Sport
Sports Report
STUDENT NEWS
Congratulations to our talented athletes Jacob Mibus and Alannah Sander, both of Year 11 who competed superbly in the State Junior Athletics Championships in Melbourne last weekend. Jacob won medals in all the para events he competed in with his new special running blade. This included 2 PB’s in the 100 and 200m sprint events. Awesome effort Jacob!
Alannah placed in the top eight in the state for U18’s in triple jump with a seasons best jump of 10.40m. She also came away with a PB in the 100m sprint. Congratulations Alannah!
HOUSE ATHLETICS
The annual House Athletics Sports are to be held on Friday 9th March at Pedrina Park, commencing at 9.10am. There are lots of opportunities for all the students to participate on the day with a full program – only the high jump events are being held before the day at lunchtimes in the sports centre. The successful program that was used for the first time in 2016 with both track and field events to be held simultaneously during the day will be used again– this has meant I will need as many parents and friends of the college to volunteer to assist during the day so please contact me if you are interested in helping for all or part of the day. House teams will be selected in house meetings during the next week and the programme of events will be available on the Intranet in the Sports folder or from the front desk a few days before the event.
SWIMMING
A full report on the ICCES Swimming Carnival being held next week in Melbourne should appear in next week’s newsletter. The team is training hard to do well in this high standard competition.
A report on last week’s most successful Glenelg Division swimming carnival appears in this newsletter from our swimming captains.
FOOTBALL
The new football season is fast approaching and the College Magpies club that the school is affiliated with will be entering Under 13 and Under 16 teams in the second season of the “Hamilton Kangaroos Junior Football Association”. This will mean our numbers are capped and not all College students (depending on the interest shown) will be able to play and if you intend on playing then it would be in your best interest to be a registered player not a “permit” player. All current and potential players should attend training sessions being run by the Hamilton Kangaroos players at Pedrina Park on Wednesday 14th and 21st March from 4.30pm. For more information please email me.
TEAM APP
These have been set up for many of our sports so far, this current season and are a great way to get instant notifications and messages on student’s smartphones or IPad about what is happening in the sport. Players and/or parents should get an email from the Head of Sport or coach setting them up and then can request to join. For more information, you can download “Team App” in the app stores or go to www.teamapp.com and start searching for “College” teams.
Mr Leigh Alexander
Director of Sport
GD Swimming Report
Girls aggregate by 17 points. Boys aggregate by 50 points. Overall aggregate by 67 points. Placing in 60 out of 66 races. Placing first in 37 out of 66 races. Placing in all relays. Winning 11 out of 16 relays. Receiving 5 age group champions. Breaking 2 records.
What a day we had at GD swimming last Thursday. We would firstly like to say a huge congratulations to all of the swimmers on the day. You all swam amazing races and should be very extremely proud of your efforts. We would like to give a special thankyou to Sarah Millear, Sarah Roberts, Beth White and Jane Sharp for helping to time keep on the day, as well as Dr Hirst, Miss Waldron and Mr Smith for coming down and supporting us. We would also sincerely like to thank Mr. Alexander for the organisation in the lead up and help throughout the day.
There were many outstanding achievements on the day with age group champions being Lachlan Rees in the 12-13 year old boys, Bridget Delany for the 14 year old girls, Arielle Dickeson for the 15 year old girls, Jack Sharp for the 16 year old boys and Claudia Roberts for the 18-20 year old girls. As we mentioned earlier, College placed in 60 out of the 66 races, won 37 out of 66. We placed in all 16 relays and won 11. Jack Sharp once again dominated in the pool, breaking the record in the 16 year old 50 m freestyle and breaststroke.
Other swimmers whose achievements we would like to recognise are;
Gabe Marshall for winning his 50 m freestyle with impressive technique. Rafael Gaio who placed a narrow second in his 50 m backstroke and breaststroke. Gracie Austin for smashing her 50 m backstroke swim. Harrison Hocking who placed second in both the 100 m freestyle and 50 m backstroke against tough competition. Raph Serong for winning her 50 m breaststroke. Ferg Roberts, swimming amazing Freestyle, Backstroke and Individual Medley Races and coming second in his age group. Millie Austin for coming a close second in her 50 m freestyle. Amy Waters for winning her 50 m freestyle. Louise Millear for coming a close second in 50 m breast stroke against tough competition. Alannah Sander for coming a very close second in her 50 m backstroke. Harry Beal for winning his 50 m breaststroke and Lily McCure for winning her 50 m Backstroke.
We now look forward to ICCES Swimming in Melbourne, on Wednesday next week, where our students will compete at a world class venue against some very strong swimmers from other independent schools across Victoria. Just a reminder that swimming training is on tonight at the outdoor pool from 4-5 and tomorrow morning at HILAC from 7-8. We have already seen the amazing results our training has had so we strongly encourage all swimmers to come down to give us the best possible chance at ICCES.
Claire Dempsey and Toby Hawthorne (Swimming Captains)