A big year for Blackburn High School Sport.

It was our first year back in full swing and what a successful year it was. We were lucky enough to enter teams in almost all of the competitions, with many entering 2 or 3.

It was clear that the sport competitions were missed over the past few interrupted years, because Blackburn High students were on another level! The passion, enthusiasm and determination of the students was evident from the moment the sign ups were posted, to the final siren of each match. Whether students were playing in a tryout, or a state final, the students demonstrated their pride to represent the school at the inter-school sport level.

The students successfully finished off term 4 in a number of competitions at Regional, State, National and International levels. Congratulations to the Year 8 Boys Hockey team and Year 8 Girls Cricket team for taking part in EMR competitions. The Year 7 State Girls Hockey team (winners) and Year 7 State Boys Basketball team (runner up). Thomas Linnet placing 1st at Australian All Schools in the 1500m and Olivia Roche, placing 3rd in the world for a diving competition.

Lauren Van Der Westhuizen

Interschool Sport Coordinator

Year 8 & 9 PE SEPEP Champions

In Term 4, students in Years 8 & 9 took part in a SEPEP (Sports Education in Physical Education Program) unit in their Physical Education classes. SEPEP is based around the philosophy that community sport involvement (structured teams and competitions) has the potential to breed in its participants leadership, responsibility, ownership, dedication, competence, and commitment as well as physical, social and cognitive skills. Students are put in the driver’s seat fulfilling the roles associated with managing a sports competition such as umpires/referees, scorers, equipment managers and coaches/captains. The Year 8 Boys played Softball over a 5 lesson round-robin and the Year 9 Boys played Cricket over a 7 lesson round-robin. Congratulations to the Champion teams pictured below.

BHS Year 8 Girls Cricket Report

BHS 12/124 (20 overs) were defeated by Balwyn HS 8/182 (20 overs)

Highlights: Grace Hourigan 19 retired and 2 wickets, Saachi Trivedi 9 retired, Anouk Van Oirsouw’s wicketkeeping, Cassandra Hoye 12

On Monday, 7th November BHS Year 8 girls played Balwyn High School in the EMR at Myrtle Reserve. The game was played under Cricket Australia: Junior Formats Stage 1 rules. 9 batters face 13 balls each. If the batter gets dismissed, they continue to bat for their allotted balls, but the fielding team get 4 bonus runs. BHS won the toss and sent Balwyn into bat. Limiting the amount of wides and no-balls and also picking up wickets at regular intervals were key goals if BHS were to keep Balwyn to a reasonable score. Captain, Grace Hourigan and Saachi Trivedi were the standouts with the ball bowling good line (off stump and outside) and a full length. When batting, BHS needed to lose as few wickets as possible and hit the odd boundary. Grace and Saachi followed up their fine efforts in the field with some quality batting. Unfortunately, BHS lost a total of 12 wickets and only hit 1 4 in their 20 overs compared to Balwyn losing only 8 wickets and hitting 10 4’s. These were the big difference makers contributing to the outcome, a convincing 58 run win to Balwyn HS.

Mr Couzens

State Champions

Olivia Roche - Diving 

Charlie Wilson - 400m

Babette Nathan - Shot Put

Tom Linnett - 800m

U12-13 Boys Cross country

Thomas Linnett

Charlie Wilson

Luke Sciacca 

Junior Boys Netball

Ryder Brown

Jacob Bugler

Charlie Duane

Hugo Dykes

Callum Holroyd

Kai Jones

Thomas Lane

Thomas Linnett

Charlie Wilson

Yr 7 Girls Hockey

Jessica Andrews

Samara Azzopardi

Chelsea Daniels

Lacey Etheridge

Isabella Hodges

Brooke Hunter

Siya Kushwah

Lavinia Marsh

Amelia Mitchell

Mahsa Rajaeian

Anabel Shrapnel

Saachi Trivedi

Please see more fantastic achievements of our students in sports written up in the Principal's Report.