Wattle House wins House Athletics 2021!!

Congratulations to all students who competed at the House Athletics on March 12, 2021. We had a lovely sunny day, although hot conditions to compete in during March! It was pleasing to see so many students getting involved in organised sport again after the challenges of 2020.

Congratulations to Wattle House dominating the day and winning the House Athletics Carnival! Well done!

Final results

		Track Points	Field Points	Overall Points
1st	Wattle	446	729	1175
2nd	Banksia	311	659	970
3rd	Jacaranda	330	620	950
4th	Waratah	263	619	882

Divisional House Results

	Junior Results		Intermediate Results		Senior Results
1st	Banksia	446	Waratah	383	Wattle	535
2nd	Waratah	376	Banksia	318	Jacaranda	276
3rd	Jacaranda	362	Jacaranda	312	Banksia	206
4th	Wattle	347	Wattle	293	Waratah	123

The best Aspire group earning the most points for their house in the entire school was 10E1. Well done!

The best Aspire groups at each year level earning the most house points were 7R3, 8E1, 9R1, 10E1, 11Y1 and 12Y2. The Aspire group with the best performing females in the school was 9G1, and best performing males was 10E1! Chocolate frogs coming to your Aspire groups soon. Well done!

Amazingly, there were six records broken at this year’s carnival. A special mention to Spencer Storan who broke two records, both from 1976! These records have stood for 45 years!

Age Event New Record Holder New Record Old Record Holder

15yr 400m Jordan Gilbert 53.05 sec (Aaron Howlett, 2015, 55.32 sec)

16yr 400m Spencer Storan 52.25 sec (B.Kerr, 1976, 57.20 sec)

16yr 800m Spencer Storan 2:01.85 min (B.Kerr, 1976, 2:13.40min)

17yr High Jump Zoe Shrimpton 1.48 m (Kylie Steemers, 2014, 1.45m)

17yr Long Jump Thomas Taborsky 6.07 m (Dylan Booth, 2019, 5.87m)

17yr Shot Put Jorja Porta 11.89 m (Lili Cavanagh, 2019, 9.68m)

Again, there were additional house points awarded on the day that will go towards the house cup at the end of the year. These points came from the Green team:The enthusiasm and support from all staff and students have helped us collect 863 empty cans/bottles and prevented them from going to the landfill. Houses collected a point for every recyclable returned.

1st Wattle 291

2nd Jacaranda 224

3rd Banksia 217

4th Waratah 131

Brentwood students have amazing talent and the willingness of students to participate to earn house points is fantastic. The Age champions for 2021 were split into track champions and field champions. These students earned the most individual track/field points for their house. Congratulations to:

13yrs Track: Jezabel Trinh & Ethan Mackenzie

Field: Zoe Wright & Aleisha Zhou & Michael Skantzos

14yrs Track: Natasha Winbanks & Okitha De Silva

Field: Angie Nikolova & Harry Pearce

15yrs Track: Molly Lowe & Jordan Gilbert

Field: Claire Paterson & Max Taborsky

16yrs Track: Alexandra Petersen & Spencer Storan

Field: Leilani Pokia & Patrick Warr

17yrs Track: Maddy Lowe & Zac Clarke

Field: Zoe Shrimpton & Keanu Ramadan

20yrs Track: Kasey Thompson & Kanta Kato

Field: Charlotte Durbridge & Angelo Rigogiannis

Thank you to the whole school for making this event another success. The results from the House Athletics will help generate the Brentwood Athletics team that competes in term 3. Let’s just say, watch out Monash Division we will be extremely competitive and ready to shine!

TeamVic

TeamVic team selection is still going ahead even though all School Sport Australia Championships have been cancelled for 2021. SSV are currently working with stakeholders to determine what the alternative selected team competition opportunity will be this year.

All information and further announcements are available on the ssv.vic.edu.au.

Kim Nash

Director of Sport

Senior and Intermediate Tennis

Just a couple of photos from the girls tennis teams that have progressed to the Eastern Metropolitan Finals (won their Monash Division finals).First two are of the A and then A+B teams combined for intermediate girls tennis, held at Heatherdale Tennis Club. They finished 1st (A team) and 2nd (B team, amazing achievement, beating the A teams from the other schools and only losing to Brentwood A!), with the A team progressing to Regionals.

Members: A – Ashleigh Hassler, Angie Nikolova, Chloe Choi, Jasmin Bhoday, Kayla YipB – Madison Taylor, Prachi Kotkar, Laksheya Dayashanker, Kathy Nguyen, Brianna Capon-FlemingLast photo is of the Senior Girls Tennis Team, most of these girls were part of the team that came runners up in the state in 2019, united again for another campaign! They blitzed their opponents and had a really fun and relaxing day together, great chats were had! Looking forward to hopefully taking out arch-rivals Rowville and Forest Hill at regional finals.Members: Klaire Elkin, Jennifer Mcdonald, Cassidy Spotkaeff, Maddison Lowe, Hayley Smith

Mr Shah

Teacher

Senior Table Tennis

Brentwood sent two teams to compete at the Monash Division round robin day. The teams were excited to compete after the snap lockdown in February cancelled our original competition date.

The teams competed against John Monash Science School and Wellington SC and they were very competitive. Although they did not progress through to EMR, the team was happy to participate and get back into organized school sport.

Well done to all students who represented Brentwood with outstanding sportsmanship.

Team members – Dean Apostolou, Tom Bower, Davin Cheng, Aarav Gaur, James Karabatsos, Sean McKinnon, Luke Molinaro, Andrew Park, Rohan Ramji and Yash Vardham.

Ms Nash

Teacher

Senior Cricket Boys

The Brentwood First XI Cricket Team enjoyed a successful journey through early division and region games. Victories against Wheelers Hill, Wellington and Ringwood Secondary Colleges presented a challenge against the big hitting Vermont Secondary College for a place in the regional final.

Tight bowling (Cooper George - 4 wickets) and fantastic catches from Brayden Ryan in the deep, Zac Clarke and Josh Liolios – completed with an exuberant celebration; resulted in Vermont being held to 102 runs off their 20 overs. The Brentwood innings failed to generate a significant partnership but we were still chance with Ethan Wright at the crease, who all bat managed to carry his bat and remain not out for the entire innings. Hopes ultimately rested on number 11 batsman William Beck who calmly drove for 4 to tie the match and then blasted another 4 to cow corner to surpass the Vermont total and win the match. The unlikely victory prompted an on-field celebration that reminded everybody in attendance how great it was to be back playing school sport after the travails of 2020 and COVID restrictions.

A quick turnaround to suit up in the final against the Darren Berry coached Rowville Cricket Academy team was a tough assignment. Early wickets asked a few questions of the Academy team who train all year round with under the tutelage of the former state cricketer. Alas, Rowville proved too strong in the end. Brentwood fell about 20 runs short in their chase but a great day was had by all players, both seasoned cricketers and first timers. Well done team. Thanks also to Adithya Krishnakumar and Mr Wilson for scoring.

Mr Rhodes

Associate Principal

Staff v Students Memorial Cricket Match

On Friday 19th Feb the 17th instalment of the ‘Staff v Students Memorial Cricket Match’ took place on the school oval.

The game was played in memory of Daniel Draper, who commenced his studies at Brentwood in 2002 as a Year 7 student. He sadly passed away in December 2004. Daniel was a promising cricketer and footballer who represented Brentwood in a range of sports. Daniel's Dad (Ray) played again this year and he presented the 'shield' to the winners at the end of the game.

The Twenty/20 match started at 3:15pm and the students went in to bat first. The students made a steady start and Ash Pensa was finding the boundary with ease (30 not out). He was joined at the crease by Ruby Burns who had a fine knock, before being stumped for 17. Will Bromley (25), Brayden Ryan (27) and Cooper George (26) all contributed with the bat. Had it not been for the excellent bowling from Rod Dungan (2 – 17) and Jimmy Davatzis (0 – 3) the student’s total of 152 would have been a lot higher.

The staff went into bat facing a mighty task and to be fair never really came close, with the only resistance to some excellent bowling coming from Edin Selimovic (21) and Peter Rhodes (20). The students bowling was fast and accurate, with Brodie Wise picking up 2 wickets for only 3 runs. In the end the staff were soundly beaten, leaving Ray Draper with the honours of presenting the shield to the students.

The current score line stands at 9 – 7 in favour of the students (with one draw). Hopefully next year the staff will rebound with a win…we shall see!

Mr Exton

Head of Wattle House

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