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Summer Sport

A reminder that all key information for the season has been uploaded onto the Secondary School Sport page of Redlands Pulse, if you have any addition questions, please reach out to the appropriate Sports Administrator listed below:

Summer Sport – Key Contacts

INDEPENDENT SPORTING ASSOCIATION

ISA CODE OF CONDUCT

As we move into round 2 of the Summer ISA Sporting Season, we would like to draw your attention to the ISA Code of Conduct for both Players and Spectators. The full document is available on the Secondary School Sport page of Redlands Pulse and we encourage all parents and players to familiarise themselves with the expectations when participating in participating in ISA sporting competitions.

GUIDELINES FOR PLAYERS 

2.1       Once committed to a sport for the season, players must honour that commitment wholeheartedly. This same commitment applies to ISA representation. (Level of breach: 1,  2 or 3)   

2.2       Players are expected to be modest in success and generous in defeat, not showing in either case undue emotion.  (Level of breach: 1 or 2)   

2.3       Players are also expected to acknowledge, willingly and openly, good play by either school.
Players should not celebrate the opposition’s mistakes. (Level of breach: 1)   

2.4       Players should be positive in their approach to games and should adhere strictly to the rules/laws and spirit of the game. The referee or umpire’s decision is final, and the Captain of the team is the onlyone who may ask for clarification of a decision at the appropriate time. (Level of breach: 1 or 2)   

2.5       The ISA is committed to a ZERO TOLERANCE approach for any abuse towards officials through negative comments or actions. (Level of breach: 2 or 3)   

2.6       Players shall never resort to violent or abusive language or behaviour or engage in unfair or illegal tactics to gain an advantage.  Racial vilification will not be tolerated under any circumstances. (Level of breach: 2 or 3)   

2.7        Players should be punctual and adhere to their school’s dress code. The home team, and in particular the Captain, should welcome the visiting team and its Captain.  At the conclusion of the game acknowledgment and thanks should be given to referees, umpires, officials such as scorers/touch judges and the opposition. (Level of breach: 1)   

GUIDELINES FOR SPECTATORS 

3.1       Spectators must remember that this is “kids” school sport, let them have fun. It is not the World Cup.    

3.2       Spectators are expected to be positive role models. They must behave respectfully and courteously towards players, coaches, match officials and other spectators. (Level of breach: 1, 2 and 3)  

3.3       Spectators are not to approach or address game officials or any of the opposing players, spectators or staff.  If a spectator has a genuine concern, this needs to be presented to their own school official who will determine any action to be taken. (Level of breach: 1, 2 or 3)  

3.4       Unless invited onto a field/court, spectators must never encroach onto the field/court. (Level of breach: 1, 2 or 3)   

3.5       Barracking should be enthusiastic and positive, but not designed to heckle, denigrate or unsettle opponents.  For example, barracking during a free throw or a kick at goal and so forth is always bad sportsmanship.  (Level of breach 1 or 2)   

3.6       Sledging and negative comments are totally unacceptable. Good play by either team should be recognised by applause. (Level of breach 1 or 2)   

3.7       It is never right to express disapproval of a referee or umpire’s decision, irrespective of his/her age. The ISA is committed to a ZERO TOLERANCE approach for any abuse towards officials through negative comments or actions. (Level of breach 1, 2 or 3)   

3.8       Vocal support for any team should never encourage violence, rough or illegal play.  (Level of breach 2 or 3)   

3.9       Visitors to the grounds should co-operate fully with any regulations or requests made by the host school, such as car parking, seating, dressing rooms and the placing of spectators.  At all times visitors should leave the area tidy and free of rubbish when they leave.  (Level of breach 1, 2 or 3)   

3.10       Alcohol is not to be consumed at ISA fixtures. (Level of breach: 2 or 3) 

Basketball

It was fantastic to see our students back in action in Round 1 of the ISA Basketball Season. Kicking the season off with some fantastic results in the Girls Basketball program, winning 7 out of a possible 8 games. The Boys program saw a mixture of results in Round 1, winning 6 out of a possible 18 games. 

Please check the fixtures for this weekend, available on the Redlands Pulse – Fixtures tab, with these details also available on your student timetable. 

A reminder to students that attendance at all training sessions and games is compulsory within the basketball program. Further details regarding expectations for Representative Sport can be found in the student planner. Unexplained absences will result in school disciplinary action. 

Best of luck to all of our teams in Round 2 of the ISA Basketball Season. 

Touch Football

Our teams were able to take to the fields on Saturday and enjoy some Touch Football in the sunshine. Redlands hosted gala day for Round One of ISA, with great sportsmanship demonstrated across all games. Results were mixed throughout our 13 teams that played, highlights of the day included solid wins in our Boys Snr 3 and Girls Snr 1, Inter A and Inter B. As well as these wins, we had three hard fought draws across the Jnr B Boys, Inter B Girls and Snr 3 Girls divisions.

A big congratulations to all players and coaches as we build going into next week. 

During this ISA season, our coaches will recognise our Redlands Team of the week. These players demonstrate commitment to the team in trainings, and outstanding performance in games. Team of the week will be updated weekly on the Touch Football sports page on Pulse. 

Reminder: Training

WET WEATHER – an email notification will be sent to players and parents IF wet weather changes training plans. 

Saturday:

Fixtures for this week.

All teams are to coordinate their own travel to games this week. 

All Girls games are at Macquarie Uni playing fields. 

Inter B Girls have BYE. (Inter B Girls will be given the opportunity for extra game time to play up and support the Senior Girls 3 and 4 teams)

All Boys games are at Oakhill. *Timings will be shared as Oakhill distribute their fixtures*

Rowing

On Saturday 15 October we had the great pleasure of naming a number of boats after people who have played key leadership roles within the rowing program and the school in general.

The boats were named as following:

SINGLE SCULLS

• Elizabeth Holtheuer: 2021-2022 Girls Captain of Boats 
• William Thomas: 2021-2022 Boys Captain of Boats 

DOUBLE SCULLS

• Sabrina Pauling: Friends of Rowing committee from 2017-2021, chairperson 2019-2021 
• Kurtis Aroney: 2011-2012 Boys Captain of Boats, coached from 2012 to 2018 

COXED QUAD SCULLS

• William Mulligan: 2003-2004 Boys Captain of Boats, coached from 2014 to 2019 
• Stephen Webber: School Principal 2020 to present 

Thank you to the Friends of Rowing group along with the many parent volunteers who provided a BBQ lunch for everyone.

We look forward to seeing these boats in action at the upcoming Term 4 regattas. Please refer to the rowing pulse page for further details.

Tennis

Redlands Tennis started its first round of competition for this term in both NSTA and TNB last weekend! We hope all players were able to learn from their first matches and work on improvements during training for the upcoming weekend. It is important all players are familiar with the expectations of Representative Tennis in terms of attendance, scoring, etiquette, etc. so please make sure to look over the Player Handbook, Preliminary Information, competition rules and scoring over this week. All the best for your second round this weekend!

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

Sailing

Last weekend saw the Sailors compete in the first point score Race Day of the Redlands Series, the weather conditions were good with a building breeze throughout the morning. In the Pacers, the Year 7 duo of Max Nicholson and Hugo Christy proved themselves against the older sailors, coming first in the overall results. Whilst the Elliott 7s experienced some incredibly close racing with it coming down to the final race of the day with the Team of Oliver Noakes, Jerry Sun, Otis Cooper and Amelia Foulstone taking out the day.

Fitness Centre 

As we build into Term 4 we can also officially kick off our ISA Summer Sport Season. The Fitness Centre is available to all students and the optimum space to develop speed, fundamental movements and also power. 

The Fitness Centre is an open and inclusive space for all Redlands athletes and, with sessions across all mornings, Monday to Friday, this is a space that can be used by all Age-Groups across the week.

Sessions start promptly at 6:30am and have sessions tailored towards athletes of any ability, size or skill.

Students are reminded to bring with them the following.

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

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 or the Fitness Centre space as a whole.

Rugby 7s

Each Wednesday, Redlands Rugby will be holding Open Sessions for all Female athletes wishing to give Rugby and Rugby 7s are try. These sessions will be available for all Age-Groups and will be held at the Junior School Oval from 3:30pm – 4:30pm.

There will also be additional sessions held within the Redlands Fitness Centre. These will be focused on building up the strength, speed and mobility required to compete safely in Rugby and Rugby 7s.

These sessions will be across the following times.

6:45am – 7:30am – Rugby 7s Skills and Strength – Monday

6:45am – 7:30am – Rugby 7s Skills and Strength – Wednesday

These sessions will also contain introduction to the Contact and Tackle elements of Rugby and Rugby 7s.

All sessions will be staffed by Redlands Rugby Coaching staff including our Director of Rugby Jack Gooding, our Lead Coach / Touch Football Coordinator Jordy Parsonage and also Wallaroo Piper Duck.

For any questions regarding these sessions, please contact the Director of Rugby Mr Jack Gooding directly on jgooding@redlands.nsw.edu.au

Rugby and Rugby 7s is a trial Sport and, as such, will not have any effect on Summer Rep. Sports. For all students wishing to join these sessions, they must understand that priority must be given to School commitments and also Summer Rep. Sport.

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

As of term 4, all student training and fixture details will be available to families under My Schedule on the school portal. 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 the portal 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 2022 for full details on requirements for participating in a Representative Sport.

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