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.
Head of Secondary Sport
Sports Choice
Sports choice is a topic parents and students can sometimes have trouble agreeing on. Our own action research indicates that the desire “to improve skills” and “to have fun” were the two most influential factors on a student’s sporting choice. The factors with the lowest influence on Sports choice are the desire to “compete at a higher representation” and “to win”. This research tells us the Redlands Sports program must foster a culture of high level engagement and awareness of skill development in fun and enjoyable environments. The critical question students should reflect on when registering for a sport is not “what sport they should do”. Instead they should seek to understand, how they will demonstrate commitment to that sport.
The improvement of skills is not isolated to a physical domain, but also the social, emotional and a mental domains of development. The improvement of skills and the elements of enjoyment in a student’s education are vital to the long term goals of developing young people. Developing a student to have integrity, high moral standards and perseverance are outcomes we strive for in a Redlands education. Any sport is a vehicle for this goal. It is the commitment to this goal which makes the difference between success and failure.
Redlands Summer 2019/2020 Sport Registrations
The Registration link for the 2019/2020 Summer season will be open on Thursday 1 August, a reminder that all students will be emailed this link. Students need to complete in one representative sport per year (those students who completed a non-Rep option during Winter 2019 must complete a Representative sport for the 2019/2020 Summer season).
Athletics
Athletics training will continue this Friday afternoon at Balmoral Oval. Students are reminded to be at the Adams Centre for the bus to depart promptly at 3.30pm. There are changeroom facilities at Balmoral Oval. The bus will return to Redlands at the completion of training (usually around 5.30pm).
Basketball
Congratulations to Jackson Smyth (Yr 11) who has been selected to participate in the Basketball Without Borders Asia camp hosted by the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). Basketball Without Borders Asia is an elite Basketball skills camp for top young players from the Asia-Pacific region. Jackson will be travelling to Tokyo in August for the duration of the camp. Best of luck to Jackson for this very exciting opportunity.
Fitness Centre
Please be aware that the Redlands Fitness Centre is available to all students currently in a Representative Sport and there are sessions across all mornings Monday-Friday with additional afternoon sessions on both Monday and Friday. Please note the Fitness Centre will be open from 6.15am with the session starting immediately at 6.30am.
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 the High Performance Program for some of our athletes across the Representative Sports as we begin to prepare for the Summer 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.
There will be students approached over the coming weeks to look at individualised programs in preparation for their Summer Sports.
Football
Well done to our boys Football players who participated in the St Pius Cup over the holidays. It was a great opportunity for our boys to play a few friendly games during the holiday break. We entered a combined team of players from the 14s to the 1sts and the team finished the day in 4th place overall.
The End of Season Football Presentation will be held on Friday 6 September at Dee Why RSL. Please save the date, further details will be provided shortly.
Netball
We are into the last few rounds of both the ISA and NSNA Netball competition. Best of luck to all players this weekend. A reminder the Redlands Netball Presentation Dinner will be held on Thursday 12 September (Term 3, Week 8) at the Norths Leagues Club, more information regarding the dinner will be available shortly.
Rugby
With three games remaining in the regular season, Redlands Rugby can now look to solidify their places across the Top 4s. Both of our Junior sides are well in the hunt for finals with both teams playing some wonderful team Rugby. Seeing the development of these two sides is a great demonstration of how hard they have worked across training and in their matches.
For our 1st XV, these next three weeks should see us lock ourselves in the Top 4 and looking to face either Redfield or Chevalier in the first week of the finals. Putting together our most complete match of the season so far against SAS before the holidays is a positive sign of things to come.
Looking ahead to our post season, the Friends of Rugby group are busy planning our End of Season Presentation which will be held on 14 September. More information will be provided shortly.
Lastly, I would just like to highlight one of our students who represented Redlands in the NSW Schools Championships in the last week of the Term 2. Cameron Pascoe has played Rugby at Redlands for his entire time at the school, representing the 1st XV across multiple years and being voted as our Rugby Captain and our 1st XV Captain for 2019. He has embodied the ideals that we value within our program, working harder each season to improve his game and the players around him and seeing him develop further as a leader this season has been one of the most rewarding aspects so far. Cameron was selected in the ISA 2nd XV, narrowly missing out on the top honours and he was a perfect representation of both our program and Redlands. Please make sure to congratulate Cameron on his accomplishments, they are built off the back of so much determination and hard work.
Looking forward to seeing you all this weekend for our matches against SACS, all game times can be found on the Redlands Rhino.
Sailing
Congratulations to Zac West (Yr 12), who over the holidays has been competing in the World Championships in Japan. After four days of racing, Zac is still winning the competition. The final three days racing started on Monday. The results are extremely close but Zac is still ten points ahead of the Belgian, Simon de Gent and 17 points ahead of his club mate, Mark Louis. We look forward to hearing how the competition finished.
Mr Tom Kindred
Head of Secondary School Sport
sports@redlands.nsw.edu.au
All Sports contacts can be found on Redlands Pulse.