From the Director of Co-curricular, Mr Steve O’Donnell

Welcome back to Term 4 and we have already commenced our new summer season. This Saturday we have a number of fixtures as well as our final round of summer trials. All students should have now started their new summer program and please note that year Groups for co-curricular are labelled by their 2025 cohorts as the Summer season continues into Term 1.

Over the holidays we had a number of activities and students performing at high levels. Our Manchester City Camps were well attended and included a community camp for some of the girls in the local area. Our 1st XI had trials as well as playing the first day of their Round 1 match against Trinity at Queens Park. We also had a number of Basketball players and coaches give up a lot of their holidays for camps and tournaments. A huge thank you to those staff, coaches, players and parents for their efforts and commitments during the holiday period.

Next Thursday we will recognise our new Summer 1sts teams and captains and parents are welcome to attend. We will have special guest speaker Waverley Old Boy Noah Havard who recently won silver at the Paris Olympics.

Good luck to all activities this weekend!

NSW All Schools Athletics Championships

As many of our Track & Field athletes took a well earned rest after the CAS Track & Field Championships during the holidays, several took the opportunity to test their athleticism against the best in the state at The NSW All Schools Athletics Championships from 28 September – 2 October at Sydney Olympic Park.

After a successful 6-week season Waverley took a strong contingent of 14 athletes to test their abilities at these Championships.  These athletes were rewarded with several season bests, personal bests and achieving up to 10 podium individual medals across a variety of both Track & Field disciplines – with yet another two school records were broken, this time in the 14 years age group by Evan Rowbotham (1500m – 4:09.83) and Rory Muldowney (100m Hurdles – 14.11sec). 

Despite so many outstanding performances only the Top 2 in each age group are selected to compete for NSW at the Australian All Schools Athletics Championships. Waverley will be proudly represented by Evan Rowbotham (14 years – 1500m), Rory Muldowney (14 years – 100m Hurdles), and Filtomas Finekifolau (15 years – Shot Put, Discus & Pole Vault). These Championships will be held in Brisbane, QLD at QEII Stadium from 6-8 December.

We would like to congratulate all our athletes on a very successful Championships and we look forward to many more great performances as the club season continues through to April 2025.

Results from the NSW All Schools Championships can be found below;

100 Metres

12 Years

Prelims (Heat 2 of 2)               

1st George Lambousis 12.54 Q

 Final                

🥈 George Lambousis 12.64

14 Years

Prelims (Heat 3 of 4)               

2nd Rory Muldowney 12.05

16 Years

Prelims (Heat 3 of 4)               

1st Wol Albino 10.97 Q

Final                

5th Wol Albino 11.11

19 Years

Prelims (Heat 2 of 2)               

3rd Ricardo Zanapalis 11.19 Q

Final                

6th Ricardo Zanapalis  11.34

100m Hurdles – 84cm

14 Years

Prelims (Heat 2 of 2)               

2nd Rory Muldowney 14.52 Q (PB)

Final                

🥈 Rory Muldowney 14.11 (PB) – School Record

200 Metres

12 Years

Prelims (Heat 1 of 2)               

3rd George Lambousis 26.75 Q

Final                

🥈 George Lambousis 26.69

14 Years

Prelims (Heat 1 of 5)   

1st Rory Muldowney 23.77 Q

Final                

5th Rory Muldowney 24.17

16 Years

Prelims (Heat 4 of 4)               

2nd Wol Albino 22.38 q

 Final                

🥉 Wol Albino 22.09

 200m Hurdles – 76cm

14 Years

Timed Finals (Heat 2)              

4th Rory Muldowney 29.24 (6th Overall)                    

400 Metres     

17 years

Prelims (Heat 2 of 2)               

3rd Asher Thomasyu 50.55 Q

Final                

5th Asher Thomasyu 50.18

800m Metres

13 Years

Prelims (Heat 1 of 4)               

5th Koji Howard 2:16.98 (16th Overall) (PB)

16 Years

Prelims (Heat 1 of 3)               

1st Jack Richardson 2:01.11 Q

2nd Alex Marshall 2:01.47 Q

Final                

4th Jack Richardson 1:58.14 (PB)

DNF Alex Marshall

17 Years

Prelims (Heat 1 of 2)               

2nd Asher Thomasyu 2:02.78 Q

Final                

4th Asher Thomasyu 1:58.67

1500 Metres

13 Years

Timed Finals                

9th Koji Howard 4:32.96 (PB)

14 Years

Timed Finals                

🥇 Evan Rowbotham 4:09.83 – School Record

 3000 Metres

15 Years

Timed Finals                

15th Joshua Peters 9:58.68

Javelin

14 Years

Final                

🥉 Vaidas Levi 38.16m

15 Years

Final                

6th Filtomas Finekifolau 43.64m

High Jump 

14 Years

Final                

10th Vaidas Levi 1.60m

Discus

15 Years

 Final                

🥈 Filtomas Finekifolau 51.00m

16 Years

Final                

4th Christopher Szekeres 45.23m

8th Zoran Szekeres 38.94m

Shot Put

15 years

Final                

🥈 Filtomas Finekifolau 15.96m

 16 Years

Final                

5th Christopher Szekeres 13.76m

6th Zoran Szekeres 13.15m

Hammer Throw

15 Years

Final                

Filtomas Finekifolau Foul

Pole Vault

15 Years

Final                

🥈Filtomas Finekifolau 3.10m

Long Jump

19 Years

Final                

🥇 Ricardo Zanapalis 6.91m

Congratulations Ollie Moclair

Congratulations to Ollie Moclair who put in an outstanding performance at the Australian Short Course Swimming Championships.

Ollie won both the 50 and 100 freestyle Age Final in a personal best time, putting him in the 17yr old top ten rankings in the history of Australian short course rankings!

This is a wonderful achievement and I wish Ollie all the best in the long course season ahead.