Athletes take part in the Ipswich Carnival 2010

  Jimboomba Athletes Triumph at State Relay Championships

 Jimboomba Little Athletics teams won three gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the annual Queensland Little Athletics State Relay championships held at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre (QSAC), at Nathan  on Saturday.

 This is Jimboomba’s best ever result at the championships which this year attracted 1596 athletes from 58 little athletics centres located throughout Queensland.

 The U17 boys team of Liam Burnett, Tayem Renton, Tyson Jackson and Lindsay Newton-Smith won the 4X100m event in a thrilling race which saw the first three teams split by only seven one hundredths of a second. The four boys then backed up to win the last event of the day, the U17 boys distance medley (200m, 200m, 400m, 800m).

 Tyson Jackson and Lindsay Newton-Smith also won the U17 boys discus relay with a combined distance of 90.68m.

 Jimboomba’s U9 athletes performed extremely well with Cody Donnelly and Mathew Stockham claiming second place in the U9 boys discus and Mathew then pairing with Trent Fisher to win the bronze medal in the U9 high jump relay. The U9 track teams comprising, Trent, Mathew, Clay Hunter, Dylan Tyler Moss and Zac Farrell also ran well in their 4X100m and 4X200m events.

 The team of Madison Shay, Bianca Watkins, Kailee Howard and Hannah Cox claimed bronze in the U12 girls distance medley event.

In total, Jimboomba had 30 athletes who competed at the state relay meet and did the centre proud.

Other teams that ran well were the U10 girls 4X200m runners (Chiara Olive, Shonee Giddings, Molly Rowe and  Camryn Newton-Smith) and the U11 boys 4X100m and 4X200m team (Jayden Fielding-Smith, Lachlan Graham, Dylan Brennan and Connor Baylis).

 Many personal bests were recorded by Jimboomba’s field event relay teams: U11 boys high jump (Michael Parnell and Lachlan Graham),  U12 boys shot put relay (Nathan Wilkins and Jake Farrell), U13 boys high jump (Jeffrey Perera and Kendal Newton-Smith), U15 boys discus and high jump (Daniel Turner and Liam Burnett) and U17 girls shot put, discus and long jump (Jessica Pickles and Breanna Grindrod).