New Zealand Secondary Schools team 2009
Tuesday 4 August 2009, 9:31AM
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New Zealand is sending a strong team to take on the Australians in the Southern Cross Challenge, at the Australian Schools Orienteering Championships on 29 and 30 September in Bendigo, Victoria.
Led by current New Zealand Schools Senior Champions Angela Simpson and Mathew Ogden, the team will be looking to maintain New Zealand's unbeaten record against the Australian States since the Southern Cross Challenge competition began in 2003.
Angela Simpson has been a standout junior for New Zealand in 2009, taking 24th place at the Junior World Orienteering Championships Sprint race and qualifying for the Middle distance Final with teammates Greta Knarston and Kate Morrison, the only non-Europeans to do so.
Schoolmates Mathew Ogden and Gene Beveridge (Massey High) will also be looking to build up overseas experience and to cement a place in the team for the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Denmark 2010.
The Australian Schools Championships will be held on the open eucalpypt forests and gold-mining terrain of Browns Reef in Bendigo, where the Victorian Schools team will have a considerable home advantage.
New Zealand Secondary Schools team:
Junior Girls
Holly Edmonds, Napier Girls High School
Rebecca Gray, St. Cuthbert’s College, Auckland
Hannah Sampson, Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, Wellington
Lauren Turner, Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, Wellington
Senior Girls
Jaime Goodwin, Havelock North High School
Selena Metherell, Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti, Christchurch
Laura Robertson, Chilton Saint James School, Lower Hutt
Angela Simpson, Rotorua Lakes High School
Junior Boys
Nick Hann, Onslow College, Wellington
Liam Paterson, New Plymouth Boys High School
Benjamin Reynolds, Westlake Boys High School, Auckland
Tim Robertson, Hutt International Boys School
Senior Boys
Gene Beveridge, Massey High School, Auckland
Ryan Cambridge, Kings High School , Dunedin
Duncan Morrison, Napier Boys High School
Matthew Ogden, Massey High School, Auckland
Manager: Derek Morrison
Assistant Manager: Anna Robertson