District Cross Country

The Barbreck District XC runners are looking forward to their District competition on Friday 11 May at Kooyong Park.

The girls have been training on Tuesday morning (Junior Joggers) and Thursday morning with the Senior Squad.

Mr Tom Crebbin
Junior School Head of Physical Education

District Diving

Once again, St Catherine’s School were host to the District Diving Carnival on Thursday 26 April. The carnival saw close to 100 competitors from Years 4 to 6 from seven of the schools in our district.

The 9/10 years age category girls, although a little nervous in their first competition, jumped and dived well in the B Division. Lulu Kyriakou placed second with Erin Jurgens placing ninth, and Hollie Pringle and Giselle Mangano a little further back in the field.

Our 11 years age category participants all competed in B Division as well. Audrey Doan placed third, Bella Burdett-Moore fifth and Louella Simpson and Portia Gowrie behind them.

The standard of dives performed by some of the 12/13 year old competitors was quite amazing. Our girls were in awe of the skill level from the Firbank girls. Lilla Barrington finished a very admirable fourth behind the three Firbank divers in the A Division competition. She performed all her three dives very well and was so thrilled with her result. Scarlett Pringle and Indi Cunningham also competed in A Division whilst Arabella placed in third position in B Division.

Congratulations to the following girls:

10 years- Lulu Kyriakou, Hollie Pringle, Giselle Mangano and Erin Jurgens

11 years- Portia Gowrie, Audrey Doan, Bella Burdett-Moore and Louella Simpson

12 years- Lilla Barrington, Indi Cunningham, Scarlett Pringle and Arabella Bertalli

The experience of diving under the pressure of a competition is a valuable lesson for all of our girls. Seeing how well other girls can dive is inspirational for our girls.