Interschool Athletics

It has been a huge term of sport, starting with swimming, triathlon and currently athletics. The success and commitment by the students/teams in both swimming and the triathlon have already been highlighted in previous newsletters, so our focus has recently turned to athletics. Congratulations to the Chaffey team who backed up their efforts from swimming by taking out the Athletics Championship for 2019.

Students were then selected, or challenged for a position in the Interschool Athletics Team who competed on Wednesday of week 10. Once again the students were happy and honoured to represent Renmark High School and put in their best efforts.

It was a very successful day with many students achieving a personal best time, jump and/or throw. As a result of the commitment by all students, we initially managed to fill all events. in the few instances of injury or illnes we were also able to cover these events easily. Across the day RHS achieved four Riverland High School records including:

• Isabella Cant – U14 1500m set in 1982
• Bailey White – U14 1500m set in 1988 (Maison Goodman also broke the old record in the same race)
• Sasha Jenke – U16 Javelin set in 1990
• Ball Games Open Spoke Relay Team set in 1990

Due to many great results across the day, some of the RHS records were also broken.

• Bailey White – U14 1500m (set by himself a few weeks ago)
• Jessica Price – U16 100m and U16 200m set in 1995

Many students were forced to dash between events as as result of time delays and the overlap between track and field events. Senior student Gemma Letton had a huge day finishing 1^st in the Open 100m, 200m, Javelin and Long Jump and 5^th in the High Jump. This meant that she finished 2^nd by 1 point for the Female Athlete of the Day.

Overall, the atmosphere and support from all of the RHS students and staff was once again a highlight (especially as the runners came around the bend to run the last 100m) and no doubt provided that bit of extra energy for competitors. The fight, determination and willingness to do their personal best by all meant that Renmark High School were successful in a number of categories. These included:

• 2^nd Championship Shield
• 1^st Most Improved Shield
• 2^nd Ball Game Shield
• 1^st U14 Boys Pennant

All the best to athletics team competing in the School Sport SA Championships (SANTOS STADIUM) in week 11.

Well done to Josh Vater, Justin Smith, Perter Safralidis and the Glossop High Staff for hosting the event in 2019 and congratulations to Loxton on winning the Championship Shield.

Cross Country

At this stage the Renmark High School Cross Country event will be held on Tuesday 14^th May (week 3) at the Paringa Paddock (as Margaret Dowling Reserve is under construction). We encourage as many students to support this event and due to recent success in the long distant events we believe RHS will have a very strong Interschool Team to compete in week 4/5 at Martin's Bend.

Those students involved in a winter sport can use the opportunity to improve heir fitness, which I’m sure coaches will be happy about.

Knockout Cup Sport

Throughout Term 2/3 we have nominated for a variety of sports. These include Open Mixed Hockey, Open Girls Football, Open Boys and Girls Volleyball and Year 10 Boys and Girls Volleyball. Please listen to the daily notices for further information.

Volleyball Training / Heathfield visit

On the first weekend of the holidays (13^th and 14^th April) Heathfield High School will be running a camp in Renmark. Trainings and games will be held at the Alan Coulter Recreation Centre on Saturday 1:00pm – 4:00pm and Sunday 9:00am – 4:00pm.

All Year 8 and 9 students that are interested (especially those that have indicated some interest in attending Melbourne) are encouraged to attend these sessions.

Local Sports

Well done to the students and staff who have had some recent success in their local sport and all the best to those starting winter sports in the next few weeks.