Artistic roller skaters Milah van Niekerk (left), 14, Maegan Fraser, 14, and Rosa Hook, 14, along with Hunter Jenkins (absent), 13, will represent New Zealand at the Oceania Champs. Photo / Ben Fraser
International artistic roller skaters are set to light up Rotorua's Energy Events Centre this week and a group of local girls are flying the flag for New Zealand.
Maegan Fraser, 14, of Rotorua Lakes High School, Rosa Hook, 14, of John Paul College, Hunter Jenkins, 13, of Western Heights High
School and Milah van Niekerk,14, who is home educated, will compete as a quartet at the event.
Rotorua Roller Skating Club secretary Mayheur Hook said the sport of artistic roller skating was similar to figure skating and comprised elements of sport and performance.
"You have routines with jumps and spins, things like that, it's quite a hard discipline. What the girls are doing, in the quartet, is when four of them do a performance to a particular piece of music. It involves some jumps and spins, but it's also about telling a story."
