Secondary Sport
Redlands Rhino – Weekly Fixtures
Please note: Redlands Rhino has the most up-to-date weekly fixtures. This is uploaded every Tuesday afternoon at 4.00pm. Please ensure you check this with regards to game times, venues and oppositions.
From the Head of Secondary Sport
This week, students were emailed the Winter Sport registration forms. Preliminary information related to all available Winter Rep Sports and non-Rep Sports can be found on Redlands Pulse. Sport registrations will remain open until 22 February.
Students are reminded that:
- In order to access the registration page, they need to log into Google with their school student email
- All Yr 7 students must complete a Representative sport
- All students who completed a non-Rep sport during summer, must complete a Representative sport in winter 2019.
Sports choice is a topic parents and students can often have trouble agreeing on. Our own research conducted around Winter Sport choice in 2018 indicated that the desire “to improve skills” 21% and “to have fun” 14% where the two most influential factors on a Redlands student’s Winter Sport choice. The factors with the lowest influence on Sports choice are the desire to “compete at a higher representation” and “to win” 1%. This research indicates the Redlands Sports program must foster a culture of high level engagement of where students are self-aware of the skills they are developing in fun and enjoyable environments. The critical question students should reflect on when registering for a sport is not “what sport they should do?”. Instead they should seek to understand how they will demonstrate commitment to that sport?
The improvement of skills is not isolated to a physical domain, but also the social, emotional and a mental domains of development. Skill development and learning to enjoy this process is vital to a student’s education and the long term goals of developing young people. Developing a student to have integrity, high moral standards and perseverance are outcomes we strive for in a Redlands education. Any sport is a vehicle for these goals. It is the commitment to these goals which makes the difference between success and failure in sport.
- Statistics based of 2018 student survey from winter sport registrations.
Basketball
Boys Basketball
Our A and B Boys teams played against St Pius in Round 8. It was the best round of the season for our A boys teams, winning four out of the five contests. Closely contested games saw our 13A team winning by one point and our 15A boys winning by two. The 17A Boys had their first win of the season and the 14A Boys seem to have found their stride with a great win over Pius. Our 1st Boys had a very close game against Pius with several lead changes in the final minutes. Unfortunately, a late surge by Pius saw our boys going down by four points at the final siren. Some very exciting Basketball for our B Boys teams saw both the 17B and Open B teams headed into overtime. The 17B team managed to pull away with a two point lead, but Pius had the upper hand in the Open B game after the extra time. Well done to our 14D team who are improving every week and continue to dominate the competition. Redlands Open C played against Redlands 17D and despite a great effort by both teams, the Open C team proved too strong on the day.
Girls Basketball
It was a great week for Girls’ Basketball with five out of a possible seven wins. Our 1sts Girls travelled to Oakhill and after a close loss last time, our girls were hoping for a win. A great start saw Redlands with an early lead but Oakhill made their way back, and most of the game saw the two teams trading baskets. A great surge late in the third quarter gave our girls a lead, and with a great defensive effort in the last quarter, Redlands finished with a seven point win. The Junior A Girls had another stellar win over BMGS, a great team effort at both ends of the floor. The Open B Girls and the Inter A Girls both had convincing wins against Chevalier and CCGS respectively, with both teams playing some great basketball as we near closer to the finals. Our Junior B Girls had a great win against St Spyridon and keep their undefeated streak alive.
Basketball Presentation Evening
The End of Season Basketball dinner will be held on Thursday 14 March at Norths Leagues Club. Please keep this date clear in your calendar, further details will be provided shortly. Further information and the TryBooking link will be available shortly.
Indoor Hockey
Indoor Hockey got off to a flying start on Friday night, with a dominant 7-0 victory over Willoughby. The girls will be looking to continue this run when they take on Ascham this Friday night at Marie Bashir Gym, Mosman.
Netball
The trials for the 1st VII Netball will begin in Week 6, Tuesday 5 March (Lang Gym 5.30 – 7.30pm) and Thursday 7 March (Lang Gym 5.00 – 7.00pm). These trials are open to all players in Yrs 10 -12. If you are interested in trialling for the 1sts, please email cellis@redlands.nsw.edu.au with your preferred position #1 and preferred position #2.
Swimming
The Secondary School Swimming Carnival is on Tuesday 19 February. For those students wishing to compete in the 200m Individual Medley, please email Mr Cameron Ellis.
Parents are welcome to attend the event but are reminded to sit on the opposite side of the grandstand, and parents are not allowed on the pool deck. A full list of the event program can be found on Redlands Pulse – Swimming
Redlands Swimming Squad training will this week. Training will take place at North Sydney Olympic Pool on the following days:
- Monday morning 6.00 – 7.30am (students to meet at North Sydney Olympic Pool, bus to return students to school by 8.00am) first session is Monday 4 February, last session is Monday 11 March
- Friday afternoon 3.30 – 5.00pm (bus will take students from school and return approximately 5.15pm) first session is Friday 31 January, last session is Friday 8 February.
If you are interested in joining these sessions please email cellis@redlands.nsw.edu.au
Tennis
On Tuesday, six Redlands students competed in the ISA tennis trials at Barker College. It was hot conditions but all athletes played extremely well. Our four Redlands boys who trialled consisted of Aymon Holth, James Robinson, Sebastian Dobson and Philip Hilble. In a very competitive field of 28 boys, both Philip and Sebastian were successful in being selected in the eight person ISA team. Redlands also selected two female students to trial, Emily Colvin and Jade Sedgwick. The girls’ competition was just as competitive and had a record number of girl entrants this year. Despite the challenging hot conditions both girls played well. Emily was successful in being selected into the four person ISA team. A big achievement for all three students. Emily, Seb and Phil will now represent the ISA at the NSWCIS trials at The Kings School next Wednesday 20 February. Both Seb and Phil will also represent the ISA in matches against CAS and GPS. Good luck to these students next week and congratulations to all students who trialled, it is a great achievement to even be selected to trial.
Just a reminder NSTA Saturday competition starts this week, Saturday 16 February.
Touch Football
Saturday saw our Junior As and Junior Cs along with our Senior Cs travel to the Blue Mountains to play three games that would prove crucial to qualifying for the ISA Semi Finals in two weeks. Our Junior Cs started strongly, playing a tightly contested game against BMGS. There were some strong individual performances with Jazz Gregan and birthday girl Marie Kurzrock both making metres through the oppositions defence, Anna Ivanovic meanwhile was controlling the attack brilliantly in the middle. Ultimately the game ended in a tightly contested draw 3-3 with the result keeping our Junior Cs right in the hunt for a finals spot. Our Senior Cs came up against a solid BMGS team who were able to make early metres through the first two or three tackles which meant we were on the back foot early and had to defend for long periods of time. Josie McDonald and Emilia Built were working incredibly hard to contain the BMGS attack, often making multiple tackles in a row right against our tryline. It was great to see how hard this team worked together and they were rewarded with three fantastic tries with Alisha Karunagaran slicing through the defence to score along with a wonderful try from Emilia Built down the sideline. Matilda Williams had the highlight from this match though with a lovely show and go to open up the defence and run 30 metres down the field to score, finishing off a wonderful team performance. Our Junior As were brilliant, putting their best performance of the season forward and playing close to a perfect game. Their combinations were amazing with Emma Mahon again linking up with Piper Allen multiple times which resulted in three tries for our team from these two girls. Elsewhere Madison Barwise and Sophia Hill were causing nightmares for the opposition as they were constantly on the front foot, attacking at every chance. Defensively the Redlands girls were stunning, working so hard for each other. Katie Wightwick and Louise Colin defended like their lives depended on it and ultimately the score of 6-1 for Redlands was off the back of how hard the team worked in defence.
Elsewhere, in sunny Bowral, our 1st VI put together two strong performance against Oxley and Chevalier, running away winners in both games. Our 1st VI have showed steady improvement throughout this season and now are starting to peak at just the right time. Caitlin Du Plooy continues to lead this team on and off the field, her explosiveness in attack putting our team in great positions early in our sets. Two players who are benefiting from this are Ruby Brook and Lulu Simpson who, once in position, can make opponents miss time and time again with their wonderful footwork and speed. Will be great to see our 1st VI Girls Touch Football represent our school in the Finals season.
This will be the last full round of fixtures for Redlands Touch Football with four out of six of our teams in the hunt for the Finals and our Junior As sitting on top of their table with only one loss for the season. I would like to encourage as many of our teams and parents to attend the Finals weekend and cheer on our teams representing Redlands Touch Football.
Mr Tom Kindred
Head of Secondary School Sport
sports@redlands.nsw.edu.au
All Sports contacts can be found on Redlands Pulse.