There is no greater powerhouse at the 2025 Australian Athletics All Schools Championships than team New South Wales who have both the star power and depth to continue their reign, led by sprinters Zavier Peacock, Rhema Adelaja and a host of World Para Athletics Championships representatives.
The championships will be held at Lakeside Stadium from December 4-7, with tickets available for purchase HERE.
School: De La Salle College Revesby
Club: Bankstown Sports Athletics Club
Coach: Michael Psarakis
Events: U18 100m and 200m
He is the fastest man on paper in the race to become Australia’s fastest schoolboy in the Under 18 Boys 100m at 10.44-seconds, and Zavier Peacock is in scorching form off the back of career-best results in qualifying for the 2025 Australian Athletics All Schools Championships. The former NRL prospect has committed to athletics and is reaping the rewards early in his 2026 preparations, more than capable of qualifying for the World Under 20 Championships with that mark set at 10.50-seconds.
School: St George Christian School
Club: Randwick Botany Harriers Athletics Club
Coach: Roger Fabri
Events: U16 100m and 200m
The Under 16 sprinting spotlight is often stolen by Western Australia’s Emilia Reed but hot on her heels is Rhema Adelaja, who is developing into an exciting prospect with a personal best off 11.49-seconds at 15-years-old. The St George Christian School product is eligible for the next two World Athletics Under 20 Championships to guide her development, with the qualifying standard set at 11.78-seconds for next year’s championships in Eugene, USA.
School: Endeavour High School
Club: Sutherland District Athletics Club
Coach: Jacinta Doyle
Events: U20 Para 100m, 200m Long Jump
Warlpiri teenager Telaya Blacksmith rose to stardom on the Paralympic stage in Paris where she advanced to the final of the 400m T20 for intellectually impaired athletes and set a new Australian record, bringing her status as one of Australia’s highest profile Para-athletes to the 2025 Australian Athletics All Schools Championships. While her pet event of the 400m is not on the program, Blacksmith also has international credentials in the long jump, now set to represent Endeavor High School and New South Wales in Melbourne to round out her school athletics career.
School: Canterbury Girls High School
Club: Illawong Revesby Workers Athletics
Coach: Courtney Joseph
Events: U17 Javelin Throw and Discus Throw
The Australian Under 16 record holder in the javelin throw, Tallara Joseph-Riogi is a name that continues to pop up in the junior athletics ranks, with the Canterbury High School student regularly breaking records in New South Wales. With a personal best of 54.10m with the 500g implement, Joseph-Riogi looms as one of the top competitors at the championships, winning the last three Australian titles in her age group and showing no signs of slowing down under the guidance of her dad Courtney Joseph.
School: Nambucca Heads High School
Club: Ballina Allstars Athletics
Coach: Zenon Kowalczyk
Events: U15 Para 100m, 200m, Long Jump
At 14-years-old, Lexie Brown already has a World Para Athletics Championships appearance to her name when competing in New Delhi in September, with the lower arm amputee now arriving in Melbourne still eligible for the Under 15 competition. Hailing from Nambucca Heads, the sprinter will look to build towards her 2026 campaign which could feature a Commonwealth Games berth – where the 100m T47 will feature on the program. Brown is a Gumbaynggir and Kamilaroi woman who set an Australian 200m T47 record of 26.87 in New Delhi.
School: Pymble Ladies’ College
Club: Manly Warringah Athletics
Coach: Deb Walsham and Vaughan Lawton
Events: U16 1500m and 3000m
An emerging middle-distance talent who touches down at Lakeside Stadium fresh off the 2026 World Cross Country Championships Selection Trials, Eliza Lawton is building a dominant set of personal bests at 15-years-old. With times of 4:20.35 and 9:21.90 to her name, Lawton will represent Pymble Ladies’ College over both 1500m and 3000m, winning both Australian titles in Perth earlier this year with ease.
School: Pymble Ladies’ College
Club: UTS Northern Athletics Club
Coach: Michael Hamlyn-Harris
Events: U16 Triple Jump and Long Jump
Amalia Bond is no stranger to winning national titles and will be out to continue that in Melbourne this weekend, where she will take on both the triple jump and long jump in the Under 16 ranks with personal bests of 12.42m and 5.87m. The youngest of four Bond siblings who have competed prominently on the national junior stage, led by older brother Connor who made his World Championships debut in Tokyo, Amalia will be out chasing international dreams of her own in the coming years.
By Lachlan Moorhouse, Australian Athletics
Posted 2/12/2025
