This weeks events.

Athletics

Hi all, thanks for the good wishes over the weekend. Great to have Liam Foley call in.

The boys have had a great weekend, making my life easy and being great ambassadors for the College. Many, nearly made it stories.

• Andres Hernandez was our only gold medallist, winning the junior 3000m easily having broken away from the whole field before 1000m was up. He backed this up with a gutsy 4th in the 1500m.
• Nick Moulai won our other medal for his third in the senior 1500m. One of the toughest races of the weekend with five sprinting down the home straight for gold. He was happy to get a medal after the injury layoff at a crucial time in his build up.
  
• Bradley Jervis exceeded all expectations making the final of the junior 800m, finishing fourth after being severely checked by the eventual winner down the back straight with 250m to go. After others protested this and another incident and the jury of appeal met, no DQ resulted sadly and he stayed 4th. He also came fifth in the 400m. An awesome effort as he had to run three rounds in both events over 2.5days.
  
• Luke de Roo made both his junior finals which required four rounds for each event to finish 7th in both the 100m and 200m.
  
• James Coates had been on antibiotics for the two weeks prior and was happy with his 4th in the junior shot put but gutted with his 15th in his favoured discus. He had been recently throwing over 50m which would have got him bronze.
  

• Ethan Smolej finished 5th in the Y9 3000m road race.
  
• John Gerber, first year senior, was 11th in the 400m and 21st in the 100m.
  
• Nicolo Froda, also a first year senior, was 27th in 100m and 29th in 200m.
  
• Rupert Naughton has been focussing on his hockey scholarship to England in term one next year but still gained 11th in the senior 110m hurdles and 16th in the 300m hurdles.
  
• Luke, Andres, Ethan and Bradley ran a great 4 x 400m relay at the end of the meeting to finish 5th in the junior race.
  
• John, Nicolo, Rupert and Nick finished a worthy 13th in the senior 4 x 400m race. 
  

Mr John Gamblin

Rowing

Otago Rowing Championships

The first regatta for the season for St Bede’s rowing was held in Twizel last weekend, four van loads of boys went down along with numerous parents and supporters. The only part of the weekend beyond the control of the parent committee was the weather and the rowers experienced plenty of it.

Using the Twizel golf club as a meeting and meal venue, the boys and parents were well fed afterwards the coaching staff of Ross, Hayden and Fiona set the tone for the weekend….. this is the beginning; not the end of the season.

Saturday started well and then a Southerly wind led to the races being stopped which was a shame for the double scull crew which was a distance ahead at the half way mark. After the break the regatta restarted and the red hulls of St Bede’s were near the front in most heats. There was a debrief at dinner for all crews.

Sunday the remainder of the heats and the A finals, unfortunately there wasn’t time for all the A finals to occur.

Mention must be made of the great win to our U15 Four Winning by 20 sec, the crew of Matty Barr, Jamie Soper, Oliver Flanagan, Sam Nolan & cox Ed Goodland.

Another young crew to that impressed was that of Tom Arscott, Ben Visser, Ben McGreggor, Will O’Brien & cox Caleb Parsons. They had an impressive win in the U16 Four which they backed up with a solid win in the U18 Eight and a 2nd place by 2sec in the U16 Eight.

So of the A finals rowed the results were

• 1ST U18 EIGHT
  
• 1st U16 FOUR
  
• 1ST U15 FOUR 1st INTERMEDIATE EIGHT (against adults and College crews)
• 2nd U16 EIGHT
  
• 3rd Novice FOUR (first year rowers against adults and College crews)
  

So overall the Otago Championships was a good beginning for our 2017-2018 season with a solid start for all our Rowers.

See photo's below

Mr Doug Palmer - Master in Charge Rowing

A big Thank You

A very big thank you to all those parents that have helped with sport this year, whether it is as a coach, manager, transporter, supporter or running a sports club or turning up to a sports club meeting.  

I would like to sincerely thank all of you who make sport possible at this College and I look forward to your ongoing support next year. 

I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful break over the holidays, enjoy your lovely boys.

Many thanks Clare Kissick, Director of Sport.