TSS IN FOCUS
No Second Chance I
n 2013, Andy and Mel McElrea and their foundation N2C, were introduced to TSS through the Evans family.
Josh and Jaxon Evans both attended TSS and their father John is a keen motor sport enthusiast. Jaxon was driving go-karts for their N2C racing team at the time under the banner of McElrea Racing. After Jaxon left school he went to work for the McElrea Racing team and started to race for them in the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Championship. He got second in B class in 2015, then progressed to A class for 2016 where he finished second again. In 2017 he moved up to the Carrera Cup championship and finished 4th in preparation for 2018. He went on to dominate the 2018 Australia Porsche Carrera Cup Championship. He actually clinched the title on the streets of Surfers Paradise at the GC600. He then won a world wide Porsche young driver shootout
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Band of Brothers
Mr Mike Wallace HPE Teacher / First XV Coach / Leadership Office Paul Stanley, Warren Luff, Ian Healey and Matt Speakman
in Germany, and this year is racing in Europe as a professional Porsche race driver. N2C stands for No Second Chance. The aim of the foundation is to introduce secondary school students to the idea of making positive decisions in their lives and the fact that positive decisions attract positive consequences but, on the other hand poor decisions can have significant negative consequences for which there may be ‘No Second Chance’. The message is delivered through the life stories of some significant and confronting speakers. Matt Speakman was a professional motor cycle racer who was hit one night by a drunk driver. Matt’s pillion passenger was killed and Matt was left a paraplegic. Whilst Matt has gone on to have a successful sporting career, his life and that of his passenger were irreparably changed by the actions of a young man, drunk, behind the wheel.
Another speaker, Paul Stanley, lost his son Matt in a one-punch incident at a party when he was 15 years old. The alcohol fuelled attack killed Matt and meant that his 17 year-old attacker went to jail. Paul’s story is a very real and devastating story of loss, and the anguish that a family has felt over the needless death of their son. The final speaker is Warren Luff. A professional race driver who has stood on the podium of the Bathurst 1000 on five occasions and also won other significant Super Car events around Australia. Warren’s story is one of hope, and how if you follow your dreams and make positive decisions, then the outcomes can be beyond what you could have imagined. The N2C team have been visiting TSS for seven years and speaking to the Year 12 students during Leadership Week. Their message is as poignant now as it has been over the seven years and hundreds of boys have benefitted from hearing it.
