Swimming & Athletics Carnivals

It was wonderful to welcome our new Year 7 students to their first secondary school carnival and to see a new group of swimmers coming through. The highlights of the carnival were the Inter-house relay, which sees two swimmers from every year group swimming for their house in a 12 x 50m Freestyle event, the Invitational 50m Freestyle, which sees our fastest eight swimmers across the day battle it out for the title of Brigo’s fastest girl, and the Staff vs House Captains relay, with the staff being victorious on this occasion. Congratulations to all the girls who swam and earned points for their house and congratulations to our winning house, Lourdes.

In another change to the calendar this year, the annual Brigidine Athletics Carnival was held in Week 4 of Term 1. This is a carnival that is traditionally held in the cooler months, so it was another shock to the system to be holding our athletics events in temperatures over 30 degrees! Despite the heat, the level of participation from the students was excellent. The usual colour and glamour of the house themes were on display, with some fabulous costumes seen flying down the track in the 100m sprints. Although some of the usual carnival activities were unable to proceed due to the hot weather, the carnival was a great success, with our new Year 7s once again displaying excellent athletics skills – we look forward to seeing them represent Brigidine in the upcoming representative carnivals. Congratulations again to Lourdes, who took out the winning house trophy for Brigidine Athletics 2023 after claiming the Swimming trophy only weeks earlier!

CLAIRE HATHERELL HEAD OF SPORT