Kaia Ranston is putting Eskdale School on the Zespri AIMS Games map as the school’s only competitor in this year’s intermediate-aged sporting tournament.
Out of 11,733 athletes, the Year 7 pupil is representing her school in artistic gymnastics during the week-long tournament on September 2-8 in Tauranga.
Kaia made the four-hour trip from Napier to Tauranga with her dad Jason Ranston to compete in the Girls Open Junior Advanced category for artistic gymnastics on Sunday.
The teenager said she was proud to get the Eskdale name out there after the flooding that hit the region earlier this year and the damage it had caused.
“It’s just me. It feels weird because no one else is really coming up, but it feels really cool to be representing the school.