Last weekend, 50+ Sth Melb athletes converged upon Goldsworthy Athletic Facility in Corio for the 22/23 Western Metro Regional Carnival. We were lucky to have perfect weather conditions across the 2 full days of track and field events that encompassed ages 9 through to 17.
That set the scene for some outstanding results from SMDLAC – boy oh boy did our athletes reach for those PB’s! Congratulations to our amazing athletes who achieved medals, PB’s and stepped up with courage to compete against athletes from other centres. Better luck next year to our athletes who had to miss out due to injuries or illness, we missed you on the weekend. This Thursday our athletes will find out if their performance at the regional carnival has qualified them to compete in the State Track & Field Champs in March. We have everything crossed for you all.

Our parents also stood up to the task of volunteering over the weekend, for every event our athletes enter into we get assigned a duty. What we saw was some parents going over and above and stepping in to help others and fill many of our gaps and take our equipment back to Melbourne. So proud to be part of such a great community. Thank you to everyone especially those who did more than you needed to, you know who you are. Rob and Dan – couldn’t have asked for more helpful Team Managers, what legends.

A full list of results can be found if you scroll below, however it would be remiss not to mention that we did have a few results that ended up in protests to what we perceived were errors in WMR recording of results, timing gates and processes in re running a race. Some of these are still unresolved, so the below results may change as we get through the processes. (Side note; it is always a good idea to film or photograph your athletes track races for this reason).

A few athletes that scored multiple medals:
Jasper Louey U15B, entered 5 events and came home with GOLD for all 5.
Dash Muir U16B, entered into 4 events and came home with GOLD for all 4.
Jessica Dingley in U9G, first regional comp and winning 3 GOLD medals
Gianluca de Moraes Padovani U11B taking home 1 GOLD and 3 SILVER medals.
Ella Heffernan U11G, Xavier Bouteloup U11B and Albie Kennedy U12B bringing home 3 medals each.

This may have been our biggest medal haul, but we are yet to check these facts! Our Medallists are:
18 × 1st Place
U9G 60m Hurdles: Jessica Dingley 11.22 (1st)
U9G Long Jump: Jessica Dingley 3.43m (1st)
U9G Shot Put: Jessica Dingley 5.02m (1st)
U16B 100m: Dashiell Muir 11.77 (1st)
U16B 200m: Dashiell Muir 24.14 (1st)
U16B 400m: Dashiell Muir 53.26 (1st)
U16B 800m: Dashiell Muir 2:12.50 (1st)
U15B 1500m: Daniel Ball 4:33.87 (1st)
U15B Discus: Jasper Louey 38.18m (1st)
U15B Javelin: Jasper Louey 39.18m (1st)
U15B Long Jump: Jasper Louey 6.10m (1st)
U15B Shot Put: Jasper Louey 11.26m (1st)
U15B Triple Jump: Jasper Louey 12.90m (1st)
U14B 400m: Matthew Fairchild 57.85 (1st)
U14B 1500m: Stirling Rolls 4:42.95 (1st)
U11B 400m: Gianluca de Moraes Padovani 64.84 (1st)
U11B 80m Hurdles: Xavier Bouteloup 14.15 (1st)
U10B High Jump: Liam Shaw 1.19m (1st)

12 × 2nd Place
U13G 400m: Ananya Krishnakumar 68.03 (2nd)
U10G 200m: Ella Heffernan 31.01 (2nd)
U11G 400m: Charlize Kolyniuk 72.46 (2nd)
U10G Long Jump: Taylor Agostini-Debruyn 3.57m (2nd)
U9G 800m: Jade Holden 2:58.02 (2nd)
U14B Javelin: Stirling Rolls 30.88m (2nd);
U13B 100m: Dane Greig 13.18 (2nd)
U12B High Jump: Albie Kennedy 1.50m (2nd)
U12B Triple Jump: Albie Kennedy 9.66m (2nd)
U11B 200m: Gianluca de Moraes Padovani 30.34 (2nd)
U11B 800m: Gianluca de Moraes Padovani 2:29.61 (2nd)
U11B 1500m: Gianluca de Moraes Padovani 5:06.75 (2nd)

16 × 3rd Place
U12G 800m: Asha Ball 2:42.73 (3rd)
U12G 1500m: Asha Ball 5:36.57 (3rd)
U11G 100m: Ella Heffernan 15.01 (3rd)
U11G 200m: Olivia Heddle 31.17 (3rd)
U11G High Jump: Ella Heffernan 1.25m (3rd)
U11G Long Jump: Olivia Heddle 3.88m (3rd)
U10G 60m Hurdles: Mari Hardy 12.91 (3rd)
U10G Long Jump: Xanthe Ostik-Smith 3.51m (3rd)
U15B 800m: Daniel Ball 2:14.38 (3rd)
U12B 200m: Albie Kennedy 28.46 (3rd)
U11B 100m: Xavier Bouteloup 14.70 (3rd)
U11B Javelin: Fiete Halvar Diers 24.07m (3rd)
U11B Shot Put: Chuck Schiller 8.18m (3rd)
U11B Triple Jump: Xavier Bouteloup 8.68m (3rd)
U10B Discus: Liam Shaw 17.43m (3rd)
U9B 800m: Luigi de Moraes Padovani 2:52.51 (3rd)

FULL RESULTS
https://lavic.resultshub.com.au/

In fun & fitness, SMDLAC Committee