Carnival of junior athletics comes to a close with the Coles Nitro Schools Challenge

The carnival of athletics that is the Australian All Schools Championships and the Coles Nitro Schools Challenge has wrapped up in what has been a wonderful four days of athletics in Perth.

RESULTS

Senior Boys

1^st – Trinity Grammar School (925 points)

2^nd – St Edmunds College Ipswich (635)

3^rd – Caulfield Grammar School (575)

Senior Girls

1^st – Pymble Ladies College (1,140)

2^nd – St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School (1,090)

3^rd – Caulfield Grammar School (1,055)

Intermediate Boys

1^st – Trinity Grammar School (1,050)  

2^nd – St Josephs Nudgee College (770)

3^rd – Wesley College (700)

Intermediate Girls

1^st – Moreton Bay College (1,245)

2^nd – Corpus Christi College (1,225)

3^rd – St Peters Lutheran College (1,195)

Junior Boys

1^st – Trinity Grammar School (925)

2^nd – Darling Range Sports College (720)

3^rd – Frankston High School (695)

Junior Girls

1^st – Pymble Ladies College 1,220

2^nd – Moreton Bay College (1,165)

3^rd – Mackellar Girls (1,145)

Whilst the day of the Coles Nitro Schools Challenge is a team based competition, an individual by the name of Kayla van der Linden from Corpus Christi College lit up the day.

Kayla had already won 2 golds in the u16 1500m and u16 3000m in the Australian All Schools, but as the majority of athletes had done, she backed up in events today.  

The 15 year old started out the day by winning the 1000m intermediate girls in an amazing race against Claudia Hollingsworth (Mentone Grammar School).

In the middle of the day, she competed in the intermediate women’s 2x2x400m, where she managed to wrangle her team to finish in second place behind Moreton Bay College.

Her final event in the athletics carnival that is the Australian All Schools Championships and the Coles Nitro Schools Challenge, was the women’s 1000m Sprint Medley relay (Swedish relay), where she ran in the final leg and stormed home to win.

She charged home magnificently for her team (Corpus Christi College) to win in 2:16.29.

The team was made up of: Charli Hall, Sienna Fillis, Sienna Andritsos, Kayla Van der Linden.

Full results from the day can be seen here.

Both the All Schools Championships and the Nitro Schools Challenge are in Hobart in 2020.