Senior School Sport

• Winter Sport/Co-curricular Photo Orders
• Athletics
• Basketball
• Cricket
• Rugby
• NSTA Tennis

Winter Sport/Co-curricular Photo Orders

Our Winter Sport/Co-curricular photos have now been taken. Hard-copy order forms were given to students and are due back to the Student Office by the end of this term. A PDF form is also attached below should you require it.

Athletics

Age Champions

Congratulations to the following students:

SPX / Riverview Carnival:  A great big thank you to everyone who helped out to host the final invitational carnival at ES Marks. We had a number of prefects organised by Jason Sacre of Year 11, Years 9 and 10 PASS students, coaching staff, teaching staff and parents all working together to run the event.

ISA:  At St Pius the focus on athletic performance is striving to improve personal best times, heights and distances. Athletes compete against themselves to improve. Hard work at training, listening to advice from coaches and competing is rewarded by improvement. It was this approach that our athletes applied successfully throughout the season and then took into the ISA Championship.  The team effort enabled us to finish with the following results:

ISA Results : Boys Division 1

• Junior Shield - 6th
• Intermediate Shield SPX - 2nd
• Senior Shield SPX - 1st
• Aggregate Trophy - 2nd

Next year I would like to encourage more students to get involved, whilst the ISA team is selected, the training and participation in Invitational carnivals is open to everyone.  We are very fortunate to have an extremely talented group of coaches that work with our athletes:  Will Richardson, Sam Richardson, Izzy Thorton-Bott, David Hudson, Maria Cimino and Ron Bendal. They pass on their experience and knowledge in a supportive and motivating manner. I know the boys they have coached are very grateful and appreciative of their efforts.

I would like to personally thank Sally Richardson who for over 10 years  has helped out at carnivals, organised training, coaches and created our school link with UTS/Norths Athletics Club.

Athletes Selected to Represent the ISA at CIS:  James Brown, Thomas Hunt, Alex Bain, Michael Fakoury,  Kalani Lenehan, Stuart Dingley, Lachlan Mathie, Daniel Hall, James Hunt, Dominic Panozzo, Connor Ryan, Ben Ferguson, Zac Flynn, Simon Magner and Ben O’Reilly.

Team Captain for 2018:  Daniel Hall

Gold Recipients:  Daniel Hall and James Brown

Mr R Lacey and Ms L Ho

Basketball

St Pius X Basketball Holiday Camps. During the coming holidays we will be running training camps for Years 5 – 9 at school in Chatswood. The sessions will be run by Tim Kovacevic, our new Development Officer, and AUSA Hoops coaches. The price is $50 per day for the whole day starting at 9:00am and finishing at 3:00pm. There will be a total of six days on offer. Students can attend as many days as they want.  Dates on offer are:  

• Tuesday 2nd, Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th October in the first week of the holidays.
• Monday 8th, Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th October in the second week of the holidays.

All students are welcome, even students who are not playing basketball for St Pius this season. There is a maximum number of 40 students per day. Students will need to bring their own lunch and a drink bottle.

Parents:  When booking more than one day, please select each specific day your son will be attending. Use the trybooking link  below to access the booking and payment webpage.  

https://www.trybooking.com/428113

A Teams - Trial Matches this Saturday 22nd September:  The A teams will have trial matches against St Aloysius teams this Saturday 22nd September at St Aloysius College located at 47 Upper Pitt St, Milsons Point.

All teams have been finalised and published at school. Students who do not have a Basketball uniform will need to purchase a singlet and shorts from the Uniform Shop. Students will be allocated a playing number. All students must wear the College Basketball shorts - Soccer shorts are not to be worn instead. I will be emailing the Training Schedule and Draws out to parents when I have completed them. The First Round of The ISA season is Saturday 27th October. Training for all teams will start second week back next term.

Mr N Gibson - Basketball Convenor

Cricket

Mr D Reay - Cricket Convenor

Rugby

Under 15s New Zealand Tour 2019:  Players interested in attending the Under 15s New Zealand Rugby Tour in 2019 are asked to secure their place through the following trybooking link:

https://www.trybooking.com/424348

The to The tour will occur during the first week of the April school holidays, departing Sydney on Friday 12th April and returning on Friday 19th April in time for Easter Weekend.  The tour is open to any boys who currently plays rugby or is interested in playing rugby in the future. It is not graded and there is no selection process, just a minimum number of 20 boys for the tour to go ahead. Students must be eligible for the Under 15s in 2019, that is they turn 15 next year.

I ask parents to consider this fantastic opportunity for their sons. If you have any questions regarding the tour please get in touch.

Mr J Lynch - Rugby Convenor

FROM THE RUGBY CLUB 

Save the Date:  Wednesday, 12th December 2018 – Inaugural SPX Rugby Club Golf Day at Roseville Golf Club  from 1pm - ‘Ambrose Shotgun Start’.  Further details to be provided in coming weeks and bookings will open shortly. Lady golfers most welcome and encouraged to play.

(Please note the date has now been moved from initially notified date of 28th November).

Paul O'Neill - President SPX Rugby Club

NSTA Tennis

NSTA Tennis 2018/19:  Registrations for the summer season were extended until Monday this week, but have now needed to close so that Teams can be formed and effectively graded.

The NSTA have now communicated that the Term 4 Competition will commence on Saturday 20th  October from 8am - 12pm. Tennis Players and Families are asked to make that note in their diary now. More details are to follow and will be distributed to students in the next few days, including the details around required uniform and method of payment for this school co-curricular activity. Team lists will be posted late next week and students will be alerted to this via Student Daily Notices.

Ms S-J Grove - NSTA Summer Tennis Convenor