Sports News
Regional Swimming
On Tuesday, April 1st, five students—Immanuel, Freya, Charlotte, Erika, and Natalie - traveled down to the Kardinia Aquatic Centre in Geelong. Everyone was excited for the races and for wearing their new hoodies.
St. Martin’s was well represented at the carnival, and it was awesome to watch our students swim well and be so competitive. First in the pool was Charlotte, who was racing in the 50m freestyle event. She swam a good time of 37 seconds and finished in 13th place. Immanuel was also swimming in the 50m freestyle and finished 10th with a time of 34 seconds.
After watching the breaststroke events, we then had Freya in her individual 50m backstroke event. She was neck and neck with her competitors but just missed out on a medal and finished 4th. After that, we didn’t have to wait long for Immanuel to jump back in for his last event, the 50m butterfly. He swam really well and also just missed out on a medal, finishing 5th.
The last event on the list was the Girls 4 x 50m freestyle relay with Natalie, Erika, Freya, and Charlotte. In that order, they swam the relay. Natalie dove in first to get us started, Erika swam the second leg, Freya dove over her, and we were in with a chance for a medal. It came down to the last leg with Charlotte, and they touched the wall in 5th position.
It was a great effort from everyone in the relay. It was fantastic to see so many students from St. Martin’s in the carnival, and it’s such a big effort to qualify for the Western Regional finals. Congratulations!
The SMDP Athletics Day
The Athletics Carnival will take place on Tuesday, 29th of April at the Newport Park Athletics Track, Cnr North Road and The Strand, Newport. The four house’s have been preparing and ready to compete to see which house wins the carnival. Our house leaders will be preparing chants and helping support everyone with their events. Below is an outline of the day and everyone is welcome to come and support. We look forward to seeing everyone and having a wonderful day of athletics.
Outline of events:
| 9:00 | Whole School departs |
| 9:45 | Welcome and Chants |
| 10:00 | Sprints Yr 2s start Yr 1, Prep, Yr 3/4 and Yr 5/6 |
| 10:30 | Eat |
| 10:45 | Rotations begin 1 |
| 11:15 | Rotation 2 |
| 11:30 | Rotation 3 |
| 11:45 | Rotation 4 |
| 12:00 | Rotation 5 |
| 12:15 | Rotation 6 |
| 12:30 | Break Eat |
| 12:45 | Relay Races |
| 1:30 | Leave |
Nicholas Woodgate
Sports Coordinator