A stunning weekend of athletics at Lakeside Stadium has seen St. Kevin’s Athletes scoop 3 Gold Medals, 3 Silver Medals and 2 bronze medals, with the championships only half over.
GOLD
For the first time SKAAC has provided the winner of the blue ribband 100m, with Joel Bee leaving it late to snatch a dead heat in 10.62s. This follows Joel’s win earlier in the season in the 100 yards Championships.
Dylan Johnson claimed his first Victorian Senior Triple Jump title, on his last jump with a PB of 15.51, eclipsing his own club record by 8cm. Dylan will tackle the Long Jump next weekend and then the Canberra Track Classic prior to the Nationals in Sydney.
Phil Borg ran a most controlled race to win the Under 18 400m title in a new PB of 49.92. This is the first time that Phil has dipped under 50sec for 400m and one thinks this will be the first of many times this is achieved by Phil.
SILVER
Adam Pyke has finished agonisingly close to go back-to-back in the Open Men’s 1500m, finishing with Silver in a time of 3:46, just outside the time posted in the ACT the weekend before. Adam heads to Nationals knowing that he is in superior shape to this time last season when he finished 3rd in Australia.
Thomas Scroggie…Well what can be said about Thomas’ run in the 1500m. Aggressive, yes, commanding, yes and a coming of age of sorts, another big yes. Prior to the weekend Thomas’ PB for 1500m was in the 4:20’s. What it is now is a staggering 4:11.04 and good enough to take silver. In grabbing this medal, Thomas has announced his class. He is well set for a similar assault on his 800m PB next weekend.
Jett-Paris Bedelis in winning the silver medal added 30cm to his PB (which now stands at 2.20m) and broke a club record that has stood since 1972. Jett now gets the opportunity to wear the blue colours of the mighty Victoria at the Nationals in Sydney.
BRONZE
Massimo Acquaro is a super talent and keeps getting better with every race. On Sunday he added a State Bronze medal to his collection with a strong 11.50 in the Under 17 100m race.
Thomas Scroggie secured a Bronze medal in the Under 16 2000m Steeplechase running a PB of 6:28.42 and in doing so took out the Under 15 and Under 16 SKAAC Club Records previously held by Anthony McKay.
In total, there were 12 club records broken over the weekend. In addition to the 4 described above, Isabelle Collins created a new mark in the 1500m of 5:01.92 for every age group from Under 15 to Under 20 inclusive. Kayla De Bondt also broke the Open Women’s 1500m record in her heat (4:35.57) and again in the final (4:31.97)
PB efforts were also recorded by:-
Matthew Kim Under 15 Triple Jump 5th 11.43m
Tristan Day Under 17 1500m 4:13.09
Josh Collins Under 17 1500m 4:16.95
Will Lewis Under 18 1500m 4:04.58
Callum Day Under 20 1500m 4:15.96
Luca DiConza Under 15 1500m 4:30.33
It was also great to see Conor Fry & Brad Mathas make the 400m final running 49.01 (6th) & 49.56 (7th) respectively.
DEBUTS
SKAAC were also pleased to see the following athletes have their first ever go at the State Championships
Ava Bennett Under 17 1500m 5:29.00, an over 12sec improvement from Ava’s last run at the GSV Div 1 carnival in 2016
Marcus Osman Under 17 100m 12.17s, an electric timed PB and a narrow miss to go through to the final
Adam McGarry Under 15 Pole Vault 6th in 2.20m, which is a National qualifier
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