MOODY's SHORTS MAKE HEADLINES

CAUGHT SHORT   John Moody made the front page of Badzine - a top on line badminton magazine - for his shorts at the All Englands - for the article on badzine click here    John NZ's no.1 is currently ranked in the world and hoping to  qualify for the Olympics in Beijing later this year.   And later in May he will be heading away with the NZ team for the Thomas Cup - as No.1 man in the singles he will be sure to be playing some tough matches.   Best Wishes to him but in the meantime it is good to see him doing his best to get NZ on the front pages .

 

CAPTAIN BRIGHT   Rachelle Bright - Auckland badminton rep and excellent netballer has just been made Sports Captain of Glendowie College. This involves overseeing all the sports in the colllege which is a huge honour.  Rachelle is also trialling for Auckland in Netball as well as being an established Auckland netball rep.  You can catch Rachelle's fashion article on this mag by clicking on Fashion in the menu above.

 

BABY BOOM!!!   TJ - National  Coach and Doriana have a new baby girl Isabella  Weistra Rivera Two days later Lola from RJ's Cafe gave birth to a little girl congrats to her and Kevin.  Yes look like we are officially in the middle of a baby boom.

 

WORD ON THE WEBSITE   Noticed a neater, tidier, flashier, website lately www.auckbad.co.nz.  You can thank Auckland board member Dev Senthiya has been very busy upgrading our site - you can see the difference with  more consistency and better framing and colours on the site.  Thanks to Dev for doing such a great job with it.

 

PEUGOT POWER A New Car for former NZ U19 Rep Garbo Choi.  Garbo recently picked up her new - man my first car cost $1000 and was about as trendy as a tractor - this model looks very cool though eh?

 

YUSSS!!!!! NZ Northern 1 Win June Bevan U17s Australasian Teams Event and NZers Pick Up 3 Individual Titles

Well done guys and well done to our very own Victoria Cheng (from Auckland) for winning the Singles and Doubles titles (with partner Mary O'Connor) and to Luke Charlesworth and Mary O'Connor (Waitakere) the Mixed Title. Back Row: Jason Leung (Ak), Sam Rimmer (Wt), Luke Charlesworth (Wt), Jondy Charlesworth (Manager), Barry Stevens (Coach) Front Row: Victoria Cheng (Ak), Evans Leung (NH), Mary O'Connor (Wt), Melissa Yin (NH) , Michelle Chan (CM) , Mikayla Moore (CM) and Riga Oud (Ak).

TRISH'S 20/20   No she hasn't entered a new cricket competition but Trish Gubb - winner of last year's Auckland Court Official Award is one of Auckland's and NZ's leading court officials - does now have better than 20/20 vision    Thanks to laser surgery from the Eye Institute Trish can see amazingly well and able to read small words at a distance.  She said the surgery did not take long and the very next day she could hardly feel any effects whatsoever.

If you have something you'd like entered into the Goss Sheet email shuttle.exp@gmail.com or to cliff before June 1st 2008.

Want to see how the top guys and girls train - check out the National Squad before they head overseas to the Thomas and Uber Cups in May.  Come down and watch them train every Monday to Thursday 5pm to 7pm at Gillies Avenue