House pride soars at Swimming Carnival

On Friday 21^st February, our students enjoyed our annual Swimming Carnival at the Proserpine Memorial Swimming Pool. It was an ocean of blue, green, red and yellow combined with oodles of enthusiasm as our Houses showed off their spirit with their colourful outfits and loud war cries.

The higher levels of participation in B Division, was led by our wonderful Year 12s, with nearly the entire cohort having a splash in the pool. Interestingly, the scores were reasonably close all day with Cook, Flinders, Kennedy and Oxley Houses battling it out across A and B Divisions in both individual and relay events.

Kennedy were more like dolphins than kangaroos, coming away with the win on 610 points, with Flinders extremely close in second on 582 points, Oxley third on 419 points and Cook floating in fourth with 343 points.

Despite the weather, there was house spirit galore, with many students dressing up in their team colours and slip, slop, slapping on their hats, shirts, sunscreen and coloured zinc. The sun safety tent was busy all day with many students taking advantage of the free sunscreen and scoring sun safety points for their house!

Congratulations to all Age Champions and well done to all who participated on the day and who ‘just kept swimming’ and scored points for their house!

Students shine at North Queensland & State Trials

Well done to our students Jai Dennison, Lilah Mewha, Millie Groom, Shailee Mewha and Matilda Nicholes who represented our school at the Queensland Representative School Sport Triathlon event in Hervey Bay last month.

Our students gave it their best and commented on how strong the competition was this year. 

It was great to see so many of our students trialling for Netball, Volleyball, Boys Football and Swimming over the past week. Congratulations to the following students who were successful in making North Queensland sides and will go on to represent our school at the Queensland State Trials later in the year.

Football	Eli Wallis
Swimming	Tora Delac and Celeste Orenshaw
Volleyball	Brock Childs, Pania Corowa, Maisie Goswell, Alyssa Haddow, Noah Hayman, Lili Henry, Lachlan Holroyd, Ben Hope, Lillian Kelly, Faith Lawn, Kobi Miller, Jai Patrick, Gabrielle Patton, Elyse Peterson, Donny Pettiford, Nara Suckling, Chris Townsend, Dash Turner, Reef Weller and Elin Zimmerli

Good luck to our students competing in the North Queensland Rugby League, Basketball, Rugby Union, Girls Football and AFL trials in Townsville this week!

Netballers head north for regional trials

Our netball season commenced swiftly this year with selected Proserpine State High school students taking the opportunity to trial at the Whitsunday Netball Trials in Week 3 in Bowen. The Under 15 trial included 47 girls of which 10 were named in the team. This trial demonstrated a very high level of skill and one of the best selectors have seen over time. A huge congratulations to Nara Suckling, Elyse Peterson, Maali Bradley on making the Under 15 Whitsunday Schools team and Mia Dean on selection in the Under 19 team.

These girls travelled to Townsville to the Northern Regional trials last week proudly representing the Whitsunday region. Team coaches Sherelle Shields and Jacqui Smith were extremely impressed by the effort, skills, and sportsmanship the girls demonstrated at a very competitive level. Congratulations to Nara Suckling who made the top 20 Possibles vs Probable's match in contention for the Northern team. The growth in Whitsunday school netball is very exciting and we congratulate all students participating at these trials. 

School netball continues this term with netball on in our Multi Purpose Hall every Tuesday and Friday lunch break. A new focus now turns to forming Junior and Senior teams for the upcoming Vicki Wilson Cup in Term 2. 

Skills put to the test at Basketball competition

Seven of our Year 12 boys represented our school at the Molten Champion Basketball School of Queensland Competition in Townsville this week. Our students competed over 2 days and were led by our North Queensland Basketball representatives Liam Steen and Chaz Calder. Liam impressed on the court being one of the competition's highest scorers out of the many teams competing.

Well done to all of our students, with some having never competed in a basketball tournament before and improving leaps and bounds with their skill set. Thank you to Adam Philipson who travelled and prepared our students for the competition.