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The first half of 2018 has been big for secondary school sport in New Zealand.  With Winter Tournament Week and spring and summer sports to follow there is much to look to look forward to! 

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Mt Albert Grammar School’s Sam Kamu has been named as the best Auckland secondary school rugby league player of 2018.
 
​The award caps a big year for wing and second rower Kamu, who also won the Auckland U18 championship with his Richmond club side in August, with the 17-year-old set to link up with the Newcastle Knights at the end of the current school year.  

In other major awards given out on the day, James Cook High School’s Cheylen Davis was named Girls’ Player of the Year, while Seamus Kelly (Whangaparoa College) and Charlie Salesa-Leumoana (St Paul’s College) picked up the Player of the Year titles for the Senior A and U15 grades respectively. 

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The New Zealand junior track cycling world champions

George Jackson, Corbin Strong, Bailey O'Donnell and Finn Fisher-Black won gold in the team pursuit at the Junior world  track cycling championships in mid-August. They beat off the challenge from France to claim the 4000m team pursuit title at the UCI Velodrome in Aigle. It was the third gold medal New Zealand has won in the men;' team pursuit at the junior world championships. They beat Australia in the semi-final.

Meanwhile, the women's team pursuit combination of Ally Wollaston, Annamarie Lippo, Sami Donnelly and McKenzie Milne bettered rivals Australia in the first round and finished second behind defending champions Italy in the final.
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The New Zealand team on their way to gold against France. PHOTO: ©klementdesign