National success for sports star from Warwick High
NIKKI Burraston will be one of 11 finalists/monthly winners to be honoured at the Daily News/Warwick Credit Union Junior Sports Star of the Year dinner on March 19 at the Hawker Rd Function Centre.
Burraston is a long time member of the Warwick Hack and Pony Club and has regularly won medals at state and national level.
The highlight of her performances in the 2017 year was a bronze medal with a Queensland team in tetrathlon at the national championships in Toowoomba. She was 12th individually and the highest placed Queensland girl in a discipline with swim, run, shoot and showjumping legs. The riders compete in the first three disciplines without their horse.
She won silver in mounted games with the Queensland team at the nationals. At state level, she won gold in mounted games with the zone 21A team at the Pony Club State Championships at Roma.
A student at Warwick State High School, she started competing in high school rodeo in September and was second in junior breakaway roping at the St Brendan's, Yeppoon, rodeo.
Burraston was swimming age champion at the Warwick High and Warwick All Schools.
