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Event Name Back to Back Wellington Titles
Start Date 9th Nov 2009
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sam-leeYear 13 swimmer and surf life-saver, Sam Lee, has won the College Sport Young Sportswoman of the Year award for the second year in a row, beating out other top Wellington region athletes.

This is the fifth year in a row WEGC has won the top award, with Kelly Bentley, also a swimmer, winning the award twice in a row and Rene Leota winning it for soccer.

WEGC had eleven nominees and won six prizes in total, keeping up our good record of recent years in this awards ceremony.

  • Sam Lee (swimming, surf life-saving, overall prize)
  • Adelaide Cox (water-skiing)
  • Taelar Samuel (hockey)
  • Evie Millynn (soccer)

Sam also won the WEGC Sportswoman of the Year award at our school's recent Sports Prizegiving.  She represented her school, province and country in two sports. She has broken numerous national records and was the first woman in NZ to swim under 1minute for 100m butterfly with a time of 59.78sec. In 2009 she broke nine NZ age group records and one NZ open record and was selected for the NZ U19 Swim Team for the Junior Pan Pacific Champs in Guam. In her other field Surf Life Saving she represented NZ in the NZ Open Team at the World Games in Taiwan this year.

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