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Botany and Ormiston Times, Thursday, January 5, 2017 — 15
Looking back on 2016
APRIL: Former Pakuranga College student Ata Hingano earned his place in the Warriors reserve grade to prepare him for the bruising physicality of the NRL. Photo supplied
➤➤From page 16 ➤➤Brooke Manak, of Bucklands Beach tamed her challenging horse in only a few months to win Level 1 Dressage Pony of the Year at the Horse of the Year competition in Hastings. ➤➤Howick Pakuranga’s (HPK) para-swimmer Tupou Neiufi took out first place in the women’s 50m backstroke at the New Zealand Open Swimming Championships in Auckland. ➤➤Howick Pakuranga Swim Club (HPK) sprinter Daniel Hunter came within a blink of reaching the Rio Olympic qualifying standard when he set a national record in the 50m freestyle heats on day two of the 2016 New Zealand Open Swimming Championships.
April
➤➤Pakuranga United Premier Rugby team won the 2016 Waka Nathan Challenge Cup defeating Waitemata 27-23. Premier Coach Pita Alatini was impressed with his team’s performance after what turned out to be a battle midmatch.
JULY: Plenty of local talent was on display at Paradice Ice Arena in Botany Downs as the Auckland Ice Figure Skating Club (AIFSC) held its 2016 Club Championships. For many, it was their first competition of the year and their first chance to showcase new routines. Times photo Wayne Martin
the Howick Hornets senior rugby league team, he later coached the seniors having done stints with the club’s junior sides.
Welch was in good form leading up to the World Taekwondo Junior Championships in Canada after winning gold in Australia.
➤➤Gymnast Samadiana Fariz of Bucklands Beach, Junior Black Sox player Harrison Valk, and Special Olympic swimmer Monique Irvine were among the award recipients at the 2016 Howick Sports Awards.
August
➤➤Howick College pupil Jordan Nathan-Welch was selected to represent his country at the 2016 World Taekwondo Junior Championship in Canada.
June
➤➤Twelve Pakuranga United Rugby Club players were named in the Auckland under 19 training squad to prepare for the 2016 NZRU National U19 tournament through September and October. ➤➤Six Howick College current students and three former students were selected for the U22 and U18 men’s and women’s underwater hockey teams to represent New Zealand in the Trans-Tasman underwater hockey competition.
➤➤Former Sancta Maria College students, 20-year-old Taylor and 19-year-old Robbie Shrimpton blitzed the competition at the BP Surf Rescue New Zealand Championships in Papamoa.
➤➤Sacha Earnest rode her way to victory in the 10-year girls’ category at the UCI 2016 BMX World Championships held in Medellin, Colombia.
➤➤Salem Notter was the national mounted games champion after winning the under-14 category at the New Zealand Mounted Games Individual Championships in Pukekohe.
➤➤Howick Intermediate finished a creditable third in the Auckland Inter Zone Rugby Competition. The team earlier won the South Eastern Zone competition to qualify for the Inter Zone.
➤➤Macleans College took out the first XV rugby competition, premier boys’ hockey competition, premier boys’ basketball, and 9A netball competition at a three-day preseason winter tournament hosted by the college.
➤➤Saint Kentigern student Sarina Wang was crowned the overall winner in the female category of the eighth National Sport Stacking Championships.
May
➤➤Saint Kentigern College stole the limelight in the New Zealand Secondary Schools water polo national championships. In the division 3 competition in Hamilton Saint Kentigern girls’ premier team pulled through with a narrow win against Hamilton Girls’ High in the final to take the title of national champions. ➤➤Howick lost one of its special characters with the sudden passing of Tony Moore, aged 69. A former tireless second rower for
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high tides
september: The Howick Hornets Open Age Restricted (OAR) side suffered a devastatingly close loss at the weekend, falling one point short in what was a dramatic championship final. The U85kg side came up against Hibiscus Coast and limped away with an 18-19 defeat, despite a courageous comeback. Times photo Wayne Martin
July
➤➤Two Botany brothers headed to the Under 15 Baseball World Cup in Japan. Tukuteihu and Huriwaka Repia, from the Howick Pakuranga Baseball Club, were part of the Kiwi side that would come up against Panama, Venezuela, the United States, Mexico and Chinese Taipei in Group B at the Under 15 Baseball World Cup in Iwaki, Japan. ➤➤The New Zealand Olympic Committee and New Zealand Golf named 29-year-old Beachlands star, Ryan Fox, in the New Zealand Olympic Team. ➤➤Howick College’s Jordan Nathan-
➤➤The Howick Hornets Fox Premiers beat top-of-the-table Papakura Sea Eagles winning the inaugural Lia Johnston Memorial Shield. ➤➤The Pakuranga United under21s won the Arthur Bayliss Cup at Eden Park coming away with a hard-fought 27-24 win over Grammar TEC. Meanwhile, the Pakuranga United under 85kg Rattlers won the U85kg plate final against Suburbs. ➤➤Arzan Todywalla was named player of the year by international sport travel company AM Sports Tours after a sizzling performance for New Zealand at the Super Cup NI 2016 in Northern Ireland. Todywalla, 15, a striker for Fencibles United U15 Metro and the U16 Junior New Zealand team, was highest scorer. ➤➤Ryan Fox carded an incredible nine-under 62 to surge to victory in the European Challenge Tour’s Northern Ireland Open. Starting the day three shots off the lead, the 29-year-old Beachlands player quickly changed that with a birdie and an eagle in his opening two holes to wipe the deficit. He went on to complete a four-shot victory and claim his second European Challenge Tour title. ➤➤Local cyclist and Saint Kentigern College student, Connor Brown, won gold at the 2016 Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Switzerland, smashing a world record in the process. The 18-yearold was part of the four-person New Zealand team that competed in the U19 Men’s Team Pursuit at the World Champs. ➤➤Jacob Hollobon was named Auckland College Rugby League’s “Most Valuable Player” for the under 85kg division. The Pakuranga College student who lived in Bucklands Beach, played for Pakuranga College and the Howick Hornets Rugby League Club.
September
➤➤As part of the Fencibles United Association Football Club’s 20th anniversary celebrations, a special exhibition match was planned. The Pakuranga Town AFC old boys
would take on the Howick AFC old boys for the inaugural Danna Mandry Trophy. ➤➤Local teenager Ryan Oliver struck gold at the AIMS Games in Tauranga. Competing for his school Farm Cove Intermediate, he backed up his 2015 success in the pool, winning eight gold medals including the overall best 13 year male for the swimming event. ➤➤The Fencibles United Conference Women won the AFF Women’s Knockout Cup playing Ellerslie in the final, scoring the winning goal in the last minute of extra time.
October
➤➤Local Brazilian Jiu Jitsu star Brandon Meyer, a 12-year-old, Year 7 student at Farm Cove Intermediate, won the Australasian Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) title for his division at he Pan Pacific Champs in Melbourne in 2015. ➤➤Saint Kentigern College won the New Zealand Secondary Schools Netball Champs in Lower Hutt. The premier netball side beat defending champions Mt Albert Grammar School 35-34 in the final to become the best high school netball team in the country. ➤➤Pakuranga’s Rose Zheng won her first event on the Jennian Homes Charles Tour. She carded a brilliant final round score of seven-underpar at the 2016 John Jones Steel Harewood Open in Christchurch finishing the event at 17-under-par. ➤➤Close to $14,000 was raised for Pakuranga United Rugby Club’s Under 15 and Under 18 junior academies at the 11th annual Bledisloe Luncheon and Fundraising Auction which attracted 220 participants. Guest speaker was All Black rugby legend Wayne ‘Buck’ Shelford. ➤➤Year 12 Pakuranga College student, Regan Mooney, notched up an incredible win in the recent North Island Secondary Schools Snowboard Competition beating entrants from 43 other schools to win the Boardercross event. Elim Christian College’s Baylin Kelin Ovink took overall top junior girl’s award. Elim Christian College won the girls’ combined team award while Macleans College was fourth in the boys’ combined team.
November
➤➤Howick College open girls
sevens team won the 2016 Auckland Secondary School Sevens competition qualifying for nationals. The final against Southern Cross Campus was a tight, hard-fought match decided in the last 20 seconds, with Howick coming out 21-17 ahead. ➤➤Inspirational Howickian Garry Donoghue, 71, finished the Auckland Marathon (42.195km) in 4 hours 40 minutes and was second out of 11 for his age group. ➤➤Pakuranga’s Rose Zheng won the women’s 2016 Cobra Puma New Zealand Amateur Championship at the Royal Wellington Golf Club. The 14-year-old was the second youngest golfer in history to win the title behind world number one Lydia Ko. ➤➤Pakuranga College’s new 1600m2 multi-purpose, double gymnasium was officially opened by the school’s own Olympians, board sailor Bruce Kendall and swimmer Rebecca Linton. They were joined by Special Olympians, Edward Borkin and Monique Irvine (both swimmers), in cutting the ribbon on the $4 million building. ➤➤Eleven-year-old Finlay McKechnie, of Howick, scored a hole-in-one at the Whitford Golf Club’s junior club day competition. ➤➤Howick Pakuranga Cricket Club’s Colin ‘Dutchie’ de Grandhomme notched up a brilliant record on his debut for the Black Caps. He was also named Man of the Match as the Black Caps cruised to victory against Pakistan in Christchurch. The Auckland Aces all-rounder recorded a brilliant 1st innings 6/41. ➤➤Beachlands golfer Ryan Fox finished tied for fourth at the Australian Open in Sydney. Fox, the son of All Black great and selector Grant Fox, began the final round in a tie for second, two shots back from leader Geoff Ogilvy.
December
➤➤The Howick Softball Club premier women made history, winning the Bev Smith Memorial Tournament for the first time. ➤➤Pakuranga College finished 12th, Howick College ninth, Saint Kentigern College sixth and Macleans College fourth at the 2016 New Zealand Secondary Schools (NZSS) national touch rugby championships.
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