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What a start to the winter season, last week saw the all the conditions play havoc with sports trainings, with the rains washing out Tuesday training and then the extreme heat on Thursday putting a stop to the outdoor sports!  We are hoping the weather holds off to provide us with a much-needed winter season after the last few years!

A huge congratulations to our rowers over the weekend who braved the heat out at the respective Girls and Boys NSW Head of the River Regatta, it was great to see the so many parents and students there to support each regatta, James has included a breakdown of results below.

‘You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win and expect to win’

Zig Ziglar

Cameron Ellis
Head of Secondary School Sport (Acting)
cellis@redlands.nsw.edu.au

Winter Sport

A reminder that all key information for the season has been uploaded onto the Redlands Pulse – Secondary School Sport, if you have any addition questions, please reach out to the appropriate Sports Administrator listed below:

Sports Photos

All Sports Photos are available for parents to view / purchase on the SPA Images Website 

Photo Library >> Schoolsports 2022-23 >> select your sport

Password (redlands2023)

Redlands has an agreement with SPA Images that we will only use the images for marketing purposes.

Basketball

Thank you to all students, parents and staff who attended the Basketball Presentation Evening on Monday night. It was a fantastic night to celebrate a great season of Redlands Basketball. A huge thank you to the Friends of Basketball for all of their work behind the scenes in making the night possible and providing such a great opportunity for the entire program to come together the celebrate the wonderful accomplishments of our students.

A reminder that all students are required to return their Basketball singlet to the Sports Office. All singlets must be returned by the end of Term 1.

Cross Country

The Secondary School Cross Country Carnival will be held on Monday 27 March (Term 1, Week 9). This event will be for REGISTERED ATHLETES ONLY, information regarding the carnival can be found following the information below. REGISTRATIONS WILL CLOSE ON FRIDAY 24 MARCH AT 10AM 

• Registered Year 11 & 12 students will be out of class Period 1, 2 & Tutor, departing Redlands at 8:15am.
• Registered Year 9 & 10 students will be out of class Period 3 & 4, departing Redlands at 10:10am.
• Registered Year 7 & 8 students will be out of class Period 5 & 6, departing Redlands at 12:55pm

Students are to register by following the link below (the link will only work for students email addresses. 

2023 Redlands Cross Country Carnival

More information regarding the carnival can be found Redlands Pulse – Cross Country

REGISTRATIONS WILL CLOSE ON FRIDAY 24 MARCH AT 10AM.

Football

A reminder that we will have Football trials this Saturday 25 March at Macquarie University Fields. Please see the details below:

Year 10, 11 & 12 Girls: 8am-9:30am @ Macquarie University Fields (Gwilliam)

Year 10, 11 & 12 Boys: 8:00am-9:30am @ Macquarie University Fields (University Oval)

Year 7, 8 & 9 Girls: 9:30am-11am @ Macquarie University Fields (Gwilliam)

Year 7, 8 & 9 Boys: 9.30am – 11am @ Macquarie University Fields (University Oval)

Please continue to make the Redlands Pulse – Football page your first point of contact for all things Football for the season ahead.

Hockey

It has been fantastic to see our Hockey students back on the field this term. A reminder that the most up to date Hockey information can be found on the Redlands Pulse- Hockey page, please make this your first point of contact for all things Hockey.

Rowing

Last weekend saw the final regatta of the season being the NSW Girls and Boys Head of the River where Redlands ended the season with what was this highest medal haul ever of 10 crew medals!

Our Girls started the weekend on Saturday winning 1 silver and 5 bronze medals while the boys continued the success on Sunday winning another 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.

It was an incredibly gratifying experience to follow all of our crews across the weekend watching and cheering for them from start to finish. I could not have been prouder of our Redlands crews who made the brave decision to go to a new level, to dig a little deeper and show real grit and resilience in the closing stages of racing when there is no doubt they would have liked to stop. In many cases they pushed themselves into medal winning positions. If there is no more important lesson to be taken from sport, it is this experience of never giving up and to try and hard as you can!

A huge thank you to our wonderful parents and the Friends of Rowing for providing the catering and great support across the weekend. The cheers and cowbell really does provide an extra lift!

NSW Girls Head of the River

SILVER: SGYr10 Div1 4x+: S Polok, L Wainberg, J Hugman, K Attard, Cox: C Pedro Inacio,

BRONZE: SGYr8 Div5 4x+: A Keller, M Dunnet, K Arena, A Franceschi, Cox: J Cable

BRONZE: SGYr8 Div4 4x+: S Bayley, I Dutton, A Haggman, D Mennie, Cox: E Yates

BRONZE: SGYr8 Div2 4x+: S Kaye, S Charles, A Crennan, L Forsyth, Cox: M Radich

BRONZE: SGYr9 Div3 4x+: O Paul, R Garcia-Wood, L Maher, M Codrington, Cox: A Koopmans

BRONZE: SG Div1 4x+: B Carter, G Verschoor, A Mansfield, C Croll, Cox: Z Naismith

NSW Boys Head of the River

SILVER: SBYr10 1x: A McInnes

SILVER: SB 1x: D Close

BRONZE: SB 2x: M Fry, W Natilli

BRONZE SBYr9 Div2 4x+: J Natilli, H Dobson, C Morrison, T Anderson, Cox: J Nochar

Foot of the River

FOOT OF THE RIVER (Parent Rowing): Now that the season is drawing to a close, it is our families’ opportunity to have a turn at rowing with the Foot of the River commencing in Week 2 of Term 2. This is our major fundraiser with the aim to purchase a new Eight oared boat for the 2023-2024 season. Parents can form a crew of four with their family, friends, work mates or anyone that they can find, learn how to row being coached by our rowing coaches twice a week for four weeks and conclude with a mini regatta held on Sun 28th May racing over a 500m course at Davidson Park.

Info can be found at the following link.

Kind Regards
James Petering
Director of Rowing

Swimming ISA

It was a great day out at the ISA Swimming Carnival last week with a number of brilliant individual results congratulations to the following students and their overall results (overall results are Division 1 & 2 combined).

• Alice Franceschi (U14)
  • 50m Breastroke – 3^rd 
• Freya Nixey (U13)
  • 50m Freestyle – 2^nd 
  • 50m Butterfly – 3^rd 
• Amelie Swan (U14)
  • 50m Freestyle – 3^rd 
  • 50m Butterfly – 3^rd 
  • 100m Freestyle – 3^rd 
• Xander Halfen (U16)
  • 50m Freestyle – 1^st
  • 50m Backstroke – 1^st
• Loch Wilding (18-19)
  • 50m Freestyle – 3^rd
  • 50m Butterfly – 2^nd
  • 50m Breaststroke – 1^st
• Junior Girls (Alice Fracnceschi, Xiyu Huang, Freya Nixey & Amelie Swan)
  • 4x50m Medley Relay – 3^rd 
• Junior Girls (Tara Ward, Xiyu Huang, Freya Nixey & Amelie Swan)
  • 4x50m Freestyle Relay – 3^rd 

A huge congratulations to the swimmers mentioned above and those is the Redlands Swim Team for a very successful carnival!

 The following swimmers have been selected for the CIS Swimming Championships on Monday 1 May & Tuesday 2 May.

• Aristeos Abe-Apostolou (Yr 7)
• Alice Francesschi (Yr 8)
• Xander Halfen (Yr 11)
• Xiyu (Laura) Huang (Yr 7)
• Freya Nixey (Yr 7)
• Amelie Swann (Yr 8)
• Tara Ward (Yr 8)
• Loch Wilding (Yr 12) 

Tennis

Congratulations to all players for the end of Summer Tennis! We hope you have enjoyed this season and look forward to seeing you all next season or in Winter Tennis! Special mention to Redlands 9 for making the finals last weekend and coming runners up against Cammeraygal 1.

For Winter Tennis players, please keep an eye out for emails this week regarding Saturday morning trials. We will also be using Tuesday and Thursday training sessions to finish formalising competition teams for next season so please make sure you are attending your allocated training groups. Overall, please remember that there is an 80% attendance requirement to trainings and matches to ensure you meet the criteria for Winter Sport and earn your pocket. 

Please contact Ms Caitlin Wong should you have any questions regarding Winter Tennis.

General Sport Information

Wet Weather

While every effort will be made to provide alternative training options, if sport needs to be cancelled due to wet weather a notification will be posted on the Redlands Sport Twitter page (@RedlandsSport) and an email will be sent out to both students and parents. This includes morning & afternoon training along with weekend fixtures.

Thursday afternoon sport training– wet weather arrangements (Year 8-12)
Students in Year 8-12 who are dismissed at the end of Period 5 are required to go directly home. 
Thursday afternoon sport training – wet weather arrangements (Year 7)
In the event that year 7 sport is cancelled on Thursday afternoon, students will remain at school until 3.20pm and participate in sport-based activities.

Fixtures

All student training and fixture details will be available to families under My Schedule on Redlands Pulse. Additionally, the weekly Fixtures (The Redlands Rhino) can be found on the Secondary School Sport page on Redlands Pulse from Wednesday each week. Please ensure you check Redlands Pulse Friday afternoon to ensure you have the latest fixture information.

Uniform

The Redlands sports uniform should be worn to all trainings and matches (students are not permitted to wear any non-Redlands branded clothing). In the event of inclement weather students should wear their Redlands fleece or sports tracksuit. 

Sport Absences

Parents are required to send an email to the appropriate Sports administrator prior to missing any training session asking for their son/daughter to be excused 

Any student unable to attend a Saturday fixture due to illness, is required to submit a Medical Certificate to their Sports administrator by the Monday morning following the missed fixture

Injured students are required to attend all training sessions and Saturday fixtures

Failure to do any of the above will jeopardise a student’s eligibility for Colours, Pockets, and Awards & result in school disciplinary action

Please refer to the Student Planner 2023 for full details on requirements for participating in a Representative Sport.

Winter Sport – Key Contacts