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We are incredibly excited to be able to launch the Redlands Sport Program for 2022 this week. Seeing the courts, fields and rowing sheds in full swing has been a wonderful sight after the summer holidays.

Please read the following information carefully to ensure you are familiar with arrangements that have been put in place for sport over the coming weeks:

Participation and Exemption

• If there is a reason why your child is unable to participate in their scheduled Sports training or Fixtures during Week 2, please directly email Alison Cox, Head of Secondary School Sport acox@redlands.nsw.edu.au by 3.00pm on Monday 7 February.

Summer Season

• All Sport training will be based on your child’s Summer Sport choice. Updated communication will be shared each week in the Secondary School Sport section of Note Day.

Mask-wearing

• Mask-wearing is required when traveling between sports venues and on school grounds (this includes students walking or traveling by bus to or from school).

• Secondary School students must wear masks in indoor sports venues at all times when not exercising, including in change room and bathroom facilities.

Change-Rooms and Uniform

• In order to minimise large groups of students mixing in changing rooms, students have permission to wear their PE uniform to school on days they have Sport training.

Representative Sport

• Students whose Representative Sport training session is not scheduled on Thursday afternoon will be dismissed from school at 2.30pm.
• The ISA Board have determined that the ISA Summer Sport Competition will commence on Saturday 12 February, 2022.
• Sailing will commence their Saturday Sport program this Saturday (5 February) and all remaining Representative Sport will commence on Saturday 12 February and this will continue until Saturday 12 March. Once again, specific detail will be communicated by the relevant Sport Administrator.
• If your child is unable to attend any of their scheduled sessions, please contact the appropriate Sports Administrator (contact details listed below).
• Sport Specific information is also available to families on the Secondary School Sports Page on Redlands Pulse.

Wet Weather:

GENERAL 

In the event that training is cancelled due to wet weather, a notification will be posted on the Redlands Sport Twitter page (@RedlandsSport) in addition, an email will be sent out to both students and parents. This includes morning & afternoon training along with weekend fixtures.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON SPORT – WET WEATHER ARRANGEMENTS (YEAR 8-12)

In order to limit student mixing indoors, Students in Yr 8-12 who are dismissed at the end of Period 5 are required to go directly home. Sport coaches and Redlands staff will supervise their COVID-safe departure. 

THURSDAY AFTERNOON SPORT – WET WEATHER ARRANGEMENTS (YEAR 7)

In the event that Yr 7 sport is cancelled on Thursday afternoon, students will remain at school until 3.10pm and participate in cohort based activities.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON – EARLY DEPARTURE (Year 8-12)

As we attempt to limit student mixing indoors, there will be no classroom supervision for students who do not have any scheduled sport training on a Thursday afternoon. Therefore, students who do not have training on Thursday afternoon will have permission to leave early.

Representative Sport

Touch Football

We are excited to be getting back into touch football this week, the coaches and students have been showing great improvement across the holiday and week 1 sessions. A reminder for the follow:

Attendance: A reminder to all students that your attendance is compulsory at all training sessions. Unexplained absences will result in school disciplinary action. When communicating any student absences, please emailcellis@redlands.nsw.edu.au and ensure the email includes the full name of the student and which team they are in for the current season.

Saturday 5th February – Macquarie University Campbell Field

Competition dates – As previously mentioned Round 1 of the ISA competition has been postponed, which is now due to start Saturday 12th February. The last round of the season will be Saturday 12th March in a first past the post format (no finals this year).

Wet weather – In the event of wet weather cancellations will be communicated via engage to the affected players/parents. Wet weather updates are also available on the Redlands Sport Twitter page, @RedlandsSport

Basketball

We hope students have enjoyed their first week of Basketball. A few reminders below for all players and parents involved in the basketball program: 

Competition Dates

Round 1 of the ISA competition has been postponed, the first round of ISA sport will now take place on Saturday 12 February. The last round of the season will be Saturday 12 March in a first past the post format. There will be no finals this year. 

Redlands Pulse

Please continue to make Redlands Pulse your first source of all Basketball related information. The most up to date training schedule and draft fixtures can be found on Redlands Pulse. A reminder to continue to check Redlands Pulse for any updates as the draw is still subject to change. 

Wet Weather

In the event of wet weather, cancellations will be communicated via engage to the relevant players/parents. Wet weather updates are also available on the Redlands Sport Twitter page, @RedlandsSport

Sailing

The Squadron would like to welcome back the Redlands sailors to their third and final term of sailing for the 2021-22 season. This term we have 35 sailors who will train in a range of boats including the Optimist dingy, Pacer dingy and Elliott keelboat. Our sailors are currently preparing for the Canberra Teams Racing Championships, which take place at the end of this month. Up to 20 teams from schools and universities across NSW and the ACT will compete in the championship.

Tennis

It was wonderful to see students back out on the Tennis court this week. The training schedule is available on Redlands Pulse. Students are now training in their allocated training groups during the week. Saturday fixtures for students in Yr 8-12 will commence on Saturday 12th Feburaury. If a student is unable to attend their scheduled training session for any reason, please email Alison Cox.

Rowing

During the summer holidays many of our Rowing students made the most of the optional training sessions available for them to opt into with both on water and gym sessions in the fitness centre getting high student attendance. These sessions meant that students would be able to not only maintain a level of fitness and physical resilience leading into Term 1 but they were able to also continue their skill development.

Our Yr 10-12 rowers along with our Yr 8-9 rowers concluded their holidays with a training camp held on Middle Harbour from our boatshed at Mosman Rowing Club where students would row on water two to three times per day. These camps are a major training block for the program where we are able to select crews that will race at the initial regattas in Term 1 and these new combinations have time to settle and refine as they prepare for the significant regattas to come.

Some of our Senior Students attended the NSW Small Boat Regatta on Sat 29^th Jan where they were able to race in either single or double sculls. Considering our lack of race experience so far this season, we were delighted with the results. This included Harley van der Pluijm (Yr 11) finishing 8^th in the A Final of the Men’s Under 19 scull while Pat Walker (Y r11), Billy Thomas (Yr12) and Oliver Rose (Yr 12) finished in 1^st, 4^th and 5^th place of the B Final. Meanwhile in the Women’s U19 Scull, Cat Croll (Yr 11), Georgia Verschoor (Yr 11) and Elizabeth Holtheuer (Yr 12) finished 8^th, 6^th and 3^rd in the A final. Elizabeth and Georgia combined to win the Women’s Under 19 Double Scull.

This weekend our girls will be attending their first regatta as a whole squad at the Roseville College Regatta held at Iron Cove on Sat 5^th Feb. Usually by now our Yr 8 and 9 students would have already attended two to three regattas and had multiple races at each, so as you might imagine there is some excitement about our first formal regatta for these students. Our boys will be based at Mosman Rowing Club and will be competing internally in preparation for their first regattas next weekend.

Non-Representative Sport

Fitness Centre

With Sport well and truly back up and running, the Redlands Fitness Centre will again be open for students across Term 1. All students can access the morning sessions which run Monday – Friday and start promptly at 6:30am.

Students are reminded to bring with them the following.

• A water bottle
• Towel
• Redlands PE / Sports Uniform

There will also be additionally High-Performance Sessions across all afternoons. These will be specific to our Summer Rep. Sports and students are asked to contact the Director of Athletic Development Mr Jack Gooding jgooding@redlands.nsw.edu.au for any specific questions regarding these sessions.

The gym and all equipment will be wiped down in between each session and a thorough clean is undertaken at the end of each day.

Key Contacts:

Athletics

We had a number of athletes compete at the end of 2021 in the NSW All Schools Athletics Championships, a huge thank you to the Mosman Athletics Coaches for assisting with the students across the 5 competition days. 

Isaac Brooks (Yr 10)
4^th in the 15 years 800m final: 2:04 (PB) – Qualifications for the Australian Junior Athletics Championships 5^th in the 15 years 1500m final 4:18 (PB) (2s outside national qualifications.)

Elizabeth Whelan (Yr 8)
3^rd in the 12 years Hammer Throw – Qualifications to the Australian Junior Athletics Championships  (19.04m) (PB)
14^th place 12 years girls shotput 6.21m (PB)
14^th place 12 years Discus throw (10.89m) (PB)
17^th place 12 years Javelin (10.49) (PB)

Charles Hargrave (Yr 9)
34th place 13 years 200m (PB – 28.43)
44^th place 13 years 100m (14.33)

Jaiden Confessore (Yr 10) 
36^th place 15 years 200m (25.89)
46^th place 100m (12.82)

Sebastien Griffith (Yr 11)
8th place 16 years Long Jump (5.95m)
27th place 200m (24.45)

Lachlan Binnekamp (Yr 11)
12^th place 16 years Long Jump (5.30m)
33rd place 16 years 200m (25.07)

We appreciate the ongoing support of the Redlands community in their respect of the Sport Protocols. These ensure the safety of our community.

Mrs Alison Cox
Head of Secondary School Sport
acox@redlands.nsw.edu.au