Sports Bulletin

Sport News and Reminders

2023 Sports Tours

Over the school holidays, three of our sports teams travelled away to compete, entering the QISSN Netball, Confraternity Shield Rugby League and Gold Coast Marathon. On behalf of St Mary’s, we want to thank our all our talented students who competed and celebrate all the hard work, passion and grit they put in. 

We would also like to thank all our wonderful coaches and support staff for their commitment and dedication over the last six months. And a very special thank you to all our sponsors who partnered with the college to assist in providing this incredible opportunity for our students.

2023 QISSN Confraternity Carnival

The SMCC Netball Team – QISSN 2023 Grand Finals!

SMCC Netball Team travelled to Brisbane to compete at the 2023 QISSN Carnival. Held at the Nissan Arena, the QISSN Carnival is the best Netball Competition in Australia and features more than 64 schools competing over five days. With St Mary’s unstoppable Netball Team, our girls took out each round and made it to the Grand Finals, WINNING their Division! A wonderful result for a talented team, congratulations girls! A big shout out to Charlotte Jonsen who was also named the 2023 QISSN Carnival ALL Stars team selected from all the 64 schools competing.

SMCC Netball Team would like to thank our sponsors who made our achievement possible giving our team the opportunity to compete at this year’s QISSN Carnival.

SMCC Confraternity Rugby League Team | Confraternity Shield Rugby League

SMCC Confraternity Rugby League Team made their way to Brisbane to compete for the 2023 Confraternity Shield. The Confraternity Carnival opened at Queensland’s famous, Suncorp Stadium, sparking a week of action featuring more than 1,200 students from Catholic and Independent schools across the state. Although, SMCC didn’t bring home the Shield, Rusia Bann and Cohen Stoute both received the 2023 Boys’ Best and Fairest Team Spirit Awards for St Mary’s.

The SMCC Running Squad | Gold Coast Running Festival Tour

An enormous CONGRATULATIONS to the SMCC Run Squad who took on the Gold Coast 10km on Sunday 2nd July with 3,500 other athletes from around the world. Well done SMCC Running Squad, we are very proud of you! 

Once again, thank you to our sponsors, who made this trip financially possible for our squad. Without their partnership, our students would not have the opportunity to compete at this level in the sport. Thank you so very much!

Regina Pittard – Judo Australia

St Mary’s wants to congratulate Regina Pittard on her outstanding performance at the recent 2023 Judo National Championships. Regina represented Queensland as a member of the State Team and brought home a gold medal in the Senior Kyu Women division. This was her first National Championship and with Regina’s hard work and skills, she helped Queensland have the best result in decades, finishing first place on the medal table, a feat not done in many years!

Reminder:

TCS 10 - 19 Track and Field Championships

• Monday 24th July - 1500m to be held at SMCC oval 
• Tuesday 25th July - 10 -12 years to be held at Barlow Park
• Wednesday 26th July - 13 -19 years to be held at Barlow Park

TCS 10 -19 Track and Field Championships permission slips and Peninsula Track and Field Student Permission Consent and Competency Booklets have been emailed to all students that have placed in the top 2 of their age group at the SMCC Athletics Carnival.

These forms and consent are to be handed in to the Sports Department office by Monday 10 July. 

If you have any questions, please email Ms Smith kmcpheesmi@cns.catholic.edu.au

Student expectations

No mobile phones during Sport: This includes all sport groups travelling offsite and CISSA teams. Failure to meet this expectation will result in a detention.

Expectations for students with regards to organisation: 

• Read the Notices located on the Student Portal each school day.  
• Bring their water bottle and hat to every Sport lesson. Failure to bring a hat will result in a lunch time detention. If your sport is a fitness-based activity, you will need to bring a towel. 

Expectations for students with regards to behaviour and engagement: 

• Participate in the Sport/ Activity to the best of their ability.
• Represent our College well when travelling off site.
• Demonstrate respectful and appreciative behaviour towards any outside provider facilitating a program along with a St Mary’s staff member. 

Please note: Our Sport program involves some groups travelling offsite therefore please avoid making appointments during Tuesday and Wednesday sport.  

TCS & Peninsula Trials

Parents/ carers will need to contact the College regarding any school absence due to students attending Peninsula trials which occur during school hours. TCS trials occur afterschool.  

Students are reminded to collect signed Peninsula paperwork from the HPE staffroom to take to their TCS trials. Students will NOT be allowed to trial if they do not have this paperwork. 

Students and their families are responsible for: 

Logging onto the Student Portal to obtain: 

• TCS Calendar (this tells you when your trial is on)
• Peninsula paperwork (complete, hand in & collect to take to trial)
• Notice of Trial (This document is uploaded to TCS Sport app within two weeks of trial) 
• Follow the timelines outlined in the Peninsula Paperwork Process – See below: 

Instructions on how to obtain access through the Student Portal have been provided each week at the end of this Bulletin – See below:  

1. Go to the TCS Sport tile in the Student Portal
    
2. In the ‘Key Paperwork’ section print the ‘Notice of Trial’ information for your sport trial. These will be uploaded as soon as we receive them. If it is not there for your trial, check again soon or see the sport staff in the HOB staffroom.
    
3. Complete the ‘Peninsula Student Permission Details Booklet’ immediately and bring it to the HPE staffroom for signing – paperwork needs to be submitted AT LEAST one week prior to the trial date. If it comes in later than this, we cannot guarantee that students will get it back in time for the trial which can result in them not being allowed to participate.

Students then need to report back to the HPE staffroom within 2 days to collect their signed paperwork and take the Peninsula Student Details Booklet with them to the trial. 

Sport Coordinator Availability to support students in TCS & Peninsula Paperwork processes: 

8:10am – 8:25am: Tuesday – Friday

Second half of Second Lunch: Monday – Friday 

3:15pm – 3:30pm: Monday, Wednesday & Friday

Kind regards,

Kym McPhee-Smith

Sport Operations Manager

kmcpheesmi@cns.catholic.edu.au