Around the Grounds
Polding Swimming
On Tuesday 22 March, 17 St Xavier's swimmers travelled to Homebush, as part of the Armidale Docesan Swimming Team, to compete at the NSWCPS Swimming Championships.
Alexis Whitton, Molly Ramien, Jacob Smith, Baxter Knapman, Rafe Denovan, Hannah Akinyemi, Alexis Campbell, Josh Spinks, Matilda Denovan, Eugennie Goddard, Violet Egan, Cooper Whitton, Ollie Lyle, Josie Knapman, Liam Smith, Charlie Mainey, Max Smith all swam well and did St Xavier's and the Armidale Diocese proud.
The following 10 swimmers all progressed to the NSWPSSA Swimming Championships held over Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 April:
Jacob Smith- 1st Open 100m Freestyle, 1st 50m Backstroke, 1st 200m Individual Medley, 2nd 50m Butterfly, 50m Breastroke.
Molly Ramien- 1st 50m Backstroke, 2nd 50m Butterfly, 2nd in 50m Breastroke, 2nd 50m Freestyle, 2nd 200m Individual Medley.
Josh Spinks- 1st 50m Butterfly, 2nd 50m Backstroke, 2nd 50m Breastroke, 2nd 200m Individual Medley, 3rd 50m Freestyle.
Alexis Whitton- 2nd 50m Backstroke, 3rd 50m Freestyle,.
Baxter Knapman- 3rd 50m Breastroke
Senior Boys Relay - 3rd (Baxter Knapman, Cooper Whitton, Ollie Lyle and Jacob Smith)
Junior Girls Relay- 3rd (Molly Ramien, Hannah Akinyemi, Josie Knapman, Alexis Campbell)
NSWPSSA Swimming
On Monday and Tuesday (4th and 5th April), 10 St Xavier's swimmers travelled to Homebush as part of the Polding Swimming Team. The St Xavier's swimmers made it through to many finals after qualifying in the top 10 fastest in their heats to make those finals (out of nearly 40swimmers in each event). An achievement on its own. Some students made several finals with Jacob Smith bringing home 2 medals and is now off to Nationals in Brisbane in August. Jacob just missed the medals in 2 other races coming in 4th overall. Molly Ramien and the Junior Girls relay also narrowly missed a medal.
All the swimmers are to be commended on their hard work, dedication and wonderful sportsmanship at the event.
A big thankyou to the parents who travel with, and provide support for the students. A special mention to Kate Ramien for providing all the results, Nichole Carlyon and Aaron Smith for the photos and also to Aaron Smith for keeping us informed when races were on so we could watch the livestream!
Jacob Smith - Bronze in the Open 100m freestyle. Gold in the 12-13yrs 50m backstroke.
Finalist in the 12yrs 50m freestyle -(finishing 4th), 11-13 yrs 200IM ( finishing 4th by less than a second), 12-13yrs 50m fly (finishing 6th) and the 11-13yrs 200m freestyle relay (finishing 6th)
12-13 years breaststroke - 19th
Molly Ramien
Finalist in the 8-10yrs 200IM (finishing 4th by less than a second), 50m backstroke (finishing 5th), 50m butterfly (finishing 7th) and 8-10 yrs girls 200m relay (finishing 4th)
10 years freestyle - 12th
8-10 years breaststroke - 12th
Josh Spinks
Finalist in the 8-10 yrs boys 200IM (Finishing 6th) and 50m fly (finishing 7th)
10 yrs boys 50m freestyle - 11th
8-10 yrs boys 50m backstroke and breaststroke - 14th for both
Alexis Whitton
Finalist in the 11 yrs girls 50m freestyle (fiinishing 10th) and 50m backstroke (finishing 6th)
Baxter Knapman
Finalist 11-13 yrs boys 200m free relay (finishing 6th)
12-13yrs 50m breaststroke - 15th.
RELAYS
Finalists - 8-10 yrs girls 200m relay (Hannah Akinyemi, Josie Knapman, Alexis Campbell and Molly Ramien. ( Finishing 4th )
Finalists - 11-13 yrs boys 200m relay (Baxter Knapman, Cooper Whitton, Ollie Lyle and Jacob Smith (Finishing 6th)
Netball
On Thursday 24 March, the Yr 6 St Xavier's netball team competed in teh Anne Singleton Cup Round Robin. The Anne Singleton Cup is an annual inter-school competition run by Gunnedah Netball. The girls played great netball and went through the round-robin undefeated. They then progressed to the final on Saturday 26 March. The girls played an excellent game and came away triumphant on the day. Congratulations to Gunnedah South School for being worthy competitors on the day.
A big thanks to Miss Hamparsum and Miss Glavocih for preparing the girls. Thanks also to all the support crew who turned up to cheer the girls on.
Diocesan Winter Trials
Schools are invited to send students of a proficient skill level to the Diocesan Winter Trials in Armidale on Friday 8 April 2022. A Diocesan team to represent the Armidale Diocese at the Polding Trials in Bathurst on Friday 29 April 2022 will be selected in each sport. Sports are Netball, Soccer, League and Hockey. Each school is limited in the number of students for each sport. We were overwhelmed with talented soccer players wanting to attend and had to run trials at school.
Best of luck to those students who will be attending the trials.
Cross Country
Today we ran our Primary Cross Country. Well done to everone for having a go and running the 2km (8/9 and 10 years) or 3km course (11 and 12 years).
Congratulations to the first 6 runners across the line in each age group. They will now go on to the Diocesan Cross Country which at this stage is to be held in Barraba on Friday 6 May.
8/9 years Girls
Pippa Galton, Ruby Ricketts, Tara Tuquiri, Clare Grima, Emerson Shannon, Kalani Bender
8/9 years Boys
John Sheedy, Harley Smith, Nicholas Doyle, Archie Goddard, Thomas Sheridan, Sam Roseby
10 years Girls
Ruby Cygan, Luna Baynton, Laura Donoghue, Bella Hmailton, Molly Ramien, Josie Knapman
10 years Boys
Josh Spinks, Charlie Mainey, Cooper Galton, Alex Jensen, Cooper Judd, Will Riordan
11 years Girls
Maggie Brown, Lara Torrens, Matilda Denovan, Tess Penny, Alexis Whitton, Eugenie Goddard
11 years Boys
Lachlan Smith, Gus Simpson, Ben Grosser, Kade Bush, Will Stevenson, Henry Weinthal
12 years Girls
Sienna Edmunds, Koko McGuiness-Green, Leah Keam, Hannah Cygan, Evie Bieman, Charlee Adamson
12 years Boys
Ted Sheedy, Cleal Bender, Baxter Knapman, Harrison Law, Brock Jensen, Henry Maslen
Community Sport
There is so much community sport starting up again for the winter season. Please see the Community News page for all the flyers.