Cambridge News | 23 November 2018

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Cambridge shines at awards

By Claire Robson

Cambridge came away with more than its fair share of accolades from the Waipā Networks District Sports Awards, with our athletes, coaches and administrators cleaning up at the ceremony on Monday night. The awards saw a “who’s who” of the local sporting scene gather along with other invited guests to hear the results of this year’s awards. Hosted by rowing legend Eric Murray, himself a seven-times athlete of the year at the same awards, and local radio personality and former gymnast Camille Guzzwell (who can apparently still do the splits on one side), there were

Cambridge’s winners on the night Administrator of the Year: Tim Bailey from the Cambridge Football Club Club of the Year: Cambridge Athletics Club Coach of the Year: Leanne Walker, basketball Official of the Year: Ella Higgins, netball Innovation in Sport and Recreation: Avantidrome Community Trikes Team of the Year: St Peter’s School Girls’ Under 18 Rowing 8 Secondary School Sportswoman of the Year: Charlisse Leger-Walker, St Peter’s School Secondary School Sportsman of the Year: Finn Fisher-Black, St Peter’s School Secondary School Contribution to Sport: Matthew McHugh, Cambridge High School Emerging Talent: Ellesse Andrews, cycling Sportsman of the Year: Sam Gaze, cycling Sportswoman of the Year: Joelle King, squash Service to Sport: Judy Hoffman, Cambridge mini hockey

plenty of laughs to be had on the night as Waipā’s best and brightest sporting stars were celebrated. The feel-good moment of the evening came as Aaron Ure accepted the Innovation in Sport and Recreation Award for Avantidrome Community Trikes, explaining to the audience how the initiative has given people freedom they had thought was impossible. With participants ranging in age from 10 to 94, Aaron said that nothing beats the excitement for people when they get on a bike and realise they can have a life more than just being labelled with a disability. “Thanks to the sponsors for allowing us to give people back their lives and dignity,” he concluded. It really was Cambridge’s night on the night, but many of the athletes paid tribute to the strength of competition in the Waipā, with Sport Waikato’s CEO Matthew Cooper saying that sport is “in our DNA” as a region. Partway through proceedings, Matthew sat down with long-distance runner Camille Buscomb and elite cyclist Ellesse Andrews for a Q and A about what it takes to achieve at the top level of sport. Both women have their eyes on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and had some tips and words of encouragement for aspiring Olympians in the audience. Camille, who is doing “a fair amount of running” at the moment, clocking up between 140 and 160km each week, said that people should keep chasing their goals, whatever they might be. “There’s only a certain window (to achieve in sport), so give it everything you have,” she said. Ellesse, who also won the Emerging

Talent category on the night, said that people should keep doing what they love. “Make sure you’re doing it for the right reasons,” she advised. Both women agreed with Matthew Cooper’s assertion that this is a “pretty special part of the world”, with Camille adding that it is a great atmosphere to be an athlete in, particularly with the

Avantidrome nearby. “It’s exciting”. At the conclusion of proceedings, Matthew Cooper singled out the community trikes programme for a special mention: “They summed up the night in terms of what it means…making a positive difference and breaking down barriers”. And judging by the applause, the crowd agreed with that.

Cyclist Ellesse Andrews accepted the award for Emerging Talent at the Waipā Networks Sports Awards in front of an audience of around 370 people on Monday night.

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Sitting on 227 hectares just out of Cambridge, the Raroa Red Deer Stud has been producing venison, velvet and trophy deer for the past 30 years. At the helm for 21 of those years is manager Bill Robinson, who will be hanging up his boots next year and reti ring into Cambridge – time for a well-earned rest. The property on Fergusson Gully Rd was a sheep and beef farm unti was converted into a deer farm back in 1988, with the accompanying l it foot fences and custom-built sixdeer shed installed. And long races with sharp right-angled turns put in to cater to the deer’s tendency to run quickly, zig-zagging to escape. “There’s a lot of psychology in deer farming,” then explained. Bill The 70s and 80s was a boom time for the deer industry, Bill continued, with tax incentives from successive governments intent on diversifying country’s farming industry. the Fast-forward thirty years and Bill reckons around 2000 deer farms in New Zealand are now without deer on them. in the industry are passionate “Those left about it,” he said, explaining that there have been a lot of dips over the years. The overseas demand for velvet has kept the industry going throughout, with New Zealand producing half of the global supply. It’s mostly used in Asian medicine and health care products, Bill explained, with the term referring to the stick of velvet not just the furry coating on the outside of it. “It feels like the velvet curtains,” he laughed, “but it’s not”. And the international demand for New Zealand venison outstrips supply, Bill said. “That’s why current venison is expensive in the New Zealand market,” he explained, adding that the price it fetches overseas makes it more worthwhile for farmers to export the meat than sell it domestically. With 650 stags and 500 hinds on the Raroa stud near Karapiro, deer there are bred for different the red purposes. Over the past five or six years, Bill said the stud has moved back to velvet, with venison and trophy animals a by-product of production. The stud now favours animals with thick antlers which are well-suited for velvet with bigger animals suitable production, for venison and deer with a multi-pointed sire most likely producing trophy animals.

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