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What a week it has been in Sport. Yesterday we were privileged to host an International Women’s Day – Women in Sport Q&A in Redlands Hall, this was a fantastic opportunity for the students of Redlands to ask a number of past, present and future athletes what it has been like to compete at the highest level. A huge thank you to Renae Camino, Suzy Walsham, Jemma Donoghue and Tatum Bird who took time out of their day to answer the students’ questions and for Grace Durrant (Yr 11) who put together some insightful questions.

It has been great to see so many teams making ISA Semi Finals last week, with some really close results. This week is the ISA Finals weekend with a number of exciting prospects this weekend. I will make special mentions to the Girls 1^st V Basketball & 1^st VI Touch Football teams, both teams have had incredible season, with the Basketball Girls going through their season undefeated, and the Touch Football Girls having an incredible last few weeks, knocking off Barker College 1 for the first time in seven years. Both these teams are coached by some incredible coaches in Kate Seebohm (Basketball) and Jordy Parsonage (Touch Football).  As a school, we are incredibly fortunate to have both Kate and Jordy on our coaching staff, both women are amazing role models for their respective programs.

Best of luck to all teams competing this weekend, we are encouraging all students from their respective programs to get out and support their teams. When doing so students need to be in full school uniform or full Redlands sports uniform. 

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Michael Jordan

Cameron Ellis
Head of Secondary School Sport (Acting)
cellis@redlands.nsw.edu.au

Winter Sport Trials

Winter Sport will begin next week. All students are reminded that trials are compulsory for students who have selected their respective Sport, the only exception to this is those who compete in Rowing. ALL Rowing students are to complete their Rowing sessions during Week 7 and re-join their Winter Sports in Week 8.

Sports Photos

All Sports Photos are available for parents to view / purchase on the SPA Images Website 

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Basketball

It was fantastic to see all of our teams competing on Saturday in the semi-finals at Penrith Basketball Stadium. With nine teams playing in the semi-finals, it was a massive day for Redlands Basketball. We had four teams win on the day, with a lot of close contests. It was very pleasing to see the consistent effort in all games from the Redlands teams, with all teams competing until the final buzzer. Congratulations and best of luck to the following teams who are playing in a final this Saturday at Penrith Basketball Stadium: 1st Girls, Inter A Girls, Inter B Girls, Junior B Girls, Junior C Girls, 15B Boys, 15C Boys, 15D Boys, 14B boys, 14D Boys and 13C Boys. A huge achievement to have 11 teams through to the Finals on Saturday.

A reminder the End of Season Basketball Dinner is coming up on Monday 20 March, 6pm at Dee Why RSL. Tickets will close for the End of Season Basketball dinner at 8pm this Sunday 12 March. Please follow the link below to secure your tickets:

If you have any photos from the season, we would love to share them at the End of Season Dinner. Please upload any photos via the link below by Sunday 12 March: 

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Cross Country/Speed, Agility and Technique Training

This week we are transitioning to Cross Country and Athletics Training, please see below the information regarding the session starting this week. 

Redlands Cross Country training – Friday Afternoons 3:30pm (bus departs Redlands Lane) training will be at Balmoral Oval until 5:00pm (bus returns to Redlands approx.. 5:30pm)
REGISTER HERE

Redlands Speed, Agility and Technique training – Wednesday morning (6:45am) students meet at Cammeray Oval training will conclude at 7:45am, students will then walk back to Redlands.
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Football

A massive congratulations to Jasmine Black, who has been named in the Future Matildas squad, such a fantastic achievement for Jasmine who has been the goalkeeper for the Redlands 1st Girls since Year 7. A further congratulations is in order as Jasmine has been named in the squad for the Sydney FC Women’s side for their match this Saturday afternoon. You can read more about Jasmine’s fantastic opportunity here.

Rowing

There are some great photos on the following link:

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Last weekend saw the entire Rowing program attend the ACT Junior Championships on Saturday 4 March and the ACT Head of the Lake Regatta on Sunday 5 March. The Redlands rowers and coxes represented themselves very well, with rowers winning 29 team medals  – a combined 118 individual medals across the weekend, almost one medal per student.

This particular weekend is a significant highlight for the Rowing program with around 130 students from Year 8-12 departing during the day on Friday and some outstanding parent support with the parents organising three different dinner bookings for well over 150 people on Saturday night.

On the Saturday at the ACT Junior Championships many of our students had multiple racing opportunities across a range of boats with significant results including the following:

GOLD

WU15 1x: I Campbell

MU16 4x+: O Pearce, L Price-Pontifex, F O’Sullivan, A McInnes, Cox: D Hely

MU16 1x: A McInnes

WU15 4x+: L Maher, L Doyle, E Whelan, I Campbell, Cox: S McDonald

SILVER

MU16 2x: F O’Sullivan, L Price-Pontifex

MU15 4x+: B Potter, A O’Sullivan, K Blankenstein, M Walker, Cox: P Sun

BRONZE

MU15 1x: J Natilli

WU19 4x+: M Sanger Larsson, G Verschoor, A Mansfield, C Croll, Cox: Z Naismith

WU17 4x+: S Polok, A Winder, J Hugman, M Sanger Larsson, Cox: Z Naismith

MU17 4x+: T Whitney, H Phillips, J Meek, Z Borness, Cox: A Lee

Sunday at the ACT Head of the Lake students were only able to race in the one event with some particular strong competition coming from the local school, however our students cheered on by the large number of parents, spurring them on to achieve some outstanding results:

GOLD

SGYr8 4x+ C Final: O Collins, G Bernath, Z Potter, I Monty, Cox: M Radich

SBYr10 1x: A McInnes

SBYr9 4x+ A Final: O Pearce, R Beggs, F O’Sullivan, L Price-Pontifex, Cox: D Hely

SBYr9 4x+ C Final: M Wolf-Daffy, L McKay, J Collyer, T Hooper, Cox: H Preece

SGYr9 4x+ B Final: K Budden, J McKeown, E Whelan, R Warner, Cox: L Chung

SILVER

SGYr8 4x+ A Final: S Kaye, S Charles, A Crennan, L Forsyth, Cox: Z McKeown

SGYr8 4x+ C Final: S Bayley, I Dutton, A Haggman, D Mennie, Cox: E Yates

SGYr9 4x+ B Final: O Paul, R Garcia-Wood, L Maher, M Codrington, Cox: E Yates

SGYr9 4x+ C Final: S Whatmough, B Maxwell, M Smith, M Currie, Cox: G Djung

SB4x+ Div1: D Close, M Fry, W Natilli, A McInnes, Cox: F Logan

SG4x+ Div2: B Carter, A Hwang, C Scamps, A Bennett, Cox: Z Naismith

BRONZE

SBYr8 1x Div1: J Dubowsky

SB 1x Div3: M Fry

SGYr10 4x+: S Polok, L Wainberg, J Hugman, K Attard, Cox: C Pedro Inacio

SGYr8 4x+ A Final: T O’Flynn, E Simpson, L Soste, I Solgaard, Cox: T Sloot

SBYr9 4x+ A Final: J Natilli, H Dobson, C Morrison, T Anderson, Cox: J Nochar

SGYr9 4x+ A Final: M Osborn, O Price-Pontifex, I Campbell, A Winder, Cox: S McDonald

SG4x+ Div1: M Sanger Larsson, G Verschoor, A Mansfield, C Croll, Cox: Z Naismith

SG4x+ Div2: A Harman, S Yu, E Sullivan, S Thorp, Cox: C Pedro Inacio

This weekend is our final weekend of training at Mosman Rowing Club for the season where we will have individual crew photos taken during the session. It is imperative that students are in school uniform.

Sailing

This will be the last week for most of our sailors except, for those that are competing in the NSW State Championships, it’s been a short and busy term but thank you to all the students and parents for the help and enjoyment that has been brought to the program. This week for Redlands Sailing the students in the Elliotts were able to practice their slow boat control and were being introduced to spinnakers doing windward and leeward courses managing to set jibe and drop the spinnakers within a set distance. The pacers now having the teams racing competition approaching rapidly are focusing on the tactics of teams racing and boat handling.

I want to congratulate those that have been selected for the initial squad for the NSW Teams Racing Championships next week at Woollahra Sailing Club, Rose Bay. There will be more details coming out shortly to the squad.

Alissandra Braden Yr 11 MG
Anderson Boris Yr 11 CY
Max Nicholson Yr 8 DB
Hugo Baird Yr 10 MG
Hugo Christy Yr 8 CB
Issy Treloar Yr 12 MG
Marlon Giacco Yr 11 MB
Otis Cooper Yr 11 MB
Connor Ikin Yr 11 CY
Ruby Gasmus Yr 8 CY
Hamish Kennedy Yr 9 DB
Ava Atkinson Yr 8 DB
Oliver Noakes Yr 12 RR
Philomena Lee Yr 8 RW
Lucy Baird Yr 12 MB
Cleophe Eliatamby Yr 12 RR

Sailing Dinner

The Sailing dinner is confirmed for Wednesday 29 March at 6.30pm at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. Below is a link to the form to get tickets to the event. You will be charged to your school account for the ticket price.

This is a great evening that is a lot of and a way to celebrate the year that was sailing. All information for the night is on the form.

Get Tickets Here

Sailing BBQ

The Friends of Sailing group will be again holding a BBQ this Saturday after sailing, it is for all sailors and their parents so please come on down and enjoy the time at RSYS.

Program Feedback

We will be doing a feedback session shortly however the RSYS coaches would like the sailors to come to Saturday’s session with ideas and feedback for the coaches. Please be respectful and think of constructive thoughts and ideas to help the program grow.

Locky Pryor
Director of Sailing

Tennis

We would like to commend our Summer Tennis players for a great competition season so far! This will be the last round before NSTA finals, and we are proud to see so many players improving their match play and technique for singles and doubles. Please remember that Development Squad and competition players will still have a Saturday commitment in Week 7 Sat 18 March (Redlands Autumn Fair) so if you are not able to make this fixture, please let Ms Caitlin Wong know ASAP. A further reminder that TNB players will continue to play on Saturday until the end of the term. 

This is the final week of training, so we encourage students to make use of the additional Friday session to make up for missed sessions and get in more practice for the upcoming Winter Tennis season. We hope to see you in Winter Tennis, if not the next Summer Tennis season!

Please contact Ms Caitlin Wong should you have any questions regarding Summer Tennis or the upcoming Winter Tennis season.

Touch Football

Semi finals played across Blue Mountains and Macquarie Uni resulted in success across our Junior A Boys and Senior 1sts Girls, with both teams progressing into the Grand Finals on the back of strong performances. A special mention to the Junior A Girls and Senior 1st Boys who both bowed out over the weekend with hard fought losses.

Our Senior 3 Boys have had the week off finishing the regular season top of the table, automatically qualifying for the Grand Final. The Boys head into the final on fresh legs, hoping to finish off a dominant season with a win. 

We encourage the wider school community to get down to Macquarie Uni and support the Grand Finals fixtures this weekend. 

Finals Saturday 11 March at Macquarie Uni Fields

• 9:00am: Senior 3 Boys V Oakhill.
• 10:15am: Jnr Boys V Augies
• 12:45pm: Senior 1st Girls v Kinross

See you Saturday!

Keep an eye out on Kayo Live stream later this week to see some familiar faces playing at Touch Football Australis, National Touch Football competition. Junior As coaches Josh and Keaton are both playing in the Men’s Open division. We are lucky to have such high-quality coaches supporting the growth of Touch Football at Redlands!

Goodluck to all! 
Jordy 

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

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 2023 for full details on requirements for participating in a Representative Sport.

Summer Sport – Key Contacts