He said High Performing Sport New Zealand“An apprenticeship involves night classes, block courses, and on the work of the tools, and it would be impossible for me to become qualified without the financial support (of the Prime Minister’s Scholarship) and great flexibility from the my employers over the years Due to training commitments and competition, I could only work two to three days a week, so the apprenticeship took me six years to be right with my employers and let them know that my sporting goal is to make the Tokyo Olympics but I also wanted to complete my apprenticeship”.
He also said he was committed to earning his electrician qualification because of his parents. He said: “They strongly believed that I needed something other than sport under my belt because I wasn’t going to be an athlete all my life.”
