Sir Edmund Hillary
Scholarship Programme
Inspiring excellence, all-round development and leadership
From the Vice-Chancellor
The Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarships are the University’s way
of nurturing talent, whether it be in sport or the performing
arts. While many of our Hillary Scholars would like to have
a career in their chosen Sports or Arts field, it’s also important
to have options when facing an uncertain future.
We know it can be difficult juggling academic requirements, training
or practice, and competition and performance, and so we have support
structures in place and the capacity to be flexible with deadlines.
Often Hillary Scholars find “talking out” their situation with their high
performance manager or a lecturer is all they need, while at other times
they may need help to negotiate their way through an issue or problem.
Despite their heavy workloads, Waikato’s Hillary Scholars are succeeding. This is evidenced by the number
of ‘A’ grades they achieve each semester.
Recently the University joined the Athlete Friendly Tertiary Network, which formalises our commitment to
high performance athletes. The network is made up of tertiary institutions that adopt a set of guiding
principles to support New Zealand’s athletes to combine their sporting and academic aspirations.
That is something we’ve been doing for a number of years through the Hillary Scholarships but the
network will enable a more structured and effective system for both athletes and tertiary staff.
I would like to congratulate students who travelled to Wellington in July to receive New Zealand
University Blues for excellence in their chosen field. This year at the University of Waikato we’ll be
celebrating 40 years of Blues and I look forward to seeing many of you at that event in September.
Professor Roy Crawford
Vice-Chancellor
August 2011
Special Thanks
Thanks to NBR New Zealand Opera, our
unique partnership with NZ Opera enables
artistic Hillary Scholars to
go 'inside' their latest opera
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA &
PAGLIACCI, be involved in
rehearsals and learn from
the company members.
Hillary Scholar, Dellie Dellow (above), will gain
insight into NZO production management.
Sir Edmund Hillary
Scholarship Programme
WHO CAN APPLY?
» Students who excel academically and in
sports or creative and performing arts
» School leavers
» Current tertiary students
» Students intending to study at the
University of Waikato at either the
Hamilton or Tauranga campus.
WHAT DO YOU RECEIVE?
» Full fees Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship
to study at Waikato University
Musical Talent
» Personalised academic support
Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar and
Bachelor of Music student, Andrew
Leathwick, has been accepted in to
the Vlassenko International Piano
Competition, to be held in Brisbane
between 14 and 27 August.
» A Leadership and Personal
Development Plan
For the audition Leathwick, 18, had to prepare
and perform almost an hour of music which
included some of the most difficult for the
piano: Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata and
Prokofiev's Piano Concerto no 3, as well as two
virtuoso Romantic works – a Scriabin etude
and Chopin's Bb minor Scherzo – along with
a Haydn Sonata. Leathwick is in his second
year of study at the University, having left
Hillcrest High School after Year 12 to continue
his musical studies with top-ranking pianist
and teacher Katherine Austin.
Hillary Scholar, Andrew Leathwick.
» Leading coaches/tutors in your
area of sports/arts
» Free gym membership and physical
conditioning and more...
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Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship
applications close 31 October 2011.
Application forms available
via www.waikato.ac.nz/hillary
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Our Student in Nepal
Comfortable swinging a golf club, Hillary Scholar Charlotte Willson moved well away from her comfort zone during semester break
and headed to Nepal. There she taught English to monks in the Mahayana Monastery in the Kathmandu valley.
“I was teaching 120 young monks, the oldest was
only 18. I also taught them how to throw a frisbee.
They’d never seen one before so the surprise and
wonder on their faces was pretty cool to see. It’s
also lovely to see their faces light up when they
make progress with their English.”
Charlotte went to Nepal through VIN – Volunteer
Initiative Nepal, but alongside the teaching, she
also took the chance to trek to two Himalayan
base camps, Machapuchre and Annapurna. She
climbed to a height of 4,130 metres. “That was
hard work, but the feeling I got when I arrived was
amazing. It had been a hard three days walking
through bad weather, but it cleared the next day
and the view was incredible – 360 degrees and
incredible to think I was standing higher than the
top of Mt Cook.”
While in Nepal, Charlotte also took the chance to
stay in the Thamel area and explore the monkey
temple. “The locals call it Swayambhunath and
there are 365 steps leading up the mountain
to the temple, or stupa, at the top. The view
from the top was amazing; you could see all of
Kathmandu Valley. I also got used to bargaining,
I planted rice with some local women and I visited
the biggest stupa in all of Asia. It’s overwhelming,
in size and beauty.”
She chose to visit Nepal because she’s a Sir Edmund
Hillary Scholar and Sir Ed had long and strong
links with Nepal. “To be able to visit here feels like
a privilege.” She organised her trip mostly through
the internet with Hillary staff at the University
helping out with travel tips and advice. She saved
plenty to pay for it and her mother also chipped in.
Charlotte is studying to become a physical
education teacher, but her dream job would be a
playing golf on the women’s professional tour and
coaching up and coming players as well. “Coming
to Nepal has been a real eye opener. Nepal is
one of the poorest countries in Asia; 40 per cent
of teachers are untrained and many children do
not get an education. People here work hard but
always seem to smile. It made me appreciate my
life back home and the fact I have choices.”
Like the Waikato, there are plenty of cows in
Nepal. “The difference in Nepal is that the cows
are sacred, so they’re free to wander, hold up
traffic, lie in the middle of the road. If you kill a
cow in Nepal you can actually go to jail.”
Charlotte says the trip has whetted her appetite
for more travel – and if she can break into the
pro circuit then who knows where she’ll be flying
to next?
Hillary Scholar, Charlotte Willson (inset),
experiencing the Everest landscape.
Flying Wood Chips! It’s Luke van Veen
If you visited the Waikato University stand at Fieldays,
the marquee on D Street, you may well have seen a young
woodchopper out the front, axing and sawing big logs, and
making it look easy.
The man with the axe was Luke Van Veen, a Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar
whose favoured sport is the timber kind. He’s represented New Zealand
in three national under 21 teams since he was 15. He’s a former head
prefect from Mount Maunganui College and is studying for Bachelor
of Management Studies.
Timbersports involve sawing and wood chopping events – Luke excels
at both. His current speciality is the “underhand” cutting method where
the axe man stands on top of the log and brings the axe down between
his feet. However, he also competes in standing cut events and single
and double saw divisions. Fieldays was great training for Luke who’s
preparing for a competition in Adelaide in September which will see him
compete in 26 different events over eight days.
He became involved in timbersports in Year 9 when the sport was relatively
new to the school. He was intrigued at first, but became hooked as he
became more competitive. “I really enjoy the challenge of timbersports;
you never know what type of log you’re going to get and you have to work
out how you’re going to approach each one, because each log is different.
The sport’s a great part of New Zealand culture.”
Hillary Scholar, Luke van Veen.
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Blokarter Heads
to the US
Gabe Young, world lightweight blokarting champion will not have to travel far
to defend his title at the next world championships in Las Vegas. He’ll already be
working in the USA working for Microsoft.
The Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar wraps up
his Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical
Sciences at the end of the year and will
head to the US to work as a software
developer at Microsoft’s headquarters in
Seattle, Washington.
Gabe’s official title will be software
development engineer. “I’ll be writing testing
software, but as a graduate they bring you
in under a broad category and expect you to
specialise later on, becoming part of a team,
so I could be working on maps, or hotmail
or whatever.”
HIgh Performance Student Manager,
Greg O'Carroll, mingling with Hillary Scholars
at a Leadership Session.
The Mentoring
Toolbox
Waikato University Hillary Scholars
often have mentors to help them in their
sporting or art careers and sometimes they
find themselves mentoring others, or they
will do, as their careers progress.
High Performance Student Manager, Greg
O’Carroll says the scholars will be more effective
at receiving and giving guidance if they’re given
some helpful pointers.
“Mentoring is part of my job and I’m always
looking for ways to do my job better, looking for
new approaches. I did a course last year – just
a day – and I felt the students would benefit
greatly from doing it too.”
Gabe says it was last summer’s internship
with Google in Sydney that helped secure
the Microsoft job. “For the internship I had
an hour long session where I had to solve a
computing problem on a white board – they
want to see how you think.” Once he started
his internship he was paired up with a senior
developer. “I was given a small project to work
on. I got full control, which was excellent.
It was real work; I certainly wasn’t hanging
round making the coffee.”
Gabe’s home town is Papamoa and he
attended Te Puke High School. He says he
liked computing at school and that’s why he
chose to study computer science at university.
“Only when I got to university I found it was
nothing like I’d done before. I was just fortunate
that I really really liked it.”
In July this year, Gabe’s blokarting skills
were acknowledged when he was awarded
a Distinguished Performance Award at the
New Zealand University Blues celebration
in Wellington. Other current students and
Hillary Scholars, netball’s Laura Langman,
rowers Graham Oberlin-Brown and Tobias
Wehr-Candler, and New Zealand badminton
rep Oliver Leydon-Davis also received New
Zealand Blues Awards..
If his Google interview had been tough, his
Microsoft one was five times tougher. “But at
least I had an idea of what to expect.” Microsoft
flew him to Sydney where he had five hours
of interviews at a Sydney hotel.
“I had five one hour sessions back to back with
different people giving me different problems
to solve. Then when they were finished,
I waited maybe 10 minutes before they offered
me a job. They expect you to decline or accept
on the spot.”
Above: Hillary Scholar, Gabe Young, being
awarded the Distinguished Performance Award
for Blokarting by Jim Ellis, Blues Panel Member,
at the 92nd University Blues Awards.
Below: Gabe Young blokarting.
The Hillary Scholars will learn all about the
Mentor's Toolbox at a session at the start of B
Semester as part of their Leadership Programme.
“The key to mentoring is communication,” says
Greg. “And if we can give them the tools to work
in a variety of situations, learn concepts and how
to illicit effective responses then it’s going to set
them up with some pretty handy skills.”
The students will do some role play and
actually run a mentoring session, learn some
of the common mentoring pitfalls, learn how
to use feedback and be given an easy four-step
mentoring framework that they’ll be able to use
in the future.
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2011 Sir Edmund Hillary Scholars
Sport(s) or Creative/
Performing Art(s)
Athletics in partnership
with Athletics Waikato
Bay of Plenty, endorsed
by Athletics NZ
Name
Kristie Ballie *PM
Cameron French
Mariah Ririnui
Josh Starkey
Timothy Stewart
Jordan Taylor
Michael Whitehead
Michael Fowke
Badminton in partnership Susannah Leydon-Davis
with Waikato Badminton Oliver Leydon-Davis
Madeleine Stapleton
Jaimee Agnew
James Comer
Joseph Dix
Basketball in partnership
Joshua Dix
with Waikato Basketball
Sharee Hamilton
Caitlin Preston
Courtney Grenfell
Bike endorsed by Bike NZ Courteney Lowe *PM
Philippa Sutton
Blokarting
Gabe Young
Hannah Beatson
Keir Bettley
Cricket in partnership
Natalie Dodd *PM
with Northern
Steven Rae *HM
Districts Cricket
Brett Sorrenson
Matthew Thomas
Samantha Flay
Alexandra Hitchmough
Dance supported by
Hannah Martin
Dr Karen Barbour,
Kirsty Russell
Sport and Leisure Studies
Natalie Sangster
Katie Sparrow
Nicholas Brooks
Laura Newman-Dempster
Equestrian in partnership
Lucy Olphert
with Equestrian Sports NZ
Katharine Treadaway
and St Peter’s School
Jasmine Van der Heyden
Kate Welten
Kylie Jens
Football in partnership
Brayden Lissington (Futsal)
with Waikato Bay of
Sarah McLaughlin *PM
Plenty Football
Aaron Scott
Hayden Beard
Golf
Hanna Seifert
Charlotte Willson
Scott Alonzo
Graphic Design supported Saranna Drury
by Polly Cantlon,
Haylie Gray
Faculty of Computing &
Stephen Sherman
Mathematical Sciences
Hamish Williams
Craig Armstrong *HM
Natasha Cotton
Luke Coxhead
Kate Kernaghan
Hockey in partnership
Cynthia McNabb
with Waikato Hockey,
Bay of Plenty and
Brooke Neal
Tauranga Hockey
Matthew Rees-Gibbs
Nicholas Ross
Kimberley Tanner
Zachery Woods
Inline Hockey/Ice Hockey Anjali Thakker
Kayak
Nikki Whitehead
Māori Creative &
Performing Arts
supported by Te Kahautu
Maxwell, School of Māori
& Pacific Development
and Arts Waikato
Music supported by
lecturers of the
Music Programme
Netball in partnership
with Netball Waikato
and Netball Bay of Plenty
Paul Brosnan
BA
BSc
BCS
BCS
BMS
BMS(Hons)/
GradDip
(Strategic Mgmt)
BCMS
BE
BMS
BMS
BSocSc
BMS
BSpLS/BMS
BSc
BSc
Secondary School
Morrinsville College
St Paul’s Collegiate School
Tauranga Girls’ College
Hamilton Boys’ High School
Paraparaumu College
Hamilton Boys’ High School
BMS
BA/LLB
BSpLS
BSpLS
BCMS(Hons)
BSpLS
BBA(Fin)
BTchg
MMS
BSocSc
BSpLS
BSpLS
BSocSc(Hons)
BMS
GradDipT
BTchg/BA
BSpLS
LLB(Hons)
BSc(Tech)
BA
BSocSc
BMS(Hons)
BTchg/BA
BSc/LLB
BCS
BSpLS
GradDipT
BMS
BSpLS/LLB
BTchg/BSpLS
BCGD
BCGD
BCGD
BCGD(Hons)
BCGD
PhD
BMS
BMS
BSpLS
BTchg/BSocSc
BCS
BSpLS
BBA(Fin)
BCS
BSc
BSc
BTchg/BSpLS
Waiuku College
Hillcrest High School
Hillcrest High School
Hillcrest High School
Hillcrest High School
Waikato Diocesan School for Girls
Cambridge High School
St John’s College
St John’s College
Sacred Heart Girls’ College,
New Plymouth
New Plymouth Girls’ High School
Chilton Saint James School
Otumoetai College
Waikato Diocesan School for Girls
Te Puke High School
Waikato Diocesan School for Girls
Hamilton Boys’ High School
Waikato Diocesan School for Girls
Tauranga Boys’ College
Tauranga Boys’ College
Hamilton Boys’ High School
Western Heights High School
Mount Maunganui College
Mount Maunganui College
Whangarei Girls’ High School
Sacred Heart Girls’ College, Hamilton
John Paul College
St Peter’s School, Cambridge
Rodney College
Tauranga Girls’ College
ACG Strathallan
St Peter’s School, Cambridge
Cambridge High School
St Peter’s School, Cambridge
William Colenso College
Fraser High School
Hamilton Boys’ High School
Mount Maunganui College
St Peter’s School, Cambridge
Fairfield College
Otumoetai College
Thames High School
St Peter’s School, Cambridge
Dargaville High School
Cambridge High School
Waiuku College
Whangarei Girls’ High School
Bethlehem College
St Hilda’s Collegiate School
Tauranga Girls’ College
Whangarei Girls’ High School
Hamilton Boys’ High School
Otago Boys’ High School
Waikato Diocesan School for Girls
Hamilton Boys’ High School
Hillcrest High School
Mount Hutt College
BA
Aquinas College
BMS/LLB
Sport(s) or Creative/
Performing Art(s)
Name
Laura Langman *PM
Netball continued
Orienteering
Paralympic Sport
(Swimming)
Rowing in partnership
with Rowing NZ
Rugby in partnership
with the Waikato
Rugby Union
Rugby, Waka Ama,
Kapa Haka
Sailing
Screen and Media
supported by Dr Lisa
Perrott, Screen and
Media Studies
Shooting
in partnership with
NZ Shooting
Snowboarding
Softball
Squash in partnership
with Squash Waikato
Surf Life Saving
Tania Law (Umpiring)
Lynaire Williams
Angela Simpson
Water Skiing
X-terra
Secondary School
GradDip
(Accounting)
MSc
BTchg/BSpLS
BSc(Tech)
Sacred Heart Girls’ College, Hamilton
Matamata College
Rotorua Lakes High School
Hillcrest High School
Sarah Fuhrer
LLB
Campion College
Shaun Kirkham *PM
Graham Oberlin-Brown
*PM
Alyce Pulford
Logan Rodger *PM
Finian Scott *PM
Giacomo Thomas
Tobias Wehr-Candler *PM
Sonny Aliifaalogo
Adam Burn
Joshua Blue
Whetukamokamo Douglas
Sean Nixon
Toby Smith
Tyrone Te Ruruku
BSpLS
Hamilton Boys’ High School
BMS
Te Awamutu College
BMS
BE
BA
BCMS
BSc
BSpLS
BMS
BSocSc/LLB(Hons)
BA
ME
BMS
BSc(Tech)
Hauraki Plains College
Hamilton Boys’ High School
Roncalli College
Havelock North High School
Onslow College
Wesley College
Hamilton Boys’ High School
St Peter’s School, Cambridge
Gisborne Boys’ High School
Rotorua Boys’ High School
Hamilton Boys’ High School
Wesley College
Aperahama Hurihanganui
BA/LLB
Rotorua Boys’ High School
Katrina de Lange
Pippa Russell
BCMS
MA
Hillcrest High School
Tawa College
Hannah Wright
BA(Hons)
Hamilton Girls’ High School
Nicholas Picknell
LLB
Fraser High School
Natalie Good
Corey Wilson
Amanda Cranston
David Dela Rue
Emma Millar
Jorja Tarrant
BMS/LLB
BMS
GradDipT
BMS/LLB
BMS/SpLS
BSpLS
Casey Stevens
BSpLS
Andrew Newton *PM
Alexis Poulter
BTchg (Tauranga)
LLB
Cambridge High School
Hamilton Boys’ High School
Wanganui Collegiate School
Hamilton Boys’ High School
Paraparaumu College
Waikato Diocesan School for Girls
Sacred Heart Girls’ College,
New Plymouth
King’s High School
Raglan Area School
BMS/LLB
St Paul’s Collegiate School
Surfing
Swimming in partnership
Andrew Pullon
with Swimming NZ
Table Tennis in partnership Myles Collins
with Waikato and
Jessica MacAskill
NZ Table Tennis
Ngaia Copeland
Kate Davison
Delwyn Dellow
Natalie Foster
Theatre supported
Calvin Petersen
by Gaye Poole,
Theatre Studies
Michael Potts
Tendai Sithole
Brendan Theodore
Brendan West
Luke van Veen
Timber Sports
Volleyball in partnership Ryan Clark
with Waikato Regional
Hannah Croad
Volleyball, Volleyball Bay Kane Rudolph
of Plenty and endorsed by
Julia Tilley
Volleyball NZ
Waka Ama
Enrolment
Intentions
Turanga Barclay-Kerr
Shannon O’Donnell
Renee Hannah
Oliver Shaw
BA
Liston College
MSc
James Hargest College
BTchg/BA
BTchg/BA
MA
BA/LLB
BA
BA
LLB/BA
BA
MA
BMS
BBA
BMS(Hons)
BSpLS
Kamo High School
Fairfield College
Spotswood College
Fairfield College
St John’s College, Hamilton
Hillcrest High School
John Paul College
Hillcrest High School
Hillcrest High School
Mount Maunganui College
Matamata College
Otumoetai College
Tikipunga High School
GradDipT
Campion College
BSpLS
BSpLS
BSpLS
BSpLS
Nga Taiatea Wharekura
Rotorua Girls’ High School
Rotorua Girls’ High School
Western Heights High School
Correct as at 1 July 2011.
*HM denotes Sir Edmund Hillary Medallist.
*PM means that the student has received a Prime Minister’s Scholarship.
Te Wairere Ngaia
BCS
Nga Taiatea Wharekura
Santiago Cañon-Valencia
Jarvis Dams
June Dams
Elizabeth de Vegt
Chase Douglas
Rafaella Garlick-Grice
Charlotte Ketel
Edward King *HM
Andrew Leathwick
Yotam Levy
Heidi Lovatt
Jeremy Mayall
Beverley Pullon
Nathaniel Smorti
Jennifer Spark
Taryn Viggiano
Jenna Walmsley
Hannah Willemse
Elsa Brown
Amy Christophers
BMus
BMus(Hons)
DMA
PhD
BMus
MMus
BMus
PGDip(Mus)
BMus
BMus
BMus
PhD
DMA
BMus
BMus(Hons)
BMus(Hons)
BMCT
BMus(Hons)
BSc
BSc(Tech)
PGDip
(Psychology)
GradDipT
Colegio Virtual Siglo XXI
Home School
Tauranga Girls’ College
Inglewood High School
Tauranga Boys’ College
The Correspondence School
Tauranga Girls’ College
King’s College
Hillcrest High School
Hillcrest High School
St Cuthbert’s College
Hamilton Boys’ High School
Otorohanga College
Lake Taupo Christian School
St Paul’s Collegiate School
Bethlehem College
Church College of New Zealand
Home School
Kerikeri High School
Otumoetai College
Caitlin Easter
Stephanie Fowlie
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Enrolment
Intentions
Cambridge High School
Waiuku College
Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship Programme | August 2011
Scholar assistance contact:
Greg O’Carroll – High Performance Student Manager
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 07 838 4264
All other enquiries contact:
Nicola Clayden – Hillary Programme Manager
Email: [email protected] Phone: 07 858 5139 Mobile: 027 478 7331
Hillary Scholarship Programme Executive Committee
Michelle Jordan-Tong (Chairperson), Clare Cramond, Karen Blue,
Greg O’Carroll, Nicola Clayden, David Griffiths
Scholarship applications:
Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship Programme, Scholarships Office
The University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand
Phone: 07 858 5195 Toll Free: 0800 WAIKATO
Website: www.waikato.ac.nz/scholarships
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