Secondary Sport

Secondary Sport Redlands Pulse

Basketball

Congratulations to all of our teams on a wonderful Basketball season. Best of luck to all teams that are playing this weekend, including the following teams that are playing in the finals at Penrith on Saturday: 1st Girls, 3rd Girls, Junior B Girls, 3rd Boys, Open Gold Boys, 17B Boys, 17C Boys. A reminder that all relevant Basketball information can be found on Redlands Pulse via the Redlands Rhino (Fixtures) tab.

Cross Country Carnival

The Redlands Secondary School Cross Country Carnival will be held on Wednesday 17 March (Week 8) at the Macquarie University Sporting Fields, Culloden Rd and Talavera Rd. The Cross Country Carnival is an optional school event for Yrs 8-12 students and a compulsory event for Yr 7 students.

A confirmed timetable and details of the arrival and departure process are available on Redlands Pulse. Permissions are now open. Please log onto the Engage portal to provide permission for your son/daughter. Spectators can pre-register to attend the Carnival. Our COVID protocols limit spectators to two per student. For further information, please contact Ms Eliza Peirce.

Cross Country Training

Open to all students in Yrs 7-12 at Primrose Park Playing Fields. Students should be dropped at Primrose Park at 6.30am. Students will walk back to school with a supervising staff member. It runs from 6.30-7.30am.

Students must be in full PE uniform, appropriate runners, water bottle, have medication as required including asthma medication. Students will change into their full school uniform on arrival back at school.

Please note: Cross Country training will move to Friday afternoons in Term 2. For further information please contact Mr Nick Walker.

Football

Football trials will commence next week, starting on Tuesday 16 March. The Football Preliminary information is available on Redlands Pulse which outlines the trial details and key dates for the upcoming season. There will be information sent out to all students/parents registered for Football shortly.

Hockey

Hockey trials will commence next week, starting on Tuesday 16 March. The Hockey Preliminary information is available on Redlands Pulse which outlines the trial details and key dates for the upcoming season. There will be information sent out to all students/parents registered for Hockey shortly.

Netball

A reminder that the Netball trials for the ISA Winter season will begin next week (Week 8). The 1sts VI Netball trials will take place on Tuesday morning 6.30–8.00am in Lang Gym (this will be the same on Thursday morning). The 1sts Netball team is open to students in Yrs 10 -12 and by invitation only to those students in Yrs 7-9. If you are interested in trialling for the 1sts Netball team, please email Mr Ellis.

An email will be sent tomorrow (Friday) which will have more details surrounding the upcoming Netball season.

Rowing

Over the previous few weekends, the Rowing program has been steadily building up to this weekend’s NSW Boys Head of the River (Sat 13) and NSW Girls Head of the River (Sun 14) regattas. These regattas are our penultimate events of the Rowing season and are the cumulation of many months of hard work for our students and coaches alike.

On Sat 20 February we were delighted to name three of our new single scull boats at Mosman Rowing Club. Two of the sculls were named after our 2020 Rowing Captains Max Durrant and Maddi Howard to recognise their contribution to the Rowing program. The third boat was named after James Talbot, himself a previous Redlands student, who was the Boys Captain of Boats and graduated in 2010. James coached at Redlands for a number of years before transitioning into full time work at ANZ Bank and making a return to rowing on water. He previously represented Australia in the 2018 World Championships where he won a silver medal, only this week has James’ selection into the Australian Paralympic team for the Tokyo Olympics been confirmed.

The following weekend, the Rowing program raced at the ACT Head of the Lake along with the ACT Championships in Canberra. This was the first time this season that we have been able to travel for a regatta and is the first overnight camp/regatta that we have had in 12 months.

All of our crews faced some significant competition across the weekend with Cranbrook and Kinross having travelled from NSW but also notable schools from Canberra such as Canberra Grammar School, Canberra Girls Grammar and Radford competing in force. Despite the strong competition, a Redlands crew or sculler finished in either a Gold, Silver or Bronze medal position on 45 separate occasions.

The Governor-General of Australia His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley was on hand to present medals to many of our students.

Audra Olson (Yr 11) won her division of the School Girl Single scull while Alex Holtheuer (Yr 12) continued his dominance this season in the Single Scull, with a big win in both the School Boy Single Scull on Saturday and the Men’s Under 19 Single Scull on the Sunday but then also combined with Alex Verschoor to win the Men’s Under 19 Double Scull on Saturday. At the ACT Championships, Mikalea Sanger Larson (Yr 9) and Daisy Thomas (Yr 9) raced convincingly to finish in 1st and 2nd place in the Women’s Under 15 Single Scull.

Within the crew boats, in an all Redlands field, the Girls Yr 10 2nd Quad of Phoebe Cunningham, Yazi Coletran, Alana Mansfield, Charlotte Scamps and Hannah Mitchell (cox) won the Women’s C Grade Quad while the Boys Yr 9 2nd Quad of Alfie Leach, Ethan Beggs, Nicolas Laliberte, Arya Gapaillard and Fletcher Logan (cox) finished a close 2nd in the Men’s Under 16 Quad. The Yr 8 Girls 1st crew of Keira Attard, Lily Wainberg, Juliet Treloar, Ruby Holgate and Ruby Wood (cox) and a very confident Yr 8 Girls 3rd crew of Anoushka Lee, Zoe Halliday, Sophie Yu, Annabelle Hwang and Carolina Pedro Inacio (cox) also made the final finishing in 5th.

In the Men’s C Grade Quad, the Yr 10 Boys 1st crew of Patrick Walker, Daniel Close, Matthew Fry, Samuel Chubb and Sebastian Tang (cox) finished with Gold with the Boys 2nd Quad of Aaron Drake, Tom Hartnell, Oliver Rose, William Thomas and Amelie Archer (cox) were less than one second behind in Silver. In the Women’s Under 16 Quad, the Yr 9 Girls 1st crew of Emma Sullivan, Halcyon Hunt, Mikaela Sanger Larsson, Daisy Thomas and Anneka Steele (cox) finished in 2nd place with the Yr 9 Girls 2nd crew of Scarlett Ilic, Katie Baker, Tara Gold, Mia McFarlane and Zara Naismith (cox) also making the final.

Swimming

We had a fantastic day out at the ISA Swimming Carnival yesterday, with a number of amazing results across both the girls and boys races. There will be a full report in next week’s Note Day that will highlight some key individual results for the day as well as those students who have been selected to represent ISA at the CIS Championships next term.

Our girls stole the show taking home the Senior Division, Intermediate Division and finishing third in the Junior Division, and taking out the Overall Division 2 Shield!

Tennis

Saturday 6 March was the last round of regulation competition. A number of teams needed to win their Saturday match in order to put their team into the final, a number of which were successful. It was great to see students fight hard for every point and not give up, this was evident in the large number of tiebreakers that were played across all matches. Congratulations to all Summer Tennis students on their attitude, effort and commitment across the season.

This week, Saturday 13 March, all students will play in either the Final or a playoff match. Congratulations to Teams, 3, 4, 8, 11, 12, 17, 24 , 26 on finishing first or second in their respective divisions, they will play in a Final this week.

Important Dates

Saturday 13 March – NSTA Summer Tennis Finals/Playoffs (except Team 1)
Tuesday 16 March (Week 8) – Morning training for current Summer Tennis students who are continuing on with Winter Tennis
Thursday 18 March (Week 8) – Winter Tennis starts for all students. Details of training will be communicated to students, parents/carers separately.

Touch Football

Last week saw our Senior 1st and 3rd teams, along with our Jnr A and C teams travel out to Bathurst to take on Scots All Saints College, looking to secure a place in the finals. Our Jnr A team got off to a slow start, with the first half seeing no tries, the second half brought on a few errors from both teams with Scots All Saints getting the better of the girls taking the match 2-1. The girls still made it through to the finals which was great to see. Our Senior 1sts team had a strong win against Scots All Saints 1. With a focus being the finals, the girls were able to put together a number of well executed phase play to score some tries.

The Finals will take place this Saturday 13 March, with our 1^st VI, Snr 3, Jnr A and Jnr E teams all featuring the draw can be found on the Redlands Rhino with the timings and fields lists.

Best of luck to all teams involved in the ISA Finals this weekend.

“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think“. Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

Ms Alison Cox
Head of Secondary School Sport
sports@redlands.nsw.edu.au

All Sports contacts can be found on Redlands Pulse.