Co-curricular - Senior Sport

ISA Athletics

Well done to the Athletics squad on their efforts at last week’s ISA Athletics Championships. Many boys achieved significant personal best times, heights, and distances on the day. 

Final placings in each shield are below:

Well done to Mrs Simms in her first year as MIC of Athletics, coaches, and athletes on the season past. 

The following boys placed first in their ISA Championship event:

ISA Athletics Representatives: 

Congratulations to the following boys who have also gained selection for the ISA Representative team and have advanced through to this week’s NSWCIS Athletics Championships at SOPAC. 

Well done to all boys.

SPC APP 

I wish to emphasise the importance and need for the community to download the SPC App to ensure you are up to date with all relevant co-curricular sport items.  

Furthermore, End of Season Reports for Rugby, Football and Tennis have now been published via the SPC App and are available to view. 

Summer Sport Trials Update

As all boys will be aware, there are no trials or training sessions this week for Basketball, Cricket or Touch Football. Baseball training will only take place Thursday this week with the teams set to play on Saturday 23 September. 

The term will conclude as normal on Friday 22 September with those teams scheduled to play fixtures during the break to be notified by the relevant MICs.

Please also note that the Summer Sport Training Schedules for the 2023/2024 season will be available to view by Friday this week. These training schedules will commence first day back of Term 4, Tuesday 10 October.

Anthony Calavassy

Head of Secondary Sport

St Patrick’s College vs St Joseph’s College                  19 September 2023

The First V Basketball team put on the black jersey and kicked off their season against St Joseph's College in what was a thrilling game. With the boys freshly excited to begin their Summer Sport campaign, they went to a packed St Joseph’s College gymnasium after school to face the noise of the opposition along with a loud crew of supporters. 

From the beginning, the boys in black looked to push early and feed the ball inside for some easy baskets running and controlling the tempo. Joeys stayed close, keeping pressure on the ball. SPC moved the ball well through hands passing up the good shot for a great, open shot and continued to establish a lead on their opposition. As the game progressed, and the Firsts switched to a zone, the active hands and intense defence set the tone and continued to place pressure on Joeys. Down the stretch, some costly errors had brought Joeys closer than expected but the mighty First V held out and got their first win of the season. Final score 66-75. 

Lots of great things to marvel about with the game, and the team continues to look to build and develop upwards towards the upcoming ISA season looking to make noise and show them that SPC are coming.

Hayden Serrao

Coach - First V Basketball