SPORTS BULLETIN

WEEK 8 EVENTS

• SMCC Athletics Carnival Tuesday 4th June 8.25 am - 3.15 pm
• CISSA Grand Finals Wednesday 5th June, noon
• Rugby League game Wednesday 5th June, 4.30 pm against Smithfield SHS

ATHLETICS PRE-EVENTS

St Mary's Catholic College Athletics Carnival has been moved to Barlow Park due to the condition of the College's oval for wet weather. It will be held on Tuesday, 4 June. All students are required to make their way to and from Barlow Park. 

Athletics Pre-Events:

• Monday 3rd June lunch- 2009/2010/2011/2012 boys and girls 1500m
• Monday 3rd June Lunch- 2008/2007/2006 Discus
• Monday, June 3, Periods 5 and 6 - 2010 High Jump/2010 Girls Discus/2011/2012 Girls and Boys Discus.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Our St Mary's College Run Squad had a successful two-night camp at Tinaroo last weekend in preparation for the Cairns Marathon Festival. Students completed three run sessions, including an 18km long run along the Atherton Rail Trail. Thank you to Ms Robertson and Mr Brennan for their hard work training the run squad each Tuesday morning and delivering a quality opportunity for students with the camp. 
• St Mary's Catholic College had five teams compete in the Vicki Wilson Netball Carnival. We had three female teams and two male teams attend the event. All teams competed well with our senior girls securing second place in the final.

• Congratulations to our St Mary's Intermediate Cricket team that had an excellent win on Wednesday against St Andrew's in the Cricket Academy Cup. Thank you to Mr Richards and Coach Mick Oates for supporting our team. 

• The St Mary's AFL senior boys played in the AFL Gala Day on Monday securing a place in the semi-final. Unfortunately, the team narrowly went down by one goal. Congratulations to Coach James Hanlon and the team.

• St Mary's U18 Rugby League team played Cairns High on Wednesday afternoon. The boys have been training and preparing for their confraternity campaign. St Mary's defeated Cairns High 18-10. Standouts from the team were Connor Laska, and Sanjiv Mongar who dominated in the middle during a rain-affected match. 
• Congratulations to Anisha Sandher for making the QLD 13-15 Years Cricket team. Best of luck in Mackay at the National Championships in August. 

ST MARY'S CATHOLIC COLLEGE PARTNERSHIPS:

St Mary's Catholic College Sports Program would like to announce two gold sponsors:

Lane Orthodontics and Brothers Leagues Club, Cairns. We thank these sponsors for their generous support of our College sports program. We are excited to announce they have committed to a three-year partnership!

We also welcome and thank the below sponsors for 2024:

• EV2 - St Mary's Sports apparel and uniforms supplier
• Westco Motors
• Environmental Air Solutions
• EFM

If you are interested in partnering with our St Mary's Catholic College sports program, we offer over 14 sports programs for our students! These opportunities help to enhance students’ personal development, health, and well-being. The College has the below Sports Partnership packages if your local business would like to support us:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fNmGyXKaoyCVGPD8gTbu-us_eQHOb-tv/view?usp=sharing

CISSA RESULTS

St Mary's Catholic College played in seven preliminary finals on Wednesday. We had five teams win and are through to the grand finals next week. We wish the below teams the best of luck:

• Girls Touch Football Team - Premier League Grand Final
• Girls Netball - Premier League Grand Final
• Girls Basketball - Division 1 Grand Final
• Boys Soccer - Division 1 Grand Final
• Girls Soccer - Division 1 Grand Final

Additional information is located in the senior sports plan to know where games will be played and the opposing team.

KEY INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS

Junior and Senior Sports Program - Key Information: 

All sports information is uploaded to the Sports Canvas page. 

Year 7, 8 and 9 Students: Monday Periods 5 and 6

• Students are to wear their house uniform 
• Students will be participating in pre-athletic events.  Students are encouraged to view the Junior Sports Plan to understand the sports arrangements for Monday. An email has been sent to all students and is accessible through CANVAS.
• All students are to ensure that they bring a hat, water bottle and sunscreen. 

Year 10,11 and 12 Students: Wednesday Periods 5 and 6

• Year 10, 11 and 12 students are to wear their St Mary's sports uniform. 
• Students will engage or support in CISSA Grand Finals and sports rotations for week 8. 
• Students will be participating in pre-athletic events.  Students are encouraged to view the Junior Sports Plan to understand the sports arrangements for Wednesday. An email has been sent to all students and is accessible through CANVAS.
• All students are to ensure that they bring a hat, water bottle and sunscreen. 

TCS & PENINSULA TRIAL INFORMATION

SPORTS GRANTS

TERM 2 TCS TRIALS

Kym McPhee-Smith

Sport Operations Manager

kmcpheesmi@cns.catholic.edu.au