Athletics News 2016

KA 5 Schools Event – Balgray 13 May 

This is the second year KA have hosted this event along with Broomhill Primary, Kelvindale Primary, Hamilton College and St. Columba’s School.  This is now becoming one of the Junior School main athletics events. With over 200 pupils attending the event there is a real buzz around Balgray. 

There were some excellent performances on the day by KA pupils.  This was illustrated by KA winning 8 out of the 12 relay races. Kelvinside won both the boys and girls competitions and were the overall combined winner.  A very successful afternoon!

The Glasgow Academy Henderson Challenge – 20 May

Following on from the previous week KA pupils were involved in the annual Henderson Challenge organised by Glasgow Academy.  The schools involved were Glasgow Academy, High School of Glasgow, Jordanhill and St Aloysius College.

There were many outstanding individual and team performances that day. Erin Church won the J5 girls 200m A race with a very gutsy run. Louise Kemp (J5) won the 60m sprint in impressive style. 

Gilli Jones (J6) won the 80m and the Long Jump.  

Ella Ritchie and Zara Goziem-Ibonye won the SP A&B 200m.  Ella’s race was a real nail biter with 3 girls neck and neck the whole was up the home straight but Ella showed a steely nerve to dip at the line in first place.

Emma Williams (SP) and Molly McKenzie (SP) both won their respective 80m A&B races.  This was a great comeback for Emma having not run for 6 weeks due to a broken arm!

Evie Smith (SP) once again demonstrated that she has a very powerful arm in the cricket ball throw where she launched it 37.40m. Isla Bottomley (SP) was very impressive in the Shot Putt throwing 6.47m to win.

The relays were very successful for the KA teams.  The J5 girls A team won in fine style, the J5 boys A&B teams won by a canter.  The SP girls A&B teams also came home victorious although they had to fight all the way to the finish line.

Glasgow Schools Secondary Championships - Monday 6 June - Scotstoun

There were some excellent performances at this event from KA athletes.  Gold medals came from; Lily Evans Haggerty in the S1 girls 1500m.  She went from the gun and never looked back winning by over 200m. Drew McCall Smith ran a perfect race to comfortably win and take the gold medal.  

Pierre Samy Eteiba (S2) won the 200m who also picked up silver in the Long jump and a bronze in the relay.  Ewan McManus launched the javelin 29.78 to win the S2 event. Amy Williams (S3) won the S3 girls High Jump.  Guy Evans Haggerty (S5) made it a gold family affair taking the senior boys 1500m.

Silver medals were won by; Pierre Samy Eteiba S2 Long Jump, Sasha Decker S2 Girls Shot Putt and Jennifer Lewis Senior girls 800m.

Bronze medals were won by; Bayaan Cathcart in the S1 girls 200m, Ethan Wilson in the S1 boys 800m, Jameel Cathcart in both the S3 boys 100m and the S3 Long Jump, the Senior boys 4x100m and the S2 boys 4x100m relay.

Glasgow Schools Primary Heats - Thursday 9 June - Scotstoun

This was a very successful day for Kelvinside Academy.  The P6 & SP girls won the overall shield.  There were some excellent individual performances from both the boys and the girls.

On the day of the Heats there were 3 gold medal won. First was Evie Smith (SP) who won the Cricket ball throw for the P7 girls.   There was a terrific run by Gilli Jones (P6) who won the 80m.  He was 3rdin his heat which he was disappointed with but he turned this into positive motivation for the final where he scorched to victory.  The final gold came from a great run by the P7 girls’ team represented by Zara Goziem-Ibonye, Molly McKenzie, Ella Ritchie, Nico Rigg MacInnes.

There was a silver medal in the P6 girls Cricket ball throw for Emma Campbell.  There was also a silver medal for the P6 boys relay team consisting of Gilli Jones, Josh Smedley, Nicholas Sproule, Harrison Beveridge and James Fraser.

There were bronze medals for the follow pupils; Nicholas Sproule in the P6 boys 600m, Louise Kemp in the P6 girls 80m, Emma Williams in the P7 100m, Nico Rigg MacInnes in the P7 girls 600m and Sandy Hamilton in the P7 boys Cricket ball throw.

There were also a number of pupils who achieve a top 6 place and are through to the finals night.  They are; Ella Ritchie, Sarah Leca, Oliver Henderson, Ella Campbell, P7 boys relay team and the P6 girls relay team.

Senior Boys and Girls Scottish Schools Championships – 10 &11 June

Kelvinside Academy has 5 pupils participating in the championships this year at Grangemouth. Those pupils and results can be seen below.

S1 Girls 1500                       Lily Evans Haggerty – Silver

S1 Boys 800                         Ethan Wilson – 4th (Heats)

S3 High Jump                      Amy Williams – 6th

S2 100 & 200                       Iona Paget – Heat in both events

Senior Girls 800                  Jennifer Lewis - 4th in Final