THERE is action aplenty at PLC Armidale this term, with a number of girls gaining selection in state representative teams.
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Year 9 student Gracie Martin (a boarder from Glen Innes) is representing NSW at the National Little Athletics Titles in Perth this week, competing in her favourite 400m and 200m events.
Gracie recently won the 400m and placed second in the 200m at the NSW Little Athletics Championships held in Newcastle.
Another fellow Year 9 student, Mia Emmanuel (from Armidale) has recently been selected in the NSW Under 15 State Hockey team, which will be competing in the National Hockey Championships in Wollongong during the April holidays.
Mia will be exceptionally busy, as she travels to Sydney tomorrow with the rest of the PLC Armidale Senior Swimming team, which will compete at the highly competitive Independent Girls’ School Sports’ Association (IGSSA) Swimming competition on Thursday and Friday, being held at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre.
Their PLC Armidale Junior counterparts competed successfully at last week’s IPSHA Swimming Carnival, gaining a number of places in various heats and achieving many personal best times.
The PLC Armidale Tildesley Tennis team travels to Sydney next week to compete in the hotly contested IGSSA Tennis tournament. And today, the PLC Armidale Senior Football (soccer) team (despite being under strength due to competing academic commitments) is participating in the NCIS Football competition being played at TAS.
Together with the visit from NSW Cricket and Australian cricketer Naomi Stelenberg last week, and a flurry of selections for the senior and junior IGSSA netball and hockey teams to kick off the winter sport season, along with the regular participation in summer sports of indoor hockey, basketball, and touch, it has been an immensely busy sporting calendar at PLC Armidale to start 2016.
These selections not only showcase the diversity of sport choices available at PLC Armidale but also the sporting pathways (along with the community partnership with the Northern Inland Academy of Sport), which exist in the regional all-girls’ school, where along with academically, culturally and socially, sportswomen flourish.
