Sports News

Student Representatives

Swimming

From the Sydney Swimming Trial on Monday 27th March we had 8 students who progressed to the MacKillop Trial. Here are the highlights from the Sydney Trial:

• Charli M - 2nd 100m Free, 2nd 50m Free, 3rd 50m Butterfly, 4th 50m Backstroke, 2nd 200m IM & 2nd place Overall Age Champion
• Sophie A - 3rd 50m Free, 4th 50m Butterfly, 1st 50m Backstroke, 2nd 50m Breastroke
• Oscar T - 5th 50m Butterfly, 4th 50m Backstroke, 2nd 50m Breastroke
• Junior Boys Relay 4th (Oscar T, Noah V, Dennis L and James S) 
• Senior Girls Relay 1st (Charli M, Sophie A, Abigail W and Maya E)

This MacKillop trial was held 3 days after the Sydney Trial and it was fantastic to see our junior boys and senior girls relays represented. Congratulations to Sophie A, Charli M, Maya E, Dennis L, James S, Oscar T, Noah V and Abigail W who made us all proud in their team and individual events. A big thank you to the many parents who have driven out to Sydney Olympic Park over the past couple of weeks. Our senior girls relay team were 3rd to finish at the MacKillop Trial and will now represent as members of the MacKillop Team at the NSWCCC Swimming Championships on Thursday 6th April. What a way to finish off the term girls!

Representative Jersey

Could I please ask all students to return the schools representative jersey to the office. We have a number of upcoming interschool events and gala days. I would like to do a stocktake to assist with ordering more jerseys. Our current ones will need to be re-distributed to anyone who will need one in term 2. Please check your wardrobes at home as you may have one from a past gala day or other sporting event in 2022. I appreciate your cooperation with this.

Cross Country Trial

It was a great way to start the week with our Cross Country Trial held at Waratah Bike Track. The weather conditions weren’t ideal as we received patches of light rain however with the good spirit delivered by our students and the encouraging cheers from all families, we created a fun and successful trial. We were blessed to receive some blue skies and also grateful to have received a cooling down by the rain. It was wonderful to see great sportsmanship by all our participants. Superb effort. Thank you to our parent volunteers and wonderful teachers who take their time to make this day a special one.

Students who received a 1st to 4th placing will receive a note on the first day back to school for Term 2. This note contains the details for the Primary School Cross Country Championship on Wednesday 24th May held at Sydney Motorsports Park.

Netball Interschool Gala Day

On Tuesday 4th April, 36 students from Year 5 and 6 represented St Patrick's at the Netball Interschool Gala Day. Students competed against other Sydney Catholic Schools in 18 minute games. We are extremely proud of the effort from every student that attended the Gala Day and can confidently say that they represented our school extremely well, both on and off the court. In a very competitive pool, each of our teams stepped onto the court with positive attitudes, a willingness to try and incredible sportsmanship, with a couple of wins along the way. We would like to extend our thanks to all of the parents who assisted on the day. Your help with managing teams, game scoring and supervision is greatly appreciated. Congratulations to all of the students who attended, we hope you had an enjoyable day of netball and continue to participate in these events in the future.

Miss Simpson and Mrs Pieratos

Remaining Interschool Sport

Term 2 Year 6 Football (soccer)

This will follow the same outline as our Interschool Netball but will run over 3 sessions (½ day) on a fortnightly basis. The allocated day is a Tuesday. Students will leave school on a bus by 12:00pm and will return to school for normal dismissal. At this point, all St Patrick teams for Inter School Football will be playing at Barden Ridge Sporting Complex. The dates allocated for Inter School Soccer are:

Tuesday 2nd

Tuesday 9th

Tuesday 16th

Those year 6 students who expressed interest to be a part of interschool football will trial for teams at the end of term 1 (boys) or start of term 2 (girls). Students will receive a permission note directly after the trial, if you could please return the note to the school office at your earliest convenience.

Term 3 Year 5 Oz-Tag

Year 5 Interschool Oz-tag will run in Term 3. The structure will be the same as Year 6 Football minus finals. Information will be sent home towards the end of Term 2.

Stage 2

Years 3 and 4 Interschool will participate in 2 gala days across our network in Football (Soccer) Term 2 & Oz-Tag in term 3. There will be no finals progression. 

Community Sport

We have a few of our stage 1 students who play Tball in the same team for St Patrick’s Baseball Club. The following 4 students are excited to announce they won the competition and became the Cronulla Sutherland Junior Baseball Association Tball Major Division 2 Premiers for 2022-2023. Great job Team.

Mason W from year 2 (third from right), Patrick M from year 2 (second from right), Charlie S from year 1 (second from left) and Joshua G from Year 3 (far right)

If you have any sporting news you would like to share with our school community please email me - amanda.col@syd.catholic.edu.au

Thank you,

Amanda Col

Sport Coordinator