Sporting News by The PE Department

Please see below information regarding our Interschool Sporting Events as well as our PE Curriculum for Term 3.

Interschool Sport (Year 5-6)

Students in Year 5 and 6 will again this semester get an opportunity to participate in the Pine Rivers Interschool Sport with 3 more days this Term. Dates are as follows.

• Friday 12 August (Term 3 Week 5)
• Friday 26 August (Term 3 Week 7)

AFLQ Schools Cup Brisbane North-Wide Bay Finals

The Mango Hill boy’s AFL team were placed into a very difficult pool, up against teams Villanova and Perigian Springs.

With results not going our way in the pool games, including a coach-killing goal on the siren to lose our second game by 1 point, this forced our team to take the long road through the quarter-finals.

With a couple of players down going into the tournament, including Daniel, who injured his knee representing our school at the athletics carnival earlier in the week and Angus, who was absent due to state AFL representative duties; it was always going to be a tough battle for MHSS. But their determination and effort was never questioned. A hard fought 14-13 quarter final win lead to a semi-final showdown with Villanova.

Unfortunately, we went down in an absolute nail-biter.  Maintaining a lead up until the final minutes and fighting valiantly for the entire game. But alas it was just not meant to be.  Finishing the game 17-5 down and one win away from the grand final game and a guaranteed position in the state finals.

On a side note, congratulations to Angus B who was selected as the Vice-Captain for the QLD Schoolboys AFL team. He will be competing in Adelaide this week at the 10-12yrs National AFL competition. Best of luck Angus!

PRD Track & Field Results

Wow, what a week we have had at the PRD Track & Field Trials. MHSS has again bought home some silverware, winning the Team Relay trophy for a 2^nd year in a row.

In great conditions at the John Oxley Reserve last Monday and Tuesday, our 41 athletes competed in events including running, high jump, long jump, discus, shot put and team relays.

All students who participated qualified based on their performance at the Mango Hill Athletics Day.  Students also completed practice early in the term and I must congratulate those students who turned up each morning.  Your commitment was rewarded with these great results.

With 32 schools competing competition was extremely strong. 

The four trophy categories included the following.

Overall Points Winner – combined school total points

• MHSS Result – 4th
• A strong result after winning last year.

Field Events – combined points for all field events

• MHSS Result – 3^rd