Glenelg Division Athletics - Portland

A massive effort by all students saw Monivae win the girls and boys championships as well as taking out the overall trophy.

Thank you all for your efforts at your events as well as your enthusiasm with cheering on our athletes.

Thank you also to Mrs Adams, Mr Pohl, Clinton, Mr Molan and Fr Shane for their input in running events, getting students to events and cheering all students.

Congratulations to the following students who placed in the top 5 for the individual age champions:

12-13 Girls - Dakota Court - 5th
14 Girls - Taya Sherlock - 2nd
14 Boys - Cooper White - 4th
15 Girls - Ava Kinnealy - 3rd
15 Boys - Zander Ewing - 4th
17 Girls - Astrid White - 4th
17 Boys - Kareem Muhktar - 2nd
18-20 Girls - Jess Mibus - 2nd
18-20 Boys - Gus Frost - 3rd

Congratulations to the whole team and well done to our Athletics Captains, George Field and Jess Mibus.

Greater Western Region Swimming - Horsham

Term 1 continued to be busy in the sports department as we packed up the athletics gear and dragged out the swim caps and googles to head to Horsham for the Greater Western Region Swimming Carnival.

With sixteen students having a fantastic GD swim meet, they went in with enthusiasm and energy. Fighting hard in the pool, the individual swimmers’ training paid off as the podium finishes started to come in. Later in the morning the relay swimmers arrived with Mr Molan and Mrs Rowe.

The relay talent was very strong. Monivae teams worked hard with 2 teams coming away with 2nd placings.

Overall a fantastic day for Monivae placing 5th overall against 51 secondary schools in the region.

House Cross Country

The final week of term and the final all school sporting event. Over 140 enthusiastic runners, headed down to Lake Hamilton to compete in the House Cross Country prior to the rest of the school joining them at the lake to complete a brisk 3km walk to gain much needed participation points to help their House win the converted Cross Country trophy.

In less than 12 minutes, Harry McShane hurtled over the finish line, in a speedy 11mins 32sec as the first 3km student over the line. Leayla Pohl was not far behind Harry, with a time of 12min 9sec as the first female. Hugh Prentice was the first 5km runner over the line at 18min 35sec.

Congratulations to all the students on a fantastic effort in both competing and participating.

SSAA Warrnambool Region Clay Target Competition

Last week of Term 1 and 13 students had an early start as they headed to Laang Sporting Shooters ground to compete in the Warrnambool and King’s College SSAA Schools Sporting Clay Target Competition.

With little knowledge of how the competition would be ran, the team ably led by Shooting Captains, Charlotte Braune and Seamus Byron, went in with a positive attitude and a willingness to have a go and try their best.

After a few nervous ‘lost targets’ the team overcome the challenges of the many different traps and clays flying at different heights and speeds were minimised with their steady hand and keen eye.

Although we had a smaller team than usual, Monivae won the following medals:

Snr boys 1st - Justin Coates
Jnr boys 1st - Sam O’Dowd
Snr girls 2nd - Georgie Harris
Snr girls 3rd - Alicia Eats
Jnr girls 2nd - Immy Cameron

With sharp shooting from the whole team, we also won the Best School.

Thanks to Mr Flavel for driving the bus and assisting the students.

Ms Sarah Byron

Sports Coordinator

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