By STACEY BODGER
KAWERAU - Young sportswoman Brooke Rangi will have no trouble spending her $1000 Maori sports scholarship - the difficulty is deciding which sport to spend it on.
The Kawerau College 17-year-old is a junior national athletics champion, New Zealand women's under-19 and under-17 soccer player, a young touch-rugby gun
and is in the Bay of Plenty secondary schools rugby team.
At the weekend's New Zealand Maori sports awards, Brooke was awarded an Alcohol Advisory Council scholarship.
The sixth-former trains for a different sport every weeknight, and on most Fridays the family head out of town for a weekend of competition.
Brooke trains mainly in Kawerau but travels to Tauranga weekly so her athletics coach can analyse her long and high jumps.
"I just never get sick of sport - if one's not going so well one week, another one will be feeling really good, and the variety means I never get bored," she said.
Brooke said the money would help finance her soccer trips - up to $200 for an away game, "and every game's an away one when you live in Kawerau."
Her mother, Christine Rangi, said she was amazed at her daughter's ability to combine so many sports.
"We churn through a lot of petrol but it's worth putting all the time and money in to see her doing so well."
After finishing school next year Brooke hopes to join the police.
