Live from SOPAC!

Day 1

Congratulations to all members of the 10 teams that competed today. You did so with great team pride and you looked wonderful in the bright yellow of Westfields. The commentators spoke of our presence on numerous occasions, including refering to Rashid as the 'yellow flash'. A proud day for the Westfields Athletics Club. 12 more teams competing tomorrow.

Our two 4 x 1500m walk teams have started the State Relays weekend with medals. The boys U18 team (Jai Horton, Caleb Strahl, Jaxson Horton and Ciara Cassilles) took the Bronze medal and the girls U18 team (Ella Van Der Meer, Lilly Twigden, Isabella Farrell and Ruby Kernaghan took the Gold.

Well done to our Open 4 x 200m Mens relay team. Rashid Kabba(16), Malikye Kessie (17), Jake Masters (17) and Zac Zaineddine (21) qualified for the final and finished very strongly in 6th place in the final. Rashid did not get passed in either of his races (heat and final) and Zac improved our position in both races by passing other teams to the finish line. Jake and Malikye were also brilliant. Not easy to run a heat and then the final in less than an hour. Well done boys.

Another medal (Silver) by our boys 4 x Discus U18 (centimetres from Gold). Congratulations to Bryce Nolan who P.B.'d and improved his National ranking with a new best throw of 54.87. This is the 34th best throw in the World for all of 2021 and this amazing performance and has also set a new WAC record in 17 years. Also congrats to Emillio who threw the 1.5 kg over 39 metres. Thanks goes to Cameron and Jake for making up the team.

At the same time our boys 4 x Discus U14 have also placed with a Bronze medal. The team was made up of Jayden Tran, Jaxson Horton, Fui Aukafolau and Maddison Kernaghan. Special thank you to Maddison for filling in at the last minute.

Our U16 4 x100m mixed relay were very impressive. Having dropped the baton at the second change, they recovered the baton and came home to finish at full speed catching up to the teams in front. Their 6th place finish was a very couragous and determined effort. Well done to Joshua Jones, Kunal Menon, Charlize Monzon and Marissa Tnokovski.

The surprise result of the day was our U18 4 x 100m mixed relay team of Aleksandra Stoilova, Rashid Kabba, Shola Adeniran and Malikye Kessie. Favourites to win on paper as clearly the fastest 100m sprinters they were edged out by the Campbelltown team whose changes were perfect. Ours changes were average to good and that was the difference at the finish line when we were pipped at the finish line by a mere 3 tenths of a second. A great race.

Day 1 results:

Mixed U18 4 x 100m Aleks, Rashid, Shola, Malikye          44.94       Silver (rec)

Male U18 4x1500 walk  Jai, Caleb, Jaxson and Ciara       32.08.46  Bronze (rec)

Fem U18 4x1500 walk  Ella, Lilly, Isabella F and Ruby K 34.33.89  Gold (rec) 

Male U18 4xDis Bryce (54.83), Emillio (39.01), Jake & Cameron    Silver

Fem U14 4xDis  Maddison, Jatden, Jaxson, Fui                                  Bronze

Fem U18 4xDis  Molly (40.24), Maddison K, Mikayla, Destiny          5th

Male Open 4x200 Rashid, Zac, Jake & Malikye                  1.31.07    6th                            

Fem U14 4x800  Isabella B, Lilly, Ruby K & Isabella M.    11.32.56  7th

Male U14 4x800 Shea, Ben W, Rhys, Ben L.                       10.08.84  6th

Mixed U16 4x100 Joshua, Kunal, Charlize & Marissa             56.69  6th (rec)

Live from SOPAC day 2

Day 2 results:

Day 2 off to a good start with our U18 girls 4 x 100m taking the silver medal behind a very strong Sutherland team that broke the State record. Our four girls, Charlize, Aleks, Destiny and Shola recorded a time of 51.11. Our U14 female 4xLong Jump team of Amelia, Zoe, Ruby T, and Maddison were brilliant finishing in 4th place just centimetres from the overall distance that won the Bronze. Our mixed 4xHammer team were brilliant in winning Bronze with all four team members performing invidual P.B.'s (Molly, Alex, Emillio and Maddison)

Female U18 4xLJ Charlize, Marissa, Aleks, Destiny          17.63         9th

Fem U16 4x800 Madeline, Isabella M, Olivia, Ciara         11.03.68    6th

Fem U18 4x100 Charlize, Aleks, Destiny, Shola                51.11         Silver

Male U18 4x100 Jake, Rashid, Cameron, Malikye (43.38) 44.05       Silver 

Male U18 LJ withdrawn.

Mixed 4kg Hammer Alex G 53.76, Molly 42.54, Emillio 25.05, Maddi K  25.75 147.10  Bronze rec

Fem U18 4x400m withdrawn                                                                                                 

U14 Male LJ U14 Fui, Jeremiah, Koben, Ben W.

Fem U14 4xLJ Amelia, Zoe, Ruby T, Maddison K.

Male U14 4x1500 Shea, Ben W, Rhys, Ben L.                   21.14.92    7th

Male U18 4x1500 Mohamed, Jai, Cahl, Lachlan               19.29.37    4th

Summary

Congratulations to all athletes, parents, supporters and friends who braved the eratic weather and camped out at State relays. Our small      club of just under 60 registrtered athletes entered 22 teams and came home with 8 medals, 5 club records and 3 personal bests (individual fields events). Of particular note Alex Goetz P.B. in the hammer of 53.76 has elevated himself to number 1 in Australia U15 mens hammer. As well, Bryce Nolan whose P.B. 54.87 with the 1.5kg discus has rocketed him up the World Rankings and is now sitting in 34th position. 

 My apologies

We managed to get photos of most teams, but couldn't get them all.