SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Term 3 has ended with some spectacular performances by our students and teachers.
A very special mention to our girls’ senior soccer team who came runners-up in the State final. The team consisted of Katie Collins, Mia Beckman-Atzil, Olivia Braakhuis, Ursula Cremasco, Megan Elliott, Remi Harris, Emilie Keppens, Megan Medland, Frances O’Driscoll, Matilda Overhill and Bethany Vermaak. What an amazing effort and we are so very proud. Mr Varney has coached these girls from year 7, and we thank him so very much for all his hard work over the years.
We also had major success on Kingston Athletics Day. Sixty students represented Brighton Secondary College on the day, and they should be so proud of their efforts. Congratulations to Elara Quinn and Isabella Hollins who were awarded age group champions. What an amazing effort! Elara finished first in three track events 100m, 200m and 400m. Isabella Hollins won all individual events, 100m, 200m, 400m, hurdles, long jump and shot put. Furthermore, we had tremendous success on both the track and field. The following students will be representing Brighton Secondary College at the Southern Metro Regionals competition next term.
• Mia Torbet- 200m
• Seraphina Hill- Long Jump and Triple Jump
• Elara Quinn -100m, 200m, 400m
• Josh Chetritt -Hurdles, Long Jump
• Nir Zelcer -Triple Jump
• Agatha Beare- Javelin
• Nicholas Shaw- Shot put
• Isabella Hollins- Hurdles, 100m, 200m, 400m, Long jump, Shotput
• Clyde Rodbard-Penders -Javelin
• Willem Rogaki -Hurdles
We again held the wonderful staff verse year 12 competition on Tuesday the 12th of September. A big thank you to Mrs King and Macy for organising the soccer match and thank you to the year 12 students and staff who competed. There was a large turnout on the day which was fantastic to see. Well done to the teachers who won the match. I know everyone is looking forward to the final competition of the year on the 6th of October.
Upcoming sports events:
• SMR Girls Tennis – Year 8
• SMR Girls Cricket- Year 7 and 8
• SMR Athletics
• Year 7 and 8 PASE Gala Day
PASE update:
This term the year 7 and 8 students competed in the Kingston weekly competition. All teams demonstrated teamwork and determination throughout. A special mention to the year 7 boys and girls Futsal teams and Touch Rugby teams for qualifying for the finals. Well done to the Touch Rugby team who were the winners on the day; Kalahni Brown, Stephan Cantone, Dixon Finn, Benjamin Hackett, Kobe Lai, Fraser Macleod, Blake Miles, Oscar Rey-Benguigui, Isla Staite, Mia Torbet.
‘On the 12th of September the Boys and Mixed Touch Rugby Teams travelled to McKinnon Reserve to play in the grand final. Unfortunately, there were only 3 Girls on the day, and they teamed up with the mixed Team from Parkdale Secondary, so everyone got to play. They lined up against McKinnon with Mia making the winning touch to win the final, fantastic effort and sportsmanship were shown. The Boys’ Team also played against Parkdale in a tight match they went out and played with confidence and they won 2-1, a super effort by both teams. At the start of the term, we were two teams that had never played Touch Rugby before, but the students put in effort to learn the game and worked so well as a team and won!
A big thank you to Mr Agg for couching us and another shout out for Miss May for starting us off strong.’
-Fraser Macleod.
‘On Tuesday the 12th the Touch Rugby girls competed in the grand final against McKinnon. We only had 3 girls, but Parkdale had 4 so we decided to combine teams we had to decide who would sub first we all had a rest and made sure we all had a fair amount of game time. The game went on as both teams had tied. We went into after time with 4v4 but still tied then we went into 3v3. We got the winning try and that made Brighton secondary and Parkdale winners.’
-Kalani Brown
Individual sporting achievements:
Well done to Bodie Horne Adam Weisz who competed in the Mogul Ski World Victorian Interschool Snowsport Championships. Bodie competed in the following events, Alpine (giant slalom) and finished 51st from 203 competitors, Ski cross and finished 17th out of 204 competitors in the qualifying run, and 24th of 32 competitors in the final, and Moguls finished 28th of 77 competitors. These are excellent results, and he now qualifies for a select ski program at Mt Buller next year.
Jenson Yokota-Ho is continuing his tennis journey, he is currently in Adelaide at the Junior International Tennis Federation (ITF). The ITF is a steppingstone for junior tennis players and Jenson has some tough competition ahead. We wish him all the very best and we can’t wait to hear the result.