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Athletics Canterbury 2010/11 Awards
Welford Acknowledged.
Long serving athletic stalwart,Linley Welford (SCAAC) was deservedly awarded the Service to Sport Award at the 2010/11 Athletics Canterbury Awards evening held at the Cashmere Working Mens Club in Christchurch on Friday night.
Linleys’s service dates back to the early 1980′s as a Committee member of the South Canterbury Amateur Athletic Club as well as an Official up to National level and as a competitor in Masters Athletics.
Linley is also a long serving member of the Athletics Mid-South Sub Centre Committee as well as part of the South Canterbury Track Trust that saw the creation of the All Weather Track Complex at Aorangi Par
Tom Walsh was named Thrower of the Year for his outstanding season which included 17th place at the World Junior Championships in Canada,as well as winning the Australian U20 title and setting a new record,and retaining his New Zealand Senior men’s title.
Rebecca Hodgson won the Most Meritorious Female Throwing Award for consistent Hammer throwing throughout the season that included consistently breaking the Canterbury W19 Hammer record.
Tyler Collings was awarded the Most Meritorious 400 metres to 1 Mile Performance Award for his Outstanding 400 Metres Performances that included winning the New Zealand Secondary Schools Title in Hastings,representing New Zealand in the Under 21 trans Tasman Test against Australia in the 400 metres in Brisbane,and beina a member of the New zealand Under 20 4×400 metres Relay team that beat Australia in Sydney and culminated with a brilliant win in the South Island Secondary Schools Championship in a career best and Championship Record of 48.31 in the final event of the Championships in Timaru.
Also Luke Hurring won the Long Distance Award for his impressive season that included finishing runner up to Olympic 1500 metres Silver Medallist,Nick Willis in the New Zealand Senior Mens 5000 metres Championship
Blazer Awards: Rachel Rolleston & Jonathon Lord
South Canterbury Sports Awards
Athletics were successful at the 2010 Sports Awards with Richelle Cannell winning the Administrator of the Year Award, Reg Brockett the Official of the Year and Don Garland the Service to sport award
Nominees for the Sports Awards
Winners - Reg Brockett, Richelle Cannell and Don Garland
Quartet carry team to easy win
Personal best efforts from a quartet of South Canterbury athletes helped Canterbury comfortably defend their youth Interprovincial Teams title in Hastings.
Canterbury held off Auckland and Wellington in the 12 and 13-year-old competition by amassing 115,116 points, almost 5000 ahead of Auckland.
Each competitor was awarded points against a time and distance chart for their efforts, similar to decathlon scoring, and they were totalled against the 11 other regions competing.
While it is a team event, individual times and placings are recorded, with South Canterbury’s Christina Ryan putting in the third-best overall effort in the 12-year-old girls.
Ryan amassed 2527 points for Canterbury in winning the 80m hurdles and finishing fourth in the long jump. A personal best by four metres in the discus allowed her to record a throw of 27.53m.
Jacob Matson proved he is in the country’s elite for his age in sprinting.
The 13-year-old was first in the 400m in a personal best of 54.94s.
Matson also finished second to Counties-Manakau’s Brett Farrell in the 100m by just 0.04s, stopping the clock in 12.29s.
He was also placed third in the 200m, but the head wind was very strong over the two shorter distances and did not allow Matson to challenge his personal best times.
Lauren Bruce finished fifth in the 13-year-old discus with a 26.51m throw. She was also in the top 10 for the high jump and put the shot out 9.11m for a personal best effort.
Mac Basford recorded a personal best in the 400m in the 12-year-old race, recording 64.25s.
Basford also finished eighth in the 80m hurdles and was part of the winning four by 100m mixed relay team.
Matson also helped Canterbury win the boys 13 medley relay, while Bruce’s relay team finished third, wrapping up a good effort by all four.
Tyler Collings in Rio ‘silver’ squad
Timaru Boys High School athlete Tyler Collings has made the cut in the revised Athletics New Zealand Rio squad for the 2016 Olympics.
Collings and his coach, Don Garland, have been invited to be members of the “silver” squad.
A total of 51 athletes have been named in two levels, gold and silver, for the next 12 months.
The squad standards were raised for stage two of the project but Collings still made the cut.
It was intended that with the higher standards imposed each year, the squad would be trimmed, but the number of athletes making the cut at stage two has both surprised and pleased Rio 2016 performance project manager Terry Lomax.
“We are finding that athletes are rising to the challenges put in front of them and that there is a big group of athletes striving for the ultimate goal of the project – a competitive team at Rio 2016 Olympic Games.”
Lomax stressed that the door is not closed to the athletes who have not been named in stage two and expects a number to rise to the challenge to make the squad. Herald staff
The squads:
Gold athletes: Zoe Ballantyne, Brendan Barnett, Matt Baxter, Kelsey Berryman, Portia Bing, Jesse Bryant, Peter Callagher, Hamish Carson, Dalton Coppins, Cameron French, Nick Gerrard, Margot Gibson, Madison Gipson, Cameron Graves, Paige Harwood, Joshua Hawkins, Ryan Howe, Pascal Kethers, Ben Langton-Burnell, Kieron McDonald, Brad Mathas, Julian Oakley, Florence Reynolds, Nicholas Southgate, Emma Sutherland, Tama Toki, Scott Walker, Andrew Whyte.
Silver athletes: Mohammed Ali, Greer Alsop, Hazel Bowering-Scott, Rochelle Coster, Richard Callister, Tyler Collings, Daniel Dyet, Hayden Hall, Marshall Hall, James Hutchens, Stephen Isaac, Mackenzie Keenan, Ellie McCleery, Nicki McFadzien, Sarah McSweeney, Fiona Morrison, EJ Nathan, Daniel O’Shea, Franco Patu, Charles Scannell, Ryan Tinkle, Lauren Wilson, Campbell Wu.
Student Athletes Shine
There were two outstanding performances by South Canterbury students at the South Island Secondary School Track and Field Championships in Timaru over the weekend.
Timaru Boys’ High School sprinter Tyler Collings showed great composure to win the 400m in the last individual event of the meeting and slash the 16-year-old record. Collings was strong on the bend and came home well to beat South Otago’s Andrew Whyte.
He stopped the clock in 48.31 seconds, taking 1.08sec off the old record set in 1995 by world junior representative Clyde McIntosh.
It was also a new personal best time for Collings and reversed the result of the New Zealand championships the weekend before against his New Zealand team-mate.
Roncalli’s James Sandilands was also impressive in winning the under-15 high jump, in a leap that beat his own personal best by four centimetres.
Sandilands overcame shin splints to clear 1.85m on his first attempt to win gold and beat the old mark set by Jess Bryant of St Bede’s College by a centimetre.
He also won the 80m hurdles in 11.62sec for an excellent double.
Sandilands also anchored the Roncalli 4 x 100m relay team that were pipped by Nayland College for gold by just one hundredths of a second.
The other big performance in the open grade was the outstanding win by the Timaru Boys’ High School’s 4 x 400 metres of Henry Chamberlain, Brett Clifford, Josh Westland and Collings.
They beat both Dunstan High and James Hargest High School by 50m in 3min 29.75sec.
TBHS’s Jonathon Lord walked away to win the open boys’ 3000-metre track walk in 14min 11sec in style.
In the boys’ under-16 grade TBHS’s Tom Cooper won the discus with a 43.47m effort while school-mate Sam Small won the javelin with a 48.93m throw.
In the boys’ under-14 grade Roncalli’s Jacob Matson was in a class of his own in taking out the 100m, 200m sprint double in 12.16sec and 24.27sec.
In the 200m he was so impressive he won by 15m and took the 100m easily as well.
Mountainview’s Leanne McKenzie took out the senior girls’ high jump clearing the bar at 1.67m, while in the field events Timaru Girls’ High School’s Rebecca Hodgson won the hammer.
South Canterbury schools also impressed in the girls’ under 16 age group.
Waimate’s Ruby Cochrane won the discus, while Roncalli’s Leanna Ryan took out a double in the long jump and 80m hurdles.
TGHS’s Caitlin Henderson won the javelin and Geraldine’s Louise Hefford took out the high jump.
In the girls’ under-15 Roncalli’s Brittany Cannell came home swiftly to beat St Margaret’s Laura Watt in the 200 metres, recording a time of 26.81sec.
In the girls’ under-14 events Craighead’s Lauren Bruce won both the hammer and triple jump.
PHOTO FINISH: Roncalli’s James Sandilands (right) was pipped at the finish line by one hundredths of a second in the 4 x 100m by Nayland College’s Thomas McGhee, at the South Island Secondary School Track and Field Championships.
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2012 Colgate Games
We have been advised by Canterbury Children’s Athletic Association that due to the recent devastating earthquake, QEII Park will not be available for the 2012 South Island Colgate Games.
Our thoughts are with Canterbury at this time.
The 2012 South Island Colgate Games will now be held at the Saxton Fields Sports Comples, Stoke, Nelson, and hosted by the Tasman District.
The dates for the Colgate Games remain the same – 13, 14 and 15 January 2012.
The organisers will advise further details including local information, motels etc in the near future.
NZ Track and Field Championships
South Canterbury athletes competed with success at the New Zealand Track & Field Championships at the Caledonian Grounds in Dunedin over the weekend.
Tom Walsh was in fine form finishing second in the Senior Mens shot put to Chinese thrower Yang Liu,with an excellent throw of 18.26m,but taking out the title as Liu was a visitor and none resident.
Walsh also finished second in the M19 shot put with a fine throw of 19.91m,behind Jacko Gill(Auckland) who threw a World Record 21.34m for M17 & M18.
Walsh also finished 4th in the M19 discus(44.41m) and 5th in the SM discus(46.87m).
Another fine performance came from Timaru Girls High School teacher Kellie Palmer who impressively won the SW 5000m(16.32.70) and then took it to Commonwealth Games Silver Medallist Nikki Hamblin in the SW1500m only just succumbing Hamblin to take the Silver medal(4.30.06) and her fiance Luke Hurring took the Silver medal in the SM 5000m(14.42.06) behind Beijing Silver medallist Nick Willis.
Another well deserved medal in the Senior ranks came the way of Daniel Laws who took out the Bronze medal in the 110m hurdles(17.01) after clipping the first hurdle to show composre and also finished 4th in the 400m hurdles(60.33) both seasons best.The bronze medal is the first medal ever that Laws has won after finishing 4th and 5th numerous times throughout the age groups at both Club and Secondary school nationals over recent seasons.
The other performance to catch the eye was Tyler Collings 48.55 in the M19 400m in a quality field to finish 4th with a personal best for him and a Mid South Canterbury record – in fact the SM and M19 performances were of the highest quality at this meet.
Also in the M19 Daniel Lord retained his 3000m track walk title solo(13.36.08) and fought out a hard fought win in the 10,000m track walk(48.04.00).
In the W19 Rachael Rolleston won Silver in the Javelin(29.66m) and Bronze in the W16 Javelin(30.84) with Ruby Cochrane 4th(30.23PB) and Caitlin Henderson 5th(29.75m).
Cochrane also finished 4th in the W16 discus(34.94m).
In the same grade Leanna Ryan won a bronze medal in the Canterbury W16 4x100m relay,and Lucinda Shaw took out Silver in the W19 3000m track walk(16.51.03) and Jonathon Lord Silver in the M16 3000m track walk(14.48.30).
Michael Dewar finished 4th in the M16 hammer(41.55m) with Rebecca Hodgson 4th in the W19 hammer (46.36m) and 7th in the SW hammer(44.56m)
