Student Success

Swimming, soccer, dance

Tegan Reder: national squad

 

Record-breaking swimmer Tegan Reder has yet another feather in her swim cap - named this week as the only West Australian in the 2019/20 Para-Swimming Development Squad.

 

Swimming Australia chose the Year 10 based on her performance at the Hancock Prospecting Australian Age Championships in Adelaide in April, identifying her as a swimmer “we believe is progressing towards senior team selection’’.

Making the squad is an important step towards achieving Dolphins Australian swim team selection, the pathway needed to represent Australia at top-level competitions including the 2020 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham (para-aquatics) and the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris.

Being chosen as the only West Australia was “amazing but scary too,’’ said Tegan, who trains up to 13 hours a week at an aquatics centre in Victoria Park. “I’m excited to get to go on a training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra (in February),’’ she added.

As well as skills in the pool, the squad of 24 are helped to cope with the demands of high-performance swimming - something Tegan knows a lot about, having broken Australian records in the S11 category for swimmers with no sight, including the 50m, 100m and 200m breaststroke, 50m and 100m freestyle and 50m and 100m backstroke. Good luck Tegan.

 

Nicholas Lee: State team

It's the year of international travel for soccer-loving Leaver Nicholas Lee. The Year 12 embarked on his first overseas trip in April as part of the College immersion to Italy – and is now packing his bags again after being chosen by Football West to represent WA in soccer in Indonesia.

 

Nicholas, who plays right back for the Inglewood Under 18s team outside of school, was selected in the Western Australia U19 squad to tour Surabaya, Indonesia, from July 19 to 26.

 

While he admits he was “pretty surprised and very happy’’ to be chosen, Nicholas’s inclusion to play against professional football club Persebaya Surabaya probably won’t shock the teachers he faced in the Staff v Student soccer match at the College on St Norbert Day last month. As these pictures show, Nicholas gave all of the teachers a run for their money on the College oval!

“It’s a really big opportunity to be selected and I hope something does follow it,’’ said Nicholas, who is on a vocational pathway towards an electrical apprenticeship. “It will be very interesting to see what football is like there.’’

Cassie Best: national title

Whether it's jive in Latin, tango in Ballroom or hip-hop at the Xanten Performing Arts Centre, Cassie Best loves to dance. And her talent has earned her first place in the National Dancesport Latin Champion C division at the Mercedes Benz National Dancesport Competition in Wollongong on the NSW south coast. 

Cassie and her dance partner of 15 months, Harrison, also placed second in the Latin Open division, third in C division and fourth in the open division of ballroom dancing against couples aged 13 to 16 years old from all over Australia. 

Cassie, who has been dancing since she was five, will be doing a floorshow at the Year 11 Dinner Dance along with one of her three brothers. Keegan (SNC Class of 2013) dances ballroom , Kade (Class of 2018) dances ballroom and Coen is the current State Junior Ballroom and Latin Champion.

"They are very competitive kids who all support each other greatly,'' says Mrs Jodie Best. "It is such a great sport for teaching them discipline, precision and self-care.''

Cassie's next major competition is the WA Open Dancesport Nationals in October in Perth and the Australian Dancesport Nationals in Melbourne in December. 

 

Mrs L Quartermain (Community Relations

and Marketing Officer)