Sports News

Mr Darren Lester

Diocesan Winter Trials

Well done to all students who competed at the Diocesan Winter trials here in Armidale on Friday, 6th March. Congratulations to following students who were successful at the Diocesan Winter Trials and are travellling later in the year to Bathurst to compete at the Polding Trials:

Soccer - Molly and Miniong
Hockey - Abigail and Olivia

Diocesan Winter Trials (Boys Soccer)

On Friday last week, Miniong, Leo, Jacob, Augusto, and I went to UNE for Dio Soccer Trials to try to get into polding soccer that was in Bathurst. There were people from schools like Moree, Inverell, Tamworth, Gunnedah and more. The day consisted of each team playing five matches each for 15 minutes each game, and the teams were Barcelona, Newcastle, SS Lazio, AC Milan, Roma FC, and Manchester city. A total of 50-60 kids came but only 10 kids were able to be selected to go onto Polding. Everyone had a blast, people from St Mary’s met new people from different schools. Only one person made it from St Mary’s into Polding for boys soccer which was Miniong Akot. Some teams played 2-4 games in a row then after 3 games we had a break. While we were eating our lunch through the 30 minute break, they had goalkeeper trials then they played possibles vs probables each team had 8 people on their team, then after the match they’d pick one goalkeeper, eight outfield positions and 1 sub just in case someone gets injured or gets tired. We all had a great day.

Aidan Lane (Year 6)

Sporting Schools Grant Term 1 - GOLF

Students have been participating in Golf Clinics with the Golf Pro from the Armidale Golf Course over Term 1. Clinics will be held over at the paddock each Tuesday from Weeks 6-9 . Each class group will attend 2 sessions.

St Mary's Cross Country

Our Cross Country Carnival will be held at Harris Park on Friday, 27th March. We will be starting events at around 11.20am through till about 1.30pm. We will begin with the 8/9 yr olds and finish with the 12/13 yr olds. Students are encouraged to get some running practice in now to train for this event.

Kindergarten & Year 1 will have their own Cross Country at school in the Paddock at 9am on Friday morning.

School Sports Dates for 2026

School Cross Country: Friday, 27th March, 2026 (Harris Park)

ACS Primary TouchTrials: Friday, 24th April, 2026 (Glen Innes)

Diocesan Cross Country: Friday, 22nd May, 2026 (Barraba)

School Athletics Carnival: Tuesday, 16th June,2026 (O'Connor Catholic College)

Diocesan Athletics Carnival: Wednesday, 5th August, 2026 (Tamworth)

Diocesan Winter Trials

Diocesan Winter trials were held today at SportUNE, Armidale. These sports are trials for Netball, Soccer, Rugby League and Hockey. Good Luck to all students who have competed today. We look forward to hearing how you went.

SPORT INFORMATION

The Armidale Diocesan Primary Sport Council has a website and Facebook page where you can go to find details on the various Diocesan and sporting events.

The web addresses are below:

https://www.facebook.com/ArmidaleDiocesanPSC/

https://sites.google.com/arm.catholic.edu.au/primarysport/home/

Pathway for progression in primary sport in Armidale Diocesan Schools.

School Carnival or Trials
Diocesan Carnival
Polding Carnival
NSW PSSA
National Primary All Schools