Cross Country Report

CROSS COUNTRY

REPORT

After a hiatus of two years, it was with some excitement that we resumed interschool cross country races this year. Unfortunately this delight was short lived as after the first race hosted by Zwaanswyk, announced that all further races in the second term had been cancelled.

At Wynberg we continued with our bi-weekly early morning practises, enjoying the sunrise from the top field at the high school and the improvement of our level of fitness.

We took a small group of boys to participate in the cross country races held at Grey in Gqeberha in May and were very pleased with the level of fitness and keenness shown by these stalwarts. Many thanks go to Mr Isaacs who led the fitter of our boys on 5km loops around the fields and to Mrs Gouveia and Mrs Knutsen for their enthusiasm and dedication to running.

“MANY THANKS GO TO MR ISAACS WHO LED THE FITTER OF OUR BOYS ON 5KM LOOPS

AROUND THE FIELDS ... ”

Happily, the races resumed again in the third term and we took our contingent of excited boys to various venues around Cape Town.

Brett Liddell was selected to try out for the Western Province team. Unfortunately this was not his year. We do hope that he will persevere and try again in 2023.

Our interhouse cross country race was held in August. The following are boys who came first in each age group:

Grade R

Hunter Seaward

Grade 1

Logan Van Voight

Grade 2

Samuel Rentzke

Grade 3

Lihle Ndabeni

Grade 4

Brett Liddell

Grade 5

Joshua Gonsalves Seth Leary

Grade 7

Luke Felgate

The winner of the interhouse cross country was Oude Wijnberg who very narrowly beat Sunninghill.

The Cross Country Pentangular was hosted this year by SACS. Well done to all those who participated so willingly to represent Wynberg Boys’ Junior School.

Mrs ML Townsend

SCAN ME

Inter House Grade 1 Cross Country

FAR BACK : Tino Makuve, Zuhayr Meyers, Jonathan Greyvenstein, Nicholas Walker-Smith, Maxx Claasen, Mrs C Gouveia BACK ROW: Mr R Isaacs, Caleb Maggott, Benjamin Rentzke, Yasin Fakir, Jordi Jonas, Caelan McLeod, Nic Centurier-Harris, Caden van der Westhuizen, Joshua Miles, Hunter Rouse, Mrs ML Townsend MIDDLE ROW: Jason Warner, Bryan Kanyinda, Elyon Mauye, Oscar Manley, Alex Oosterwyk, Riyaad Abrahams, Damien Taberer, Rapha King, Daniel Ryan FRONT ROW : Raaziq Jainoodien, Adam Cronje, Samuel Rentzke, Oscar Howes, Jack Joubert, Brett Liddell, Nicholas Taljaard