Junior Sport
Junior School Cross Country
Cammeray Golf Course played host to the Junior School Cross Country Carnival last Thursday and the normally serene surroundings turned into an action and noise packed thrum for the afternoon. Despite the beautiful surroundings, the course was really tough and our students hard work in training throughout their PE classes.
Cowper maintained their stranglehold on the trophy again narrowly edging out Dumolo and Roseby.
The Redlands team (below) was selected based on performances from the day and will look to retain the HICES Division 1 Championship trophy at Orange next Thursday. The team again looks remarkably strong and will be tough to beat.
Redlands 2019 Cross Country Team: Penny Vincent McGovern, Orla Collins, Charlotte Algar, Charli Amm, Dean Mansell, Luca Gazilli, Mackenzie Willis, Harrison Joseph, Isobel Campbell, Amelie Dewar, Georgia Gao, Ava Keller, Rory Hobbs, Jeffrey Benoleil, Daniel Benoleil, Danny Gordon, Joel Daily, Beau Potter, Stella Cunningham, Mila Osborn, Scarlett Cortes, Arkie Riches, Emily Collins, Landon Mansell, Charles Hargrave, Archie Kerr, William Wu, Federico Gazzilli, Annabelle Hwang, Gabriella McAssey, Alex Symons, Aneke Golowenko, Jules Harrington, Charlee Kwintner, Krishna Gupta, Luca Renshaw, Harrison Meagher, James Grey, Leonardo Vaccarezza and Rory McMillan.
Sports Captains Up and Away
Stella Simpson Morgan and Lachlan Carmichael are both living up to their Sports Captain status this week representing NSWCIS at NSWPSSA Championships in Tennis and Boys Basketball respectively. Stella’s team placed 4th overall in Inverell and Lachlan’s team played tremendous basketball in Maitland, going down only once over the week. Sadly, it was in the Grand Final. Both Stella and Lachlan keep the ball rolling this week and next, Stella taking on the best netballers with Ava Mills representing HICES at NSWCIS this Friday and Lachlan representing NSWCIS at NSWPSSA AFL.
IPSHA Football
Yr 5 teams will be adjusted before this weekend’s matches, so please keep an eye out for this week’s teams on email.
Our Yr 6 teams ventured to Trinity and our B team fought hard for a well earned draw. The C team dominated and won 6-1.
Our Yr 4 teams both played great games against Scots at home last weekend and showed great tenacity to eek out wins.
Our Yrs 5 and 6 teams are both fairly tight on playing numbers, partly a deliberate strategy to increase meaningful playing time and partly forced by the number of players we have. It’s really important to us that we don’t have players standing on the sidelines waiting for game time and I’d rather see players supporting teammates by turning up early and having an extra game before their scheduled match or sticking around to play a later match. Coaches will be asking for players to help – if you’re available it’ll be guaranteed extra playing time.
Rugby Sevens
Rugby skills training will be on the Junior Campus Oval on Friday from 7.15am.
Our Yrs 5 and 6 boys split their matches last weekend facing the Coogee Prep team first up before bouncing back to win over St Pats. Our Yrs 3 and 4 boys are very tight for numbers. Any players or potential players interested in Rugby are welcome to join the team training for a trial – test the water and see if they are keen to play. The nucleus of the team is strong and just a few more players would help build the Junior Rugby team!
IPSHA Hockey
The Hockey girls had a great win last week finding the goals five times. Strong performers were too numerous to mention in this great team win!
The draw and team roster and details have been sent to all registered players. Congratulations to Iona Gait who won selection the NSWCIS Hockey team after trialling last week. Iona is a hard worker and super dedicated to her Hockey, she’s been a mainstay of the Redlands team for a few years now and will match herself against the best players across the state in the NSWPSSA Championships in June.
AFL
Our AFL Boys went within a whisker of spoiling Barker’s first AFL home match on their main college Oval and showed some real commitment to their footy. In a seesawing match which twisted and turned until the last few minutes, first gamers Alex Ramsay and Flynn Evans Beard showed great endeavor whilst captain Lachlan Carmichael nearly stole the show with late goals. Passion around Redlands and AFL Football is no more apparent than in our team coach Nic Hurrell – Redlander and current North Shore Bomber Premier Division player, who phones in to me after each quarter with an energetic and colourful explanation of the quarter’s play, before letting me listen from afar to his coach’s address to the team. I’d love some action shots from the AFL boys.
Our Round 2 fixtures was equally close. Newington playing one man up for much of the game were too strong in the end, the boys fighting hard all the way but just losing touch in the final term to go down by 15 points.
The draw for the AFL season is available on Redlands Pulse and has been emailed to players. AFL training will be on the Junior School Oval starting this Friday from 7.15am and is open to all interested in AFL Football.
Netball
Redlands Net Set Go girls have made a fabulous start to their season showing some great passing and teamwork skills.
Wednesday morning Netball sessions are run by Leonie Stewart. Leonie is something of a coaching guru and her weekly Wednesday before school clinics are well worth it. Leonie is keen to pack as much time into the sessions as possible and her and the coaches will be starting their Wednesday sessions at 7.00am in Dunnet Hall NOT 7.15. Please arrive at 7.00am to make the most of this wonderful opportunity to work with an iconic Netball coach.
In case of wet or ominous weather, please remember the NSNA website gives the most up to the minute info regarding court status and is the best resource for competition info. Mrs Ellis will filter information from the NSNA out as quickly as is possible, but the source may give more immediate information.
Winter Before School Training Schedule
For all trainings on the Junior Campus Oval, please use your own discretion in extreme rain and weather situations. Often parents and students will have left home to attend before we can make a realistic judgement on the weather. If there is no danger of lightning, nor heavy rain which would soak anyone training outdoors, our aim is to go ahead and run the session. Coaches and/or staff will be in attendance. It’s not always possible we can find an alternative training venue, but students will be supervised until school begins in this circumstance. See below for the link.
Photos
We love having photos on display and to help archive our seasons, anyone who has any action shots they’re proud of and willing to share, please forward to acarter@redlands.nsw.edu.au
Before School Training Schedule
Mr Adrian Carter
Head of Junior School Sport
acarter@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9908 6454