Athletics & swimming

House Athletics, was, once again, a disappointment. Our participation inproved; due largely to our Year 13s leading the way, motivating and organising the juniors. Unfortunately, a number of Year 11 and 12 did not participate as fully as expected. A number of Maristians completed valiantly in the finals on Wednesday evening and a number made Old Boys. Josh Kurton, Mealofa Lauvi, Jerome Betham, Jeremy Clegg, Shaun Smith, Patrick Carson, Attila Ropati-Va'a, Aniseko Sio, Durran Misa, Gareth Hitchman, Henry Walsh, Jake Johnston and Gerarg Farrell all contested passionately at Newtown Park.

The Next big event is the swimming champs this week. Full participation should ensure success.

Welcome back. It's 2009 and Marist have hit the ground running. Marist's rich vein of leaders has been recognised with the appointment of Attila Ropati-Va'a as Head Boy and Vincent Ringrose as Head of House and Head of Special Character. The College has created new positions: heads of the four pillars of Stream: Special Character, Academic, Sport and Cultural. The Houses have realigned their councils in the whole-school model and Marist has eight Year 13s leading the way. Vincent and Jerome Betham head up Special Character. Gerard Farrell and Dylan Van Opdorp lead Academic. Dan Close and Dan Walkin lead Cultural and Tom Asin and Taiso Silafai-Leaana.

A large number of seniors have already taken the lead and have been modeling our values and standards in their everyday actions.