Trinity College Old Boys Sporting Stars

Congratulations to the following Old Boys who have excelled in sport recently:

Lewis Stevenson – Developing midfielder and rookie draft for West Coast Eagles

Pat McGinnity – Midfielder West Coast Eagles see report

Josh Hill, who received the AFL Rising Star Award April 2008 at Western Bulldogs

Jarrhan Jackie played first game for Adelaide Crows

Reece Grant selected to row in the Under 23’s World Champion Coxless Four

Beau Casson and Simon Katich selected to play on the Australian Cricket team 2008

Henk Vogels Jnr. - Australian cyclist

John Steffensen - Olympic track star

Travis Nederpelt - Olympic finalist swimmer

Ben Cureton – National Champion cyclist

Nicholas Ward – Hurdles Champion

Stefan Szczurowski – Olympic Rower

Cross Country Team consisting of Nick Lee, Ken Duggan, Josh Nicholas, Aaron Gregory, Eamon Costello and Josh Hicks have been ranked 6th in the world following a recent trip to the World Championships in Prague 2008. They also won the Fair Play Award, all receiving medals.

Trinity Old Boys at the Commonwealth Games

John Steffenson (class of 99) and Travis Nederpelt (class of 03) have been selected to represent Australia at the XVIII Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. John, the athlete,will be competing in the 400 metres and Travis, the swimmer, has yet to anounce his events.

John Steffenson

AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS:
400m: '02 - heat, '03 - 5th, '04 - 3rd, '05 - 2nd, '06 - 1st

INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS:
World Championships: '03 4x400m heat 4th (46.8 first leg split), '05 400m 8th (45.46)
Olympics: '04 4x400m relay Silver medal Final 3:00.60 (split 45.9); heat 3:03.06 (split 46.5)
Commonwealth Games '06 400m Gold Medal 44.73
Commonwealth Games '06 4x400m relay Gold Medal

PROGRESSION:

400 metres	2002	47.14
	2003	46.07
	2004	45.63
	2005	45.31
	2006	44.73

EVENTS / PBS:

200 metres	2005	20.88 (-0.4)
400 metres	2006	45.14
Long Jump	2002	7.18/7.28w

Photographs taken from the Athletics Australia Website at www.athletics.org.au

Travis Nederpelt

Olympic Games Athens, Greece 2004 8th 400m IM; 17th 200m fly

World Champs Barcelona, Spain 2003 8th 200m butterfly

World Champs Montreal, Canada 2005 9th 200m fly; 14th 400m IM

Duel in the Pool Indianapolis, USA 2003 5th 200m fly; 6th 100m fly, 400m IM

Duel in the Pool Irvine, USA 2005 3rd 200m fly, 400m IM

Oceania Champs Noumea, New Caledonia 2002 1st 1500m free; 2nd 200m fly; 3rd 400m free

Australian Youth Olympic Festival Sydney, AUS 2003 1st 400m, 800m, 1500m, 4x200m free, 200m, 400m IM, 200m fly

Photographs taken from Swimming Australia Website at www.swimming.org.au