The Huddle
NSW Netball Schools Cup State Finals
The 6A Netball team capped off a spectacular season by competing in the NSW Schools Cup State Finals at Olympic Park's Netball Central. Only the elite teams who had already conquered the Regional and Metropolitan Championships qualified for this top-tier event.
Our team battled valiantly against the state's best, securing a strong pool win to finish 6th overall. A huge congratulations is also due to Alexia Coburn for her phenomenal performance throughout the day, earning her the distinguished title of Tournament MVP—a truly amazing feat against such high-level competition!
Tim Doyle
Junior School Sports Coordinator
School Sport Australia Track and Field Championships
Huge congratulations to Year 5 student Isabella Jabboury!
Isabella jumped her way to an outstanding 4th place finish in the 10 years Long Jump at the national track and field championships in Canberra over the weekend! Competing against Australia's elite junior athletes, this is a phenomenal accomplishment. What a way to cap off a fantastic athletic season! We are so proud!
Tim Doyle
Junior School Sports Coordinator
Kambala Swimmers make a Splash at Metro Championships!
We are incredibly proud of our students who recently took on the challenge of the Metro Swimming Championships at SOPAC. This elite competition is designed to test and develop the highest calibre of metropolitan-based swimmers.
Qualification is an achievement in itself! The girls met tough qualifying standards for their races and age groups to earn their place at the blocks. Congratulations to Imogen Wheeler, Yitong Li, Lucinda Behncke, Mia Li, Madeleine Schmidt, and Molly Wang for their outstanding effort and competitive spirit.
A special congratulations to Mia Li, who secured a bronze medal in her age group for the 50m Breaststroke event!
Tim Doyle
Junior School Sports Coordinator
School Sport Australia Track and Field Championships
Talia Gamerov and Laura Halley competed for NSW at the School Sport Australia Championships. Talia competed in the Under 16 400m finishing 4th, so close to a medal!
Laura Halley jumped 1.56m to equal her personal best to finish 8th in the Under 18 High Jump.
Clean Sweep in Touch Grand Finals!
Congratulations to our Senior teams Kambala 3 and 4 coached by Lara Clemson and Kirra McCarthy and the 7A team coached by Paul Robinson on winning the Grand Final on Saturday. Year 11 Frankie Johnston received an award from Easts Touch for being the Best and Fairest Player for her Division. I was really impressed with how all the girls played their semi finals and grand finals, everyone gave it their all displaying sportsmanship regardless of the outcome.
The 7A team continued on their winning ways with Gold at the NSW All Schools Beach Touch Championships. The Junior A team finished with Silver on a count back when the weather interrupted play.
Kath Sambell OLY
Director of Sport
Badminton Blitz
Kambala had great success in IGSA Badminton this term with our Senior A team finishing runners up in their division. We were thrilled to see Kambala 2, 4 and 5 all won their Grand Finals and Kambala 3 finished 3rd overall. Thank you to the coaching staff Ethan, Matthew, Natarsya and Zi Bin for the preparation of the teams. We must acknowledge Year 12 Chloe Wong who has been shadowing the coaches since she finished the HSC to get ready to coach in Term 1. In 2026, our Badminton program will increase from 5 teams to 9 teams playing in the IGSA competition.
Senior A - Bella Wang, Caroline Lin, Chelsea Wong and Emily Wu Runners up
Grand Final Winners
Kambala 2 - Gisele Correa, Emma Li, Mariana Zafirellis, Cindy Tang
Kambala 4 - River Elmer, Sienna Lien, Jacqueline Shih, Angela Zhang
Kambala 5 - Samantha Cheung, Sienna Kirkwood, Liliana Zhang, Elveyra Touor
Kath Sambell OLY
Director of Sport
IGSA Tennis Season Wrap Up
We have had an extremely successful term of IGSA Tennis. All of our teams have been challenged to play some excellent tennis throughout the season, which has been wonderful to see. This term of IGSA Tennis follows a "first past the post" format, so no finals are played.
Most of our teams finished in the top four, which would have earned them a place in the semi-finals under the traditional structure. Congratulations to all players and teams on an outstanding season!
Final placings for all teams:
Kambala 1 - 2nd
Kambala 2 - 6th
Kambala 3 - 4th
Kambala 4 - 2nd
Kambala 5 - 2nd
Kambala 6 - 4th
Kambala 7 - 1st
Kambala 8 - 1st
Kambala 9 - 4th
Kambala 10 - 7th
Kambala 11 - 4th
Brigitte Athas
Sports Administrator
IGSA Water Polo Wrap Up
This term has been a challenging one for Water Polo. Our teams have done an amazing job and have really been tested, particularly our Senior A team, who lost Minty and were moved up a division. Well done to all our teams for giving it their best this term.
A big congratulations to Kambala 3, who finished 2nd in their division!
Brigitte Athas
Sports Administrator
National Figure Skater
Year 10 Allison Lee represented Team NSW at the Australian Figure Skating Championship 2025, held in Brisbane on 1 December. Allison placed 4th out of 15 competitors.
It has been a challenging year for figure skaters in NSW due to the lack of local rinks. Throughout this period, Allison showed strong perseverance, managing many 4.30am starts to train at a rink on the Central Coast.
World Ranked Archer
Felicity Wang placed 9th in the world at the Recurve Under 13 Women division at the World Archery Indoor World Series – Taipei Archery Open. This division had 48 archers from 8 countries, including five Korean national team members and the Taiwanese national champion team.
This year’s Taipei Archery Open was an exceptionally high-standard event, featuring many world-class archers and Olympic medallists. An San, the Korean archer who won three gold medals at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games, also competed in this event and shot 599 out of 600, breaking the previous world record. Felicity was thrilled to meet her at the venue and even had the chance to practice alongside her.
Throughout the competition, Felicity chose to wear Kambala’s iconic yellow ribbon. It was her way of motivating herself, as she feels very proud to be a Kambala student. We are very proud of Felicity and her achievements!
