Sports

NORTH CENTRAL DISTRICT CROSS COUNTRY 2024

On Friday 17th May, 15 Donald High School students completed in the annual Interschool Cross Country competition held in St. Arnaud. All our competitors were extremely competitive across all age groups. 

A big congratulations to Layla Griffiths (Junior Girls), Hugo Funcke (Junior Boys) and Abby Griffiths (Senior Girls) for convincingly winning their respective events.  The times that our winners completed their hilly 3km course were as follows:

Layla Griffiths.           13.50 min

Hugo Funcke              11.32 min

Abby Griffiths            13.16 min

Other Donald students to finish in the top 10 and who now qualify to represent the school at the zone cross country next Tuesday on the 28th of May include:

• Milla Adams 7th Junior girls 3km. (15.18min)
• Samuel Mortlock 7th Junior boys 3km (13.27min)
• Baxter Donnellon 10th Intermediate boys 5km (19.41)
• Scarlett Funcke 9th senior girls. 3km (15.28min)
• Curtis Rice 10th senior boys. 5km (19.58min)

Whilst Donald High School came fifth overall our competitors should be extremely proud of their efforts as we only took a small team of 15 students to the event. We have 8 competitors who have qualified for the Loddon Mallee Regional Championships that will be held at the same venue on Tuesday 28th May. We wish them the best of luck. 

LMR CROSS COUNTRY

On Tuesday 28th May six students competed in the Loddon Mallee Region Cross country held in St Arnaud. All students competed to the best of their abilities and there were some fantastic results with Abby Griffiths finishing 3rd in the 17 – 20 female event (13m 30s) and Hugo Funcke finishing 5th in the 14 years male event (11m 28s). Both Abby and Hugo qualified for the State Cross Country to be held in Melbourne in July. Our other results included Layla Griffiths finishing 15th (13m 36s) and Sophie Burke finishing 54th both in the 12-13 female event, Baxter finishing 20th in the 15-year-old male event (12m 05s) and Milla finishing 25th in the 14-year-old female event.