‘We are seeing double everywhere, sometimes triple’
A STAMPEDE of twins is forcing staff at Hobart College to do double-takes.
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A STAMPEDE of twins is forcing staff at Hobart College to do double-takes.
A record 20 sets of twins and one set of triplets have enrolled into Years 11 and 12 this year.
Principal Tracy Siedler said the college had never seen anything like it.
“This is huge — we are seeing double everywhere, and sometimes even triple.”
Mrs Siedler said the influx of twins came amid an increase in enrolments, with numbers slightly up on last year.
The twin/triplet population, which includes six sets of identical twins, totals 43 students. The entire student population at the College is just over 1000.
“It’s hard to say why we have an increase in enrolments — but we have a very strong relationship with our feeder schools and our results were outstanding at the end of last year,” Mrs Siedler said.
Hobart College had 18 students among the top 100 TCE scores in the state last year, the highest number for any school or college.
At least six sets of the twins starting Year 11 this year came from Kingston High School.
Former Kingston High School twins Katie and Sarah Lovell, 16, said teachers at Kingston had sometimes mistaken them.
“Often they called us both Lovell,” Katie said.
“It helped when we got our leavers’ jumpers with our names on them.”
The girls said they used to enjoy swapping classes on April Fool’s Day, but 17-year-old twins Josh and Ben Glancy said they only once tried playing “switcheroo” and failed.
“It only lasted about 30 second,” Josh said.
The Glancy boys, who also came from Kingston High and are now in Year 12 at Hobart College, enjoy the same sports, both sing in a band called Double Input and plan to study at the Police Academy together next year.
But twins Eddie and Gus Tomlinson Smith, 16, said they had widely divergent interests.
“People assume we are the same, but we are really different,” Gus said.
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