1995 School Magazine

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mornings and late afternoons to perfect skills on each of the fbur apparatus: Vau1t, Bars, Beam and Floor. The blow of tralning, however, was considerably softened with the ultramodern faymnastics-specific facility in the McCrae Grassie Spor-ts Centre. This qualityvenLle meant our dominance of gymnastics was maintained and its future, gllaranteed. Congratulations must go to Andrea Noon (Year 8(1)), who gained the top overall score for the whole competition on floot, to AntheaChaprnafi(C Grade) who achieved scores of nine or more on all lour apparatus, and to Isobel Davies (A Grade) for her consistent and impressive perfbrmances on all apparatus. After approximately eighty hor-rrs of gruelling circuit repeti- tions accompanied by the ever enjoyable hill set, victory was deservedly sweet at the annual QGSSSA CROSS COTNTRY Championships. Throughout the season, the seventy strong group of devoted Grammar rllnners built up a comladeship which greatly contributed to the immense success of this Cross Country season. The Cross Country team again displayed its dominance by winning the QGSSSA Championships for the second successive year. May 27 1'995 pLlt BGGS down in the recorcl books as the first QGSSSA school to win each age division. a trLlly amazing feat! Under the guidance of coach Mr Tony Booth, time, thoughtful preparatlon, effort and determination n-ere the winning ingredients, with each girl putting in 1100/o throughout the season, climaxing at this event held at Loganlea State High School. As indicated by the or-rtstancling result, there were many spectacular performances by Grammar girls on the day, espe- cial1y by Sarah Bitomsky who ran a courageous race resulting in her becoming the 14 years QGSSSA Title Holder for 1995, and also the Interschool Cross Country Champion. Following the success olthe QGSSSA event, BGGS won the Regional Title for the first time with Sarah Splatt and Georgina Mewing (13 years), Sarah Bitomsky (1'1 years), Emma Hutchison and Rachelle Wu (15 years) and Kate Walters ( 17 years) al1 being selected in the Regional team to compete at the

\fith the close of Term 1, or-rr attention was now centred on the ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS held in a slightly different format over an afternoon and a ful1 school day clirnaxing with the A Grade competition on the final night at Somerville House on

May 19.

Historically, Grammar has been a dominant force in Gymnastics and 1995 ploved to be no exception with Crammar teams win- ning six of the nine prem- ierships. These premier- ships w-ere won by B, 82, CL, C2, D2 and Year 8(1) teams, with the Year 8(2) team coming second to Grammar's own Year 8(1) team. D(1) ancl A Grades also performed very wel1, taking second and third placings respectively.

These results did not come easily though, especially with the rising talent in other schools. It took nearly five months of eady

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