Director of Sport 

Judo

Congratulations again to brothers Isaac Hayes (Year 6) and Jacob Hayes (Year 7) on their results at the recent Judo Tasmania State Titles in Ulverstone.

Isaac absolutely dominated his division and also stepped up to a much higher division with 14-year-olds and won three gold medals.

Jacob also did an amazing job as he stepped up to a higher division and managed to get a silver and a bronze medal.

The College is very proud of their dedication and achievements.

Rowing

The Saints (SVC/SMC) Rowing Awards Dinner was conducted last week at Blundstone Arena. It was a fantastic night to celebrate the achievements of our student rowers, coaches, and volunteers contributing to the success of both rowing programs.

Team SVC award winners

Year 7

• Team Spirit – Bradley Muia
• Rowing Excellence - Oscar Coad

Year 8

• Team Spirit – Felix Archibald-Mitchell
• Rowing Excellence – Hamish Godfrey

Year 9

• Team Spirit – Harry Shaw
• Rowing Excellence – Henry Mollon

Year 10

• Team Spirit – Joshua Topham
• Rowing Excellence – Llewellyn Gray

Open

• Team Spirit – Thomas Coad
• Rowing Excellence – Saxon Van Anholt

Other SVC Awards

The St Virgil’s College “Head of the River” day Cup is awarded to the crews who secured first place in a Division One Final at the Head of the River Regatta.

• U13: Oscar Coad and Jesse Mackey (Double Scull)
• U13: Angus Cupit, Oscar Henley, Jesse Mackey, and Oscar Coad (Quad Scull)
• U14: Hamish Godfrey (Single Scull)
• U14: Finn McManamey, Andrew Mooney, Ryan Lamprey, Hamish Godfrey & Oscar Henley: Cox (Quad Scull)
• U16: Alex Lamprey (Single Scull)
• U16: Harry Costello and Alex Lamprey (Double Scull)

The Old Virgilian Award is awarded to the St Virgil’s College Rower who is acknowledged for showing the most persistent endeavour and dedication over the rowing season. The recipient is Llewellyn Gray.

The Terrence Kelly Award is awarded to the St Virgil’s or St Mary’s squad for showing the best overall results during the school rowing season. The recipients of the Terrence Kelly Award are the SVC U14 Quad: Hamish Godfrey, Ryan Lamprey, Finn McManamey, and Andrew Mooney.

The Weisse Family Trophy is presented to the rower or rowers from the Saints Rowing Club who have achieved a high degree of excellence in the sport of rowing .The Weisse Family Trophy is presented to Llewellyn Gray, Alex Lamprey and Saxon Van Anholt.

Saints’ Club Service by the rower from the Saints Rowing Club who has contributed to the Club community through his or her dedication and effort. The Saints’ Excellence in Rowing Award is awarded to Maddison Mackey and Thomas Coad.

The Kerin Award is a new award for the 2023/2024 season. Donated by long-time Club supporter, The Kerin family, this award acknowledges the achievements of those rowers who competed in the Australian Rowing Championships (The Nationals) and secured a medal-winning place. Llewellyn Gray and Saxon Van Anholt were gold medallists in the U17 double. Llewellyn Gray, Saxon Van Anholt, Alex Lamprey, and Lucy Pinelli (Cox) were joined by Callum Wigston from Bucks to be Gold medallists in the U17 quad.

Again, thank you to everyone who made season 23-24 so successful, and a big shout out to the Director of Rowing, Oliver Wilson-Haffenden, for his dedication and commitment to our students. Additional photos can be found on the College Sport Facebook page.

MTB All Schools

Congratulations to Team SVC for their outstanding results at last Friday's All Schools MTB Championships held at the Glenorchy MTB Park.

Such a great day with all students representing the College with distinction and participating to the best of their ability.

The XCO course was tough with the first kilometer being a full-on climb before some respite at the top of the hill, followed by a more narrow track with another climb at the end of the lap.

Particular recognition to Alexander Lusted (Year 9) who pushed himself to complete two laps of the XCO in his first-ever race, Lachlan Seabourne (Year 9) for managing to complete a lap nursing a hamstring strain, and Archie Gray (Year 11) who rode with a suspect chain before it finally broke.

Many thanks to Archie Gray (Year 11) and Darcy Berry (Year 12) for their work with the organisation before and during the event, carting spare bikes and coming up with the ingenious idea of using our vehicle awnings as a marquee.

Results and other highlights included:

• Jonte Tummon won place in U17 Downhill (1:31.5), with four riders in the Top 10 for the same age group including Willem Burgess (4), Lukasz Lebski (6), Henry Forbes (8)
• Won the U17 Male pennant (combined points between XCO and Downhill)
• Cillian Cullen best in Downhill U15 (2:05.1)
• Archie Gray best in Downhill U19 (2:04.2)

Cross Country

• U17 Lucan Donovan 4th, Jonte Tummon 8th out of 100 riders. All riders completed at least one lap of the course
• U15 Cillian Cullen 21st out of 95 riders
• U19 Archie Gray 14th out of 40 riders despite breaking his chain late in the race

Congratulations to all students and a big thank you to College staff, Mr Barry Maxwell, and Zac Hamilton. 

Additional photos can be found on the College Sport Facebook page.

Cross Country

Congratulations to all our students from Years 3-12 for their outstanding efforts in the Annual Cross Country event last Thursday! It was a fantastic day filled with energy and sportsmanship.

Senior School Results:

1st Place: Joyce - 690 points

2nd Place: Dwyer - 659 points

3rd Place: Doyle - 607 points

4th Place: Hessian - 510 points

Junior School Results:

1st Place: Dwyer - 273 points

2nd Place: Joyce - 265 points

3rd Place: Doyle - 224 points

4th Place: Hessian - 208 points

Well done to all the participants and a big thank you to the staff and student leaders who helped make this event a success!

Congratulations and good luck to the 54 Senior School students who have been selected to represent the College at the Southern SATIS Cross Country Carnival at Queen's Domain next Wednesday. Invitations to selected students have been sent via Consent2Go.

The whole team will travel by bus, departing the College at 9.00 am, directly after Pastoral Care, and returning to the College in time for normal home transport options.

The program of events for this carnival is as follows:

• 10.35 am: U13 Boys, 3kms
• 11.15 am: U14 Boys, 4kms
• 12.00 noon: U15 Boys, 4kms
• 12.35 pm: U16 Boys, 4kms
• 1.30 pm: Open Boys, 6km

Parents/carers and families are welcome to attend to support the students. Course maps and the arena layout are attached below for your reference.

AFL Talent Academies

What a terrific representation from Team SVC in the newly formed AFL Tasmania Talent Academies for 13-15 year olds . Congratulations to the 15 student athletes selected to be part of this amazing opportunity with AFL Tasmania and the first intake of academy members.

U13 Boys: Fraser Noonan, Harrison Nadler, Ben Pigden, Flynn Hooker, Ryley Minehan

U14 Boys: Caleb Haremza, Darcy Hickey, Asher Scott, Campbell Barwick, Connah Chivers

U15 Boys: Jake Beams, Max Gulliver, Zac Pfitzner, Louis Sylvester, Jonty Daft

Full squad lists and details can be found here.