What a wonderful morning of St. Kevin’s Athletics on Saturday 24th September 2016,where champions, past, present and future were all together to celebrate our great sport, capped off with a morning tea and photo presentations to each of the returning 2015 SKC Premiership team members. To have nearly 20 St. Kevin’s Athletics Legends in attendance shows the strong bond and respect between SKC & SKAAC. Athletics is a sport of numbers and here are some of them:-
1 Rio Olympian (Bol)
1 National Record Holder & World Championships Representative (Rowe)
3 Senior National Champions (Lewin; Rinaldi; Rowe)
9 SKC Athletics Captains in attendance (Travers 1978, McCann 2000, Fabris 2005, Hargreaves 2007, Weeks 2011, Bertacco 2012, Romanin 2014, Anderson 2015, Fry 2016)
3 Cross Country Captains in attendance (McCann 2000; Hibbert 2014; Bolton 2016)
8 APS Current or Past Record Holders (Lodge; Flinn; Bailey; Johnson; Romanin; Anderson; Jok; Fry)
32 school record holders, including a SKC record that has stood since 1973 (the Under 16 4×400 Relay, containing Sandy Lodge)
48 APS Wins from the Old Collegians present on the day
1 athlete that NEVER was beaten in APS Competition (5 years) and broke a record as an underage performer in 1984 in the Under 15 Shot Put (Flinn)
We received a most wonderful surprise with Les Plummer a competitor with SKAAC in 1952 joining us for the day. Below you can see a picture of Les in his club colours in 1952 (Les is in the top left back row position), and in the very next photo a picture with Conor Fry the 2016 SKC Captain of Athletics bookending the very reason why we were all here to celebrate in the first place. To honour the past and support the current!
Brosie McCann spoke passionately about each of our Legends individually to a captivated SKC Athlete audience, about each Legend’s efforts both during their school and junior careers and also about the impact they have had on the sport since leaving school and competing with SKAAC.
This event has become a special day through the hard work of Brosie McCann and for that all at SKAAC offer our congratulations for such a wonderful celebration. Please see below for a photo of the Legends in attendance on the day. We look forward to the 2017 celebration with much anticipation.
Top L-R: Sandy Lodge; Daniel Bailey; James Flinn; Shaun Hargreaves; Jack Anderson; Michael Romanin; Micael Brownlee; Tom Jok
Front L-R: Les Plummer; Simon Lewin; Justin Rinaldi; Matthew Bertacco; Dylan Johnson; Peter Bol; Alex Rowe; Chris Hibbert
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