Secondary Sport
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.
Mouthguards
There will be a representative from ProFit Mouthguards at the school next week, Wednesday 6 March. ProFit mouthguards are professionally fitted onsite using dental moulds and offer protection for teeth and gums whilst also reducing the severity of concussions caused by contact sports.
For any student wishing to be fitted please contact Mr Jack Gooding and please complete the registration form. These mouthguards are recommended for all Winter Representative Sports in Redlands including Hockey, Football and Rugby. The application form can be found here.
Fitness Centre
Please be aware that the Redlands Fitness Centre is available to all including those currently not in a Representative Sport and there are sessions each morning on Monday, Wednesday and Friday with additional afternoon sessions on Monday and Wednesday. Sessions are as follows:
Monday/Wednesday/Friday mornings – 6.00am Fitness Session Open – Session runs from 6.15am-7.20am
Monday/Wednesday morning – 3.30pm Fitness Session Open – Session runs 3.40pm-4.20pm
Wednesday mornings will have a session run that is tailored towards Rugby Pre-season.
I would recommend that all students looking ahead to their Winter Representative Sport look to use these sessions as a way to prepare physically for their 2019 seasons. Sports such as Football, Rugby and Netball all require a level of strength and flexibility all of which can be achieved by using the Redlands Fitness Centre.
There will also be more information sent out regarding a 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.
Basketball
Round 10 was an important round for many of our teams, with some of our teams relying on a win to get through to the Semi Finals. Despite a few tough losses, we still have 17 teams through to the Semi Finals and the 14D Boys have successfully made it straight through to the Grand Final.
Congratulations to all teams that have successfully made it through to the Semi Finals this Saturday. It is fantastic to see six of the seven girls teams progressing into the Semi Finals, showing that our Girls program is going from strength to strength. The Boys program has had another great year, and despite both our A and B Boys teams moving up a division, it’s a great sign that we still have 12 of the 18 Boys teams progress through to the post-season playoffs.
Don’t forget to register to attend the End of Season Basketball Dinner. Please see the details below:
Date: Thursday 14 March
Time: 6.30pm arrival for a 7.00pm start
Venue: Norths Leagues Club (12 Abbott St, Cammeray)
RSVP: Sunday 10 March
Book your tickets now via https://www.trybooking.com/BAZHI
Thank you to all players and parents for your commitment to the Redlands Basketball program for the 2018/19 season. Best of luck to the teams playing in the Semi Finals this Saturday, we look forward to seeing you at the End of Season function to celebrate another great year.
Indoor Hockey
Congratulations to Eloise Trueman (Yr 8) who won the COD (Centre of Development) Citizenship Award at last weekend’s COD Carnival. This award is for citizenship, coachability, attitude to COD sessions and how they played at their final COD weekend. Winners are great with their team, work hard and try hard to execute what the coaching staff had asked.
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 trialling for the 1sts, please email cellis@redlands.nsw.edu.au with your preferred position #1 and preferred position #2.
Friends of Netball will be meeting on Monday 4 March at 6.00pm in L1.2. If you are interested in joining the Friends of Netball, please contact redlandsfon@gmail.com.
Rowing
On Saturday the Yr 8 students headed off to separate regattas with the girls attending the Kings/PLC Regatta in Penrith while the boys raced at the AAGPS All Schools Regatta held on Hen and Chicken Bay. For both groups, this was their first regatta experience independent to the rest of the Rowing program.
The girls started the day with small boat racing in either the double or single scull events before moving across into the Coxed Quads. Some standout results were the combination of Alana Mansfield and Erin Tyrrell finishing 4th in Division 1 in a time that would have seen them in second place in any other division. Issy Treloar raced a patient and consistent race in the single scull, seeing off some fast starters to win her scull division comfortably.
In the School Coxed Quads, the Division 1 crew of Issy Treloar, Briar Carter, Charlotte Scamps, Catarina Croll and Lucy Horton were narrowly beaten by Loretto Normanhurst for 2nd place, finishing in 3rd while the Division 2 crew of Zoe Naismith, Aysha Sayan, Erin Tyrrell, Alana Mansfield and Camille Ghenzer finished a strong 2nd place behind Queenwood.
Meanwhile the Yr 8 boys who were racing against the GPS schools for the first time this season punched well above their weight! The combination of Liam Batemyr, William Natilli, Liam Griffin, Zac Garvey and Maya Little racing in Division 6 finished a strong 3rd while the combination of Joe Griffiths, Chase Vandekreeke, Fergus Edmonds-Wilson, Angus McLachlan and Charlotte Morrison also finished 3rd in Division 5. The standout of the day however was our Yr 8 Boys 1st crew of Patrick Walker, Matthew Fry, Daniel Close, Finn Woodward and Charlotte Morrison who won Division 1 in what was the fastest time of the day for the event, beating all other Yr 8 1st crews from the GPS schools. With no lane markings and racing on an open expanse of water, skilled coxes really can make a huge difference at Hen and Chicken, to this, special mention should go to Maya Little and Charlotte Morrison who between them coxed all of the Boy’s crews at this Regatta.
Next weekend will see the whole program head to Canberra for the ACT Head of the Lake with our Yrs 8-9 students departing at recess on Friday while the Yrs 10-12 students depart at lunch. Parents and supporters are encouraged to make the trip down to watch the racing.
Rugby
Friends of Rugby Meeting – there will be a Friends of Rugby meeting next week on Monday 4 March starting at 6.00pm. For all those wishing to attend please contact Mr Jack Gooding directly at jgooding@redlands.nsw.edu.au or Mr Malcolm Pascoe at mjp24601@gmail.com.
Tennis
Saturday started out with rain clouds ominously lurking around from very early on. Our 8.00am Tennis matches went ahead as planned giving students the opportunity to improve their match playing skills. By 10.00am it had started to drizzle on and off. Matches started in the hope that the rain would pass. In the end the courts were too wet to continue. Thank you to all students for showing persistence and a great attitude despite the challenging conditions.
Touch Football
This weekend sees three of our teams compete in the ISA Touch Football Finals held at St Paul’s Grammar, Cranebrook. This is a wonderful representation of how far our program has come this year, seeing not only two of our Junior sides qualify but also our 1st VI Girls make the Finals playing in an incredibly hard ISA A Division.
For our Junior Cs their season started out on a tough note, losing their first two matches and coming away from a weekend at Oxley with a controversial draw but it was amazing to watch this team build each week, not only developing as a team but also each individual player becoming stronger. So many of this team were new to the sport this year and watching their two wins last weekend away at Kinross is one of my highlights for the season. I cannot wait to see players like Lily Attard, Madison Hungerford and Anna Ivanovic represent our school in their match against a strong St Andrews Cathedral School side, this whole squad should be extremely proud of their work this season.
Our Junior As came out of the blocks like a cannon, sweeping through the first half of the season undefeated and with the best For/Against record across any team in the competition. With comprehensive wins against Chevalier, Oxley, BMGS and Kinross the Junior As sat atop of the table and looking at an undefeated season as we went into the Christmas break. This little stop in our season managed to shake the squad a little bit, losing a bit of our attack in a draw against Chevalier and a loss against Oxley but it was a credit to this group that they went on to record their two best wins against BMGS and SAS. This team is blessed with some amazingly strong players that combine so well in attack and defence. Sophia Hill and Piper Allen are without question our two leaders, building our attack and feeding the strike weapons we have out wide, creating some wonderful space for ball runners like Emma Mahon and Ruby Kelly. This weekend sees this squad faced with the challenge of proving they deserve to be considered the best team in the competition and go out as Grand Final winners.
The journey for our 1st VI Girls started with the pre-season trials and the camp away in Berry, where they began to build as a squad, seeing where they needed to improve to come up to the level of this new competition. This group is built around some amazingly talented athletes with Lulu Simpson, Sydney Stuckmann and our Captain of Touch Football, Caitlin Du Plooy, leading this group of girls. But it is the development of the rest of the squad which is the best highlight for the season. Seeing players like Caroline Bates, Aoibheaan MacLochlainn and Ruby Brook become so brilliant in their attack each week is a credit to their hard work and the coaching of Mr Ellis. This team has ridden an up and down season but strong wins throughout the season has meant they qualified 3rd behind Barker and the undefeated team of Kinross. This weekend sees them with the chance of beating Barker in the Semis and from there a Grand Final win is within grasp.
This has been a wonderful season for all of our teams and despite the win/loss records of some of our teams, the development across our whole program has been so strong. I wish all teams the best of luck on the weekend, let us see if we can come away with multiple Grand Final winners.
Mr Tom Kindred
Head of Secondary School Sport
sports@redlands.nsw.edu.au
All Sports contacts can be found on Redlands Pulse.