Australian All Schools Championships
Published Wed 06 Dec 2023
6 December 2023
Australian All Schools Championships
A squad of 262 NSW athletes travel to Perth this week to defend their crown as the premier state at the Australian All Schools Championships. The most populated state has been the dominate force at the meet for many decades, able to hold off Queensland and Victoria their main threats. However, in the last decade twice Queensland have finished within 10 points of NSW.
NSW will be the largest team in Perth with 262 athletes, well ahead of Victoria with 212 and Queensland 210.
On the field and track for NSW will be nine athletes from the successful Commonwealth Youth Games team, spearheaded by gold medallists, discus thrower George Wells and Para sprinter/jumper Jackson Love.
After being unable to trail for the CYG team, Ivy Boothroyd, returns to the championships where last year she set a NSW 800m record. She will complete alongside race walker Isaac Beacroft and triple jumper Daniel Okerenyang who have both set National records in the last year.
Athletes will compete in age groups U18 to U14 and Para athletes under-15, 17 and 20.
The championships run Friday to Sunday and will be live streamed.
READ more about NSW’s leading athletes in Perth:
https://www.athletics.com.au/news/2023-chemist-warehouse-australian-all-schools-championships-nsw/
READ daily reviews from 2022:
Day 1 - https://www.nswathletics.org.au/news/australian-all-schools-nsw-day-1-review/
Day 2 – https://www.nswathletics.org.au/news/australian-all-schools-nsw-day-2-beacroft/
National Schools Challenge
On Monday the National School challenge will be held at the same venue. NSW will be represented by:
- Junior Girls – Pymble Ladies College, Meriden School and MLC Burwood
- Intermediate Girls – Pymble Ladies College and Meriden School
- Senior Girls – Pymble Ladies College and Ravenswood School for Girls
- Junior Boys – Trinity Grammar School, Knox Grammar School and Barker College
- Intermediate Boys – Trinity Grammar School, Knox Grammar School and Barker College
- Senior Boys – Trinity Grammar School and Knox Grammar School
Pymble Ladies and Trinity Grammar are defending teams in the senior divisions. They are two on the most successful teams at the event, first held in 1991. Pymble have won 11 titles and Trinity nine.
READ about the 2022 event:
https://www.nswathletics.org.au/news/national-schools-challenge-three-nsw-schools-win-titles/
David Tarbotton for Athletics NSW
Image: NSW Mixed 4x400m team 2022 Australian All Schools (Image courtesy David Tarbotton)
