Friday, August 22, 2014

Secondary Interschool Athletics

After being postponed last week because of the rain, today dawned clear and sunny. Students from all secondary schools gathered at Columba to finish the events in the Interschool Athletics. First event for the day was the 400m. BTC started well with Tenisha Solomon placing 1st,Jack Donaldson 3rd,  Patrice Jones 1st, Jessee Santo 2nd, Allen Rau 2nd, and Merial Kenni 2nd. The students then competed in the round robin of field events before the 100m and 800m. Some of the outstanding 13 year old results included Tenisha Solomon 1st high jump, 2nd javelin, 1st triple jump, 1st 200m, 1st long jump,  1st 100m, 1st 800m, Jack Donaldson 1st 200m, 1st discus, 1st 100m, 3rd 800m, Nikita Wearing 3rd long jump,Stacey Krause 2nd discus, Tarrisha  Baira 1st shotput,3rd javelin 14 years - Jessee Santo,1st long jump, 1st high jump, 1st 200m, 1st triple jump, 1st 100m, Patrice Jones 1st 800m,2nd 200m, Kiara Guligo 1st shotput, 2nd javelin, Kuinam Nona 2nd shotput, Adagi Lifu 2nd high jump, 2nd javelin, Allan Rau 2nd 200m, 3rd triple jump, 2nd 100m, Mitch Fogarty 3rd 800m.
15 years- Toniesha Williams 2nd discus, 2nd high jump, 2nd shotput,3rd javelin,  Brittany Lifu  1st shotput, Claudia Taisman 2nd javelin, Evie batt 2nd 800m, Brodie Land 3rd discus, Tuk Kuwajima  1st 200m, 1st 100m ( but DQ at the start), Lachlan Corrigan 3rd high jump 16 years- Shelly Johnstone2nd javelin, 3rd discus, Madi Smith 3rd javelin, Zoe Krause 3rd shotput, Bou Dean Evans 2nd discus, Fred Bulsey 3rd 100m. Open-  Merial Kenni 2nd shotput,3rd triple jump, 3rd 200m, 3rd 100m, Rachael Dahl 1st javelin, Roy Fisher 3rd shotput,  Errol Miller 3rd javelin, Casey Henry 2nd long jump, Kael Morrissey 1st discus.
Kiara Guligo broke the 14 year old shotput record of 9.36m by throwing 9.70m. Brittany Lifu missed the 15 yrs shotput record by 3cm and Jessee Santo missed the 14 years  long jump by 2 cm.......still a  great effort girls!
The relays finished the events off with a heart stopping win by the 14 year girls. Last runner , Jessee, took the baton just behind ASSG, she took off passed ASSG and powered to the finish line. 13 boys placed 2nd while all other teams placed 3rd.
Age champions were 13years Tenisha Solomon, 14 years Jessee Santo, while runner ups were 13 years Jack Donaldson and 14 year Patrice Jones.
Overall every member of the team competed well and gave points to the College score.  BTC girls finished 2nd behind ASSG while the boys finished 3rd. Combined Aggregate shield saw BTC place 2nd on 644 points ahead of CCC on 630 points.  Congratulations!