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!
