Secondary Sport News

In Secondary School sports news this week read about:

• Easts Touch Grand Final Day
• Interhouse Cross Country
• IGSA Swimming
• Student achievements in Athletics and Surf Lifesaving

Easts Touch Grand Final Day

Good luck to all the SCEGGS teams playing in the Grand Finals this weekend at Queens Park:

Congratulations to the following girls who have been awarded Best & Fairest in their grade by Easts Touch:

SCEGGS 11 – Bianca Elias (Year 8)                  Junior D

SCEGGS 12 – Penelope Martell (Year 8)         Junior E

SCEGGS 13 – Zoe Rajaratnam (Year 9)           Junior F

SCEGGS 15 – Monique Kamper (Year 7)         Year 7A

Inter-House Cross Country

The Secondary School Inter-House Cross Country Carnival was held last Tuesday at Queens Park. Despite storms throughout the evening before, the weather fined up and we had a wonderful early morning competition before school.

Congratulations to Christian House who were the overall Interhouse Cross Country Champions. The top runners will now go on to compete at the IGSA Cross Country Championships to be held at Frensham School on May 8. Those selected will be sent details soon.

The Individual Age Champions were as follow:

12 Years – Miwa Gentile (Christian)

13 Years – Beatrice Emanuel (Christian)

14 Years- Madison Coutts (Docker)

15 Years – Anna Slack (Beck)

16 Years – Annabelle Jessup (Badham)

17 Years – Harriet Christie (Beck)

18 Years – Matilda Emanuel (Christian)

HOUSE POINTS

IGSA Swimming

The SCEGGS Swimming team competed at the IGSA Swimming Championships last Friday at Homebush.  SCEGGS were the overall runners up in Division 3 and had several swimmers reach the finals.

Well done to all swimmers who competed on the day: Zoe Argyrides (Year 11), Mariah Barlin (Year 7), Leona Brenton (Year 12), Stella Brenton (Year 10), Susanna Brown (Year 8), Cynthia Cai (Year 9), Vivienne Calleja (Year 7), Lucinda Carroll (Year 8), Sophia Carroll (Year 10), Orla Darroch (Year 11), Coco Espie (Year 12), Elodie Harvey (Year 8), Kate Hawkins (Year 10), Sarah McIntyre (Year 9), Gemma Munro (Year 10), Amelia Porter (Year 8), Georgiana Porter (Year 10), Jasmine Qian (Year 8), Jessica Venetoulis (Year 11), Siena Walsh (Year 8), Isobel Weston (Year 10), Rosie Wong (Year 7) and Chloe Yule (Year 12).

Results from IGSA Finals

200m IM – Kate Hawkins (Year 10) 10^th

12 Years Freestyle B Finals – Mariah Barlin 6^th          

13 Years Freestyle A Final – Susanna Brown 9^th

14 Years Freestyle A Final – Jasmine Qian 10^th

15 Years Freestyle B Final – Kate Hawkins 1^st

16 Years Freestyle A Final – Gemma Munro 8^th

17 Years Freestyle B Final – Leona Brenton 8^th

18 Years Freestyle B Final – Chloe Yule 4^th

13 Years Backstroke Final – Susanna Brown 5^th

17 Years Backstroke Final – Leona Brenton 8^th

15 Years Breaststroke Final – Kate Hawkins 9^th

Intermediate 100m Freestyle Relay – Gemma Munro 7^th

Intermediate Freestyle Relay Final – 9th

Kate Hawkins, Sophia Carroll, Sarah McIntyre, Gemma Munro

NSW Junior Athletics Championships

SCEGGS had several students compete at the NSW Athletics Championships last weekend and produce some outstanding results.

• A special congratulations to Sarah James (Year 12) who is the NSW U17 High Jump Champion. Sarah beat her previous personal best by 9cm on her way to winning the title. See Sarah in action here.
• Well done to Beatrice Emanuel (Year 7) who placed 2^nd in the 13 years 1500m, and 5^th in the 800m.
• Another outstanding result came from Matilda Emanuel (Year 12) who placed 2^nd in the U’20’s 800m.

The Australian Championships will be held in Brisbane in the April holidays. We wish Beatrice, Matilda and Sarah all the very best as they continue to train for this competition.

Surf Lifesaving

Good luck to Clementine Finlayson who will competing at the Australian Surf Lifesaving Championships in QLD this weekend. Clementine came away with two medals at the recent NSW Championships in Newcastle and is excited to be heading to the Gold Coast to compete.

Easts Touch

For all the latest Touch results please refer to the East Touch webpage.

IGSA Fixtures, Results and Wet Weather

The IGSA website and platform for accessing wet weather, fixtures and team results can be found here.

SCEGGS at Play

Do you have any sporting news or photos to share in the Green Gate?

We love seeing our students being active and want to celebrate their passion and enjoyment amongst the SCEGGS community. Please send in any action shots from the weekend and any other interesting sporting highlights to Alison Gowan.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact myself on 9052 2721 or 0418 491 521.

Alison Gowan
Director of Sport