Sensational Seasoner Opener

Well, its been a long time between posts. Its also been a long winter of training and now spring and summer are here and the racing season is underway.
School Sport WA is the traditional start of the season for Juniors in WA and Duncraig Triathlon Academy hit the event at full speed and dominated the event. Taking out the Individual Champion School for the eighth year in a row. With a massive field of starters we were always going to be a force to reckon with.

Race format saw the serious competitors head out first with those chasing State Team selection, Senior Boys and Girls followed by Intermediate and Juniors. Duncraig had a field day with the medal count. Liam McCoach 2nd, Brandon Swift 4th, Drew Corrigan 7th and Micah Wynter 9th in the Senior Boys and Tarinah Nazaroff 2nd in the Senior Girls. Intermediate Racing was hot and fast with Joanna Maynard and Zak Williams both collecting silver medals and the top ten in both age groups being dominated by Duncraig students. Juniors also saw several current and a few future students claim top ten spots and the possibility of claiming a spot in the WA School Sport State Team.

After the selection races came the Fun and Teams events, this is where some of our students showed their skills and abilities in individual legs and impressed. Paige Higgins had a sensational swim and bike in the Novice, Fun event and was leading onto the run leg. Our year 9 girls who all raced the Intermediate Selection race backed up and podium in a teams relay.

A great day as always and School Sport WA put on an outstanding event, that allowed our athletes to really showcase their skills. Thank you.

Our next big event will be Hillary's Trievents Triathlon being held at Whitfords Nodes Beach on Sunday 14th December, a great way to finish off the school year and to start the Christmas celebrations, make sure you get down and cheer the Duncraig students on.

Good luck to all the Duncraig students who are also traveling to round 1 of the ITU Junior National Series in Runaway Bay, Qld on the same weekend.

See you all out there on the course!

New Year, New Beginnings

Its been a long time between posts, school holidays are now but a distant memory and school is now halfway through term 1. Long enough to remember the daily routine. The Triathletes are now training strongly in an effort to get ready for the compulsory triathlon for this term. The Triathlon is the final round of the Telstra Triathlon Series run by TriEvents. The race is due to be held at Hillarys, Nodes Beach on Sunday 7th April. The year 9's and 10's are now used to this course having raced several times but for the year 8's it is the beginning of the triathlon years at school. Hopefully the conditions will be nice and allow he students to all enjoy success.

We suffered a few minor setbacks when we started out riding this year, with our first year 8 riding ending in disaster and an early turn around, hopefully we have no more incidents and all the students can become strong riders.

At the end of last year we were fortunate enough to move onto a new bike shop to supply and service our bikes. Bikeforce Balcatta have been a great addition to the team and the Trek bikes suit our needs perfectly.

Two weeks ago was the school swimming carnival, held at Craigie Leisure Centre. The swim meet was a huge success with the Triathlon students claiming victory in the year 8 boys, year 9 boys, year 11 boys, year 12 boys and all but the year 8 girls age groups. The Triathletes came to the fore and dominated in all the races. From the school swim meet a team was picked to represent the school at the State School Sport WA Swimming Championships. Duncraig will have 65 students represent in the B grade carnival on Thursday 14th March at Challenge Stadium.

Finally, congratulations to Jo Robertson, Drew Corrigan, Wes Thomson, Brandon Swift and Kaitlyn Illingworth on qualifying to represent WA at the National Schools Triathlon Championships.

Hopefully, I will be a little more regular with my updates this year.

Easter Holidays

Hi All,

I hope everyone has had an enjoyable Easter and is well rested and ready to go for Term 2.

Congratulations to everyone who had a successful term 1 with everyone performing well at the final Hillarys triathlon.
Congratulations must also go to the students who qualified and represented WA at the School Sport National Championships.

WA performed very very well with finishing 3rd for the week. This is WA's best result in a long time. The athlete's finished a mere 2 points behind NSW at the end of the week. Way to go athlete's, thats sticking it to the big 3 states. All results from the Schools Nationals can be found on the School Sport WA website.

Congratulations to everyone.

End of Season

Hi Everyone,
 Well congratulations to everyone on a very successful term, with many people being successful at Interschool Swimming, National Track Cycling Championships and National athletic Championships, lets hope those representing WA next week at School Sport Triathlon Championships can be as successful as well and bring home a swag of medals, PB's and great experiences.

Also well done to everyone who raced at Hillary's on Sunday to finish off the season. Some special mentions go to Liam mcCoach who posted the fastest Junior run split and was first overall, I must mention Alex Knott, Zak Spratt, Erin Longman, Alicia Buchanan, Megan Elt, Tarinah Nazaroff and Kaitlyn Illingworth who all stepped up and race the longer distance race. well done to you all.

Results can be found at the following website:
http://triserieswa.com.au/results.html

So now its time to rest up and enjoy the break before we get into Cross Country season.

Happy Easter everyone.

2012 Start of a new School Year

Hello Everyone,

I know its been along time between updates, my bad I have been very lazy.

So we now start the new school year, with some very exciting prospects for 2012.

Firstly congratulations to the students that have made the School Sport WA Team for Schools Nationals to be held in Busselton in April 2012. Those students are Jo Robertson, Brandon Swift, Liam McCoach, Mitchell Williams, Megan Elt, Tarinah Nazaroff, Alicia Buchanan, Ben Walton and Sam Zehnder.

Congratulations also need to go to Alicia and Shannon Sherwin for making the Cycling WA State Track Team!

At the end of last year I spent a week in Qld with the National Junior Talent Academy, this was a very valuable learning experience and I hope to be able to share my learning with the students throughout this year to help develop them into elite athletes.

I look forward to working with you all and having some great experiences.

End of Term 3 Update

Hi Everyone,

Congratulations on a very successful term 3, many of the Triathlon athletes qualified to represent Duncraig Senior High School at the SSWA Interschool Athletics Carnival. Well done! Congratulations also go to those individuals who were champion boy/girl or runner up in their age group.

This term has been a big training term, where the students have all increased their fitness levels and speed. Congratulations to those that achieved new PB's for the mile, it shows that your hard work is paying off and with the season just round the corner it puts you in a good position to start the Triathlon season on the right foot and heading in the right direction. Everyone's time is below, those in bold and with and asterisks and new PB's. Well done to all!

Hope you enjoy your holidays and remember to keep training, the Athletics Carnival and Triathlon season are just around the corner.

1600m Time Trial Rankings
Boys	Time (Sept)		PB		Girls	Time (Sept)		PB
Egan K.	05:33.6	*	05:33.6		Nazaroff	05:30.5	*	05:30.5
French	05:33.6	*	05:33.6		Hilton	06:26.7	*	06:26.7
Edwards	05:38.3	*	05:38.3		Waite			06:34.6
Toohey	06:50.9		05:42.7		Elt	06:50.1	*	06:50.1
Harbers	06:50.9		05:45.2		Longman	06:54.1	*	06:54.1
Walton	05:50.5	*	05:50.5		Buchanan	07:16.9		07:06.7
Dobson	06:00.1	*	06:00.1		Illingworth	07:29.6		07:08.4
Gomer	06:01.0	*	06:01.0		Miller			07:13.9
Knott	06:02.3	*	06:02.3		Whittle	07:25.0	*	07:25.0
Noack			06:10.2		Mellows	07:31.7		07:31.7
Hejleh	06:11.3	*	06:11.3		Brown			07:37.2
McCoach	06:16.1		06:14.2		Wrenn	07:47.8	*	07:47.8
Spratt	06:22.7	*	06:22.7		Broad	07:48.3	*	07:48.3
Swift	06:23.6	*	06:23.6		Bermingham	09:00.2		07:57.8
Creeper	06:26.4		06:23.9		Lennox	08:12.6	*	08:12.6
Neary	06:48.5		06:24.2		Vavra	08:26.6	*	08:26.6
Omond			06:25.0		Turtle N.			09:14.1
Wenn	08:02.3		06:29.9		O'Sullivan	09:43.8	*	09:43.8
Barker			06:35.4
Balalas	06:39.6	*	06:39.6
Medland	06:58.8		06:44.0
Thompson	06:44.4	*	06:44.4
Turtle B.			06:55.0
Egan S.			06:56.4
Ahearn	08:06.1		07:04.1
Boyle	07:37.8		07:05.7
Goggins	07:06.3	*	07:06.3
McGuire-Darcy			07:06.8
Slatter	07:12.4	*	07:12.4
Le Roux	07:37.8		07:22.1
Beard	08:06.1		07:26.0
King	08:54.8		07:40.6
Williams	08:26.6		08:00.7
O'Callaghan	08:01.7	*	08:01.7
Barton-Sadler	08:27.0	*	08:27.0
Miltrup	08:42.6		08:42.6
Samuels			08:48.0

House Athletics Carnival

Hi Everyone,

Again been awhile since I last reported back, but what a sensational day we had today! The morning provided perfect weather for fast running, almost no wind, overcast and just the right temperature saw many of the Triathlete's dominate early in the running events.
A big congratulations to all those that took part and earned a large number of podium finishes. We may have even had several records broken, not only today but over the last week in the lead up to the carnival. The 3k Cross Country last Friday is a perfect example were at least 6 records were broken, all by either current or former members of the Triathlon program.
On the training front, the students have been going great on the bike with all three groups comfortably being able to ride over 30k in a training session.
Hopefully as the nice weather continues to become more regular, the students will start to see all their hard work pay off as their fitness levels sky rockets.

Congratulations to all those students putting in the hard work, it will pay off!