The Wanganui Collegiate School athletics programmes is proving a solid platform for international exchange students to find their feet.
Athletics head coach Alec McNab visiting students had a mix of sporting endeavours to choose from with all taking skills home to build on.
“At the 2016 New Zealand Schools Track and Field Championships young Chilean Francisco Claro, who was on an exchange at Wanganui Collegiate, surprised himself and his team mates by returning from his New Zealand visit with a gold medal in the junior pole vault,” McNab said.
