Sports News

School Athletics Carnival

St Mary's held our Athletics Carnival on Monday 27th May at O'Connor. Congratulations to all students who competed throughout the carnival. A special thank you to all of the parents who assisted with different jobs on the day and to the P&F for the BBQ throughout the day.

School Athletics Carnival Age Champions

Congratulations to all students who won Age Champion or Runner Up at the Athletics Carnival. The following students were the winners of the medals.

Senior Boys Champion  - Xavi Dent

Senior Boys Runner Up  - Xavier Kelly

Senior Girls Champion  -  Honey Youll

Senior Girls Runner Up  -  Atalia Seymour

11 Years Boys Champion  - James Graham

11 Years Boys Runner Up  -  Dean Repp

11 Years Girls Champion  -  Carmen Jayashi

11 Years Girls Runner Up  -  Annabelle Gadd

Junior Boys Champion  -  Thomas Matthews

Junior Boys Runner Up  -  Harlo Cooper

Junior Girls Champion  -  Alexandra Robson

Junior Girls Runner Up  -  Nasharee Stahlhut Akauola

Athletics Carnival Overall Champion

Congratulations to Ursula for taking out the House Shield for the Athletics Carnival.

Polding Hockey 

Well done to Molly and Sophie Schmude who represented the Armidale Region at Polding at the NSWPSSA Hockey Carnival in Newcastle. Congratulations to Molly Schmude for making it through to the NSW state team and will compete at Nationals in Cairns later in the year. The Armidale team also won the Gold Medal match at Polding.

Armidale Interschool chess competition

St Mary's students competed this week in the annual Armidale Interschool Chess Competition against other local schools. During the day students competed as teams of four in a round robin competition. Students competed well, showed great sportsmanship and learned valuable skills and strategies for playing chess. Congratulations to the St Mary's team of Lex Cabang, Dean Repp, Isaac Riches and Darcy Stibbard who came 3rd overall in the teams competition. 

Diocesan Rugby Trials

Five Year 6 boys competed last Friday at the Diocesan Rugby trials. Unfortunately none of the boys qualified for Polding but should be commended for their effort.

SPORT INFORMATION

The Armidale Diocesan Primary Sport Council  has a website and Facebook page where you can go to find details on the various Diocesan and sporting events. 

The web addresses are below:

https://www.facebook.com/ArmidaleDiocesanPSC/

https://sites.google.com/arm.catholic.edu.au/primarysport/home/

Pathway for progression in primary sport in Armidale Diocesan Schools.

1. School Carnival or Trials
2. Diocesan Carnival
3. Polding Carnival
4. NSW PSSA
5. National Primary All Schools