College Sport

Secondary Swimming Team

Congratulations to the members of the Mount Carmel Swimming Team below that will be representing the College at the Southern SATIS Carnival on Thursday 11 March and State SATIS Carnival on 23 March.  The team has been training over recent weeks in preparation for the carnivals. Good luck to the team. 

Year 1 – 6 Swimming Carnival 

Well done to the students that participated in the Swimming Carnival at the Clarence Aquatic Centre on Wednesday 24 February.  Thank you also to the parents that assisted on the day.  The final result saw Carmel the winners with 459 points, followed by Loreto with 437 points and Lourdes with 316 points.  

There were some wonderful individual performances.  Congratulations to the following 50m event winners:

Primary Swimming Team

From the results of the Swimming Carnival, a team has now been selected to represent Mount Carmel at the Junior Southern Sports Association of Tasmanian Independent Schools (JSSATIS) on Thursday 18 March and the Southern Tasmania Catholic Primary School Sports Association (STCPSSA) Primary Swimming Carnival on Friday 26 March.  Congratulations and good luck to the following students:

Little Athletics State Individual Championships

There were some great results and awards for some of our Mount Carmel students competing in the Little Athletics State Individual Championships over the weekend.

• Year 5 student Riley Bain (U11) won silver in both the 400m and 800m races and bronze in the 1500m.
• Year 6 student Sophie Jones (U12) won Bronze in Discus and some big PB's in the 100m and 200m as well.
• Year 7 student Lacey Tilyard (U13) won Bronze in High Jump, 4th 400 metres, 6th 800 metre and triple jump, 7th for 200 metre and was selected for the U13 ALAC Team to represent Tasmania.
• Year 7 student Arielle Cannell (U13) competed in many events over the weekend yet her highlights were winning Gold in Shot Put and breaking the U13 State Discus (.75kg) Record by over 20cm with a massive throw of 39.28.
• Year 7 student Maighan Arnold (U13) won Silver in Discus and Javelin, Bronze in Shot Put. Maighan was not only selected for the U13 ALAC Team to represent Tasmania but was also selected as Vice Captain of ALAC Team too. To add to the highlights of the weekend, Maighan was the winner of the 2020-2021 LATas U13 State Sportsmanship Award.
• Year 8 student Bailey Van Den Broek (U13) won Gold in High Jump with a PB of 1.53, Javelin and 100m with a PB of 13.28, Silver in Long Jump, Shot Put and 200m with a PB of 27.72.
• Year 9 student Jess Bray (U15) won Gold in Javelin, Shot Put and broke the U15 State Discus (1kg) Record by 5 metres with a massive throw of 38.23m. Jess also won Silver in High Jump with an equal PB of 1.5m and 90m hurdles and Bronze in Long Jump and Triple Jump.

Congratulations to all of these students on competing in the Championships. As a result, Jess, Arielle, Bailey and Lacey have all been selected for the ALAC Team.

Tasmanian Athletics U20 Championships

The previous weekend was also saw some outstanding results from Mount Carmel students at the Tasmanian Athletics U20 Championships.  

Jess Bray competed in 9 events: 4 Gold - U16 HJ, U16 Jav, U20 Jav, U16 Discus, 4 Silver – U16 LJ, U16 Hammer, U16 90m Hurdles, U16 Shot Put, Bronze – U20 Discus.

Maighan Arnold competed in 4 events: 4 Silver – U14 LJ, U14 Shot Put, U14 Discus, U14 Jav.

Arielle Cannell competed in 7 events: 6 Gold – U14 Hammer, U15 Hammer, U14 Shot Put, U14 Discus, U15 4 x 100m Relay, U15 4 x 200m Relay.

Bailey competed in 8 events:  6 Gold – U14 100m, U14 200m, U14 Pole Vault, U14 HJ, U15 HJ, U14 LJ, 2 Bronze U14 Shot Put, U14 Jav.

Rowing 

Mount Carmel was represented at the Schools No.2 and Tasmanian School Championship Regattas over the past two weekends by a contingent of nine U15 & U16 rowers.  Leading up to the school season these girls have spent the club season training and competing for the Sandy Bay Rowing Club.  The girls competed in singles, doubles and quads at the Schools No.2 Regatta with some of these races being qualifying events for heats at the championships.

At the Championships Regatta the girls had to battle it out in their heats from fields of up to 35 crews from all over the state, to make it into the top eight for a place in the final.  Unfortunately, they didn’t make the finals but over the two regattas they were competitive and rowed well in all their races.

The U15 girls who competed were; Isla Gerathy, Loralei Nesbitt, Arlina Mullins and Ava Riseley. For many of these girls this was their first full season of rowing.

The U16 girls who competed were; Lucy Balfour, Kate Steele, Stella Riseley and Amelia Doyle.  Both the U15 and U16 girls’ quads were coxed by Macy Balfour in Year 6.  For the Year 10 girls this will be the last time they compete for the school in rowing.

At Lake Barrington the girls hosted the only Taroona High School rower, Morgan Rees, a fellow SBRC member.  It was great to see them welcome him and his family into the Mount Carmel tent. 

Thank you to Richard Gerathy for making our representation at the regattas possible, Liam Doyle and Richard for towing the boats and of course all the parents who assisted, on and off the water.  Thanks also to Mount Carmel for covering the cost of transporting the boats and the Sandy Bay Rowing Club for the loan of the equipment and boat trailer.