2024 Inline Road and Flat Track/Indoor Speed Skating Nationals
The 2024 Inline Road and Flat Track/Indoor Speed Skating Nationals were held in Blenheim from 2-7 January. Lauren Crawford is in her second year competing in the Cadet grade.
In the Road Nationals Lauren came:
200m Time Trial:4th
1000m:3rd
500m:1st and a new National Speed Record of 51.596!
5000m Points Race:2nd
5000m Junior Girls Relay:1st
Flat Track:
300m Time Trial:3rd
800m:3rd
1500m:3rd
3000m:3rd
Junior Mixed Pairs 1200m Relay:3rd
Junior Ladies 1500m Relay:1st
On the last day, a Half Marathon, 21km race is held and Lauren came in 3rd place in the Under 15 girls category.
Congratulations Lauren and we wish you luck at the Banked Track Nationals in Hamilton over the Waitangi weekend.
New Zealand U18 Ice Hockey
Craighead's Camryn Linton and Izzy Power represented New Zealand in the U18 Girls Ice Hockey team that competed at the 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championships, Division II, Group B. For the second year in a row, Camryn was named Assistant Captain of the team. The girls and the team put on some amazing performances throughout the tournament. The results are below.
Mexico 1:3 NZ
South Africa 0:22 NZ
Iceland 0:2 NZ(Camryn was named MVP of this game)
Belgium 5:2 NZ
Bulgaria 3:4 NZ
The team won gold in the tournament meaning this puts them up into the next division, Division II, A for 2025. Take a look at this link to see the final moments of the victory that saw the team win gold!
Congratulations on your performance Camryn and Izzy, we are looking forward to watching you progress on your journey in Ice Hockey!
