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Girls In The News This Month At Saint Kentigern College

Friday 29 January 2016, 11:58AM

By Beckie Wright

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It would seem that the girls are hogging the limelight this month at Saint Kentigern, featuring in news articles about dance and cycling. Maddison Barnett and Brianna Dixon’s dance moves have been watched on YouTube nearly 200 million times as the girls feature in videos for songs from Justin Bieber’s new album ‘Purpose: The Movement’. Year 10 student Maddison performs in clips for ‘Sorry’ and ‘What do you mean’ and Brianna, who is in Year 8, can be seen in the video for ‘Children’.

The pair was chosen to be amongst a select group of Kiwis for the filming by world-renowned choreographer Parris Goebel from Palace Dance Studio. “Filming was really fun,” says Maddison. “We had to keep drilling until we had it perfect. It was a good experience to learn what we have to do if we want to make it in dance.” The girls were subject to confidentially agreements ahead of the album’s release, so had to keep their big news secret from friends and schoolmates.

Click here to see Maddison in ‘What do you mean’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y3a2MRoMnl .

Click here to see Brianna in ‘Children’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkjwn240AMc .

On a totally different note, college student and world champion cyclist Madeleine Park has continued her record-setting ways by winning the Counties Manukau Sport supreme athlete of the year award. Madeleine has had a dream 2015, winning two medals at the Junior Track Cycling World Championships, being part of a world-record ride, and now the top honours at the prestigious Counties Manukau Sports Awards. The Year 12 student was part of the New Zealand team to win gold and set a new world’s best time in the women’s pursuit at the Junior World Track Championships, and followed it up with bronze in the individual pursuit.

Her record-breaking effort earned her the Performance of the Year at the College’s Sports Awards. Earlier in the year, she had also broken New Zealand cycling legend Sarah Ulmer’s junior individual pursuit record by two seconds. At the Counties Manukau Sport event, she was first awarded the Junior Sportswoman Award, and then became the first-ever junior winner to also take home the supreme prize! Madeleine joins a list of Kiwi sporting icons to win the supreme award, including Jonah Lomu, Barbara Kendall, Scott Dixon, Cameron Brown and she succeeds 13-time consecutive winner Valerie Adams. Congratulations Maddie!

The boys got a ‘look in’ as the joy of the festive season was ushered in in December with an evening of song, prayer and worship at the Boys’ School Carol Service. The Holy Trinity Cathedral was standing room only full of students, family and other members of the Saint Kentigern community eager to participate in this treasured Christmas tradition. The guests were greeted at the door by groups of boys and welcomed into the impressive venue by tunes played by student musicians.

For more information on Saint Kentigern College, please go to http://www.saintkentigern.com .