Glenny Gold @ State Athletics Championships
The 2024 ‘SSV’ State Track & Field Championships were recently contested at Lakeside Stadium, with over 255 schools from across the state competing in an array of athletic events. One of our largest GWSC Athletics Teams in recent memory converged on the big blue track, ready to make a ‘STATE’ment!
Team Glenny was 19 strong and consisted of four by 4x100m Relay Teams, including two reserves, along with 5 individual competitors who had all qualified for States in a range of events. Little did we know, but by the end of a very long and hot day we would see every GWSC student who qualified for States taking home at least one medal each!
Firstly, we would like to recognise and congratulate the following GWSC athletes and teams who are State Champions in 2024. They all did an amazing job winning Gold Medals in their various events at the ‘SSV’ State Track & Field Championships –
Daisy Robinson – Gold Medallist in the U16 Girls High Jump - (1.60m)
U13 Boys Relay Team - (Vivaan Raichurkar, Nidulya Gunaherath, Jayden Ong & William Zoltkowski) – Gold Medallists in the U13 Boys 4 x 100m Relay - (49.97 seconds)
U14 Girls Relay Team - (Avaani Krishna, Fei Fei Du, Elsie Robinson & Pakhi Singh) – Gold Medallists in the U14 Girls 4 x 100m Relay. – (52.05 seconds) – Only 0.44 off the State Record! Special shout-out to this incredible team, who have now won Back-2-Back State Championships in this athletic event!
We would also like to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of the following GWSC athletes and teams who won Silver Medals in the 2024 ‘SSV’ State Track & Field Championships –
Elsie Robinson – Silver Medallist in the U13 Girls High Jump - (1.50m)
Bohan Hou – Silver Medallist in the U15 Boys 400m - (53.79s)
Renon Weerasinghe – Silver Medallist in the U16 Boys 200m - (22.84s)
U15 Boys Relay Team - (Isaiah Khoo, Henry Robinson, Sandil Chinthamani Hettige & Bohan Hou) – Silver Medallists in the U15 Boys 4 x 100m Relay - (49.97s) – This is their third year in a row winning a State Relay Championship medal, an incredible achievement from a terrific team!
U16 Girls Relay Team - (Medha Venu, Charlotte Lee, Daisy Robinson & Thiyaga Nanayakkara) – Silver Medallists in the U16 Girls 4 x 100m Relay - (52.75s) – This is the second year in a row that this team have won a State Relay Medal.
Kudos also to the following GWSC athlete who won Bronze Medals in the 2024 ‘SSV’ State Track & Field Championships –
Renon Weerasinghe – Bronze Medallist in the U16 Boys 100m - (11.36s)
Renon Weerasinghe – Bronze Medallist in the U16 Boys Long Jump - (6.20m)
Congratulations also to Henry Robinson who took out 5th place in the U15 Boys 200m State Final, running an impressive 24.45s.
Special mentions and thanks also to our reserve runners, who not only assisted our relay teams to qualify for the State Athletics Championships but also supported them throughout each and every moment of their events. Kudos to Sita Chin and Anya Nielsen – your continued encouragement, calming influence and fantastic cheering really helped all of our Glenny Athletes! Thank-you both for also helping to warm-up your team mates and ensure that they marshalled for their events on time. You are both an integral part of our GWSC Athletics Team!
A MASSIVE THANKS to all of our GWSC staff members and also our special Glenny Alumni coach, Mr Kai Nielsen, who assisted with our after-school Athletics Training sessions this year! It has been another very successful year in relation to students achieving personal bests, in addition to qualifying for both the region and state championships. All of our amazing athletes couldn’t have done this without the continued support and dedication of our superb staff members and alumni coaches who assist our extracurricular Sports Program.
We would also like to pass on a GIANT THANK-YOU to Mr Neil Hutchins who kindly volunteered his time and expertise to help coach and mentor our GWSC ‘Track & Field’ Team during the 2024 ‘School Sport Victoria’ Waverley Division, Eastern Metropolitan Region and State Athletics Championships. Neil not only supports our team on competition days, but also coaches many of our athletes for free at the Waverley Little Athletics Centre. He does so as he has a long-standing connection with our College, having previously attended Syndal Technical School which was one of the schools that amalgamated to form Glen Waverley Secondary College as we know it today. Neil is an invaluable asset to our GWSC Athletics program and has helped to develop many of our students into the confident athletes they are today!
Finally, we would also like to thank Mr Shaun Crotty, Mr Kai Nielsen and Mr Mark Robinson who supervised, motivated, helped coach and cheered on our athletes and relay teams at the ‘School Sport Victoria’ State Track & Field Championships this year.
We look forward to an even bigger and better year of Athletics at GWSC in 2025, here’s hoping the amazing efforts of our 2024 State Track & Field Championships representatives, medallists and victors inspires even more students at our college to have a go at a run, jump or throw in the very near future!
#GoGlennyAthletics!