Sport & Co-Curricular
Senior Co-Curricular Sports
Term 2 Information
The winter sport season commenced last 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.
Premiers
Congratulations to our summer tennis teams on a fantastic season. A special mention to our Senior 1 team who won the A grade competition! A big thank you to our talented coaches who have been a great support to our teams this year.
- Senior 1 team – won Senior A Grade – Premiers!
- Senior 3 team – won Senior C Grade – Premiers!
- Middle 2 team – won Middle C Grade – Premiers!
Aerobics
We wish our talented aerobics teams all the best for their first competition this Saturday 10 May. We hope they have fun, and all their hard work is rewarded at the FISAF Super Series Competition! Good luck!
Interschool Carnivals
Congratulations to our Year 7-12 swimming squad who achieved 2nd place (with only 7 points behind the winning school) at the Catholic Schools Swimming Carnival. Winning the U/13, U/14 and U/15 age groups was an incredible achievement!
Congratulations to Lucy Mackay (Year 7) who beat the U/13 50m Freestyle record. Lucy was the youngest athlete to compete in the Open 50m Butterfly (Div 1) event.
The Loreto students have performed remarkably well at interschool carnivals this year achieving the following results:
- Years 7-12 Catholic Schools Athletics Carnival – 1st Place (A Grade)
- Years 7-12 Catholic Schools Carnival – 2nd Place (A Grade)
- Years 7-12 SASSA Swimming Championships – 5th Place (B Grade)
- Years 7-12 SASSA Athletics Championships – 6th Place (A Grade)
Thunderbirds 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 both the skills and game knowledge of our players.
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
Aerobics
Good luck to our Aerobics teams LC Divas, Gems, Diamonds, Dream and Funk who will be competing in the FISAF Super Series this Saturday! It is the first aerobics event of the year, so everyone is very excited. The teams and coaches have been working hard under the guidance of Ms Woods and we can’t wait to see them in action!
Swimming
Well done to Abigail Pyragius, Kate Li, Colette Cheng and Sadie Marks who represented the East Adelaide SAPSASA district at the State Swimming Championships last term.
The event was held at the State Swimming Centre, Marion. The best swimmers from all over South Australia were competing, and the Loreto girls did a terrific job in their events:
- Kate’s team came 4th in the 4 x 50m freestyle relay
- Sadie’s relay team came 2nd
- Colette’s relay team also came 2nd
- Abigail swum 35.80 seconds in her 50m freestyle race, smashing her Personal Best by 3 seconds
The East Adelaide swim team finished in 2nd place overall in the Division 1 competition.
Congratulations, girls! You put in so much hard work to get there and handled the pressure of the occasion brilliantly.
Cross Country
There is plenty of running on this term! Our Monday morning trainings have begun, and we also had a group compete in the SAAS Shield at St Peters College on Wednesday afternoon. On Friday a team of runners will be heading to Foxfield Oval, Athelstone for the SAPSASA Cross Country Trials.
In Term 3 Loreto competes in the Catholic Schools Carnival in the east parklands. This event is open to students in Years 3-6. Ms Edwards will be putting students through their paces during PE classes this term to help select our team for this event.
Athletics
We have two more sessions remaining of our autumn athletics season, culminating in the LORETOlympics on May 22. This is a mini athletics carnival, with medals up for grabs in running, long jump, high jump, discus and shot put.
There will also be a spring season of athletics later this year, running from August to October. Registration for the spring season will open just prior to the July school holidays.
Winter Sport up and running
Our Year 4/5/6 AFLW team started their season with a bang, defeating Pembroke by 91 points in their Round 1 match on Tuesday. Several of our players were playing their first ever games of football and took to it quickly. It was pleasing to see players sharing the ball around and working hard back into defence.
We have also had our winter volleyball, soccer and netball teams get their seasons underway over the last week.
If your daughter hasn’t yet signed up for a winter sport but would like to, please contact Ben.Johnswood@loreto.sa.edu.au.
Ben Johnswood
Sport Coordinator
Performing Arts
Generations in Jazz – A Celebration of Talent and Teamwork
Last weekend, 52 of our talented students from Loreto’s vocal ensembles, quintets, and stage band travelled to Mount Gambier to take part in the renowned Generations in Jazz competition. This national event is Australia’s largest and most prestigious jazz festival, and it offered an unforgettable weekend filled with music, energy, and camaraderie.
Our students performed in some of the highest-level categories, including Division 1 Large and Small Vocal Ensemble — a division that only eight schools from over one hundred nationwide qualified for. This outstanding accomplishment is a reflection of the incredible skill, dedication, and hard work our students bring to their music.
Special congratulations to Cleo Murray (Yr 9) for being awarded The Callisto Family Award: Div 2 Most Promising Soloist.
Congratulations once again to all our performers. You represented Loreto with pride, passion, and professionalism — and we couldn’t be prouder.
AMEB SA & NT Awards Ceremony
We are incredibly proud of three students who recently were awarded outstanding accomplishments at the AMEB SA & NT Awards Ceremony for 2024 Candidates, on 5 April 2025 in Elder Hall, University of Adelaide. The prizes were presented by Professor Jennie Shaw, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic).
These results are the culmination of many years of dedicated study and determination, and we congratulate the following girls and their tutors for these incredible achievements:
Lanah Baker: Certificate of Performance for Piano
Laura Fitzgerald: Grade 7 (for Leisure) Scholarship
Annie Redwood-Hart: Certificate in Voice & Communication (CVCA)
Tim de Jong
Director of Performing Arts