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Time spent in the gym has been paying dividends on the court for Southland basketballer Maggie Manson.
He was once one of Southland’s top young swimmers but these days you are more likely to see Jacob Blomfield treading the boards than treading water.
Riding her horse at Sandy Point on the outskirts of Invercargill, Charliese Erskine would hear the shots going off at the nearby gun club and wonder what it would be like to give that sport a go.
After 150km of trekking, including some 12,000m of climbing, 19-year-old Dean Stewart reached out towards The Revenant’s ceremonial bottle of whisky sitting on the camp table and ‘tapped out’.
Top New Zealand track cyclist Nick Kergozou is aiming to put the disappointment of missing out on the Rio Olympics three years ago behind him with selection for the Tokyo Games in 2020.
Top Southland mountainbiker Josh Burnett will test himself in the under 23 ranks for the first time at this weekend’s national mountainbiking championships in Rotorua.
Southland’s Alena Saili can’t wait to continue what has already been a remarkable first 18 months as a professional rugby player.
