SAINTS SPORT

News from Matt Di Salvo

Head of Sport

Saints Football Program (SFP)

We are proud to announce that Christian Couto will join the Saints Football Program (SFP) in 2024 as the program’s head coach imparting his skills and knowledge of football and futsal.

 

SFP training will be held on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 6 to 7:30am at the showgrounds training facility. Student participants will then shower, change and have breakfast at Tolle's cafeteria.

 

The SFP will commence in Week 4.

 

Welcome Christian! 

Special Achievements

Congratulations to Jaden Bakurski, Charlie Lawrence, Archie Ferguson and Rhett Gadd who were part of the champion Under 16 Cricket Far North team who won the Northern Bulls Masters U16 Male Youth Cup. The team finished the competition unbeaten. 

Wednesday Sport

In Week 2 the Saints Wednesday Sport program kicked off with students participating in their selected sports and trialling for Saints sporting teams. Students participated in CISSA, Bill Turner Football and AFLQ Cup trials to represent the College in 2024. The standard of trialists made our coaches’ jobs extremely difficult. Congratulations to all successful students. Any students who were unsuccessful in making these teams must select another sport as soon as possible. 

 

2024 TCC Sport 

St Augustine's is a part of the Trinity Coast Central (TCC) district within school sport. TCC is the pathway to represent the Peninsula region in Queensland School Sport Championships. The TCC sign-up process is electronic in 2024 with students able to register their interest for the trials by completing a Microsoft Form from their accounts. This will ensure that a Parent Slip is sent home prior to the trials with the necessary paperwork. These forms can/are then to be re-uploaded to the Parent Slip with permission attached for approval by Mr Seivers. Alternatively, please email the forms to me at sac.sport@cns.catholic.edu.au if you have any difficulties reuploading the form to the parent slip. Please refer to the 2024 TCC calendar for trial information.  

  

The St Augustine’s TCC application process is outlined below. 

  1. Students complete the TCC Sport Microsoft Form from their school accounts to register their interests in their chosen TCC sports. If students wish to trial for more than two sports in a calendar year, they must apply by emailing me and I’ll seek an exemption from Mr Seivers.  
  2. Before the trials, a parent slip will be sent home with documents attached for completion to grant permission for your son to attend the trials. 
  3. Parent/guardians are to complete the Peninsula student permission details and consent form and upload it to the Parent Slip. This form must be submitted before completing the parent slip. Alternatively, this form can be sent to sac.sport@cns.catholic.edu.au 
  4. The College will ensure that Mr Seivers signs the document. Students will then collect the signed document from the student office and take it to their trials. 
  5. Students must have this booklet completed to be allowed to trial for a TCC team.  

Students no longer need to complete a Request for Leave form if they are absent from school for TCC or Peninsula school-based sport. However, Parents/guardians are required to email sac.absences@cns.catholic.edu.au to advise of the upcoming school sport related absence. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that they contact their teacher regarding any work that they may miss on these days, keeping up to date with classwork and submitting any assignments due during the student’s absence. If students are successful in making Peninsula teams, they are entitled to approved leave for the duration of the carnival as well as a travel day on either side. Any additional days of absence may be classified as unapproved leave. 

 

February TCC trials

Sport

Date

Venue

Rugby League 16-18yrsWednesday 7 FebruaryTrinity Bay State High School
Rugby League 14-15yrsThursday 8 February West Barlow Park
Football 13-16yrsMonday 12 FebruaryTrinity Bay State High School
Volleyball 12-15yrsTuesday 13 FebruaryTrinity Bay State High School
Basketball 13-16yrs Wednesday 14 FebruarySt Augustine's College
Volleyball 16-19yrsWednesday 14 FebruaryCairns State High School 
Touch 10-12yrsThursday 15 FebruaryWhitfield State School
Rugby Union 17-18yrsMonday 19 FebruaryPAPER NOMINATION
Swimming 10-12yrsMonday 19 FebruaryPAPER NOMINATION
Swimming 13-19yrsMonday 19 FebruaryPAPER NOMINATION
AFL 13-15yrsWednesday 21 FebruaryWatson Oval
Tennis 10-12yrsWednesday 21 February Cairns International Tennis
Basketball 17-19yrsThursday 22 February Cairns State High School
Golf 10-19yrsThursday 22 FebruaryPAPER NOMINATION
Hockey 13-15yrsThursday 22 February PAPER NOMINATION
Rugby League 11-12yrsThursday 22 FebruaryCairns West State School
Squash 10-19yrsThursday 22 FebruaryPAPER NOMINATION 
Football 17-19yrsFriday 23 FebruaryCairns State High School
Netball 10-12yrs Wednesday 28 FebruaryTrinity Bay State High School

For more detailed information please refer to the 2024 TCC calendar.