Good luck to all who will carry baton on Southern Downs
SPORTS VIEW with Gerard Walsh
IT IS great to see many young batonbearers from Warwick in the Queen's Baton Relay on March 29.
The baton will be in Warwick less than a week before the start of the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast next year.
Batonbearer Aaron Payne is a national medallist in table tennis and also competed strongly in athletics when a student at Warwick State High School.
William Reardon is a junior with the Warwick Polocrosse Club and you only have to read the club sports notes to see he covers plenty of kilometres to carnivals during the season.
Amy Bradfield is a regular on the showjumping circuit and I would love $100 for every ribbon she has won on the show circuit.
I remember taking a photo of Xsanthia Frith at a fun day at Eastern Suburbs Junior Rugby League Club a few years ago and she competes in athletics, swimming and archery.
Tshinta Kendall has been to the nationals in sevens rugby and was a star of the Warwick Water Rats women's team this season.
There are three from Warwick a little bit older, Linda Coombes who has been an inspiration to many through parkrun, John Davis who I see working as a volunteer at bush fires and Rex Baguley who is carrying a baton/torch for the third time after being in Olympic Torch relays in 1956 and 2000.
There are three runners from Stanthorpe and special guests, including former Allora schoolgirl Laura Geitz who captained Australia in netball.
