Kirrawee High School

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KHS Senior Sports Award Winners

06 Dec 2021

Congratulations to our 2021 Senior Sports Award Winners – Emma Smith, Charles Johnston, Zoe Jay, Jay Louison-Roe

Emma Smith

Congratulations to Emma Smith the 2021 Senior Female Sport Star of the Year.

Emma excels in the Sport of Netball and has represented at the highest level. Out of school she is a member of the Sutherland Stingrays Premier League team and has been selected in the Indigenous All Stars Team, numerous State and Talent Squads as well as the NSW Swifts Academy.

At KHS Emma has been a most valuable member of our school teams since Year 7 representing at State level every year in the 15s and/or Opens. She is a superb defender, playing both GK and GD. Emma is a formidable opponent highly respected and regarded by all players, coaches and spectators. Emma has been a leader both on and off the court and an outstanding role model to our junior team members. Emma always conducts herself in the highest regard and displays outstanding sportsmanship and humility.

Emma has also been a member of the Sydney East Netball team for the past 4 years and this year was awarded the most prestigious honour of a Sydney East Blue for Netball. Emma was selected in the Combined High School NSW Team but unfortunately the NSW All Schools Championship was cancelled.

In 2021 Emma put her skills to use in other sports also representing the school in Basketball, Softball, Cross Country and Futsal. At the Sutherland Zone Cross Carnival Emma finished 1st in the 18 Girls and was the Zone Age Champion. Emma is also a Sport House captain.

A most worthy recipient of this award. We can’t wait to follow your promising netball career in the future and wish you all the best with your sporting endeavours.

Charles Johnston

Congratulations to Charles Johnston 2021 Senior Male Sports Star.

Charles excels in a range of Sports in particular Basketball, Hockey and Cricket. He has been a member of all these school teams throughout high school and a member of the Championship Davidson Shield winning Cricket Teams. Charles has also represented Sydney East in all three sports.

This year both the CHS Basketball and Hockey Championships clashed and Charles made the difficult decision to compete at State Basketball. At this championship Charles was an integral member of the Sydney East Team that finished 3rd winning the CHS Bronze medal. His performances at this carnival led to Charles being selected in the NSW CHS Basketball Team that went on to win the NSW All Schools Basketball Championships. At this carnival his superior skills and natural ability led to his selection in the NSW All Schools Team.

This team is selected from the best Basketball players from all NSW Schools and is the highest sporting achievement in school sport for 2021.

Charles’ outstanding performances in Basketball in 2021 led to him being awarded the most prestigious Honour of a Sydney East Blue for Basketball.

Another outstanding KHS Athlete with an amazing sporting future ahead.

Zoe Jay

Congratulations to Zoe Jay – the 2021 recipient of the Australian Olympic Change-Maker Award.

The Australian Olympic Change-Maker Award recognises and rewards students who are demonstrating the Olympic spirit through leadership and driving positive change in their communities.

Zoe has been an outstanding sporting representative in her 6 years at Kirrawee High in many Olympic Sports especially Hockey, Swimming and Athletics. In 2021 Zoe also represented the school in Cross Country, Futsal and Softball. Zoe was the 17G KHS Cross Country Age Champion as well as a Sydney East Representative in Hockey.

Zoe has been an outstanding ambassador for Kirrawee High School in many sport teams and as a leader as a sport house captain. She has been a fantastic role model for our junior students and is a most worthy recipient of this award.

Jay Louison-Roe

Congratulations to Jay Louison-Roe – the 2021 recipient of the Australian Olympic Change-Maker Award.

The Australian Olympic Change-Maker Award recognises and rewards students who are demonstrating the Olympic spirit through leadership and driving positive change in their communities.

Jay Louison Roe has been an outstanding KHS Representative in the Sport of Athletics and a School Leader holding a prefect position in 2021.

Jay has represented NSW in athletics multiple times and been the school, zone, region and state age champion in his age groups over the past 6 years. Unfortunately CHS Athletics has not been run for the past two years but Jay has won NSW All Schools Medals in Long Jump, Triple Jump and Hurdles.

Jay has overcome injury to return to the elite level in his sport and most definitely displays the Olympic spirit. Jay displays outstanding leadership qualities, coaches junior athletes at his local athletics club and is highly respected by his athletes and the athletics community.

Well Done Jay – a most worthy recipient of this award.