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The Star Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />
Thursday March 16 2017 29<br />
aim of sport administrator<br />
What does your involvement<br />
with The Star City2Surf with<br />
Mike Pero Real Estate involve?<br />
Sport Canterbury has been a<br />
sponsor of the 6km run/walk<br />
for the last two years. And so as<br />
part of our activation we had a<br />
conversation with Star Media<br />
about how we could activate<br />
sponsorship. Last year we did<br />
that around the Green Prescription<br />
programme, which was<br />
providing support to adults who<br />
wanted to engage. This year<br />
because we had the Healthy<br />
Families New Zealand contract<br />
we saw that as a way to have a<br />
different conversation and Star<br />
Media were incredibly supportive<br />
and looked at how it could make<br />
healthier choices more acceptable.<br />
It was really open to looking<br />
at getting fresh fruit at the finish<br />
line and we’ve been looking at<br />
every opportunity we could find<br />
through that to promote healthy<br />
lifestyles. New Zealand’s rates of<br />
preventable chronic diseases is<br />
unsustainable. Here’s a chance to<br />
do things differently.<br />
Will you be taking part?<br />
I will at minimum walk. I’ll be<br />
there for sure.<br />
Has sport always been a big<br />
part of your life?<br />
Absolutely. I came from a<br />
sporting Southland family and I<br />
don’t think it was ever an option<br />
I wouldn’t do sport. My father<br />
was in athletics, rowing and rugby,<br />
and my mother was a talented<br />
dancer and came from horse<br />
racing family and did marching.<br />
I started my physical activity<br />
journey in dancing before I could<br />
walk, and then that morphed<br />
into figure skating. I’ve played<br />
netball and softball. My uncles<br />
and cousins all played rugby for<br />
Southland Stags.<br />
HELPFUL:<br />
When Jill<br />
Borland isn’t<br />
working, she<br />
spends time<br />
competing<br />
with her Kia<br />
Kaha figure<br />
skating team.<br />
Can you tell me about the<br />
figure skating?<br />
I skated competitively and I<br />
was selected to represent New<br />
Zealand and compete overseas,<br />
but I didn’t because back then<br />
it was expensive. I did compete<br />
at one Australian competition,<br />
but then I fell into coaching. I<br />
coached for many years, and<br />
then got back into skating after<br />
the earthquakes. I’ve been doing<br />
masters figure skating and I’m in<br />
a team called Kia Kaha, which<br />
was born out of the quakes.<br />
We competed at the Australian<br />
National Champs last year and<br />
we came fifth out of 12. But we’re<br />
hoping for bigger and better<br />
things this year. Age is no barrier!<br />
Where have you coached?<br />
In New Zealand and India.<br />
I’m excited because my husband,<br />
Darryn Ward, and I went to<br />
northern India to coach about<br />
10 years ago. He coaches ice<br />
hockey and the young girls I<br />
worked with had last year started<br />
India’s first ice hockey team.<br />
They are in Bangkok competing<br />
against the New Zealand under18<br />
team. They just had their first<br />
international win and I feel really<br />
excited because on the India<br />
team there are five ex-students of<br />
mine, and on the New Zealand<br />
team there are five of my exstudents.<br />
Wow, that’s impressive. How<br />
did you end up going over there<br />
to coach?<br />
My husband was on an ice<br />
hockey development camp in<br />
northern Europe and he met<br />
this gentleman from India who<br />
asked if he wanted to go over<br />
and coach. He’s not very good<br />
at saying no and the guy later<br />
emailed him and said when are<br />
you coming? He deferred it, but<br />
then when he eventually did go,<br />
he said my new girlfriend is a<br />
figure skating coach, so we both<br />
went over. It was a life changing<br />
experience. We were there for<br />
about two months.<br />
Have you had any injuries<br />
while skating?<br />
Yes. Sometimes I go to the<br />
physio and they say have you ever<br />
fallen before? And you say yes,<br />
thousands of times (laughs). But<br />
I’ve just had wear and tear injuries<br />
like to my knees and my hips. I’ve<br />
had a couple of concussions.<br />
And back to the City2Surf,<br />
what would you say to people<br />
who are thinking about taking<br />
part?<br />
Give it a go, anybody can. It’s a<br />
great way to spend a Sunday, even<br />
if you just walk with friends.<br />
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