Athletics

Athletics Awards

MIC:

• Mr G Brown

Captain:

• N Geldenhuys

Team award:

• Massimo Araujo • Cullen Massey • Alessandro Nahman • Rob Schaafsma • Brett Simpson • James Wilmot

Half Colours:

• Keagan Loftie-Eaton • Adam Nicholas

Full Colours:

• Manqoba Bungane • Neal Geldenhuys • Connor Jack • Tatenda Kandengwa • Mbilu Mabilu

Athletics had a shortened season this year but it was good to be back out and competing again after such a long break. After not being allowed to play sport until the beginning of Term 3, we suddenly had to fit all our training and competition into three weeks. The season started with interhouse field events happening during the first week back followed by a modified track programme on the Saturday. The participation was good and we were able to get most of the boys in the school out and running again which was a good thing to see after being in lockdown for so long.

The Bishops ran out eventual winners of the inter-house competition largely due to the excellent participation from the boys.

Following the interhouse events were a series of meetings hosted at St David’s and at Jeppe, where the boys were given a chance to compete against other schools. These meetings were non-scoring events and the emphasis was on participating and being able to compete again. This meant that the boys were able to try new events if they wished to and led to some useful results, which we can use for 2022 if we are able to compete in an inter-high meeting again.

Neal Geldenhuys was named captain and acquitted himself well in a year where there was very little required from him in terms of inter-school events. He was often helping to coach the younger javelin throwers and was also an avid supporter of the other athletes in the team. I would like to thank Mr Ireland for his tireless support of athletics at St David’s; I would not be able to do it without him.

To Messrs. Maqina, Shanley, Rickelton, Rigney and Rubinek, thank you for sacrificing your time and your tireless efforts to help our boys improve.

Athletics team

Back row: Brett Simpson, Adam Nicholas, Vuyolwethu Musa, Joshua Chambers, Anton Arwidi, William Hayton, Christiano Partridge, Cade Topping, Mark Ireland, Jensen Welton 3rd row: Christos Stefanakis, Michael Jervis, David Lamb, Matthew Hutchison, Robert Jervis, Keagan Loftie-Eaton, Cullen Massey, Daniel Fellingham, Luke Veitch, James Wilmot, Luca Toet 2nd row: Avela Sibisi, Alexander Booysen, Simon Less, Benjamin Smith, Oliver Botha, James Pearson, Sam Wearne, Brendan Hope, Kaden Pillay, Samrat Basu, Armaan Manack, Tumi Mafojane Front row: Connor Jack, Tatenda Kandengwa, Mr U Maqina, Manqoba Bungane, Mr B Ireland, Neal Geldenhuys, Mr G Brown, Massimo Araujo, Mr D Rigney, Mbilu Mabilu, Mr I Rickelton, Rob Schaafsma