Youth Sports Scholarships

The Youth Sports Scholarships (established in 2004) has been developed to aid and assist local talent to perform to their utmost ability while raising the profile of the region as a whole.
Such a Scholarship provides an obtainable goal for the youth of the region to strive for and initiate a foundation that will breed a regional culture of sporting success and excellence.

MainPower funds three Youth Sports Scholarships at an annual cost of $9,000.

 

2010 MainPower Youth Sports Awards

Another successful Awards night was held on the 29th October with the North Canterbury region celebrating the high achieving results of it's local young sports people.

2010 MainPower Youth Sports Scholar - Natasha Lloyd Natasha swims for Kaiapoi Aquatics Club and this year won the New Zealand 200 metre Breastroke title at the NZ Open Championships. natasha has broken 12 NZ age group records and 27 Canterbury age group records in the last 12 months. Well done and Congratulations Natasha!

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Eve McFarlane

Runner-Up Scholarships were awarded to Eve McFarlane & Beatrix Heaphy-Hall.   Eve & Beatrix competed in the New Zealand Junior Rowing team at the Junior World Championships in 2010, where they won Gold in the Women's Coxless Four. Congratulations to you both!

Beatrix Heaphy-Hall

 

Scholarship News

MainPower’s Youth Sports Scholar has Canterbury records approved.

At its meeting on the 16 September 2010, Athletics Canterbury Track and Field Committee verified a new record set by Angie Smit, MainPower’s 2009 Youth Sports Scholarship winner.

Angie set the new record in the 800 metres Senior Women’s, Women’s 19, and Women’s 18 grades of 2 min 03.87sec.  She set the record at the World Junior Championships in Victoria BC, Canada on 7 July 2010.

 

2009 Youth Sports Scholarship Recipients

2008 Youth Sports Scholarship Recipients

MainPower’s 2008 Sports Scholar wins at Pacific School Games.

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