Primary Track and Field Team Announced

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01 Jun 2013

Primary Track and Field Team for National Champs Announced

 

GIRLS

Athletics Tasmania today announced the selection of a team comprising 20 girls and 17 boys to represent Tasmania at the School Sport Australia Primary Track and Field Championships to be held in Brisbane from 22 to 26 November 2013.

 

The selections were based on performances at the PSST State Primary Carnival and the AT Tasmanian Primary All Schools Meet which were both held at the St Leonards Athletics Centre in April.

 

Athletics Tasmania President Brian Roe said that it was pleasing to see 26 different schools represented in the team.

 

"With the 2014 Championships to be staged in Tasmania it is great that more schools will have an interest in the Championships this year," Roe said.

 

"Our aim is to work with the schools and Little Athletics Tasmania to ensure that we have a full team for the Championships when we host them next year. With PSST moving their state carnival to term one, it enables us to use that important competition as a selection event as well as our own trial competition, which will expose more young Tasmanians to the possibility of state representation in track and field."

 

Hobart's Hutchins School is the best represented with four team members, followed by Launceston's Trevallyn Primary and Scotch Oakburn College, each with three.

 

The team is:

 

10 Years:

 Savannah Barron (St Leonards Primary) - 100m, Long Jump, High Jump

Makala Bingley (Longford Primary School) - Shot Put, Discus

Madison Brazendale (Riverside Primary School) - 200m, 800m, Multi Event

Chloe Essex (Emmanuel Christian School) - 100m, Long Jump

Elsa Fletcher (Mount Stuart Primary) - High Jump, Long jump

Bonnie Pitt (Rocherlea Primary School) - 100m, 200m

Heidi Schouten (Trevallyn Primary School) - 100m, 200m, 800m

 

11 Years:

Ruby-Questa Collis (Taroona Primary School) - 800m

Mikayla Cooper (St Michaels Collegiate) - 100m, 200m, 800m

Ashtyn Dennison (Port Sorell Primary School) - 100m, 200m

Rachel Hosie (Bellerive Primary School) - Shot Put, Discus

Liana Kenna (Corpus Christi) - 100m, Long Jump

Lailani Pybus (Scotch Oakburn College) - 100m, 200m

Lauren Spencer (Exeter Primary School) - Long Jump, High Jump

Alyson Wood (Riverside Primary School) - 800m, High Jump, Multi Event

 

12 Years:

Julia Direen (The Friends School) - Shot Put, Discus, High Jump

Amy Halaby (Scotch Oakburn College) - 800m, Shot Put

Hayley Kroon (Scotch Oakburn College) - 100m, 200m, Long Jump

Jade Longstaff (Summerdale Primary School) - 100m, 200m, 800m, Multi Event

Arabella Phillips (Norwood Primary School) - 100m, 200m, 800m, Long Jump, Multi Event

Rebecca von Samorzewski (Sacred Heart Launceston) - Long Jump, High Jump

Georgie Williams (Riverside Primary School) - 100m, High Jump

 

BOYS

 

10 Years:

Ryan Gale (Illawarra Primary School) - 100m, 200m, Long Jump, High Jump

George McLeod (Immaculate Heart of Mary) - 100m, 200m, Long Jump, High Jump

 

11 Years:

Alex Davies (Trevallyn Primary School) - 800m, Shot Put

Callum Emms (The Hutchins School) - 100m, 200m, Long Jump, Multi Event

Oliver Luders (The Hutchins School) - 800m

Thomas McShane (Hagley Farm School) - Shot Put, Discus, High Jump

Jacob Mitchelson (Hagley Farm School) - 100m, 200m

Jack Schouten (Trevallyn Primary School) - 100m, Long Jump, Multi Event

Taine Sookee (The Hutchins School) - 100m, 200m, Long Jump, High Jump

 

12 Years:

Oscar Chau (The Hutchins School) - 100m, 200m, Long Jump, High Jump

Hugh Fletcher (Mount Stuart Primary School) - 800m

Jesse James (Nixon Street Primary) - High Jump

Logan James (Nixon Street Primary) - High Jump

Tamru Midson (Punchbowl Primary School) - 800m

Brad Murray-Skey (Evandale Primary School) - 100m, 200m

Liam Preece (Larmenier Catholic School) - 100m, Long Jump, 800m, Multi Event

Simon Zinzovski (Lansdowne Crescent Primary School) - 100m, 200m