Rotorua local Grace Namana has been offered the Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship to attend University of Waikato. Photo/Supplied.
A Rotorua local has been offered the Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship to study Bachelor of Law at the University of Waikato.
Year 13 student, Grace Namana boards at St Paul's Collegiate School in Hamilton and was offered the scholarship, with 50 other students who were chosen from 290 applicants from
across New Zealand.
The scholarship will cover the full cost of Miss Namana's tuition for an undergraduate degree in law in which she will also major in te reo Maori. After the four-year course, she hopes to graduate as a commercial lawyer.
As part of the scholarship, Miss Namana had also been offered professional training and a free gym membership to improve her agility, endurance and strategic thinking while playing netball. This offer of a prestigious scholarship follows from Miss Namana's secondary school netball success in which she was selected for the New Zealand Secondary Schools and Aotearoa Maori netball teams earlier this year.
St Paul's Collegiate School principal, Grant Lander, said she was a talented young woman whose sporting and academic achievements reflected her ability and drive to succeed.
