A trio of juniors from the South Canterbury Amateur Athletics Club has been selected to compete for Canterbury against the country’s best at the New Zealand Interprovincial Teams Event in Invercargill.
Craighead’s Lauren Bruce, along with Brittany Cannell and James Sandilands, will compete.
Lauren, 12, will compete in the shotput, discus, high and hurdles and 13-year-old Brittany has been chosen in the sprints and shotput.
James will also have a busy time with the high jump, long jump, shotput and hurdles.
The Canterbury club, which includes the West Coast, has 11 athletes in each grade after their personal bests were collated.
They will face New Zealand’s 11 other athletic centres.
James’ stand-out performance was finishing second in the under-14 high jump at the South Island Secondary Schools track and field championships in Dunedin, clearing 1.68 metres, while Brittany won the under-14 200m in a personal best of 27.18 seconds.
It is also a case of turning back the clock for the Cannells. Brittany’s mother, Richelle, a sports co-ordinator at Roncalli, competed in the same team, at the same age, in the same track events back in 1983.
