Category: Athletics

It was great to see our member schools back at Lakeside Stadium for the 2022 ACS Athletics Championships. Once again, we were blessed with perfect sunny conditions, ensuring a great day of competition.

Itunu from Westbourne Grammar gave a truly outstanding performance of the national anthem, before it was straight into both track and fields events for the athletes.

There was plenty of competition across the board, and even with a number of athletes out due to illness, many athletes stepped in to assist which created a wonderful sense of school spirit amongst the teams.

The relays are an exciting part of the program and not for the faint hearted, as double points are available for the taking, the athletes did not disappoint the enthusiastic crowd. Nearly all schools won relays with the depth at Westbourne and St Leonard’s seeing them win five and four relays respectively.

We congratulate and recognise the efforts of St Aloysius College, who competed in the ACS Athletics for the first time in the Year 7 Girls events. 

Congratulations to our winning schools; St Leonard’s in the Overall Aggregate and Aggregate Girls and Westbourne with the Aggregate Boys Cup. A wonderful effort by those teams.

Looking through the final scores there were some very close results, with the year level pennant winners shared amongst four schools:

Westbourne – 8

St Leonard’s – 7

St Michaels – 4

Overnewton – 2

We also congratulate to our Athletes of the Meet; Amanda W from Overnewton, (who has won this award for the the third time in a row except for when there was no event in 2020); Charli Matthews from St Michael’s and Marty Waghorne from Westbourne (Marty also won this award in 2021).

Congratulations also to those who achieved new records:

Keira from Loyola
Year 10 Girls Shot Put: 11.74m

Daniel from St Loyola
Year 8 Boys Shot Put: 13.20m

A big thank you to all of the Athletics Victoria officials, school officials, parents, coaches, Directors/Heads of Sport and students for their assistance in ensuring this event ran so well, and so smoothly.

Please see below for final scores for all year levels.

For the first time in two years, it was exciting to be back at Lakeside Stadium for the 2021 ACS Athletics Championships and what a wonderful day of track and field it was. The weather was perfect, the athletes primed and ready to go and Nora from Overnewton sang a beautiful rendition of the national anthem to start the day.

The competition was fierce and friendly as competitors drove each other to personal bests and new records for athletes from Loyola, Beaconhills and St Leonard’s.

The relays are an exciting part of the program and not for the faint hearted, as double points are available for the taking, the athletes did not disappoint the enthusiastic crowd. Nearly all schools won relays with the depth at Westbourne and St Leonard’s seeing them win five and four relays respectively.

Some of the highlights included; Year 12 Loyola Boys and St Leonard’s Girls winning the coveted 4 x 100m and open 4 x 400m double. Overnewton were impressive throughout the day with their sprinters, St Michael’s Year 11 Boys team held out St Leonard’s by one point to take the pennant and Beaconhills had some outstanding individual results as did Loyola.

In terms of the three major trophies, it was a tussle between reigning champions St Leonard’s and Westbourne. St Leonard’s held Westbourne out for top place by only 12 points for the Girls aggregate trophy with Westbourne taking out the Boys aggregate and Overall aggregate trophies. Congratulations to both team and to all schools on an outstanding athletics carnival.

Athletes of the meet awards
Amanda from Overnewton (100 points)
Marty from Westbourne (100 points)

Congratulations also to those who achieved new records:

Caitlyn from Beaconhills
Year 12 Girls Discus: 34.24m
Year 12 Girls Shot Put: 11.74m

Keira from Loyola
Year 9 Girls Discus: 27.98m

Jessica from St Leonard’s
Year 11 Girls 100m: 13.02
Year 11 Girls 200m: 26.41

Finally, thank you to all the Athletics Victoria officials, school officials, coaches, Directors/Heads of Sport and students for making the carnival an exceptional one.

Please see below for final scores for all year levels.