Sports Report
Southern Metropolitan Regional Athletics
Patterson River Secondary College had 8 students complete at the Southern Metropolitan Region Athletics Carnival and were able to achieve some fantastic results. The first track competitor of the day was Year 7 Shkyiah Upson in the open age 3000m race. Shkyiah ran a great race against girls up to 5 years older than her, beating many home finishing 11th in the field. Xander Iosefo ran a personal best time in the hurdles finishing in 7th position and Mali Goggin was extremely unlucky not to medal in the 400m dash, finishing 0.02 seconds behind the 3rd place athlete. Daniel Temkin had a fantastic day in the jumping pits winning silver in the U17’s Triple and Long Jumps beating his PB in both events, but was unable to add to medal collection in the 1500M race. Charlotte Baker narrowly missed medals in both the Triple and Long Jump events finishing 5th and 6th respectively. Isabella May was another student unlucky not to medal and finished 4th in the U13 Discus. The McKenna siblings Rhys and Ayden excelled in the Javelin winning gold medals in their respective age groups by large margins qualifying for the Victorian State Finals on Monday 22nd of October. The highlight of the day was the community spirit shown by the students, watching each other’s events and applauding great performances from other competitors.
Well done to all that competed.
State Athletics 2018
On Monday the 22nd of October four talented Patterson River Secondary College students competed at the School Sport Victoria Secondary Track & Field State Championships. Congratulations to Shkyiah Upson, Ethan Buchanan, Aiden McKenna and Rhys McKenna on their amazing achievements.
Shkyiah Upson (Year 7) represented our College for the first time in the Girls Open 2000m Steeplechase. She achieved a very pleasing result of 10th place with a time of 9:12.92. To qualify for this event at State level the girls had to achieve a minimum standard of 10:30.00.
Ethan Buchanan (Year 9) also represented our College in the Boys Open 2000m Steeplechase. He also achieved a 10th place result with another very pleasing time of 8:27.40. To qualify for this event at State level the boys had to achieve a minimum standard of 09:00.00.
Well done to both Shkyiah and Ethan on their amazing results at the State Athletics. They both participated in an open aged event which in itself is a wonderful achievement when you consider the age of the other athletes competing against them.
Aiden McKenna (Year 12) represented our College in the Boys 17 Javelin and Rhys McKenna (Year 8) represented our College in the Girls 14 Javelin. Both Aiden and Rhys are exceptionally talented athletes who have achieved fantastic results at the State Championships. Representing the College for the last time, Aiden achieved a very pleasing 2nd place result with a throw of 44.60m (winning throw was 46.77m). Rhys just missed out on a Gold medal and also achieved a very pleasing 2nd place result with a throw of 34.38m (the winning throw was 34.65m). Congratulations to both Aiden and Rhys on this magnificent achievement.
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