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Year 8-12 Athletics Carnival
28.02.18
On the Thursday and Friday of Week 4, students in Year’s 8 to 12 gathered at Marist Park for the annual Athletics Carnival. The carnival highlights traditional events such as running, long jump, high jump, discus, javelin etc. but also adds novelty events such as tug-of-war, plank relays, sack races and more.
The highlight for most on Thursday was the Tug-of-war competition which saw teams of 12 students from each grade compete against College staff in the event. The final was once again between the Year 12’s and staff. The battle was fierce, but in the end the teachers won the best of three format.
Friday’s events began with the popular ‘progressive relay’, where students from reception to Year 12 competed in their respective house colours. To wrap up the carnival, the last event was the staff versus student relay with the students taking the win. College captain Daniel Ker crossed the finish line only 5-metres in front of Year 10 Wellbeing & PLP Coordinator David Cole, giving the students the win.
Congratulations to MacKillop who were eventual winners with 4480 points and going back-to-back carnival champions.
Other outstanding achievements for the day were as follows:
- Fastest Female Athlete – Hannah Elliott (14.67 seconds)
- Fastest Male Athlete – Alexander Harkness (12.22 seconds)
- Junior Athletics Champion – Elyse Willoughby
- Senior Athletics Champion – Sarah Edwards
- U/14 Female Champion – Tara Bryant
- U/14 Male Champion – Hunter Elliott
- U/15 Female Champion – Elyse Willoughby
- U/15 Male Champion – Harry McInnes
- U/16 Female Champion – Hannah Elliott
- U/16 Male Champion – Matthew Davies
- U/20 Female Champion – Sarah Edwards
- U/20 Male Champion – Nick Kourmouzis
The Con Brown Memorial trophy for most outstanding male athlete went to Kyle Jones for his success in the U/20 Male hurdles event (17.08 seconds) as well as many other events throughout the day.
The final scores for each team were MacKillop on 4480, McAuley finished with 4148, Woods in third place with 3753 and Champagnat on 3185. A big thankyou to all staff and helpers who assisted with the running of the day.
Jordan Gould | Sports and Recreation Trainee
