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After dominating the major awards at last year’s Mahurangi College Sports Blues Awards night, underwater hockey players went one better this year, sweeping the table.
The senior girls team picked up Team of the Year while players Mackenzie Buick and Samuel Twhigg were awarded the Frost Plate and Edmonds Cup for sportswoman and man of the year.
The team picked up gold at the NZ Secondary School Championships, and Buick, who was part of the squad, was awarded Female Player of the tournament.
She also coached the junior girls team, refereed up to national level and was selected for the NZ U18 womens team.
Twhigg was chosen in the wake of his selection as captain for the NZ U18B underwater hockey team and for a strong campaign at school champs with the senior boys team.
He also picked up gold with the Auckland U18A team at nationals, refereed at national level and played for the First XI Boys Hockey team.
Meanwhile, the Brierly siblings, Georgia and Jackson, were back in the sporting spotlight, winning Senior Sportswomen of the Year and Junior Sportsman of the Year at the Rodney College Sports and Cultural Prizegiving.
Jack Rodgers was noted for competing at national level in motorcross.
Oskar Primbs picked up both Captain of the Year and Cultural Person of the Year.
Jackson, left, and Georgia Brierly enjoyed huge success in athletics and rugby this year.
Georgia was recognised for competing in athletics up to North Island level, including three first places on the track at the Northland school’s competition.
She also had a great year in rugby, playing for the NZ Barbarians Girls Sevens Team, Northland Senior Tag team, Rodney College Senior Touch team and Wellsford Sevens team.
Jackson also ran well this year, making the New Zealand Secondary Schools Cross Country competition, coming 72nd out of 153 competitors.
He also played tag rugby for Northland at nationals and refereed tag football and rugby, becoming the youngest person to officiate junior rep games in Northland.
Senior Sportsman of the Year was given as a joint award this year to Ethan Whyte and Kingi Herewini.
Whyte was the top senior boy in swimming at Rodney College this year and went on to break the Lower North 25m breast stroke record.
He played touch and hockey for the college, was awarded best back in the Wellsford U18 rugby team and represented Northland in senior tag.
Herewini played for the Blues development squad, was selected for the NZ Maori wider training squad and played for the Asia Pacific Dragons Invitational Team.
Junior Sportswoman of the Year went to Drew Crosbie for involvement across a number of codes.
These were football and hockey for school, netball for Rodney, surf life-saving at Mangawhai and tag rugby for Northland.
She also picked up good results at Northland athletics and Lower North swimming.
Both Jackson and Crosbie are back-to-back winners of their awards.
