Leader of Co Curricular
Mr Nathan Smith
Swimming Carnival
On Friday, 21 February, our annual swimming carnival was held at Caringbah Leisure Centre. With fast swimming and high energy through the house chants, the weather turned on and became an extremely wet swimming carnival. Congratulations to the following swimmers crowned age champions by massing the most amount of points in their age group:
- 12 years girls - Miriam Youl
- 12 years boys - Harry Elliott
- 13 years girls - Aisling Young
- 13 years boys - Bryson Bagnall
- 14 years girls - Madelyn Watts
- 14 years boys - Lachie Targett
- 16 years girls - Lucy McLean
- 16 years boys - Brody Trivett-Clarke
- 17 + years girls - Adelaide Thompson
- 17 + years boys - Solomon Freeman
New records broken on the day include:
Name | Event | Old Record | New Record |
| Aisling Young | 13 years 50m Butterfly 13 years 100m Butterfly 13 years 100m Breaststroke | 39.64 1.35.16 1.47.84 | 38.32 1.34.09 1.44.00 |
| Charlotte Boeg | 13 years 50m Backstroke 13 years 100m Backstroke | 41.94 1.33.54 | 41.69 1.32. 78 |
| Cleo Jovcevski | 13 years 50m Breaststroke | 47.60 | 46.00 |
| Adelaide Thompson | 17 + years 50m Butterfly | 41.82 | 38.37 |
| Harry Elliott | 12 years 50m Freestyle | 35.93 | 35.35 |
| Luke Best | 13 years 50m Butterfly 13 years 50m Breaststroke 13 years 50m Freestyle | 38.53 47.88 32.15 | 36.19 46.45 31.53 |
| Bryson Bagnall | 13 years 100m Breaststroke | 1.48.12 | 1.42.14 |
| Cooper Sanders | 16 years 50m Freestyle | 29.97 | 28.11 |
| Brody Trivett-Clarke | 16 years 50m Breaststroke | 45.63 | 40.85 |
| Solomon Freeman | 17 + years 50m Butterfly | 28.29 | 26.88 |
Congratulations to BENILDE for winning the House Swimming Shield.
Conference 3 Swimming Championships
On Tuesday, 4 March, we had a small but talented squad of swimmers competing at the Conference 3 Championships at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre (SOPAC).
Exceptional results were achieved by our swimmers across all strokes and distances. Such was the success of our swimmers, St Aloysius were crowned Senior Boys Champions and also received the Champion Boys Community School. This is an amazing achievement for a small number of swimmers. Congratulations to the following students for their results and for qualifying through to the Sydney Championships to be held on Monday, 24 March at SOPAC.
Congratulations to the following student for being crowned Age Champion:
- Solomon Freeman - Boys U17 & Over Age Champion.
Term I Sport
With one round remaining for Term I sport before the semi finals, we are in a tight tussle to make the semi finals in many sports, across junior and senior competitions. Good luck to all teams and fingers crossed we get lots of teams into the finals series.
SCS/CCC Representation
Representative sport:
Congratulations to the following students for their efforts thus far being selected for CCC or competing in Sydney wide competitions:
- Will Taylor (year 12) - representing NSWCCC Cricket and being selected in the NSW All Schools Open Cricket Team.
- Lachie Targett (year 8) - 1st in U12-14 NSW All Schools Triathlon Championships and being selected for the NSW All Schools Triathlon Team.
- Lachie Targett, Eneeki McNeilly and Brodie Stephenson (year 8) coming 5th (1st NSWCCC Team) in NSW Triathlon Teams Relay in the U12-14 age group.
For all your sporting information, please use the following websites for further information
Sydney Catholic Schools sport website: https://sport.syd.catholic.edu.au/
Catholic Schools NSW sport website: https://csnsw.sport/
Yours in sport,
Mr Nathan Smith