This past week Newington College saw eight boys from both the Stanmore and Wyvern campuses invited to compete in the NSW State Interschools Snowsports Championships at Perisher and Thredbo.

The boys were coming up against the best skiers and boarders in the state and attained some pretty impressive results.

In Snowboarding Flynn Gannon (5/HO) and Toby Phillips (5/LU) finished 19th and 14th in the state respectively and the team finished an impressive 6th. Jonathan Sharpe (8/JN) just missed out on National qualification by finishing 11th in the state.

In the tough discipline of Moguls, Sam Martin (6/LU) finished 12th individually and the team (combined with Lachlan Rennie (6/LU) finished 14th.

In the Cross Country competition we had some bad news to begin with, when one of our competitors (Daniel Wright 7/MO) picked up an injury on the day before the race. Despite this, Max Inglis (7/MO) finished 23rd and Eden Bradford (9/LE) finished 26th in their individual races. However, it was in the team challenge where the story of the competition was written. Despite the fact that having a team member down meant instant disqualification, both Eden and Max decided they were going to race regardless and Daniel was going to cheer them on as their number one fan. An absolutely brilliant display of the Newington spirit!

A big congratulations to all the boys who competed and a special thank you to all the parents who managed, volunteered and helped make the week run so smoothly.

Mr Justin Verco
MIC Snowsports