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Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>19</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 3<br />
Bourne to lead: Young golfer’s win<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
FOURTEEN-year-old Zaria<br />
Bourne is an emerging force on<br />
the fairways.<br />
She was the youngest player<br />
in Waimairi Beach Golf Club’s<br />
history to win its senior<br />
club championship at the age<br />
of 12.<br />
Now Zaria’s skills have been<br />
recognised at the national<br />
GirlBoss awards. She won the<br />
emerging leader award last week<br />
at a ceremony in Auckland.<br />
Said Zaria: “I was very happy,<br />
surprised and thankful to win<br />
the award. Golf is typically a<br />
male-dominated sport and I’m<br />
happy to show other young<br />
women that ‘if he can do it, so<br />
can I’.<br />
“I’ve had a lot of rejection due<br />
to my skill, size and gender. That<br />
didn’t stop me from hitting the<br />
ball harder and further.”<br />
Zaria has been a part of the<br />
Waimairi golf club for about four<br />
years, and has scored not one but<br />
two hole-in-ones.<br />
Her dream is to become a<br />
professional golfer like Lydia Ko,<br />
and her vision is for an academy<br />
to be set up for young women so<br />
they can succeed together.<br />
“I want to lead other girls into<br />
believing they can do anything.<br />
Restraints can hold you back<br />
from becoming the best version<br />
of you.”<br />
The Catholic Cathedral College<br />
student was awarded $1000<br />
alongside the title and will save the<br />
money until she needs it most.<br />
She was one of three young<br />
women from Canterbury to<br />
receive awards.<br />
St Margaret’s College student<br />
Lucy Butterfield won the<br />
STEM award, and former<br />
Christchurch Girls High School<br />
head prefect Hawwa Niyaz the<br />
innovation award.<br />
The 11 winners were<br />
selected from 530 nominations<br />
nationwide.<br />
The Girlboss Awards are a<br />
nationwide search for young<br />
women aged 11-18 who are<br />
leaders, role models and<br />
innovators in categories such<br />
as community, sports, arts and<br />
culture, and innovation.<br />
HARD HITTER:<br />
Waimairi golfer<br />
Zaria Bourne has<br />
won the emerging<br />
leader title at the<br />
GirlBoss national<br />
awards, pictured<br />
with Delta Insurance<br />
representative Dasha<br />
Goryacheva.<br />
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