Anyway, our regular Sport day was not to be wrecked, so we did something different by having a tug of war amongst the staff and students who were at school. The teams were divided into the Senior School Young Men, Middle School Young Men, a combined team of the Senior School and Middle School Young Women, some of the junior School class, the Teachers and the Teacher Aides.
The Senior School Young Men seemed to dominate the tug of war competition by demolishing the Middle School Young Men. The combined team of the Senior School and Middle School Young Women were outgunned and over powered by the strength and mighty force of the Teacher Aides led by Powerhouse Gawain Tipiloura and the all conquering brute force of the Big Show Den Den. The next group in line to take on this menacing power force was the teachers. As all looked good to go with the crowd standing by in awe of the excitement to see a great matchup, it was pretty much the teacher aides who conquered the tug of war match by defeating the teachers and taking victory honors again. It was left to the Junior School students to take it upon themselves to have a shot at the teacher aides and spoil their fun, and in doing so, defeated the teacher aides and stole the show by not giving up and working together as a team to outmuscle the brute force of the Big Show Den Den and his partner the Powerhouse Gawain Tipiloura and their crew the Teacher Aides.
From that point, the staff and students were divided into two teams to play AFL which was played in stormy, windy, wet conditions, but did not sway both teams to stop and run under cover. Everyone continued to play the game - which is seen as the best game in this part of the country. I beg to differ, however, I was not going to argue with the staff and students who were just fantastic and brilliant in their sporting ability.
I was just amazed at the talent identified in the staff and students of Tiwi College. Some of the standouts of the day were just awesome and showed us some of their skills and tricks of the game. We had the speed and agility of Teacher Aide Patrick Keenan who is also a member of the Tiwi Bombers team; our Red Dust Sports Coordinator Jason Ryan who is a former Australian Representative in Rugby Union and also showed some of his AFL skills in both defence and attack; the tenacity of Steven Stassi; the never give up attitude of Anthony Farmer; the forever skill full AJ; the talented Kevin Portaminni; the ferocious Captain Gabriel on the day who would never lay down and fought to the end of the game; others included James Farmer who amazes me at times with the sheer strength and speed he has to out play certain players; and last but not least one of the Middle School Young Women who is also a powerhouse that runs hard, tackles hard and is seen by others to be an all rounder in basketball, soccer, volleyball and in addition that she is seen to be a great sports person both on and off the field.
There were so many of the students who played well and it will be great when we get all our students back from Bathurst to join us. I would like to thank all staff and students for their participation in the Friday Sports Games. It’s great to see everyone working together as part of a team to achieve goals, whether they win or lose, the main thing is that both staff and students got to have fun, shake hands and wait for next week where it all starts again.
Cheers,
Mr Sila Pati
Academic Coordinator
