Kavanagh College held their annual athletics sports on Monday 19th February.

Kavanagh College held their annual athletics sports on February 19th. The weather was a little average for the first two hours but cleared nicely and finished up being very pleasant. 

This year we had six records broken. Peter Sewell broke the Under15 boys 400m in a record time of 55.67 secs and he also broke the Boys Under 15 100m record in a time of 11.09secs, Faith Elisara smashed the Girls Under 15 shot put record with a throw of 10.91m, Troy Kubala broke the Under 13 Boys shot put record with a throw of 9.93m, Sione Tukala broke the Over 16 Boys shot put record with a massive throw of 16.05m and Hena Fonohema broke the Over 16 Girls shot put record with a throw of 13.28m. 

22 athletes will now take part in the Otago Athletics champs to be held at the Caledonian on March 2 and 3. 

My thanks to all the staff who helped out on the day. 

Attached are the overall champions and runner-ups for each age group. Also below are the house points for the day.

Rice 708

Ambrose 706

Pompallier 701

Bodkin 670

McAuley 473

Gabriel 442