Each week from now until the annual ASB YSPOTY awards dinner in November, we will profile past winners as we count down to the 25th annual event which honours the top young college sportspeople in the region.
Lydia Ko (Pinehurst School) 2011-12 Lydia Ko's extraordinary achievements since she left Pinehurst Schoolneed little embellishment.
Now 18, she is the world's No2-ranked women's golfer, but was the youngest, earlier in 2015, of either gender, to assume the No1 ranking.
Last weekend she tied for fourth at the Scottish Open and will tee off tomorrow in the British Open.
Ko was the only girl to win the supreme ASB award two years running, and she had to do much of her study at Pinehurst by correspondence due to her playing and travel commitments.
She did play some golf for Pinehurst pre-2012. In 2011, she competed in a strokeplay event so that she would qualify for the award. In 2012 she was exempt from competing in the strokeplay as she was at an international event at the same time. In 2013, Ko received a College Sport international award as she was regularly overseas and didn't play any golf for the school.
Among a whole raft of awards and achievements, Ko was the 2013 Halberg supreme award winner and 2013-14 New Zealand sportswoman of the year.
Gabrielle Fa'amausili (Avondale College) 2013 Gabrielle Fa'amausili is the sole ASB supreme award winner still at school.
In 2013, the talented swimmer became the youngest winner, at just 14 and in Year 9, a few months younger than even Lydia Ko, who took the gong in 2011-12.
Now 15 and in Year 11, the Avondale student is still making waves in the water.
Just last weekend, she won four golds at the Auckland schools individual short course champs in Henderson.
Now her focus shifts to the national short course champs next month in Albany, followed by the junior worlds in Singapore, and the Youth Commonwealth Games in Samoa in September.
Her 2013 swim year was highlighted by gold in the 50m backstroke, one of her specialist events, in the world juniors in Dubai. She also beat Lauren Boyle in the New Zealand age group event that year and in 2014 won a Halberg Emerging Talent Award.
