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WEDNESDAY 5 October 2016
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Husband’s advice motivates trio to victory SpOrtS Jacob Page
NEtbAll Nelson Netball has announced Lindsay Filiata will be the new general manager of Nelson Netball. Lindsay will replace Chelsea Routhan who finished in the role last month at the completion of the senior netball season. The former Netball New Zealand CoachForce manager for Central Zone will start her role on Monday, October 17.
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Call it gentle encouragement or an outright threat, Richmond adventure racing trio Marjolein Edwards, Pam Morris and Jackie MacIntyre may have their husbands to thank for their race day success. The team, which has raced the South Island Spring Challenge event together for six years, won the six-hour event at Golden Bay ensuring their husbands would be their support crew for one more year. “The early years we raced and we were always there or there abouts,” Pam says. “It wasn’t until our husbands sat us down and said unless you get on the podium we are going to be support crew for another team.” The advice worked and they won the next event in Hokitika and got on the podium in Wanaka. The trio want to make the Spring Challenge their big
Richmond adventure racers Pam Morris, left, Jackie MacIntyre and Marjolein Edwards at the finish line of the Torpedo 7 Spring Challenge after they won the 6-hour race. Photo Supplied. event for next year when they will be in the super-veteran category. “We train six months out from the event,” Pam says. “We meet every Friday and train and sometimes at night during the week.” Pam says each of them has clearly defined roles within the team and they enjoy each other’s company as well as the opportunity to see new parts of the South Island each year.
“We enjoy the training because it takes us to parts of the (Tasman) area that we otherwise would not run or bike through, then on race day you see some great parts of New Zealand that you wouldn’t normally otherwise see.” The team will be on the start line again next year when the event moves to Geraldine. “Once we realised the event was in Geraldine we were on-
line booking our accommodation within 10 minutes.” Two other local teams did well at the event; First in the three hour school division was team DJK of Jessie Fa’avae, Kyla Rayward and Davis Sundbye. First in the six hour Junior Girls division was Team Trapped in the Map comprising Jess Alloway, Charlotte Tucker and Hannah Martin.
SWimmiNg The Nelson South and Tasman Swim Clubs will be represented at the New Zealand Short-Course Swim Championships in Auckland which began on Sunday. Tasman have 12 swimmers while Nelson South have three swimmer competing with medal opportunities likely for the team this week. bASkEtbAll Nelson Giants playmaker Finn Delany begins his New Zealand Breakers season this week and will be searching for more minutes. A run of injuries has seen him active during the preseason and with the Australian Basketball League set to get underway, his quest for regular season minutes will be worth watching throughout the season.
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