Congratulations to the following students who have made national sporting teams recently:

Dina Bizimana – Selected for the AFL Queensland 16-18 years Girls team.

Tom Gribble – Tom placed 1st in his age group as a multi-class athlete and will now represent Queensland at the Australian Schools Cross Country Championships on the Gold Coast in September. 

Alfie Jonsson - selected to represent Queensland at the national Cross Country trials later this month.

We wish all students well at the national levels.

Senior Winter Gala Day

All teams played well at the recent Gala Day. Well done to our Year 10 Girls Badminton team and their Coach Mr Ward, who came first in their competition.

Students also played in Soccer, Basketball, AFL and Open Badminton teams against other schools in the West Brisbane Secondary School Sport district. All played well and had a great day.

Eastern Taipans Track and Field trials

Congratulations to all students who attended the Eastern Taipans Track and Field trials recently at QSAC. At the end of the two-day trials, Yeronga SHS students set 12 new records and 15 of our students have been invited to attend the Met West trials in early September in a record 42 events.

Our record-breakers:

Alfie Jonsson - 800m, 1500m and 3000m

Oliver Tran - 100m, 200m, 400m and Long Jump

Beatrice Habia - 400m

George Noonan - High Jump

Dina Bizimana - Triple Jump

Tony Irankunda - Triple Jump and Long Jump

Speed and Agility Training

Selected students will be participating in a new Speed and Agility training program, delivered by Athletix this week. The program will focus on speed and acceleration development, change of direction and agility, movement mechanics and coordination as well as injury prevention and physical literacy.

Wednesday sport options

Students have chosen their sports for this term from a variety of offerings. Sports for Junior Spring Gala Day are Ultimate Disc, AFL, Badminton and Pickleball. Trials will be held for Badminton and Pickleball in the upcoming weeks. Gala Day will be held on Tuesday 16 September (Week 10), teams will be announced closer to the date,

Students are also participating in social options, such as Basketball, Gym, Tennis, Futsal, Volleyball, Boxing, Table Tennis, Handball, Walking and Board games.

AFLQ All Schools Cup

First week back this term saw our junior girls AFL team competed in Round 2 of the AFLQ All Schools Cup.

With games against Kedron SHS and St Mary’s College, we had the opportunity to further develop our team work, skills and of course have another fun morning of footy.

Special thanks to Mr Palmer for organising and coaching, as well as all parents for helping with the tight registration deadlines and the support on game days.

The girls were great to work with and we look forward to entering this competition again soon in the future.