This past Saturday, 24 September, Union had a strong team of 14 ๐๐๐๐ง๐๐๐๐ง๐๐ฆ participating in the second meet of the season in Gqeberha.
๐๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ณ๐ช๐ต, ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ‘๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฅ๐ด’ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐น๐ช๐ฆ๐ต๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ.
The great thing about biathlon is that the participants may run with several different age groups, but it is their OWN time that is important, not winning or losing a particular race. This first event allowed Union’s biathlon team to get both a running and swimming time on record in order for them to now try and beat that time at every following event.
๐๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ฌ๐ก๐ฎ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ข๐๐ “๐ฟ๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐ค๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐ข” ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐ช๐, with great manners and sportsmanship, and fantastic running results, most notably Luvela Makaula and Qhama Solomon who ran fantastic times to take first and second place respectively in the u/15 boys running category.
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ก๐จ ๐๐ก๐ก ๐ง๐๐ฃ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ง๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐ง๐๐๐๐จ and mention must be made of Miley Burger and Samantha Gilfillian who, for the first time, had to run 800m – a hard sprint twice around the track!
The swimming was held at Brylin – Independent Learning Centreโs 50m indoor pool, and our athletes did very well considering they haven’t been able to train throughout the winter. They held their own, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it, with two of our athletes improving on their past times (Ben and Taylor)!
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ข๐ค๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ’๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ด ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฑ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐บ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐น๐๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐น๐น๐ผ๐๐:
๐/๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ:
โข 1st Taylor Jacobs
โข 3rd Allison Gilfillian
๐/๐ญ๐ฏ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ:
โข 5th Samantha Gilfillian
โข 8th Miley Burger
โข 10th Angelique Kyanda-Kaboza
๐/๐ญ๐ฑ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ:
โข 7th Luvela Makaula
โข 8th Qhama Solomon
โข 9th Lulonke Vumazonke
โข 10th Asakula Nkomo
๐/๐ญ๐ฑ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ:
โข 8th Onika Jantjies
๐/๐ญ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ:
โข 3rd Ben Lemke
โข 8th Sophephela Vimbi
โข 9th Connor Horn
๐/๐ญ๐ณ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ:
โข 6th Misha Newton
โข 8th Mecoli Vorster
โข 9th Rebecca Copeman