On the last day of the Far North Sports Education Tour, one of Australia’s greatest sporting heroes will join the Tour participants. Steve Moneghetti will be welcomed at the Bluewater State School on Friday 5 August at 9am, as part of his visit to Townsville for this weekend’s BHP Running Festival.
He will start the day with the Bluewater schoolchildren, who will be joined by students from the Rollingstone school, and lead them through the “warm up”. They will no doubt give Moneghetti an appropriate enthusiastic welcome, and will be able to boast in the future that “they ran with Mona”
Joining Moneghetti will be fellow Olympian Julie McDonald, a dual Olympian swimmer who competed in the 1988 and 1992 Olympics, as well as Commonwealth Games in 1986 and 1990. She is a great ambassador for her sport of swimming, and will speak to the schoolchildren about the Active Factor, which is a new healthy programme, supported by the Queensland Olympic Council and Coca Cola.
The schoolchildren are set for a packed day of sport, with the opportunity to participate in the sports of Rugby League, Soccer, Gymnastics, Cricket and Royal Life Saving on a rotational basis, through the participation of various Development Officers.
The Sports Education Tours are arranged by the North Queensland Sports Foundation to provide the smaller regional and more remote areas the opportunity to develop sport, and have been extremely well received since first started four years ago.
A total of six Tours, over a total of nine weeks have been organised throughout the North Queensland area in 2005, visiting the regional areas of this huge landscape.
For more information on the 2005 Far North Sports Education Tours, contact Stuart Gibson, (Manager) on the above numbers or on mobile 0419 681 053
