Where are they now?
NICK TIPA
2012: A member of the New Zealand Secondary Students Choir, Tipa was also a keen dancer, had taken lead roles in school productions and was lead singer and guitarist for winning bands in the OUSA Battle of the Bands and the Otago Smokefree Rockquest. He planned to study physics, alongside performing arts.
2022: Based in Dunedin, Tipa is still playing and writing music and still creating theatre. He completed an arts degree majoring in theatre studies, before training at 16th Street Actors Studio in Melbourne and performing in A Midsummer Night's Dream for Dunedin Summer Shakespeare earlier this year. His band, Laney Blue, released an album last December and recently toured New Zealand.
THOMAS WARDHAUGH
2012: A former Otago age-group representative swimmer, Wardhaugh had only recently decided to give up competitive swimming. He was also the only South Islander in the New Zealand schoolboys’ water polo squad. He wanted to become a sports doctor.
2022: Team physiotherapist for both the Highlanders rugby team and the Otago NPC rugby team, Wardhaugh is also one paper away from completing his masters of sports physiotherapy. He has competed in mountain running events, including the Kepler Challenge and the Motatapu Marathon, and spends his spare time hunting, spear-fishing and surfing.
