Class Act ten years on: Otago Girls' High School

Where are they now?

MARY GRAY

2012: The national junior women’s mountain biking champion, Gray was also in the New Zealand junior road cycling team and won the Otago-Southland secondary schools girls’ triathlon. She intended to become a teacher.

2022: A physiotherapist at Sports Clinic in Christchurch, Gray has continued to do mountain bike and multisport events, including the Coast to Coast, the Pioneer MTB Race, the Whaka 100 and the Red Bull Defiance.

Dunedin mountain bike rider Mary Gray (Class Act 2012, Otago Girls’ High School) in action in the junior women’s race at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Austria in 2012. Photo: Marius Maasewerd

KERRYN LITTLE

2012: Little had won a Waterwise environmental scholarship and represented New Zealand at the 2012 International Speech Competition in Tokyo. She planned to study glaciology and Japanese at university.

2022: After completing a master of science on glacier-climate interactions, Little joined the Wakari Volunteer Rural Fire Service. That decision kickstarted her interest in wildfire management and she is is now a PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, focusing on wildfire danger and behaviour.