Bishop moves to top of her class
Mountain biking ace Liv Bishop rounded off a highly-successful 12 months when she was named Sportsperson of the Year at the annual Marlborough Girls’ College sports prizegiving evening at the college on Thursday.
Bishop enjoyed success at home and abroad on a variety of testing tracks. Her pinnacle event was the world championships in Australia where she competed strongly in the demanding under-19 section. She competed in Europe as part of a New Zealand junior team, plus rode at the Oceania champs and the Australian nationals where she picked up third placings. Nationally she placed second in the under-20 girls category at the NZ secondary schools champs, second in the junior women at the National cross country champs as well as taking out the Tasman schools title.
The College Sportsperson of the Year was athlete Lucy Sheat.
She capped another stellar year with victories in the 100m and 200m at the NZ schools champs.
Sheat also won Tasman sprinting and added the MGC cross country title for good measure.
Junior Sportsperson of the
Year was Anna Gardiner, who excelled in volleyball, netball, basketball plus track and field.
The MGC Team of the Year was won by the squash team comprising Lydia Columbus, Leonie Marshall, Alice Roughan, Kate Roughan, Amelia Wadsworth and Sophie Whittall. They placed fourth at the nationals schools event, eclipsing their fifth seeding.
Recognised for achieving recognition at New Zealand level were Bishop, touch player
Ella Donald and netballing twins Etelini and Malia Manoa.
Tasman Secondary School
Code winners were also named on the night.
They were Sheat, Bishop, Wadsworth and Etelini Manoa
(for volleyball). Sheat was named the TSS Overall Female Sportsperson of the Year.