AIMS Games gallery: Junior reporters steal the show

Friday, 9 September 2022

Stuff’s very own junior reporters have been out and about at the games, chatting to athletes and organisers. (Video first published September 9, 2022.)

Evie Pitts was part of a team of three junior Stuff reporters.

The return of the Zespri AIMS Games has been a huge success in Tauranga this week, and once again our photographers have been hard at work across the city capturing all the action.

And it’s not just our snappers that have been keeping busy – Stuff’s very own junior reporters have also been out and about, chatting to athletes and organisers as the competition heated up.

Three students from Mount Maunganui Intermediate school stepped behind the microphone and became budding journalists across events at Blake Park.

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Mountainbiking on day four of the 2022 AIMS Games at Summerhill Mountainbike Park in Papamoa.

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Hockey on day five at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui.

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Rip rugby on day five of the 2022 AIMS Games at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui,

Mountainbiking at Summerhill Mountainbike Park in Papamoa.

Kaiti School from Gisborne featured on TVNZ’s Breakfast show after a monumental fundraising drive to bring half their school to the Zespri AIMS Games.

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Ariana Viljoen, Evie Pitts and Jeremiah Cherrington made the job look easy as they chatted to competitors and coaches in front of the camera, and made a real impression.

Elsewhere, pics from across the games have continued to pour in along with stories from kids from all around Aotearoa.

Earlier in the week, visually impaired 11-year-old Zach Graham bowled his way to success at his very first games, competing in indoor bowls as part of a team of seven players from Highlands School in New Plymouth.

Former Black Caps all-rounder Matthew Hart was kept busy in his role as team manager for the St Peter’s School (Cambridge) boys side in the indoor cricket tournament, with his 11-year-old son Josh in the side.

And there was even action away from all the sport, with teams of athletes gathering at Mount Maunganui this week to take part in the inaugural Zespri AIMS Games Gives Back beach clean-up.

For more Zespri AIMS Games information, click here.