Sports

In the early years of the school, there were three sports houses: Canberra (blue), Sabre (yellow) and Meteor (green). In the mid-60s, Mirage house was added.

Later again the four house names were changed to Hercules and Iroquois, with Mirage and Sabre being retained. In 1986 the four house names were again changed, now down to three: Hornets (yellow), Falcons (blue) and Mustangs (red).

On this page is a selection of sporting memories from the Austral magazine and also those contributed by readers.

1960 Athletic Champions	1971 Swim Team Patti Nolan, Angela Manthey, Debra Harvey, Alison Hornibrook, Michelle Harvey	1960 House Captains	1960 Swimming Champions	1961 House Captains
1961 Meteor House Captains Geoff McGuinness and Barbara Ward - receive Champion House Sandilands Cup	1961 Chester White, Bevan Liebke, Suzanne Tongue, Mark Harris, Neville Fairleigh, Judy Smith, Melanie Tongue and Christine Philpott with Gp Capt I.Rose, A.F.C.	1962 Combined Schools Sports (Penang) and Interstate Athletic Championships (Kuala Lumpur) Bck: C.Myers, B.Ward, S.Erickson, C.Pitman. Frnt: S.Ross, J.Gurr, D.Patrick	1962 Combined Schools Swimming Meet Cup Winners Bck: M.Nott, B.Liebke, R.Eyres, P.Bek Frnt: A.Bridle, C.Rayner, J.Eyres, M.Tongue, L.Rayner.	1962 Combined Schools' Sports (Penang) and Interstate Athletic Championships (Kuala Lumpur) Bck: C.Myers, B.Ward, S.Erickson, C.Pitman. Frnt: S.Ross, J.Gurr, D.Patrick
(Courtesy Robin Tobler) 1962 Swim Carnival Meteor team	(Courtesy Jan Eyres) 1962 Section Cup Winners RAAF School Swimming Gala Air Commodore Ford, Jan Eyres, Peter Bek, Kevin Wilson, Sue Tongue Bck: Barbara Ward, Geoff McGuinness, Lynnette Rayner, Paul Carter, M. Tongue, Conrad Harding, Mr McLaughan, Mr Nott	(Courtesy Robin Tobler) 1962 Sports Day	(Courtesy Robin Tobler) 1962 Sports Day	(Courtesy Robin Tobler) 1962 Swimming Carnival at Penang Swimming Club L to R: Sue Erickson??, Christine myers, Ann Portre, Helen Liebke, Jacki Sparling
1963 At Han Chiang High School Christine Myers, Kathy Foley, Miriam Foley and Cheryl Pitman with their medals	1963 Opening of Annual Athletic Championships Miriam Foley shakes the hand of Dato Wong, Chief Minister of Province Wellesley and Penang.	(Courtesy Linda Heaton) 1963 Sports Day	1964 Primary Athletes	1964 Sabre Captains - sportswinners
(Courtesy Peter McIntyre) 1964 Soccer Team	1965 Natalie Sutton and Sue Wass Natalie won a gold medal for coming 1st in the High Jump; Sue a silver medal for coming 2nd in the hurdles. Both competed in the Pan-Malaysian Schools Athletics Carnival	(Courtesy Matt Shields) 1965 Neptune Celebrations	1965 Meteor Under 15 Girls Swim Relay Team Lyn Hayes, Cheryl Stuart, Janette Prosser	1966 Girls High Jump Karen Sayer - winner of Bronze medal at Penang Primary Sports Fifth Athletics Carnival at City Stadium.
1966 Swimming Carnival Mark Paterson - winner of 400 m boys open freestyle	1966 School Athletics Carnival Winning House: Sabre Captains John Horner and Sonja Cosgrove being presented with the cup.	1966 Swimming Champs for the day: Anne Clifford, Christabelle Soos, Ray Williamson, Bill Talbot	1966 Swimming Carnival Winning House: Meteor Captain Graham Murphy receiving Swimming Cup from Mrs Townsend	1966 House Water Polo Competition Winning team: Sabre L to R: J. Hargreaves, J. Horner, B. Litshfield, P. Bennett, L. Mezzina, M. Cahir, W. Wright
(Courtesy Jacqueline Judson) 1966	(Courtesy Jacqueline Judson) 1966
1967 Meteor Captains The Annual Combined Primary and Secondary Athletics Carnival held at Penang Free School Graham Smith, Cathy Boyle, Sue Thiele, Don Mason	1967 Swimming Representatives Secondary Invitation Swimming Deborah Barnes, Leanne Jones, Robynne Dally-Watkins, Jill Graham	1968 Girls Basketball Team Joan Cullum, Julie Kiepe, Dianne Yeomans, ?, Helen Davis, Sue Pluck ? Sheryl Speedie. (Coach: Carol Clarkeson)	1968 Athletic Meet Entrants L to R: Denise Speedie, Jeff Lowe, Maxine Hawes, Doug Murray, Pauline Dent. The Penang Secondary Sports Council held an Invitation Athletic Meet at City Stadium and RAAF School entered 5 athletes as above.	1968 Tennis Team Back: C. Dainer, M Coleman, G White, J. Furze, P. Elliot, J. Gould 2nd Row: K. Frost, L. Doughty, J. Bouchier, T. Pickering, A. Pickering, R. Burgmann Front: P. Lawnie, P. Dent, C. Drummond, R. Clayton, C. Boyle, S. Rippengale, M. Campbell
1969 School Athletic Representatives Back: G. Edwards, C. Stevens, G. Wade, D. Murray, G. White, J. Furze, J. Lowe, M. Stevens, D. Furze, J. Ryan, L. Thompson Front: P. Dent, C. Drummond, D. Morrow, D. Speedie, Mr Bourchier (Sports Master), J. Coleman, P. Dally-Watkins, R. Evans, E. Parker	(Courtesy Geoff Wade)	1969 Cricket Team Back: G. Edwards, S. Young, G. Oakley, G. Leighton, G. Smith, J. Ryan, L. Thompson Front: G. Miles, J. Bourchier, G. White, M. Stevens, D. Coleman
1969 RAAF School Athletics Carnival Left: Craig Stevens, Geoff Wade, Darryl Furze (Right: Mr Callister (science) and Mr Lee) Right: Geoff Wade, Craig Stevens, Graham Miles (Mr Lee) Bottom: Craig Stevens Geoff Wade, Darryl Furze
1969 Netball Team	(Courtesy Denise Gordon) 1968 Softball Team Standing: John Jackson, David Coleman, Michael Coleman, Jeff Bouchier, John Gould, Alan Davis Front: Mr Gilligan, Mr Bourchier, Ian Affleck	1969 PSC Summer Swimming Gala 100m breaststroke. Priscilla Dally-Watkins, Sandra Rippengale, Cynthia Matuschka. (Clorrise Reese handing out medals.)	1970 Girls Basketball Team Back: A. Manthey, Mr Callister, L. Clark, P. Nolan Front: A. Hornibrook, K. Lennox, M. Hornibrook, P. Bray, D. Harvey
1970 Inter State Representatives Back: P. Maunder, G. Oakley, G. Leighton, R. Evans, T. Bugden, C. Buffham Front: C. Thorpe, S. Smith, L. Drummond, P.Nolan, G. Lang	1971 Dolphins Swim Club Back: Sue Love, ?, Kym Tierney, Theresa Bradley, ? Y. Sinclair, Vikki Baxter Front: Michelle Harvey, Tracey O'Connor, Christine Reville, Lynda Roach	1971 Galaxy's Basketball Team Back: ?, Sue Laird, Debra Harvey, Frnt: Janice Brimacombe, Alison Hornibrook, Michelle Harvey, Annette Schmeider	(Courtesy Julie Adamik) 1973 "Koolkats" Basketball Team Back: Julie Hallam, ?, Sue Neilson, Jenny Hodges, Coach(?), Janice Rafferty (and little sister) Front: Darlene Head, Sheree Vandervelden, Gail Filkin	1974 Gary Browning - Mini Basketball (Courtesy Deb Wade) 1974 School Athletics Carnival
1974 Secondary Sports	1975 Iriquois Primary Captains Peter Vincent and Tina with House Trophy	1975 Swim Carnival	1976 Senior Swimming Champs	1977 Boys Basketball
1977 Girls Basketball	1977 Softball Team - AWSC Competition Back: Sharon Joyce, Valerie Brooks, Jayne Farmer, Angela Carey Middle: Debbie Handover, Karen Farmer, Cathy Sterling Front: Gina Ayres, Vicki Brahman, Gayle Hines	1977 Under 12 Swim team - Penang State Championships G. Hamilton, S. Gannon, K. Bujok, L. Hudson (Absent: P. Jamieson)	1979 The "Misfits" 4 Sharon Newman,13 Leeanne Steer, 5 Donna Rodger.7 Tracey Newman, 6 Sharon Devlin, 11 Leslie L'Estrelle, 12 Louise Loveday (Capt.), 10 Annette Northfield	(Courtesy Jon Farrar) 1979 Karate Club Taken on the front steps of the school in 1979.
1979 Boxing Competion Penang Australian Boys Club Michael Stollery and John Hardy	1979 Senior Caribous (Soccer) Back: Mark Williamson, Tim Walker, Conrad Doyle, Russell Cole (Capt.) Dean Lynch Front: Michael Scott, Derek O'Neill, Craig Smith, Andrew Dibley, Warren Williams	1981 Secondary Girls Swimming Champions Sharon Kelly, Kim De brabander, Robyn De brabander, Gabrielle McCredden	1981 Swimming Carnival Natasha Schulz, Lara Whatham	1982 P.A.S.A. Swimming Team Back: John Gornall, David Mathieson, Grant Hart, Scott Callinan 3rd Row: Mia Kelly, Kerri Skoczylas, Megan Counahan, Donna Moore, Stephen Donoghue 2nd Row: Zoe Brown, Campbell Misfield, Christopher Killer, Michael Ashbrook Front: Katherine Weston, Kylie Russell, Rebecca White, Jodie Russell, Paul Rush
1983 Primary Swim Carnival Champs	1985 Golf Champions	1985 PASA Swimmers	1986 Chung Ling School Penang Invitation Runners Back: Noel McBurnie, Gary Lyons, Jason Clarke Front: Todd Hyndman, Craig Winn, Phillip Gadzinski
\ 1986 MSSPP Swimmers Back: Nick Stephens, Craig Wilson, Rachel Meissner, Chris Stephens, Jacki Corlass, Scott Kneen Front: Kylie Anderson, Marnie O'Brien, Greg Wilson, Jason Krilands, Gillian Corlas, Melissa Everett	Swim Champs

1960
Athletic Champions

1971
Swim Team

Patti Nolan, Angela Manthey, Debra Harvey, Alison Hornibrook, Michelle Harvey

1960
House Captains

1960
Swimming Champions

1961
House Captains

1961
Meteor House Captains
Geoff McGuinness and Barbara Ward - receive Champion House Sandilands Cup

1961
Chester White, Bevan Liebke, Suzanne Tongue, Mark Harris, Neville Fairleigh, Judy Smith, Melanie Tongue and Christine Philpott with Gp Capt I.Rose, A.F.C.

1962
Combined Schools Sports (Penang) and Interstate Athletic Championships (Kuala Lumpur)
Bck: C.Myers, B.Ward, S.Erickson, C.Pitman.
Frnt: S.Ross, J.Gurr, D.Patrick

1962
Combined Schools Swimming Meet Cup Winners
Bck: M.Nott, B.Liebke, R.Eyres, P.Bek
Frnt: A.Bridle, C.Rayner, J.Eyres, M.Tongue, L.Rayner.

1962
Combined Schools' Sports (Penang) and Interstate Athletic Championships (Kuala Lumpur)
Bck: C.Myers, B.Ward, S.Erickson, C.Pitman.
Frnt: S.Ross, J.Gurr, D.Patrick

(Courtesy Robin Tobler)

1962
Swim Carnival
Meteor team

(Courtesy Jan Eyres)

1962 Section Cup Winners
RAAF School Swimming Gala
Air Commodore Ford, Jan Eyres, Peter Bek, Kevin Wilson, Sue Tongue
Bck: Barbara Ward, Geoff McGuinness, Lynnette Rayner, Paul Carter, M. Tongue, Conrad Harding, Mr McLaughan, Mr Nott

(Courtesy Robin Tobler)

1962 Sports Day

(Courtesy Robin Tobler)

1962 Sports Day

(Courtesy Robin Tobler)

1962
Swimming Carnival at Penang Swimming Club
L to R: Sue Erickson??, Christine myers, Ann Portre, Helen Liebke, Jacki Sparling

1963
At Han Chiang High School
Christine Myers, Kathy Foley, Miriam Foley and Cheryl Pitman with their medals

1963
Opening of Annual Athletic Championships
Miriam Foley shakes the hand of Dato Wong, Chief Minister of Province Wellesley and Penang.

(Courtesy Linda Heaton)

1963
Sports Day

1964
Primary Athletes

1964
Sabre Captains - sportswinners

(Courtesy Peter McIntyre)

1964
Soccer Team

1965
Natalie Sutton and Sue Wass
Natalie won a gold medal for coming 1st in the High Jump; Sue a silver medal for coming 2nd in the hurdles. Both competed in the Pan-Malaysian Schools Athletics Carnival

(Courtesy Matt Shields)

1965
Neptune Celebrations

1965
Meteor Under 15 Girls Swim Relay Team
Lyn Hayes, Cheryl Stuart, Janette Prosser

1966
Girls High Jump
Karen Sayer - winner of Bronze medal at Penang Primary Sports Fifth Athletics Carnival at City Stadium.

1966 Swimming Carnival
Mark Paterson - winner of 400 m boys open freestyle

1966
School Athletics Carnival
Winning House: Sabre
Captains John Horner and Sonja Cosgrove being presented with the cup.

1966
Swimming Champs for the day:
Anne Clifford, Christabelle Soos, Ray Williamson, Bill Talbot

1966 Swimming Carnival
Winning House: Meteor
Captain Graham Murphy receiving Swimming Cup from Mrs Townsend

1966 House Water Polo Competition
Winning team: Sabre
L to R: J. Hargreaves, J. Horner, B. Litshfield, P. Bennett, L. Mezzina, M. Cahir, W. Wright

(Courtesy Jacqueline Judson)

1966

(Courtesy Jacqueline Judson)

1966

1967 Meteor Captains
The Annual Combined Primary and Secondary Athletics Carnival held at Penang Free School

Graham Smith, Cathy Boyle, Sue Thiele, Don Mason

1967
Swimming Representatives Secondary Invitation Swimming
Deborah Barnes, Leanne Jones, Robynne Dally-Watkins, Jill Graham

1968
Girls Basketball Team
Joan Cullum, Julie Kiepe, Dianne Yeomans, ?, Helen Davis, Sue Pluck ? Sheryl Speedie.
(Coach: Carol Clarkeson)

1968
Athletic Meet Entrants
L to R: Denise Speedie, Jeff Lowe, Maxine Hawes, Doug Murray, Pauline Dent. The Penang Secondary Sports Council held an Invitation Athletic Meet at City Stadium and RAAF School entered 5 athletes as above.

1968 Tennis Team
Back: C. Dainer, M Coleman, G White, J. Furze, P. Elliot, J. Gould
2nd Row: K. Frost, L. Doughty, J. Bouchier, T. Pickering, A. Pickering, R. Burgmann
Front: P. Lawnie, P. Dent, C. Drummond, R. Clayton, C. Boyle, S. Rippengale, M. Campbell

1969 School Athletic Representatives
Back: G. Edwards, C. Stevens, G. Wade, D. Murray, G. White, J. Furze, J. Lowe, M. Stevens, D. Furze, J. Ryan, L. Thompson
Front: P. Dent, C. Drummond, D. Morrow, D. Speedie, Mr Bourchier (Sports Master), J. Coleman, P. Dally-Watkins, R. Evans, E. Parker

(Courtesy Geoff Wade)

1969 Cricket Team
Back: G. Edwards, S. Young, G. Oakley, G. Leighton, G. Smith, J. Ryan, L. Thompson
Front: G. Miles, J. Bourchier, G. White, M. Stevens, D. Coleman

1969 RAAF School Athletics Carnival
Left: Craig Stevens, Geoff Wade, Darryl Furze (Right: Mr Callister (science) and Mr Lee)
Right: Geoff Wade, Craig Stevens, Graham Miles (Mr Lee)
Bottom: Craig Stevens Geoff Wade, Darryl Furze

1969
Netball Team

(Courtesy Denise Gordon)

1968
Softball Team

Standing: John Jackson, David Coleman, Michael Coleman, Jeff Bouchier, John Gould, Alan Davis
Front: Mr Gilligan, Mr Bourchier, Ian Affleck

1969 PSC Summer Swimming Gala

100m breaststroke.
Priscilla Dally-Watkins, Sandra Rippengale, Cynthia Matuschka. (Clorrise Reese handing out medals.)

1970 Girls Basketball Team

Back: A. Manthey, Mr Callister, L. Clark,
P. Nolan
Front: A. Hornibrook, K. Lennox,
M. Hornibrook, P. Bray, D. Harvey

1970 Inter State Representatives
Back: P. Maunder, G. Oakley, G. Leighton, R. Evans, T. Bugden, C. Buffham
Front: C. Thorpe, S. Smith, L. Drummond, P.Nolan, G. Lang

1971
Dolphins Swim Club

Back: Sue Love, ?, Kym Tierney, Theresa Bradley, ? Y. Sinclair, Vikki Baxter
Front: Michelle Harvey, Tracey O'Connor, Christine Reville, Lynda Roach

1971
Galaxy's Basketball Team
Back: ?, Sue Laird, Debra Harvey, Frnt: Janice Brimacombe, Alison Hornibrook, Michelle Harvey, Annette Schmeider

(Courtesy Julie Adamik)

1973
"Koolkats" Basketball Team

Back: Julie Hallam, ?, Sue Neilson, Jenny Hodges, Coach(?), Janice Rafferty (and little sister)
Front: Darlene Head, Sheree Vandervelden, Gail Filkin

1974
Gary Browning - Mini Basketball

(Courtesy Deb Wade)

1974
School Athletics Carnival

1974
Secondary Sports

1975
Iriquois Primary Captains Peter Vincent and Tina with House Trophy

1975
Swim Carnival

1976
Senior Swimming Champs

1977
Boys Basketball

1977 Girls Basketball

1977
Softball Team - AWSC Competition
Back: Sharon Joyce, Valerie Brooks, Jayne Farmer, Angela Carey
Middle: Debbie Handover, Karen Farmer, Cathy Sterling
Front: Gina Ayres, Vicki Brahman, Gayle Hines

1977
Under 12 Swim team - Penang State Championships
G. Hamilton, S. Gannon, K. Bujok, L. Hudson
(Absent: P. Jamieson)

1979
The "Misfits"
4 Sharon Newman,13 Leeanne Steer,
5 Donna Rodger.7 Tracey Newman,
6 Sharon Devlin, 11 Leslie L'Estrelle,
12 Louise Loveday (Capt.),
10 Annette Northfield

(Courtesy Jon Farrar)

1979
Karate Club

Taken on the front steps of the school in 1979.

1979
Boxing Competion
Penang Australian Boys Club
Michael Stollery and John Hardy

1979
Senior Caribous (Soccer)
Back: Mark Williamson, Tim Walker, Conrad Doyle, Russell Cole (Capt.) Dean Lynch
Front: Michael Scott, Derek O'Neill, Craig Smith, Andrew Dibley, Warren Williams

1981
Secondary Girls Swimming Champions
Sharon Kelly, Kim De brabander, Robyn De brabander, Gabrielle McCredden

1981
Swimming Carnival
Natasha Schulz, Lara Whatham

1982
P.A.S.A. Swimming Team
Back: John Gornall, David Mathieson, Grant Hart, Scott Callinan
3rd Row: Mia Kelly, Kerri Skoczylas, Megan Counahan, Donna Moore, Stephen Donoghue
2nd Row: Zoe Brown, Campbell Misfield, Christopher Killer, Michael Ashbrook
Front: Katherine Weston, Kylie Russell, Rebecca White, Jodie Russell, Paul Rush

1983
Primary Swim Carnival Champs

1985
Golf Champions

1985
PASA Swimmers

1986
Chung Ling School Penang Invitation Runners
Back: Noel McBurnie, Gary Lyons, Jason Clarke
Front: Todd Hyndman, Craig Winn, Phillip Gadzinski

1986
MSSPP Swimmers
Back: Nick Stephens, Craig Wilson, Rachel Meissner, Chris Stephens, Jacki Corlass, Scott Kneen
Front: Kylie Anderson, Marnie O'Brien, Greg Wilson, Jason Krilands, Gillian Corlas, Melissa Everett

Swim Champs