Welcome to the Ballarat High School Sports Corner where all the results for school events, School Sport Victoria (SSV) events, BAS After School events and highlighting significant external sporting achievements from present and past students.

School Sport Victoria (SSV) Events

SSV GWR Year 8 Girls Netball

On Wednesday 25th June the BHS Year 8 Girls Netball team qualified for the SSV Greater Western Region Year 8 Girls Netball competition at the Ballarat Netball Association. It was certainly the ideal time to be playing inside with the extremely inclement weather outside, mind you the temperature inside the building was freezing!

The Year 8 girls competition 5 teams competing in a Round Robin competition. BHS played Timboon P-12 College (25 goals to 21 goals), Emmanuel College (13 goals to 28 goals), Horsham College (16 goals to 23 goals) and Trinity College (6 goals to 21 goals).

The team secured one win to finish the competition in 4th place.

Students involved:

Year 8 Girls: Madison Caldwell, Ruby Cassidy, Molly Gibbs, Ruby Graco, Embly Jenkins, Madison Scott, Charlie Smith. Coach: Deb Hutchinson

SSV GWR Year 7 & 8 Badminton

On Wednesday 25th June BHS took 4 teams (2 x Year 8 Boys, Year 7 Boys, Year 7 Girls) to the SSV Greater Western Region Year 7 & 8 Badminton competition held at the Ken Kay Badminton Centre, Ballarat.

All competitions were Round Robin today so the most wins secured a school the overall victory.

The Year 8 Boys Team 1 played matches against Ballarat High School Team 2 (1 set to 5 sets), Balmoral Community College (2 sets to 4 sets), Woodmans Hill Secondary College (5 sets to 1 sets) and Mount Clear College (3 sets, 57 points to 3 sets, 35 points) to finish in 3rd place for the competition.

The Year 8 Boys Team 2 played matches against Ballarat High School Team 1 (5 sets to 1 set), Mount Clear College (5 sets to 1 set), Balmoral Community College (3 sets, 61 points to 3 sets, 57 points) and Woodmans Hill Secondary College (5 sets to 1 set). Going undefeated the Year 8 Boys Team 2 were declared the champions.

The Year 7 Boys played matches against Colac Secondary College (0 sets to 6 sets), Cobden Technical College (4 sets to 0 sets) and Woodmans Hill Secondary College (3 sets, 78 points to 3 sets, 75 points) to finish runners up for the competition.

Finally, the Year 7 Girls had a single match against Woodsmans Hill Secondary College which unfortunately they went down in 1 set to 5 sets. The team finished runners up for the competition.

They Year 8 Boys Team 2 have now qualified for the SSV Year 8 Boys State Championships on Friday 12th September at the Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre (MSAC).

Students involved:

Year 8 Boys Team 1: Rudra Partap Narula, Kyle Pelicano, Yuvraj Miterani, Anahad Sandhu, Oliver Parton.

Year 8 Boys Team 2: Lishanth Gobi Anand, Cooper Wallis, Sam Murray, Jay Kanthitya

Year 7 Boys: Logan Brundell, Carlos Cao, Cody Hinde, Xavier Pompe, Liam Spencer

Year 7 Girls: Ann Laby Joanna, Maddison Kraulins, Yana Patel

Coaches: Rob Simmonds, Jill Muir, Alexandra Gladman (Year 8)

SSV Eureka Year 7 Soccer

On Friday 27th June BHS took two teams (Year 7 Boys & Year 7 Girls) to the SSV Eureka Year 7 Soccer event at Wendouree West Soccer Reserve.

Year 7 Boys competition played a Round Robin competition with a Grand Final. The team played matches against Mount Clear College (5 goals to o goals), Woodmans Hill Secondary (3 goals to 2 goals) and Phoenix Secondary College (5 goals to 0 goals). 3 wins qualified the team for the Grand Final against Woodmans Hill Secondary College. The team put on an absolute masterclass of skills combined with team work to win the match 7 goals to 0 goals in a strong display of dominance. The Year 7 Boys team were declared the Eureka Division champions for 2025.

The Year 7 Girls team had a much simpler task only required to play the one match against Mount Clear which they cruised through taking the win 4 goals to 0 goals.

Both teams have now qualified for the SSV Greater Western Region Year 7 Soccer competition on Wednesday 6th August at the Wendouree West Soccer Reserve.

The school also had 3 students who umpired on the day.

Students involved:

Year 7 Boys: Adriel Agugo, Devon Cherry, Jonah Cherry, Xayvier Cooper, Liam Jones, Jaxon Ladiges, Kellen Manwaring, Henry Moekotte, Tom Murray, Charlie Ridley, Max Turnbull. Coach: Jamie Walker

Year 7 Girls: Ava Brookes, Mackenzie Carter, Ava Garrod, Maddison Kraulins, Indi Manford, Sofia Van Kempen, Summer Wooding. Coach: Gillian Bennett Umpire: Jakyah Ford

SSV Eureka Year 7 Soccer

On Friday 24th July BHS had 4 students attend the SSV State Cross Country Championships at the Yarra Valley Race Course in Yarra Glen.

It typical SSV State fashion the course got plenty of rain before the event which made for a difficult under foot conditions.

Congratulations to all the below students and their results:

Sofia Van Kempen – 65th 12-13 Years Girls 3k (14:24)
Ruby Graco – 30th 14 Years Girls 3k (13:32)
Ronan Van Kempen – 55th 15 Years Boys 3k (11:46)
Riley Van Ek – 41st 16 Years Boys 5k (19:12)

BAS After School Sport Results

Well done to all our teams who played in the BAS After School competition during Term 2.

Congratulations to all our premiership teams who won the competition:

Year 9A Girls Netball
Intermediate Girls A Basketball
C Grade Blue Badminton
C Grade White Badminton
D Grade Blue Badminton

Please see below results from all teams who competed last term.

Good luck to all our teams who will be competing this coming Term.

Senior Boys A Basketball
Senior Boys B Basketball
Intermediate Boys A Basketball
Intermediate Boys B Basketball
Year 8A Boys Basketball
Year 8B Boys Basketball
Year 7A Boys Basketball
Year 7B Boys Basketball
1st Girls Netball
2nd Girls Netball
Senior Girls Soccer
Junior Boys Soccer
Junior Girls Football

BHS Student News

Ballarat AFL Interleague Selection

Congratulations to past and present BHS students who were selected in the Ballarat AFL Interleague teams who played against the Hampden Football league over the holiday break.

Luke Gray (2022) – U/23 Men
Ivy Roberts (2024) – U/16 Women
Macy Burrows (Year 11) – U/19 Women
Millie Mason (Year 11) – U/19 Women
Brooklyn Metcalfe (Year 11) – U/19 Women
Jacob Hutchinson (Year 12) – U/17 Men
Lily Graco (Year 10) – U/16 Women
Jessica Dawe (Year 10) – U/16 Women
Isabelle Harrison (Year 10) – U/16 Women
Kaiya Mallia (Year 10) – U/16 Women
Alexandra Oldaker (Year 11) – U/16 Women Assistant Coach
Louis Clark (Year 8) – U/14 Men
Cooper Johnston (Year 8) – U/14 Men
Ivy Madden (Year 7) – U/14 Women

Great Southern Shield Lawn Bowls Championships

Congratulations to Year 8 student Yuvraj Miterani who played in the Ballarat U/18 representative lawn bowls team (The Gold Diggers) at the Great Southern Shield Championships at the Colac Bowling Club on Saturday 5th July.

The team played matches against representative teams from Essendon, Geelong and Camperdown.

Unfortunately, the Gold Diggers fell just short of victory going down to the Essendon Northern Flyers but only 6 points! Finish table below:

Northern Flyers - 73 points (4 wins)
Ballarat Gold Diggers - 67 points (4 wins)
West Coast Wizards - 53 points (3 wins)
Geelong Giants - 23 points (1 win)

Well done Yuvraj!

Ashley Rogers

Sports Coordinator

Ballarat High School Newsletter

Issue 11 · 01 Aug 2025

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