Pegasus Post: November 17, 2022
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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.