Carnival Sports

House Swimming  Hollows House Victorious

On 10th February we all headed out to the Boroondara Sports Complex for our House Swimming Carnival. The sun was shining and the conditions were perfect for our whole school event. Swimming Heats were filled with competitors, our novelty events were swum with enthusiasm and the wading pool activities were exciting with each year level being given the opportunity to participate in some fun activities which were run by our Student Leaders. As always the diving pool provided a great attraction with both the diving and Big Splash events. However, it was the return of the ‘House Swim’ that was the talking point for the day, with each House given 20 mins and 2 swimming lanes to get as many students down the 50 metre pool as many times as they could to earn points for their house. In terms of the Champion House for the day, while Hollows easily led for the early part the final results were very close; 

1st Hollows-  2,209 Points 

2nd Freeman – 2,129 Points 

3rd Dunlop – 1,969 Points 

4th Melba – 1,875 Points 

Congratulations to the following students who were our Age Champions for the event; 

Congratulations also to our raffle winner – Niels! 

Whitehorse Division Swimming 

As a result of our swimming carnival a team of swimmers headed out to Aquarena to represent Blackburn High School at the Whitehorse Division competition. 

Each and every swimmer gave it their absolute best and as a team we finished in 3rd place overall.  We qualified 12 swimmers through to Eastern Metropolitan Region and had 3 Age Champions – Evan, Tim and Grace. Congratulations to all of our swimmers - Lilian B, Madeleine B, Kaitlyn B, Liam B, Zara C, Kaden C, Hamish D, Evan D, Louis D, Will F, Marlo F, Isabella H, Eric H, Jessica H, Sarah H, Maxwell L, Tim L, Jayden L, Chloe L, Tom L, Bartosz L, Evie M, Ella M, Emily M, Matthew M, Liam M, Amelia M, Elise M, Grace M, Tanya P, Charlotte P, Darcy P, Sebastian P, Will S, Jack S, Matias T, Takumi Y, Jolene Y, Mohammad Z and Chenglong Z. 

EMR SWIMMING 

On 28th March, 12 students who had qualified through to the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Finals headed out to Aquanation in Ringwood. 

We had some individual swimmers as well as three 4 X 50m Freestyle Relay teams qualify.

At this level of swimming, the quality of swimmers is extremely high and I was extremely proud as always to take out this fabulous group of Blackburn High students. All of our swimmers fought hard against some really talented competitors – Lilian B, Madeleine B, Liam B, Evan D, Eric H, Sarah H, Tim L, Emily M, Liam M, Sebastian P, Will S and Takumi Y. 

Congratulations to Evan D who won a bronze medal in the 50m Freestyle event.