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From left: Julia Hodgson, Jolene Cotton, Abbe West, Jane Townsend, Tysxun Ailupotea, Bruno Watkins, Zoe Walker, Rowan Taigel and Dante Taigel.
 
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Staff support rising star and former student in a Giant performance.

Jo Cotton —

Nayland College staff enjoyed the Gold Sponsors Corporate box at the recent Mike Pero Nelson Giants versus Steelformers Taranaki Airs NBL basketball game at Trafalgar Centre on Monday 7 June.

Sponsored by Probrands, Anthony Martin hosted staff as they enjoyed watching ex-student Tysxun Ailupotea from the courtside table. Tysxun, a keen basketballer playing for Nayland prior to leaving school in 2019, relished the opportunity to play out the final quarter in a dominating and powerful performance by the home team on Monday. Sam Dempster, also a ex-student and prior coach at Nayland, featured strongly in the starting lineup and assisted strongly at leading his team to victory in a convincing win, 100-86. All the best for the rest of the season Tysxun and Sam!

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Nayland College staff thank Ant Martin and Probrands for this amazing opportunity.