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The Otago Boys' High School Foundation
PO Box 11,
Dunedin, New Zealand
Tel +64 3 477 2546
Fax +64 3 477 5468
Blair Tarrant (2004-08) left Dunedin 15 months ago and moved to Wellington to further his hockey career. Yesterday he was rewarded being one of two new caps named in the side to contest the Four Nations tournament in Nottingham, England, from July 12-17 and was also selected in an experienced team which will compete in the Champions Trophy in Germany beginning on July 31.
"I was aiming to go on the Nottingham trip but I'm so stoked to be going to the Champions Trophy as well," he said.
Blair was part of a successful Otago Boys' High School side which won the India Shield in 2007 and finished second in the Rankin Cup - the elite boys' secondary school tournament.
He was happy to stay in Dunedin, play for the Southern Men and study surveying at the University of Otago, but decided a shift would be beneficial. "I was happy in Dunedin but everyone was leaving so I decided to go somewhere else to try and further my hockey."
Blair is studying for a commerce degree, majoring in accounting, at Victoria University and suggested he might have to put his studies on hold next semester.
