Angelina Tignani trains for national School Sport Track and Field State titles after another winning effort

Angelina Tignani is training for the Australian School Sport Track and Field State Championships after another winning effort at the Queensland championships which ended in Cairns last week.

Angelina Tignani is training for the Australian School Sport Track and Field State Championships after another winning effort at the Queensland championships which ended in Cairns last week.

The St Aidan’s Anglican Girls School student threw 45.94m in the 15 years javelin, the biggest throw by anyone in any age group at the championships.

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She is now aiming to retain her national title at the Australian championships to be held in Perth during December.

Tignani, a Bracken Ridge Little Athletics member, last month claimed yet another javelin record at the QGSSSA athletic’s meet.

Angelina Tignani of St Aidan's with her friends at last month’s QGSSSA athletics.

Tignani, a bashful national javelin champion, said she was learning to live with the pressure of being No. 1 ranked in her discipline.

Tignani was originally a runner but she started javelin after her coach from Beaudesert, Des Davis, recommended it to her.

She, who originally started at Algester Little Athletics, said her career took off at the 2017 national titles.

Angelina Tignani as a children with Algester Little Athletics.

Her success follows a string of elite performances by Bracken Ridge Little Athletic products at the Queensland School titles.

Mt Alvernia student Jemma Keefe won two field gold medals while St Joseph’s Nudgee College student Ashley Wong was a stunning performer.

Wong, a junior from the Bracken Ridge Little Athletics Club who now runs for Nudgee College and QUT Athletics, smashed the 15 years and under 16 200m records and also ran a series of sub 11 second times in the 100m competition.