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Congratulations to all students, staff and enthusiastic family supporters with our 2020 Athletics carnival last week.

The students created a wonderful atmosphere down at Marist Park with vibrant and creative costumes coinciding with the TV Show and Movie Characters theme, high participation rates and fun and enjoyment in both the championship and novelty events, which were led by the Year 12 cohort.

The traditional House Spirit award was hard to award due to high levels of participation and seeing record attendance numbers, but Champagnat walked home with the braggers prize.

We started off the day with the progressive relays, with students from Reception to Year 12 competing against the athletic Staff Olympic team. This was followed by the newly introduced House chants, the lively street parade, and the drum corps.

Throughout the day, we witnessed many wonderful throws, jumps and sprints in the large variety of events for each age group. Congratulations to all Houses for their commitment to this day.

Special mention to the following students:
Fastest Male: Broc Linden
Fastest Female: Joey Jones
Con Brown Award: Jackson Bowden
Junior Athletics Champion: Sophie Wrightson
Senior Athletics Champion: Emily Dawe

Congratulations also goes to the following age group Champions:
U/14 – Male: Jack Latham
U/14 – Female: Bree Robinson
U/15 – Male: Anton Circelli
U/15 – Female: Sophie Wrightson
U/16 – Male: Thomas Bignell
U/16 – Female: Joey Jones
Open – Male: Matty Bennett
Open – Female: Emily Dawe

Overall house results were:
1st Woods – 3686
2nd Champagnat – 3524
3rd MacKillop – 3287
4th McAuley – 3095

A special shout out to Mr Dickson for his outstanding MC role, Hugh Armfield, Emily Dawe and Rosie van Eyk for their leadership, Maxience Williams for her outstanding rendition of the national anthem, all the Founder leaders for their engagement in the day, Mrs Shepherd, Mrs Mott and Ms Suggatte for their results recording, Mr Buckley for being Mr Buckley, our talented IT team, the Sugarloaf Café team, Mr Mezinec for running approximately 5 kilometres (without tearing a hamstring) by being involved in every staff event, sports trainee Nick Kourmouzis, and all of our fantastic staff for making the day function so smoothly and most importantly to all of our students.

See photo gallery from 8-12 Athletics Carnival in the Week 5 Newsletter.

Ian Ross | 8-12 Sports Coordinator