BSHS 2008 Newsletter - Brisbane State High School

Brisbane State HighNewsletterPage 5 of 15• Well done to D.Malone who recently travelled to Alice Springs for an indigenous crickettournament.• Great news of B.Nicholson’s selection in the Metropolitan East Baseball Team which competes inthe State Baseball Championships in Ipswich next month.• Congratulations to B.Mebrahtu who has been selected to compete in the U19 State TennisChampionships in Rockhampton.• Well done to E.Warrilow who won the Queensland Little Athletics Association’s QueenslandPentathlon in the U13 age group. This is her third consecutive win in the Queensland Pentathlon.• Congratulations to C.Caslick who has been selected to compete in the U18 State TouchChampionships being held in Noosa from May 6 to 8.• Well done to two of our students, M. Protheroe (Year 9) and T. Matthias (Year 12), who have receiveda second call back for Creative Generation. C.Hansen (Year 12) has been invited to perform a standalone item on Cello for Creative Generation. Good luck!• Our best wishes to D.Lockett who has moved to Melbourne to focus on her speed skating and topursue her dreams of competing in the 2014 Olympic Games.• K.Battis has been invited to play at the Australian Guild of Music Education Graduation in Melbournenext month. He received high distinctions of 97% in the Australian Music Examinations Board(AMEB) examination and 96% in the Australian Guild of Music Education examination for MusicPerformance (CMUS) in piano last year. He also received first place in the Moreton Youth MusicAwards.• Congratulations to our eight athletes who performed well in a high calibre Australian Age AthleticsTitle on March 10 – 12 in Sydney. Performances from two of our girls exceeded qualifying marks togo to the World Youth Titles in France in July this year.--L.Bell is the Australian Champion in the U14 Boys’ 400m with a time of 57.39. He placedsecond in the U/14 Boys’ 800m with a time of 2.10 and he was also part of the U14 4x100mRelay team which took out second place.--N.Anang jumped 6.04m in the U17 Girls Long Jump to win and break the carnival record.Only one or two Australian school girls jump over six metres in a given year.--Also looking toward the international stage is K.McGrath-Volau. Her throw of 47.16m in theDiscus placed her second in the U18 event. She also put the Shot out to 13.58m to claim aclose fourth.--C.Dubler was in great form to win the U17 Boys’ 110m Hurdles in 14.67. He also placed thirdin the Pole Vault and a close fourth in the High Jump.--A.Johnson showed great versatility in the U16 Girl’s Jumping and Hurdles events. Shegained four places: Second – 90m Hurdles, Second – 200m Hurdles, Second - Triple Jumpand Third in Long Jump.--L.Young claimed third in the U17 Girls’ 2000m Steeple Chase and also to run fourth in the1500m.--Fourteen year old L.Gee was tenth overall in the Boys’ 800m.--E.Warrilow placed fourth in the U14 Girls’ Discus and eight in the Shot Put.• Congratulations to eight of our students who participated in the State Final of the AustralianComputational and Linguistics Olympiad. Our Junior Team, consisting of Year 10 students - J.Tan,B.Bathmanathan, J.Ni and K.Subramaniam, were successful in coming first in the Junior Section andwill progress to the National Competition on Wednesday March 30. Our Senior Team, consisting ofYear 12 students - A.Tian, K.Vitangcol, F.Cheng and S.Tan, received a Bronze Medal.• Congratulations to M.Jones (Senior 2010) was involved in the 2011 National Rowing Championshipsin Adelaide over the past week. She was selected to compete in the Queensland Women’s YouthEight which won its race in an Australian record time. She is now been offered a place at theAustralian Junior Team selection trials which will be competing in London in the Junior WorldIssue Date: 21 Mar 2011www.statehigh.com.au/news