Convincing Class To Come To CAS

I strongly believe that everyone in this class should come to support all our Knox swimmers at CAS. CAS is a time where we as Knox Grammar compete against many schools to try and win the CAS title. Trinity are currently the holders of this cup and we must win it back from them!

This year our swimmers have got up at ridiculous times such as 5:00 in the morning to train for this event. This shows how much time and effort they put into their swimming so we should show them our appreciation by coming to CAS to support them this Thursday.

I believe there are two teams when it comes down to CAS swimming. The team that is out there competing and representing our school in the pool and the team that is in the stands cheering them along as they venture to do the best they can for the school. There are a total of six schools that compete each other in CAS including Knox, Trinity, Waverly, St Aloysius, Cranbrook and our rivals Barker. Most of these schools have made it compulsory for their whole school to attend CAS whereas Knox has not done this. Knox as only made it compulsory for years 7 &  8 to come and support our fellow swimmers but have encouraged others from older year groups to come as well. This is done so that we are not forced to come to CAS but to show to the other schools that many of us want to come to this event. This then shows we as Knox boys have passion and pride in our school when we attend CAS.

The atmosphere in the stadium when we are cheering on Knox is fantastic! All schools are in different parts of the stadium screaming out war cries and cheering on their fellow swimmers. This is a lot of fun trying to compete with the other schools to see who can sing the loudest. Knox has had war cry practice during lunch times in the past couple weeks. This has been compulsory for each year group to give us a taste of what it is like when we are cheering for our swimmers. It is also done to teach us war cries for the night and to encourage us to come down to CAS.

These reasons are all very good reasons for why you as Knoxy boys should come down to the Olympic Park this Thursday to cheer on and support our swimmers who will give it all in the pool. I know I will be there but will you?

Thanks for listening.