Fryga, Anderson break records at the Queensland School Sport Track and Field State Championships
There were two stunning records at the Queensland School Sport Track and Field State Championships which started with a bang today at QSAC. All you need to know from Day 1 action here.
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Somerville House student Emma Fryga smashed a 30 year record held by an Olympian during a dramatic start to the Queensland Representative School Sport track and field championships today in Brisbane.
And South Coast’s Piper Anderson delivered her own big bold headlines with a sensational, record breaking 3000m 14 years record performance.
Frgya, the middle distance ace, scorched around the track in a blistering 800m time of 2:07.46.
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It surpassed the previous best time by Mackay’s Benita Willis (2:09.31) which was set 30 years ago.
Willis, a London 2012 Olympian and former world cross country champion, is one of the state’s greatest distance runners so Fryga is in special company.
In the 3000m Anderson produced a run of 9.46.64 - a remarkable 17 seconds better than the old record set by highly respected Zoe McElwaine.
Anderson led a South Coast clean sweep which saw her followed past the winners post by Lola Wight (silver) and Ella Cosgrove (bronze).
Fryga’s stunning record and Anderson’s extraordinary run followed Nahkiyha Mullins-Walit’s 16 years javelin record which surpassed Ellie Bowyer’s 2016 mark of 49.83. Mullins-Walit threw 49.23m.
Mullins-Watt (Sunshine Coast) launched the javelin 49.98m in the 16 years girls.
The Deception Bay Little Athletics junior from Clontarf Beach school finished ahead of silver medallist Olivia Windolf (Met West), an Ipswich club competitor, and Gold Coast’s Gabriela Marczyk.
The big boys went hammer and thongs at each other during an enthralling hammer throw duel.
Cash Glavish (Sunshine Coast) prevailed in the 13 years from Aspley SHS’s Dilpreet Sharma who claimed the silver medal and BSHS’s Jeriah Slade-Suemai, a bronze medal winner who is the cousin of former Australian under-20 representative Lyvante.
Peregian Beach athlete Eli Melinz (Sunshine Coast) unleashed a winning performance in the 14 years hammer, with silver to Brock Miller (Met North) and bronze to Hudson Schultz (Sunshine Coast).
What a performance it was from the trio.
AB Paterson’s Ewan Walker (Sunshine Coast) then swept to gold in the 15-years hammer, while Coomera Anglican College’s Connor Hopgood, representing South Coast, was the gold medallist in the 16 years hammer from Mitchell Conway (South Coast) and Rory Southward-Ryan. Hopgood was the reigning champion.
St Stephen’s Owen Wang represented his region (South Coast) with distinction to claim gold from Iona’s Ethan Tearle, while Kelvin Grove State College was represented by Amanjeet Samdar (Met North) who stormed to victory in the 18-19 years hammer.
Samdar finished ahead of AB Paterson’s Samuel Brookes and Villanova College’s Matt Greig.
In the year 17s long jump, Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School produced a 5.64m effort to win gold. St Margaret’s Anglican Girls’ School’s Lily Hicks was a silver medallist and CQ’s Cara Cooke the bronze medallist.
Reigning champion in her age group, WMAC’s Lily Vine, produced a gold medal winning effort from Calvary COllege’s Mariam Hall and Xavier Catholic College’s McKenzie Symes (Hervey Bay).
There was more success for the Capricornia region when St Brendan’s Zane Keiler wound up in the shot put to produce a 13.90m effort to claim gold, this time from Nate Bligh (Sunshine Coast) and Jake Hambrook-Smith (Met East).
The Bray Park SHS community had plenty to smile about when Paradise Tuua found winning form in the 13 years discus.
Tuua won for the first time at this level when she sent the discus hurtling 33.92m.
St Peters Lutheran College, Springfield, is well known for its international swimmers like Mollie O’Callaghan and Ella Ramsay, but they have plenty of good athletes as well, including Ka’Mya who finished second to Tuua. The bronze medallist was Estah Muller (Glasshouse Mountain Christian College).
There was action aplenty in the 15 years javelin which came down to an exciting finish between South Coast’s Jalyn South, Sophie Foran and Pheonix Mackay.
For the third successive year South, from Kings College, Pimpama campus, won from Foran (silver) and Mackay (Bronze).
Marist College Ashgrove also had a winner, Isaac Roche of AFL footy and soccer claim.
Roche won from Leandrew O’Reilly (CAP, Chanel College) and his school mate, Ben Caughley.
Caleb De Vries (Met East) was victorious in his field event, while Jaida Burgoyne (South Coast) won her multi class 100m dash.
From Nerang SHS, Burgoyne ran like the wind to produce a gold medal winning performance from Makayla Elcoate (Sunshine Coast) and Jada McCoombes (Wide Bay). It was a great performance by the kids.
There were many other multi class sprint events, including:
+ 16 years boys, Lachlan Philo (gold), Hunter Laubscher (silver), Bailey Price (bronze);
+ 16 years girls, Wide Bay’s Libby Venner (gold)
+ 15 years boys, Samuel Moseley (gold), Brodie Zikman (silver), Cale Lancaster (bronze);
+ 15 years girls, Matilda Campling (first), Nerissa Clifford (second) and Gloria Copley (third).
There was a thrilling finish in the 14 years high jump when Madeleine Scott, Chloe Taylor and Sadie Dowden went at it.
Coomera Anglican College’s Chloe Taylor won the day from All Hallows’ Scott and Sadie Dowden, representing Met West (St Peters Lutheran College).
It was a gala day on both track and field which included a cracking 17 years boys discus competition when Jonas Hannam pipped silver medallist Tioata Mataafa and bronze medal winning Ethan Tearle - his second minor medal of the day.
There was another podium finish also for South Coast’s Jaida Burgoyne who claimed her second gold medal of the day in the 13 years multi class shot put.
The jumps were fascinating contests. In the 16 years boys high jump Ashton Hercules found an equal PB of 1.95m, edging out BSHS’s George Mills and Sheldon College student Callum Prowse.
The 16 years girls’ triple jump saw victory to St Rita’s reigning champion Mia Nguyen whose 11.33m was a PB by 1cm. Second was Helensvale SHS’s Ava Barron and third Moreton Bay College talent Holly Bradford.
The action continued in the discus where the big blokes in the 18-19 years category let rip.
Lachlan Purdie of Emmanuel College, Gold Coast, found the winning throw from second placed Anis Mihrshawi and third placed Tristan Knudsen.
The 17 years girls’ 800m saw a tremendous sprint down the home straight, with Peninsula’s Piper Devine finding the energy to defeat Molly Hawke (silver) and Alexis Lanskey (bronze).
Cash Glavish was delighted to claim victory in the 13 years javelin while in the 15 years shot, Aden Webber produced a 17.78m effort in win for South Coast from Joshua Cipple-Asher (South Coast) and Ipswich SHS student Jack Neuendorf.
The 17 years women’s 100m multi class dash was a beauty with Brook Johnson (Darling Downs) beating Ho Moody-Richards (Capricornia), while in the 17 years men Lachlan O’Brien (Wide Bay) finished first from Jesse Delioglanis and Jacob Cross.
Late in the day the boys 3000m was claimed by Cedar Johnson (Darling Downs) who had a treat final straight tussle with Zach Heffernan (SUN). Third was Cameron Cox.
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