Sport & Co-Curricular

Senior Co-Curricular Sports

Term 2 Information:

The winter sport season commenced this week, with over 30 teams taking to the court, field, or stage. All students playing sport should have received an email with their team’s draw for the first four games. After four weeks, SACSSGSA will re-grade teams and a fixture for the rest of the season will be released. 

Weekly Fixtures – Term 2, Round 1

Training Schedule

Aerobics:

The aerobics girls have been working hard in preparation for their first competition and it was wonderful to see the hard work rewarded at the FISAF Super Series on Saturday 4th May. 

Congratulations to all our teams who were great representatives of Loreto College -

• LC Amplify (Ruby S, Georgia M, Harper H, Zara W, Teresa C, Clementine S, Lailah B, Tallulah T & Maria B) – Years 7-12 Phase 2 Competition – 2nd Place
• LC Runaway (Isobel M, Chiara S, Milla O, Millicent L, Alice F, Ruby K, Isal A, Ella B, Winnie K & Lottie A) – Years 7-12 Phase 1 Competition – 2nd Place 
• LC Energy (Emily P, Amelia C, Rosina C, Dana G, Michelle F, Audrey S, India M) – Years 7-12 Phase 1 Competition 

The aerobics teams now prepare for the State Championships to be held on Saturday 22nd June.

Interschool Carnivals

Congratulations to our Year 7-12 swimming squad who achieved 2nd place at the Catholic Schools Swimming Carnival. An amazing achievement against strong competition, well done girls!

The Loreto students have performed remarkably well at our interschool carnival this year achieving the following results:

• Years 7-12 SASSA Swimming Championships – 1st Place
• Years 7-12 SASSA Athletics Championships – 2nd Place
• Years 7-12 Catholic Schools Carnival – 2nd Place
• Years 7-12 Catholic Schools Athletics Carnival – postponed to Term 3

Student Achievements:

On 13th April, Jasmine Davis (year 10) competed against the best gymnasts in SA at the Women's Artistic Gymnastics State Championship. After some wonderful performances (including gold on floor and beam) she was crowned the 2024 State Champion, Level 7 Open division. Her performance ensured she was selected for the State team, so now preparations are underway for the national Border Challenge in Queensland in June. Congratulations Jasmine! 

Congratulations to Tigi Gambranis (Year 11) and Anna Zappia (Year 10) for their recent National Soccer selection for the Singa Cup. The girls will take part in Southeast Asia’s Premier (11 a-side) Youth Tournament, where players participate in games against teams from a variety of nations. The tournament will be held in Singapore in August, which will provide the girls with an opportunity to travel overseas as part of a National Women’s Soccer Team, experience a different culture, gain more independence and develop their soccer game.

If you have any questions about co-curricular sport, please do not hesitate to contact me Sophie.Hage@loreto.sa.edu.au

Ms Sophie Hage

Leader of Sport and Sport Performance

Junior Co-Curricular Sports

Aerobics

Well done to our aerobics teams who competed in the FISAF Super Series at Golden Grove on Saturday.

This was the first competition for many of our students and understandably there were some nerves backstage! It was great to see our teams encouraging each other and many thanks to the coaches and to Tennille Cobb for supporting the teams backstage. Everyone took away some valuable experience and received some crucial feedback from the judges for the upcoming State Championships on Saturday June 22.

Placings:

Year 5 Phase 1

LC Groove 2nd

LC Stars 4th

Year 6 Phase 1

LC Electric 3rd

Year 6 Phase 2

LC Disco 2nd 

Swimming

Congratulations to Lucy Mackay who has been selected to represent South Australia at the National Swimming Championship on the Gold Coast in July.

Lucy has already had a golden summer, winning every swimming trophy Loreto has on offer and helping Mulhall to a swimming carnival victory. She then lit up the East Adelaide SAPSASA swim trials before spear-heading the East Adelaide team to a win in the State Championships at Marion.

At the Nationals Lucy will compete in the Freestyle (50m and 100m), Butterfly (50m and 100m) and 4 x 50m Individual Medley. She will also swim the Butterfly leg in the 4 x 50m Medley Relay and be part of the 4 x 50m Freestyle team.

Good luck, Lucy!

Soccer

Soccer began with a bang on Friday night with our teams and parents enjoying the autumn sunshine.

Our Year 6 Gold team had to fight hard for a 3-1 win at Pembroke. Sadly, our Year 5 Blue team didn’t get to take the field after our opposition forfeited.

It rained goals at Scotch College with our Year 4 Gold team storming their way to a 14-0 victory (the girls kept careful count). Summer Squire scored a hattrick on her Loreto debut while Imogen Fluder helped herself to 5 goals of her own. That’s a good season for some!

An extremely excited Year 3 Blue team travelled to St Peters Girls and started their campaign with an 8-0 win. Later this term our Year 3 Blues take on our Year 4 Golds on a Friday afternoon at Loreto. Will the Year 3s be intimidated playing against the older, bigger Year 4s? “Bring it,” one of the plucky youngsters declared after training this week!

Netball

Six of our nine winter netball teams started their seasons on Saturday.

The Year 6 Blue team have been entered in the Sub Junior 1 division this winter. We lost 9-20 in our first game against East Marden but are looking forward to the challenge of this division. The Year 6 Gold and Year 6 White teams had strong wins to open their accounts in Sub Junior 3 and Sub Junior 6 respectively.

The Year 5 Blues had a 22-5 win over St Ignatius in Sub Junior 5. The Year 5 Gold team battled hard against Burnside but went down 3-12 in Sub Junior 7.

Our Year 3/4 team are in a very strong Primary 2 division but fought well, going down 6-9 in a close encounter.

Our Year 4, Year 3 Blue and Year 3 Gold teams start this Saturday after byes last week.

AFLW

Our Year 5 and Year 6 teams took the field on Tuesday in Round 1 of the IGSSA competition.

Our Year 5 Golds came up against a much bigger Scotch opposition but didn’t take a backward step, running out winners 7.8 to 3.3. Charlotte Holland and Isabelle Alp attacked the ball with real ferocity. Competing against older sisters clearly helped prepare them for the Scotch talls. Sophie d’Amato showed a touch of class, Sibella Frearson-Lea won plenty of the ball while Maria Zappia and Zali Karp were solid in defence.

On a neighbouring field the Year 6 Blue team had a big win over St Ignatius, 11.4 to 3.2. Domenica Papalia and Ella Harrison ran the show in the midfield, Sophie Adamson was creative across half forward while closer to goal it was Milla Time. In a dominant display, Milla Smith popped through 6 goals to lead the Coleman after Round 1.

The Year 3/4 team will begin their season next Tuesday.

Oh yeah… the players will be pleased to hear that our new guernseys have arrived!

Basketball

The Loreto Swish started their campaign with a strong 31-6 win over St Anthony’s at Wayville on Wednesday night. Coach Caitlin was delighted with the team work on show. All five players hit the scoreboard with Amelia Lucas (14) and Quinn Kidd (8) leading the way.

Student Achievements

Well done to Madeline Leckie in Year 2 who competed in the Follow Your Dreams regional dance competition during the school holidays. Madeline placed for each of her solos – 1st for Song and Tap, 2nd for Jazz and 3rd for Classical Ballet. Her solo scores were high enough to qualify for a place in the Follow Your Dreams national championship in January 2025. The national event will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre. Congratulations Madeline!

Well done also to Minny Chinnahong who received the Team Spirit Award for her Newton Jaguars Sub Junior 4 netball team over summer. She also found out that she has been moved up to the Sub Junior 3 team for winter. Great work, Minny!

Over the school holidays, Grace Marin competed in both the Athletics Australia National Championships (heptathlon, hurdles and 3,000m walk) she also competed in the Australian Little Athletics Nationals in the 1,500m walk and hurdles. Grace achieved a silver medal for her walk. Congratulations Grace!

Lucy Mackay (Year 6) and Kate Li (Year 5) were part of the East Adelaide SAPSASA Swim Team that competed against all the other SAPSASA zones in Adelaide.

Kate and Lucy both competed in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay with East Adelaide finishing in 2nd place. Lucy continued an outstanding term by taking out 1st place in the Div 1 50m Butterfly and also 2nd place in the Div 1 50m Freestyle.

The East Adelaide team had an excellent meet, finishing as the State Champions!

Well done to Lucy and Kate on your championship win and on representing the school so well!

If your daughter is involved in an event or activity outside of Loreto that you would like to share, please let me know – Ben.Johnswood@loreto.sa.edu.au.

Other Sports

Hockey and volleyball get underway this Friday… A team of Cross Country runners competed in the SAAS Shield race meet at St Peters on Wednesday… Our Athletics program has a couple more weeks to run, culminating with the LORETOlympics on Thursday May 23rd…  Elsa-Marie Kefalianos, Giselle Strangar, Alyssa Reed and Juliet Searle are down to the last 32 at East Adelaide SAPSASA netball trials and have a couple more cuts to survive… A team of Cross Country runners will be attending the East Adelaide SAPSASA trials at Foxfield Oval, Athlestone next Friday… Winter tennis kicked off last Saturday morning… Good luck to Alyssa Reed and Grace Cornish who are trialling for the State 12 years and under netball team at present… Our Todd Perry Tennis Academy lessons are up and running for Term 2…. Good luck also to Quinn Kidd who will be representing Forestville next week in the state basketball championships.

Performing Arts

Generations in Jazz

A fantastic three days event in Mount Gambier was enjoyed by 47 students and 5 staff at the annual Generations in Jazz Festival. With nearly double the number of students attending compared to last year, we knew we would be in for a busy and exciting weekend of music competition. This year, Loreto entered five vocal ensembles and, for the first time, a stage band. 

The Generations in Jazz Festival has been running for three decades and this year, was attended by over 6,000 people from all over Australia. It is a national competition of Jazz music in the form of Stage Bands, Small Combos, Large Vocal Ensembles and Small Vocal Ensembles. It draws on industry professionals to present and work with the students over the weekend, and it all culminates in a finale awards concert where we all get to find out how the students fared in their respective competitions.

Congratulations go to the girls in Senior Vocal Ensemble 1, who achieved third place in the highest division – Div 1 Large Vocal Ensemble. And also, to the Senior Vocal Quintet 2 who placed third in the Div 2 Small Vocal Ensemble category. A special mention goes to Iris Hamilton who was awarded a place in the honorary Division 4 ‘Superband’ for Tenor Saxophone. Iris was identified as the best Tenor Saxophone player on the day in Division 4. This was particularly connected to her beautiful Clarinet solo in the choice Ballad performed by the band.

Thanks must go to the staff who coordinated, supported and directed the ensembles across the three-day trip - Stacey Theel (Vocal Director), Elicia Baldwin (Music Teacher / Vocal Director), Tom Hamnet (Music Teacher), Emma Searle (Assistant Principal) and Tim de Jong (Director of Performing Arts).

AMEB SA & NT Awards

Year 9 student Mia Luppino was presented with the Rockschool Grade 4 Prize at the AMEB SA & NT Awards Ceremony for 2023 Candidates in Elder Hall, University of Adelaide. Mia learns from Tania Savelli, and the award was presented by Professor Jennie Shaw, Adelaide University Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic).

Year 8 student Gracie Cheung was presented with the Musical Theatre Grade 4 Prize at the AMEB SA & NT Awards Ceremony for 2023 Candidates in Elder Hall, University of Adelaide. Gracie learns from Amelie Peters, and the prize/award was presented by Professor Jennie Shaw, University of Adelaide Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic).

Upcoming performances 

We look forward to some upcoming special performances by our students at the annual St Peter’s Rotary Club Music Awards and the Adelaide Eisteddfods.

Year 10 students Lanah Baker (Piano) and Holly Westbrook (Voice) will present their music items at the St Peter’s Rotary Club Music Awards on Tuesday 14 May. 

The Senior Vocal Quintet 1 girls will compete at the annual Adelaide Eisteddfod - Choral Division on June 6. Additionally, vocalists Gracie Cheung (Year 8), Mia Luppino (Year 9), Holly Westbrook (Year 10) and Molly Silvy (Year 12) will compete in the Vocal Division of the Eisteddfods on 29 & 30 May. We wish these girls the best of luck as they make Loreto proud!

Performing Arts Festival

The 37th Annual Performing Arts Festival is nearly here. Tickets for this will go one sale 9am on 13 May. This event sold out last year, so make sure you get in quick!

Link to tickets : www.trybooking.com/CQYOS

Year 5 Musical - Peter Pan Jr

The Annual Year 5 Musical is nearly upon us. The girls and staff have been working incredibly hard to bring this show to life. The performances are in the last week of Term 2 – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 25-27 June. (Tickets will go on sale Wednesday 5 June)