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Recently, the Primary School Swim Team competed at the CPSSA A Division Swimming Carnival at HBF Stadium. Our swimmers competed against seven Catholic schools from around Perth including Mel Maria, Ursula Frayne, Holy Rosary, Our Lady of Grace, St Peter’s, St Columba’s and Infant Jesus. The Swim Team committed to many weeks of early morning training sessions to ready themselves for the event and, the swimmers were very excited to finally be competing at the event. Mel Maria was the Champion school for the day but our St Brigid’s College Junior School swimmers should be very proud of themselves. The girls placed 4th overall and the boys placed 7th. There were so many stand-out performances on the day, including the Year 5 and Year 6 girls who placed in almost every individual race and placed in all their relays. Isla, Emilia and Nate from Year 3 raced in the Year 4 races, placing in all of their individual races. And a special mention to Maisie, Natarsha, Tahlia, Nic, Jase and Daniel for competing in the open 100m freestyle and 50m butterfly races. Well done to all our swimmers!  

Katie Otway (Year 8) has recently travelled to Karratha and swam in the Open 5 Km race. Katie set a cracking pace and swam a 6.5-minute Personal Best. The 1 hour 5.22.40 minutes set the fasted National time in Australia for the 13- and-14-year-old category. This time broke the previous Club record! Last week Katie was selected by Swimming WA in the “Elites” Open Water swimming. This Swimming is in the Open category from the age group of 14 years to 49 years, the best/cream of 25 females and 25 males racing against each other. Katie’s first race, 7.5 km, is on this Saturday morning, the 29th of October, at Leighton Beach. From here, it is full-on hard training to January for the under 15 years Australian National title. Then on the 25th-28th of January 2023, Katie will be racing for her School, Club and WA in the Australian Swimming National Open Water titles being held in Busselton, WA, against Australia’s best! We are so proud of her great achievement and we wish you all the best in the competitions!

Recently, Aaden Kettle (Year 6) made the trip to Brisbane for the Australian School Sports Swimming Championships!  Indeed, a fantastic experience for Aaden! During the trip, he spent time with like-minded kids who loved swimming as much as he did. Unsurprisingly, the 11-year-old boys’ team was acquainted closely with our lovely student and made fantastic friendships. They also got to swap pins with other states’ teams, which was a true highlight for Aaden. He loved that the other states appreciated our little swan pin so much! The pins were highly collectable as our team was small in number. Here are his achievements: 100m Breastroke – 5.91 Personal Best and placed 8th in his first-ever final 200m Medley Relay – Boys finished 4th (PB for Aaden in his leg) 200 Individual Medley – Finished 11th in the final Made finals in 100 Freestyle. Qualified 3rd with a PB and finished 6th 50m Breast – Qualified 8th for finals and pulled out a fantastic swim finishing in 4th with a massive 4.61sec PB. This is a high achievement for a 50m event. Freestyle Relay – boys finished in 4th Well Done Aaden, the St Brigid’s Community is so proud!

Congratulations to the 2022 Secondary ACC Squad!   What a joyous moment for the 2022 Secondary ACC Squad, who went to WA Athletics stadium yesterday and won the Overall Girls Championship for the B Division! Great news indeed after winning the Junior Girls Division as well. This fantastic result was a true reflection of the talents these students are gifted with and paired with the hard work they put into practice for the competition! Age Champion Under 13’s 100m Hurdles High Jump Javelin Shot Putt Long Jump 2nd Place Amelie Markovic   1st 1st 1st (1.48m) 1st 4th 1st 100m hurdles 200m 400m Long Jump 3rd Place Blair Bell 1st 1st 3rd 1st 1st 400m 200m High Jump 800m 5th Place Maia Goodall 1st 1st 1st (1.40m) 1st   Age Champion Under 14s 400m 200m Long Jump Hurdles 100m 2nd Place Demi Bell* 2nd 2nd 1st 3rd 2nd *Demi is a year 7 who competed in an age group in Year 8.  Age Champion Under 16s 400m Discus Long Jump Hurdles 800m Javelin High Jump 3rd Place Chloe Mills 5th 5th 3rd 4th 3rd 2nd 2nd We also won the Year 7 Relay consisting of Maia Goodall, Amelie Markovic, Gemma Pilot and Blair Bell. They ran this relay in 56 seconds! There were outstanding results on the day, but another special mention goes out to Lucy Quartermaine who competed in the Year 10 age group – even though she is only Year 7. Lucy Came 4th in the 1500m and 3rd in the 800m against girls 3 years older than her. The Carnival live stream replay is available through this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bmc5CRpHaE. Finally, thank you to SBC staff members for supporting the girls throughout their preparation. This shows a holistic reflection of the College’s values and its direction moving forward.   Best Regards, Chris Pietroniro and the PE Department   On behalf of the College, we thank Chris and PE Department for their incredible support and guidance to the girls. Well done!