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It was great to see so much Pink last weekend across all the venues, the Redlands Community and spirit within was great to see as I ventured from Football and AFL on Friday evening to Netball and Rugby on Saturday. A huge thank you to the Friends of Groups for their contributions across the weekend, and also to the many volunteers who assisted baking or selling prior to or on the day.

Last week we heard from Jordy Parsonage as to what sport meant to her growing up, this week we hear from Kate Seebohm. Kate has been a member of the Redlands community for just over six years, working across numerous programs and coaching the Girls 1^st Basketball team for a number of years. Kate has a long family history with Basketball, she has travelled overseas and has been part of a college basketball system, so if you are interested in heading to College in America, I would suggest speaking with her!

What sport was to me growing up? – Kate Seebohm

Growing up in a small country town in South Australia, sport was a huge part of the community. My family was heavily involved in the local basketball association and from a young age I was dragged along to basketball tournaments across the state to watch my dad coach and my older brother play, and eventually started playing myself. Looking back these were some of my fondest family memories growing up as we were able to spend so much valuable time together and basketball provided a positive environment for us to connect through a shared passion.   

When I think about my personal values, many of them have been learnt through sport including discipline, hard work and perseverance. Sport has taught me about the importance of teamwork and communication. The bonds formed with teammates through victory, defeat and hours of practice have given me lifelong friendships. In addition, sport has taught me a lot about generosity. I have been extremely fortunate from a young age to have so many volunteer coaches who would give up their time to help me be successful. These coaching mentors are the primary reason that I started coaching as I have always felt it is important to pay it forward and do my best to provide the support and guidance to young people in the way my coaches have for me. 

I was extremely fortunate growing up to be involved in teams that allowed me to travel across Australia and overseas to play basketball. I was lucky to have the opportunity to attend College in the US with a basketball scholarship which provided me with one of the best experiences of my life and something I never would have had the opportunity to do without sport. I now have friends that I would consider family all over the world and am so grateful for everything that sport has given me.

‘When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what’s happening. That is where the power is.’

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Cameron Ellis
Head of Secondary School Sport
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 

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Concussion Protocols

Parents & Carers last week received an email containing the Redlands Concussion Protocols, which can also be found on the ‘Key Documents’ section of Redlands Pulse – Secondary School Sport. A reminder to all that these protocols are for both a return to school and a return to sport. Students who have a suspected concussion are asked to seek medical attention at their earliest convenience.

Athletics

The Secondary School Athletics Carnival will be Thursday 8 June (Term 3, Week 7), information can be found on Redlands Pulse – Secondary School Athletics.

Students wishing to register for the 1500m will need to complete the Registration Form  

Balmoral Burn

On Sunday 28 May, Redlands had three teams participate in the challenging Balmoral Burn, which involved running up one of Sydney’s steepest streets, Awaba Street, which has a 420-metre incline. In addition to students running in the Balmoral Burn, students in each team were asked to fundraise much needed funds towards the Humpty Dumpty foundation, which provides medical care and equipment to sick kids in hospital. Amongst the three Redlands teams, they raised a total of $1400, which was a fantastic effort.

The teams consisted of the following runners:

Team 1 – Girls

Mel Franco 
Amynta Field
Sarah Yates
Natalie Bain
Reserve: Annabelle Hwang 

Team 1 – Boys 

Isaac Brooks
Connor Petersen
Hamish Campbell 
Flynn Kieran

Team 2 – Boys 

Mackenzie Willis        
Tobe Cornelius 
Rowan Petersen

Overall, our Redlands Senior boys team finished in 4^th   place and Senior Girls team finished in 9^th  place. Redlands also had the 5^th fastest time on the day out of 23 schools. 

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Cross Country

This report is written by Maddie d’Almeida for Cross Country Note Day.

Last Wednesday on 24 May, our Secondary School students, accompanied by Mr Walker, Miss Carol and Mr Ellis, attended the ISA Cross Country Carnival at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre. Despite the harsh hilly course, the day was fun and exciting with lots of great achievements. It was great to see other Redlands runners cheer and compete against a large field of competitors and run their best. 

Overall we were successful with collecting the overall Senior Girls Shield as well as Boys placing 2^nd overall, and the Girls placing 3^rd overall. 

A special congratulations to Maddie Barwise (Yr 12) who placed 1st in the Girls U18 6k, Isaac Brooks (Year 11) who placed  2^nd in the U17 Boys 6k, Finn Gurney (Year 8) who placed 3^rd in the U13 Boys 3k, and Immi Howard (Year 9) who placed 3^rd in the U15 Girls 4k. A further congratulations and good luck to the following students who placed in the top 10 and are going on to compete at the NSW CIS XC Championships coming up on the 8 June: 

• Amber Kusano (Year 9), 4^th place in the U15 Girls 4k
• Arkie Riches (Year 9), 5^th place in the U15 Girls 4k
• Matilda Hugman 6^th  , 12 Years 3k
• Phoebe Sun 7^th , 12 Years 3k
• Elisabella Ty 8^th , 12 Years 3k
• Isobelle Campbell 10^th  , 14 Years 3k
• Maddy D’Almeida 7^th, 18 years 6k
• Bronte Backhouse 10^th, 18 years 6k
• Angus Baird 7^th, 12 Years 3k
• Alex Taylor 8^th, 13 Years 3k
• Tom Brown 7^th, 14 Years 4k
• Otto Ross Sampson 10^th, 15 Years 4k
• Flynn Kieran, 8^th, 17 Years 6k 

Fitness Centre

A reminder that the Fitness Centre schedule is available on Redlands Pulse, it is great to see so many students participating in the Fitness Centre during the mornings and some afternoons. A reminder that students who are using the gym, must change into their school uniform prior to Period 1 classes. Students who do not follow the Fitness Centre rules and requirements or the direction of the staff will be asked to leave the gym.

Football

Pink Sock Round was a fantastic round of Redlands Football. Friday night Football under lights was a fantastic experience for our 1^st Boys and 1^st Girls. With a large number of supporters out from across the school there was a great vibe at Macquarie on Friday night in support of such a fantastic cause to raise funds and awareness for the Breast Cancer Network Australia. This continued into Saturday, with the majority of teams playing at Macquarie University across Football & Rugby there was a great atmosphere and some very positive results for both our boys and girls Football programs. Congratulations to the students who have been named in the team of the week for Round 5!

A big congratulations to the following students who represented ISA at the NSWCIS Football Championships earlier this week: Jasmine Black, Madison Barwise, Hugo McKay, Keian Murphy, Jaiden Murphy and Liam McFarlane. A further congratulations to Jasmine Black and Hugo McKay who were selected into the NSWCIS Football teams and to Keian Murphy who was selected as a shadow. Best of luck to these students when they compete for the CIS team later this year.

Hockey

Pink Sock Day was a great success for our Hockey community. Our 1^st Girls were up against Barker 2 for the first game of the day and they came out with a point to prove. Coming off the back of a tough loss the week before, our 1^st Girls were almost at full strength again and came out firing from the early stages of the game. The team finished with a huge 15-0 win. The Junior A Girls were up next against SACS and proved themselves to be deserving of the top of the table position again this week. The team finished with a 6-0 win after a fantastic team effort. A big thank you to the Friends of Hockey for their efforts in collecting donations on Saturday for such a fantastic cause in supporting the Breast Cancer Network Australia!

Netball

It has been a very busy start to the season for Netball. Our participation numbers this year are higher than they have ever. This has been very rewarding for me to see, with 18 teams competing in the ISA competition.

Many teams have travelled out of Sydney for their games over the last few weeks. I am sure you will agree this travel time builds friendships and connects teammates and coaches and is a time that should provide wonderful memories for the girls throughout their school years.  

We are halfway through the season now, some teams have had continuous tough games with many losses but these games build much resilience and push coaches and players to dig deep and keep going. This resilience breeds strength and growth in young people not just for their sporting life but beyond that too. I applaud these teams for their hardwork and patience as they wait for a win. In particular our Senior 4 and our Junior E team have made some recent break throughs. As Vincent Lomabardi wrote, “winners never quit and quitters never win.”

Thank you to our hard-working coaches who support the girls week in and out, ask for help with programming and put 100% into the girls.

To further motivate our netballers, as we push through the last half of the season, we will be starting our “top trainers” this week and we will list them here. These are the girls who put their best foot forward at training, are on time, work hard and have a positive focus at training.

Lets go Redlands! 

Georgina Ford

Director of Coaching Netball

Rugby

With a season focus of “Good players, better people” our Rugby boys stuck true to their program identity. During Pink Sock Round, our Opens Boys were core supporters in Friday night’s matches, and again across all age groups on Saturday, displaying true Redlands spirit.

Our on-field performance across all age groups showed vast improvement with close games against Oxley throughout the day. A special mention to our opens team, Redlands 1sts who secured a fantastic 1 point victory over Oxley, who had until the weekend been undefeated this season. 

Thank you to the wider Redlands community who supported our Rugby fixtures over the weekend, and all parents who volunteered their time and supported the Pink Sock festivities.

Players of the week as nominated by coaches:

• 13s: Felix Eade
• 14s: Rupert Perry
• 15s: Hunter Wilson
• 1sts: Josh Hicks & Max Perry

Looking ahead:

We look forward to another home game this weekend against CCGS. 

To note: 

Touch base with your Friends of Rugby representative for your year group for information on the BMGS/ Red weekend! 

Snowsports

We would like to express our gratitude to all the families who have registered for Redlands Snowsports. Your enthusiasm and support are greatly appreciated.

Bookings for Interschools and Race training are now closed. However, we would like to remind you that registrations for the Redlands Cup on Sunday 9 July are still open. We encourage you to spread the word to friends from other schools who might be interested. The deadline for registrations is 17 June.

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Thank you once again for your participation and involvement in Redlands Snowsports. If you have any further questions or require assistance, please feel free to reach out to

Danielle Steer
dsteer@redlands.nsw.edu.au

Tennis

We are now halfway through the Winter Tennis competition season and are very happy with how the players have been progressing throughout the weeks. There has been greater development in the Internal Competition as well and we look forward to integrating more players into the NSS teams in Term 3 so please continue to work on your matchplay!

A reminder Year 9 students currently away on camp are still expected to attend their Saturday fixture unless marked as a reserve. Wishing everyone well for Round 6!

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

Touch Football

Goodluck to Ethan James who will represent our school and region this weekend in the NSW All Schools tournament playing in the CIS team!

Skills Sessions

Touch Football will be offering high performance optional skills sessions on Wednesday mornings at Cammeray.

Sessions will run on Wednesday mornings at Cammeray Park (synthetic) 7am-8am. 

Students will meet at Cammeray Park at 7.00am and walk back to school at 8.00am.

Students may opt in/ out weekly as per their loading with other commitments. There is no pressure to participate if students do not wish too.  Involvement in these extra Touch sessions do not replace your Winter sport selection, simply an additional optional session to keep skills high during off season.

Water Polo

Players of the week as nominated by coaches:

• Senior girls: Ruby Voyce
• Inter boys: Alex Taylor
• Inter girls: Zoe Potter

Looking ahead: 

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Water Polo is a representative sport and as such students are reminded that they need attend fixtures. If you are unable to attend, please email jparsonage@redlands.nsw.edu.au ahead of your fixture. 

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