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Athletics
In the final Athletics Inters to be held at Perry Lakes, the Trinity Athletics team finished a creditable second to a well rounded Aquinas team.
Training commenced immediately after the winter sport season finished and it was very pleasing to see the large number of boys turn up for what would be a short, intense season of only four weeks duration.
The College Age Championships was the first real indication of the strengths and weaknesses within the team and provided an opportunity for the talent of the Year 8 boys to be scrutinised. These athletes showed that they had plenty of ability and indications were that this group would more than hold their own.
Congratulations to Matthew Davies, Trent Bradshaw, James Cumming, Clayton Arnez and Joshua Hicks who were Age Champions from the under 14 age group through to Open respectively. Team Vice Captain Matthew Cowie set two new College records in the open age group shot put and discus event. The old records of 15.83m for shot and 46.60m for discus were set in 1979 by David Court (Class of 1979) with Matt registering throws of at 17.78m and 50.32m
The following Saturday featured the traditional meet with Aquinas and Hale. Unlike the previous year, conditions were conducive to good performances and the boys once again pushed for a spot in the team. The participation rate, a feature of this year’s team, was again evident with 135 boys representing the College at this meet.
Inters Day was once again a tight battle between Trinity and Aquinas for most of the day with neither school being able to get a significant lead. Aquinas went into the 1500m events with a lead of around 50 points, a margin the middle distance boys reduced to about 25 points with five relays to come. The Aquinas relays proved better than ours and they were comparatively comfortable and deserving winners at the conclusion of the carnival. Although obviously disappointed with the result (which was initially incorrectly announced and had us only 10 points off a win), the Trinity team conducted themselves with great sportsmanship and dignity, a testimony to the character of the boys in the team.
It was noticeable that there was a significant improvement in the standard of athletics at several other schools which would indicate that the 2009 Inters will be even more difficult to win.
Congratulations to the U/14, U/15 and Open athletes who all won their respective age groups and to team Captain Travis Colyer who was the top individual points scorer in the Open age group from any school at the Inters. Matthew Davies also had a great day, winning the Old Boys’ Trophy for the highest scoring individual athlete on the day.
Two Open athletes set new Inters records – Josh Hicks ran the 150m in a staggering 4 min. 02.9 secs breaking the old mark of 4 min. 05.3 secs set by another Trinity athlete, Stephen Spiers back in 1985. Matt Cowie broke the Inters records and his own Trinity record with a throw of 54.88 metres in the discus, breaking a record that had stood for 26 years.
Congratulations and thank you to the Year 12 athletes who leave us this year – they have been involved in three Alcock Shield victories, a great achievement.
Matt Cowie
Stephen Spiers and Josh Hicks
SENIOR SCHOOL ATHLETICS
Jonathon Allen, Nicholas Allen, Jamie Andrawes, Clayton Arnez, James Ballard, Patrick Banks, Francis Baptist, Christian Bignell, Eric Bin Sali, Sam Birchall, Kaiden Boksich, Troy Bonnett, Peter Bormolini, Mitchell Boros, Trent Bradshaw, Christopher Bryan, Luke Bunter, Sheldon Burgess, Liam Burke, Samuel Burke, Sebastian Calabro, Thomas Cannell, Bronson Chabros, Jeremy Ciccarelli, Gerard Colreavy, Taylor Colton, Travis Colyer (Captain), Luke Comiskey, Ryan Cook, Christopher Corder, Eamonn Costello, Matthew Cowie (Vice Captain), Thomas Crackel, Connor Cribben, James Cumming, Christopher Dale, Matthew Davies, Marc De Francesch, Conor Devlin, Jack Dewsbury, Dylan Dewsbury, Luke Di Bartolomeo, James Di Carlo, Jordan Di Lello, Patrick Di Nardo, Matthew Dondas, Adam Doyle, Kenneth Duggan, Matthew Economo, Jack Elder, William Elias Perez, Joshua Evans, Michael Ferrinda, Luke Fogliani, Timothy Gargano, Caleb Gilroy, Jacob Goddard, Aaron Gregory, Earl Harris, Samuel Harris, Callum Hart, Joshua Hicks (Vice Captain), Oliver Hopkins, Jeremy Hunt, Nikolas Iliadis, Jesse Ipsaro-Passione, Daniel Isailovic, Trent Ivicevic, Nicholas Jose, Daniel Kenworthy, Philippe Kilpatrick, Michael Lee, Andrew Lillywhite, Clement Lynch, Francis Main, Joshua Mapstone, Jerico Matarazzo, Nicholas McKenna, Robert McKenna, Timothy Mettam, Luke Moorby, Bennett Moran, Alexander Murphy, Dylan Murray, Ruvan Muthu-Krishna, Parry Nguyen, Vinh Nguyen, Joshua Nicholas, Thomas Nicolay, Adam Norman, Samuel O’Connell, Nathan Oliver, Mihali Palassis, Luke Pardini, Liam Parsons, Bennett Pearce, David Pearson, Kurt Penney, Sean Penney, Timothy Pitcher, Adrian Pizzata, Andrew Porteous, Seve Pratico, Terence Price, Dominic Radecki, Michael Radice, Luke Randazzo, Timothy Rayner, Jordan Richards, Oliver Righton, Timothy Ronchi, Valerio Rosso, Christian Ruggiero, Marcus Ruggiero, Scott Russo, Gerard Ryan, Jeremy Ryan, David Scott, Declan Shortt, William Singer, Joshua Smith, Conor Spence, Francis Staude, Elliot Stevenson, Phillip Stirling, Timothy Sutherland, Mitchell Taylor, Michael Tobin, Benjamin Turner, Alexander Valli, Angelo Velho, Cody Versteeg, Max Vining, Peter Walsh, Alex Walton, Robert Warren, Daniel Watson, Mark Watson, Matthew Watson, Alec Wilson, Rowan Withers, Trent Woolley, Kristopher Wright, Boden Young, Cameron Yukich
Coaches: Mr Brendan Chapman, Mrs Miriam Fogliani, Ms Maree Harden, Mr Phil Jurjevich, Mr Raymond Kosovich, Mr Steve Leahy, Ms Rhiannon Lodge, Mr Steve Magriplis, Mr Barry McKenna, Mr Peter O’Connell,
