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Redlands Rhino – Weekly Fixtures

Please note: Redlands Rhino has the most up-to-date weekly fixtures. This is uploaded every Tuesday afternoon at 4.00pm. Please ensure you check this with regards to game times, venues and oppositions.

Weekly Results

From the Head of Secondary Sport

On Tuesday the whole Secondary School travelled to Sydney Olympic Park to participate in the Swimming Carnival. For the first time since 2006 Roseby won the overall point score House Shield. A full list of Age Champions, Divisional Champions and record breakers can be found further down in this article.

What was most impressive was the participation by students in our younger years. 89% of Yr 7s competed in a minimum of one event and 12 students competed in six or more events. This is a fantastic effort from our youngest students in the Secondary School and it was fantastic to see them having a go! Across the day we had 975 swimmers race across different 140 events, a fantastic display of School and House spirit.

House Results

Winter Sport Registrations

All students have been emailed the link to register for the Winter Sport season, students are reminded that:

• In order to access the registration page, they need to log into Google with their school student email
• All Yr 7 students must complete a Representative Sport
• All students who completed a non-Rep Sport during summer, must complete a Representative Sport in winter.

Basketball

Round 9 saw many of our teams in both the Girls and Boys divisions finding their stride and securing their places in the upcoming ISA Semi Finals. Another superb round for our Girls Basketball program saw wins in the Junior A, Junior B, Junior C, Inter B and Open B Girls, and the Boys program also tallied up another ten wins across four divisions.

Congratulations to Jackson Smyth and Kate Stanbridge for being selected into the ISA Boys Seconds team and the ISA Girls Basketball team respectively. Well done to Yola Reinecke who has been named reserve for the Girls team. 

This Saturday will be the last round of regular season games for the 2018/19 ISA Season. Semi Finals will be held on Saturday 2 March at Penrith Basketball Stadium and St Pauls Grammar School. Finals will be the following week, Saturday 9 March at Penrith Basketball Stadium. Information regarding the fixture for Semi Finals weekend will be published early next week. To view your current team standings, please visit the ISA website.

The End of Season Basketball Presentation will be held on Thursday 14 March. Please book here to secure your place at the dinner.

Fitness Centre

Please be aware that the Redlands Fitness Centre is available to all students currently doing a Summer Representative Sport and there are sessions each morning across Monday, Wednesday and Friday with additional afternoon sessions across Monday and Wednesday. Sessions are as follows:

Monday/Wednesday/Friday morning – 6.00am Fitness Session Open – Session runs from 6.15-7.20am
Monday/Wednesday morning – 3.30pm Fitness Session Open – Session runs 3.40pm-4.20pm.

There will also be more information sent out regarding High Performance Program for some of our athletes across the Representative Sports at Redlands as we begin to prepare for the Winter Sport season. This program is designed to track certain athletes through their off-season/in-season, managing their goals and targets for their chosen sports. This program is a more individualised program and offers the students a more tailored approach to their conditioning and strength development.

Please speak to Mr Gooding directly or email on jgooding@redlands.nsw.edu.au if you would like to speak regarding individualised programs and or the High Performance Program.

Indoor Hockey

The girls have continued their great form in the Indoor Hockey competition with a great 9-1 victory over Ascham 2. The girls have a well-deserved bye this week. Best of luck to Eloise Trueman, Freya Gait and Sophie McMillan who will be traveling to the NSW Regional Challenge over the weekend. 

Netball

The trials for the 1st VII Netball will begin in Week 6, Tuesday 5 March (Lang Gym 5.30 – 7.30pm) and Thursday 7 March (Lang Gym 5.00 – 7.00pm). These trials are open to all players in Yrs 10 -12. If you are interested in trialing for the 1sts please email cellis@redlands.nsw.edu.au with your preferred position #1 and preferred position #2.

Rowing

Last weekend saw the Yrs 9, 10, 11 and 12 students in the Rowing program head out to the NSW State Championships held in Penrith. With schools and clubs competing from across Australia, this is a great opportunity for us to get an early indication as to where we are currently placed in the field along with testing our ability to forms crews for potential events at the Australian Rowing Championships held at the end of March.

The Senior Boys were outstanding across the weekend, with both the 1^st crew of Alex Holtheuer (Yr 10), Alec Price (Yr 12), Max Durrant (Yr 11), Mitch Simpson (Yr 11) & Alex Coney (Yr 11) and the 2^nd crew Tom Morris (Yr 11), Jared Bowden (Yr 12), Alex Verschoor (Yr 10), Nick Wilkes (Yr 11) and Xavier Little (Yr 10) progressing from the heats into the final of the Championship School Boy Coxed Quad. While leading for the first 1000m, our 1^st Boys won Silver in the final while the 2^nd Boys finished a creditable 7^th.

On Sunday morning our students returned to Penrith to race once again, starting with the School Single Scull. In what was a very high standard of racing, Kristin Walker (Yr 10), Emily Barrelle (Yr 10), Maddi Howard (Yr 11), Zoe Kimber (Yr 12), Alec Price (Yr 12), Alex Holtheuer (Yr 10) and Alex Verschoor (Yr 10); in the Under 17 Single Sculls, Emily Pashley (Yr 10), Kristin Walker (Yr 10), Emily Barrelle (Yr 10), Alex Holtheuer (Yr 10) and Alex Verschoor (Yr 10) all progressed through to the Semi Finals. 

The School Boy Double Sculls was a hotly contested event, with two contesting against a Cranbrook crew for the top three positions. After a tussle the length of the 2000m race, the combination of Max Durrant (Yr 11) and Mitch Simpson (Yr 11) took out a Silver medal over the combination of Alec Price (Yr 12) and Alex Holtheuer (Yr 10).

In what was one of the largest fields of the day with 40 competitors, Elizabeth Holtheuer (Yr 9) showed some real class and resilience in the Women’s Under 16 Single Scull. Winning a Bronze medal in the final, she had to overcome some experienced competition who lead her through the halfway mark to the final with one of our strongest individual performances of the regatta.

While the above mentioned students received some top honours, our Senior and Yr 9 students all raced well across the weekend and deserve to be recognised for their efforts. The experiences will harden them all as we move into the final few regattas of the season and will ensure our students are more than confident with their race plans at these peak regattas to come.

Special thanks to Andrew Bowden who took some great photos over the weekend. Please feel free to browse through them all at your leisure – https://aabowden.smugmug.com/share/RedlandsRowing18-19

Swimming

We had a very successful Swimming Carnival on Tuesday with a record number of participants in the junior years. Congratulations to the following Age Champions and Runner-Ups:

Congratulations also to our Divisional Champions

Congratulations to Olivia Donoghue (Yr 10) and Samuel Virtue (Yr 9) who won respective Champion of Champions races, which was made up of the top ten fastest swimmers of all ages.

We had some fantastic individual and team swims across the day with five records being broken.

Samuel Virtue (Yr 10) broke two records including the Boys 15 Years 50m Freestyle in a time of 27.11s. He also backed this us by breaking the Boys Champion of Champions record in a time of 27.12s.

Kirill Shatilov (Yr 10) broke the Boys 16 Years 50m Freestyle record in a time of 26.73s.

Olivia Donoghue (Yr 10) broke the Girls Champion of Champions record in a time of 28.82s.

Team McDouall had a great swim in the Junior Girls relay breaking the Junior Girls 4x50m Freestyle in a time of 2:15.24s.

Redlands Swim Squad training has commenced at North Sydney Olympic Pool on the following days:

• Monday morning 6.00 – 7.30am (students to meet at North Sydney Olympic Pool, bus to return students to school by 8.00am). Last session is Monday 11 March.
• Friday afternoon 3.30 – 5.00pm (bus will take students from school and return approximately 5.15pm). Last session is Friday 8 March.

If you are interested in joining these sessions please email cellis@redlands.nsw.edu.au.

Tennis

The NSTA Term 1 competition began this week with many teams playing their first Tennis match since last year. After a slow start, many Redlands teams found some form to challenge for points and pressure their opponents to win crucial points, resulting in many of our top teams winning their matches. A number of Redlands teams faced stronger opponents and although they may not have won, they were able to reflect positively on the match as a learning experience for future games.

Congratulations to Emily Colvin and Sebastian Dobson who represented the ISA in the NSWCIS Tennis Trials on Wednesday.

Students are reminded to arrive at their venue 15 minutes before their match starts and are to wear the correct Redlands Tennis uniform: white Redlands Tennis polo, Redlands PE shorts, white Redlands cap or visor.

Touch Football

For the last weekend of Touch Football before the Finals the entire program travelled to Orange to play double-header matches against Kinross Wolaroi and Scots All Saints. Across the whole day the efforts of our students was amazing with many of our teams playing crucial matches to help with qualification for the finals in two weeks. Whilst all teams across the day had some wonderful wins and some standout individual performances, I did want to use this weeks Note Day to highlight one team in particular.

The Junior Cs won both of their matches, beating All Saints 5-0 and following that up with a wonderful win against Kinross 3-1, but it was more than the two wins that made this weekend so special for this group. The teamwork shown by these girls was second to none, with players encouraging each other in defence and attack. Lily Attard and Anna Ivanovic put on some wonderful displays of attack through the middle of both Kinross and All Saints, often breaking through the line and looking for support from their teammates. Kayla Carlson was everywhere, working hard in defence whilst still being one of the sharpest in the team on attack. Her brilliant try against Kinross was an example of this as she stepped hard off her right foot, beat the first defender, stepped back off the left and then sprinted the length of the field, leaving defenders in her wake. Out on the wings Daisy Oliver, Bronte Backhouse and Josie Simpson were loving the space created by our middle attack, often making runs of 10+ metres down the sidelines in each set of six. Iona Carter led the team with her chat in defence making some amazing late diving tackles. Allegra Brown was Ms Dependable, working tirelessly in defence and then making easy metres in attack as she ran direct, angling back into the defence. Marie Kurzrock and Jazz Gregan across both games were incredible, no dropped passes, amazing runs in attack and their efforts in defence were the main reason we only let in one try across the whole weekend.

The way this team has developed across this season just highlights how hard they have worked across their training and their matches. They started the season with two tough losses and since then have continued to improve, the two games over the weekend are a testament to how strong this group is as a team. Well done to the Junior Cs.

Mr Tom Kindred
Head of Secondary School Sport
sports@redlands.nsw.edu.au

All Sports contacts can be found on Redlands Pulse.​