Sports Report
Another Successful Year
As we reach the end of another year, 2015 has, once again, been a very successful year in sport for Ringwood Secondary College. It was great to see so many students representing the school, with 157 teams competing at the Division level. Out of the 81 teams who competed in the top tier of competition, 49 progressed to Region finals and three teams qualified for state finals. Congratulations to the Year 8 Girls Basketball team and the Intermediate Boys Cricket team who both competed in State finals and a special mention to the Senior Boys Basketball Team who won silver at the State final.
There were also some fantastic performances within the Swimming, Cross Country and Athletics teams. The Athletics team won the Division title for the 24th time from the past 27 years, the Cross Country team won for the 26th time out of 27 years and Swimming claimed the Division crown for the 23rd consecutive year. The Athletics team won the Eastern Region championship and performed exceptionally well at State, collecting 8 medals from 10 events.
We hope to see many students involved again in 2016, with the key dates for Term 1 shown below.
February:
Friday 12th - RSC Swimming
Friday 19th - Senior Round Robin; Summer
March:
Thursday 3rd – Intermediate Round Robin; Summer
Friday 11th – Maroondah Division Swimming
Friday 18th – Year 8 Round Robin; Summer
Monday 21st – Year 7 Round Robin; Summer
Wednesday 23rd – Eastern Region Swimming
Thursday 24th – RSC Cross Country
YR7 HOUSE SPORTS DAY
On Wednesday the 2nd of December, Year 7 students were involved in the inaugural house sports afternoon. All students participated in either Volleyball, Netball, T Ball or Soccer. In what was a highly competitive afternoon of sports, Jackman (20.5 points) won the overall day, narrowly beating Freeman (17.5 points), with Mabo and Frazer equal 3rd (16 points).
The full results are shown below. Congratulations to all students, for contributing to what was a fantastic afternoon. A big thankyou to the Year 8 and Year 9 students who assisted with umpiring and scoring and for the staff that gave up their time to assist with running the sports.
GIRLS SOCCER: Jackman 1st, Frazer 2nd
BOYS SOCCER: Jackman equal 1st, Frazer equal 1st
GIRLS NETBALL: Jackman 1st, Freeman 2nd
BOYS NETBALL: Jackman 1st, Freeman equal 2nd, Mabo equal 2nd
GIRLS VOLLEYBALL: Mabo 1st, Jackman 2nd
BOYS VOLLEYBALL: Mabo 1st, Freeman 2nd
T BALL: Freeman equal 1st, Frazer equal 1st
SPORTING BLUE WINNERS
This year three Ringwood Secondary students were nominated for a Sporting Blue award. The Sporting Blues are based in the history of English sport, when in 1936 during a boat race between Cambridge and Oxford Universities, a light blue ribbon and dark blue ribbon were affixed to their respective boats.
Subsequently, a Sporting Blue became identified around the world as an accolade of sporting excellence by young people, and is distinguished by a two-coloured blue ribbon attached to a traditional bronze medallion.
In Victoria Sporting Blues are awarded in 18 sports and only one student in the state can win in any given sport. This year all three Ringwood nominees won their respective categories with Nathan Percy winning for Cross Country, Bianca Hansen for Athletics and Sophie Caldwell for Swimming. Congratulations to all three students on their outstanding achievements in their chosen sports.
Kyle Simkin
Director of Sports
Duke of Ed Hike
On the Duke of Ed hike we had a fantastic time. It was very challenging and was an amazing experience.
There were some fantastic views, beautiful tracks and pretty creeks. Everyone really enjoyed it, even thought it was hard.
All of us had a great time with our friends.
When we reached the summit of Bogong we had reached our goal. The view was insane! It was just so picturesque with all the surrounding mountains. Whilst walking, we had to climb up a steep mountain but when we arrived at the top of the it was all worth it. The rush of pride and achievement we felt at the top was indescribable. Then we walked down the mountain and when we saw the road we cried with happiness. It was so mentally challenging but it was worth it when we got to the top.
Duke Class ‘15