Ryan Hellyer

Silver medal

The Otago University Falcons inline hockey team won a silver medal in the 2003 New Zealand University Games held in Palmerston North. We were beaten in the finals by Massey University.

Clockwise from top left: Ryan Hellyer (me), Simon Lovatt, Kyle Matthews, Daniel Jang, Andrew Sykes, Kerry Perkins, Mark Eatherly (goalie), John Thomsen and David Mason.

Otago team hanging out with the third placed AUT team. From top left: Kyle Matthews, Kerry Perkins, Mark Eatherly , AUT goalie, Simon Lovatt, random AUT player, Tenille Lynn, Casey Redman, Daniel Jang, Ryan Hellyer (me), random AUT player and random AUT player.

Download video 1

Download video 2

Download event report from Simon Lovatt here

Dunedin Aces in Christchurch

My old inline hockey team, the Dunedin Aces, in Christchurch.

Videos of Dunedin Vixens in Nelson, New Zealand

The Dunedin Vixens (aka Dunedin Aces women) in action in Nelson, New Zealand.

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And the result … um, yeah, they got caned. Seems to be a recurring theme for the Dunedin Aces 😛

Videos of Dunedin Aces in Nelson, New Zealand

Here’s some videos of the Dunedin Aces senior team playing in Nelson (South Island of New Zealand) in 2003. We got totally thrashed, but it was a good trip. I’m number 27 in white with black pants with bright blue stripes.

And last of all … here’s a video interview with the team by Daniel Jang. I managed to avoid Dan while he was doing the interview 🙂

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Dunedin Aces

The Dunedin Aces are an inline hockey club which was started initially by Daniel Jang and within weeks myself, Kerry Perkins and a bunch of others were recruited to help run the club. We eventually got our own uniforms and headed off to the South Island Regional Inline Hockey Championship where we were promptly gobbled up and spat out for breakfast by the Christchurch and Nelson teams. We thoroughly enjoyed the experience though and some of my toughest games were played for the Dunedin Aces.

Dunedin Vixens

The Dunedin Vixens (aka Dunedin Aces women) were an awesome team. Unfortunately an extra Y chromosome ruled me out of joining 🙁 Although I did play in goal for them once as an honorary woman.

The photo below is from their 2002 journey to the South Island Regional Inline Hockey Championships. Clockwise from top left: Emma Gordon, April George, Kezia Bibby, Tasha Szeto, Kate Williman, Martel Letica, Becky Szeto, Kerry Perkins and Natalie Syddal.