Where are they now?
EMMA SCANLAN
2012: Top of her class in several subjects, Scanlan was also goal shoot for the school’s A netball team. She planned to complete a science degree, majoring in geology.
2022: Scanlan is in her final year of a PhD in the department of geological sciences and geological engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where she is researching the geochemistry of volcanic rocks in the Yukon and their relationship to the formation of lead and zinc deposits in the region. Earlier, she gained a masters of science with honours from the University of Otago and had one of her research papers on Otago scheelite deposits accepted into Economic Geology, a leading global journal for research of mineral deposits.
NADIA BEAMISH (NEE MCDONNELL)
2012: The school’s track champion, McDonnell was runner-up in both the national secondary schools’ duathlon and the senior girls’ 3000m at the Otago-Southland athletics championships. She planned to travel overseas and pursue a career in health.
2022: Mother to a 2-year-old daughter, Beamish also works as a general practice nurse and helps her husband with a campus ministry. The Dunedin woman still runs, bikes and plays piano, but socially rather than competitively.
