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THURSDAY APRIL 8, 2021
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Tall Fern turns heads in the US St Peters Cambridge student Charlisse Leger-Walker (pictured) has won All-American honours with her college basketball team. Leger-Walker – who features in a Waipā youth awards story on Page 5 today – has become the first player from the Washington Cougars to be named in the United States Basketball Writers Association All-American team. In mid-March Walker-Leger helped Washington State University to qualify for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament for the first time in 30 years and she has also been named the Pac-12 Freshman (first year player) of the Year. The Pac-12 Conference is a college athletic conference covering the western United States, catering for 24 sports. Leger-Walker was the youngest player to represent New Zealand after she was called up as a 16-year-old. She also helped New Zealand to bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. While at St Peters the Hamilton born guard featured in four national school title winning teams in five years. Her mother Leanne Walker captained the Tall Ferns at the 2004 Athens Olympics and her sister Krystal is also a Tall Fern, a former St Peters Cambridge student – and is also playing for Washington State.
APRIL 8, 2021
Disco to the rescue – again By Viv Posselt
Two special dogs whose lives are intertwined through veterinary procedures met face-to-face for the first time recently – one a life-
saving blood donor greyhound called Disco, and the other an ailing labradoodle called Skylar, who belongs to Cambridge ceramic artist and Te Awamutu Museum administrator Trish
Seddon. Now four-and-a-half, Skylar is a New Lives Animal Rescue pup adopted by Trish at just six months old. Not long ago, Trish noticed Skylar’s extreme exhaustion. “She
would sometimes just drop to the floor from standing, or fall to the ground while mid-air trying to catch a ball.” Vets discovered Skylar had Myasthenia Gravis, an autoimmune disease in which there is a malfunction in the transmission of signals between the nerves and muscles, causing excessive fatigue and difficulty in swallowing.
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Jenny Bartlett and Disco, left, with Trish Seddon and Skylar, the labradoodle who has benefitted from multiple blood transfusions.
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The Waikato Greyhound Racing Club (WGRC) is running another Open Day on Sunday, April 11. The event has a multiple focus, bringing together retired greyhounds and their owners in a social and educational day intended to dispel myths about the life of racing and retired greyhounds. The Cambridge-based president of WGRC, Jenny Bartlett, said the event, which is held twice-yearly in Cambridge, is also a fundraiser. The one held later in the year raises funds for The Shoe Box Appeal, something that provides a box of Christmas treats for greyhounds. The Open Day is at Cambridge Raceway from 10am on Sunday.