As always, our sport program is thriving.
Our amazing achievements have been captured below.

In addition, I wanted to say how appreciative I am of the welcome I have received from so many people in our school community, especially the wonderful students here at Wilderness. It’s always scary changing schools, but the reception I have received has assured me I am in the perfect place for the next stage of my career.

As we begin to embark on our winter sporting season I can’t wait to see what the girls achieve with the amazing assortment of opportunities they have access to. Good luck to all players and coaches, I will be on the sidelines cheering you on!

Junior School Swimming Carnival
What a fantastic day it was at the North Adelaide Aquatic Centre on the last day of term 1. The buzz and spirit from the competitors and crowd was energetic and infectious.

The traditional events were swum with some electric times recorded. Our novelty events were swum with inclusion and friendly competition at the forefront.

Please see below the results for the day. Congratulations to our award winners.

Open 100m Championship and Year 5/6 Perpetual Trophy Winner – Emilia Varricchio

Year 3 Champion – Shivakshi Gupta and Lottie McLeay
Year 4 Champion – Niamh Pudney
Year 5 Champion – Mia Zhou
Year 6 Champion – Emilia Varricchio

Winning Houses – Antholiza (Overall Shield) Sparaxis (Team Games Shield) and Carob (Spirit Cup)

Senior, Middle and Junior Inter House Cross Country Events
We recently held our annual Inter House Cross Country Event at the Wilderness Parklands for students in year 3 – 12. The weather turned on some glorious conditions for the girls to compete in. It was fantastic to see a mix of colours and some of our fury four legged friends who joined in as support.

Students represented their house across a 2.2 km track (1.6km for year 3) needing to complete the course in under 20 minutes to receive points for their house.

The results below will also be used to select our Wilderness Cross Country Teams to compete at SAPSASA and SSSA level later this term.

Junior School Results
Overall Individual Duncan Trophy Winner – Kyra Shah

Year Level Winners

Year 3 – Bella Whittaker
Year 4 – Niamh Pudney
Year 5 – Kyra Shah
Year 6 – Ginger Tembel

Overall House Winner - Sparaxis

Middle and Senior Results
Overall Individual Elsbeth Begg Cup Champion – Isabel Jackson

Year 7 Champion – Angelique Whittaker
Year 8 Champion – Eziije Nwachuku
Year 9 Champion – Bella Pasin
Year 10 Champion – Caitlin Hardin
Year 11 Champion – Isabel Jackson
Year 12 Champion – Sasha Hardin

Overall House Begg Trophy Winner - Antholiza

School Sport SA Secondary Athletics
Late last term we took our Wilderness Middle/ Secondary Athletics Team to the School Sport SA Athletics event at the SA Athletics Stadium.

We finished 4th overall which is a terrific achievement. We also had several girls finish on the podium with top 3 finishes in their events for their age groups.

Caitlin Hardin – 1st 3000m and 3rd 1500m

Amaraka Nwachuku – 3rd 100m, 3rd 200m and 3rd Long Jump
Linah Kafegy – 1st 200m, 2nd Long Jump and 2nd 100m
Lily Alison – 1st High Jump and 2nd Triple Jump
Bella Browning – 1st Triple Jump, 1st 100m and 1st 200m
Jasmine Thirwell – 1st 100m, 1st 400m, 1st 200m
Ella Myer – 1st High Jump and 3rd Long Jump
Ella Smart – 3rd 800m
Angelique Whittaker – 3rd 800m

Congratulations!
As always, we have some amazing individual achievements to share from our talented girls. From our school community, we congratulate them and wish them all the best in high level competitions.

Gymnastics
Bella Pasin

Bella was announced as the 2024 Rhythmic Gymnastics State Champion over the holidays. Bella will represent SA at the Australian Gymnastics Championships in Qld in May.

Swimming
We had 4 girls compete at the National Swimming Championships on the Gold Coast in the holidays.

Arabella Bahr - Year 12

• Competed in 6 events
• Bronze medal in the 400m IM
• Qualified for 4 events for Olympic Trials in Brisbane in June

Isabella Beaumont- Year 10

• Competed in 5 events - 2 representing SA
• Swam a 100m Backstroke PB

Holly Munro - Year 11

• SA 4 x 50m freestyle relay PB
• 50m Backstroke

Charlise Green

• Competed in 3 events
• Qualified to return to the Championships again next year.

Charlise, Holly and Isabella have also been selected for the School Sport SA 13-19 year old team to compete at the School Sport Nationals on the Gold Coast in July.

Hockey
Under 15 State Selection

• Asta Mickan
• Briege Williams

Under 16 State Selection

• Lucia Andrae

Under 18 State Selection

• Molly Dwyer (Also selected to train on with the State Under 21 Team)

Basketball
Amaraka Nwachuku has been selected for State Under 12 Team. Caitlin Hardin has been selected for the Under 16 State Team.