Junior Sport

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Redlands Athletics Team

Age champions and runners up were presented with their medals last Friday and Cowper again celebrated their victory. The Redlands Athletics team has been selected and is posted on the Dunnet Hall Sports noticeboard. It’s a really strong team and we’ll be looking to regain the HICES crown after a couple of recent years as Runners Up.

A special mention to Joel Daily, who was not only the 10 Years Age Champion, but also managed to break three records at our Carnival. Joel, new to Redlands in 2019, has managed to set new marks in 200m with a very swift 29.83 seconds, Long Jump adding 25cm to the record, now 4.29 metres, and Discus where he bettered the 2001 mark by 18cm. A great all round performance from an excellent athlete.

Term 4 Summer Sport Choices

Thanks to everyone who completed their choices for Term 4 summer sport. Summer sport begins on Wednesday 11 September. Anyone who hasn’t completed a choice should email their top preference to juniorsport@redlands.nsw.edu.au as the booking window has now closed.

AFL

Redlands AFL lads rounded out their season with another fantastic performance and, despite going down in a tight tussle, showed that they were the main improvers of the comp, getting within a goal of the very large and athletic St Patricks team who had beaten them resoundingly earlier in the year.

Please return your playing uniform to the Junior Sports Office as soon as possible, We’re keen to deck out our Yr 3/4 Spring Challenge team.

Girls AFL had a bright start despite blustery and cold conditions. All the girls showed great teamwork and developing skills to come up with two wins from our three matches. The girls will improve with their skills but have already set the bar high, piling on the points and showing they are around the mark with physical side of things. With matches continuing for the remainder of term, there’s some excitement building around at how good these girls can be. 

The Yr 3/4 team will be involved in the AFL Spring Challenge, a series of Friday night matches with eight games over four weeks starting on 6 September. Yrs 3 and 4 boys interested in playing in Friday games should come and let Mr Carter in the Sports Office know.

Rugby

The Rugby team finished off their season in style last week. 

Football

Our IPSHA Football season finished last week and, despite the chilly conditions, there was some hot football played on Saturday morning. The Yr 3 Football teams travelled to Barker for a dawn showdown. The early start didn’t bother our teams who netted five goals each to come away with wins. The Yr 4 teams missed the true bounce of the Redlands Oval pitches, playing on a fairly worn field against St Aloysius. The kids have really been working on keeping their defensive structure and it showed. Despite going down a goal early, the teams both battled hard and had the better of the play in the second half to finish with good performances in tough conditions. 

I’d welcome pictures of any quality from our Football season. Action shots preferred, but there aren’t too many pics from our Football season. Email them to acarter@redlands.nsw.edu.au.

Netball

As our Netball season draws to a close, we still have a number of teams in contention for finals play. Redlands 13 and Redlands 18 still have finals hopes ahead of them. Redlands 14 and 15 finished off their season last week drawing byes for this weeks final round of regular season play.

Equestrian

Ruby Holgate continues to go from strength to strength in her riding. She performed beautifully in the Eventing last weekend at Camden, to finish overall in 15^th position. Ruby has come a long way in a short space of time. 

Winter Before School Training 

The Term 3 sporting calendar, showing all training, matches and events is available on Redlands Pulse.

For all trainings on the Junior School 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 to find an alternative training venue, but students will be supervised until school begins in this circumstance.

Before School Training Schedule

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.

Mr Adrian Carter
Head of Junior School Sport
acarter@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9908 6454