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Academy Southland manager Jason McKenzie will be supporting the referees and other officials at this year’s Rugby World Cup in Japan.
Southland’s Emily Paterson is a world junior track cycling silver medalist after the New Zealand women’s team pursuit lost by the narrowest of margins in a remarkable final on day two of the UCI world junior track cycling championships in Germany.
Volleyballer Sam Hodges has the world at his size 16 feet.
Invercargill will host the New Zealand secondary schools duathlon championships for the first time this weekend.
Academy Southland is celebrating fifteen years of developing many of the province’s best young sportspeople.
The relationship between Academy Southland and the Southern Institute of Technology has helped provide another pathway into the sport and recreation industry; but for one student it has also been life changing.
Cycling Southland and Academy Southland athlete Emily Paterson talks about heading away to the Junior World Track championships in Frankfurt, Germany next month.
An opportunity to improve her game overseas has seen ice hockey player Beth Scott postpone her dream of playing for the New Zealand women’s team.
Southland leaper Sam Colyer will attempt to break through a couple of barriers to set a new personal best when he represents New Zealand at the Oceania athletics championships later this month.
An opportunity to present to the Japan Sports Foundation has provided Academy Southland manager Jason McKenzie with an insight into how athletes are supported in other countries.
Bobby Dowling is crediting Academy Southland for helping him secure a rare ‘triple crown’ of world sawing titles at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.
On a climb midway through the six-lap bike leg, Southland triathlete Jaxon Taylor began to question whether his attacking race plan was about to become his undoing.
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.
