Sports News

College Cross Country

Amongst all of the rain, we were recently incredibly lucky to hold our College Cross Country. Thank you to the 40 students who ran this as competitors. Congratulations to those students who qualified for the PDSSSC Carnival in Week 3 of Term 2. We wish you all the very best and hope that you will be training hard for this event during the school holidays!

Our next and final College carnival for the year is the Athletics Carnival in Term 2. This is held on school grounds on Friday 10th June and further details about this wonderful day are to come next term.

Student sporting success

Brooke Robinson (of year 10) recently competed a the NSW state Gymnastics championships. Brooke competed across 3 state competitions and finished in the top 8 for NSW at Level 9 which successfully earned her a place in the NSW state team.

Brooke will compete at the Australian gymnastics championships on the 19-25 May on the Gold Coast. Congratulations Brooke!! We look forward to following your successes!

Hailey Targarona (of year 12) recently trialled for the PDSSSC Open Girls Netball team and was successful in being selected for the first round of the selections. Hailey will now attend some further training/trial sessions in the hope of being selected for the NSWCCC Netball team. This is the first time EVER that the Parramatta Diocese has a Netball team compete at the pathway competition which is very exciting. We wish you all the best, Hailey!

Julio and Dominic Tatupu (both of year 10) recently competed at the Australian Track & Field Championships.

Both Dom and Julio competed in three events each over the last 2 weeks at Nationals and achieved remarkable results. 

U15s Hammer - Julio placed 2nd and Dom 6th

U15s Shot Put - Dom placed 4th missing podium by 9cm

U15s Discus - Dom placed 14th and Julio placed 18th

U17s Hammer - Julio competed up from his age group and placed 6th.

Little Athletics State Championships

U14s - Shot put - Dom 5th and Julio 6th

U14s - Discus - Julio 7th and Dom 10th

Congratulations and well done, Julio and Dom.

Esther Peter (of year 10) also competed in the 400m event, finishing 6th in her heat. Congratulations to you, Esther!

Thursday Representative sport

Mr Carlos’ Open boys basketball team played their semi-final against St Patricks, unfortunately losing 36-29. Well done to the boys on an exceptional season and thank you to Mr Carlos for his work preparing and training the team this season. 

Thank you also to Mr Wills for his assistance and support of the team at their semi-final in Mr Carlos’ absence.

Our junior and intermediate boys basketball teams are playing their semi-final this week! The junior boys are currently first on the competition ladder.

Thank you to Mr Alata, Mr Fellows and Mr Cetinic for your coaching, encouragement and support of these teams throughout the season.

Due to the ongoing rain, our representative volleyball season has sadly come to an end. This was very disappointing news for our coaches and students who were so committed to training and improving their skills. We look forward to a better season (with hopefully less rain) early in 2023.

Season 2 will begin mid way through Term 2 and sports on offer include girls Netball and boys and girls Football (Soccer).

Trials will take place in Week 2 during Thursday sport with information being posted on Compass for students to express their interest in trialling for a team.

Just a reminder that students in representative teams are likely to return to the College after the normal 2.45pm departure and afternoon buses so students must ensure that they have transport home on a Thursday afternoon.

Congratulations to our Diving team, led by the very experienced Mrs Weaver who competed at the NSWCCC Diving competition this week. 

The students below were medal winners who will be progressing to the All Schools Carnival in June.

2 yr Girls

Chelise Fernandez 1st

12 yr Boys

Xavier Borg 1st

13 yr Girls

Ruby Scicluna 2nd

Jessica Waligora 4th (only missed 3rd place by 4 points)

Amelia Seymon 5th

14 yr Girls

Lara Kearns 6th

Amelia Manks 7th

14 yr Boys

Gabriel Narayan 2nd

15 yr Girls

Brooke Robinson 6th (there were only 16 points between 1st and 6th. It was the toughest age group of the day)

16 yr Girls

Marley Kozak 2nd

Holly McLoughlin 3rd

Ava Mulroney 4th

Jade Kember 5th (Jade beat 6th place by over 40 points)

Congratulations to the team on a wonderful day and we wish all the students the very best of luck who have been successful in progressing to the All Schools Diving Championships in June (Chelise, Xavier, Ruby, Gabriel, Marley, and Holly). Thank you to Mrs Weaver for her hard work in preparing these students for the competition and to Mrs Borg who accompanied the team as the manager on the day.

Despite a lot of rain this term and many disappointing washouts for representative sport at a school, Diocesan and state level, our St Andrews community have experienced many successes this term.I look forward to sharing and celebrating more successes with our community in Term 2.

Have a safe holiday break.

Kayla Brogan
Leader of Learning Sport