29 September 2023
What a celebration of House Sport! Certainly a reminder of how exciting the sport of Track and Field can be. Five new records set with many other amazing performances achieved.
Following a three week build up, we arrived at the Carnival of House Athletics with a week of scheduled lunchtime events and on Friday 22nd September, the House Athletics Day. During the three weeks, boys from all year levels were offered multiple opportunities to trial and to receive coaching from our expert discipline specialists.
6300 trial entries appeared on our spreadsheets. What this figure doesn’t allow for, is the number of times many of the boys attempted to improve on their trial performances. This figure is undoubtedly a wonderfully positive demonstration of the House System’s ongoing success in general, inclusive of all people and programs within it.
Like with House Swimming and Cross Country, the program allowed for boys of all abilities to actively participate. The diverse schedule, once again, allowed the elite to demonstrate their abilities, but at the same time welcomed mass participation.
Congratulations to the following Award Winners, Runners Up, new Record holders and Houses on their achievements.
Age Champions
| Age Group | Champion/s | Runner Up |
| U13 | George Bass | Charles Johnson/Ned Noakes |
| U14 | Oliver Kirkness/Ryan Weinert | Joint Winners |
| U15 | Hugo Bower | Lachlan Estcourt Hughes |
| U16 | Sandro Purugganan | Lawson Jones/Bailey Kerr |
| U17 | Gman Paye | Albert Howard |
| Open | Ian Irwin/Henry Maerschel | Joint Winners |
Award Winners
|
Award
|
Name/s |
Achievement |
| A.K. Gordon Trophy |
Joint Winners
Stephen Lacroix-Sneyd Gman Paye Sandro Purugganan
|
See new records set below |
|
C.I. Taylor Medal
|
Jonathan Harris |
Open 1500m Champion |
New Records
| Name | Event | New Record | Previous Record | Previous Record Holder | Year |
| Farr House | Open Swedish Relay | 2min 08.00 sec | 2min 11.00 sec | Howard House | 2014 |
| Stephen Lacroix-Sneyd | U/16 1500m | 4min 12.90 sec | 4 min 13.70 sec | J. R. S. Harris | 2021 |
| Gman Paye
|
U17 100m
|
11.30 sec
Equals Previous Record |
11.30 sec
Dual Record Holders |
L. R. Whittaker
M.B. Frayne |
2014
1974 |
| Gman Paye | U17 400m | 51.40 sec | 51.90 sec | R. J. Faull | 1974 |
| Sandro Purugganan | U16 Triple Jump | 13.33 m | 13.13 m | H.M. Frayne | 2006 |
| Sandro Purugganan | U 16 Long Jump | 6.77 m | 6.50 m | W.L. Dawes | 1947 |
It’s worth noting Ian Irwin’s Open 100m was clocked at 10.9 sec. While not eclipsing the present record of 10.7 sec held by M.B. Frayne (Olympics, World Championships, Commonwealth Games), it remains an amazing performance.
Alex McClure exceeded the U16 Triple Jump record set in 2006 by H.M. Frayne (Olympics, World Championships, Commonwealth Games), only to be out jumped moments later by Sandro Purugganan.
House Champions
Junior House Cup
| Placing | House | Point Score |
| 1st | Woodcock | 15,038 |
| 2nd | Young | 14,451 |
| 3rd | Da Costa | 13,357 |
Senior House Cup
| Placing | House | Point Score |
| 1st | Farr | 15,805 |
| 2nd | Da Costa | 15,170 |
| 3rd | Howard | 13,856 |
Champion House
| Placing | House | Point Score |
| 1st | Farr | 28,865 |
| 2nd | Da Costa | 28,527 |
| 3rd | Woodcock | 27,256 |
Mr. Tony Checker
Athletics Head Coach and Carnivals Coordinator