"2007 was a really great year," Snow-Hansen said. "The youth world champs was just our second regatta in the 29er class. To walk away with a silver medal was pretty cool.
"I was also lucky to have gone through Takapuna Grammar with a bunch of sailors, including my older brother Mike, the Ellinghams and other local kids from the Wakatere Boating Club.
"Sailing with Blair at the time, we had an intense national trials up against the Saunders brothers. This gave us just three months to learn a new boat for the youth worlds."
A national 470 class champion in 2013, Snow-Hansen has been a regular on the international scene, but representing New Zealand at the 2012 London Olympics remains the highlight.
"Jason Saunders and I placed fifth in the 470 class. It was really exciting to be in with a chance to medal at the pinnacle of our sport."
He has the goal of winning a medal in the 470 class in Rio next year Dan Willcox, who he teamed up with after London.
"As members of the NZL Sailing Team, we train with gold medallists Polly Powrie and Jo Aleh. We are here in New Zealand over summer, preparing for our world champs in Argentina early next year.
"It's great to be back sailing on the Hauraki Gulf."
Danica Aitken (Epsom Girls' Grammar) 1999
Top aerobics exponent Aitken won the 1999 girls' supreme award, following Nicola Kaiwai (1994) and Sarah Macky (1997) as top performers out of Epsom Girls' Grammar.
"Epsom was a fantastic school that had a great culture that promoted elite performance in sport," said Aitken, now Danica Aitken Swift and working for Microsoft in Seattle in the US. "I can't imagine having gone anywhere else."
The 33-year-old sounds even busier than she was in 1999, with a baby due next week and yet still doing plenty and all to a high level.
"My [triplet] sisters, Joanna, Kelly and I did do very well in aerobics that year, winning both the senior high school and open New Zealand nationals for teams, and I also won the senior high school nationals for individuals, so definitely a highlight there. We also competed internationally, including the junior world championships, and came second in the world junior team event, with myself coming third in the individual event."
But she did not shine in only aerobics, winning medals at both the Auckland and national events for track and field in the triple jump, high jump and long jump, not to mention playing in the first XI football team who won the national title. That explosiveness needed in aerobics served her well in other sports.
Aitken also won the New Zealand Pacific Island Bursary scholar of the year and landed several academic and sporting university scholarships for the University of Auckland.
Aitken and her sisters continued to perform strongly in aerobics - highlights being fourth at the 2002 open world championships and bronze at the 2004 World Cup - until they retired from that elite sport at 24.
But they were never inactive and in 2007 combined with four men to win the world hip hop championships as a team in 2007.
Aitken has worked at Microsoft for almost 10 years and has been in Seattle since 2010.
"I'm working as the business manager for the corporate vice-president of WW retail sales and marketing so, unfortunately, I haven't had too much time to be involved in sport," she said.
Aitken is still the sole supreme winner out of the sport of aerobics.
