Sport & Co-Curricular
Senior Co-curricular Sports
Term 2 Information
The winter sport season commenced this week, with over 35 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 five games. After five weeks, SACSSGSA will re-grade teams and a fixture for the rest of the season will be released.
Loreto Connect - Co-curricular Trainings
Term 1 Premiers
We thank all our summer teams for representing Loreto so well, with not only great skills but playing a game where they supported their teammates and played honest, fair sport. This was witnessed many times and mentioned by opposition teams several times!
Congratulations to our Term 1 premiership teams on their amazing results:
- Tennis – Senior 1 won A Competition
- Touch Football – Middle 1 won B competition
- Basketball – Senior 2 won C1 Competition
- Basketball – Senior 3 won C2 Competition
- Basketball – Middle 2 won C Competition
We look forward to celebrating these premiership wins at an Assembly this term.
Thunderbird Netball Players
We are excited to welcome Lauren Frew, Matilda Garrett, and members of the Thunderbirds coaching staff to Loreto in the coming weeks. They will be working with our students during netball training sessions and specialist lessons, sharing their expertise and helping to enhance our players' skills and game knowledge.
Student Achievements
Congratulations to Year 11 Loreto student Mary on her outstanding success at the recent Netball State Championships! Her U17 state team claimed gold at the competition in Victoria, an incredible achievement.
Earning selection in the team and going on to win at such a high level tournament is a remarkable accomplishment. Well done, Mary!
Congratulations to the talented Loreto swimmer Lucy (Year 8), who recently competed at the 2026 Australian Age Championships on the Gold Coast.
Lucy qualified for five finals from her seven events and earned a silver medal in the 200m butterfly, an outstanding achievement! It marks a rewarding week after months of dedication, training, and sacrifice.
Big congratulations to Year 10 students Ruby and Eugenie, who recently travelled to Penrith after being selected for the SA Rowing Pathways Team.
Competing in the women’s coxless quad, they delivered an outstanding performance. A fantastic accomplishment - well done, Eugenie and Ruby!
Congratulations to Year 9 student Grace and Year 8 students Abbey and Mia on their selection in the U14 State Football (AFLW) Team. We wish them all the best as they prepare for the competition in Melbourne this July. Good luck and well done!
We have lots of Loreto students achieving great success in sport and it is lovely to celebrate one another’s achievements. Please let me know if your daughter has achieved highly in a sport as I would love to be able to share these successes with the College community.
If you have any questions about co-curricular sport, please contact me on Sophie.Hage@loreto.sa.edu.au
Sophie Hage
Director of Sport and Sport Performance
Junior Co-curricular Sports
Adelaide Thunderbirds Game
A lucky group of Year 5 netballers had an experience to remember at a recent Adelaide Thunderbirds game.
The Thunderbirds played the GWS Giants at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre and as part of our partnership, our team was able to:
- Form a guard of honour and cheer the players onto the court
- Watch the game from the stands
- Play our own match at half-time
- Have Alessia interviewed by the Thunderbirds MC at the half-time break
- Join the Thunderbirds players on court after the match for a group photo
The absolute highlight was being able to be courtside for the final quarter, when the Thunderbirds launched an epic fightback, coming from 6 goals down. The crowd was deafening as the scores grew closer. With seconds remaining Georgie Horjus put the Thunderbirds ahead by one. Time! Winners in an incredible game. Seeing it up close from ground level in such an electric atmosphere was absolutely thrilling. We certainly picked a good game to go to!
Manchester City Soccer Clinic
A group of Year 5-6 students recently attended a Manchester City Soccer Clinic, run by coach Jamie Lee. It was great fun and our players picked up a number of tips and skills.
Aerobics – FISAF Super Series
The first event of 2026 is coming up for our aerobics teams! Ms Woods and the teams enjoyed an afternoon session in the gym recently, to get back into the swing of things after the holiday break. All the teams performed their routines in front of their peers, which gave the coaches some excellent feedback. The FISAF Super Series is on Saturday 16 May at Westminster School. Good luck to all teams!
Term 2 Sport
Our winter sports are underway!
We have space to add players in the following sports/age groups:
- Year 4 Netball
- Trainings Monday afternoons 3:30pm-4:30pm in the gym
- Matches Saturday afternoons 1:00pm-1:45pm
- Year 6 Netball
- Trainings Thursday mornings 7:30am-8:20am in the gym
- Matches Saturday afternoons 3:00pm-3:45pm
- Cross Country
- Trainings Monday mornings 7:30am-8:10am on the oval
- Race meets Wednesday afternoons 4:00pm-5:00pm
We also have a Come and Try Hockey Program running on Thursday afternoons, 3:30pm-4:30pm at Loreto, starting in Week 6.
If your daughter would like to join any of these programs, please contact Ben.Johnswood@loreto.sa.edu.au
Pride vs Showing Off
Sometimes students who are involved in team sports can be almost embarrassed to celebrate their own individual achievements and successes, worried that it will be perceived as showing off or bragging by those around them.
I asked one student how her soccer game went. “Good,” was the reply. No further information forthcoming. That’s not unusual. A pretty standard response. Sometimes you need a bit of gentle persistence to uncover the story.
Upon further digging I discovered that we had won the game. Isn’t that nice. Further questioning eventually revealed that we’d won 2-1. Okay, so a close game. Finally, after slightly more vigorous interrogation the student reluctantly revealed the key details: she scored a goal. Not only that but it was the winning goal…. scored in the final minute of the game. Oh yeah… and it was her first ever goal in soccer.
If I scored the winning goal in the last minute of the game, I’d be telling everyone! So why are some students reluctant to tell people about their successes?
At an Athletics Carnival last year, our students were busily going back and forth between their events and the grandstand. Some came back with ribbons for placing in the top three, others came back empty-handed.
One of our students was competing in a tough division across a number of events. She didn’t come back with any ribbons from the first couple and sat quietly in the grandstand with her friends. I let her be and just provided some general support: stay hydrated, reapply sunscreen, make sure you’re warmed up and ready for the next event. Later I can ask for some more specific details about how her events went, for now I just encouraged her to do her best.
The rest of the day unfolded in similar fashion, returning from events empty-handed. Finally, after coming back from her last event, she quietly transferred a sheath of ribbons from her pocket to her bag. As it turned out, she’d won ribbons in four of her five events! They’d been tucked away, out of sight.
Why was she not proudly displaying her ribbons, excitedly telling everyone about her successes? Would it be seen as rubbing it in the face of those who didn’t win ribbons? Showing off? Was she sensitive of the fact that others may have not won any ribbons? Was she not comfortable being the centre of attention?
How can we make sure that our students show pride in their achievements? Typically, there is a lot of practice and hard work leading up to these moments of individual success. They are earned. They are rare! We want our students to celebrate them, to swell with pride, to gush to tell people, to feel a sense of accomplishment, to have their moment. We want to celebrate with them!
However, being self-conscious or embarrassed about being labelled as selfish or showing off or bragging can prevent students from celebrating. Does being slightly uncomfortable in the limelight hold us back? Are we missing out on moments where our students can get around each other and share in their successes?
The key is finding a balance between team focus and individual focus.
Aim to be a good teammate first. If you have a team-first attitude; celebrate and take pride in your teammates’ successes; show empathy towards your friends when they need support; tell people about good things that your teammates did; show interest in how others are faring; show interest in how other teams at the school are going.
If you show that you care about others and care about your team, then you earn the right to celebrate your own moments of success. We’ll celebrate with you! You’re allowed to be proud of yourself. We’re excited when you do well – you’re allowed to be too!
Ben Johnswood
Sports Coordinator