March 15 2017
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A highly successful Canterbury Athletics Championships has seen a record number of Selwyn athletes being picked for representative honours. The Selwyn Athletics Club (SAC), based in Rolleston, has had 22 of its athletes named in Canterbury open and grade track and field teams following the recent champs in Timaru, at which the club secured third place in the Canterbury clubs competition. “Finishing third in the clubs championship was a real surprise but demonstrates how well all our athletes did as a team,” club captain Rachel Simons said. An indication of the tightness of the competition at the Canterbury champs was that a total of 407 personal best performances were recorded through the weekend. Leading the charge for SAC on the track was sprinter p Selwyn athletes take a break during the Canterbury championships. From left: Eli Craig, Tamani Murray, Isaiah Savea, Riley Metcalf-Ngaronga, Nikora Mata’afa and Josiah Kalotapu Photo by Rachel Simons Maia Broughton who set two new Canterbury records in Timaru, athletes were named in the Canterbury for the Canterbury team (grades 7–11) which helped her to earn selection to 12–13 grades team to compete in the to compete at the Triangular Meeting in the Canterbury track and field team for interprovincial competition in Masterton Dunedin on March 26. during Easter. Among the team selected were this year’s National Championships. Luke Barrett, Aaliyah Metcalff and Riley Metcalff-Ngaronga, who was Broughton set a new 100m record in the 14-year-old girls’ competition and John Mottus got the call up to pull on overall Grade 7 boys’ champion at the smashed her own record in the 200m. the red and black singlet on the back Canterbury champs, and Meg Edwards, She will represent Canterbury in both of some top individual performances in who was runner-up in the Grade 9 those events at the national champs Timaru, with Barrett taking out first place girls’ division. For more on the Canterbury Athletics as well as the 400m. Also following overall in the 13-year-old boys’ division. A the Canterbury champs, three Selwyn further 18 SAC members were selected championships go to page 6. ¢
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