 Sportsmen and sportswomen of
the year named at Blues awards functions
Champion rower Storm Uru and rally sport co-driver Sara Randall
(right) were named the Palmerston North campus sportsman and
sportswoman of the year last night at the second of the Massey
Sport Blues awards this week.
On Monday night, rower Juliette Haigh and yachtsman Matt Coutts
were named Auckland campus sportswoman and sportsman of the year.
They were among 63 athletes of national and international ranking,
from a wide variety of sports who received Blues at the two functions.
Third-year extramural business student Mr Uru is currently ranked
the world’s number one under-23 lightweight single scull rower,
after his gold medal win at the U23 World Rowing Championships
in Scotland in July. He is based at Cambridge, training for the
Beijing Olympics with the New Zealand rowing team.
Ms Randall, from Masterton, is completing a Bachelor of Accounting
extramurally and is rally co-driver for Richard Mason. Last year
they won the New Zealand Rally Championship, the China Rally
Championship and finished 10th in the world championship.
Ms Haigh, a second-year business student, was a silver medallist
in the women’s coxless pairs at the world championships in England
in September last year and recently won gold and silver at World
Cup Regattas in Switzerland (July) and Holland (June).
She was unable to attend the awards.
 Mr
Coutts (right), a second-year business student, is currently
ranked fourth in New Zealand laser and this year finished 25th
in the open men’s laser class at the international sailing championships
in Portugal in July. He is the nephew of Russell Coutts.
Attending the function on the Auckland campus was a rare outing
for top New Zealand sportswoman Anna Hamilton (Below right),
seriously injured when she was knocked off her cycle during a
training ride two months ago. Ms Hamilton, accompanied by her
mother Katy, received a special mention at the ceremony.
 Auckland Blues recipients: Athletics: Julia Hart, Charles Nicolson,
Elizabeth Orchard; Flatwater sprint kayak: Scott Bicknell; Golf:
Jenna Hirst; Hockey: Hamish Baron, Amanda Green, Kimberley Green,
Genevieve Helliwell, Shaun Matthews; Judo: Alister Leat; Orienteering:
Greg Flynn; Rowing: Juliette Haigh, Courtney Jacks; Rugby: Robert
Coulhoun, Anna Richards, Ryan Wilson; Surf lifesaving: Chris
Moors, Jane Moors; Swimming: Katie Bone, Helen Norfolk, Robert
Voss, John Zulch; Triathlon: Anna Hamilton; Yachting: Matt Coutts,
Joshua McCormack.
Auckland campus nominees for sportswoman of the year: Jenna
Hirst, Kimberley Green, Juliette Haigh, Anna Richards, Helen
Norfolk, and Anna Hamilton.
Auckland campus nominees for sportsman of the year: Charles
Nicolson, Scott Bicknell, Robert Voss, John Zulch, Matt Coutts
and Joshua McCormack.
Palmerston North and Wellington (*) Blues recipients: Alpine
skiing Ben Griffin; artistic roller skating: Freyja Phillips;
Athletics: Laura Roozendaal*; Badminton: Leck Sheng Tham; Barefoot
waterskiing: Nick Hamblyn; Basketball: Alexander Wastney*; Beach
volleyball: Rebecca Reidy; Canoe polo: Olivia Hilhorst, Hanchen
le Roux, Olivia Spencer-Bower*, Joanna Wright; Canoe polo and
canoe slalom: Tania Perrett; Canoe slalom: Michael Dawson, Mark
Yungnickel; Cricket: Rachel Candy; Cycling: Simon van Velthooven;
Equestrian: Sam Taylor, Sophie Wigley; Golf: Stephanie McKillop,
Gemma Mathieson, Amy Smith; Hockey: Ricky Clark, Scott Falconer*,
Catherine Finlayson, Stephen Graham, Emily Naylor, Jesse
Workman; Inline hockey: Sam Beardman, Khord Kopu; Inline speed
skating: Peter Homburg; Motorsport: Anthony Pedersen; Netball:
Erika Burgess, Lauren Burgess, Samantha Burkhart, Lana Phipps; Rally
sport: Sara Randall; Rowing: Nathan Cohen, Storm Uru; Rugby:
Cameron Hayton, Louis Maxwell, Leon Power; Shooting: Robert Eastham;
Soccer: Chelsea Aim, Allena Hill; Swimming: Matt Woodrow*; Table
tennis: Grant Gordon; Triathlon: Alice Weaver.
Palmerston North/Wellington nominees for sportswoman of the
year: Freyja Phillips, Rebecca Reidy, Olivia Spencer-Bower, Tania
Perrett, Rachel Candy, Gemma Mathieson, Amy Smith, Emily Naylor,
Sara Randall, Chelsea Aim, and Allena Hill.
Palmerston North/Wellington nominees for sportsman of the year:
Ben Griffin, Nicky Hamblyn, Michael Dawson, Mark Yungnickel,
Stephen Graham, Peter Homburg, Cameron Hayton, Louis Maxwell,
Nathan Cohen, Storm Uru, Grant Gordon.
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