Events named for athletes at Australian All Schools
08 Nov 2010
Congratulations to all athletes who were yesterday announced in a team of over 60 to travel to the newly revised Australian All Schools Athletics Championships held on December the 4th and 5th.
Since last year at the UTAS Australian All Schools held in Hobart last December, these championships have been revised to include just three age groups, under 14, 16 and 18, with a focus now for the athletes being on earning team points, rather than striving for individual glory. Athletes who do want to achieve both individual and team honours will get an opportunity to chase the individual glory at the Australian Junior Championships to be contested each year in March.
Under 14 girls includes; Ella Blackwell (Dominic - 100m), Anneka Reardon (St Michael's Collegiate - 100m, Triple Jump), Maddy Scott (St Mary's College - 200m, 400m, 80m hurdles, long jump), Lilly Castle (St Mary's College - 200m, 400m, 800m), Courtney Stanley (Riverside High - 800m, high jump, long jump), Tahlia Hunt (St Mary's College - 1500m race walk), Jasmine Turner (St Patrick's College - shot put, discus, javelin) and Emma Keleher (Fahan - discus, shot put). With the under 14 boys consisting of; Samuel Alderson (St Patricks College - 100m, 200m, 400m, shot put, discus), Wesley Oliver (St Aloysius - 100m, 200m, long jump, triple jump), Mitchell Salter (St Virgil's College - 400m, 800m, 1500m), Nathan Claridge (Scotch Oakburn - 800m, high jump, triple jump, javelin), Cody Leary (St Patricks College - 90m hurdles, high jump, long jump, discus, javelin) and Louis Rose (New Town - 90m hurdles, 3000m race walk),
Our strongest age group, both male and female boast's an array of national medallist from past national level competitions as well as several national champions. The under 16s will be spearheaded by Jacob Birtwhistle (Riverside High) and Kaitlin Morgan (St Mary's College) who last December both took home a bag of medals. They will be joined by; Jesse Usoalli (The Hutchins School - 100m, 200m), Jordan Bennett (Kingsmeadows - 100m, 200m, 400m), Nick Bennett (Kingsmeadows - 200m hurdles), Jacob Despard (St Virgil's College - 400m, discus), Ben Covington (Sorell - 800m), Andrew Goyen (St Virgil's College - 800m), Dylan Meldrum (Reece High - 1500m), Kale Adams (Ulverstone - 3000m, 2000m steeplechase), James Black (Scotch Oakburn - 100m hurdles, 200m hurdles), Jake Dodge (St Virgil's College - 100m hurdles), Mitchell Walker (St Virgil's College - 3000m walk, discus, javelin), Tim Coad (Clarence High - high jump, triple jump, long jump), Dylan Ross (St Virgil's College - high jump), Ryan Wilson (Reece High - long jump), Vincent Meiring (Kingston High - shot put, hammer), Jye Terry (St Virgil's College - shot put, hammer) and Ethan Woodworth (Brooks High - javelin) in the boys.
Tiffany Henricks (St Patricks College - 100m, 200m), Caitlin Newson (Mount Carmel College - 100m, 200m, discus), Natasha Fitzpatrick (St Mary's College - 3000m, 2000m steeplechase), Morgan Harding (Launceston Church Grammar - 90m hurdles, high jump), Natasha Panton (Deloraine High - 90m hurdles), Rachelle Taylor (St Patricks College - 3000m race walk), Kaitlin Morgan (St Mary's College - long jump, triple jump, high jump), Birgitta Otto (St Michael's Collegiate - long jump), Chloe Marquis (St Patrick's College - 200m hurdles, triple jump), Claire McClenaghan (Scotch Oakburn - shot put, discus, hammer, javelin) and Mikayla Genge (St Mary's College - hammer, shot put) in the U16 girls.
Under 18 girls, lead by Australian under 18 record breaking hammer thrower Danni McConnell (Cosgrove High - shot put, discus, hammer). She will be joined by Abbey Walters (Launceston College - 100m, 200m), Kate Walters (Launceston College - 100m, long jump, triple jump), Ashleigh Corbett (Tasmanian Academy-Don Campus - 200m, 400m), Abbey de la Motte (Launceston Christian School - 400m, 800m), Claudia Conley (Mackillop College - 800m, 1500m), Jillian Lyall (Launceston Church Grammar - 1500m, 3000m, 2000m steeplechase), Natalea Smith (Launceston Church Grammar - 3000m, 2000m steeplechase), Felicity Stringer (Taroona High - 100m hurdles, 400m hurdles, long jump, triple jump), Sophie Eberhardt (Ogilvie High - 5000m race walk), Megan Guy (Ogilvie High - 5000m race walk) and Rebecca Direen (The Friends School - shot put, discus, hammer).
The under 18 men's team will include; Brad Tolson (St Brendans Shaw - 200m, 400m), James Hansen (Riverside High - 800m, 1500m), Alec Thomas (Tasmanian Academy-Don Campus - 800m, 1500m), Ben Catterall (St Patricks College - 110m hurdles, 400m hurdles), Josh Zeitzen (Guilford young College - 400m hurdles), Brandon Clark (Rosny College - high jump, long jump, triple jump, discus, javelin) and Ryan Haag (Tasmanian Academy- Hobart Campus - triple jump).
While there are some events where Tasmania will be lacking in competitors due to popularity of the event's in Tasmania overall the athletics community should be very excited at the number of talented young athletes who will compete for the state on the north island in December.
This new format for competition teams will earn points due to their finishing positions. Athletics Australia has wisely developed a trophy for the three larger states, while the Tasmanian team will face off for the smaller states trophy against South Australia, Western Australia, ACT and Northern Territory.
Competition is held over two days, December 4 and 5 at the Doncaster track in Melbourne.