Where are they now?
HOLLY JOHNSTONE
2012: Johnstone was in the New Zealand Touch Rugby Elite Youth Academy and in 2011 was her school’s top academic pupil. Her goal was to become a sports doctor.
2022: Johnstone works for Te Whatu Ora at Palmerston North Hospital as an anaesthetic trainee (registrar) and recently became a trustee of the New Zealand Women in Medicine Charitable Trust. She has continued to play touch at a provincial level, for Otago and Nelson, and is a member of the Nelson Touch Association board.
CLAUDIA GRAVE
2012: Part of the Otago under-20 rowing team, Grave had also qualified for the World Duathlon Championships in France but decided to focus instead on her NCEA studies. She hoped to study medicine.
2022: Grave lives in Wellington and is co-founder of Hitch, a company that encourages people into low-carbon or no-carbon transport. She has commerce and applied science degrees and was among four university students to represent New Zealand at an international business case competition in Florida. She gave up rowing after representing the University of Otago and making the New Zealand University lightweight rowing team.
