Dance Star Regional Finals
On Sunday 28 April, more than 120 Dance students from Year 7 through to Year 12 travelled to Rowville Secondary College to compete in the 2024 Dance Star Regional Finals.
Haileybury enjoyed a wonderful day competing against many schools, dance schools and clubs in large and competitive sections. The students deserve much praise for training hard in the lead-up to the competition and for giving their all on stage with outstanding performances. The results that the students achieved speak for themselves and are a testament to the hard work, time, effort, passion and dedication of our amazing students and coaching staff.
Of the 26 Haileybury dance teams and soloists that competed at Regionals, all qualified for the State Championships to be held at the start of June. Special mentions must go to:
- The inaugural Senior Large Contemporary Team achieving 3rd place in a competitive section.
- The Senior Large Hip Hop Team, Senior Small Jazz, Senior Small Hip Hop and Senior Small Contemporary achieving 1st place with healthy scores in their respective sections.
- Soloists (Year 9), Chelsea (Year 10), Manling (Year 12), Lexi (Year 10), Susannah (Year 12), Emma (Year 12), Teleetha (Year 12), Candela (Year 7), Amy (Year 8) and Olivia (Year 8) winning their soloist sections.
We would like to thank all our students, coaches and coordinators for a wonderful weekend at Regionals and we wish them the very best as they now commence their preparations for State Finals.
National Athletic Performances
Congratulations to Haileybury Athletes who proudly represented Victoria at the recent Australian Junior Athletic Championships in Adelaide! Their hard work throughout the season and facing tough competition from across the country led to some remarkable performances.
- Jett (Year 9) – U16 1500m 5th, 2km Steeplechase 6th
- Matty (Year 9) – U16 200m Hurdles 1st, 4x 100m and 4x200m relay 1st, 400m 2nd, Long Jump 3rd, 100m Hurdles 3rd, 200m 7th
- Julia (Year 9) – U17 100m 20th, 200m 10th
- Jazmin (Year 10) – U17 Shot put 11th, Discus 6th
- Dorothy (Year 11) – U18 High Jump 3rd
Matty impressed with a remarkable haul of six medals (3 Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze) across seven events in the U16 age category. Jett put in a strong performance, falling just two seconds short of a silver medal in the steeplechase, an event he does not often participate in. Julia secured a top-10 finish in the 200m and narrowly missed the final by just 0.03 seconds.
SSV State Swimming Championships
Congratulations to Andy (Year 5) and Yee (Year 5) who recently competed in the SSV State Swimming Championships and swam amazingly.
Michael Odachowski
Acting Director of Sport
