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The Mount Aspiring College senior girls A and boys A futsal teams successfully defended their titles at the recent Otago Secondary School Futsal Championships held on March 13.
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The Mount Aspiring College (MAC) senior girls A and boys A futsal teams successfully defended their titles at the recent Otago Secondary School Futsal Championships held on March 13. Senior girls A MAC team played well to win the senior girls division one title for the second year in a row. It was an impressive team effort. They only conceded three goals all tournament and won the final quite comprehensively 5-0 against St Hilda. The senior boys A team went down to Otago Boys 3-5 in their first game but bounced back to win their next two games against Logan Park High School and Bayfield High School comfortably to meet again Otago Boys in the division one final. The MAC senior boys dominated Otago Boys to win the match 5-1 to become the Otago
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Secondary School Champions for two years straight and the only MAC boys team to defend their title. MAC have dominated the Otago School Futsal Championships in recent years by not only taking out the division one titles but also junior and division two titles and usually making the finals. The senior boys team was looking forward to competing at this year’s NZ Secondary School Futsal National Championships in Wellington at the beginning of April but the tournament has been cancelled. The team was bitterly disappointed because many of the squad were in their last year at the college and in the team and had been working on their game for the last three years. They were looking forward to seeing how far they would go in the tournament with the aim to better their 11th place finish two years ago to place in the top 8. With school futsal now over the team will focus on football.
Wānaka triathlon champion Braden Currie and his wife Sally Currie will share their family’s experiences and learnings around self-isolation to help others adjust to the coronavirus lockdown over the coming weeks. In an online post yesterday, Braden Currie said he hoped sharing their story would “make each day less overwhelming and more of a process that you will look back on as one of the most powerful times of your life so far.” The family of four have already self-isolated for a week with other local families. Sally Currie told the Wānaka Sun that they and their seven and eleven-year-old children were used to basing themselves overseas for five months a year, during which they had little connection to others and the children were home-schooled. The pair felt that parallels could be drawn between their experiences and what the wider community faced. They advised looking at the bigger picture to take away from immediate day-to-day financial stresses, and setting “daily visions” for the whole family rather than goals . “They can be really simple overriding concepts of how you live, and that’s what the kids and I rely on a lot,” said Sally Currie, stressing the importance of making children part of everyday processes - including cooking and cleaning - by getting them to come up with a routine that worked for and interested them. “The more empowered they feel, the more calm and accepting they are of the process,” she said.
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“The people you’re self isolating with are all going through this together, and all we can do is help and support, and be there with love and compassion for those around us, and find our muddled way through this.”
Adapting to constant changes was also an opportunity for enjoyment, she said -”cherish[ing] the times that you get with your family, and the ability to take some time out from your normal busy life.” The Currie’s final message was to respect and accept the process. “The people you’re self isolating with are all going through this together, and all we can do is help and support, and be there with love and compassion for those around us, and find our muddled way through this,” Sally Currie said. The Curries will continue to share via their website www.bradencurrie.com, Instagram and Facebook (bradencurrie).
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