Sports Round-Up
Matilda Competes at NSWCHSSA
Congratulations to Year 10 student, Matilda Currey who recently attended the NSWCHSSA Athletics Carnival at Sydney Olympic Park. Matilda went into her events with a knee injury, but gave it her best and placed mid pack in the G16 discus out of around 20 competitors. Unfortunately, she tweaked her injury and was unable to finish the G16 400m event.
In addition to athletics, Matilda also recently attended the NSWCHSSA Opens girls touch football tournament in St Mary’s, Sydney as a member of the North West team. The team performed well against four other regions (Western, Sydney North, Sydney South West and Hunter). Congratulations Matilda on representing our school at this major tournament on the NSW sporting schools calendar.
Equestrian Sports Introduced at WWHS
This term, our students had the opportunity to choose Equestrian Sports as their sports choice. After much planning and thanks to a dedicated group of staff and parents, Five students have had a terrific time the last five weeks learning new skills and developing their horsemanship.
Lessons have covered; Polo-cross, dressage, Australia Stock Horse time trials and various other eventing capabilities.
Thank you to our wonderful teachers and support staff for organising and instructing this program for our students! Equestrian Sports will hopefully continue as an opportunity in 2024.
To the parents who brought horses and gear in each week for the riders, thank you! This would not have happened without you.
Olympics Unleashed
Students were treated last week to an inspirational talk by a very inspiring young man, Winter Olympian Nick Timmings.
Nick is touring the North West as part of the Australian Olympics ‘Olympics Unleashed’ program that sees Olympians cover Australia, connecting with students to motivate and inspire our next generation of potential Olympic athletes.
After being spotted in his late teens, Nick trained with absolute dedication in the hope he’d be selected for the Olympics in 2018. But as with all Olympic sports, there’s no room for any margin of error and he missed being selected by just hundredths of a second.
So having missed out, Nick dealt with his fear of failing and pressure from some members of his family to quit and ‘get a real job’ and he kept going and focused on training and being selected for the 2022 Beijing Olympics. After 10 years of training, he achieved his first silver medal and then his dream of being selected for the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Placing an impressive 25th in the world at Beijing, Nick’s goal now is the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy.
Nick assured students that there are no short cuts to success, it’s all about commitment, dedication and staying the course. His message was clear.
1. Follow your dreams because it’s what you really want to do
2. Take every opportunity you see
3. Never give up on life
Tenpin Bowlers To Compete in Sydney
Recently we acknowledged at our weekly school assembly, the success of our talented young ten pin bowlers who after a successful round in Inverell recently, qualified to compete at the NSW State tournament in Sydney next term.
Lawn Bowls Trio Finish 5th In State
Congratulations to the Wee Waa Triples Lawn Bowls team who beat Terrigal High School and Mudgee High School today to finish 5th in the State Championships in Sydney. Left to right: Kyne Allen, Hunter Doring and Brock Allen.
North West Athletics
Congratulations to the 14 WWHS students who competed last Friday in the North West Athletics competition at the Tamworth Sports Dome. They included; AJ Hopman, Ava Chin, Bree Pillar, Emily Hartnett, Harmonie Rutley, Jackson Humphries, James Williams, Lee Easterbrook, Lexie Horne, Matilda Currey, Mikayla Dawson, Rakaia Skinner, Ruby Currey and Toby Galagher.
Combined we had students competing in the 100, 200, 400 and 800 metre age group running events, Boys 16 Year Olds 4x100 Meter Relay, long jump, shot put, discus and high jump events.
We are proud to announce that seven students including; Matilda Currey, Toby Galagher, Emily Hartnett, AJ Hopman, Jackson Humphries and James Williams placed in their events and will now be competing in the NSWCHSSA Secondary Athletics Championships on Wed, 6th to Fri, 8th September at Sydney Athletics Centre.
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