Hawker has fine record - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 17 Nov 1987 (original) (raw)

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Tue 17 Nov 1987 - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995)
Page 31 - Hawker has fine record

Hawker College will celebrate two

years of record participation in school

sports and record successes with a

school sports dinner tomorrow night

Dr Bill Donovan, the principal of the

college, himself involved in coaching,

said that more than 1 SO students had

played in college teams that won com

petitions in 1987, represented the ACT,

or represented Australia.

Awards will be made at the dinner to

the male and female sports stars of the

year, who will have been nominated by

their peers and chosen for their perfor

mances over the past two years. The

guest speaker at the dinner will be

Olympic hurdler Don Wright.

There will also be awards for the two

year-11 students considered most

promising for 1988, and for the year's

Likely finalists for the girls' individ

Lisa Powell, who represented the col- J

lege at badminton, softball, touch

and hockey. She represented the

ACT in U18 and U21 hockey teams

and was selected in the Australian

U18 hockey side. Powell is an Esan

da scholarship holder for hockey and (

Jaqui Bishop is another outstanding

hockey player, representing the ACT

at U18 and U21 level and Australia

Bronwyn Calver has represented the

college and the ACT in cricket, bas

ketball, badminton, soccer, athletics,

indoor cricket and hockey. She

toured the US in 1987 with the Aus

tralian youth women's soccer team.

Contenders for the boys' award in

Justin Harsdorf, who represented the

college in tennis, volleyball and Aus

tralian football. He has won numer

ous tennis tournaments, represented

the ACT and was selected in the

Australian schoolboys' tennis teams.

Geoff Logkn captained the Australian

rugby union schoolboys' team in

1987 after also representing Austra

lia in 1986. He played in college rug

by league, union and touch teams,

(ason Gregory represented the college

in rugby league, union, touch and

Australian football. He played for

the ACT in three of these sports and

was selected in Australian teams in

rugby league and touch football.

Bradley Clyde is a potential Raiders

player. He was selected in the Aus

tralian rugby league schoolboys'

team in 1986 and 1987 and while

touring in Britain in 1986 Clyde was

voted the best-and-fairest player. He

has also represented the college in a

Other Australian representatives

from the college arc Anthony Hayes,

Lisa Camden, Roni Volavola, Paul

Chalmers and Lee Wilkinson.

Hawker College's boys' indoor soc

cer team was runner-up in the champi

on schools of Australia competition,

the rugby league team got to the quar

ter-finals of the Commonwealth Bank '

competition and the golf team was sec

ond in the national championships.