The Sports Report
Sandringham Cross Country Team, Kingston Division Cross Country
Interschool Sport
Congratulations to the Sandy Junior Lawn bowls team Year 8 students Daniel Gherini, Bethany Perry-Crockart, Archie Turner & Matt Wall who recently competed at the School Sports Victoria Championships. The team went from strength to strength throughout the day and unfortunately they just missed out on the final round.
Swimming. Congratulations to our super fish Sienna Barkei who competed at the School Sports Victoria State Championships at the end of Term-2. Sienna came 4th in both the 14yrs 50m Butterfly and 14yrs 50m Backstroke. A great achievement, well done!
Year 7/8 weekly interschool competitions are heating up in term-2 with the following teams competing:
- Year 7 Boys Football
- Year 7 boys Soccer
- Year 7 Girls Netball
- Year 8 Boys Football
- Year 8 Boys Soccer
- Year 8 Girls Soccer
- Year 8 Netball
The Year 8 Girls Soccer team, coached by Mr Wilkinson and the science pre-service teachers, are currently in the hunt for the Kingston Division Pennant this term with 2-wins and 1-loss to date. No pressure!
For the Kingston Division Term 2 Senior Round Robin Competitions Mr Hiotis coached the Senior boys Football with Hamish Adams MVP on the day, and Ms Elliott and Senior girls Netball teams against tough competition. The students all showed great team spirit, were very well behaved and a credit to the school.
School Cross Country Carnival
We had sixty Year 7-9 students trial a mass start 3km cross country event this year with great success! The event was managed by Ms Hulley’s Sport & Rec VCAL students, and Ms Ooms year-10 Recreation students. These students ran the event on the day through setting up the course, marshalling, directing students on course, and post event recording. Thank you to all the students who assisted running the event as it was a huge success due to your support!
Results for top-3 students in each age group are:
| 12/13 years old Girls | 12/13 years old Boys | |
| 1st | Mila RALPH | Archie MATTSSON |
| 2nd | Mia DONALDSON | Joshua BLAIKIE |
| 3rd | Madeline MURRAY | Jasper NOORBERGEN |
| 14 years old girls | 14 years old boys | |
| 1st | Mikaela MILES | Oscar MERRICK |
| 2nd | Paige HENDERSON | Jack KERVIN |
| 3rd | Lara JONES | Oscar HOLMES |
| 15 years old girls | 15 years old boys | |
| 1st | Katya JASKI | Andy GRIEVE |
| 2nd | Harvey MC CONKEY | |
| 3rd | Lucas MC CONKEY |
Division Cross Country
The Sandringham Cross Country Team who competed at the Division Cross Country event yesterday are to be congratulations on the great display of our School Wide Positive Behaviours.
On arrival at the event Patrick Wells, Aryan Palai, Zara Politz, Paige Henderson, Mikalia Miles and Jakk Harrision volunteered to assist the Division Coordinator finish setting up the course which was greatly appreciated.
A special mention goes to Jakk Harrision, Aryan Palai, and Patrick Wells as exemplar members of the community showing respect for others by stopping during the 14-years 3km event stop, checking on and assisting a member of the community who was in need to first aid, then waiting with the individual until support arrived.
Congratulations to Ameya Sommer-Allie who placed 2nd and Daniel Castle who placed 3rd. There were some top performances on the day:
| Place | First name | Last name | Age | Gender | Time | Difference |
| 18 | Dylan | Smith | 17 | Male | 20:10.9 | +4:33.6 |
| 2 | Ameya | Sommer-ALLIE | 16 | Female | 13:18.1 | +0:03.5 |
| 3 | Daniel | Castle | 16 | Male | 17:12.1 | +0:46.1 |
| 11 | Harvey | MC CONKEY | 15 | Male | 12:00.9 | +1:36.5 |
| 19 | Andy | GRIEVE | 15 | Male | 12:24.8 | +2:00.4 |
| 20 | Zakk | THORBURN | 15 | Male | 12:27.0 | +2:02.6 |
| 21 | Lucas | MC CONKEY | 15 | Male | 12:30.0 | +2:05.6 |
| 41 | Joshua | ENSLIN | 15 | Male | 14:26.2 | +4:01.8 |
| 46 | Aaron | SCULLI | 15 | Male | 15:00.1 | +4:35.7 |
| 51 | Xavier | WELLS | 15 | Male | 16:10.6 | +5:46.2 |
| 52 | Max | RITCHIE | 15 | Male | 16:12.4 | +5:48.0 |
| 36 | Paige | HENDERSON | 14 | Female | 16:18.9 | +4:29.7 |
| 41 | Mikaela | MILES | 14 | Female | 16:58.5 | +5:09.3 |
| 42 | Lara | JONES | 14 | Female | 17:13.6 | +5:24.4 |
| 48 | Poppy | PEETOOM | 14 | Female | 17:49.3 | +6:00.1 |
| 53 | Zara | POLITZ | 14 | Female | 20:41.2 | +8:52.0 |
| 54 | Lexi | VERBEC | 14 | Female | 20:42.1 | +8:52.9 |
| 9 | Oscar | MERRICK | 14 | Male | 11:39.2 | +0:51.6 |
| 27 | Jack | KERVIN | 14 | Male | 12:48.5 | +2:00.9 |
| 39 | Oscar | CAMPBELL | 14 | Male | 13:17.6 | +2:30.0 |
| 50 | Ryan | MC CAFFREY | 14 | Male | 14:35.4 | +3:47.8 |
| 54 | Will | RAMSDEN | 14 | Male | 15:03.5 | +4:15.9 |
| 61 | Jakk | HARRISON | 14 | Male | 17:40.3 | +6:52.7 |
| 62 | Patrick | WELLS | 14 | Male | 17:40.9 | +6:53.3 |
| 63 | Oscar | HOLMES | 14 | Male | 17:44.4 | +6:56.8 |
| 64 | Aryan | PALAI | 14 | Male | 17:59.5 | +7:11.9 |
| 7 | Mila | RALPH | 13 | Female | 13:37.6 | +2:11.3 |
| 29 | Mia | DONALDSON | 13 | Female | 15:09.2 | +3:42.9 |
| 53 | Addisyn | LEES | 13 | Female | 18:47.1 | +7:20.8 |
| 54 | Zara | RAYNER | 13 | Female | 20:16.9 | +8:50.6 |
| 55 | Abigail | DICKSON | 13 | Female | 20:17.7 | +8:51.4 |
| 56 | Madeline | MURRAY | 12 | Female | 20:18.9 | +8:52.6 |
| 4 | Archie | MATTSSON | 13 | Male | 11:31.3 | +0:43.5 |
| 5 | Joshua | BLAIKIE | 13 | Male | 11:35.1 | +0:47.3 |
| 24 | Oscar | GOTTSCHALK | 13 | Male | 12:52.1 | +2:04.3 |
| 47 | Kynan | PRATT | 13 | Male | 14:00.2 | +3:12.4 |
| 64 | Felix | RITCHIE | 13 | Male | 17:49.5 | +7:01.7 |
| 66 | Kumail | HASSAN | 12 | Male | 18:07.7 | +7:19.9 |
| 67 | Sinbad | KOZELSKI | 13 | Male | 18:51.7 | +8:03.9 |
Congratulations to the 7-students (in bold) who will be representing Sandy Collage at SSV Southern Metro Cross Country on Monday 21st June 2021 at Cruden Farm.
Thank you to the PTF, Student School Leadership team, Dean and Paul who organised, transported all equipment (including 2x BBQ’s) and ran a successful BBQ for all schools competing in the Division Cross Country.