Sport
Greater Western Intermediate Tennis
On Wednesday March 6, the Intermediate boy's tennis team travelled to Ballarat to compete in the Greater Western stage of the competition. The team consisted of Toby, Jed, Raff and Maverick. Due to no Year 10 players being available due to camp, these Year 9 students faced some strong Year 10 opponents from both Horsham and Ballarat. A highlight for the day was Toby managing to win his singles match against his Horsham opponent 6-3. All four boys competed hard in their singles matches and were all very competitive. They fought strongly in their doubles matches despite going down. Congratulations to the boys on some great tennis and for making the Greater Western stage.
Greater Western Swimming
Our top 17 swimmers headed off to Horsham last week to compete in the Greater Western Championships. We had a beautiful Wimmera day with blue skies and sunshine and our swimmers shone.
Greater Western Swimming is highly competitive and it is not often that we get a gold medalist on the day.
Paige had one of her strongest swim meets, which was fitting, as it was her last swimming championship for Trinity College. Paige won gold in the 18-20 girls 50m Butterfly and is off to the State Championships, which is a fantastic achievement. She also finished second in both the 18-20 girls 50m Freestyle and 50m Breaststroke, receiving silver medals for her efforts. Then she joined up with some of our other swimmers in the 17-20 Girls Medley Relay and won a bronze medal. Paige was not the only swimmer to bring home medals for Trinity. 8 out of our 17 swimmers received a medal for their efforts in the pool and many of those students that did not end up in the medals posted personal best times for the 50m events. It was definitely one of our most successful swim meets.
Results are as follows:
Paige:18-20 Girls Gold medal 50m butterfly18-20 girls Silver medal 50m Breaststroke18-20 girls Silver medal 50m Freestyle
Toby:15 Boys 50m Breaststroke bronze medal15 Boys 50m Freestyle bronze medal
Aiden: Bronze Medal boys 18-20 50m butterfly
Harmony, Imogen, Yo, Baillie:17 girls freestyle relay Bronze medal
Baillie, Imogen, Paige, Hannah:17-20 Girls Medley Relay Bronze medal
Our team consisted off the following students: Paige, Aiden, Baillie, Imogen, Harmony, Caitlin, Russell, Thomas, Matilda, Toby, Angus, Darcy, Reagan, Pippa, Kyra, Brock and our Japanese exchange students Yo and Hana.
Thanks to Mr Tomkins and Jeremy Barren for taking our students to Horsham and looking after them for the two days.
House Athletics Sports
Congratulations to MacKillop House – our House Athletics Sports Champions of 2024.
Our final points tally for the day were:
MacKillop 2654
Rice 2242
McAuley 2089
Glowrey 2083
In a perfect day for track and field events, plus some novelty events, the MacKillop team led by Remy and George produced an all-round effort to raise the trophy.
The fastest 8 girls and boys in the school compete in the Trinity Gift 100m sprint, which is a great achievement.
The finalists for girls (in age group order) were:
Luella, Olivia, Emmy, Isla, Harmony, Kiara, Ellinor, Zara
And the finalists for the boys were:
Jayden, Ashton, Lewis, Lachlan, Josh, Oscar, Will, Toby
Congratulations to Luella (Year 9) our girls winner and our boys winner Will (Year 12).
The House Spirit and involvement of students across the day was outstanding and House leaders are to be congratulated for the way they coordinated their teams in all events. There were many students who competed all day in various events who are to be commended for their efforts. I would also like to acknowledge the Sport and Rec students for their assistance on events our fantastic.
Jane Hawker
Sports Coordinator
