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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

Independant 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 only one 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

This Saturday our teams will be playing in Round 5 of the ISA competition. The fixtures for Saturday are available on the Redlands Pulse – Fixtures page, please check your game time carefully. A reminder that training session details and fixture details are available on your student calendar.

We have a number of teams travelling by bus this Saturday 19th November. All buses will depart from Military Rd (outside the Adams Centre). Please see bus departure times below:

CENTRAL COAST (GIRLS: 1st, Int A, Int B, Int C, Jnr A, Jnr B): Depart 6.30am. Return 2pm.  

CENTRAL COAST (BOYS: 1st, 17A, 15A, 14A, 13A): Depart 9am. Return 4pm.

OXLEY COLLEGE (BOYS: 17D, 15D, 14D): Depart 6.30am. Return 1pm.

Parents should have provided permission via Pulse for any bus travel for the Summer Sports Season. If you have not yet provided permission on Pulse please do so asap. If you will be providing your own transport to the game this Saturday please email kseebohm@redlands.nsw.edu.au so that the coaches are not waiting for you at the bus on the weekend.

Students should bring plenty of food and water to take with them to their away games on Saturday. A reminder that students are only permitted to wear Redlands uniform for both training sessions and Saturday fixtures (this includes when travelling via bus). In the event of cooler weather students can wear their Redlands fleece or Redlands sport tracksuit.  

A number of the 1st Girls and 1st Boys Basketball players played against the Year 5/6 Junior School team earlier this week. With a home court advantage and enthusiastic crowd for the JS team, a thrilling run late in the game saw the match end as a 40-40 draw. It was a fantastic way to promote cross-campus opportunities for our students. Thank you to all students and staff for getting involved!

Touch Football

Around the Grounds

ROUND 4:

Our Mighty Senior 3 Boys remain undefeated, congratulations to the boys who have put in consistently great efforts. A successful day up at the Central Coast with 3 out of 4 teams taking home the win. A special mention to our Junior A girls claiming an incredible win 10-1. 

The Girls’ games were closed out with the opportunity to partake in a full length of the field race with the opportunity to be titled the Champion of Champions. 

A special mention to Sarah Zeppel from the Inter B who won our Champions dash, Sam Wightwick finishing in close second and Amelie Dewar claiming third. A great morning for our female side of the Touch Football program, with a lot of laughs and enjoyment!

During this ISA season, our Redlands coaches will recognise our Team of the Week. These players demonstrate commitment to the team in trainings, and outstanding performance in games.

TEAM OF THE WEEK, R4

• Snr 1: Will Person
• Snr 3: Ethan McFarlane
• Snr 1 : Alexia Van der Merwe
• Snr 4: Bianca Goggin
• Inter A: Aneke Golowenko
• Inter B: Tali Feldman
• Jnr A: Tara Ward
• Jnr B: Soraya Christain-Hare
• Jnr A: Ash Corn
• Jnr B: Hector Maxwell

Round 5 Fixtures: 19 November

Fixtures

Please note fixtures for Oxley games are to be confirmed 

Team Lists

Please ensure you are check team lists weekly with player movement expected. 

Bus details for travelling teams:

To be confirmed via email. 

Reminders

• Players making their own travel to games need to arrive 30 minutes before tap off. 

Goodluck for Round 4 games this weekend!

Rowing

Last weekend saw our Year 7 & Year 8 rowers head to Canberra for their first regatta of the season. Students departed on Friday afternoon where they settled into the accommodation before a full day of racing on Saturday.

For the Year 7 students this was their first formal regatta, and they could put into practice what they have learnt to date while the majority of our Year 8 students have been itching for a regatta. Their growth and confidence increased with every race with almost every student across both year groups winning at least one medal.

Across both year groups Redlands won 15 gold, 11 silver and 12 bronze medals, an outstanding result!

Meanwhile our Seniors were training at Mosman Rowing Club where our Senior oys had a combined training session with students from Balgowlah Boys rowing in coxless boats courtesy of Mosman Rowing Club, hopefully we will combine again soon to race together.

This weekend will see the entire program race at Penrith for the Rowing NSW Independent School Championships.

Tennis

With only one more round before the finals for NSTA, we would like to congratulate Redlands 1, 5, 12 and 14 who are currently first or second on the leaderboard and in contention for the playoffs. We encourage all players to give it their all this weekend as Round 5 will be the final chance at points! If any teams are curious about their standings, please contact the Tennis Administrator for the details. All teams will still play the following week, finals or not, and Development Squad will also continue until the end of the term. A further reminder to TNB players, your competition rounds will go into the holiday period so please make sure you are checking the roster and draw. Please remember that attendance to training and Saturday sessions is mandatory to ensure you are meeting Representative Sport requirements and you must email Ms Caitlin Wong to explain your absence should you miss out on a session. This is particularly important if you are looking to use Summer Tennis as a Duke of Edinburgh or CAS Activity.

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

Sailing

Sailing Equipment Demo Morning

Redlands are lucky enough to have the generosity of Vaikobi to help the program out with sailing gear and supply a demo kit for all parents and sailors to look and feel at the kit. Redlands students will be given a discount and package deal for the Redlands sailing uniform, in which will be the same kit that some of the best sailors in the world use. For more information on the kit, please see the link below.

Learn More

Locky will be at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron from 8:00 am in the youth room for all to come and have a look.

Redlands Cup

Redlands Sailing ran the sailing schools’ first interschool regatta of the season. In near-perfect sailing conditions, over 80 sailors from 12 schools competed in both Pacers and Elliot 7s, with entries from Wenona, Monte, Riverview, Ascham, St Aloysius & the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. The Royal Sydney Yacht squadron ran an organised regatta for all the sailors and got all the races needed to be completed. The day consisted of a round-robin series split into two groups, and the top sailors of each group then progressed to the finals. Ali Braden and Ruby Gasmus from Redlands finished on top of group A with four firsts. They moved into the gold fleet finals with Max Nicholson, Hugo Christy, Lucy Baird, and Cleophe Eliatamby in the pacers. It was a great finish for Ali and Ruby, who ended up 3rd after finishing with a 1,7,1 and just missed out on first.

In the Eliott 7s, Oliver Noakes and his team made it to the Gold Fleet finals and finished third overall. We want to thank all the Friends of Sailing group volunteers and the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron.

Results:  Click Here

Fitness Centre 

For all students using the Fitness Centre space please continue to be aware of the following changes to the use of the Redlands Fitness Centre. Students are not able to leave school grounds at the conclusion of their sessions. Students are required to change back into their school uniforms and prepare for 1st Period. To assist with this transition, the Fitness Centre will now be open from 6:30am – 7:55am with students able to join throughout the morning. 

In addition, there will now be a High Performance Session targeted towards both a Girls and Boys Basketball 1st. These sessions will be focused on speed and flexibility as well as rehab and injury prevention. All 1st Basketball Girls and Boys are able to attend the session which will start promptly at 7:00am.

We have had brilliant numbers through the Fitness Centre over the past week with students from all Age-Groups utilizing the space across all morning sessions. The Fitness Centre is the perfect space for students to build strength, speed and flexibility, key components of all Rep. Sports at Redlands.

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

We will also shortly be announcing our Holiday Session Schedule which will run in the week prior to school returning in Term 1 2023. Students will be allowed to access the Fitness Centre across multiple sessions and train. Great preparation for both the Summer Sport Season as well as the Winter Sport Pre-Season.

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. 

Winter Rep Rugby Program

Please be aware that there will be a meeting for all students, Year 11s and Year 12 wishing to trial for the Redlands Rugby 1st XV next season.

The meeting will be held on Level 2 of the Redlands Learning Hub during lunchtime on Monday 21 November. This meeting will cover our Preseason Planning, expectations and also information about positional selections and details.

This will also be an opportunity for our 2023 Rugby Captain, William Pearson, to talk through the standards of the 1st XV and our goals for the 2023 ISA Season.

 I look forward to catching up with all of you.

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 Redlands Pulse. 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 Redlands Pulse 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