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REPRESENT: Dylan Monk (left) and his younger brother<br />
Lewis won the 16-and-under K2 500m title at the national<br />
canoe sprint championships. PHOTO: KARLENE ROGERS<br />
Young kayaker sets<br />
sights on Olympics<br />
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“It was such a good experience.<br />
Hopefully I can just continue<br />
with it,” the Shirley Boys’ High<br />
student said.<br />
The four-day event saw Monk<br />
represent Arawa and New Zealand<br />
against competitors from<br />
New Zealand, Singapore, Japan<br />
and Australia. Alongside eight<br />
national titles, Monk also won the<br />
16-and-under K1 (single) 500m,<br />
K1 200m and K4 (four-person)<br />
200m races at the Oceania championships,<br />
and the K1 500m and<br />
K4 200m for New Zealand in the<br />
Asia Pacific Sprint Cup.<br />
Although Monk always believed<br />
some of his team boats<br />
would do well, he was surprised<br />
by some of his personal results.<br />
“In some of the individual ones,<br />
like the 500m, and especially the<br />
(individual) 200m race, I didn’t<br />
expect to win,” he said.<br />
Monk also won a national title<br />
with his younger brother Lewis,<br />
14, in the 16-and-under K2<br />
(double) 500m race. “It was really<br />
good – and obviously winning<br />
was a bonus as well,” he said.<br />
With the kayaking race season<br />
over until December, Monk will<br />
continue to train six days a week<br />
in a bid to represent New Zealand<br />
again in the summer.<br />
“I’d like to qualify for the next<br />
Asia Pacific championships, and<br />
maybe the junior world champs<br />
the year after,” he said.<br />
Monk has taken a similar<br />
path to five-time Olympic gold<br />
medallist Lisa Carrington, who<br />
also took up to kayaking as a surf<br />
life saver. The idea of representing<br />
New Zealand at the Olympics is<br />
in Monk’s sights – but not in his<br />
immediate future just yet.<br />
“I’ll just have to take it year-byyear<br />
and see where it takes me.”<br />
First XI stars selected for<br />
World Cup qualifiers<br />
• By Jaime Cunningham<br />
PROMISING cricketers Ben<br />
Breitmeyer and Cameron Paul<br />
have been selected to represent<br />
New Zealand at the under-19<br />
Cricket World Cup qualifiers.<br />
Breitmeyer, a former Christ’s<br />
College student, and Paul, who<br />
was at St Andrew’s College<br />
till last year, are the only<br />
Canterbury players to make in<br />
the squad of 14 who will head<br />
to Australia on June 9. Connor<br />
Stewart (St Bede’s College) has<br />
been named as a reserve.<br />
Breitmeyer and Paul were<br />
integral members of their first<br />
XI sides. Fast-bowler Breitmeyer<br />
was part of the Christ’s College<br />
side who won the Gillette Cup in<br />
December.<br />
Although St Andrew’s College<br />
did not qualify for the Gillette<br />
Cup, Paul was in the 2021 first<br />
XI side who beat Christ’s College<br />
to represent Canterbury<br />
at the New Zealand secondary<br />
schools’ tournament.<br />
Paul and Breitmeyer played<br />
for Canterbury at the national<br />
under-19 tournament in January.<br />
They both study at Lincoln<br />
University as cricket scholars.<br />
The New Zealand under-19<br />
team are aiming to qualify<br />
for the 2024 World Cup in Sri<br />
Lanka following New Zealand<br />
Cricket’s decision to opt out<br />
of last year’s tournament due<br />
to Covid-19 and player wellbeing<br />
issues. The squad will be<br />
coached by Jonny Bassett-Graham,<br />
with support from Graeme<br />
Aldridge and Paul Wiseman.<br />
They must top a pool<br />
consisting of Fiji, Indonesia,<br />
Japan, Papua New Guinea,<br />
Samoa and Vanuatu to qualify<br />
for the World Cup. The New<br />
Zealand under-19s take on<br />
Japan in their first match on<br />
June 12 in Darwin.<br />
New Zealand<br />
under-19 squad: Ben<br />
Breitmeyer (Canterbury), Sam<br />
Clode (Northern Districts),<br />
Thursday <strong>May</strong> 4 <strong>2023</strong><br />
CHANCE: Ben<br />
Breitmeyer<br />
and Cameron<br />
Paul (below)<br />
will head to<br />
Australia on<br />
June 9 for<br />
New Zealand’s<br />
under-19 Cricket<br />
World Cup<br />
qualifying bid.<br />
Zac Cumming (Otago),<br />
Rahman Hekmat (Auckland),<br />
Oscar Jackson (Wellington),<br />
Tom Jones (Auckland), Josh<br />
Olliver (Auckland), Cameron<br />
Paul (Canterbury), Snehith<br />
Reddy (Northern Districts),<br />
Ewald Schreuder (Northern<br />
Districts), Lachie<br />
Stackpole (Auckland), Ollie<br />
Tewatiya (Wellington), Alex<br />
Thompson (Wellington), Ryan<br />
Tsourgas (Wellington). Reserves:<br />
Connor Stewart (Canterbury),<br />
Will Julian (Wellington), Matt<br />
Rowe (Central Districts), Mason<br />
Clarke (Otago).<br />
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