GPS Success

After fantastic performances at Saturday’s Head of the River Regatta, Sam Hardy (12/MO) and Rob Hunt (12/MA) captured the attention of rowing selectors and last night were selected in the Combined GPS VIII. Congratulations boys, we know you will do Newington proud at the GPS level.

Athletics

On Saturday 2 March Lachlan Little ( 12/KL) became the only Athlete in the 150 year history of Athletics in NSW to win the NSW All Schools Long Jump Championship, the U20 NSW Long Jump Championship and then on Saturday at the age of 17, win the NSW Open Long Jump Championship. What a great achievement, and all within one season!

His winning jump was recorded at 7.43m (wind assisted).

There were two other Newington records set at the Championships. Morgan McDonald (12/MO) ran 3.40.7 in the open 1500m, and came 4th in the 1500m final, and Lachlan jumped 7.26m in the Open Long Jump.

Several Newington old boys also competed and there were commended wins to:

Josh Ralph (ON ’09) winning the Open 400m in 46.94s

Liam Ridings (ON ’07) 3rd in the Open 10,000m 31.11.82.

Ben Cross (ON ’06) in both the 1500m and 10,000m.

Swimming and Surf Lifesaving

Callum Lowe-Griffiths (9/PR) competed in the  NSW State Age Titles in January and won seven individual and two relay medals whilst swimming for Willoughby Swim Club where he is coached by Graeme Brewer.

He also made the qualifying times for these and other events for the upcoming National Age titles to be held in Adelaide in April.

Gold Medals

• 800m Free
• 400m Free
• 400 Individual Medley
• 4 x 50 Medley Relay breaking the NSW by 2 secs

Silver Medals

• 200m Individual Medley
• 200m Backstroke
• 100m Backstroke
• 4 x 50m Freestyle relay

Bronze Medal

• 200m Freestyle
• Surf Life Saving

Since finishing school last December, Callum has been busy winning some important titles. He represented the Sydney Northern Beaches (SNB) at the NSW Interbranch Titles where SNB retained their championship and won the following titles:

• Sydney Water Iron Man Series which was held over 4 weekends on the South Coast where Callum won all surf swim, board and ironman events.

• Freshwater Bennett Ironman Challenge,

• Ironman and surf race at the NSW Wave Warriors and Manly Nipper National Carnivals

• Won the ironman, surf swim and board race at the Freshwater SLSC Australia Day carnival

This culminated in the Sydney Northern Beaches Branch Championshps at the beginning of March which were held at Dee Why. Callum won the Ironman and the surf race.

But among Callum’s many talents is also ocean swimming.

Callum won his age division prize (12-19yr) at the Cole Classic and finished 8th in the elite field (first in his Age Group) at the Palm Beach to Whale Beach BIG SWIM. This field contained (Olympian Chris Fydler, Olympic triallist Wally Eggleton and last year’s GPS swimming Captain Jonah Beard)

Callum is is a representative for Newington at the AAGPS Swimming and is a proud member of the Senior relay Team.

Design and Technology

Newington Old Boy Nicholas Sadowsky (ON ’10) was one of the 50 finalists in The Edge Design Competition at the Australian Furniture Fair held in the Convention Centre, Darling Harbour. Nicholas in currently studying furniture design at the University of Technology, Sydney and hopes to study a car design course in Milan, Italy. We wish Nicholas the very best in his future endeavours.