Sporting Minds Student School Holiday Success!!

While others were taking a much needed break, our Sporting Minds excellence students have continued to perform highly through these school holidays.

Bonnie Smeltz played 3 tournaments, making 3 14/U singles finals where she placed Runner Up in two and took the win in the third, against her sister and fellow Sporting Minds student Scarlett Smeltz!

Bonnie and Scarlett then made a doubles final in Brisbane last week where they were looking promising for the win until rain cancelled their match!

In the same tournaments Scarlett was a quarter finalist, semi finalist and finalist in her singles match ups and took out the 14/U girls doubles at the Pro One Tournament with her partner.  

Showing persistence, Bonnie has been touted as most improved in the tennis scene and has almost halved her Australian Tennis Ranking.

Harpah Murray, year 7 Sporting Minds student, spent part of his school holidays in Toowoomba where as a member of the U/13 Gold Coast Cyclones team he participated in the QLD Rugby Union Championships. Congratulations to Harpah and his team, who at the end of the competition, took out the win!

Year 8 Sporting Minds student, Montana Atkinson, was back in the pool these holidays for the 2021 Short Course QLD State Championships, competing in the Open Multiclass division. This was Montana’s first time competing at this Short Course event and was pitted against athletes between 12 and 22 years of age! Montana kept focused on her goals and came away with 2 golds (50Fly and 100Fly), 2 silvers (200Free and 100Back), 3 bronze (50Free, 50Back and 100Free) and 5^th in the 100 Individual Medley.

Addison Newlan competed in the Australian Sailing Youth Sail Qld and O’pen Skiff Qld state regatta at Yeppoon over this September school holidays. She competed in her O’pen skiff class against 17 competitors and came 3rd overall. She came 3rd to the World O’pen skiff champion and a top 20 O’pen skiff World sailor, with one race win over them both during the regatta.