christchurch Girls’ High School,<br />

aerobics.<br />

Highly commended: Sophie<br />

O’Connor, St Andrew’s College,<br />

rowing.<br />

Finalists: Ella Hartel, Rangi<br />

Ruru Girls’ School, football.<br />

Sienna O’Shannessey, Rangi<br />

Ruru Girls’ School, rowing. Zara<br />

Sadler, Avonside Girls’ High<br />

School, korfball, netball.<br />

Boys winner: Henry Farrell, St<br />

Andrew’s College, rowing. Finalists:<br />

Jack Coulthard, St Thomas of<br />

Canterbury, rugby. Joel Richardson,<br />

Middleton Grange School,<br />

volleyball<br />

Category two: The award for<br />

contribution to sports administration<br />

by a young woman and<br />

a young man in a position of<br />

umpire, referee, coach or tutor.<br />

Girls winner:<br />

Jessica Pope,<br />

Lincoln<br />

High School,<br />

netball. Highly<br />

commended: Keira<br />

Jessica<br />

Pope<br />

Hill, Cashmere<br />

High School,<br />

basketball. Emma<br />

Marshall, Rolleston College,<br />

hockey.<br />

Finalists: Thornton Alexandra,<br />

Avonside Girls’ High School,<br />

netball. Sarah Foi, Haeata<br />

Community College, netball,<br />

volleyball. Maia Jeffs, Papanui<br />

High School, netball. Savannah<br />

Van Dyk, Lincoln High School,<br />

netball.<br />

Boys winner: Lochie Ellison,<br />

Hillmorton High School, Hockey.<br />

Highly commended: Kai Shields,<br />

Burnside High School, basketball.<br />

Finalists: Liam Hackston, St Andrew’s<br />

College, football. Matthew<br />

Patterson, St Andrew’s College,<br />

basketball.<br />

Category three: The award for<br />

the most outstanding achievement<br />

by a young sports woman<br />

and a young sportsman with a<br />

disability.<br />

Combined winners: Gabriella<br />

Smith, Rangi Ruru Girls’ School,<br />

para swimming. Highly commended:<br />

Sarah James, Avonside<br />

Girls’ High School, wheelchair<br />

athletics. Lili-Fox Mason, Villa<br />

Maria College, para swimming.<br />

Finalists: Millie Long, Rolleston<br />

College, swimming, boccia. Rorie<br />

Poff, St Thomas of Canterbury<br />

College, athletics. Josh Rae, Papanui<br />

High School, cross country,<br />

road race.<br />

Category four: The award for<br />

the most outstanding individual<br />

achievement by a young sportswoman<br />

and a young sportsman<br />

specialising in one sport.<br />

Girls winner: Paris Chin,<br />

Burnside High School, rhythmic<br />

gymnastics. Highly commended:<br />

Annabel Wynn-Williams, Rangi<br />

Ruru Girls’ School, rowing –<br />

coxswain. Finalists: McKenzie<br />

Mihi Marama Bailey-McDowall,<br />

Kaiapoi High School, softball.<br />

Georgie Bethell, Rangi Ruru<br />

Girls’ School, rowing. Ivy Brown,<br />

St Margaret’s College, basketball.<br />

Jemma Burrowes, St Margaret’s<br />

College, rowing. Hope Chmiel,<br />

Villa Maria College, swimming.<br />

Grace Farrell, St Margaret’s College,<br />

rowing. Pippa Henderson, St<br />

Andrew’s College, volleyball. Jess<br />

Hendren, Rangiora High School,<br />

high jump. Ruby Hewitt, Rangi<br />

Ruru Girls’ School, freeride skiing.<br />

Tineke Hinton, St Andrew’s<br />

College, volleyball. Madeleine Iro,<br />

Christchurch Girls’ High School,<br />

football. Isla Joyce, Rangi Ruru<br />

Girls’ School, sprint kayaking.<br />

Holly Lill, Rangi Ruru Girls’<br />

School, rowing. Petra Curd-<br />

McCullough, Christchurch Girls’<br />

High School, squash. Maddy<br />

Moore, Hillmorton High School,<br />

trampolining. Maddie Morrow,<br />

St Andrew’s College, basketball.<br />

Ashlyn Rean, Rangiora High<br />

School, basketball. Hannah Shatford,<br />

Christchurch Girls’ High<br />

School, artistic Swimming. Nia<br />

Surman, Lincoln High School,<br />

Volleyball. Georgia Thomson,<br />

St Andrew’s College, Rowing.<br />

Nicole Vance, Rangi Ruru Girls’<br />

School, rowing. Alice Wallis,<br />

Rangi Ruru Girls’ School, rowing.<br />

Phoebe Wallis, Rangi Ruru Girls’<br />

School, rowing. Agatha Weston,<br />

Rangi Ruru Girls’ School, waterpolo.<br />

Mikey Wildermoth, Rangi<br />

Ruru Girls’ School, Equestrian.<br />

Karereatua Williams, St Andrew’s<br />

College, basketball.<br />

Boys winner:<br />

Johan Roberts,<br />

Cashmere High<br />

School, cross fit.<br />

Highly commended:<br />

Johan<br />

Johan<br />

Roberts<br />

Henry Farrell<br />

Roberts, Cashmere<br />

High School,<br />

cross fit. Finalists:<br />

Reed McHugh<br />

Hunter Adam, Christ’s College,<br />

basketball. Louie Gordon, St<br />

Thomas of Canterbury College,<br />

basketball. Ryan Ko, Christchurch<br />

Boys’ High School, squash.<br />

Joseph Leigh-Monsall, Papanui<br />

High School, dodgeball. Thomas<br />

Logopati, Papanui High School,<br />

dodgeball. Sebastian May, St Andrew’s<br />

College, golf. Ryan Stewart,<br />

St Andrew’s College, fencing.<br />

Category five: The awards<br />

for the most outstanding team<br />

Rangi Ruru rowing.<br />

Christ’s College basketball.<br />

of young sportswomen and<br />

sportsmen or mixed team.<br />

Girls winner: Rangi Ruru<br />

Girls’ School, rowing eight.<br />

Highly commended: Burnside<br />

High School, beach volleyball.<br />

Christchurch Girls’ High School,<br />

rugby. Christchurch Girls’ High<br />

School, hockey. St Andrew’s<br />

College, basketball. St Margaret’s<br />

College, rowing pair. St Margaret’s<br />

College, hockey. St Margaret’s<br />

College, netball.<br />

Boys winner: Christ’s College,<br />

basketball. Highly commended:<br />

Christ’s College, rowing. St<br />

Andrew’s College, hockey.<br />

Finalist: Haeata Community<br />

College, rugby league.<br />

Category six: The award<br />

for the best all round young<br />

sportswoman and young<br />

sportsman who has achieved in<br />

more than one sporting code.<br />

Girls winner:<br />

Karereatua<br />

Williams, St<br />

Andrew’s College,<br />

basketball.<br />

Highly<br />

Karereatua<br />

Williams<br />

commended: Kyla<br />

Lynch-Brown,<br />

Avonside Girls’<br />

High School, basketball, rugby,<br />

rugby league, touch. Aaliyah<br />

Metcalf, Lincoln High School,<br />

netball, Ki-o-rahi, volleyball,<br />

athletics.<br />

Finalists: Phoebe Hunt,<br />

Avonside Girls’ High School,<br />

orienteering, football, canoe polo,<br />

rock climbing, adventure racing.<br />

Abbey Moody, Rangi Ruru Girls’<br />

School, water polo, athletics.<br />

Penelope Taulafo, St Andrew’s<br />

College, hockey, volleyball, rugby.<br />

Jess Vogel, Villa Maria College,<br />

athletics, netball, netball, touch<br />

rugby, rugby league.<br />

Boys winner:<br />

Daniel Malcom,<br />

Middleton<br />

Grange, canoe<br />

polo, volleyball,<br />

basketball.<br />

Finalists: Jacob<br />

Daniel<br />

Malcom<br />

Clements,<br />

Christ’s College,<br />

waterpolo,<br />

basketball.<br />

Category seven: Most<br />

Innovative school sport<br />

or physical activity programme:<br />

Winner: Darfield High School,<br />

Alexis-Rose Sinclair-Dockerill,<br />

multisport squad programme.

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