Congratulations to Dennis and Robert Kihi-Forsyth who have been selected for the West Coast U14 rugby representative team.
They have already played two games in the red and white jersey, with a loss to Buller and a win against Nelson Bays. The team have four more games to go. Ka pai kōrua.
Congratulations also to Dennise Robinson on her selection to participate in the Arsenal Football Club Gap Year Programme.
This is a huge opportunity for Dennise, who is a year and half into her Bachelor of Sports Coaching degree at the University of Canterbury.
She was selected out of thousands of applicants who apply internationally each year for this programme. Arsenal are one of the biggest football clubs in the world with over 100 million fans worldwide.
Dennise will go to Arsenal to learn and develop her coaching knowledge for five months, before being sent abroad to one of their partners to help develop football in that country. Examples of the countries involved are South Africa, Greece, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Israel.
The programme is not a paid one and Dennise will need to find a substantial amount of pūtea to cover the first two stages of the three-stage programme. It not only fits perfectly with her aspiration and future career goal of coaching at a national level, but is an opportunity too good to pass up. Karawhiua e te kōhine.
Dennis (right) and Robert.
Dennise with one of her teams.