CDSSA Athletics Championships
Sharon Fairfax | PDHPE Teacher Aide | Gymnastics Coordinator
Emanuel School’s finest athletes joined together at Sydney Olympic Park Homebush on Monday to compete in the annual CDSSA (Combined Districts Secondary School Sports Association) Athletics Championships.
Our team produced some wonderful athleticism, under extremely windy conditions .
Outstanding performances from our four Age Champions, Aiden Kanevsky 12 years, Eden Levit 14 years, Georgia Kahane 16 years and Greg Allen 18 years. Also an amazing performance from Danielle Rutstein breaking the longstanding 16 years high jump record with a 1.54m jump.
Blue ribbons were in abundance on the day:
Danielle Rutstein 1st High Jump, Javelin, Shot Put and Discus
Greg Allen 1st 100m, 200m, 400m and Long Jump
Eden Levit 1st 100m, 200m and 400m
Zac Urbach 1st 100m and 200m
Brooke Rosen 1st Shot Put and Javelin
Shai Farhy 1st 800m and Long Jump
Jared Elbourne 1st 3000m
Brody Elbourne 1st 800m
Jonah Trope 1st 800m
Tia Mallinick 1st High Jump
Leo Lipman 1st Discus
Mariah Lewy 1st Shot Put
Our overall score tally placed us in 3rd place behind Pittwater House and International Grammar School.
Congratulations to all of our athletes who competed on the day with great spirit, helping our School achieve our best ever results!
Special mention and thank you to the Year 12 students who competed on the day amidst a demanding academic load.
A well structured pre carnival training programme run by Kristy Genc at ES Marks Field certainly gave our athletes an edge.
