Senior Sport

Four Year 8/9 Girls Teams Crowned Premiers

It was a great end to the EISM season for our Year 8 and 9s with nine teams playing Grand Finals and four of the them finishing as Premiers. Congratulations to our Year 8/9 Girls Netball A and B team, Girls 5-A-Side Soccer team and Girls Basketball team for finishing on top. Our Girls Hockey, Boys 5-A-Side and Boys Basketball team and one of the Girls 5-A-Side teams finished the season as Runners-Up. Congratulations to all these teams on a great season. 

The Year 7s EISM Sport competition will introduce grand finals to their seasons in 2026 after a review by the EISM and most schools supporting grand finals for Year 7s. Our Year 7s performed very well in their last season of EISM Sport this year students were acknowledge with Most Valuable and Best Team Player medals for their outstanding performance during the season. Students who received medals are listed below: 

Congratulations to all our students for your contribution to Sport in 2024, especially those who served as captains for their teams and who received MVP and BTP medals. A big thank you to all our Year 12 students who willingly gave up their time to represent Oxley in their final year. Thanks to all our students for the way you represented the College this year. 

Sport 2025

The Sport program for 2025 kicks off with Senior Trials on the first day back on Wednesday 29 January with their first round on Wednesday 26 February. Year 8/9 trials for EISM Sport will start on Thursday 30 January to be ready for their first round of competition on Thursday 15 February.

Year 7s will start their Sport on Monday 3 February with sign-ups for the House Swimming Carnival to take place at the Croydon Memorial Outdoor Pool the following Monday 10 February. Athletic trials for Year 7s will also start on Monday 3 February on and around the oval in preparation for the House Athletics that will take place at Tom Kelly Athletics Track on Thursday 27 February. 

Let us make 2025 an even bigger year in Oxley Sport by keeping fit during the holidays. I hope to see you all back in 2025 and I wish you all a blessed Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Frederik Kotzé

Head of Sport

2024 Olympic Change-Maker Awards

Congratulations to Andrew B (11.15) who is the 2024 Oxley nominee and recipient of the Australian Olympic Change-Maker Award for 2024. Andrew prooved himself as a great footy player, not just for the College, but mostly for his footy achievements outside of school. 

The Australian Olympic Change-Maker program recognises secondary students from around the country each year who demonstrate the Olympic spirit – friendship, sportsmanship and striving for excellence – both on and off the playing field, through leadership and driving positive change in their school and local communities.

The Change-Maker program provides students with the opportunity to share their ideas, connect with other like-minded people and be immersed in a unique Olympic experience, hearing first-hand from Olympians.

Andrew represented the College throughout his Senior School career in footy, but it is his accomplishments outside of school that made him stand out as an elite athlete in this sport. Andrew represented the U/18 Eastern Ranges as a bottom age. He played every game of the season for the Eastern Ranges. 

He then made his debut for the Seniors Mooroolbark footy team and was selected to play in the Victorian Metro trail game. Andrew’s dedication to football and the success he had outside of school made the younger students looking up to him and that made him a worthy recipient of this award.

Andrew received an invitation to the Change-Maker Forum and a certificate of recognition. He was also encouraged to submit a one-minute video expressing his interest in attending the National Summit.