Junior School Sport

Independent Primary Schools Sporting Organisation (IPSSO) 

Our trials for our Winter IPSSO sports have commenced this week. These trials will be happening during lunch breaks and if required they will be held after school. Below is a reminder of when the trials are being held.

If your child has been moved on from a trial, they are welcome to trial for another sport. A coach or a selector will notify students of this and will ask them if there is another sport they may be interested in trialling for. Teams will be finalised early in Term 2.

Wollongong Representative Sport 

Mackillop Basketball Trial 

On Friday 26 February Leo Valdmanis represented the Wollongong Diocese at the Mackillop Basketball Trial. Leo was successful in making the Mackillop Team and will now compete at the NSW PSSA Basketball Championships in April. 

Western Region Swimming Carnival 

On March 3 we had 22 swimmers representing the College at the Western Region Swimming Carnival. We had our best results ever at this meet. The College ended up with the following results:

Age Champions for the meet:

Ivy Smith – Junior Girls

Alexandra Nothdurfter- Senior Girls 

Runner Up Age Champion

Thomas Stephens- Junior Boys

Denham Tsagalas- 11 Years Boys

Third in Age Champion 

Cohen Smith 3rd in Seniors Age Champion.

The College ended up with our most successful result to date! The College came first place in Female point score, Male point score and the Overall Champion School for the meet. Well done swimmers!

The following students qualified to compete at Corrimal for the Wollongong swimming trial on March 8:

• Stephanie Bartlett
• Jennifer Bartlett
• Tayah Bowen
• Samuel Brown
• Tyler Cummins
• Keira Eagles
• Noah Forsyth
• Cleo Lane
• Piper Lane
• Lachlan Lettieri
• Nate Miller
• Claire Murray
• Alexandra Nothdurfter
• Mateo Parcio
• Connor Potts
• Cohen Smith
• Ivy Smith
• Thomas Stephens
• Denham Tsagalas

Wollongong Swim Trial 8 March 2021

At the Wollongong swimming trials, all of our students did a great job in representing the College in the pool and on pool deck. There was a lot of support for each other on display through cheering and congratulating efforts. Only the first two placegetters from this trial progressed to the next carnival. 9 students were successful in qualifying to the NSWCPS Carnival but we unfortunately, had several students just miss out on qualifying by less than a second. 

Well done to the students who qualified to compete at NSWCPS on Monday March 22:

• The Junior girl freestyle relay team- Jennifer Bartlett, Piper Lane, Ivy Smith and Keira Eagles.
• The Senior boys freestyle relay team- Cohen Smith, Denham Tsagalas, Mateo Parcio and Connor Potts.
• Ivy Smith- Junior girls 50m backstroke, 50m butterfly, 50m breaststroke 200 IM and 9yrs 50m freestyle
• Alexandra Nothdurfter- Senior girls 50m backstroke, 50m butterfly, 50 breaststroke and 200IM
• Denham Tsagalas- 50m breaststroke

Diocesan Trials

Over the past few weeks, the College had several talented students attend Wollongong trials in hope of making the Wollongong team in Rugby League, Touch Football, Hockey, Football (Soccer) and Netball. From these trials, we have had a large number of successful students making it into teams!

Congratulations to the following students that were successful:

U/11’s Rugby League

• Benjamin Lawrence
• Denham Tsagalas
• Sean Hindmarsh
• Seth Obereigner

U/12’s Rugby League

• Connor Potts
• Fletcher Kroh
• Marcus Desira
• Leo Valdmanis

Hockey

• Michael Yousseph

Soccer

• Zac Palumbo
• Alexander Truong

Netball

• Olivia Jardine

Touch Football

• Connor Potts
• Ben Lawrence
• Seth Obereigner
• Denham Tsagalas

Junior School Cross Country 

Our Junior School Cross Country will now be held next Tuesday, March 23, Week 9. The K-2 students will be running approximately 600m and Year 3-6 students will be running 2kms. 

Parents/Carers are now permitted to attend the Junior School Cross Country as spectators.  The Cross Country will commence at 9am at the College on MCS 1. Parents/Carers will need to park at the parking area via the Western Entrance gate (near the roundabout at Donovan Boulevarde/Keiran Geaney Drive) and proceed to the spectating area at MCS 1. 

The first three placegetters in each category for the 2km race will represent the College at the Wollongong Diocesan Cross Country Carnival in Term 2.

The categories for the carnival are:

• 8/9 year boys
• 8/9 year girls
• 10 year boys
• 10 year girls
• 11 year boys
• 11 year girls
• 12/13 year boys
• 12/13 year girls

Paul Kelly Cup (AFL)

The Junior School has entered 2 boy’s and 2 girl’s teams into the Paul Kelly Cup competition. It is the largest AFL Primary School competition in New South Wales and the ACT and is open to students in Years 5 and 6. The Paul Kelly Cup consists of teams competing in round-robin gala days in our local area. Games are played on a smaller field using modified rules. Our local area gala day is on Thursday March 25.

Thank you to the students that attended the trials and congratulations to the following students that were successful in being selected.

Darryl Howe 

PDHPE Teacher/Sports Coordinator