THURSDAY 22 MAY
Limestone Park, Ipswich
CHAMPIONSHIPS CROSS COUNTRY
12th Junior Carnival 10 Years & Under12 Years & Under
55th Championship 13 Years & UnderOpen 20 25
CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
LIMESTONE PARK, IPSWICH
The GPS Cross Country Championships has been an important feature of the GPS sporting calendar for half a century. Dedicated competitors from all nine GPS member schools will challenge themselves and pursue their personal bests in what promises to be an exciting day of competition. The GPS Association congratulates all competitors for their dedication in preparing for the event and wishes them well for today’s competition.
The GPS Association congratulates all competitors for their dedication in preparing for the event and wishes them well for today’s competition.
CONTENTS
Course Map
Welcome
Order of Events & Lane Draw (Start)
Champion School Points Scoring
Summary of Championship Winners
Program (Start List): 10Yrs & Under - 12Yrs & Under
Program (Start List): 13Yrs & Under - Open
The Jack E. Ross Trophy
History of Results: Junior Carnival & The Jack E.Ross Trophy Premiership
Acknowledgments
COMPETING SCHOOLS
ANGLICAN CHURCH GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Established 1912 Blue and Grey
BRISBANE BOYS’ COLLEGE
Established 1902 Green, White and Black
BRISBANE GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Established 1868 Light Blue and Dark Blue
BRISBANE STATE HIGH SCHOOL
Established 1921 Cerise and Blue
IPSWICH GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Established 1863 Red and White
LIVESTREAM
https://gpsqld.org.au/gps-live-streaming
ST JOSEPHS’ COLLEGE, GREGORY TERRACE
Established 1875
Red and Black
ST JOSEPHS’ NUDGEE COLLEGE
Established 1891
Royal Blue and White
TOOWOOMBA GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Established 1875 Blue and Gold
THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL
Established 1901
Maroon, Navy Blue and White
GPS CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS PROGRAM
The GPS Cross Country Championships will comprise of the following sequence of events:
GPS CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS SCORING
1.1 Places shall be awarded to competitors in their order of finishing according to the electronic printout, where such timing apparatus is in operation. When such timing apparatus is not in operation, a competent officer will be appointed to check the correct allocation of places and points.
1.2 Only the first six (6) competitors from each school will contribute to that school’s points for the event.
1.3 The placings of each of the first six (6) placegetters (after adjustment) are then totalled for each school.
1.4 Placings will not be awarded to any competitors failing to compete the course or who are disqalified.
1.5 The school having the lowest aggregate shall be declared the winner, the school with the next highest aggregate will be declared second, and so on.
1.6 The place points awarded for Cross Country events per school shall be 10. 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
*NOTE: Multi-class division is currently no contributing to school points
GPS CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL START LIST
GPS CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL
GPS CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL
GPS CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL START
GPS CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL
GPS CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL START
THE JACK E. ROSS TROPHY
The award for GPS Cross Country Championship winner (Champion School) goes to the school with the highest aggregate points for placings for all events for 13 Years & Under - Open.
The Jack Ross Trophy is named after JOHN ELLIOTT (JACK) ROSS (1894- 1973), who preferred to be known as “Jack”.
Jack arrived at St Joseph’s Nudgee College as a student in 1908, and would subsequently represent the College in the 1st XI (1912), 1st XV (1911-1912), was College rifle champion (1911-1912), Tennis Champion in 1911 and College champion in the 440 and 880 yards.
After completing Senior in 1913 he studied law for a year, although his legal ambitions were curtailed by financial constraints. Jack successfully applied for a teaching position at Nudgee College, and as his daughter Mary observed, the rest is history. From 1914 into the 1970s, Jack Ross taught at the College. He generally took the commercial classes, which could include pharmacy and law. Mary remembers him as a very principled person, believing strongly in the virtue of honesty. He tried to help students, not only in the subjects he taught, but in lifestyle as well. He never told people how things should be done. He tried to show them.
Outside the College he was also very active in community life. He was Secretary of the Nudgee College Old Boys’ Association for over 50 years, as well as being President of Brothers Rugby Football Club from 1935 to 1973. He was Chairman of the Queensland Rugby Union from 1938 – 1949. He promoted the switch back to Rugby Union in 1928 after the schools had been turned to Rugby League in 1920. For generations of Nudgee College students, Ross was the epitome of the Nudgee College dream. Ross Oval commemorates the outstanding endeavours of Mr. John Elliot Ross.
Known as that “Grand Old Man” or “Mr GPS”, he was also Secretary of the GPS Association from 1928 to 1959. In all that time he saw every GPS Swimming Championship and only missed one GPS Track and Field Championship in 1960, as he was ill in hospital, so he followed events on television.
The Jack Ross Trophy honours a man who had an enormous impact at St Joseph’s Nudgee College and an unrivalled impact on all GPS competition.
Source: T. Max Hawkins (1965; Jacaranda Press Pty Ltd),’ The Queensland
to Paul Daly at Nudgee College for providing additional information.
Great Public Schools’, thanks also goes
GPS CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS HISTORY OF RESULTS
Acknowledgments
GPS MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Chairman:
Mr. G. Pierce Brisbane State High School
Deputy Chairman:
Dr. A. Campbell Anglican Church Grammar School
Treasurer:
Mr. A. Hawkins The Southport School
Members:
Mr. A. Casson Brisbane Boys’ College
Mr. A. Micallef Brisbane Grammar School
Dr. M. Carroll St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace
Dr. A. Forsyth Ipswich Grammar School
Mr. S. Thomson St Joseph's Nudgee College
Dr. J. Kinniburgh Toowoomba Grammar School
GPS OFFICE
GPS Executive Officer: Mrs. J. Watson
GPS Competition Manager: Ms A. Haug
GPS Content Manager: Mrs S. Bodimeade
GPS SPORT AND ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mr. B McKenzie (acting) Brisbane State High School
Mr. T. Goodrick Anglican Church Grammar School
Mr. P. Woodford Brisbane Boys' College
Mr. J. Clancy Brisbane Grammar School
Mr. S. McLean St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace
Mr. N.Greive Ipswich Grammar School
Mr. J. Pybus St Joseph's Nudgee College
Mr. B. Hain The Southport School
Mr. K. Cicolini Toowoomba Grammar School
GPS CROSS COUNTRY SUB-COMMITTEE
Chairman: Mr. N. Greive Brisbane Grammar School
Mr. M. Simes Anglican Church Grammar School
Mr. J. Russ Brisbane Boys' College
Mr. B.Scholes & Mr. N. Holland Brisbane Grammar School
Mr. M. Langmack Brisbane State High School
Mr. J. McDonald St Joseph'sCollege, GregoryTerrace
Mr. G. Yarham
Ms. J. Trembearth
Mr. J. Stone
Ipswich Grammar School
St Joseph's Nudgee College
Toowoomba Grammar School
Mr. L. McAfee The Southport School
SCHOOL CAPTAINS OF CROSS COUNTRY
Anglican Church Grammar School
Brisbane Boys’ College
Brisbane Grammar School
Brisbane State High School
• Henry Peters (C)
• Hugh White (C)
• Finn Ingham (C)
• Solomon Hawkings (VC)
• Fletcher Medway (VC)
• Luke Duncan (C)
• Armon Cardell (VC)
• Sonny Adam (C)
• Sergio Arrivillaga (VC)
• Joseph Pearce (VC)
• Jett Snow (VC)
St.Josephs’ College, Gregory Terrace
Ipswich Grammar School
St.Josephs’ Nudgee College
The Southport School
Toowoomba Grammar School
THE GPS ASSOCIATION GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE SUPPORT AND CO-OPERATION OF THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS IN THE CONDUCT OF THIS EVENT:
Ipswich City Council
Officials provided by all GPS schools
Officials from Brisbane Athletics Official Club
Queensland Police Element Photo & Video Production
Emergency Medics
Sport Event Services
Ipswich and Districts Athletics Club
Ipswich Little Athletics Club
• Hamish King (C)
• James Dabelstein (VC)
• Connor Reilly (VC)
• Dakota Stewart (C)
• Cadel Bennie (VC)
• Cullen Grainger (VC)
• Alex Smith (C)
• Will Curran (VC
• Ned Curran (VC)
• Jack Gallie (C)
• Archer Jackson (VC)
• Jake Franklah (VC)
• Emmanuel Geu (c)
