The running of the St John's College Inter House athletics championship was first run in 1907 - some 111 years ago

The House system had originally catered for only 7 houses and of recent time with the inclusion of Fleming house, this has included 8 houses competing for this championship.

Certain events distances have changed over time as well as some of the weights for shot put, discus and javelin.

RECORD HOLDERS IN EVENTS NO LONGER HELD ARE LISTED BELOW

100 Yards U/19 - E Davidson1927/Bird 1930,10,2

100 Yards U/16 - D N Castens 1965 - 10,5 sec.

100 Yards U/15 - M P Walls, 1953 - 10,8 sec.

100 Yards U/14 - M P Walls, 1953 - 10,8 sec.

100 Yards U/13 - J P Andrew 1961 - 11,8 sec.

Mile U/19 - O Holtong 1961 - 4 min 34,2 sec.

Mile U/16 - R J Lilford - 4 min 54,2 sec.

199m Hurdles U/19 - M T G Coppin, 1982 - 15,4 sec.

100 Yards Hurdles U/16 - P I Drummond 1961 - 14,6 sec

100 Yards Hurdles U/15 - J P A Walters 1962 - 13,6 sec.

80 Yards Hurdles U/15 - N J Cotterell 1969 - 12,1 sec.

90 Yards Hurdles U/14 - J L Kuiper 1965 - 14,1 sec.

90 Yards Hurdles U/13 - R G H Drewett 1956 - 13,1 sec.

200m Hurdles U/16 - P V Clinton 1983 - 28,8 sec.

200m Hurdles Open - A P N Walton 1984 - 26,0 sec.

Shot Put Open (7.2kg) - W D Hefer 1986 - 12,30m

Short Put U 16 (5,4kg) - G Hewitt 1995 - 12,59m

Shot Put U 17 (5,4kg) - A Havinga 1996 - 14,17m

Shot Put Open (6.3 kg) - A Havinga 1997 - 13,87m

80m Hurdles U/14 - K Lewis 2001 – 11,41 sec.

100m Hurdles U/15 - K Lewis 2002 – 13,33 sec.

100m Hurdles U/16 - RTS Meleniclis 1992 – 12,8 sec.

100m Hurdles U/17 - RTS Meleniclis 1993 – 12,8 sec.

100m Open Hurdles - RTS Meleniclis 1993 – 13,1 sec.

300m Hurdles U/17 - M Heyns 1994 40,7 sec.

300m Hurdles U/17 - G Houlston 1991 39,6 sec.

Hockey

The game of hockey started at St John’s in 1931, with a total of 76 pupils participating.

The game was played on an ash field and then moved onto grass in the early 1940’s.

Hockey continued to be played on grass and the St John's College fields were used for many years in hosting the traditional Aitken Tournament quater & semi finals. In the 2001 St John's laid down one of the first synthetic surfaces put down in Johannesburg on the old Rugby B field.

This has been an outstanding facility ever since, contributing to the increased development of hockey at the school, and in the province, with St John's becoming one of the top hockey playing schools in Gauteng and arguably the country.

The new surface was recently replaced with a world class blue surface following the international trend and has also become our National men’s and women’s teams training ground on occasions when in the province.

Hockey is run during the winter season and currently St John’s College has 20 teams participating in the boys’ school league

This number of boys participating in the sport exceeds all those of our rival schools. The school regularly competes against other schools with matches being played on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

St John’s participates in all of the top hockey festivals in and around the country.

St John’s is regularly one of the main contenders for the annual Aitken & Boden tournament which consists of an open and U15 section. This tournament is regarded as the largest schoolboy tournament in S.A. with 48 schools in the open section and 32 in the U15 section. St John’s consistently finishes in the top four in both these divisions.

St John’s is fortunate to have an outstanding coaching structure and a complement of outstanding coaches. All the A teams are being coached by staff who have either played, coached or are currently involved in hockey at national level.