7 Junior Athletes Represent Otago

By OBHS | Posted: Monday May 8, 2017

George Brookland, Callum Hill, Ashton Booth, Cameron Moffitt, Winston Ward, Liam Kerr and Joshua Sammut competed for Otago at the New Zealand Interprovincial Grade 12 and 13 Athletics held in Masterton at Easter.

All the boys did extremely well with a few gaining personal bests and Otago came 6th overall.

Some outstanding results from Cameron winning the national title for Hurdles and 2nd in the Shot Put with a new Otago record of 13.15m, beating the old mark by 53cm. Cameron also finished 6th in the 100m and 5th in the High Jump.

Callum had a good finish in the Hurdles placing 9th and Ashton a very good run placing 9th in the 800m.

The Otago Grade 13 boys 4x100 relay team came 2nd with Cameron and Liam being part of that and it was also an Otago best performance.