Graduate Shows True Grit
May 11, 2015
Vanessa Oliver’s tenacity is to be rewarded this week when the mother-of-two graduates with a Bachelor of Recreation and Sport. Venus, as she is generally known, enrolled at EIT after leaving...
Evaluating the PATU© initiative
May 5, 2015
PATU© is a health and fitness programme developed by and for Māori. When Levi Armstrong graduated with a Bachelor of Sport and Recreation from EIT, he recognised the need for Māori...
Hawke’s Bay Triathlete Headed Team to World Champs
December 19, 2014
Leading Hawke’s Bay triathlete Fred Koenders finds it special to wear the silver fern – but on his latest trip to China it was in a different role. EIT’s Dean of the faculty of...
Degree Student Keeping the Balls in the Air
December 19, 2014
Netball star, mother-of-two and full-time degree student Denise Aiolupotea knew she was bumping up an already heavy workload when she formed a support group for Pacific Island and Māori mothers...
Southern Student Attracted to Hawke’s Bay Lifestyle
December 15, 2014
From Southland, Melissa Whitefield is so taken with her life in Hawke’s Bay that she aims to settle here once she finishes her studies. Melissa is midway through a Diploma in Therapeutic...
A Tandem Win for Top Young Cyclists
November 24, 2014
Fellow students at EIT, road cyclists Hannah van Kampen and Kirsty McCallum shared the podium in the recent 115km Tour of the Bay race. Hannah was the first-placed woman and came in at 16th...
Degree student keeping the balls in the air
October 8, 2014
Netball star, mother-of- two and full-time degree student Denise Aiolupotea knew she was bumping up an already heavy workload when she formed a support group for Pacific Island and Maori mothers...
National cycling title spurs student
October 7, 2014
Leading cyclist Hannah van Kampen combines sport and scholarly activities. The second-year Bachelor of Recreation and Sport student is doing well in her EIT studies and, having recently won...
SHB-EIT sports scholar Aimee Fisher
September 30, 2014
Well that’s the end of my first season as a full-time athlete in the Open Women’s K4 and what a fantastic experience it has been. Our international season started in April at World Cup 1 in...
Post by SHB-EIT Sport Scholar – Aaron Ball
September 23, 2014
My year so far… The first semester started with a hiss and a roar, and I’m back to study for my final year! I passed my three papers with a B average. Whoop! All semester long I was...