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FILM MAKERS: Budding fi lm makers Caitlin Lynch and Sabina Rizos-Shaw have worked with class mates to make their own short fi lm. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

By Sam DuffLights, camera, action – budding young fi lm makers from Wel-

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The fi lm, which was written by students in 2013 and put together this year, involved more than 80 pupils from a make-up team to camera people.

Year 13 students Caitlin Lynch, Sabina Rizos-Shaw and Marina Mersi were co-producers on the project, titled Lost.

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If you are an internet user then chances are you know your Facebook from your

Twitter and a de-friend from a follow.

But in these days of inter-connectedness the problem of children being cyber-bullied

Cyber-bullying hurting teensneeds addressing, according to a Houghton Bay resident.

Victoria University mas-ters student Tegan Lynch has launched an anonymous online survey for parents of children who have been bullied online and through technology.

“One of the main issues is it can happen anywhere and it’s tricky to know who is responsible for intervening,” Tegan says.

“I want to know what emotional response parents have to their children being cyber-bullied, what action they take and where they turn for support.”

While she has not been bullied on social media her-self, Tegan says if she was a teenager these days it could have happened to her.

“There’s something that needs to be done and if I can be any part of that change that would be great,” she says.

Tegan says it would be good to understand what support parents need and how that gap can be fi lled.

“With cyber-bullying it’s really important to have a whole of community re-sponse.”

Tegan says she is not a social media addict herself but keeps in regular touch with friends via Facebook and Twitter.

Parents whose children have been bullied online and through text and mes-saging apps are welcome to take part in the survey at cyberbullyingsurvey.com until August 8.

TECH SAVY: Houghton Bay resident Tegan Lynch is surveying parents of children who have been cyber-bullied. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

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“We wanted to get as many people involved as possible because that was kind of the idea of the project,” Sabina says.Caitlin says if somebody wanted to be involved in making the fi lm then there was always a job for them to do.The fi lm, which was entirely made by women, took two full days to fi lm.Lost, which the girls describe as cheesy, light-hearted and not about school, is an art house story about fi ve teen-agers in their last year of college.The characters attempt to rekindle old friendships on a camping trip.The three co-producers say it

was a challenge to direct up to 10 actors and 10 members of the crew at once.Caitlin says she was excited to see the fi nished product.“We had been working on it for a year and to see it all come together was amaz-ing,” she says.“The project is less about the actual product and more about the fact we got 80 girls working together in a profes-sional way on something they had never done before.”Sabina and Caitlin both in-tend on working in the arts when they fi nish college at the end of the year.Lost will premiere at the Light House Cinema on Cuba Street on September 4.For more information visit Facebook.com and search for ‘Lost’ Premiere- Project ArtEast.

LIGHTS CAMERA: Wellington East Girls year 13 students Sabina Rizos-Shaw and Caitlin Lynch have made a short fi lm.

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The City Gallery Wellington is one of many who are celebrating Maori Language Week this week.

Showcasing a line-up of New Zealand musicians, writers, speakers, artists, and sto-rytellers such as Nancy Brunning, Hinemoana Baker, Glenn Colqhoun, and Riki Gooch, the event Toi te Reo o� ers a whanau friendly evening. There will also be food and drink available for purchase. From 5pm-10pm on Wednesday, July 23, at the City Gallery in Civic Square. Admission is free.

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Dragon boat champions are helping local Wellington artists create a number of plaster cast torsos of breast cancer survivors.

The winning team of the NZ Breast Cancer Survivors title at the 2014 New Zealand Dragon Boat Championships are assisting in putting together the 16 pieces of art.

Funds raised from the sale of the artwork will help the team par-ticipate at the International Breast Cancer Dragon Boat Festival in Florida in October.

Project organiser and Can-Survive team member Bette Cosgrove says BraveArt is a col-laboration of several breast cancer survivors and Wellington artists.

“We are also supported by six celebrity supporters, including Wellington mayor Celia Wade-Brown, dancer and breast cancer

survivor Jan Bolwell, and actor Miranda Harcourt, who have all had some personal connection to breast cancer,” she says.

“Master plasterer Paul Stanton helped cast the plaster torsos, which show a variety of scars from breast cancer treatment.”

Several of the projects partici-pants, of which both artists and breast cancer survivors are mod-els, are residents of Wellington’s eastern and southern suburbs.

Miramar resident and Can-Survive team member Jenny McDougall says it is inspiring to be part of a team that has women who have fought breast cancer for more than 10 years.

“We don’t often talk of it,” she says.

“But the torso plastering process with the art project really gave us the chance to talk about our respective surgery experiences.

“We are busy training for the international championship now.”

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brink of extinction and are a symbol for breast cancer survi-vors. PHOTO CREDIT: BraveArt

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Berhampore resident and Can-Survive team member Heather Steevens says the art project has been “pretty astonishing”.

“I really love training every week alongside this great bunch

of women.”The artworks will go on sale

at a live auction at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Gallery on August 21.

After more than a year of waiting, residents of Pris-cilla Crescent in Kingston watched their houses being torn down last week.

On Saturday, June 2, 2013 residents were evacuated after a major slip bought away land from underneath their homes.

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DESTRUCTION: After more than a year houses on Priscilla Crescent in Kingston have been knocked down.

TORN DOWN: Houses on Priscilla Crescent in Kingston have been precariously perched on a hill side for more than a year. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Du�


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A local art student has won the prestigious emerging artist award at the 2014 NZ Art Show.

Oriental Bay resident Willough MacFarlane, 23, a Massey Uni-versity College of Creative Arts student, is among three other artists who have won the award this year.

The award includes a cash prize of $2500 each and the chance to exhibit work at the upcoming NZ Art Show from July 24 to 27.

Willough, who is a photography design major in her fourth year of a bachelor of design degree, is thrilled to have won the award.

“I could not believe it for a while, even after I received an email in-forming me of my win,” she says.

“It's an incredible achievement to even have this collection of my works considered for the award.”

MacFarlane is a photography de-sign major but her award winning works combine several mediums such as digital photography, wa-tercolours, drawing and computer generated imagery.

“My art often transverses be-

tween reality and my ideal virtual space.

“So working with different mediums lets me play around with several ideas with which to create my art work.”

Massey University lecturer Helen Mitchell, who nominated Willough for the award, calls her pupil's work lyrical.

“What's engaging about her work is it is across disciplines,” Helen says.

“She has a promising art career ahead.

“When I helped her put together her portfolio for the award ap-plication, I just tried to help her represent the diversity of her practice.”

This is also the second consecu-tive year that a Massey University art student won the emerging artist award.

Photography student Patrick Hickley was among the winners last year.

The art show is open to the public by general admis-sion. Tickets cost $10 and can be bought online at artshow.co.nz until July 17.ART WINNER: Willough MacFarlane is one of the four winners of this year's emerging artist award at the

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More than 2000 Wellington Muslims are expected to take part in special prayer services and daily fasts to mark the holy Islamic month of Ramadan at the Kilbirnie Mosque this July.

Special prayer services and daily iftaar, an evening prayer to break the daily fast, are part of the month-long Ramadan routine at the Kilbirnie Mosque.

The Islamic Ramadan month, based on a lunar calendar, will culminate in the Eid-al-Fitr around July 28, with the fi rst sighting of the new crescent

moon.President of the Kilbirnie

Mosque Asif Koya says around 700 Muslims took part in the ritual iftaar ceremony hosted by the Pakistani community at the Kilbirnie Mosque on Sunday 13 July.

“The Ramadan fast is held between sunrise and sunset, in New Zealand winter time – this usually means between 6am to 5pm,” he says.

“It is customary to break the fast with a prayer and one date.

“Other halal food – fruits, sa-mosas, biryanis – may then be eaten from sunset to sunrise.”

Ramadan, Koya says, brings

together all Wellington Mus-lims who are migrants from more than 50 countries, in-cluding Pakistan, India, Fiji, Ethiopia, Somalia, Malaysia and Egypt.

Pakistan’s high commissioner to New Zealand, Zehra Ak-bari, who attended the iftaar ceremony, says the essence of Ramadan lays in bringing people together in a community spirit.

“It’s very encouraging to see the community work together without any consideration for social divides,” he says.

“That’s what Ramadan is really about.”

Churton Park resident Uzma Jamil says Sunday’s iftaar feast consisted of a Pakistani beef korma curry and basmati rice was prepared by around 10 people.

“Only fresh food is used, nothing frozen, and cooking has to start as early as 4.30am,” Uzma says.

“Food prep, like washing and marinating meat, begins the previous evening.

“It’s a lot of work, but it makes you feel really humble and nice.”

RAMADAN FUN: (Clockwise from left): Ayman Zewada, Dean Qaseem Ng, Ali Usama, Hafi Salman, Sufi an Alzaanin and Anas Zewada have a fun time at Kilbirnie Mosque during last week's iftaar. PHOTO CREDIT: Sriram Narayanan

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By Emily Elliott

A fabulous day was had by all at HeadStart Hair Design in the Kilbirnie Plaza on Thursday, where locals feasted on lollies, cupcakes, and got them-selves a new do, all in the name of charity.

Kelly Antipas and her son Olly were to have their heads shaved if the salon could meet $3000 in fundraising for the Child Cancer Foundation.

Salon Coordinator Taryn Penfold says the day was busy, with people coming

in for the $10 hair treat-ments – with all $10 going straight in the blue bucket.

“We've had loads of peo-ple coming in and out. I'm hoping to well exceed our goal.”

The salon had raised more than $3000 when the Cook Strait News went to print and so Kelly and Olly had their heads shaved.

“I thought I would be quite emotional but I wasn’t,” Kelly says.

“It’s all for a great cause. I’m lucky, my hair will grow back.”

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BALD: Kelly Antipas and her son Olly shaved their hair off for charity.


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readers have their say... Find out the WORD on the Street.

Letters on issues of community interest are welcomed. Guidelines are that they should be no longer than 150 words. They must be signed and a street address provided to show good faith, even if a nom de plume is provided for publication.The editor reserves the right to abridge letters or withhold unsuitable letters from publication. Send or fax them to the address on page two, or email them to [email protected]. Please note that your name and street address must also be provided in e mails.

Karl Townsend, Kilbirnie

“It means to be a capital person. It means it’s got like Parliament and all that.”

Jennifer Robinson, Rongotai

“Most Wellingtonians love Wellington and are proud of the city.”

Toby Burns, Kilbirnie

“We’re living in the best capital city in the world of course.”

Simone Horo, Lyall Bay

“Wind. A lot of culture. We’re different to Auckland.”

Kevin August, Strathmore

“Just the amount of support I have had in the past week trying to get my dog out of the pound. The generosity of people helping me out is great.”

Amber Beardslee, Hataitai

“People in Wellington can do what they like and dress how they like and not get judged for it. You can go to the supermarket in your dressing gown.”

LETTERS to the editor

Dear Ed, A letter in your July 7 issue annoyed me

by yet another misuse of the word cohorts. I don't expect its use to be confi ned to its

literal meaning in Latin.In the army of ancient Rome, a cohort

was the tenth part of a legion, if I rightly remember my schoolboy Latin lessons of over 60 years ago: it consisted of 100 men, commanded by a centurion.

Yes, the Romans themselves would use the word fi guratively to mean a body of men who supported somebody such as a politician but they never used it for an individual person – it was a collective noun for a group of people.

In these days of general and ever-growing ignorance about the proper meanings of countless English words, cohort gets ap-plied to such people as a spouse or live-in

lover, an assistant, a toady or yes-man, a staff member, or almost anything you like except the right meaning!

I'd have been quite happy if your corre-spondent had alleged (rightly or wrongly) that the present Government has A COHORT of wealthy supporters; but he evidently meant each one of these is a cohort - which cannot ever be right!

H Westfold, Miramar

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By Emily Elliott

Smashing out a rhythm is one thing Kilbirnie resident Jacob Randall knows how to do.

Rated the fourth best drummer in a worldwide competition a few years ago, the New Zealand School of Music student has recently returned from a drum camp in the USA.

“There were six of the world's best teach-ing us at the Big Drum Bonanza,” Jacob says, telling the Cook Strait News that 34 people attended from around the world.

“I feel like I've got a lot of new stuff to work on,” he chuckles.

The week-long camp held in California cost $1000, and Jacob also had to pay to

get over there. He says he did well in the competition that got him into the camp, so he was able to attend for half the price.

While at the Big Drum Bonanza, Jacob performed well at an in-house competition, giving himself the chance to play on an online webcast from the Drum Channel.

“That was good exspoure.”He says another highlight was “getting to

jam with some of the big dogs.”The talented third year student says he has

been drumming since he was three.“It's what I know.”This year being his fi nal year of music

studies, he says he is not sure what next year has in store.

“It would be nice to make a living off drumming.”

GOOD BEAT: Local drummer Jacob Randall (centre) with internationally renowned drumming legends Christopher Coleman, Matthew Garstka, Gergo Borlai II, and Thomas Lang. PHOTO SUPPLIED.

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Local kids enjoyed breaking free from the classroom for the past two weeks as they partied up large for the school holidays.

The school holiday programme at the ASB Sport Centre in Kilbirnie was non-stop fun when the Cook Strait News visited last week.

From dodgeball to colouring in and eve-rything in between, up to 80 local school children participated in the programme’s fun each day.

Elias Shadrock from the ASB Sport

Centre says most days the programme is sold out and the kids have a blast.

“The kids love it,” she says. “We get the same kids over and over again which is great.”

Elias says she enjoys having fun with the kids and watching them learn new things.

“You get used to the different characters of the kids.”

The programme took a trip to the Kilbirnie pool last week and also created their own version of the Amazing Race which involved searching for hidden Disney characters.

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POCKETFUL OF POSIES: Girls at the ASB Sport Centre Holiday Programme enjoy playing.


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From old light houses to grain silos – an Owhiro Bay local has been on the hunt throughout New Zealand for amazing overnighters.

Pippy McCurdy, a trained architect that works in con-struction, has written her second book about some of New Zealand’s more unique holiday destinations.

“I am always trawling the internet looking for interesting places to stay,” Pippy says.

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where I have been.”Pippy says all New Zea-

landers should have a go at staying at some great places throughout the country.

“Don’t just go to a hotel,” she says. “Go somewhere interesting.”

The three-level Island Bay light house was one of the destinations Pippy profi led in the book.

“Apparently there are a lot of proposals there,” she says.

The light house can be rented out for more than $200 a night.

Cook Strait News has one copy of Pippy McCurdy’s book Amazing Overnighters to give away.To be in with a chance to win email [email protected] with your name, address and answer to the following ques-tion.What is your favourite Wel-lington landmark and why?Competition closes Thursday July 24.

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By Sam Duff

Kilmarnock Home en-joyed the fun of yesteryear at a unique teddy bears picnic last week.

Disney f i lms, nursery rhymes and pineapple lumps bought the residents of the home together to reminisce about days gone by.

Recreation officer An-nelize Steyn says it was nice for residents to take a walk down memory lane.

“As soon as that music comes on they look up and are very present,” she says.

“It is their party, not ours.

Rest homes need to be fun.

“I don’t think anybody in their own home has a party every day.”

A Mr Whippy van, young children visiting,

and an electrical train made for a fun afternoon, Annelize says.

“Just the sound of that train going around bought back so many memories for the residents.”

Walking down memory lane

TEDDY BEARS: Kilmarnock Home held a teddy bears picnic last week. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff


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Do you know somebody that has wrestled with lions? Have you run into a burning building to save a child’s life? Does your neighbour enthral you with amazing stories?The Cook Strait News is on the

hunt for amazing people in our community that we can celebrate.If you would like to nominate a friend, a neighbour or any-body at all please email us at samduff @wsn.co.nz.

On the hunt for amazing-ness

Bugattis and Alfas have inspired Miramar artist John Fuller.

The self-confessed petrol head will display his latest exhibition at the Tapu Te Ranga Gallery in Island Bay.

John says he spent more than 20 years in the aviation industry but had a long-held ambition to study art and paint full-time.

The former Massey university student says he has always had a pas-sion for cars and enjoyed combining his two loves for the exhibition Myth and Magic.

He says he wanted to recreate the magic of early motor sport in paint.

“I love the character, the romance and the sheer theatre of those times,”

John says. “I like to heighten the movement

and colour and use my imagination to bring those old images to life again.”

Gallery curator Ian Logan says John’s car scenes are painted with a lot of vigour and panache, giving them a wider appeal than just to car enthusiasts.

John’s paintings can be viewed at the Tapu Te Ranga Gallery in Island Bay. The group exhibition runs until August 21.

Admission is free and more details can be found at www.taputerangaga-llery.co.nz.

INSPIRED: Miramar artist John Fuller is a self-confessed petrol head.

Fast cars inspire exhibition

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By Matthew Lau

Leo Bertos made his inter-national futsal debut last week July 11-13 and hopes to become a double national rep by playing in the Futsal World Cup in 2016.

Leo, who played for the All Whites in the 2010 World Cup, is not sure whether the All Whites will make it to the next one in 2018.

“There might be a chance to get to the next one, or the Futsal World Cup, that’s on the way now too,” he says,

“I don’t know how common that is, having a player that’s played in both.”

The crowd of more than 600 gave Leo a raucous welcome

when he came on against Aus-tralia’s Futsalroos at Kilbirnie’s ASB Sports Centre.

He showed the experience of his 56 international football caps when he chipped the ball over goalkeeper Angelo Kon-stantinou to give the Futsal Whites a glimmer of hope.

The match ended 5-3 to the Futsalroos, and the next two games were also defeats of 6-0 and 7-1.

Leo, who was released by Wellington Pheonix at the end of the 2013-14 football season, appears to have added a wealth of experience to the improved Futsal Whites.

However, he is still keen on playing 11-a-side football.

“The priority (for me) is to play club football, so I’m avail-able for that,” Leo says.

He also plans to start a football academy for children.

Futsal White Daniel Burns says futsal to the average fan is a smaller size game.

“It’s fi ve on fi ve, it’s quick, it’s fast and you’ve got to react more, and there’s plenty more shots,” Daniel says.

“I defi nitely believe futsal is growing. We’ve got over 50,000 kids playing futsal now in all the regions around New Zealand.”

Qualifying for Colombia in 2016 begins next year for the Futsal Whites.

All Whites veteran rejuvenates defeated Futsal Whites

IN ACTION: Football star Leo Bertos is giving the game of futsal a go. PHOTO CREDIT: Matthew Lau

By Dan Whitfi eld

There have been many great games in this year’s Jubilee Cup competition, including the week-end’s matchup between Marist St Pats and Wainuiomata.

It was a tough affair, with the rain upsetting the handling for both teams; however, MSP stood strong and managed a narrow win over its premier league counterparts, Wainuiomata.

Wainuiomata scored fi rst with the team’s kicker making the conver-sion, taking the score to 7-nil. The visiting side continued its dominant play but was unable to capitalise further.

MSP managed to pull itself to-gether, striking back with a try and conversion, making the score 7-all – of which it stayed until half time.

The second half became a battle of the goal kickers, with MSP fi rst fi ve

Fa’atonu Fili and his Wainuiomata counterpart trading penalties.

MSP seemed to be more on form in the second half, with the home side dominating possession; forc-ing Wainuiomata to attack from its own half.

After a number of penalties, MSP had a close 16-13 lead, and was nearing more points having the visi-tors parked down in their own half.

A penalty was given away just before full-time and MSP halfback Peter Sciascia ended the game by running the ball into touch.

The 16-13 win over Wainuiomata comes after mixed season for MSP, winning three games and losing three over the past six rounds.

MSP played Old Boys University in round seven of the Jubilee Cup competition over the weekend.

The game was played at Evans Bay Park.

Third win in the Jubilee Cup

PUTTING THE EFFORT IN: MSP push hard to win a scrum against Wainuiomata. PHOTO CREDIT: Dan Whitfi eld

By Sam Duff

Budding local baseball players have been selected for the New Zealand under 12s team.Jackson Taurarii from Miramar and Haven Dixon from Kilbirnie are getting ready for a trip of a lifetime after making it into the team.The boys say they are pumped to travel to Honolulu, New York, Washington and Mary-land where they will compete, get free gear and watch a live baseball game.When the Cook Strait News caught up with the boys they had just returned from a four day training session in Auckland with the team.“We both improved more after that,” Jackson says.

Both boys have spent about fi ve years playing softball but only recently made the switch to baseball.“Baseball is more fun than soft-ball and it’s a bigger fi eld and a smaller ball,” Jackson says.Haven says the opportunities are better for baseball than softball.“You can go further with base-ball,” he says.Regan Taouma from Wellington Baseball says the boys would not be able to go to America without the help from the East-ern Suburbs Sports Trust.“Hopefully it helps put the game on the map down here and shows players that you can play internationally with it,” Regan says.

Young guns for baseball team

PITCHING HIGH: Young baseball players Haven Dixon, 12, and Jackson Taurarii, 12. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff


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Wellington swimmers will be featuring strongly in the relay teams for the Glasgow Commonwealth games. One has already made it to a Com-monwealth Games podium.

Natasha Hind, from the Capital Swim Club, collected a 4x100m freestyle bronze medal at Delhi in 2010 along with Lauren Boyle. This year at Glasgow, Natasha will be joined by two new Capital clubmates, Samantha Lucie-Smith and Emma Robinson, for the 4x200m event, along with Lauren.

“I feel a passion to represent my country as best I can. Representing New Zealand is an honour and privilege,” Lauren says.

Emma, the youngest of the group, was part of the team for the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, competing in the open water 10km.

“We are all having a fun time training together, as Spain is the fi rst place where we have all been together,” Emma says.

“For me representing New Zealand means that I get to show everyone how much work I put into swimming, it also means I get to make my country and family proud.”

The women’s 4x100m relay team for Glasgow also has a strong Wellingtonian presence with three team members.

Ellen Quirke and Samantha Lee join Samantha Lucie-Smith in that event. Both Samanthas were at the 2013

FINA champs with Emma. They both began their swim-ming careers as part of the 2008 and 2009 Trans-Tasman Tri Series teams, before rep-resenting New Zealand at the Junior Pan Pacifi c’s in 2009.

Rounding off the quartet is Aucklander Laura Quilter.

Although all four are similar in age they have varying histo-ries in their swimming career, Samantha Lucie-Smith the only one to attend the London 2012 Olympic Games where she competed in the 4x200m freestyle relay.

Last week, Natasha, Laura and Samantha were also named in the New Zealand Team who will fi ght to retain the Kiwi's world title at Rescue 2014- the Lifesaving World Championships, in September.

Swimmers head to commonwealth games

TR AINED UP: The women’s 4x200 metre re-lay team for the Commonwealth games in Glas-g o w. PH OTO CREDIT: Simon Watts, BW Media

By Laura Kavanagh

Two young Wellington divers are on their way to Russia next month to face some serious competition.

Young divers Anton Jenkins and Yu Qian Goh have qualifi ed and been selected for the World Junior Diving Championships in Penza, Russia.

Head coach of Wellington Diving Club James Hardaker will be accom-panying the competitors, who will be departing August 31 to London, England for a few days training before heading to Penza.

Before they head to Russia, the athletes will also be competing in the Diving New Zealand Open and Junior Championships in Auckland mid August.

Both 14 years of age, Yu currently attends St Catherine’s College in Kil-birnie, while Anton goes to Rongotai College in Rongotai.

The two athletes have already been making a splash in competitive div-ing, having great success at the 2014 Autumn Championships in one metre and three metre spring board.

Yu also won the Women Open three metre springboard event and obtained a qualification score for FINA Grand Prix in Singapore and Malaysia, as well as the Australian Open in Adelaide.

Anton came fi rst in the one metre and fourth in the three metre at the Australian Junior Elite Champion-ships in 2014.

Head coach James Hardaker says it has been a pleasure training two such

motivated and talented divers as Yu and Anton.

He says the competition will be an eye opener for the two divers, and a good experience regardless of where they place.

“The standard for World Junior’s is very high... it will either make you or break you as a diver,” James says.

Anton and Yu are looking forward to the experience, training seven times a week in preparation.

MAKING A SPLASH: Anton Jenkins preparing for a dive. PHOTO CREDIT: LAURA KAVANAGH

Yu is needing support to raise enough money to get to Penza, if you can help, visit www.givealittle.co.nz/cause/YQroadtoRussia

Young divers take the plunge

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