College Sport

Secondary Interschool Cross Country

On Thursday last week, our Secondary Cross Country Team headed to Pontville, to race against the other independent schools in the SSATIS event.  The new course provided some great challenges and the athletes did a fantastic job. 

The highlights included:

• Maddison Brooks, winning the U15 girls race.
• U16s for finishing 3rd in the pennant, with Anja 7th, Bronte 9th, Annabelle 10th and Ava 13th.
• A fabulous job from our other top finishers – Taylor 3rd in U15, Avalon 3rd and Coco 13th in U13 and Cecilia 18th in U14.
• Overall Mount Carmel finished 5th in the Girls Junior Shield, which was a great effort considering our small team.

Congratulations to the following students who competed:

Field Day

Last week the Field Day winners were announced.  Congratulations to Loreto House, who took out the Cup with 1713 points, followed by Carmel House with 1665 points and Lourdes House with 1590 points.   The top field activities contributed valuable points to this result, with year group winners as follows:

Year 5: Loreto

Year 6: Lourdes

Year 7: Carmel

Year 8: Loreto

Year 9: Loreto

Year 10: Lourdes

Primary Interschool Cross Country

The Primary Cross Country team is off to the STCPSSA (Catholic Schools) event on Friday 7 June and the JSSATIS event on Thursday 13 June, both at the Rokeby Police Academy.   From results at Field Day, the team includes the following students and we wish them all good luck.

Gymnastics Achievement

Year 6 student, Bethany Harvey, recently competed in the Tasmanian gymnastics championships and won four State titles, including Youth International individual trampoline; National Level 5 individual trampoline; National level 5 double mini and National level 5 synchronized trampoline. Bethany also competes in Rhythmic gymnastics and at the last competition won the Seymour Award for Most Improved. This award is presented to just one gymnast from the entire season. Congratulations on your fantastic achievements Bethany.

Hockey Representation

Congratulations to the Maddison Brooks, Taylor Brooks and Felicity Wilson-Haffenden who have all been selected in the Tasmanian U16 Hockey Team to compete at the School Sports Australia Championships to be held in Newcastle from 4 – 10 August.  The team will also be coached by Maddison and Taylor’s Mum, Susan Brooks.

Volleyball Finalists

The Volleyball Tasmania School Indoor Volleyball Competition has now drawn to a close, with the Year 9/10 team playing off in the grand final last week.  The first set was nail-biting (26-24)!  They finished as runners-up and should be very proud of themselves. Many thanks to Tamila Smith who coached the team. 

“Their skills have really improved over the course of the season. I was particularly impressed with how much they supported and encouraged each other.  They were excellent representatives of MCC!”  Tamila said after the final.

The Year 7/8 team had a fun time in their first season together.  With only one student having played before, it took the players a few games to understand the rules, as well as learning to serve and return at the net.  In their last roster game, they started to gel, beating the top team two sets to one.  Last Monday night the girls played Ogilvie High School in a playoff for fifth spot, and won convincingly three sets to nil.  Thank you to Maria Gerathy for the Coaching the team and to the parents that supported the team each week.  The team is looking forward to returning next season.

Water Polo

The Schools Water Polo competition is up and running on a Friday evening.  The College just has a Year 7/8 team competing, which consists of many Year 7 newcomers to water polo and some more experienced Year 8 students, so are hoping for improvement as the season progresses.  So far the team is sitting in fourth place on the ladder, with wins against Taroona 10 – 4, Mackillop 18 – 2, a draw against St Mary’s 7 – 7, and a close loss to Friends Blue 8 – 9.   Charlotte Webb and Maya Chapman are dominating the scoring with 22 and 15 goals respectively.  Good luck for the remainder of the season.

Thanks to all the support from families particularly with transport to trainings and games, and scoring and special thanks to Coach, Year 10 student, Dayna White and Manager, Teena Mills.

Term 3 Sports

Term 3 Sport Sign up is now open online.  Some of our winter sport continues into Term 3, so there’s just a small offering, but it would be great to see a large number of sign-ups:

To sign up for any of these teams, and register your interest to Coach, Manage or Umpire please visit: mountcarmel.tas.edu.au/sport-activity-sign-up/.   

Playing representative sport at Mount Carmel College is important. It enables students to participate in a sport they love, promote skills to enhance their development and show the wider community how proud they are of the College. Everyone involved in Sport at the College is asked to adhere to the Code Of Conduct In Sport

Nikki Stuart

Sports Coordinator