Reactiv BBQ 2013

The Reactiv team!

We had our annual Reactiv get together cum BBQ session on 22nd September 2013. It was a fun filled event where current and former athletes from Reactiv get to see each other again to catch up as well as to be introduced to the newer members of the team. We had our first newcomers to this BBQ, the athletics team from Marina Bay Sands, coached by our chief co-ordinator Alfred Sim.

Say cheeesssseeeeee!

Athletes from RP having a good time!

The main staple and a continuing tradition of the Reactiv BBQ; the gift exchange session where each attendee will have to bring along something that he/she doesn't need anymore and this means buying of gifts is strictly not allowed! The main purpose of this exchange is for us to bond and at the same time clearing your unwanted items at home! (But still might be useful to the others). Being athletes, we couldn't just sit and mingle around without playing any sport, right? We had games such as frisbee, street soccer and basketball shootout and most importantly,we had a whole lot of fun!

The MBS Team with their new polo tees!

The assortment of gifts right before the gift exchange

And of course, how can we forget to mention about the food! The ingenious Alfred Sim brought along pineapples to BBQ and oh my, it was amazingly good and it complimented well with the rest of the BBQed items. Overall, this BBQ edition was a great success with the overall turnout and everyone throughly enjoyed themselves. Hopefully, this Reactiv team will continue to go on and grow bigger in time to come.

Summing up a great evening!

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SPH Schools Relay Championship

 

The annual SPH relay is here again! The participation was overwhelming as usual.  This is one of the competitions closest to the Nationals, and we saw all divisions using this meet as the warm up race for the Championship next month. 

The events for Day 1 were 4 x 200m heats, 4 x 800m time finals and 4 x 200m finals. 

ACS(i) sent a team each for A (boys and girls), B, C Div for the 4 x 200m. As for the 4 x 800m we sent A,B,C boys. 

Sengkang Secondary School took part in the 4 x 200m for B (boys and girls) and C boys. Luckily, we managed to squeeze into the finals. ACSi had their school sports day last week and many of them competed and were already quite tired. I was very concerned that there might be injuries due to this.

  Day 1 was hot and sunny , but on Day 2, it was raining heavily for about an hour before the start of the event. The first event was delayed for 1.5hrs, lightning alert was on and athletes couldn't find space to warm up. In the end, they found their own entertainment - play cards...

Sengkang Secondary sent the B boys and girls, C boys for the 4 x 100m. The B girls did their best but missed by 1 position and were unable to come in top 8 in the finals. The B boys were lucky - Patrick took off way before the take off mark but slowed down to receive the baton from Shannon, but tried his best to catch up with the pack. He managed to pass the baton successfully to Hari, who brought the baton past the finishing line to qualify to the finals.

 ACS(i) sent the 4 x 100m A boys, A girls, B and C boys. Unfortunately, C Div was the only team that was not in the finals. We have a mix of Year 1s and 2s for the C boys, and I guess because it is a rather new team, it needs more exposure for competitions like this. 

Our B boys, favoured to win the 4 x 100m, came in 2nd fastest qualifier with Timothy striding easily back the home stretch. However, my biggest worry happened when our 1st leg, Darryl Leong pulled his hamstring while running the curve towards Mitchel. We came in last in the finals.

 For more videos and information, pls visit www.singaporeathletics.org.sg or visit their Youtube channel to watch the races. http://www.youtube.com/user/singaporeathletics

Stay tuned for more blog updates as we lead up to the National's Championship!

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2013 Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic Games (IVP)

Hope everyone is doing fine! This is the first blog entry for year 2013! This year is going to be an exciting year because of the SEA Games coming up end of the year. Along the calendar, we have many competition local, regional and international lined up for us. The first competition that I'm going to talk about is the IVP. The standards of the IVP has been rising, as we see many of the National athletes competing under the Universities and also the first few batches of Sports School athletes growing into Polys and mostly NTU sports science course.

This year I am still employed by RP, and I am really fortunately to have a very strong girls team, contribution mainly from the sports school athletes! Nabilah, Habibah, Wendy, LiangWei etc..

IVP Day 1 held in ITE Simei and Republic Poly sent a team mainly in Sprints and hurdles. We missed a medal chance when Shiyu stumbled the 2nd hurdle in the 100mH race. She won the race during POLITE and were setting high hopes for this race against NTU powerhouse Dipna Prasad. Luckily Shiyu started for us in the relay and we won and came in 1st qualifier for the finals!

Wendy did 4 races + 4 x 100m relay, and I guess it drained her out after the heats for the 100m and 400m. She came in 2nd after Piriya in the 400m, but won the 100m setting a new record of 12.38s!
As expected, Zaki won the men's 400m and helped to anchor the men's 4 x 100m to qualify for the finals! Congrats and great job everyone!

For more results, pls visit the link below:
http://www.singaporeathletics.org.sg/institute-varsity-polytechnic-games-2012-2013

See you next week!

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