Sports Achievements 

Argyll Take the Title at the 2026 Year 7 & 8 Athletics Carnival

Thursday's Year 7 & 8 Athletics Carnival was blessed with glorious weather, and students made the most of it — our year 7 events drew big fields, and participation stayed strong across all four age groups throughout the day. Well done to everyone who competed, cheered, and our coaching and fitness students and Year 10 student leaders who helped run the day and create a great community environment.

Final Team Results

Congratulations to Argyll, who claimed the House Cup for 2026 on the strength of a dominant showing in the individual events, backed up by the day's best participation tally.

Individual Stars

The standout story of the carnival was a genuine photo-finish for Overall Champion. Charlie Long (Napier, Year 8) and Swaroop Sijin (Dunlop, Year 7) each racked up four individual event wins throughout the day.

Our age group champions were:

• Year 7 Boys: Swaroop Sijin (Dunlop), who swept the 100m, Shot Put, Long Jump and Triple Jump.

• Year 7 Girls: Alma Saunder (Burnet), victorious in the 200m and Long Jump.

• Year 8 Boys: Charlie Long (Napier), with wins in the 100m, 200m, 400m and Long Jump.

• Year 8 Girls: Natalie Dukic (Stirling), who took out the 800m, Discus and Javelin.

These students will be recognised at our end of the year sports award ceremony.

Plenty of other students had days to remember. Raphael De Maria (Argyll) claimed the Shot Put/Javelin double in the Year 8 Boys, while teammate Mia Nightingale did the same in the 200m/400m for the Year 8 Girls — a big part of Argyll's winning tally. Emma Harris (Napier) was equally impressive with wins in the Long Jump and High Jump, finishing runner-up overall in the Year 8 Girls. Ethan Hanna (Chisholm) won the Year 7 Boys 400m and backed it up with three further top-three finishes to take second in his age group.

Thank you to all staff, students and helpers who made the day run so smoothly, and good luck to our winers on the day that will represent the college at the Maribyrnong Division Athletics on Thursday 3rd September. 

Interschool Athletics

Strathmore has been successful at the Maribyrnong division athletics carnival sending our largest ever team of 74 individuals.

The day had many triumphs with our students performing to the best of their ability to deliver some outstanding results.

Special congratulations go to three students who each won 3 individual events and each won in their respective relays. Theses students were Swaroop Sijin year 7, Mia Monaghan year 12 and Maisey Gasper year 12.

Our event winners and qualifiers for the regional athletics include:

13M Swaroop Sijin 100m, Triple jump, Long jump

13M Antoine Nascimento High jump

13M Alex Kostikidis 200m

13F Miette Pakula 800m

13F Adriana Lowe Javelin

14F Emma Harris Long jump

14F Zara Akkus Shot put

14M Raphael Demaria Javelin

14M Charlie Long 200m

15F Natalie Dukic 800m

15F Angelique Lontos Shot put, Discus

15M Finn I Javelin

15F Riley Bishop Long jump, Triple jump

15F Madie Gilcrist 800m, 1500m

15M Sam Gregory 200m

15F Alexis Krake Javelin

15M Aidan Lowe 400m, 800m

16M Alexander Carrol High jump, Long jump

16F Jazz Lee 100m, Triple jump

16M Gillie Lumby Shot put, Long jump

17M William Lowe 400m

17M John Dimopoulos Javelin

17F Amelia Hanks Shot put, 800m, 1500m

17F Sadie Cottom Shot put, Discus

18-20M Aiden Davis 800m, 1500m

18-20F Amelia Manefield 3000m

18-20F Maisey Gasper Long jump, Triple jump, High jump

18-20F Mia Monaghan 100m, 200m, 400m

We also had 9 relays win which was an outstanding result.

13F Adriana Lowe, Alma Saunder, Mia Nightingale, Miette Pakula

13M Swaroop Sijin, Alex Kostikidis, Ethan Hanna, Antoine Nascimento

14F Summer Sargeant, Emma Harris, Nayan Sreekumer, Rosie Dona Doni

15F Chenelle Malhotra, Riley Bishop, Madie Gilcrist, Shriya Rachineri

15M Sam Gregory, Emmanuel Hroussis, Finn Irwin

16F Marion Luck, Jazz Lee, Ella Brown, Mia Lauria

17F Amelia Hanks, Sadie Cottom, Lily Shenoy, Ana Jancovski

17M Oliver Irwin, John Dimopoulos, Will Lowe, Aiken Alwis

18-20F Maisy Gasper, Estelle Sacco, Mia Monaghan, Stephanie Ripplinger

Good luck to all of these students at the Western Metropolitan athletics event next term.

-Angella Davis