There was plenty of success for five Goulburn Mulwaree Little Athletics Club athletes earlier this month at the NSW All Schools Athletics Carnival.
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Alyssa Murphy, Jess Hassan and Josh Kalozi from Mulwaree High, Jaidah Jarvis from Goulburn High and Matthew Arregui from Moss Vale all competed at Sydney Olympic Park.
Matthew in his first All Schools competed in the 12 years boys 100m, qualifying for the finals and finishing 10th overall.
Alyssa also competing at her first All Schools, competed in the 14 years girls 3000m and was also running up an age group.
Goulburn Mulwaree Little Athletics Club president Kerrie Laurie said this was her first hit out at this distance on the track and she put in a great run.
Jess competed in the 14 years girls 800m, finishing third in her heat and only just missing out on the finals.
Laurie said this was her personal best in this race.
"Three weeks ago, she also ran a personal best to break the club's 800m record which had stood for 10 years."
Jaidah competed in the 16 girls discus and shot and finished fourth in both events.
"Jaidah is learning with every competition and has really only been throwing for just over two years," Laurie said.
"She has been consistently breaking her age group's discus and shot records as she goes through, usually two or three times a season."
Josh competed in four events coming away with four medals.
He won the 200m hurdles in a personal best time, won the triple jump, came third in the long jump and finished second in the 100m hurdles while pushing the winner to a new record.
As a result, Laurie said Josh made the NSW Athletics honour team.
"As the Australian All Schools Championships was cancelled along with all other Australian Athletics Championships due to COVID, NSW Athletics chose an honour team which would have been the team to participate if the Australian Championships were being contested," she said.
"Josh was selected in that team for three events, the 100m and 200m hurdles and the triple jump."
Laurie congratulated all of the athletes who participated and hoped it would spur them on to bigger and better things as the year progresses.
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