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Athletics Carnival

Our annual Junior School Athletics carnival took place at Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre in beautiful conditions on Wednesday. In the final of our big 3 carnivals there was much excitement leading up to the day from all students. Credit to all students for their enthusiasm and participation both in the stands with war cries and cheering and on the track. Looking at the data the Athlete participation rate was 20% higher than the previous year which is excellent. Special mention must be made to those students who nominated to run in the 400m event as we had 4 hears across the age groups.

There was some great house spirit being demonstrated throughout the day. The house that stood out in this area was Cowper House led by Josh Svensson and Georgia Grace who sung and cheered their way to some bonus house spirit points including winning the war cry competition judged by Ms Wilson and Ms Jefferies.

With the entrant number system student used in conjunction with the timing gates and photo finish students were able to see their times and overall rankings on the digital score board after they finished their race. I was also impressed with how students knew their entrant number or had it on their arm as this meant we avoided any issues that would have resulted in races being re-run. This also allowed relay teams to be selected based on the times in the heats. The inclusion of the 50m sprint on the back straight allowed for greater participation and I was extremely impressed with the number of students who also opted in for this event at the end of a long days meet. In pre marshalling we had our way tug of war competition with Roseby winning quite a few of the age group competitions. Thanks to those Year 6 students who assisted here.

New Records

Congratulation to these new record holders, they will receive a certificate of commendation at our Sports Prize Giving Day next term.

Jake O’Sullivan, Boys 11 Years 200m with a time of 28.91 seconds breaking the record set in 2016. Other records will have published once times have been ratified.

McDouall Senior Girls 4x100m relay also set a new record with a time of 1:02.93 beating the Cowper record from 2020.

Jasmin Ramsay

Tahlia Stone

Lauren Rolfe

Gabriella Hachem

A big thank you the way all students looked on the day. Everyone got to wear the house race bibs this year when participating in track events. The ability to identify their peers representing their house from the grandstand really added to the carnival atmosphere. This was evident in our relays held at prior to the presentation.

With Cowper winning the carnival for 5 years in a row there was a huge reaction when Copwer were announced as 4th place.  Congratulations to Roseby House on their win for 2022 led by Zac Holgate and Saskia Jelley who captained the winning house on the day.

Winning House

1st Place          Roseby  1834 points

2nd Place        McDouall  1812 points

3rd Place         Dumolo  1761 points

4^th Place          Cowper 1662 points

Ribbons for field events were will be distributed on Thursday at school through your child’s class teacher.

Age Champions Athletics 2022

Congratulations to the following students who were named and presented age champion and runner up on the day.

House Spirit

Well done to all houses for their efforts in house spirit with Cowper coming out on top for Athletics.

Professional Athletics Photos

We had photographers from Anthony Khoury Photography at the carnival taking photos of the day. These will be uploaded shortly and can only be viewed with a code which we will email out to families.

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Mr Trevor Dunne
Head of Junior Sport
tdunne@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9953 6022