Athletics

The athletes work hard in a very short season at the start of Term III.

The annual Prestige inter-school athletics event is highly contested and all nine participating girls’ schools go head to head for first place. St Mary’s won this event in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2023. These results are for the Junior School only.

Senior School athletes work with different coaches and follow training programmes pertaining to their various disciplines. Athletes work on stretching, strengthening and conditioning exercises, as well as agility, speed and speed endurance. Our training sessions take place on the Howell Hub, but we are fortunate that the majority of our events take place on the tartan track in Germiston.

Inter-house athletics, which marks the end of the season, has serious and fun events and we encourage as many girls as possible to participate.