Hunter has won a full-fees sports scholarship to Davidson College in North Carolina while Tom is also heading overseas following a stint with the Canterbury Rams. Tom will move to the United States to study business and psychology at Connecticut College, along with playing basketball for the New England college. In 2022, Hunter and Tom have been members of the Canterbury U19 team while fellow A side player Truman Heath has played for the Canterbury U17 side, and Ihaka Cate has stepped up for the Canterbury U15 team and the New Zealand U15 team at the Oceania
Championships in Guam. In 2023, Ihaka has been selected for the Basketball New Zealand U16 training camp. Earlier in the 2022 season, the College Senior A Basketball team won the Thomson Trophy for the third year in a row, becoming the first side to achieve the remarkable Canterbury Division One title three-peat since 2006. Ben Sheat, who has steered the side for five years, has lauded the commitment and achievements of the whole squad. “Throughout the season, all the boys have shown great resilience, powering up for each game and
never backing away from the challenge,” he says. For the Year 13 players, the premier titles have been “a great way to end a massive season”. The Senior A national title- winning basketball team: Tom Harrison, Hunter Adam, Jordan Braithwaite, Jacob Clements, Ihaka Cate, Bruno Vaughan, Truman Heath, Matthew Lewis, Aston Nijjar, Robert McClean, Ed Davidson, and Liam Jack.
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