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Season 2009-10

Registration for season 2009-10 begins on Saturday September 19.
At Westernport Secondary College, Community Room from 9.00am to 12.30pm.

The first competition day for the new season will be on October 10

We will be looking for athletes to compete in the Region and State relay championships. Teams consist of 4 runners for the 4x100m, 4x200m, medley(100m, 100m, 200m, 400m) and mixed sex events.
SMR Relays are on Saturday 14 November at the Caulfield track located at Murrumbeena Road, Glenhuntly.
Start training as soon as possible.

Note that the SMR Coaching camp at Merricks has been cancelled for this season

The under 6-8 carnival is being held on November 29 at the Casey center.

A free Skills Clinic is available for Under 11 on January 9 & 10. Register as soon as possible as there are only a limited number of places available

Race Walking State Qualifying Standards

Under 9 and under 10 Westernport athletes please check to see if you would qualify.

Event	Boys & Girls
U9 - 1100m Walk	8 mins 30 secs
U10 - 1100m Walk	8 mins 00 secs
U11 - 1500m Walk	10 mins 30 secs
U12 - 1500m Walk	10 mins 15 secs
U13 - 1500m Walk	9 mins 45 secs
U14 - 1500m Walk	9 mins 30 secs
U15 - 1500m Walk	9 mins 30 secs

State Championships 2009

Max Westle ran a great 1500m race to end up with a bronze medal. Max also made the 800m final and finished 8th in that event.
Sarah Buchanan had a great weekend making 3 finals. She finished ran fantastic to finish 4th in the 200m, 5th in the 100m and 8th in the 80mHurdle events.

Our under 15 girl, Adele Palmer also made a big improvements in her race times and finished third in both the 100m and 200m heats.
Adele was unlucky to just miss out on competing in the 100m final with the 9th fastest time.

Our under 11 high jumpers Max Tulen and Poppy Willis were unable to reach the heights obtained at the region championships but are looking forward to another crack at state level next year.
Max also competed in the 1500m where he ran 11 seconds faster that at the region championships.

Season 2008/09


Name	Group	Event	Result	Place
Harrison Bemelen	B09	200m	34.86	13th
Thorin Brooks	B12	Long Jump	3.32m	15th
	B12	High Jump	1.35m	5th
Doug Driessen	B15	200m	25.47	10th
	B15	100m	13.09	11th
Robert McIntyre	B12	High Jump	1.35m	11th
	B12	Long Jump	3.62m	13th
	B12	Triple Jump	7.74m	16th
Zacary Millson	B11	High Jump	1.15m	12th
	B11	70m	11.89	16th
	B11	100m	17.60	24th
	B11	Long Jump	2.71m	22nd
Max Tulen	B11	High Jump	1.34m	3rd
	B11	1500m	5:33.73	4th
	B11	800m	3:00.09	12th
Max Westle	B11	800m	2:37.32	3rd
	B11	1500m	5:17.13	1st

Sarah Buchanan	G14	100m	13.69	1st
	G14	200m	28.07	2nd
	G14	80mHurdles	13.09	1st
	G14	Triple Jump	10.18m	1st
Megan Bursa	G15	Shot Put	7.94m	3rd
	G15	Triple Jump	9.00m	8th
	G15	100m	15.19	10th
Louise Ferrier	G11	1500m	6:23.95	10th
	G11	800m	3:21.99	17th
Emily Ferrier	G11	Long Jump	3.05m	19th
Isabelle Hosi	G10	100m	20.15	20th
Chelsea Johnson	G10	80mHurdles	22.03	15th
Chloe Johnson	G10	60mHurdles	15.60	15th
	G10	70m	13.34	17th
Bridget McMullen	G13	Triple Jump	7.96m	10th
Ruby Morel	G10	60mHurdles	13.45	9th
	G10	100m	16.75	11th
Rebecca Murray	G13	Triple Jump	7.27m	15th
Natasha Ormond-Hall	G12	70m	11.02	4th
	G12	100m	15.21	10th
	G12	200m	31.48	9th
	G12	Long Jump	3.90m	4th
Adele Palmer	G15	100m	14.21	3rd
	G15	200m	28.87	2nd
Amy Powell	G11	60mHurdles	12.94	4th
	G11	400m	1:20.45	12th
	G11	800m	3:13.55	12th
	G11	Long Jump	3.21m	15th
Karla Powell	G13	100m	15.68	14th
	G13	200m	34.42	16th
	G13	Triple Jump	6.72m	16th
Cathy Runting	G12	Shot Put	6.98m	11th
	G12	100m	15.55	16th
	G12	200m	32.64	15th
Mia Tulen	G15	200m	31.15	6th
	G15	100m	14.89	9th
Keely Willis	G11	80mHurdles	16.11	7th
	G11	100m	16.27	15th
	G11	Long Jump	3.54m	10th
	G11	Triple Jump	7.60m	16th
Poppy Willis	G11	High Jump	1.30m	4th
	G11	200m	32.94	5th
	G11	100m	16.57	8th

SMR Championships at Ballam Park, Frankston was very successful for the Westernport athletes.
Most athletes performed personal best performances and a few even made the state championships.
Well done to all of those athletes who competed on a very warm weekend.

Thanks to the people who helped to officiate on the day.

Season 2008/09 got underway on October 4.
If you have been inspired by the Olympics then come on down and join in the friendly competition as our young athletes learn their skills to better their own performance.
Join a relay team and be part of your local group of dedicated and committed members as they train together.
A new web site will probably start up this season which will be directly linked to the state system.
You will be able get your local, region and state competition information a lot quicker.
It is shaping up to be a great season for the Westernport area athletes.
Make sure that you sign up for all of the action.

The SMR Skills Camp will be held over the weekend 21/22/23 November at Merricks.
This is a live in camp where the athletes can learn a wide variety of skills from qualified coaches.
It is a very good camp for athletes new to the sport or for those wanting extra coaching in their favourite events.

Our small band of distance runners had a great cross country season. Check out the photos on our cross country page.

VLAA Championships 2008

Sarah Buchanan made the final of the Under 13 girls 80m Hurdles event with a brilliant run to finish second in her heat.
She started well in the final but could not reproduce the same pace after a very hot afternoon in the sun and finished eighth.
Sarah also had the triple jump before her final and came 9th in that competition.
Cathy Runting finished 12th in the Under 11 girls Shot Put with a personal best throw of 7.23m.
Adele Palmer made the final of the Under 14 girls 100m by running a personal best of 13.08 seconds.
With only the ninth fastest time she produced another great run to finish sixth (time 13.16).
The following day Adele also made the final of the girls Under 14 200m event where she finished eighth.
Natasha Ormond-Hall jumped 3.90m in the Under 11 girls long jump to finish 11th.
Another Under 11 with bounce at state was Brittini Lanchester who jumped 1.15m in the High Jump event.
The Under 9 girls were represented by Annie Duntine who ran 1:19.99 in her heat of the 400m.
Our tall Meagan Bursa finished 18th in the Under 14 girls Shot Put event with a distance of 7.70m.
It was a very hot weekend and everyone performed extremely well under the conditions.

Westernport 2008 Championships

The 100m handicap races were again the highlight of the day.
The best athletes in each age group had to qualify through two heats with the first three placegetters going on to the final.
Jacob Cartwright(U12) won the boys race with frontmarker Marshal Hunt(U9) just holding off our backmarker Adam Hurst (U17) for second place. The winning time was just below Adam's best time for the season.

The girls race was very exciting and was won by Sarah Buchanan (U13) with backmarker Mika Tulen (U14) second with Natasha Ormond-Hall (U11) a very close third. The first three girls ran under Adele Palmer's best time for the season of 13.63 seconds.

Edward Schwarz won the U6-8 boys handicap in a very tight race against Ryan Eastland.

The U6-8 girls race was won from the backmark by Jessica Guy-Toogood (U7) from Hannah Morris (U8) and Sarah Kennedy(U6)

Check out the Westernport relay results on the Relay Page

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