College Sport Media Photos of the Week for 25 July

Below are selected five Photos of the Week, highlighting some of the terrific secondary school sporting events and achievements over the past seven days

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1. Several junior New Zealand representative volleyball teams are in action overseas at present. The Youth Men’s (pictured here) and the Youth Women’s teams have been competing at the USA High Performance Championships at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The NZ U19 Women’s team finished fifth at the South East Asian Championships and now turn their attention to the Asian Championships in Thailand. New Zealand’s two U19 teams are also in Cyprus competing at the World Junior Beach Volleyball Championships, while back home many young players will be competing at the national club championships in Wellington this coming weekend. The Volleyball New Zealand Facebook page provides excellent coverage and photos of it all. View more at: https://www.facebook.com/volleyballnz/?fref=ts

2. The New Zealand men’s team pursuit team of Campbell Stewart, Jared Gray, Tom Sexton, Connor Brown and Josh Scott won gold and broke the world record at the World Junior Track Cycling Championships. New Zealand won nine medals, which lifted the team to the top of the medal table at the championships. Read more at http://www.cyclingnewzealand.nz/news/kiwi-cyclists-earn-more-medals-and-world-record-in-switzerland Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/CyclingNZL/

3. The U15 and U19 National Basketball Championships were played last week. In a rematch of last year’s U15 Girls National Championship Tournament, Harbour A avenged their 2015 loss, beating Waikato 76-73 to win the national title in the first final of the day. On the Boys side of the U15 tournament, host city Wellington defeated Harbour A 95-83 to win the Under-15 Boys National Championship Tournament. At the U19 tournament in Nelson, Harbour beat Waikato 61-53 in the Women’s Final and Auckland Counties Manukau beat Canterbury 82-73. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/basketballnz

4. The seventh NZF National Youth Futsal Championships took place recently in Palmerston North, with 60 teams from each of the country’s seven federations battling it out over six competitions. Over 800 young players were involved and many saw their efforts rewarded with titles in one of the categories on offer – U14, U16 and U19 in the boys and U15 and U19 for the girls.  As in the previous year, Mainland were the best performing federation overall after claiming three of the five titles and pocketing a batch of individual awards in the process. The girls teams from Mainland pulled off a clean sweep, triumphing in both the U15 and U19 age-groups while there was also success for the South Islanders in the boys’ U16 competition. Photo credit: follow the article and read the results at http://www.nzfootball.co.nz/youth-champs-highlight-futsal-progress/

5. Ross and Anna McPhie are the first brother and sister duo to play for the Tasman region's respective Mainland Premier League teams, Ross with Nelson Suburbs and Anna with Tasman United. Ross, who is currently back home during the California State University-Fullerton off-season, is a 19-year-old central midfielder. He debuted for Suburbs when he was just 14-years-old but soon departed for Auckland, linking up with Saint Kentigern College, who he won the New Zealand secondary schools football championships with in 2013, and Auckland City, who he won the ASB Youth League with in 2014. Fifteen-year-old Anna, a student at Nelson College for Girls, is an attacking midfielder with Tasman in the Mainland Women's Premier League.  Photo credit Martin de Ruyter/Nelson Mail.  Follow the article here http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/sport/82021385/soccer-siblings-ross-and-anna-mcphie-take-centre-stage-in-mainland-premier-league


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