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Redlands Sports Podcast

This week we were lucky enough to have the 2021 Sports Captains Olivia Donoghue and Dillon Hayford on the podcast, It was great to hear about their time at Redlands as well as their take why they think sport it important, how they have face challenges in sport and also what message they have for the younger students. The podcast is available on Soundcloud and iLearn (Secondary School Sport – Podcast)

Athletics 

Whilst we were unable to have a formal school assembly to present the Athletics Carnival awards, please take a look at the highlights video here with the results below. 

Age Champions & Runner Ups

Divisional Champions

Official Records Broken

Overall House Results

Basketball 

Save the date! At 5.30pm on Thursday 14 October Redlands will be hosting a basketball Zoom with Sydney Kings player, Angus Glover who will be joined by Sydney Kings Assistant Coach, Fleur McIntyre on overcoming setbacks and adversity, and what it takes to play and coach at the highest level.

Well done to the following students who have won the Week 2 Basketball Challenge, gaining the most points for their age group (based off their Sportly team registration). Prizes will be handed out next term!

The Week 3 basketball challenges are now available on the Sportly app and will be open from Thursday 16 September to Sunday 19 September. Keep your eyes peeled on your email and on the Sportly app at the beginning of the holidays, we will be announcing a fun family challenge for you to complete during the holidays.

Sailing

This week, Redlands Sailing launched the first round of the Redlands E-Racing Series. Each week, Redlands Sailors will have the opportunity to compete against each other across the globe in different classes of boats. This week racing was done in the Laser Class at Kiel, Germany. Congratulations to our top five sailors this week: Oliver Noakes, Hamish Kennedy, Alissandra Braden, Alex Gibbs and Katina Casimaty.

Secondary School Sport and Co-Curricular Photographs

Secondary School Sport and Co-Curricular activity photos are ready for ordering. Please visit the Melba Studios website, www.melbastudios.com.au. Select school orders and enter the password, WINNIE.

If you have any questions, please contact Melba Studios directly on (02) 9438 4566 or email sales@melbastudios.com.au

Zoom Fitness Holiday Sessions

Zoom Fitness sessions are great way to start your day and maintain your fitness throughout the holidays. Live zoom sessions will run across the second week of the holidays. Students are encouraged to attend as many sessions as they wish, and we encourage all members of the same household to join in the sessions.

ZOOM FITNESS – HOLIDAY TIMETABLE

A reminder for the Zoom sessions, that students need to be:

• Online and ready to go prior to the Zoom starting 
• If students are more than 10 minutes late they will not be admitted into the Zoom Session
• Zooms set to mute with cameras on 
• Have a water bottle and a gym towel 
• Please wear appropriate fitness attire (in line with mufti day attire ie: no singlets, appropriate length shorts).

In addition to this, any student wishing to continue their preparation for their Summer Rep. Sport is encourage to access all of the sessions and information that is up on iLearn under their relevant sport.

Mullets for Mental Health

For the month of September, a number of Secondary School students, along with Mr Jack Gooding our Director of Coaching: Rugby and Athletic Development, are shaving in mullets in support of the Black Dog Institute and Mullets for Mental Health.

FOLLOW MR GOODINGS PROGRESS

Mr Gooding is documenting the whole process, including the cutting of his hair and the progress towards a true flowing mullet across the whole month. Along with a blog detailing the process, there will also be a number of ‘invitational barbers’ who will give their thoughts around mental well-being as well as offering their assistance in manicuring the mullet.

This is a wonderful opportunity to support a charity and have some fun during this lockdown period.

To date, our Redlands teams, coming from all Secondary School Year Groups, along with Mr Gooding, have already passed the $10,000 mark for donations. This is an amazing effort from all involved and we can only imagine the fantastic mullets that are currently gracing our online classrooms and zoom sessions.

Click on the link above to see Mr Gooding’s blog and his celebrity barbers.

“When I was 15 years old I had a very important person in my life come and ask me ‘Who’s your hero?’ I said, ‘I thought about it and it’s me in ten years. So I turned 25 ten years later and that same person comes to me and goes, ‘Are you a hero?’ I said, ‘Not even close!’ She said why and I said, ‘My hero is me at 35.’ You see, every day, and every week, and every month, and every year of my life, my hero is always ten years away. I’m never going to be my hero. I’m not going to obtain that and that’s fine with me because it keeps me with somebody to keep on chasing” 

Matthew McConaughey – Acceptance Speech at the Oscars

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