Aloysiad 15-12 2006.indd - St Aloysius
Aloysiad 15-12 2006.indd - St Aloysius
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<strong>St</strong>udent Achievements (in other sports)<br />
Basketball<br />
Tom Wright (Year <strong>12</strong>) captained an undefeated CIS team<br />
and was selected in the NSW Combined Colleges team<br />
for the Australian Schools Nationals in Perth. Tom has since<br />
been picked in the Australian School Boys Team.<br />
Snow Sports<br />
Twelve boys qualified for <strong>St</strong>ate Championships this year.<br />
At the Thredbo Cup, brothers James Boyd (Year 9) and<br />
Daniel Boyd (Year 7) excelled. James was placed first in<br />
the Men’s J1 Giant Slalom and first in the Men’s J1 Slalom<br />
whilst Daniel was first in the Child C1 Slalom and third in<br />
the Child C1 Giant Slalom.<br />
Daniel has since been picked in the Australian Children’s<br />
Squad.<br />
Waterpolo<br />
Michael de Gail (Year 8), Mark Sindone (Year 8), and<br />
Paul Sindone (Year 7) represented NSW Under 14s<br />
at Nationals. The team defeated Queensland in the finals.<br />
Michael captained the team.<br />
Fencing<br />
Captain David Donato (Year <strong>12</strong>) was selected to<br />
represent Australia in the World Championships earlier<br />
in the year and has since qualified to represent at the<br />
Commonwealth Games.<br />
Hayden Fitzgerald (Year 8) won a bronze medal in Foils<br />
at the NSW Schools <strong>St</strong>ate Championships<br />
Three boys represented NSW at the Australian National<br />
Championships. Jeremy Aimes (Year 8) was picked in the<br />
Under <strong>15</strong> Foil Team, James Zwar (Year 11) for the Under<br />
17 Epee Team and David Donato for the Under 17 Foil<br />
and Epee Team.<br />
Gold Blazers<br />
Two boys this year achieved this rare sporting honour.<br />
Graham Purcell (Year <strong>12</strong>) for Swimming, Waterpolo and<br />
Cross Country and Alex Godbold ( Year 11) for Waterpolo,<br />
Athletics and Cross Country.<br />
Summer Preview<br />
Athletics<br />
The CAS Athletic Championships were held in near<br />
perfect twilight conditions last at Homebush. Despite<br />
the fact that our team finished sixth for the first time in<br />
many years, the performance of the whole team was<br />
very praiseworthy. We improved our overall points by<br />
over thirtypoints and doubled our wins from 2005. In fact<br />
we were only fifty points off second placing in what was<br />
the closest competition in years, especially amongst the<br />
bottom five schools. On the track, we were the second<br />
best school in terms of points scored. Knox won the<br />
championship on the day.<br />
There were some outstanding performances, including<br />
a number of College records. Vice Captain Ben Tweedie<br />
(Year <strong>12</strong>) broke the Opens Javelin record with a throw of<br />
53.38 metres. John Wunder (Year 10) in the 16s Discus<br />
threw 34.<strong>12</strong> metres whilst Tim Shmigel (Year 8) equalled<br />
his 13s Long Jump record with a leap of 5.19 metres. The<br />
<strong>15</strong>s relay team of Tom Priddis (Year 9), Tom Kingston (Year<br />
9), Travis Owens (Year 9) and Chris Chan (Year 9), not only<br />
broke the College record, but also the CAS record.<br />
Individual winners on the evening included:<br />
Opens Brendan McLenagan (800m Division and <strong>15</strong>00m<br />
Championship)<br />
17s Alex Godbold (800m Championship and <strong>15</strong>00m<br />
Championship ), Oscar Merven (Year 11) (<strong>15</strong>00m<br />
Division), Harry Irving (Year <strong>12</strong>) ( Hurdles Division)<br />
16s Sam <strong>St</strong>evens (Year 10) (200m Championship and<br />
400m), Michael Mulcahy (Year 11) (200m Division)<br />
<strong>15</strong>s Tom Priddis (Hurdles Championship), Travis Owens<br />
(200m Division)<br />
13s Tim Shmigel (200m Championship, 400m and<br />
Long Jump)<br />
Apart from these winners, there were many other<br />
excellent efforts with numerous boys performing personal<br />
bests. Captain Harry Irving (Year <strong>12</strong>) , led by example<br />
with outstanding efforts in all his races. He was well<br />
supported by his Vice Captains Brendan McLenaghan, Ben<br />
Tweedie and Sean Lambert (all Year <strong>12</strong>), all of whom were<br />
inspirational athletes throughout the season.<br />
Full CAS results are on the College intranet.<br />
Congratulations to Sam <strong>St</strong>evens and Ben Shorter (both<br />
Year 10), who have qualified for Nationals following their<br />
performances at All Schools Championships.<br />
My thanks go to Mr Justin Langley, MIC, who again<br />
administered the sport so well. Well done to Head Coach<br />
Mr Clayton Kearney and all staff and outside coaches who<br />
were fully committed all season. Old Boy coaches included<br />
Matt Dwyer (SAC 1997), John Corpuz (SAC 2004),<br />
Matt Walker (SAC 2005), Ian Skinner (SAC 2004), Tom<br />
Borger (SAC 2003), Daniel DeZilva (SAC 2003), Jonathon<br />
Owen (SAC 2004), Angus Ryan (SAC 2005) and Damian<br />
Milani (SAC 1983). Physiotherapist Ms Louisa Coleman<br />
served excellently both in this role and as coach. The<br />
Parent Committee, headed by Mr Peter Kingston, is to be<br />
commended on their efforts along with all parents who<br />
helped out at the various carnivals. The Irving’s, along with<br />
many others organised a fabulous end of season dinner<br />
on Saturday night. And finally a word of thanks to Fr Ross<br />
Jones SJ and Fr Chris Middleton SJ whose presence was<br />
very obvious throughout the season.<br />
Australian Rules<br />
The College fielded three teams again for the short five<br />
week season against various CAS and GPS schools.<br />
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