Rangi Ruru Student On Target at Shooting Championships

Rangi Ruru Student On Target at Shooting Championships

Rangi Ruru Year 13 student Kristy Havill has won the New Zealand Girls' overall champion title at the NZ Fish and Game South Island and NZ Secondary Schools Clay Target Championships.

Havill also won gold in the NZ Girls' Points Score and silver in the NZ Girls' Single Barrel competition.

The daughter of Westland Mayor Mike Havill, this young shooter was the only girl to qualify for the North or South Island Open team (one team of five from each island)

As a member of winning South Island team that beat the North Island, Havill had the last shot to win it for the South Island. She was the equal top scorer from both teams, won silver in the NZ Girl's Skeet competition, silver in the South Island Girls' Skeet and is a member of the North Canterbury regional team that won silver in the Triples, a first for North Canterbury.

Kristy was one of two girls in the five person North Canterbury team and was equal top scorer being awarded High Overall (winner) of the Girls' Triples.

Head of Sport at Rangi Ruru, Jo Fogarty, says Kristy is the only girl at school competing in clay shooting and is an excellent role model for girls who want to pursue or compete in a sport that may not be something many students are involved with.

“She clearly is exceptionally skilled and dedicated,” says Fogarty. “We give our girls every opportunity to succeed and excel, supporting them the whole way, regardless of whether their interest is something many other girls do or not.”

Next year will be even busier for Kristy.

“Between March and November I’ll be travelling around New Zealand to compete at the Provincial and District shoots, working hard to qualify for the NZ Junior or Women's team competing at the ICTSF World Championships in Ireland in July 2016,” says the young champion.

The 2014 NZ Fish and Game South Island and NZ Secondary Schools Clay Target Championships were held in Christchurch on Saturday, Sunday, Monday 27-29 September 2014.

For full results http://www.nzclaytarget.org.nz/result2012/assnresult.php?sid=1725 www.rangiruru.school.nz

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