As the school sports season heats up, one of the most anticipated national finals in our local sports scene lurks just around the corner. With less than a week to go before the championships, let us have a look at the potential title contenders in the girls competition, and the mouth-watering clashes that lie ahead.
As the school sports season heats up, one of the most anticipated national finals in our local sports scene lurks just around the corner. With less than a week to go before the championships, let us have a look at the potential title contenders in the boys competition, and the mouth-watering clashes that lie ahead.
Catholic High's Heng Yu Jie posted a time of 14 minutes 14.22 seconds on the 4.2 kilometres Bedok Reservoir course to win the Under-17 category at the Wings Cross Country Championships.
As schools across the island celebrated National Day today with traditional concerts and festivities in their respective campuses, Woodlands Secondary adopted a different approach by celebrating the Nation’s birthday with a cross country run.
Throughout the school sports season, Red Sports have been conducting polls for various sports. You, the readers, nominated your best players and have cast your votes. Now that the voting has ended, let's see who are your favourite players.
There cannot be a more dominant athlete on the school sports scene now than Zachary Ryan Devaraj. The Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (ACSI) track star put up an inspired display of front-running, leading his B Division 1500m race from start to finish, and clocked a time of 4min 12.61 seconds to better the 11-year-old mark of 4:14.13, set by Kannan Poobalan of Victoria School (VS) in 1999.
Judging by the way Marcus Ng of Victoria School (VS) has been running this year, many would have taken the outcome of the C Division boys’ 3000m final as a forgone conclusion. Heng Yu Jie of Catholic High School however showed that this was not the case, as he stuck close to Marcus from the start of the race, before unleashing an amazing 63-second final lap to out-sprint Marcus for the gold medal.
While there were the winners who blitzed the course, there were the others who simply were out to complete the course. Apart from the action on the course, there was celebration and cheering in the stands as well. Here is a picture story of their day.