Senior School Sport  & Extra-Curricula Activities 

• From the Senior Sports Master
• Summer Sports Photos
• Basketball
• Cricket
• NSTA Tennis
• Squash
• Senior Swimming
• Strength and Conditioning 
• Senior Chess
• CSDA Debating 
• Cross Country
• Winter Squash
• Rugby 
• Senior Football 

From the Senior Sports Master

This weekend sees the conclusion of our Summer Sports Program with District Cricket finals weekend, our ISA 2nd XI playing their final round of cricket against St Augustine's College, NSTA Tennis in finals mode and Basketball having completed their ISA Season last weekend.  The only exception to this is our Squash players who have one final round before finals in the Pennants Competition.

Good luck to all those in finals and thank you to all who have been involved in the Summer Program. It hasn't been easy but fortune definitely favours the brave.

As Summer draws to a close we are now planning our Winter Program and I would ask that you complete Winter registrations in the respective sports at your very earliest opportunity, noting that Tennis and Football Registrations are now closed.  For your urgent attention is the need for boys to register for Rugby.

The information you provide directly affects coaching allocations for each sport.

Mr Matt Stearn - Senior Sports Master

Summer Sports Photos

On Tuesday March 22, the College will be taking their Summer Sport Photos during Periods 1 – 2. The Sports involved are Swimming, Squash, Tennis, Touch Football, Basketball and Cricket. All students must wear their school uniform to school and get changed before their photo. Year 7 students can wear their PE uniform to school and bring their photo uniform to school and change before their photo. 

Uniforms required:

Squash – Squash shirt

Swimming – School uniform

Softball – Softball uniform

Cross Country (Junior) – School uniform

Touch Football – Touch uniform

Basketball – Basketball shorts and shirt

Cricket – Cricket whites and sports shoes

1st and 2nd XI Cricket – Cricket Cap and College Blazer over their whites.

A running order has been attached. All students must bring their ID cards to each photo.

Ms Leisa Proc - General Coordinator

Basketball

Results: Congratulations to our Premiers for the 2021-2022 Season – The Open D (4th V) and Open G (7th V) teams went through the season undefeated – well done to all players.

All Basketball Results are posted on the ISA App. Download from your App store (no login or password required). 

Presentation of Awards: There will not be a Presentation Evening as originally advertised in the school calendar. We will present Award Recipients and Premiers during Friday morning Assemblies in front of the whole school.

Fixtures: Our final round of Year 7 ‘friendly’ games take place at Oxford Falls.

** St Pius X Oxford Falls Campus - 1 Dreadnought Rd, Oxford Falls

Teams: Please use this link to see the Year 7 teams for Saturday 19 March.

Training: There will be Friday afternoon training for the Year 7 A and B teams this week. It will take place from 3.15 pm - 4.45 pm in the School Gym.

Finally, thanks to all players, parents and supporters for your patience over the course of a tricky season. Staffing and player absences have presented a significant problem, and school withdrawals have also created problems. 

I look forward to Term 4 and hopefully a full season of competition and training.

Mr Greg Virgona - Basketball Convenor

Cricket

The very best of luck to our U13/1 Gold and U14/1 Green teams who have secured places in their MWJCA competition finals this Saturday. Go Pius!

MWJCA Finals – Saturday 19 March 2022

U13/1 Gold v Collaroy Plateau Chargers @ TBA

U14/1 Green v St Augustine’s Gold @ TBA

Please note: fixtures are as listed on myCricket at time of publication, Coaches/Managers are requested to check for any late amendments.

ISA Fixture – Saturday 19 March 2022

2nd XI v St Patrick’s College @ Oxford Falls #2

Book Launch - You're all invited

Written by our very on 1st XI Coach Mr Pat Rodgers! For catering purposes please RSVP here.

SPX Match Summary

Round 13 - 12/3/22

Match Reports

U13/1 'make hay while sun shines' - literally!

We turned up to David Thomas Reserve, that had been flooded earlier I think week, knowing we had a lot of raking to do. The ground had been freshly mowed, but the blanket of clippings was an inch thick. 

Thank you to the army of St Pius X and Wakehurst parents and players who put in for over an hour. We made hay!

SPX won the toss and batted, despite the outfield, always bat first in a semi final.

We lost 2 wickets in the first over, before recovering and building to drinks. We then faltered again before recovering again. Our healthy score of 132 included scores of 37 from Harry Arnold, 19 each from Jared Fernandez and Zac Rapa and a great 24 from Alex Burke. Alex even put a 6 on the roof of our tent.

Other than a couple of catches that were dropped SPX were sharp in the field. Our two run-outs were a master class. This backed some very tight bowling.  Wickets to Brody Mendel (2) and Darcy Horstead, Zac Rapa, Rohan Jackson and Jared (1 each).

Our effort was topped with an amazing running catch by Zac and Jared’s absolute hanger to remove a bullet above his head with his right hand. Wakehurst all out for 48.

The boys know there are elements to work on before next weekend’s Grand Final against the mighty Collaroy side.

The boys last act was to thank the farmers, and celebrate the win, with a rousing rendition of Woodchatta!

Mr Toby Horstead

U17 Purples

Season wind up

Due to ground availability (or lack thereof), it seems like we face another abrupt end to the season. Shame about the weather these past few weeks, but we have plenty to smile about. Firstly, thank you to all your support throughout 2021/22 – fielding an U16s team is never easy, and the volunteers really do serve as the foundation of the team. Thank you in particular to Tony and Steve for picking up the Manager’s duties – anyone who has had to enter post-match scores on a Saturday deserves a round of applause each week. Congratulations also go to our Year 12s, Nick Green, Andrew Guerrera, Will Harper, Liam Hunt, Justin Park, Ben Purcell and Aiden Wilson for surviving the trials and tribulations of Thursday net and fielding sessions, and serving as a core group throughout their time here at SPX Cricket. Interesting stat for the year – we have the lowest total for runs scored against a team at 594 runs. The next best team is Peninsula with 702. Truly a great effort from the boys! If anyone has any photos of the team during the season, could you please send it to the group via Whatsapp? We will try to squeeze as many into the Collegian Report for the year. Thanks again for a great season. See you all around! Kind Regards, Ryan 

Mr David Reay - Cricket Convenor

NSTA Tennis

Another fantastic day at Talus St was had by all. With 6 Pius vs Pius matches in the 8.00 am session there was good healthy competition and a lot of friendly banter to be seen and heard. Thank you to Richard Gauci, Alex Vaccher, Ethan Li, Riley Seeto and Andrew McKinnon for coming early to help umpire the earlier matches. 

Thanks also must go to Nicholas Kwan, Justin Lee, Marcus Ulevik, Sebastian Dal Molin and Venedict Valerio who stepped up to play for other teams. With so many absences each week, it has been a challenge but all boys have taken it in their stride and have been more than happy to help out which has made my job so much easier. Thank you also to the parents for any last-minute changes that have been made to their Saturday schedules. 

The highlight match of the weekend had to have been between Edward Yangoyan and his opponent from Redlands. Eddie played a fantastic singles which ended in a nail-biting tie-break that he won 8-6. Even Mr and Mrs Couani who came to pay us a visit were captivated by the standard of play. 

Well done to all players for the season, we have one more week to go where ALL teams will be involved in the finals and play offs this Saturday, 19 March. Please keep your eye on the draw to see where you will be playing.

https://www.xpointsports.com/region/325/currentEvents

Mrs Samantha Iwatani - NSTA Convenor

Squash

Games were played at Willoughby and Knox last weekend. Once again St Pius X Teams 2 and 3 are carrying the flame for Pius Squash, and with one more round before the finals let’s hope they can take it all the way.

St Pius X Team 1 Loss 3-0

St Pius X Team 2 Win 2-1

St Pius X Team 3 Win 2-0

St Pius X Team 4 Loss 3-0

St Pius X Team 5 Win 2-1

St Pius X Team 6 Loss 2-1

St Pius X Team 7 Loss 3-0

Mr Joe Madani - Squash Convenor

Senior Swimming

Last Wednesday the Senior Swimming squad competed at the ISA Carnival at SOPAC. The Junior Division came 8th, the Intermediate Division came 3rd by only 7 points and the Senior Division came 7th. This gave us 7th overall out of 18 schools.

The highlights of the day were all the Personal Bests achieved by a lot of the boys, as well as Nicholas Gladen breaking an ISA record in the 50m Backstroke. I congratulate all the boys who all swam their best. Thank you to Mr Stearn and Mr Mulheron for assisting on the day and the parents who came to support the team. 

The ISA squad is currently being chosen to swim at the CIS. All students will be notified in the coming days.

Ms Leisa Proc – Swimming Convenor

Strength and Conditioning Sessions at the Sarto Gym

The Strength and Conditioning training sessions in the Sarto Gym are provided to the year groups as below:

Monday: Strictly Year 10-12

Tuesday: Strictly Year 7- 9

Wednesday: Training open to Year 7-12

Thursday: Training open to Year 7-12

Friday: Training open to Year 7-12

Students must book their training time slot through the Mind Body App which can be found on the school's Intranet page. A reminder due to COVID-19 restrictions and gym safety, a maximum of 20 students are permitted to train during each session. If students are unable to reserve a position on the Mind Body App, it means the time slot is full and they will be placed on a waiting list. If students have reserved a spot and are unable to make their booked session, they MUST cancel on the app to allow the waitlisted students an opportunity to train.  A reminder the Sarto Gym is a phone free environment and students must bring their own sweat towel.

Please contact Ms Coombe for any further information.

Ms Laura Coombe - Strength and Conditioning Convenor

Senior Chess

Chess training continues on Monday afternoons in D1-4 “the Blue Room” at 3.30 pm - 4.30 pm. All students who are interested in playing Chess as their extracurricular activity are encouraged to attend. 

Ms Denise Ramsey and Ms Janelle Dempsey - Chess Convenors

CSDA Debating Competition 

The CSDA Debating Competition runs through Term 2 on the following evenings.  YELLOW CSDA Debating ONLY Registration forms need to be completed and dropped into the box on the student verandah asap.  Debaters will need to meet at the clock after our Sports Assembly this Friday.

The 2022 Debating season kicks off this FRIDAY.  All debaters are to meet at B10 at the end of school this Friday.  Names will be marked off at each training session.

NO STUDENTS can leave the school site before 3.30 pm.

Week 7 Training:  Friday 18 March 3.30 pm - 5.30 pm

Week 8 Training:  Friday 25 March 3.30 pm - 5.30 pm

Week 9 Training: Friday 1 April 3.30 pm - 5.30 pm.  

Our senior students act as coaches/supporters for our junior teams.  We are also lucky enough to have ex-students to work with the junior teams as the younger students really enjoy contact with our ex-debating “champions”.

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 receive funding from the St Pius X College P & F to subsidise the costs of running debating at SPX.  

Our coaches for 2022 are:

Mrs Michele Waterson - Debating and Public Speaking Convenor

Cross Country

Cross Country training continues.  

When: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings

Where: Beauchamp Park, Chatswood 

Time: 7.15 am – 8.15 am 

Who: All Senior and Junior School students welcome

Meet at the Beauchamp Oval Grandstand in comfortable running gear and with a water bottle. Bring your school uniform to change into afterwards back at The College.

You don’t have to aspire to run in the ISA or IPSHA Carnivals - all students and abilities welcome.

Mr Greg Virgona - Cross Country Convenor

Winter Squash

Winter Squash will commence next term.  It is available to all students of all standards in Years 7 - 12.  Registrations are accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.  Attached is a permission note with further details.

Mr Justin Varjavandi - Winter Squash Convenor

Rugby 

Registration

Rugby Registration is now open. If your son is considering playing Rugby for St Pius X it would be appreciated if registration could be completed as soon as possible. Please click link below.

Specific details regarding the commencement of training and the draw will be advertised once registration has closed.

We are looking forward to our boys having a successful and less interrupted season.

Rugby Committee Invite

The SPX Rugby Season is rapidly approaching. For those parents who would like to hear more about the school's Rugby Program and/or consider joining the school's Rugby Committee, you are invited to attend our Season Opening Event at the Willoughby Hotel on Monday 21 March at 7.00 pm  (upstairs). No need to RSVP just turn up. Many hands, make light work. We look forward to seeing you on Monday. If you have any questions, please email Mr Gillogly mgillogly@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au

Mr Martin Gillogly - Senior Rugby Convenor

Senior Football 

Preseason training will commence for all teams Years 8 to Opens at Oxford Falls on Monday 21 March.  Year 7 will commence the following week due to their camp.  All teams will train Monday and Wednesdays.  Players will be transported by bus from Archer St to Oxford Falls at 3.20 pm.  Buses will leave Oxford Falls at 5.00 pm returning to the College around 5.30 pm.

Mr Simon Yue - Senior Football Convenor.

Referees wanted

Referees are wanted for this year's Football season for  Junior Football.  Please contact Mr Cummins at pcummins@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au if you are interested.  Referees must be qualified and available to referee our Junior Football games at Oxford Falls on Saturday mornings during the winter sports season.

Mr Paul Cummins - Junior Football Convenor