Senior School Sport  & Extra-Curricula Activities 

• From the Senior Sports Master
• Summer Sports Photos
• Cricket
• Basketball
• NSTA Tennis
• Senior Swimming
• Cross Country
• CSDA Public Speaking and Debating
• SPX Tennis Championships
• Rugby
• Football

From the Senior Sports Master

What a great weekend of sport finals were held last weekend.  Congratulations to the following teams who won their finals:

• 2nd XI Cricket team who won the ISA Shield for the second year in a row.
• The 13Bs, 15Bs, 15Es, Open E and Open G teams who won their Basketball finals in Penrith.
• NSTA Tennis teams of SPX 6, 9, 12, 16, 17, 19, 24 and 26.

Well done to all our finalists and thank you to all our coaches, players and parents for a great season of Summer Sport.  By all accounts the sportsmanship shown throughout all our sports over the season has been extremely positive and acknowledged by not only our own school, but also by other schools. 

Mr Matt Stearn - Senior Sports Master

Summer Sports Photos

The Summer Sports photos were taken yesterday.  All order forms must be returned to the College by 31 March.  Students can pick up an order form from the Student Reception and the form is also attached below.

Ms Leisa Proc - General Coordinator

SPX Cricket

2nd XI ISA Division 2 Champions! Congratulations to the 2nd XI on back-to-back premierships! Well done to all players and coaches, and Caption Oliver Fitzroy (Year 12). Please see attached match report.

U13 Division 1 SPX Gold – Minor Premiers. Well done to the U13 Gold team on being Minor Premiers and best of luck in Saturdays semi-final.

MWJCA Fixtures – Saturday 20 March 2021

Fixtures are correct at time of publication. Players and parents are requested to check myCricket for any late changes.

• U12 Blue v TBA please see myCricket (1.00 pm start)
• Semi-final U13 Gold v Wakehurst Green @ TBA please see myCricket (8.00 am start)
• U13 Black v TBA please see myCricket (8.00 am start)
• U14 Green v Collaroy Plateau Power @ TBA please see myCricket (8.00 am start)
• U14 Red v St Augustine’s Gold @ TBA please see myCricket (8.00 am start)
• U15 Yellow v TBA please see myCricket (8.00 am start)
• U17 Purple v TBA please see myCricket 8.00 am start)

MWJCA Results – Saturday 13 March 2021

Match Reports - Saturday 13 March 2021

Mr David Reay - Cricket Convenor

Basketball

Congratulations to our 13Bs, 15Bs, 15Es, Open-E and Open-G teams who won their Grand Final matches last Saturday. All the games were absolute nail-biters going down to the final seconds. Commiserations to the 17Bs and Open-Ds who unfortunately were defeated in their matches. The Open-D team game went into overtime and then ‘Golden Point’ overtime. Thank you to all the people who have helped out this season, especially all our coaches. Thank you to all our players. This season I have regularly seen a great spirit of sportsmanship that I am proud to a part of. This year we will  be presenting our award winners to the full school Assembly at a Friday morning Sports Assembly. We are planning to ‘Live Stream’ the presentations so that parents can watch from home. This will be done early next term, dates to be announced.  As this event will be live-streamed, if you do not wish your son to be filmed, please email privacy@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au.

Mr Neil Gibson - Basketball Convenor

NSTA Tennis

Excitement was in the air on Saturday morning as the boys took to the courts to play in their finals & play-offs. Congratulations to all players but especially those teams who made the finals. We had 8 teams who made the finals at 8.00 am:

Thank you once again to our umpires: Alex Vaccher, Tom Fong, Aiden Parsons and Richard Gauci. The umpiring assistance given by all the Senior boys throughout the term has been much appreciated by all. 

At 10.00 am, SPX 6 and SPX 9 definitely played the matches of the day. SPX 6 took both their singles matches to a tiebreak, they were both exciting matches. SPX 9 saw Junior boys face off against Senior boys from Redlands. The size difference didn’t deter the Pius boys, they fought a tough battle to win the final. We had 4 teams make the finals in the 10.00 am session:

Thanks must also be given to Mr Garvey, Mr Webster and Mrs Keighery for their help throughout the season. 

Mrs Samantha Iwatani - NSTA Convenor

Senior Swimming

The squad competed at the ISA Carnival last Wednesday at SOPAC. It has been one of our most successful seasons by far. The Intermediate Squad members came 3rd in their division and Pius came 5th overall. There were some outstanding performances in the pool from our squad with Personal Bests and personal triumphs. Throughout the day Nicholas Gladen broke three very long-standing 23 year old school records in the 50 Free, Back and Fly and our Senior Medley and Freestyle Relay team consisting of Ben Ferguson, Connor Ryan, Tom Van Dijk and Max Hargreaves broke both school records that stood from 2016. Overall, one of the most successful swimming seasons I have been involved in. Thank you to Mr Stearn, Mr Lynch and Mr Couani for giving up their time to come and assist on the day.

Although the season has stopped for most of the squad till Term 4, the season hasn’t ended for 12 squad members who have gained ISA Representation at the CIS carnival on the 26/27 April. Alex Davies, Ben Ferguson, Nicholas Gladen, Max Hargreaves, Andre and Bohan Johnson, Derek Jung, Aaron Lau, Connor Ryan, Tom Van Dijk, Sebastian Wallace and Jonathon Yang will all be competing for the ISA. This result is outstanding. Details for those students will be released in the coming days as forms will need to be filled out quite quickly.

Congratulations to all member of the Senior Swimming squad on a fantastic season.

Ms Leisa Proc – Swimming Convenor

Cross Country

Cross-Country training will run all term. Join our Senior student leaders and top athletes, Matthew North and Dominic Panozzo, alongside our distance coach, Izzy Thornton-Bott for fun, varied and challenging sessions.

Beauchamp Park, Chatswood from 7.30 am – 8.15 am on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings.

Meet at the Grandstand in comfortable running gear and with a water bottle. You don’t have to aspire to run in the ISA Carnival - all students and abilities welcome.

Mr Greg  Virgona - Cross Country Convenor

CSDA Public Speaking and Debating Competition and SDN Debating Competition

CSDA Public Speaking

Congratulations to Jose Monk, Year 9, who has moved through to the Public Speaking Grand Final event which will be held this Friday March 19. This will be a zoom event run from St Pius X College. Jose completed his speech exploring how Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is a metaphor for the chains that hold us back in life. A friend of Jose is in our Applied Philosophy class and shared our reflections on Plato’s Allegory with Jose: a winning conversation. 

CSDA Debating Competition 

Training for the above debating competition commences this Friday.  ALL debaters are to come to B10 at 3.15 pm on Friday afternoon.  Coaches will take students to their training rooms and you are expected to attend until 5.00 pm.  

The 2021 Debating season has commenced and our training continues:

Week 8 – training Friday 19 March 3.15 pm - 5.00 pm

Week 9 – Senior debaters will all be trained as CSDA Adjudicators during training this Friday - 3.15 pm - 5.00 pm.

This skill will support the Year 12 students moving into coaching roles in 2022 and will support the huge number of senior debates that we will be running during 2021.

Week 10 – training & pre-season ‘Friendly’ Debates (to be confirmed) 3.15 pm - 5.00 pm.

The CSDA Competition commences in Term 2. See the following dates. 

Coaches for 2021 are:

Year 7   Joshua Foley (ex SPX student debater who coached in 2020)

Year 8   Ms Leigha Zervakos

Year 9   Leo Lovesy (ex SPX student debater who coached in 2020)

Year 10  Mr Justin Donnelly

Year 11  Luke McManus (ex SPX student debater 1st year coaching)

Year 12  Mr Ryan Balboa

We are so lucky to have ex-students to work as coaches as their experience as debaters is still fresh and the younger students really enjoy contact with our ex-debating “champions”. All of our coaches are also adjudicators which means that their feedback to their teams is timely and specific.

The fee for the CSDA extra-curricular activity is $150.00 which will be included in your Term Two school fees. We keep our fees as low as possible and have funding from the St Pius X College P & F to subsidise the costs of running debating at SPX.  

Mrs Michele Waterson - Debating and Public Speaking Convenor

SPX Tennis Championships

Our internal Championships are coming up! The tournament will be run on Saturday, 27 March at our Talus Street courts from 7:30 am to approx. 11:30 am for the lower divisions and from 11:30 am to 3.00 pm for the higher divisions. This is a compulsory event for all intending 2021 ISA Tennis players as the results from this competition will contribute to the ranking process for the upcoming season. More information will be distributed to players in the lead up to the day.

Ms Amanda O'Brien - ISA Tennis Convenor

SPX Senior Rugby

Rugby Training – Begins THURSDAY 18 MARCH

While many have been training for quite some time, all rugby players are now called to training which commences this Thursday 18th March at Oxford Falls.

Buses will depart Archer Street between 3:15 pm and 3:30 pm outside OLD Church.

Buses will return to Chatswood dropping students off outside the school on Anderson Street between 5:30 pm and 6.00 pm.

Training will run every Tuesday and Thursday during the Rugby Season at Oxford Falls, except for the Under 13s who will move to Beauchamp Oval in Term 2.

Rugby Registration  - NOW OPEN!

All Year 7-12 students wishing to play rugby are required to be registered to be included in a team, allowing the school rugby administrators & coaches to best prepare for the coming season, plus allow your P&F Rugby Club to best support and communicate with you! There are no trials or grading days, all students of different shapes, sizes and abilities can find a home within the SPX Rugby Program.

You have two options when registering:

1. 2021 Rugby Season Registration + Two Day April School Holiday Clinic: $240 (cost includes season registration & access to rugby specific physio during the season + specialist coaching, transport and lunch at the April Holiday clinic held on April 7 and 8 2021).
2. 2021 Rugby Season Registration Only: $150 (cost includes season registration & access to rugby specific physio during the season)

Note: The third option for holiday clinic only is for Junior School students.

To register simply follow the trybooking link below:

https://www.trybooking.com/725633

Try-Time Rugby Holiday Camps

Trytime Rugby will be holding camps across Sydney these school holidays, including Beauchamp Oval Chatswood and at Oxford Falls. These camps are in addition to the holiday clinic run by the school and requires a separate sign up and registration. 

The extra camps are always such a great and fun way to kick off the rugby season. It’s the perfect time to get ready for the season, get fitness levels up and continue to practice and develop skills and understanding of the game. There is also a focus on decision making and technical aspects required for safe tackling.

For more information head to : http://www.trytimerugby.com/camps or see the attached flyer.

Term 1 Rugby Dates for the Diary

• Thursday 18 March – Rugby Training Commences at Oxford Falls for all students Years 7-12
• Tuesday 23 March - RUGBY CLUB AGM - 7.00 pm – Sarto Centre
• Friday 19 March – Sunday 21 March - Opens Rugby Camp and TRIAL VS CCGS – Central Coast.
• Saturday 27 March – Traditional Trial vs Alos – AWAY (SPX will host some younger age groups)
• Thursday 1 April – Opens Rugby Trial vs St Paul's Manly - HOME
• Wednesday 7 & Thursday 8 - April School Holiday Clinic – Oxford Falls – TRYTIME RUGBY

Mr Joe Lynch - Senior Rugby Convenor

Football

Training for all Year 7-10 Footballers (both ISA and internal competitors) continues next week. All training will be at Oxford Falls, students will be transferred to and from the playing fields by chartered bus. Buses will depart outside OLD Church at 3:25 pm and return to Chatswood at approximately 5:30 pm.

Training for Opens players will commence in the coming weeks with details to be released shortly.

We wish the 1st XI well this afternoon in the defence of the NSWCIS cup which they won in 2019 and remained undefeated in the 2020 tournament until its cancellation.

Save the date: The optional holiday Football Camp will be run again this holidays on 8 and 9 April at Oxford Falls.  Details, registration and payment details will be in released in coming weeks.

Mr Simon Yue - Senior Football Convenor.