Athletics Carnival

The 2025 Wantirna College House Athletics Carnival was another huge success. Great weather (thankfully the rain held off), competitive track & field events (including the 2nd Wantirna Gift), and the novelty races (organised by our fantastic Year 11 VM students) were highlights of the day. Thanks to everyone who took part in an event, and to all staff for their efforts in running another successful carnival.  Read on for the results.

HOUSE RESULTS

1st Place - Byrne House 1512 points

2nd Place - Rees House 1507 points

3rd Place - Mason House 1487 points

4th Place - Collier House 1466 points

Congratulations to Byrne House on your victory! 

Record Breakers

Congratulations to the following students who broke a school record on the day:

Chloe Grund F13Yr 800m – 2:23.97 previous record was 2:50.83

Chloe Grund F13Yr 1500m - 4:53.22 previous record was 5:26.40

Sami Waddell F14Yr 200m – 28.36 previous record was 28.68

Sami Waddell F14Yr High Jump – 1.50m previous record was 1.46m

Jayvel Singh M17Yr 800m – 2:09.82 previous record was 2:10.61Scout Semple F17Yr Javelin – 24.40m previous record was 22.03m

Kimi Quang F20Yr Javelin – 26.00m previous record was 25.57m 

House Point Heroes

Congratulations to the following students who earned the most house points for their age group and gender, making them the Age Group Champions. 

13Yr Female - Alexis Johnston 56 points

13Yr Male - Cruze Marsh and Joshua Kim 34 points

14Yr Female - Sami Waddell 70 points

14Yr Male - Gabriel Gelven 36 points

15Yr Female - Kiera Moroney 74 points

15Yr Male - Fletcher Guinea 38 points

16Yr Female - Ella Brown 49 points

16Yr Male – Charlie Hassett 42 points

17Yr Female - Scout Semple 30 points

17Yr Male - Jayvel Singh 46 points

20Yr Female - Kimi Quang 41 points

20Yr Male - Noah Anderson 28.5 points

Congratulations to the following Home Groups who scored the most points overall to their respective houses. 

1st - 9F with 205.5 points

2nd - 9H with 175.50 points

3rd - 8S with 171.50 points

4th - 9A with 169.50 points

5th - 7B with 139 points

We now turn our attention to the Knox Division Athletics Carnival on Tuesday 2nd September, where Wantirna will take a team of around 140 students to the Knox Athletics Track and will be looking to win the Knox Division Championships.

Matt Burleigh

Sports Coordinator

Articles from our 2025 Sports Scholarship students: 

On Tuesday, the entire school went to the newly renovated Knox Athletics track to compete in our annual athletics carnival. The day started off with a Year 12 parade with all sorts of fun and hilarious costumes such as the Avengers, Cookie Monster and Elmo as well as a whole cricket team! 

Students competed for their house in a variety of track and field events such as sprints, relays, long and triple jump, shot put and discus. The atmosphere was electric with students wearing their house colours as well as lots of cheering, encouragement and sportsmanship on display. 

A highlight from the day was the Wantirna Gift where students from different age groups raced each other in a handicapped event. Awesome job by Harry Ashley in Year 7 to come away with the win in the open boys event beating Year 12 students!  In the end Byrne house came out on top in a fun day out for all. 

~  Aidan Griffin

This year the school athletics carnival was absolutely amazing, the wide variety of sport events and fun things to do blew my mind. From high jump to javelin, everyone had something to participate in any have a chance to win a ribbon and advance to the division level. I participated in high jump and shot-put and I had loads of fun, even getting the same jump height as the record one in Wantirna College  (for 13 boys). Overall the athletics carnival was a blast and highly recommend everyone going.

~ Leo Nacevski