All class: athletes contest schools champs

MANY of Athletics Bendigo Region’s rising stars will be in action across this weekend’s start to the Victorian All Schools field and track titles at Melbourne’s Lakeside Stadium.

Hundreds of athletes will pursue personal bests and selection in Victoria’s team for nationals across consecutive weekends at the Albert Park precinct in South Melbourne.

Among them will be Bendigo South East Secondary College’s Avery McDermid in the under-16 1500 meters.

A scholarship recipient in this year’s Bendigo Sports Star of the Year awards, McDermid was runner-up in the under-16 1500 meters at the Australian championships run last April in Brisbane.

The Tickell siblings, Chelsea and Logan who are members of South Bendigo AC will also compete at Lakeside,

A student at Bendigo South East, Chelsea will race in the under-15 1500 meters.

Logan is in record-breaking form and will contest the under-18 over the same distance as he competes for Bendigo Senior Secondary College Lions.

Other top contenders for medals include Weeroona College and South Bendigo AC clubmates Kai Norton and Jasper Seymour in field events, and Bendigo South East’s Cooper Richardson in the under-15 100 and 400 meters.

Students with links to Athletics Bendigo clubs heading to the titles include Andrea Archibald, Nate Smith, Amalie and Scarlett Southern from St Joseph’s Echuca, Caitlin and Eliza Evans from Catherine McAuley College, and Reeve Evans from Scotch College.

Also bound for Lakeside are Girton Grammar’s Abbey Reid and Kate Wilson, Sacred Heart Kyneton’s Tyler Fynch, Kade Hutchinson and Genevieve Nihill from Catherine McAuley College, Bendigo Senior SC’s Amber Fox, Isabella Noonan from Bendigo South East, and Charlie Sullivan from Maryborough Education Centre.

Action starts at 10am on Saturday and Sunday.