Sports News
Thursday Representative Sport
Season 2 Representative sport has officially concluded. Well done to our girls Netball teams and our girls and boys Soccer teams for their efforts this season.
All four soccer teams finished their season with wins against St Lukes. The results were as follows:
- Junior girls 6-0.
- Junior boys 9-0
- intermediate girls 12-0
- Intermediate boys 11-0
Congratulations to the junior and Intermediate Boys Soccer teams who both finished the season in 1st place as undefeated premiers; a HUGE achievement which you should all be very proud of!
Thank you to Mrs Kemal, Mr Chiappetta, Miss Breeze, Miss Malonzo, Mr Cetinic and Mr Dunaeff who all gave up their time so generously to prepare and train the teams after school.
Season 3 begins on the 8th September and we are entering teams for junior boys Cricket, girls and boys Oz-tag and girls Basketball.
Trials took place in Week 6 during sport time with teams having week 7 to train and prepare for the competition. Congratulations to all students who were selected for the respective teams and we wish you all the very best for the upcoming season!
Student sporting successes
You would’ve read earlier in the year about Elijah Andrew’s successes (year 7). Please enjoy these photos and a re-cap of Elijah’s recent successes.
Elijah recently competed at the Oceania Junior Cup (OJC) at Morgan Park Raceway, QLD.
The Australian Superbike Championships round race weekend took place from 5th - 7th August.
Practice 1 saw Elijah finish in 10th place as he learnt the track and handled the tough wet conditions. Practice 2 saw Elijah misjudge turn 3 and went off the track at high speed onto wet grass on the infield. Luckily his skill in the wet enabled him to keep the bike upright and rejoin the track by turn 4.
Saturday saw the sun come out with totally different track conditions to Friday. While Elijah continued to improve his lap times throughout qualifying sessions 1 and 2, he unfortunately fell back in the field to finish up 16th on the grid for all 3 races. With several battles and position changes, Elijah finished in 15th place only improving one place off the grid.
On the Sunday, the OJC crew were first out on track for their morning warm up. This saw three riders crash and the session was red flagged. During Race 2, Elijah got a solid start passing several riders. It was a close battle to the chequered flag with Elijah finishing in 12th place.
The final Race 3 was another good start for Elijah with more close battles on track. He pushed his way up into 11th place by mid race. A last lap dive bomb attempt into turn 4 caught Elijah out and he went wide on the exit onto the rough ripple strip. This lost him 4 places. He immediately got back on their tail for a mad scramble across the finish line in 14th place. Elijah finished just 0.060 seconds behind another competitor and 0.058 seconds ahead of another; extremely close racing from these future champions.
The Yamaha bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup (OJC) next outing will see them join a huge local on-track line-up supporting the 2022 AUSTRALIAN MOTORCYCLE GRAND PRIX at Phillip Island on October 14th-16th.
Well done, Elijah!
Holly Mclaughin (of year 10) has also been experiencing some fabulous success in her chosen sport of Cheerleading!
Holly has competed in 2 competitions this year:
The first competition was the AASCF Winterfest, where she competed in 3 different levels, receiving the following results:
- Senior level 4- received first place and was the highest scoring small gym routine of the day for this level
- Open level 3- received 1st place and was the 3rd highest scoring small gym routine of this level
- International Jnr level 2 received 2nd place
The Second competition was a 2 day competition, AASCF Battles, where Holly competed in 3 different levels,
- Senior level 4 received 3rd place and had zero deductions at the end of the competition.
- Open Level 3 received 1st place
- International Jr level 2 received 1st place, zero deductions on day 1. Holly and her team also were fortunate enough to receive a summit bid, meaning they are able to compete overseas in 2023. There is no doubt that Holly has a bright future ahead of her in Cheerleading. Congratulations, Holly!!
Romeo Atengco (of year 10) is a successful young Volleyball player and you may recall reading about his successes in this sport. Recently, Romeo was selected to join the travelling team to represent NSW at the 2022 Australian Youth Volleyball National Championships in Bendigo, Victoria. Romeo was nominated by his coach as one of the top 10 athletes in his age group and he joins Bianca Infante (of year 11) who was also selected for this competition. Congratulations and well done Romeo and Bianca. We look forward to hearing more about the success of your teams at this competition.
Kayla Brogan
Leader of Learning Sport