When helping at the 2021 Athletics carnival, the capability I focused on was organization. The interschool athletics carnival is an annual event in which our school participates and is an day where student athlete’s skills are tested. Unfortunately, this year I couldn’t compete due to breaking my collarbone several weeks prior to the event but had been asked to be a student official. An event of this caliber takes lots of preparation and officials to run smoothly, and my role was ferrying official result documents from the measuring table up to the commentary box. This task didn’t have a set schedule, so I had to employ my own organizational skills to ensure that I delivered the sheets in a timely manner despite the challenges presented by the bad weather, and my desire to support my teammates who were competing.

This was a very-opening experience for me to be on the other side of a day of competition like this. Normally I would be focused on a set schedule of competition, but in this role I had to have a much broader focus of all the events being held, an awareness of when results were arriving and judge when it was efficient to make the trip to deliver them. I had to make the most of the bad weather patches undercover to collate the results so as to not miss the opportunity to support my school team, minimize trips delivering results to not waste effort but importantly no hold up the events of the day by delivering the results late.

Whilst it was tempting to talk about teamwork on a day like the carnival when I am always aware of representing my school, I feel as though ‘organization’ is the most notable because I currently focused on trying to streamline all the different parts of my life and be more organized going into Year 11.