SMR Regional Track & Field Championships Wrap Up

Congratulations to our awesome 76 Mentone athletes that competed in hot conditions this weekend at the SMR Regional Track & Field Championships. We are in a super competitive and large region so winning medals is always difficult. As a club we had some massive highlights:

🥇 26 Gold Medallists 

🥈 25 Silver Medallists 

🥉 24 Bronze Medallists 

👏 75 Top 8 finishes (in addition to above) 

👏  142 PBs broken 

Events with most PBs

200M - 28 (32 athletes competed)

400M - 18 (26 athletes competed)

800M - 16 (22 athletes competed) 

A special call-out to the athletes below👇 that competed in 5 events and medalled in 5 events - what an achievement!

Adriella Ochom 🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈

Emily Gamble 🥇🥇🥈🥈 🥉 

Harry Shacklock 🥇🥇🥈🥉 🥉

Lexie Brown 🥇🥈 🥈🥈🥈

Any Venue Records

U17 Girls

400m: Emily Gamble 63.90

800m: Emily Gamble 2:34.70

Javelin: Emily Gamble 28.46m

Long Jump: Morgan Wydeman 4.93m

Triple Jump: Morgan Wydeman 10.42m

U16 Girls

Long Jump: Lexie Brown 5.29m

From Australia Day Combined Event

Lexie Brown - Heptathlon (Combined event) - 4284pts

State Qualifications

The State Championships will be held on the 7th/8th March at Knox. It will follow a similar timetable to regionals. LAVic will release provincial qualifications this Thursday 12th Feb. It could and most likely will be hot. If your child is not going to attend or will scratch some events it is essential that you respond to LAVic by Monday next week. We get allocated duties based on the number of events and athletes we send. It will also allow other children to compete in their place. For some children less events can be better at States so children don’t suffer fatigue. 

Thanks to our parent helpers (particularly the ones that did extra shifts to cover missing roles in hot conditions yesterday), Competition Coordinator's and Team Managers for supporting this event.