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All in Athletics
Add Kennedy Taylor’s name to the list of talented young Southlanders whose sporting ambitions have helped them gain a place at United States universities.
Talented Southland athlete Abby O’Boyle (St Pauls) has won a prestigious Nick Willis Scholarship after impressive performances at the South Island Colgate Games.
In the space of 3 mins 47.9 seconds James McLeay became Southland’s fastest 18 and under athlete, ever.
Winning a Southland title is one thing but many at the Southland athletics championships last weekend were treating it as a stepping-stone to bigger things – the national championships in Wellington in three weeks’ time.
At the recent national secondary athletic champs Southland athletes secured three medals. Ollie Davis got two of them.
Many of Southland’s young athletes were in Timaru on the weekend for the South Island Colgate Games.
Some new talent was unearthed at the Southland secondary schools athletics champs.
The Southland Secondary School athletic champs are usually in March, at the end of the track and field season. Covid however altered that.
It was a tale of young and old but some might object to the word old as inappropriate, so we’ll refer to it as a tale of youth and experience.
Running has taken Hannah Miller around the world and helped furnish her with a university education, but she’s not finished. Not by a long shot.
The Southland Secondary Schools crosscountry is possibly the hardest running championship to win.
Invercargill’s Queens Park in autumn is a vibrant display of earthy colours and falling leaves.
For Tori Peeters, the black singlet with the silver fern on it means many things.
