Swimming: Promising Northwave pair jointly awarded top prize

Hayley McIntosh is Northland's highest scoring age group swimmer. Photo / File

Northwave duo Hayley McIntosh and David Van der Star have been jointly awarded the Northland Swimmer of the Year Award after their deeds during the last season could not be separated.

McIntosh, 15, collected the highest Fina points of all the Northland swimmers at the 2014 New Zealand Age Group Championships, while, Van der Star, 18, came home with the highest Fina points amongst the Northlanders at the 2014 New Zealand Open Championships.

In addition to sharing the Swimmer of the Year award, Van der Star came away with another seven awards, while McIntosh won another six.

Both also broke a huge number of Northland age group and open records during the season.

Other repeat award winners included Northwave's Callum Prime with seven, Ellie Eastwood with four, Matthew Gordon with two, and Josh Young with two. Meanwhile Whangarei's Samantha Bailey took away five awards as Bream Bay's Ruby-Lee Beckham picked up three.

Daniel Gaualofa, of the Bay of Islands, won the Athlete with a Disability Swimmer of the Year.

Gaualofa's brother and clubmate Logan Gaualofa was named as the Junior Swimmer of the Year.

Northwave coach Monica Cooper - for the third year in succession - and John Clarke from Bay of Islands shared the Coach of the Year Award.

Swimming Northland co-presidents Carlrine Gillespie of Dargaville and Celia Honiss of Northwave shared the Official of the Year Award.

Swimming Northland vice-president Brent Eastwood, also of Northwave, won the Administrator of the Year Award.

For the second year in succession, Northwave won the Owen Wright Club Points Trophy for the club with the greatest percentage points gained at Northland Championship events.