{"id":29346,"date":"2025-09-18T13:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T03:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/?post_type=article&#038;p=29346"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:43:43","slug":"golden-boots-2025","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/article\/golden-boots-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Boots 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thursday 11 September <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Golden Boots Competition was started by the Shore Old Boys Riverina group in the mid-1990s to promote public speaking amongst Shore Boarders.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boarders from all four Houses, dressed in full uniform, assembled in the Dining Hall last Thursday, to witness the 2025 Golden Boots competition; where the Year 12s supervise, the Year 11s compete to be chosen to represent their House and the Year 10s help to serve and clear dinner.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guests included Bruce Allworth (&#8217;79), the senior adjudicator and OBU Riverina group Treasurer, Derek Champion (&#8217;96), adjudicator and Deputy Head, Pastoral Care, the families of the four speakers and several members of the OBU Executive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The topic was:&nbsp;Confucius stated, &#8220;Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The speakers were, in order of the speeches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Tom G<\/strong>, Barry House<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tully R<\/strong>, Hodges House<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Aleksander B<\/strong>, School House <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>George S<\/strong>, Robson House<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The speeches were enjoyed by everyone as all four speakers spoke confidently, thoughtfully and with flair. But alas, there could only be one runner-up and one winner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our congratulations to all four speakers &#8211; you did your Houses and the OBU proud. A special congrats to the runner-up, <strong>George S<\/strong> and the winner, <strong>Tully R<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mr Ian Macdonald<\/strong><br>President, Shore OBU<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2025\/09\/image0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2025\/09\/image0-1024x619.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2025\/09\/image0-1024x619.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2025\/09\/image0-768x464.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2025\/09\/image0-1536x929.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2025\/09\/image0-248x150.jpeg 248w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2025\/09\/image0.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Tully and all speakers. You did your Houses and the OBU proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[22],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-29346","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/29346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=29346"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-weekly-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=29346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}