Uniquely, it\u2019s a sailing family only because of the interest Zac showed when watching the Optimists from the shores of Ahuriri and Westshore as a youngster.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis father prefers boats with engines on,\u201d his mum said.<\/p>\n
She said Zac had started racing a couple of years ago, and is keen to see others take the chance, with school holidays Learn to Sail courses at the Napier Sailing Club next week and in January.<\/p>\n
Fellow club member Georgia Barker, of Puketapu School, was third in the Year 7 girls event.<\/p>\n
Hawke\u2019s Bay competitors had a range of other successes in the Aims Games<\/a>, which had 27 sports, including hip-hop dance<\/a> and over 14,000 participants across the intermediate schools\u2019 age groups.<\/p>\n The Havelock North Intermediate girls\u2019 football team won its 9-a-side competition, with nine wins and two draws in 11 games.<\/p>\n The games included a penalty shootout semifinal win over Taradale Intermediate and a 2-1 win over Auckland school Baradene College of the Sacred Heart in the final. <\/p>\n Taradale beat Wellington school Raroa Intermediate in the playoff for third and fourth.<\/p>\n Havelock North played locally in the high schools\u2019 Junior A competition and was coached by Cam McKie, a teacher\u2019s aide at Clive School who has a daughter in the successful team.<\/p>\n McKie said the performances by both schools reflected the \u201cgood space\u201d football is in within the younger age group and the commitment of the schools.<\/p>\n Among other results available to Hawke\u2019s Bay Today, schools were particularly dominant in canoe slaloms, including Willow Hambleton (Taradale Intermediate) winning the Year 7 girls event, and William Kilpatrick (Lindisfarne College), Alby Redmond (Lindisfarne College), and Cooper Hinde (Hastings Intermediate) filling the first 3 placings in the Year 7 boys event.<\/p>\n In the Year 8 events, Ollie Apatu (Hastings Intermediate) was the champion boy, and Taradale won the schools\u2019 title.<\/p>\n Doug Laing has been a reporter more than 52 years, including more than 40 in Hawke\u2019s Bay. He has covered most aspects of news, including sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said Zac and his dad returned to Napier to get a replacement Napier Sailing Club boat, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4886,1561,26754,5532,26757,6489,4241,1976,692,26755,5511,26019,130,111,139,69,6662,90,5270,26758,18245,18429,17509,213,1227,131,223,2983,810,26759,6736,10000,18457,26756,18246,26753],"class_list":["post-26860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aims","tag-bay","tag-blown","tag-boat","tag-borrowed","tag-games","tag-gold","tag-hawkes","tag-he","tag-highway","tag-just","tag-medal","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-off","tag-on","tag-one","tag-overcame","tag-sailing","tag-schoolboy","tag-so","tag-sports","tag-tauranga","tag-than","tag-the","tag-trailer","tag-up","tag-vagaries","tag-was","tag-wind","tag-winning","tag-won","tag-yachting","tag-zacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Havelock North Intermediate girls’ football team celebrate their gold medal win at the Aims Games in Tauranga last week.<\/p>\n