Sport
Inaugrial Well-Being Cup
A wonderful initiative was held at O’Connor on Wednesday being the inaugural Wellbeing Cup.
Students from O’Connor, ASC and McCarthy College Tamworth played friendly rugby league matches (boys and girls) and learned how to enhance their wellbeing and mental health.
Thank you to Miss McQuilty from O’Connor and Mr Walker from ASC for their hard work and organisation.
Rugby League
O'Connor and ASC combined playing rugby league in the Country Cup. The under 15s were undefeated.
Girls Rugby
During term 2, the OCC girls Rugby squads have fought hard to defend their titles of reigning champions. The U14s have had some challenging games playing some very experienced teams and placed 3rd overall. The U16s played exceptionally well with an unbeaten run until the finals night and placed 2nd. Fnally the U18s, who also had an unbeaten run and were placed 1st. The overall standings showed the dedication and commitment of the whole squad throughout the term. A huge well done and thank you to all the students and staff involved. Term 3 Rugby starts again on Friday of week 1.
Boys Rugby
Congratulations to Year 7 students (L to R) Harry Partridge, Jack Lockyer and Lucas Thornton who have been selected in the 2019 NIAS Rugby Union team to tour New Zealand in September!
CCC Basketball
CCC BASKETBALL
The boys have had mixed results, but overall they had fun, played well and represented our College with pride.
CCC Cross Country
On Friday 14th June, 11 O’Connor students participated in the NSWCCC Cross Country in Eastern Creek, Sydney. All students agreed that the course was very challenging but they all enjoyed the experience.
Indiana Ramage was placed 50 of 70, Ben Fergusson 38 of 65, Nick Newsome 22 of 58 and with a fantastic run, Brooke Newberry placed 15 of 58.
Well done to all!
Netball Success
Amber Barnden-Hyde has been selected to attend the NSW emerging talents session in Sydney this month. This is a big opportunity and achivement and we congratulate Amber.
Photo supplied by ADNA.
Hockey Highlights
NSW Catholic Schools Open Boys Hockey
Kieran Wicks, Liam Smith, Jake McCann and Nathan Czinner all represented NSW in the Catholic Schools Open Boys Hockey Tri- series competition at Sydney Olympic park recently.
Photo: Kieran Wicks, LIam Smith, Jake McCann and Nathan Czinner at Sydney Olympic Park.
It was recently announced that Tyler McCann has been selected to participate in the under 16 NSW All Schools Blues hockey team. An exciting opportunity for Tyler.
We congratulate Emma Gray for her call up to the Under 15s NSW Hockey team for 2020. This in an opportunity which we hope leads to many more successes. Well done Emma.
Inverell Dance Eisteddfod
Congratulations to Taryn Ramage of year 12 and Caitlin Jubb of Year 11 who had a successful weekend at the Inverell dance eisteddfod.
Taryn won the senior song and dance championship. Caitlin won the senior ballet championship and was runner up in the senior jazz championship.
Well done Taryn and Caitlin!
Photo: Taryn Ramage and Caitlin Jubb in Inverell.
Inter-school Horse Extravaganza
AELEC Tamworth
Allie Carson on 'Gold and Gun'
Four students travelled with their mounts to Tamworth for the annual schools horse events. Here are the results:
Allie Carson and her horse Gold n Gun 1st Pleasure Hack, 1st in Pairs and 6th overall in the one day event (comprising dressage, show jumping and cross country)
Allie Carson and her horse Hundreds and Thousands – 6th in A2 65cm Show jumping
Allie Carson and her horse Jack 2nd in barrel and 4th in running T and 1st in mounted games.
Video: Allie Carson riding 'Hundreds and Thousands'.
Amber Stewart and her horse Doc – 1st, 2 2nds and a 3rd in mounted games
Jacob Lynch and his horses Watchers Rio - clear rounds in the one day event.
and his young horse Pinot at his 1st event -1st in pairs
Macey Clark competed but didn’t place with her 2 horses in the Campdraft.
Video: Macey Clark competing in the Campdraft.
Jacob Lynch riding 'Watchers Reo' in the cross country
A huge thank you to the parents and families for supporting their students over a big 4 days.