Archive for the ‘Sport’ Category

Congratulations and well done to the Junior School inter-school swimming team (including some Senior School Year 7 swimmers) for their first place win!

On Thursday, 4 April, the inter-school swimming team went to Bilgoman to compete in the 2013 carnival.  The students are to be congratulated for their outstanding behaviour and excellent sportsmanship.  A big thank you to all the students who attended training with the specialised assistance of Mr Ford and Mrs Osborn.  Thank you to all the parents who came down to support their children.

After a 13 year drought from the championship trophy, Helena has once again brought it home.  It was super close in 2010, where we controversially came second by 1 point to St Anthony’s and the trophy has been just out of reach ever since!  But this year the students’ efforts in the pool were gutsy and remarkable.  Their teamwork, sportsmanship and encouragement of each other was nothing short of outstanding.

As you can see by the final results, our Helena students came through convincingly.

The results are as follows:

We are so proud of each swimmer in the team for his/her sportsmanship, commitment and determination. Congratulations to the team.

Anthony Fazioli, Health and Education specialist

Congratulations to the members of the runners club who participated in the Darlington half-marathon on the weekend. Well done especially to Robbie Herzfeld, Year 12 student, and Cooper Campbell, Year 11 student, for running the Darlington half marathon. Neither boy had never run over 12km before so to run 21kms in under 1 hour 45 minutes was a fantastic effort. Also well done to a number of other runners club members for running in the 8km event, especially to Juliet Blundell, Year 10, who used the event as the product for her IB Middle Years Programme personal project.

For more information about runners club please contact me via the email link below.

Joe Kendall, Coordinator of School Sport

Congratulations to Keaton Critchell, one of 12 players that have been chosen to represent the Association of Catholic Colleges (ACC) cricket team against the combined government schools’ side at the WACA. The ACC is the association Helena College teams compete in for inter-school competitions.

Players were asked to nominate and were required to attend selection trials for the match. The standard of the players was very high and all boys were commended for their efforts in putting themselves forward for selection.

The match at this stage is scheduled for Tuesday, 2 April on the WACA.  School sport coordinator, Mr Joe Kendall, Health and Physical Education teacher at the Senior School commented, ‘Awesome effort from a very talented cricketer. The College is very proud of Keaton’s efforts in getting into the team. Keaton hit 65 runs off about 25 balls during the match on Monday and had all of Kent St High School (which is specialist cricket school) in awe of his shot making and big hitting.’

Congratulations to the following Year 10 students who will take on leadership roles as House Captains in Year 11, 2011.

Helena College was represented by three students at the WA  School Orienteering Championships at Fred Jacoby Park on 16 June. Ruth Dowson was second in the girls 11 years age group, Imogen Walters was second in the girls 12 years age group and Bill Mann was first in the boys 16 and over category. With 900 students from all over the state at the event this was a wonderful effort both individually and for the school. Congratulations to all three students!

At the State Gradings for Zen Do Kai on the weekend Brianna Pannekoek attempted her Junior Black Belt. Brianna did so well throughout the grading and especially Kickboxing 10 rounds against adults that she was given a Senior Black Belt! Others to do well on the day were:

Aleisha Howard – Brown Thai singlet
Lewis Kinnear – Green Singlet
James Challis – Blue Singlet.
2 dads also passed their kickboxing levels.

Dave Bannister and Tim Hayward
Zen Do Kai Club