QGSSSA cross country championship 2022
Here’s 50 of the best athletes who will compete at the QGSSSA cross country championship: The list include Australia’s best junior rower and world junior athletic qualifiers.
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Two athletes with world junior track and field championship qualifying times and a national rowing champion are among those who will feature at Saturday’s annual QGSSSA cross country championship at Rivermount College.
What a list of competing athletes it is, including returning champions Saffron Jenkinson (BSHS, 13 years), Zoe McElwaine (Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School, 14 yearse), Gabrielle Schmidt (St Peters, 16 years), Jemima Morton (BGGS 15 years) and Isabella Harte (St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School, 17 years).
Harte also has a 3000m world junior qualifying time achieved this year.
And while the QGSSSA cross country is all about participation and winning points for your school team, individually there are some elite athletes in the system.
Among the best multitalented young sporting guns is BSHS’s Sophie Malcolm.
This extraordinary young athlete is Australia’s best young female rowing prospect who was a one woman medal machine at the recent Australian Rowing Championships where she enjoyed success with her sister Jess.
Sophie was crowned:
+ Schoolgirls Single Scull champion for the second year running
+ under 21 Women’s Lightweight Single Scull
+ under 19 Women’s Single Scull
Together, Jess and Sophie Malcolm claimed the:
+ under 21 Women’s Lightweight Double Scull
+ under 21 Women’s Quadruple Scull (Centenary-QAS composite)
+ under 21 Interstate Lightweight Quadruple Scull (QLD)
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But there are others. St Hilda’s Holly Warn will compete in multiclass - after earlier this year winning gold at the Australian All Ages Swimming Championships and producing a paralympics qualifying time.
St Margaret’s Matilda Lee is such a distance talent, that when she turned to the steeplechase for the first time at the Australian Athletics Championships, she won the 16 years age group.
Then you have BSHS’s Gwen Watson who was third in the 14-15 years at the inaugural Junior Australian Super Sprint Champions and Georgie Gilroy (BSHS) who, like Harte (St Margaret’s) has a world junior championships qualifying time - but in the 1500m.
Moreton Bay College’s Emma Bible was first at the Australian Athletics championships in the under 18 800m and St Hilda’s Harriett Irving was a member of the South Coast Triathlon team.
Isla Hawkins is also a South Coast Triathlon team selection, along with Alexia Abela (St Hilda’s).
St Aidan’s Phoebe Finlay (multi class, classification: T13) was the 2021 Tennis Queensland Blind/Low Vision Championships junior doubles winner and junior singles bronze medallist.
Distance athleticism continues in the Moore household, with Zara following in the footsteps of her sisters Keira and Nikita who was a world cross country championship representative.
And for the first time the QGSSSA will include an Open Multiclass 3000m event, following on from the historic multiclass being introduced at the QGSSSA swimming championships.
Then there is Charli Spies, a talented runner, swimmer and high-level gymnast, Spies has been a state level runner for a number of years.
In recent times Spies started to concentrate more on triathlon to give her training more variety and help her body recover from running injuries, and this has resulted in her having an excellent start to the Cross Country season, medalling in two out of three.
THE TOP 50 CROSS COUNTRY ATHLETES
Brisbane State High School: 12 years: Sasha Josipovic: All Schools Cross Country Championships 3000m, 10th place (12:20.00)
Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School 12 years: Olivia Agianittis All Schools Cross Country Championships, 12 Years, 3000m, 19th place (12:52.00)
St Peters Lutheran College 12 years: Charlotte Wallace QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships 11 Years 3000m, 3rd place (12:21)
+ Medallist in both 800m and 1500m at Qld Little Athletics state championships
BSHS 13 years: Saffron Jenkinson: The returning QGSSSA champion - QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 1st place (11:18.00)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U14 Years, 1500m, 1st place (4:55.06)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U14 Years, 800m, 1st place (2:22.56)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 12 Years & Under, 1st place (12:26.0)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 12 Years, 3000m, 1st place (11:26)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 12 Years, 3000m, 2nd place (10:33.0)
BSHS 13 years: Willow Head: QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 12 Years & Under, 3rd place (12:39.3)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 12 Years, 3000m, 7th place (12:03)
BSHS 13 years: Naiyini Mollel: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 10th place (11:50.00)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 12 Years & Under, 5th place (13.27.2)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U15 Years, 3000m, 18th place in final (10:46.91)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 12 Years, 3000m, 10th place (11:18.0)
BSHS: 13 years Grace Adams: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 8th place (11:46.00)
Moreton Bay College: 13 years: Taylah Hazell: Australian Athletics Championships, U14 Years, 400m, 4th place (59.61)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U14 Years, 400m, 2nd place (60.26)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 12 Years & Under, 2nd place (12:38.2)
+ 2nd in 400m at 2022 Australian Little Athletics Championships
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 12 Years, 3000m, 11th place (11:25.0)
Somerville House: 13 years Emma Fryga: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 11th place (11:57.00)
St Hilda’s School: 13 years Isla Hawkins: South Coast Triathlon team selection
St Margaret’s Anglican Girls’ School: 13 years Addison Houslip: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 3rd place (11:31.00)
+ 2022 Gold, Australian U14 Super Sprint Triathlon Championships, Gold Coast
+ 2022 Gold, Queensland Sprint Triathlon Championships, Gold Coast, April 2022
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 12 Years, 3000m, 1st place (10:33.0)
+ 2021 Gold, Queensland All Schools Triathlon, Kawana
+ 2021 Gold, Metropolitan North Cross Country
St Peters: 13 years Sienna Barr: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 5th place (11:36.00)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U14 Years, 1500m, 7th place (4:59.57)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U15 Years, 2000m Steeplechase, 4th place (8:01.78)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U15 Years, 800m, 4th place (4:58.54)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 12 Years, 3000m, 8th place (11:15.0)
St Peters: 13 years: Ava Knox: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 7th place (11:43.00)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U15 Years, 3000m, 14th place (10:34.73)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U14 Years, 1500m, 3rd place (4:57.56)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 12 Years & Under, 4th place (12:45.4)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 12 Years, 3000m, 10th place (12:21)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 12 Years, 3000m, 8th place (11:15.0)
Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School: 14 years Zoe McElwaine: The returning QGSSSA champion
+ QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 4000m, 1st place (14:56.00)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U15 Years, 3000m, 11th place (10:16.27)
2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U15 Years, 1500m, 8th place (4:46.68)
2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U15 Years, 1500m, 3rd place (4:49.37)
2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 1st place (11:56.1)
2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 1st place (10:56)
2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 2nd place (10:16.0)
2021 QGSSSA Track & Field Championships, 13 Years, 1500m, 2nd place (4:50.13)
BSHS: 14 years Zara Moore: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 4000m, 3rd place (15:07.00)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U15 Years, 2000m Steeplechase, 2nd place (7:26.44)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U15 Years, 1500m, 13th in final (4:54.60)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U15 Years, 2000m Steeplechase, 1st place (7:22.53)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 2nd place (12:11.8)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 3rd place (11:21)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 3rd place (10:38.0)
BSHS: 14 years Zara Heath: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 4000m, 11th place (16:08.00)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 4th place (12:27.6)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 6th place (11:36)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 7th place (10:45.0)
BSHS: 14 years Maeve McCowen: Australian Athletics Championships, U15 Years, 3000m, finalist
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U15 Years, 2000m Steeplechase, 2nd place (7:47.96)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 5th place (12:45.1)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 10th place (10:51.0)
Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School: 14 years Holly-Maree Matthew: 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U15 Years, 3000m, finalist (10:48.84)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3rd place (12:23.6)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 4th place (11:25)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 13 Years, 3000m, 14th place (11:00)
Moreton Bay College 14 years:Charlotte Kane: QLD All Schools Triathlon Championships, 2nd place
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 7th place (13:07.9)
+ Selected in 2022 QLD Triathlon State Team and the QLD All Schools Triathlon Team
St Hilda’s School: 14 years: Alexia Abela South Coast Triathlon team selection
St Margaret’s: 14 years Charli Spies: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 4000m, 8th place (16:01.00)
A talented Runner, Swimmer and high-level gymnast, Spies has been a state level runner for a number of years. In recent times Spies started to concentrate more on triathlon to give her training more variety and help her body recover from running injuries, and this has resulted in Charli having an excellent start to the Cross Country season, medalling in two out of three lead-up QGSSSA meets.
BGGS: 15 years Jemima Moreton: The Returning QGSSSA champion
+ QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 1st place (12:04.2)
BSHS: 15 years Gwen Watson: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 4000m, 2nd place (15:19.00)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U16 Years, 3000m, 6th place (9:58.41)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 2nd place (12:16.8)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, , 4000m, 2nd place (15:11)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 4000m, 9th place (14:58.0)
BSHS: 15 years: Milly Burg: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 4000m, 9th place (16:14.00)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 4000m, 4th place (15.43)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 4000m, 6th place (14:38.0)
MBC: 15 years Layla Erickson-Howard: QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 3000m, 6th place (16:00)
Somerville House: 15 years Jemma Wilson: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 4000m, 4th place (15:24.00)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 4000m, 7th place (16:04)
Somerset House: 15 years Jessica Durling: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 4000m, 10th place (16:14.00)
St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School: 15 years Chloe Flack: QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 5th place (12:39.9)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 4000m, 16th place (15:24.0)
St Margaret’s: 15 years Matilda Lee: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 4000m, 5th place (15:31.00)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U16 Years, 2000m Steeplechase, 1st place (7:00.58) (Matilda is new to Steeplechase)
2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U16 Years, 3000m, second place (9:48.47)
2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U16 Years, 2000m Steeplechase, 1st place (7:29.58)
2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U16 Years, 800m, 3rd place (2:15.17)
2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 3rd place (12:25.4)
2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 4000m, 3rd place (15:23)
St Peters: 15 years Ella Knox: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 4000m, 18th place (16:48.00)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 6th place (12:40.0)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 4000m, 5th place (15.54)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 14 Years, 4000m, 12th place (15:10.0)
BGGS: 16 years Phoebe Oliver: QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 5th place (12:39.0)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 4000m, 8th place (15:31)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 4000m, 16th place (15:18.0)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Track & Field Championships, 15 Years, 1500m, 4th place (4:52.92)
BSHS: 16 years Georgie Gilroy: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 4000m, 3rd place (14:38.00)
BSHS: 16 years Erica Moore: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 4000m, 6th place (15:05.00)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 3000m, 6th place (10:36.50)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 2000m Steeplechase, 6th place (7:43.23)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 2nd place (12:03.8)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, , 4000m, 6th place (15:17)
MBC: 16 years: Kobi Walker: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 4000m, 7th place (15:05.00)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 1500m, 5th place (4:36.73)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 1500m, 3rd place (4:36.36)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 4th place (12:30.9)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 4000m, 4th place (14:14.0)
MBC: 16 years: Roxy Place: QLD Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 400m, 3rd place (59.23)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U18 Years, 4 x 400m Relay, third place
MBC: 16 years Piper Lawson: QLD Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 5000m Race Walk, 2nd place (31.20.55)
St Aidan’s 16 years: Jazelle Carter: Australian Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 800m, third place (2:12.00)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 400m, 5th place (57.38)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 800m, 2nd place (2:13.99)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 3rd place (12:09.2)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 4000m, 2nd place (14:39)
St Peters: 16 years: Gabrielle Schmidt: Returning Champion:
+ QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 4000m, 5th place (15:04.00)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 3000m, third place (10:00.53)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U20 Years, 5000m, 4th place (17:55.96)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 1500m, 2nd place (4:35.83)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 800m, 3rd place (2:14.66)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 1st place (11:51.1)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 4000m, 10th place (15:54)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 4000m, 5th place (14:15.0)
BSHS: 17 years Sophie Malcolm: QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 4th place (12:14.9)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 4000m, 6th place (14:32.0)
BSHS: 17 years: Mattea Pearsall: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 17 Years, 4000m, 4th place (16:13.00)
IGGS: 17 years Lucy Hill: QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 15 Years, 5th place (12:36.3)
+ 2021 QLD State Championships, U16 Years, 2000m Steeplechase, 4th place
+ 2020 QLD All Schools Championships, U14 Years, 3000m, 5th place
MBC: 17 years Emma Bible: Australian Athletics championships, U18 Years, 800m, 1st place (2:13.09)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U18 Years, 400m, 5th place (57.55)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U18 Years, 800m, 2nd place (2:18.49)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U18 Years, 400m, 2nd place (58.31)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 8th place (12:58.1)
Somerville House: 17 years Ella Rodwell: QLD All Schools Cross Country Championships, 17 Years, 4000m, 1st place (14:38.00)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U18 Years, 2000m Steeplechase, 3rd place (6:57.75)
+ 2022 Australian Athletics Championships, U18, 3000m, 2nd place (9:57.16)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U18 Years, 2000m Steeplechase, 2nd place (7:03.37)
+ 2022 QLD Athletics Championships, U18 Years, 1500m, 3rd place (4:38.44)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 2nd place (11:26.1)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Track & Field Championships, 16 Years, 3000m, second place (9:48.97)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 4000m, 3rd place (14:22)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 4000m, 4th place (13:49.0)
St Hilda’s: 17 years Harriett Irving: South Coast Triathlon team
St Margaret’s: 17 years Isabella Harte, Returning Champion
+ Australian Athletics Championships, U18 Years, 3000m, 1st place (9:44.58)
+ 2021 QLD All Schools Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 1500m, 1st place (4:36.0)
+ 2021 QLD All Schools Athletics Championships, U17 Years, 3000m, 1st place (9:19.60) (
WORLD JUNIOR QUALIFYING TIME)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Track & Field Championships, U16 Years, 3000m, 1st place & new QGSSSA record (9:31.94)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Track & Field Championships, U16 Years, 1500m, 1st place (4:38.50)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 4000m, 1st place (13:19.0)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 1st place (11:23.5)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 4000m, 1st place (14:10)
St Margaret’s: 17 years Kaya Agnew: QGSSSA Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, third place (11:58.4)
+ 2021 QGSSSA Track & Field Championships, 16 Years, 3000m, 3rd place (10:15.19)
+ 2021 QLD Athletics All Schools Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 4000m, 6th place (14:59)
+ 2021 QLD School Sport Cross Country Championships, 16 Years, 4000m, 7th place (14:48.0)
MULTI CLASS
St Hilda’s School Holly Warn:
+ 2022 Australian Age Swimming Championships
+ Gold medallist – 100m Freestyle Multiclass
+ Gold medallist – 50m Backstroke Multiclass
+ Gold medallist – 100m Backstroke Multiclass
+ 2022 QGSSSA Swimming Championships, Inaugural Open Multiclass Pennant winner
Set a New Australian Long course Multi class record 13 years and Under S7 50m Butterfly
+ 2021 Australian Paralympic Trials Qualifier
+ 2021 Queensland School Sports National Merit Team
St Aidan’s Phoebe Finlay
Classification: T13
+ 2021 Tennis QLD Blind / Low Vision Championships – Junior Doubles Champion & Junior Singles Bronze
+ Played Tennis on the Green at Government House
+ Triathlon - completed her first Triathlon at the Noosa Special Triathlon in 2019
+ Swimming - competed at the 2022 Australian Age Championships in Adelaide
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