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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

Head of Secondary Sport

As we begin the 2020 school year it is important to reflect on what matters to us within Redlands Sport and the culture we strive to achieve for our students to learn and develop. Too often sport is reduced to a zero sum game, you win or you lose. Whilst this is true of the result of a game, it is by no means the measure of our success and falls very short of any meaningful point of learning. Winning can produce euphoria and losing can produce sadness but neither are behaviours we desire in young people, they are just emotions that our students need to learn to acknowledge and regulate. By the very nature of team sport, 50% of the people who compete will win and 50% will lose, this is one of the few things that is certain. This is why our focus for success needs to shift towards the behaviours and actions we value within sport and not just an outcome. It is the consistent behaviours revealed in a sporting contest that enables the greatest lessons in sport to be learned and practised.

It is therefore our focus in 2020 to concentrate on the process over the outcome and the behaviour over the result. How we execute a skill or tactic with precision and the desired temperament and behaviour of the individual and team is more important than the score. If we can encourage our students to enact these desired behaviours through their actions in training and competition then the score line will take care of itself. 

What are our desired behaviours? This question is vital to understanding our focus and it is important to recognise in the first instance they are OUR behaviours, not others and not just words we place on posters on walls. Our staff, coaches and students need to own them and be accountable for them day to day. Our desired behaviours need to reflect our values and lead our actions. This is why all our Sports staff meet weekly to review and achieve consensus on what we see as critical behaviours to develop within all of our Sports programs. Below is a table which outlines the link between our values and the behaviours that reflect these values. From there our coaching staff are held accountable for measuring and encouraging specific actions within their Sport that espouse these behaviours.

Our behaviours are the standards by which our students and coaches are measured not the result. Winning or losing is just a result, the measure of our success on how we confront the challenges associated with sport is where the greatest lessons are learnt. Everyone goes through challenges in life and this is how we grow and develop as people. Sport is an avenue to expand this development to its full potential to ensure our Redlands students flourish and are life-ready, both now and in the future.

Basketball

This Saturday will be Round 7 of the ISA Basketball season. Please check the Redlands Rhino carefully as there are a number of changes to the original fixture that was released in 2019. 

Please save the date for the End of Season Basketball Presentation. The presentation will be held on Saturday 21 March. More information on the event will be provided shortly, please view the invitation on Redlands Pulse. 

Australian School Championships 2019

In December 2019, our 1sts Boys and 1sts Girls Basketball teams travelled to Melbourne to play in the Australian Schools Championships. The Boys competed in the U20 Division 4 competition and won their first two games. The next game ended with a 9 point loss to Bonnyrigg. Following this they played ISA rivals, St Andrew’s Cathedral School. The Boys finished the tournament in 6^th place.

The Girls competed in the Division 1/2 Women’s competition, with two losses first up. The Girls got two wins in their next two games against Mount Lilydale Mercy College and Moreton Bay College. The girls left with a Bronze medal, an achievement of which they should be very proud.  

An off-court highlight of the week for the girls was enjoying a Q&A with Leilani Mitchell, a current Australian Opal who has represented Australia on the national stage. Leilani was awarded the 2019 WNBA Most Improved award and holds the record for the most three’s scored in a single game in the WNBA.

Fitness Centre

Please be aware that the Redlands Fitness Centre will not be open for morning/afternoon sessions until Friday 7 February. From this date, the Centre will be available across all mornings 6.30-7.45am along with Monday and Wednesday afternoons immediately after school.

Rowing

During the holidays it was great to see such a large number of students taking the opportunity to complete some of the optional water training sessions. The goal of these sessions is to not only maintain fitness and skills but to also prevent injury during camp when the training load increase along with the training loads of Term 1 compared to what can be a sedate activity level associated with school holidays.

The Juniors started their camp at Mosman Rowing Club for the first two days but then relocated to Narrabeen Lagoon for the remainder. For the final session of camp, all ten Junior crews were able to race side by side in what was an epic session for students and coaches alike. The coaches and myself are more than excited to see where our crews are placed over the next few weeks as we start racing.

The camps would not have been so successful without the assistance of many parent volunteers. This was a huge effort and words cannot describe how appreciative the coaches and myself are. Special mention should be singled out to Tom Richardson and Sabrina Pauling who made sure that everything was setup each morning and that there was plenty of food to go around, thank you again!

Looking ahead, please note the DRAFT dates for the 2021 January Rowing Camps (pending school approval and confirmation of accommodation being available) however it follows the same format as previous years where camp concludes on the Friday of the Australia Day long weekend: 

Seniors: Wed 13 – Wed 20 January
Juniors: Tue 12 – Fri 22 January

Tennis

During Term 1, Tennis students will be entered into the Northern Suburbs Tennis Association competition in similar teams and divisions as Term 4 2019. Please make sure you have read the important information emailed out earlier this week.

At the end of last year, Redlands introduced a new Tennis tshirt. Students are not required to purchase the new tshirt but it is made of a more conducive material for sport.

Just a friendly reminder, students should be bringing a hat and water bottle to training and matches. Sunscreen is available at Cammeray and Wheatleigh St courts if students have forgotten their own.

Important Dates
Tuesday 4 February – Tuesday morning training recommences for Teams 1-10
Saturday 8 February – Round 1 of competition
Saturday 14 March – Finals/Playoffs – Last Saturday of Summer Tennis

Touch Football

We are now entering the back end to the ISA 2019/2020 Touch Football season with the final four rounds before the Finals day on Saturday 29 February.

The Touch Football Presentation afternoon will be held on Thursday 5 March at Gore Hill Oval (this will take place during School Sport time). Students will be charged $15 for the event (pizza and drinks will be provided). If any students have food allergies, please email Mr Ellis cellis@redlands.nsw.edu.au.

Congratulations to Anna McCormack (Yr 12), Aayushi Singh (Yr 12), Monique Pascoe (Yr 12), Olivia Donoghue (Yr 11), Maddison Barwsie (Yr 9) and Katie Wightwick (Yr 10) who have been selected in the Norths Touch Football Representative teams for the upcoming State Cup this term.

This weekend will see our 1sts, 3rds, Junior A and Junior B teams travelling to Bathurst for double headers against Scots All Saints College and Kinross Wolaroi School. Our 2nds, 4ths, Junior C and Junior D teams will be travelling to Central Coast Grammar School. All game times and fields can be found on the Redland Rhino. Bus permissions have been emailed out via the new online forma. If you are having issues accessing this please email pulse@redlands.nsw.edu.au.

Swimming

The Secondary Swimming Carnival will be held on Thursday 20 February at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. More information regarding the Carnival will be posted on Redlands Pulse – Swimming . There will be some Swimming sessions held on Friday afternoons from 3.30 – 5.00pm at the North Sydney Olympic Pool starting Friday 7 February. If you are interested in attending these sessions, please email Mr Ellis cellis@redlands.nsw.edu.au.

Yr 7 Sport Rotation

Please see table on Redlands Pulse for information.

“I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure…. We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.” Kobe Bryant

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

All Sports contacts can be found on Redlands Pulse.​