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It was great to see the start of the Winter Season take off last weekend, despite some inclement weather there was a lot of sport on over the weekend.

Parents & Carers last week received an email containing the Redlands Concussion Protocols, which can also be found on the ‘Key Documents’ section of Redlands Pulse – Secondary School Sport. A reminder to all that these protocols are for both a return to school and a return to sport. Students who have a suspected concussion are asked to seek medical attention at their earliest convenience.

Over the next few weeks we will be sharing a number of articles surrounding all things sport and we will hear from some key personnel within the Redlands Sporting community about what they see as the benefits of sport.

‘Everybody’s sore, everybody’s tired, everybody has an excuse. Don’t be everybody’

Lewis Caralla – Charlotte Athletic Football Coach  

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

Winter Sport

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

Sports Photos

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

Photo Library >> Schoolsports 2022-23 >> select your sport

Password (redlands2023) Redlands has an agreement with SPA Images that we will only use the images for marketing purposes.

Secondary School Sport Captains

A big thank you to the Secondary School Sport Captains Emilie & Sam, who recently ran their donation drive of old sports shoes.

“Thank you to those who generously donated their second hand sport shoes as part of the Sports Captains donation drive last term. 68 pairs of shoes were collected and Sam and Emilie are working with Shoes for Planet Earth to get the shoes to those in need of them around Australia” Emilie & Sam

Concussion Protocols

Parents & Carers last week received an email containing the Redlands Concussion Protocols, which can also be found on the ‘Key Documents’ section of Redlands Pulse – Secondary School Sport. A reminder to all that these protocols are for both a return to school and a return to sport. Students who have a suspected concussion are asked to seek medical attention at their earliest convenience.

Charity Round

We are excited to announce that Friday 26 & Saturday 27 May will play host to the 2023 Redlands Charity Round, there will be more information to come over the next few weeks with regards to how the Redlands community can best be involved.

Athletics

Upcoming – Secondary School Athletics Carnival – Thursday 8 June

Fitness Centre

The Fitness Centre is an open space where students from all Sports at Redlands can actively participate in a range of circuit based sessions or focus on their own individual development with the support of the Redlands Fitness Staff.

Please see below the schedule for Term 2 which will begin Monday 1 May (Term 2, Week 2) and run through until Friday 23 June (Term 2, Week 9). 

Redlands Fitness Centre – Term 2 Timetable

Students are to wear full Redlands Sports Uniform:

• School Sport Shorts
• Redlands Sports Polo or Redlands Sports Jersey
• Appropriate Footwear

Please note: The Redlands Sports uniform is available for purchase from the school uniform store.

Football

It was a fantastic Round 1 for Redlands Football. Despite the wet weather all games went ahead as planned, with some fantastic results for our Redlands teams. With an almost clean sweep in the boys, we finished with one draw, with all other teams winning in Round 1! The Girls also had a fantastic start to Round 1, only losing one game out of the five fixtures. With a great start to the season, we are looking forward to seeing our teams in action this Saturday at Macquarie University fields this weekend. A reminder that the fixture details are available on the Redlands Pulse – Weekly Fixture tab.   

Congratulations to the following students who were selected into the ISA Open Girls Football team: Jasmine Black, Madison Barwise, Arkie Riches and Zoe Twining (shadow player). A further congratulations to Keian Murphy and Hugo McKay who were selected into the Open Boys team, and Liam McFarlane and Jaiden Murphy for selection into the 16&U Boys squad.

A huge congratulations to Jasmine Black who was a member of the Sydney FC Women’s team for the 2023 Season. The team won the A League Grand Final on Sunday in front of a record breaking crowd. Congratulations Jasmine!

Hockey

It was a fantastic Round 1 for Redlands Hockey! A big thank you to the Friends of Hockey for putting on a morning tea for the entire Hockey community, a great initiative to start the season!

The First XI hockey team took the field early on Saturday morning, braving the heavy rain, for their first game of the season against Central Coast Grammar School, one of our key rivals from the 2022 season. The girls played well from the outset, especially as many of them have not played together before and we all know that it takes a while to get used to the way that everyone plays and to work out how to successfully play together as a team. The girls did really well with many moments of beautiful teamwork to get the ball up the field. Our defence also held strong with some lovely tackles from Serafina Scotting and gorgeous saves from Megan Kirkpatrick in goals. The game ended with a 4-2 scoreline to us after three stunning goals from Jess Van Extel and one impressive goal from Lexi Jones. Jess was named player’s player. It’s looking promising for the season ahead!

The Junior Girls team had a fantastic start to the season on Saturday! With many of the team still learning the ropes they put on a fantastic team performance. The team played against Central Coast Grammar School and for the first half it appeared the teams were very evenly matched. The Redlands Juniors came out very strong in the second half and dominated the game, finishing with a 6-1 win, with a second half performance that showed this team is going to be a force to be reckoned with for the season. A special mention to Sahara Nicholas who scored a massive 5 goals in the game and could not be stopped by the Central Coast defence.

We look forward to seeing our teams in action this Saturday at Barker College. A reminder that the weekly fixtures are available on the Redlands Pulse – Weekly Fixture tab.   

A huge congratulations to the following students who have been selected into the 2023 ISA Hockey team: Eloise Trueman (Open Girls), Jessica Van Extel (Open Girls), Heidi de Saxe (16&U Girls), Iona Gait (16&U Girls) and Megan Kirkpatrick (16&U Girls). Wishing them all the best of luck in the NSWCIS Championship!
 

Rugby

Weekly recap:

A solid hit out against Central Coast Grammar for the first game of the season. 

The boys demonstrated great resilience in the physical fixtures. We played our first amalgamated game alongside the Blue Mountains Grammar School players, with wonderful feedback from BMGS staff and students commenting our how welcoming the Redlands rugby community has been. 

Players of the week as nominated by coaches:

• 13s: Sam Walker
• 14s: Tom Born
• 15s: Ash Corn
• 16s: Max Perry
• 1sts: Hugo Scott

Looking ahead:

We look forward to another away fixture this weekend at Chevalier College. Bus & detail fixtures can be found online. 

Snowsports

Reminder Snowsports second hand sale this Sunday 7^th May 1-3 PM, come down to grab some great winter bargains. Everyone is welcome.

Last chance Book a table here if you’re wanting to sell some winter gear.

The Snowsports entries have opened to all students please register here

• Interschools
• HCC accommodation
• Advanced lessons
• Thredbo season pass

Redlands cup entries have opened, please Register here

Key Contact 

Danielle Steer – Snowsports Director
dsteer@redlands.nsw.edu.au
0459 884 680

Swimming

On Monday and Tuesday of this week Redlands had 7 swimmers representing Redlands & ISA at the NSWCIS Swimming Championships, which is a fantastic achievement.

Congratulations to the following students on their results

• Ari Abe-Apostolou (Yr 7), Ari competing in only his 2^nd multi class event, finished 11^th in the boys 15&U Multiclass 50m freestyle
• Freya Nixey (Yr 7), Freya finished in 16^th place in the 13 Girls 50m backstroke, 11^th in the 13 Girls 50m butterfly and 9^th in the 13 Girls 50m freestyle
• Alice Franceschi (Yr 8), Alice finished 13^th in the 14 Girls 50m breaststroke
• Amelie Swann (Yr 8), Amelie finished 14^th in the Girls 12-14 200m IM, 11^th in the 14 Girls 100m & 50m butterfly, 10^th in the 14 Girls 50m backstroke & freestyle and 8^th place in the 14 Girls 100m freestyle.
• Xander Halfen (Yr 11), Xander finished 12^th in the Boys 15-16 200m backstroke, 6^th in the Boys 16 50m freestyle, 5^th in the boys 15-16 100m backstroke and 4^th in the boys 16 50m backstroke
• Julius Keller (Yr 11), Julius finished 22^nd in the boys 17-19 50m breaststroke
• Loch Wilding (Yr 12), Loch finished 11^th in the boys 17-19 50m breaststroke, 9^th in the boys 17-19 50m freestyle and 4^th in the boys 17-19 50m butterfly.
• Jnr Girls Relay (Amelie Swan, Tara Ward, Alice Franceschi & Freya Nixey), finished in 14^th in the Girls 12 -14 4x50m freestyle relay.

A huge congratulations to all the Redlands swimmer who competed over the 2 sessions.

Tennis

Despite the wet weather over the weekend, we had a great start to the Winter Tennis season! Development Squad players and the NSS teams were able to compete at home and away for the first time, as well as the ISA players against St Andrew’s Cathedral College. Hopefully this week the sun will be out and everyone can be on the court.

A quick reminder that wet weather calls are made at 5:45am for Tuesday and Thursday morning sessions and 6:45am/8:45am for the Saturday morning 8am/10am sessions respectively. If you do not receive an email or notification then, please assume training/matches are still on. We will reach out if we have to cancel last minute due to any sudden downpour and scores will be reflected in the draw as partial play. All home venues have covered areas for the players to wait under in case the weather clears up.

Good luck for Round 2!

Water Polo

Weekly recap:

Students enjoyed their first fixtures of the season with a mixed bag of results across the divisions. A reminder for students to arrive in Redlands uniform 30 minutes prior your game time. 

Players of the week as nominated by coaches:

• Senior boys: Xander Halfen
• Senior girls: Alex Tanner & Maddy dAlmeida
• Inter boys: Cooper Macdonald
• Inter girls: Zoe Potter

Looking ahead: 

Fixtures are loading online. Please ensure your uniform is correct upon entry to pools. 

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.

Winter Sport – Key Contacts