APS Athletics Championship 2015 (October 17th)
The headlines will read St. Kevin’s win the APS Athletics Premiership, SKC make it 5 in a row, 8 is great for SKC Aths! These tell only a small part of the greatness achieved on Saturday 17th October 2015.
The bullet points highlights would read:
- Record 21 out of 23 A Grade Finals on Heats Day.
- SKC 2nd Highest Point Total 461.5 (best 463.5 in 2013)
- Record 93.5 point win over second place Xavier College
- APS Record Open 4x400m Relay 3.19.64 (previous best 3.22.01)
- SKC Equal Record 12 APS Winning events, including: (SKAAC Clubman) Phillip Borg U-16 100m and 200m, (SKAAC Clubman) Will Lewis U-16 1500m, (SKAAC Clubman) Max Gray U-17 High Jump, (SKAAC Clubman) Harry Livens U-15 Triple Jump, Jack Anderson Open 400m and 800m, Jack Mahony U-14 100m and 800m, Murray Griffin, Daniel Doyle, James Hill, and Jack Mahony U-14 4 x 100m Relay, Campbell Smart, Sam Forbes, Owen Rush and Phillip Borg U-16 4 x 100m, (SKAAC Clubman) Conor Fry, Ryan Losty, Jack Anderson and Tuth Jok Open 4 x 400m.
In needs to be noted that each of these winners has an amazing story to tell, the most common aspect of them all is that each athlete started their SKC athletic career not as winners, some not in A grade and others not even in the team. Each has worked to develop themselves and strive for continued improvement.
Special mention to the SKC Captain Jack Anderson. His efforts on the day were outstanding, winning the first event of the day the Open 800m in a PB 1.55.11, then backing up to run two sub 50 second 400m to win the Open 400m and then 4x400m. The historians are still searching through the record books but it is believed that this is the first time the Open 800/400 has been achieved by any athlete in the 110 year history of the APS Athletics!
However the winning of a single event does not make a premiership side. Rather it is the size, dedication and desire of an entire athletics squad that wins schools a premiership. So the real story of how greatness was achieved by St. Kevin’s comes in the sheer number of students competing each and every week on the training track (including all through the holidays) and weekend competition. The student that worked to lift his performance and motivated his team mate to do the same is a premiership player. Which is why the premiership photo, that will sit proudly amongst the other great teams in the school pavilion, will record a team of over 75 athletes for the 53 contested events. They did not all win an event, some did not get to compete on the day but they all contributed and thus all finished the 2015 Premiership race as winners!
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