Sport

Swimming

After a few years of interruptions, Churchie hosted St Margaret’s for the annual King and Queen of the Pool. Congratulations to our new King of the Pool, Maxwell Cunningham.

Further congratulations to all our Age Group Kings, Best on Pool deck and Spirit winners and our 2025 Captain of Swimming, Charlie Wehl who awarded the weekly Golden Gnome to Jaden Soh. We witnessed fast times, fun moments and the announcement of the 2025 Age Group leaders.

Congratulations to the following boys (please note, junior age group leaders will be acknowledged this Friday at our Points Carnival Meet):

10 years and under: Evan Zhao
11 years and under: Nash Walker and Harry Edwards
12 years and under: Stirling Hall and Oliver van Tonder
13 years and under: Lucas Pollack
14 years and under: Jack Barrett
15 years and under: Hugh Baxby
16 years and under: Max Cunningham
Opens: Lachy Evans

The programme is pleased to announce the first official line-throwing competition, to be held on Friday 22 November. To assist, we have arranged for Summer and Sam Short to host a line-throwing workshop on Wednesday 20 November at 3:20 pm. Summer Short, a Queensland and National Royal Life Saving Society athlete, has been selected to represent Australia at the Commonwealth Lifesaving Championships. Summer’s equally renowned brother Sam will join her to meet the boys and assist in the workshop. Following the workshop, boys can nominate teams of two to compete in our internal competition on Friday 22 November at 4:30 pm.

For more information, visit myChurchie – Swimming events page for the information flyer.

The Swimming Support Group looks forward to welcoming new and current families to the annual Parent Information Evening, hosted in Brenan Pavilion on Friday 7 February. Families are reminded to RSVP for catering purposes.

2025 Junior GPS Swim Day Clinic

Years 5, 6 and 7 boys – must be registered for GPS Swimming
Wednesday 22 January 2025
Barry McCart Aquatic Centre, Churchie
Register here – closes 30 November 2024

2025 GPS Swim Camp

Year 8 to 12 – must be registered for GPS Swimming
20 to 21 January 2025
Gold Coast Performance Centre, Southport
Register here – closes 30 November 2024

For all camp details, itinerary and payment link please visit myChurchie – Swimming.

We encourage all boys aiming to compete in junior or senior relay teams to attend the relevant preseason camp, which builds the foundation of our season and prepares new swimmers for future championship meets.

Sporting achievements

Track and Field

The Queensland All Schools Track and Field Championships were held from Thursday 31 October to Sunday 3 November. Churchie had nine members of the Track and Field team competing in these championships:

Lachlan Moore, James Sterling, Freddie McDonell, Zac Moore, Hamish Russell, Josh Kwan, Andrew McConnel, Cruz Collins and Daniel Lane.

All boys competed admirably, with Churchie winning two silver and three bronze medals:

Cruz Collins: 2nd U15 Long Jump, 2nd U15 Triple Jump
Josh Kwan: 3rd U15 Long Jump
Hamish Russell: 3rd U16 Javelin
Freddie McDonell: 3rd U16 2,000 m Steeplechase
Lachlan Moore: 4th U17 3,000 m
James Sterling: 6th U16 100 m Hurdles
Andrew McConnel: 6th U15 2,000 m Steeplechase, 9th U15 3,000 m
Zac Moore: 7th U16 3,000 m

The top two finishers in each event are automatically selected for the Queensland team to compete at the Australian All Schools in December. Congratulations to Cruz Collins for his automatic selection in the Queensland All Schools team.

Trent Goodrick
Head of Cocurricular