Five Wairarapa players have been included in the New Zealand under-18 squads for 2012.
Morgan Percy and Katherine van Woerkom have made the girls' line-up, and Joseph Robertson, Tane Workman and Alexander Sumenko-Bucknall, the boys.
Each squad consists of 30 players, with Canterbury (seven) and Auckland (five) players dominating the girls' selection and the boys being led by Waikato and Auckland with four, one more than Wairarapa, Manawatu, Canterbury and North Harbour.
Meanwhile, national Federation Cup holders Wairarapa College, who will defend that trophy on home territory this year, were the shining lights in the first round of the Wellington secondary schools premier one girls' competition. They won all seven of their matches, scoring 29 goals and conceding just three.
Their 22 points gave them an eight-point advantage over second-placed St Matthew's Collegiate and then followed Samuel Marsden 13, Wellington East 12, Sacred Heart and Paraparaumu both 7, Queen Margaret 5 and Chilton St James 2.