Sporting News
Brenton Aisbett
Interschool Sport
It has been a very busy and exciting term for Interschool Sport, which has seen the high level of participation for all students continue, well done everyone! We also have some fantastic results to celebrate with the following teams all finishing in first place at the Division level and will now proceed to the Eastern Metropolitan Regional stage next term.
They are as follows:
- Year 7 Boys AFL
- Junior Girls AFL
- Year 8 Boys Netball
- Intermediate Boys Netball
- Senior Girls AFL
- Senior Boys Soccer
- Senior Boys Table Tennis
Congratulations not only to the teams who have progressed, but to all teams who have represented the school so far in 2021. I encourage everyone to be involved with our sporting program by keeping a look out on Teams for future sign up forms.
2021 BHHS Cross Country Results
On the final day of Term One, our school headed down to Black's Walk for the annual Box Hill HS Cross Country & Walk for Wellbeing. It was great to see so many students out enjoying their time in the parklands on a beautiful sunny afternoon, what a great way to end the term! Congratulations to Yellow House, you are the 2021 Cross Country Champions!
The trophy cabinet outside the library has been updated to reflect
your performance.
The final points tally was as follows:
| House | Points |
| Yellow House | 416 |
| Red House | 348 |
| Blue House | 314 |
| Green House | 300 |
Well done again, Yellow house!!
2021 BHHS Whole School Athletics Carnival
We made the most of a sunny autumn day with our annual Whole School Athletics Carnival. It was great to see so many students getting involved in the events; it was a fantastic day with a great display of house spirit and athletic competition. Blue House took home the House Cup with total of 915 points, ahead of Red House in second with 866, Yellow House in third with 793 and Green House in fourth with 604.
Congratulations also to the age champions below, who scored the most points for their age group throughout the day:
| Division | Student |
| 13 Yr Female | Katrina Cheung |
| 13 Yr Male | Edward Song |
| 14 Yr Female | Ava Walsh |
| 14 Yr Male | Charlie Truscott |
| 15 Yr Female | Zahra Blake |
| 15 Yr Male | Angus Leslie |
| 16 Yr Female | Akuac Arou |
| 16 Yr Male | Enoch Curyer |
| 17 Yr Female | Ana Helena Pereira |
| 17 Yr Male | Jacob Allison |
| 20 Yr Female | Erin Woodford |
| 20 Yr Male | Cameron Broadway |
The Division Athletics Carnival will be coming up in Term 3; all those who qualified will be contacted via Teams. Congratulations again to Blue House being our Swimming & Athletics Champions for 2021!
SSV State Swimming
Blake Crichton of Year 11 and Alyssa Rodpoulos of Year 10 both proudly represented themselves and our school at the 2021 SSV State Swimming Championship.
Congratulations to them both on this fantastic achievement, their results from the day were as follows:
| 2021 SSV State Swimming Championship | |
| Blake Crichton | - Open Mens 100m Butterfly: State Runner Up (by 0.23 seconds!) |
- 16yr Mens 50m Butterfly: State Runner Up
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| Alyssa Rodopoulos | - Open Female 400m Freestyle: 3rd in State |
| - 16yr Female 50m Butterfly: 4th in State | |
| - Open Female Individual Medley: 6th in State | |
| - 16yr Female 50m Breaststroke: 7th in State | |
Success at Division Cross Country
48 BHHS students attended District Cross Country at Ruffey Lake Park on Friday April 30th. We had fantastic weather and some excellent results across the board. Over half of our team qualified for the Eastern Metropolitan Regional event, which will place early in Term 3, congratulations to you all!
Well done to everyone who attended and thank you to our staff for supervising.