Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship Programme

Inspiring excellence, all-round development and leadership August 2011

From the Vice-Chancellor Special Thanks

The Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarships are the University’s way Thanks to NBR Opera, our unique partnership with NZ Opera enables of nurturing talent, whether it be in sport or the performing artistic Hillary Scholars to arts. While many of our Hillary Scholars would like to have go 'inside' their latest opera a career in their chosen Sports or Arts fi eld, it’s also important CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA & to have options when facing an uncertain future. PAGLIACCI, be involved in rehearsals and learn from We know it can be difficult juggling academic requirements, training the company members. or practice, and competition and performance, and so we have support structures in place and the capacity to be flexible with deadlines. Hillary Scholar, Dellie Dellow (above), will gain insight into NZO production management. Often Hillary Scholars find “talking out” their situation with their high performance manager or a lecturer is all they need, while at other times they may need help to negotiate their way through an issue or problem. Despite their heavy workloads, Waikato’s Hillary Scholars are succeeding. This is evidenced by the number Sir Edmund Hillary of ‘A’ grades they achieve each semester. Scholarship Programme Recently the University joined the Athlete Friendly Tertiary Network, which formalises our commitment to high performance athletes. The network is made up of tertiary institutions that adopt a set of guiding WHO CAN APPLY? principles to support New Zealand’s athletes to combine their sporting and academic aspirations. » Students who excel academically and in That is something we’ve been doing for a number of years through the Hillary Scholarships but the sports or creative and performing arts network will enable a more structured and effective system for both athletes and tertiary staff. » School leavers » Current tertiary students I would like to congratulate students who travelled to Wellington in July to receive New Zealand University Blues for excellence in their chosen field. This year at the University of Waikato we’ll be » Students intending to study at the University of Waikato at either the celebrating 40 years of Blues and I look forward to seeing many of you at that event in September. Hamilton or Tauranga campus. Professor Roy Crawford WHAT DO YOU RECEIVE? Vice-Chancellor » Full fees Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship to study at Waikato University » Personalised academic support » Leading coaches/tutors in your Musical Talent area of sports/arts Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar and » A Leadership and Personal Development Plan Bachelor of Music student, Andrew » Free gym membership and physical Leathwick, has been accepted in to conditioning and more... the Vlassenko International Piano Competition, to be held in Brisbane Follow us on between 14 and 27 August. www.facebook.com/ HillaryScholarsWaikatoUniversity For the audition Leathwick, 18, had to prepare and perform almost an hour of music which included some of the most difficult for the Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship piano: Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata and applications close 31 October 2011. Prokofiev's Piano Concerto no 3, as well as two virtuoso Romantic works – a Scriabin etude Application forms available and Chopin's Bb minor Scherzo – along with via www.waikato.ac.nz/hillary a Haydn Sonata. Leathwick is in his second year of study at the University, having left Hillcrest High School after Year 12 to continue his musical studies with top-ranking pianist Proudly sponsored by and teacher Katherine Austin. Hillary Scholar, Andrew Leathwick. Our Student in Comfortable swinging a golf club, Hillary Scholar Charlotte Willson moved well away from her comfort zone during semester break and headed to Nepal. There she taught English to monks in the Mahayana Monastery in the valley.

“I was teaching 120 young monks, the oldest was through bad weather, but it cleared the next day She chose to visit Nepal because she’s a Sir Edmund only 18. I also taught them how to throw a frisbee. and the view was incredible – 360 degrees and Hillary Scholar and Sir Ed had long and strong They’d never seen one before so the surprise and incredible to think I was standing higher than the links with Nepal. “To be able to visit here feels like wonder on their faces was pretty cool to see. It’s top of Mt Cook.” a privilege.” She organised her trip mostly through also lovely to see their faces light up when they the internet with Hillary staff at the University While in Nepal, Charlotte also took the chance to helping out with travel tips and advice. She saved make progress with their English.” stay in the Thamel area and explore the monkey plenty to pay for it and her mother also chipped in. temple. “The locals call it Swayambhunath and Charlotte went to Nepal through VIN – Volunteer there are 365 steps leading up the mountain Charlotte is studying to become a physical Initiative Nepal, but alongside the teaching, she to the temple, or stupa, at the top. The view education teacher, but her dream job would be a also took the chance to trek to two Himalayan from the top was amazing; you could see all of playing golf on the women’s professional tour and base camps, Machapuchre and Annapurna. She Kathmandu Valley. I also got used to bargaining, coaching up and coming players as well. “Coming climbed to a height of 4,130 metres. “That was I planted rice with some local women and I visited to Nepal has been a real eye opener. Nepal is hard work, but the feeling I got when I arrived was the biggest stupa in all of Asia. It’s overwhelming, one of the poorest countries in Asia; 40 per cent amazing. It had been a hard three days walking in size and beauty.” of teachers are untrained and many children do not get an education. People here work hard but always seem to smile. It made me appreciate my life back home and the fact I have choices.”

Like the Waikato, there are plenty of cows in Nepal. “The difference in Nepal is that the cows are sacred, so they’re free to wander, hold up traffic, lie in the middle of the road. If you kill a cow in Nepal you can actually go to jail.”

Charlotte says the trip has whetted her appetite for more travel – and if she can break into the pro circuit then who knows where she’ll be flying to next? Hillary Scholar, Charlotte Willson (inset), experiencing the Everest landscape. Flying Wood Chips! It’s Luke van Veen

If you visited the Waikato University stand at Fieldays, the marquee on D Street, you may well have seen a young woodchopper out the front, axing and sawing big logs, and making it look easy.

The man with the axe was Luke Van Veen, a Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar whose favoured sport is the timber kind. He’s represented New Zealand in three national under 21 teams since he was 15. He’s a former head prefect from Mount Maunganui College and is studying for Bachelor of Management Studies.

Timbersports involve sawing and wood chopping events – Luke excels at both. His current speciality is the “underhand” cutting method where the axe man stands on top of the log and brings the axe down between his feet. However, he also competes in standing cut events and single and double saw divisions. Fieldays was great training for Luke who’s preparing for a competition in Adelaide in September which will see him compete in 26 different events over eight days.

He became involved in timbersports in Year 9 when the sport was relatively new to the school. He was intrigued at first, but became hooked as he became more competitive. “I really enjoy the challenge of timbersports; you never know what type of log you’re going to get and you have to work out how you’re going to approach each one, because each log is different. The sport’s a great part of New Zealand culture.”

Hillary Scholar, Luke van Veen.

2 Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship Programme | August 2011 Blokarter Heads to the US Gabe Young, world lightweight blokarting champion will not have to travel far to defend his title at the next world championships in Las Vegas. He’ll already be working in the USA working for Microsoft.

The Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar wraps up Gabe’s home town is Papamoa and he his Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical attended Te Puke High School. He says he Sciences at the end of the year and will liked computing at school and that’s why he head to the US to work as a software chose to study computer science at university. developer at Microsoft’s headquarters in “Only when I got to university I found it was Seattle, Washington. nothing like I’d done before. I was just fortunate that I really really liked it.” Gabe’s official title will be software development engineer. “I’ll be writing testing In July this year, Gabe’s blokarting skills software, but as a graduate they bring you were acknowledged when he was awarded in under a broad category and expect you to a Distinguished Performance Award at the specialise later on, becoming part of a team, New Zealand University Blues celebration so I could be working on maps, or hotmail in Wellington. Other current students and or whatever.” Hillary Scholars, netball’s Laura Langman, Gabe says it was last summer’s internship rowers Graham Oberlin-Brown and Tobias Wehr-Candler, and New Zealand badminton HIgh Performance Student Manager, with Google in Sydney that helped secure Greg O'Carroll, mingling with Hillary Scholars the Microsoft job. “For the internship I had rep Oliver Leydon-Davis also received New at a Leadership Session. an hour long session where I had to solve a Zealand Blues Awards.. computing problem on a white board – they want to see how you think.” Once he started The Mentoring his internship he was paired up with a senior developer. “I was given a small project to work on. I got full control, which was excellent. Toolbox It was real work; I certainly wasn’t hanging round making the coffee.” Waikato University Hillary Scholars often have mentors to help them in their If his Google interview had been tough, his Microsoft one was five times tougher. “But at sporting or art careers and sometimes they least I had an idea of what to expect.” Microsoft fi nd themselves mentoring others, or they flew him to Sydney where he had five hours will do, as their careers progress. of interviews at a Sydney hotel.

High Performance Student Manager, Greg “I had five one hour sessions back to back with O’Carroll says the scholars will be more effective different people giving me different problems Above: Hillary Scholar, Gabe Young, being at receiving and giving guidance if they’re given to solve. Then when they were finished, awarded the Distinguished Performance Award I waited maybe 10 minutes before they offered some helpful pointers. for Blokarting by Jim Ellis, Blues Panel Member, me a job. They expect you to decline or accept at the 92nd University Blues Awards. “Mentoring is part of my job and I’m always on the spot.” Below: Gabe Young blokarting. looking for ways to do my job better, looking for new approaches. I did a course last year – just a day – and I felt the students would benefit greatly from doing it too.”

The Hillary Scholars will learn all about the Mentor's Toolbox at a session at the start of B Semester as part of their Leadership Programme. “The key to mentoring is communication,” says Greg. “And if we can give them the tools to work in a variety of situations, learn concepts and how to illicit effective responses then it’s going to set them up with some pretty handy skills.”

The students will do some role play and actually run a mentoring session, learn some of the common mentoring pitfalls, learn how to use feedback and be given an easy four-step mentoring framework that they’ll be able to use in the future.

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Sport(s) or Creative/ Enrolment Sport(s) or Creative/ Enrolment Performing Art(s) Name Intentions Secondary School Performing Art(s) Name Intentions Secondary School GradDip Kristie Ballie *PM BA Laura Langman *PM Hillcrest High School (Accounting) Cameron French BSc St Paul’s Collegiate School Netball continued Mariah Ririnui BCS Tauranga Girls’ College Tania Law (Umpiring) MSc Sacred Heart Girls’ College, Hamilton Athletics in partnership Josh Starkey BCS Hamilton Boys’ High School Lynaire Williams BTchg/BSpLS with Athletics Waikato Orienteering Angela Simpson BSc(Tech) Rotorua Lakes High School Bay of Plenty, endorsed Timothy Stewart BMS Paraparaumu College Paralympic Sport by Athletics NZ BMS(Hons)/ Sarah Fuhrer LLB Campion College Jordan Taylor GradDip Hamilton Boys’ High School (Swimming) (Strategic Mgmt) Shaun Kirkham *PM BSpLS Hamilton Boys’ High School Graham Oberlin-Brown Michael Whitehead BCMS Waiuku College BMS Te Awamutu College Michael Fowke BE Hillcrest High School *PM Alyce Pulford BMS Hauraki Plains College Badminton in partnership Susannah Leydon-Davis BMS Hillcrest High School Rowing in partnership Logan Rodger *PM BE Hamilton Boys’ High School with Waikato Badminton Oliver Leydon-Davis BMS Hillcrest High School with Rowing NZ Finian Scott *PM BA Roncalli College Madeleine Stapleton BSocSc Hillcrest High School Giacomo Thomas BCMS Havelock North High School Jaimee Agnew BMS for Girls Tobias Wehr-Candler *PM BSc Onslow College James Comer BSpLS/BMS Cambridge High School Sonny Aliifaalogo BSpLS Wesley College Joseph Dix BSc St John’s College Basketball in partnership Adam Burn BMS Hamilton Boys’ High School with Waikato Basketball Joshua Dix BSc St John’s College Sacred Heart Girls’ College, Rugby in partnership Joshua Blue BSocSc/LLB(Hons) St Peter’s School, Cambridge Sharee Hamilton BMS/LLB New Plymouth with the Waikato Whetukamokamo Douglas BA Gisborne Boys’ High School Caitlin Preston BMS New Plymouth Girls’ High School Rugby Union Sean Nixon ME Rotorua Boys’ High School Courtney Grenfell BA/LLB Chilton Saint James School Toby Smith BMS Hamilton Boys’ High School Bike endorsed by Bike NZ Courteney Lowe *PM BSpLS Otumoetai College Tyrone Te Ruruku BSc(Tech) Wesley College Rugby, Waka Ama, Philippa Sutton BSpLS Waikato Diocesan School for Girls Aperahama Hurihanganui BA/LLB Rotorua Boys’ High School Blokarting Gabe Young BCMS(Hons) Te Puke High School Kapa Haka Hannah Beatson BSpLS Waikato Diocesan School for Girls Sailing Katrina de Lange BCMS Hillcrest High School Keir Bettley BBA(Fin) Hamilton Boys’ High School Screen and Media Pippa Russell MA Tawa College Cricket in partnership supported by Dr Lisa Natalie Dodd *PM BTchg Waikato Diocesan School for Girls with Northern Perrott, Screen and Hannah Wright BA(Hons) Hamilton Girls’ High School Steven Rae *HM MMS Tauranga Boys’ College Districts Cricket Media Studies Brett Sorrenson BSocSc Tauranga Boys’ College Shooting Matthew Thomas BSpLS Hamilton Boys’ High School in partnership with Nicholas Picknell LLB Fraser High School Samantha Flay BSpLS Western Heights High School NZ Shooting Alexandra Hitchmough BSocSc(Hons) Mount Maunganui College Snowboarding Natalie Good BMS/LLB Cambridge High School Dance supported by Hannah Martin BMS Mount Maunganui College Dr Karen Barbour, Softball Corey Wilson BMS Hamilton Boys’ High School Kirsty Russell GradDipT Whangarei Girls’ High School Sport and Leisure Studies Amanda Cranston GradDipT Wanganui Collegiate School Natalie Sangster BTchg/BA Sacred Heart Girls’ College, Hamilton Squash in partnership David Dela Rue BMS/LLB Hamilton Boys’ High School Katie Sparrow BSpLS John Paul College with Squash Waikato Emma Millar BMS/SpLS Paraparaumu College Nicholas Brooks LLB(Hons) St Peter’s School, Cambridge Jorja Tarrant BSpLS Waikato Diocesan School for Girls Laura Newman-Dempster BSc(Tech) Rodney College Sacred Heart Girls’ College, Equestrian in partnership Casey Stevens BSpLS Lucy Olphert BA Tauranga Girls’ College Surf Life Saving New Plymouth with Equestrian Sports NZ Katharine Treadaway BSocSc ACG Strathallan Andrew Newton *PM BTchg (Tauranga) King’s High School and St Peter’s School Jasmine Van der Heyden BMS(Hons) St Peter’s School, Cambridge Surfing Alexis Poulter LLB Raglan Area School Swimming in partnership Kate Welten BTchg/BA Cambridge High School Andrew Pullon BMS/LLB St Paul’s Collegiate School with Swimming NZ Kylie Jens BSc/LLB St Peter’s School, Cambridge Football in partnership Brayden Lissington (Futsal) BCS William Colenso College Table Tennis in partnership Myles Collins BA Liston College with Waikato Bay of with Waikato and Sarah McLaughlin *PM BSpLS Fraser High School Plenty Football NZ Table Tennis Jessica MacAskill MSc James Hargest College Aaron Scott GradDipT Hamilton Boys’ High School Ngaia Copeland BTchg/BA Kamo High School Hayden Beard BMS Mount Maunganui College Kate Davison BTchg/BA Golf Hanna Seifert BSpLS/LLB St Peter’s School, Cambridge Delwyn Dellow MA Spotswood College Charlotte Willson BTchg/BSpLS Fairfield College Theatre supported Natalie Foster BA/LLB Fairfield College Scott Alonzo BCGD Otumoetai College by Gaye Poole, Calvin Petersen BA St John’s College, Hamilton Graphic Design supported Saranna Drury BCGD by Polly Cantlon, Theatre Studies Michael Potts BA Hillcrest High School Haylie Gray BCGD St Peter’s School, Cambridge Faculty of Computing & Tendai Sithole LLB/BA John Paul College Stephen Sherman BCGD(Hons) Dargaville High School Mathematical Sciences Theodore BA Hillcrest High School Hamish Williams BCGD Cambridge High School Brendan West MA Hillcrest High School Craig Armstrong *HM PhD Waiuku College Timber Sports Luke van Veen BMS Mount Maunganui College Natasha Cotton BMS Whangarei Girls’ High School Volleyball in partnership Ryan Clark BBA Matamata College Luke Coxhead BMS Bethlehem College with Waikato Regional Hannah Croad BMS(Hons) Otumoetai College Kate Kernaghan BSpLS St Hilda’s Collegiate School Hockey in partnership Volleyball, Volleyball Bay Kane Rudolph BSpLS Tikipunga High School with Waikato Hockey, Cynthia McNabb BTchg/BSocSc Tauranga Girls’ College of Plenty and endorsed by Bay of Plenty and Brooke Neal BCS Whangarei Girls’ High School Volleyball NZ Julia Tilley GradDipT Campion College Tauranga Hockey Matthew Rees-Gibbs BSpLS Hamilton Boys’ High School Waka Ama Turanga Barclay-Kerr BSpLS Nga Taiatea Wharekura Nicholas Ross BBA(Fin) Otago Boys’ High School Shannon O’Donnell BSpLS Rotorua Girls’ High School Water Skiing Kimberley Tanner BCS Waikato Diocesan School for Girls Renee Hannah BSpLS Rotorua Girls’ High School Zachery Woods BSc Hamilton Boys’ High School X-terra Oliver Shaw BSpLS Western Heights High School Inline Hockey/Ice Hockey Anjali Thakker BSc Hillcrest High School Correct as at 1 July 2011. Kayak Nikki Whitehead BTchg/BSpLS Mount Hutt College Māori Creative & *HM denotes Sir Edmund Hillary Medallist. Performing Arts Paul Brosnan BA Aquinas College supported by Te Kahautu *PM means that the student has received a Prime Minister’s Scholarship. Maxwell, School of Māori & Pacific Development Te Wairere Ngaia BCS Nga Taiatea Wharekura and Arts Waikato Scholar assistance contact: Santiago Cañon-Valencia BMus Colegio Virtual Siglo XXI Greg O’Carroll – High Performance Student Manager Jarvis Dams BMus(Hons) Home School Email: [email protected] Phone: 07 838 4264 June Dams DMA Tauranga Girls’ College Elizabeth de Vegt PhD Inglewood High School Chase Douglas BMus Tauranga Boys’ College All other enquiries contact: Rafaella Garlick-Grice MMus The Correspondence School Nicola Clayden – Hillary Programme Manager Charlotte Ketel BMus Tauranga Girls’ College Email: [email protected] Phone: 07 858 5139 Mobile: 027 478 7331 Edward King *HM PGDip(Mus) King’s College Music supported by Andrew Leathwick BMus Hillcrest High School lecturers of the Hillary Scholarship Programme Executive Committee Yotam Levy BMus Hillcrest High School Music Programme Michelle Jordan-Tong (Chairperson), Clare Cramond, Karen Blue, Heidi Lovatt BMus St Cuthbert’s College Jeremy Mayall PhD Hamilton Boys’ High School Greg O’Carroll, Nicola Clayden, David Griffi ths Beverley Pullon DMA Otorohanga College Nathaniel Smorti BMus Lake Taupo Christian School Scholarship applications: Jennifer Spark BMus(Hons) St Paul’s Collegiate School Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship Programme, Scholarships Offi ce Taryn Viggiano BMus(Hons) Bethlehem College The University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand Jenna Walmsley BMCT Church College of New Zealand Phone: 07 858 5195 Toll Free: 0800 WAIKATO Hannah Willemse BMus(Hons) Home School Elsa Brown BSc Kerikeri High School Website: www.waikato.ac.nz/scholarships Netball in partnership Amy Christophers BSc(Tech) Otumoetai College with Netball Waikato PGDip Caitlin Easter Cambridge High School U Leisure provides sport and leisure services for the University of Waikato. and Netball Bay of Plenty (Psychology) Stephanie Fowlie GradDipT Waiuku College

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