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Mouthguards

There will be a representative from ProFit Mouthguards at the school next week, Wednesday 24 March. ProFit Mouthguards are professionally fitted onsite using dental moulds and offer protection for teeth and gums whilst also reducing the severity of concussions caused by contact sports.

For any student wishing to be fitted, please contact Mr Jack Gooding directly and complete the Mouthguard form.

Mouthguards are recommended for the following Winter Representative Sports at Redlands: Hockey, Football, AFL and Rugby.

Basketball

The ISA Basketball finals were held on Saturday. Congratulations to the following teams who placed first or second in their respective divisions:

• 1^st Girls – 1^st place
• 3^rd Girls – 1st place
• Inter A Girls – 2^nd place
• Junior B Girls – 2^nd place
• Junior A Girls – 2^nd place
• 3^rd Boys – 2^nd place
• Open Gold boys – 1^st place
• 17B Boys – 1^st place
• 17C Boys – 1^st place

A special mention to our Girls Basketball program where the 1sts Girls not only won the Division 1 Girls Shield but also won the Girls Championship School Shield for the second year running. A fantastic combined effort from all of our Girls Basketball teams.

Thank you to all players, parents and coaches involved in Basketball for the 2020/21 seasons, we hope it has been an enjoyable experience for all.

Cross Country

A huge congratulations to all students who competed in the Secondary Cross Country Carnival. There were some outstanding performances in all age groups. All students who participated should be proud of their efforts. We look forward to celebrating and recognising the Age Champions and Runner Up Age Champions along with our winning House at our final assembly of the term on Thursday 1 April.

Football

The Football season is now underway. A reminder to all players and parents that there are Football trials this Saturday 20 March at Macquarie University Fields. The trial times for Saturday can be found on Redlands Pulse in the Redlands Rhino (Fixtures) button. Please make Redlands Pulse your first source of information for the Football season ahead.

Hockey

Congratulations to Freya Gait, Eloise Trueman and Jessica Van Extel who were selected into the 16&U ISA Hockey team earlier this week. Best of luck to all three Redlands girls when they compete in the NSWCIS Hockey Championships next Tuesday 23 March.

The Hockey season is now underway with trials for all age groups on Tuesdays, Thursdays and this Saturday 20 March. The details for the trials this Saturday can be found on Redlands Pulse under the “Redlands Rhino (Fixtures)” tab.

Rowing

Last weekend saw the Rowing program compete in both the NSW Boys Head of the River on Saturday and the NSW Girls Head of the River on Sunday in what are the Rowing Regatta equivalent to a Grand Final.

Our boys raced well with some strong representation across all crews with five individual crews finishing in a podium position and taking home a medal. The Senior Boys 1sts crew of Finn Woodward, Harley van der Pluijm, Alexander Verschoor, Alexander Holtheuer and cox Charlotte Morrison continued to close the gap to Radford finishing 2nd place in the Schoolboy Quad while the Yr 9 Boys 2nd crew of Julius Keller, Luca Solgaard, Mischa Barac, Tom Reeves and cox Scarlett Meijer also took out 2nd place. The Yr 10 Boys 2nd crew of Angus McLachlan, Ethan McFarlane, Loch Wilding, William Natilli and cox Jamie Gold started slowly in their final but hit the lead in the final 500m, going stroke for stroke with Radford but ultimately being pipped at the post and finishing in 2nd place by only 0.14 of a second to Radford.

The Yr 10 Boys 1st crew of Samuel Chubb, Daniel Close, Matthew Fry, Patrick Walker and cox Sebastian Tang finished strong with an incredible last 500m surge to the finish line forcing their way through the field and winning bronze in the process. Lachlan Collyer was particularly nervous before heading out to race as the Redlands Yr 9 Single Sculler, however he held his form and raced consistently from start to finish to also win a bronze medal.

Special mention should also go to both the Yr 8 Boys 1st and 2nd crews along with the Yr 9 3rd crew (made up of a combo of Yr 8 and 9 boys) who all finished in 4th place, only narrowly missing out on podium positions.

The girls took on the larger single sex programs with gusto and represented themselves well across the whole program. Particular highlights included the Yr 10 Girls 2nd crew of Charlotte Scamps, Alana Mansfield, Yazi Coletran, Phoebe Cunningham and cox Hannah Mitchell working their way through the field to finish in 1st place in what was a very disciplined and controlled race by the girls. The Yr 10 Girls 1st crew of Catarina Croll, Briar Carter, Georgia Verschoor, Trinity Hoffman and cox Zoe Naismith also saw off some strong challenges to win bronze in Division 1.

Other strong performances by the girls included the Yr 8 4th crew finishing in 4th place along with the Senior Girls 1st crew also finishing in 4th place in the Schoolgirls Quad division 1. The Yr 8 Girls 1st crew also raced well to win the B Final of Yr 8 Division 1.

With the majority of the Rowing program having concluded the season, the Senior Boys 1st crew having hit some internal qualification targets earlier this season will have the opportunity to continue through to the Australian Rowing Championships held in Tasmania from 22-28 March. This campaign will see Alex Holtheuer and Alex Verschoor race in the Men’s Under 19 Double Scull along with teaming up with some boys from Radford to race the Men’s Under 19 Coxless Quad. Finn Woodward will race in the Men’s Under 17 Single, Double and Quad Scull via Sydney Rowing Club before joining the rest of the crew including Harley van der Pluijm and Charlotte Morrison to race in School Boy Quad Scull. Arriving just in time for this campaign, we have taken possession of a new boys quad and a double scull which will go at lengths to assist the combinations race.

Touch Football 

We had some mixed results at the Touch Football finals on Saturday, with four teams featuring across the day.

Our Junior E team had a tough first hit out in their final against Chevalier College. Despite showing some great signs early, Chevalier were too strong taking the match 5-1.

Next up we had our Jnr A and 1st VI in their respective Semi Finals. The Jnr A team came up against Scots All Saints who the week before had taken the close encounter 2-1. The Redlands team came out firing and jumped out to an early 3-0 lead. Scots fought back, but some enterprising play from the Redlands girls saw them come away with a resounding 7-1 victory to move into the finals later in the day. Our 1sts had a tough encounter against BMGS but the girls went down early letting in two tries to be down 2-0 at half time. They fought back in the 2nd half and managed to claw back the lead scoring the equalling try with just over five minutes to go, holding on to a 2-2 draw and progressing to the final as the highest seed.

With Term 4 being a struggle in a higher division, the Senior 3rds girls learned a lot throughout that season for this Term 1 season. The girls took a strong 2-0 lead into the break, but the heat got to them, allowing KWS back into the match to make it 2-2 at the full time hooter. This meant extra time and drop off touch (every 2 minutes a player from each team drops from the field) until it was 3 on 3. Some slick footwork through the middle of the field drew the KWS defenders in leaving space out wide for the Redlands winger to fire down the sideline scoring the match winning try in the corner! 

The finals for the Jnr A and 1sts was a battle of attrition. In the blistering heat, the girls toughed it out against SPGS and Barker College respectively, unfortunately both games going against the mighty Rhinos. 

Redlands was awarded the Schools Championship Shield for Touch Football which is a fantastic achievement and shows the strength that is within the program. 

A huge thank you to all the coaches for another great season, we are hoping you are all eager to return to Touch Football next year! 

Tennis

Last weekend was the finals for the Summer NSTA competition. We had a number of teams in the final. Team 3 and Team 8 were successful in winning their final. Teams 4, 11, 12, 17, 24 and 26 played extremely well and walked away with the Runner Up medals. A huge congratulations to all teams on their attitude, effort and commitment throughout the summer season. 

Winter Tennis started this week. Specific information surrounding trials and training has been communicated directly to Tennis families. All wet weather updates can be found on Twitter. 

“The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go”. Dodinsky

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

All Sports contacts can be found on Redlands Pulse.​