Sports

Blue House Wins House Athletics!

Brentwood had its house athletics last Friday at Bill Sewart Athletics track. The weather was perfect, the track was ready, the field was set up, students were keen to compete, and the participation rate was really high. We had heat after heat competing on the track, and double figures of student competitors in the field events. It was pleasing to see so many students compete and do their best and participate for a personal benefit and also for their house. Well done!

 

Throughout the day we had 13 records broken. Some were longstanding from back in the 1980’s and 1990’s!

 

Age        Event                     New Record Holder          New Record        Old Record Holder

14yrs     Triple Jump         Patrick Warr                       11.02 m                (1985 Adam Bartlett)

14yrs     800m                     Spencer Storan                2:10.68 min        (2011 Nicholas Thomas)

14yrs     1500m                   Spencer Storan                 4:49.30 min        (2018 Josh Jensen)

14yrs     High Jump           Spencer Storan                 1.67 m                  (2014 Lachlan Tilyard)

15yrs     Long Jump          Thomas Taborsky             6.07 m                  (2017 Trung Ngo)

15yrs     Discus                   Leonie Howlett                 25.56 m                (2010 Amanda Guardiani)

15yrs     Shot Put               Jorja Porta                           9.99 m                  (2004 Jasmine Chan)

15yrs     High Jump           Zoe Shrimpton                  1.40 m                  (2007 Evelyn Tsiambouris)

16yrs     1500m                   Eric Trinkle                          4:31.93 min        (2003 Brock Hogan)

17yrs     High Jump           Joshua Burns                      1.80 m                  (1981 N. Howell/2013 Griffin James)

17yrs     Discus                   Jemma Howell                   24.10 m                (1992 Lauren Cross)

17yrs     Shot Put               Lili Cavanagh                      9.68 m                  (2002 Kaylene Stones)

17yrs     Long Jump          Dylan Booth                       5.87 m                  (2014 Matthew Wines)

 

House Results

Overall House winner:

1st  Blue                1342

2nd  Yellow           1261

3rd  Red                 1108

4th  Green            1074

 

Junior (13 & 14 years) House Winner

1st  Green            550

2nd  Blue               479

3rd  Yellow           471

4th  Red                 447

 

Intermediate (15 & 16 years) House Winner

1st  Yellow            520

2nd  Blue               366

3rd  Red                 282

4th  Green            216

 

Senior (17 & 20 years) House Winner

1st  Blue                497

2nd  Red                379

3rd  Green            308

4th  Yellow           270

 

There were additional house points awarded on the day that will go towards the house cup at the end of the year. These points came from the BBQ:

1st  Blue                90

2nd  Red                71

3rd  Yellow           60

4th  Green            48

 

The athletic talent at Brentwood is amazing and the willingness of students to participate to earn points for their house is fantastic. The Age champions for 2019 were split into track champions and field champions. These students earned the most individual points for their house. Congratulations to :

 

13yrs                     Track: Grace Cunningham & Jordan Gilbert

                                Field: Lisa Peacock & Max Taborsky

                               

14yrs                     Track: Alexandra Peterson & Spencer Storan

                                Field: Dominique Elliott & Patrick Warr

 

15yrs                     Track: Maddy Lowe & Riley Voulanas

                                Field: Leonie Howlett & Leo Lorenc

 

16yrs                     Track: Klaire Elkin & William Bromley

                                Field: Olivia Renshaw & Andy Lin

 

17yrs                     Track: Monica Chen & Tri Huynh

                                Field: Lili Cavanagh & Joshua Burns

 

20yrs                     Track: Gemma Dearness & Byron Browne

                                Field: Kayla Williamson & Nathan Handakas

 

This year the house athletics program cover was designed and created by Kevin Xu of year 8. The variety of athletic images captured the competitive nature of the day. He has earned bonus points for Yellow house towards the house cup. Congratulations to all participants, and thank you to all staff and student helpers for the effort they put into making the day a huge success.

Kim Nash,  Director of Sport

Intermediate Girls Volleyball

On Friday the 8th of March two teams of year 9 and 10 girls competed at Springers Leisure Centre in the Monash Division volleyball tournament. Both teams played against teams from John Monash, Wellington and Wheelers Hill. The A team played extremely well and finished equal first at the end of the pool stages, however played off in the 2nd vs 3rd semi final due to a loss to Wellington. They would then get to face Wellington in the final as both teams won their semi-finals. It was a very tight final with both teams winning a one-sided set each before being faced with the third and final set of the tournament. The girls saw themselves down 8-2 in the final set before having an amazing run and getting the game back to 14-14 and having the serve for the deciding golden point. With hearts pumping Brentwood severed the ball over the net and Wellington was unable to return the ball, making Brentwood the overall winners of the day!

 

The B team also had a great day out but were unfortunately not as successful as the A team. They finished second overall after the pool stages after having a loss to Wheelers Hill. They all showed tremendous sportsmanship and determination throughout the day, they should all be proud of their efforts.

 

Good luck to the A team when they compete in the Eastern Metro Region finals on the 28th of March!

 

A team members: Georgia Anson, Sienna Comitini, Chanel Kennedy, Ebony Nurslam, Isha Ramji, Zoe Shrimpton, Jemma-Lee Somerville

 

B team-members: Moshda Azhar, Yasmin Azizi, Isabelle Gauci, Jessica Keecha-Milsom, Shirali Mehta, Livinia Wadhwani

 

Student coaches: Mei Ling Hoi, Caelin Cheng

Meg Wrench Joseph, Coach