Regional Athletic Meet - Boys

On Saturday the 28th of May we traveled to Mpelembe Secondary School for this year’s 2016 athletic qualifiers. We started off early and arrived there on time, most of the schools had already arrived. It was a sizzling morning and you could feel the excitement and adrenaline running through the air. We had three age groups, under 19s, under 16s and under 14s, all divided into girls and boys groups. Due to the number of schools there this year we only had 1 heat in races, rather than two like last year. For the first event we had the boys 1500m which comprised all the age groups of boys racing together. For that event Amano came out first followed by Chengelo, Mpelembe and Lechwe. For the under 16 boys first was Mpelembe followed by Amano then Simba and Chengelo. For under14s Amano came out 4th with Chengelo 1st. The second track event was 200m, for under19s Amano came first after a thrilling race [by James]. In under 16's Amano came out 4th with Chengelo in first place. Sadly in under 14's after a valiant try by Xavier he failed to qualify because slipped just at the end. This was then followed by 400m, for under 19s and Amano came out 1st [Fungai], for under 16's sadly even after a 'burn out' run Mwansa he was still enable to qualify. For under 14's, sadly just by a few inches, Amano lost its place in qualifiers. Then the next track event was the 100m, which was exceptional, for under 19's, 16's and U14's sadly failed to qualify. Then for the last individual run 800m in under 19's Amano came out first, but for the under 16's and 14's we failed to qualify.

Then went on to the relays: 4 x 100m Amano came out 5th but, due to 1 school above dropping out, we went up to qualify. For 4 by 400 after a thrilling race Amano came out 3rd. [The U16's also qualified in the 4 x 100, to the national ISAZ event, due to a late withdrawal of a team]

When it comes to the field Amano also performed well, as it came out second in the U19's long jump [Paul], second for U19s triple jump [James] and 4th for under 16's [Kurt]. We then came out 1st in under 16s high jump [Jackson] and 4th in under 14s [Xavier], then for U19 discus we came out 4th [Daniel]. In the shot put we came out 4th [Fungai] for under 19s, under 16s [Musonda] and 14s [Xavier].

Overall I believe it was a brilliant event which showed both talent and hard work. It was great to see that a lot of effort had been put in by both staff and students. I also believed that everybody tried their best and sadly for those that failed to qualify, I wish them better next time. Thank you.

Overall I would like to thank Mr Grove jr, the fellow staff and pupils for organising and helping and to God for making sure that everything went well.

Report by: Fungai Chanda


Some pictures of the event by Mr Pflaum