It was a sunny day with a cool enough breeze blowing to make the athletes want to run fast to keep warm for BTC'S Interhouse Athletic Carnival. Athletes battled for placings, but there was always jesting with their schoolmates. Non-athletes dressed up and competed for points for their Sports Houses. Three records were broken on the day with a couple of others getting a big nudge. Some long standing records were re-written. Firstly 13 year old Amber Curtis broke Tessa Jackson's 2000 (11yrs) discus record by .21 m. Not to be outdone , Courtney Sheales broke the 16 yrs long jump record held by M Mason for the past 29 years. She leaped a further.06 m to create a new Interhouse and College record of 4.70m. Finally at his last Interhouse Athletics Carnival, Year 12 student, Anton Wolmby broke Barry Darben's 36 year old long junp record he set in 1975. Anton jumped 6.8 m which was .51m more than the record. At the end of the day was the annual House tug-of-war. In the Junior mixed teams it was Bryce/Dickson, Bacon/Bacon then Archie/Black. the results of the Seniors tug-of-war was confusing with Archie /Black beating Bacon/ Bacon and Bacon/ Bacon beating Bryce/ Dickson who beat Archie/ Black???? Hmmm does that make it a 3 way- tie?Thanks to Mrs Robb and Christine Patterson for braving the cool breeze to keep tally of the points and results.
Finally the announcement of House Winners. Rossiter Cup for Girls track events - Bryce, Archie Bacon
Nocolechi Cup for Girls field events- Archie,Bryce,Bacon
D&D Hardie Cup for Overall Girl winners - Bryce, Bacon, Archie
Anning Shield Junior Boys- Black, Bacon, Dickson
Daking Smith Shield Senior Boys- Black,Dickson, Bacon
P&F Shield Overall Senior Boys- Black, Bacon, Dickson
Age champions will be announced on Assembly..........Age Champions Runner Up
Boys
Open
Anton Wolmby Hudson Fox (Runner Up)
16s
Curtis Millett 3 way tie Toby Lockyer, Bryce Brodie,Steven Pittman (Runner Up)
15s
Austin Fox Brandon Reed (Runner Up)
14s
Thomas Polkinghorne Sean Bawden (Runner Up)
13s
Daniel Simatis Corey Todd (Runner Up)
Girls
Open
Gemma Hills Jodie Fisher (Runner Up)
16s
Courtney Sheales Morgan Williams (Runner Up)
15s
Elissa Marsterson Jemma Robinson (Runner Up)
14s
Layne Prichard Rachael Dahl (Runner Up)
13s
Sarah Hesp Michaela Henry (Runner Up)
Girl with most individual points Sarah Hesp 75pts D.K. Beneke Trophy
Boy with most individual points Thomas Polkinghorne 85 pts Jos Allingham Trophy
