Sport & Co-Curricular

Senior Co-Curricular Sports

Co-curricular Sports - Term 1 Information

Term 1 Information:

Congratulations to all the teams who represented Loreto in Term 1 sport, all 29 senior teams were a credit to the College.  We wish our teams all the best for their final round.

Weekly Fixtures – Round 6

Carnival Dates:

• Wednesday 8 May (Week 1, Term 2)– SACSSGSA Catholic Schools Swimming Carnival Years 7-12

Term 2 & 3 Information:

Thank you for completing the Terms 2 & 3 sports selections.  We have lodged teams with SA Catholic Schools Girls Secondary Sport Association (SACSSGSA) and are in the process of finalising teams and coaches. We will receive Terms 2 & 3 grade allocations, fixtures and venues from SACSSGSA early in Term 2.  Sports training and games will commence in Term 2, Week 2. 

Rowing Information will be communicated to families in Term 2 as winter rowing doesn’t commence until Term 3. 

Winter Nominations Received

Uniform requirements for Term 2 Sport

Winter Sport Dates:

Year 7 – 12 HOCKEY (Saturday Morning 8:15am, 9:30am or 10:45am) Dates TBC

        Year 9 – 12 AFLW (Wednesday 4:15pm – 5:15pm) 

                                        Year 7 – 9 AFLW (Friday 4:15pm – 5:15pm) 

If you have any questions about co-curricular sport, please do not hesitate to contact me Sophie.Hage@loreto.sa.edu.au

Ms Sophie Hage

Leader of Sport and Sport Performance

Junior Co-Curricular Sports

Winter Sport Registrations

Just a reminder that registrations for winter sport are open now.

Registrations have closed for netball and tennis however the following sports are still available:

• AFLW
• Basketball
• Cross Country Races
• Hockey
• Soccer
• Volleyball

Please click here to register your daughter for her preferred sports this winter.

Year 2-3 Swimming Carnival

Mulhall has done it again!

The Green Machine made it a sweep of the junior school swimming carnivals with a narrow win at the Year 2-3 event.

Only a handful of points separated the four houses in a tightly fought battle:

1st Mulhall         177 points

2nd Barry             169

3rd Ward             162

4th McGrath       160

The Spirit Cup went to Ward, whose enthusiastic cheering echoed relentlessly around the Norwood Indoor Pool’s confines.

Our carnival grew from 23 to 34 events this year. It is fantastic to see so many students willing to jump in the pool and have a go to help their House. Our young swimmers flew up and down the pool with a couple of photo-finishes testing the place marshalls.

There was just as much action in the grandstand with House colours on full display; banners, mascots, zinc (indoors?) and funky costumes.

The tyre tow relays were a highlight. The rules may not have been strictly followed but by that stage everyone was just excited to jump in the pool one more time. One student suggested that the teachers should enter a team in the tyre tow relay next year... it may be tough to get that one through!

Many thanks to Ms Edwards for organising and MC’ing the event. Our Year 6 student leaders did a brilliant job as place marshalls and also jumped in the pool to accompany the less confident swimmers during their races. Our teachers worked tirelessly, marshalling students at the start line and tallying points at the finish. 

We had a number of parents and grandparents fill the swim centre and cheer the girls on – which made for a brilliant atmosphere! 

Student Achievement

Well done to Quinn Kidd who competed in the Easter Classic basketball tournament on the Easter long weekend. Quinn filled in for a visiting Victorian team called Board Sports. Her team consisted of girls from Warrnambool, Mildura, Wangaratta and Adelaide.  The team had never played together before meeting 20 minutes before they played Friday. The girls went through undefeated taking out the grand final!

Quinn also finished the school term for Loreto as the second leading point scorer in Basketball SA’s Year 5/6 competition at Wayville.

Catholic Schools Swimming Carnival

A team of Loreto swimmers acquitted themselves brilliantly against some strong opposition at the Catholic Primary Schools Swimming Carnival at Burnside Pool last week. Finishing in 4th place against some of these ‘coastal’ schools whose students live in the water is no mean feat!

It was great to see our girls support each other during the day and share in each other’s success. Thank you to all the parents who came along to cheer the girls on, particularly to Nadia and Susannah who assisted with place judging.

Thank you also to Ms Edwards who made sure that all of our swimmers made it to the start for their races!

Points Table

Race Results

The top four place-getters in each race earnt points for their school. Our top four placings from each event are summarised below, as well as each year level’s finishing position.

Year 3

Our youngest swimmers had a great meet, finishing in 2nd place out of the Year 3 swimmers. Sadie Marks was also runner up in the Year Level Champion award.

Year 4

Our Year 4 swimmers finished in 4th place.

Year 5

Our Year 5 swimmers also finished in 4th place.

Year 6

Our Year 6 swimmers finished in 5th place. Well done to Lucy Mackay who came 4th in the Year Level Champion award.

Little Athletics

Our program is up and running on Thursday afternoons with an enthusiastic group of Year 3-6 students taking part. Week 1 saw us rotate through sprints, high jump and discus while last night we tried long distance, long jump and shot put.

We have one more session for the term before continuing in Term 2. The autumn program culminates with the LORETOlympics on Thursday May 23.

Ben Johnswood

Junior Sports Coordinator

Rowing Update

Rowing Nationals 2024

Congratulations to all our rowers who competed in the Rowing Nationals.  It was an amazing effort to have the girls go interstate mid-term to compete. Emily and Fearne will also be participating to national team trials, from the 14th to the 18th of April, to try and get a seat in the Australian national team and participate at the world rowing championships in Canada in August.

Please find the results below:

U19 women's single scull (Emily Laing): 6th in the B final

U19 women's double scull (Emily Laing): 5th in the A final

U19 women's quad scull (Emily Laing): Silver medal

U19 women's pair (Fearne Rosenbauer): 3rd in the B final

U19 women's four (Fearne Rosenbauer): 6th in the A final

U19 women's Eight (Fearne Rosenbauer, Eliza Hogg): 4th in the reps

U21 lightweight single scull (Emily Laing): 6th in the A final

U23 lightweight quad scull (Emily Laing): Bronze medal

Schoolgirl single scull (Emily Laing): 7th in the A final

Schoolgirl single scull (Eliza Hogg): 4th in the reps

One of the afternoons we had a barbecue where the girls spent some time together with the other Loreto students from Ballarat, Toorak, Kirribilli and Normanhurst.

Mr Dario Sportelli

Head of Rowing