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

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