On Friday, 29 July a number of students attended the Zone Athletics Carnival in Coffs Harbour. The Senior School bus left Pacific Coast Christian School at 3:30am with lots of excited and overly tired teenagers. We showed our enthusiasm for the event by being first to arrive at the beautiful venue and prepared ourselves for a great day. The weather cleared up beautifully which was an answer to prayer and the students performed very well in there events. Of particular note were those that qualified for the state athletics carnival. To qualify for State students had to finish in the top two places in their allotted age groupings.
From the junior school Tynan (200m and 400m) and Shekinah (400m) qualified for the State Carnival to be held on the 23 August in Sydney. From the Senior School, Catherine qualified for the 100m, Long Jump and Shot Put and Charlotte for the Shot Put and discuss. For the boys Kytelan qualified for the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and long jump. Benjamin (800m, Discus), Daniel (Shot Put, Discus), Eli (High Jump), Luke (800m) and Aiden (1500m) also qualified for 30 August in Sydney.
In the overall competition Kytelan achieved age champion in the 13yrs boys division which is a fantastic effort. His brother Tynan achieved second overall in his age group for the junior boys which is to be commended. Pacific Coast as a school came fourth out of 11 schools that represented for North Coast. I would like to give a special thanks to the parents that brought down their kids to participate and for helping out on the day which helps make events such as these possible.
