Sport & Co-Curricular

Senior Co-Curricular Sports

Term 2 Information:

SACSSGSA are currently in the process of re-grading sports teams and will release the fixtures for the remainder of the season at the beginning of Week 7.  The draws will be emailed to all teams and placed on Loreto Connect once they are finalised.

Round 4 Results

Reconciliation Round: 

On Saturday 27th May we recognised National Reconciliation Week at Loreto College and this included wearing red, black, or yellow ribbons and socks at our sports games and also acknowledging The Traditional Owners of the Land. 

Pink Round:

In Week 8, SACSSGSA in conjunction with IGGSA and SAAS (boys Association) are going PINKto raise awareness of breast cancer.

For all your sports games held in Week 8 (Wednesday 21st, Friday 23rd & Saturday 24th June) you are encouraged to wear pink ribbons or socks.

Cross Country:

Loreto is scheduled to compete in the SAAS State Relay Championships on Wednesday 28 June.  This event is held at Waite Oval on Fullarton Road 4:00pm – 5:30pm.  If you daughter is interested in competing, could you please email Sophie Hage no later than Wednesday 21 June.

Knockout Sport:

This year we have entered six teams into the interschool knockout competition in Netball, AFLW and Soccer.  Statewide school competitions are played during school hours and separate to our regular sport competition. If a team successfully wins all their first round games, they will proceed to the next round. Round 2 will take place at the end of Term 2 or the beginning of Term 3.  The dates for these competitions are as follows:

• Years 10-12 AFLW – competed in Round 2 on Tuesday 6th June (Week 6). The team won their first game against Woodville 146 – 0 and lost the second game to Banksia Park 11 – 26.  The team played quality football showing great skill and determination right up until the final minute. 
• Years 7/8 Netball – Wednesday 28th June (Week 9)
• Years 9/10 Netball – Thursday 22nd June (Week 8)
• Years 11/12 Netball – Wednesday 21st June (Week 8)
• Years 7/8 Soccer – Monday 26th June (Week 9)
• Years 7-9 AFLW – Term 3, date TBC

Student Achievements:

Congratulations to Year 7 student, Arabella Lehmann, who has been selected to represent SA in the School Sport Australia 12 years and under Australian Rules Football Championships. We wish Arabella all the best for this competition which will be held in NSW from Saturday 5th August to Friday 11th August.  

If you have any questions about co-curricular sport please contact me on Sophie.Hage@loreto.sa.edu.au

Ms Sophie Hage

Leader of Sport and Sport Performance

Junior Sports News

Cross Country

We have had some fantastic results in the Wednesday afternoon race meets recently with Marnie, Maddison and Alex all finishing in the top three over the last few weeks in races at St Peters, Pulteney, Concordia and the north parklands. Younger students Bella and Charlotte have joined in and shown promising signs. We currently sit top of the table, narrowly ahead of Pulteney Grammar.

At training this week the girls had a pairs relay race, testing themselves out with a series of repeat sprints. The ‘pink team’ of Olivia and Charlotte were winners in the end, finishing just ahead of the ‘red team’ Lilly and Bella. 

This week we had several runners qualify to represent the East Adelaide SAPSASA zone in the State Championships at Oakbank. Alex, Marnie, Maddison, Matilda and Juliet all headed up to the racecourse on a wet, wintery Thursday morning. The course was extremely muddy and slippery with several challenging uphill sections. Our girls ran brilliantly despite the conditions, doing themselves and the school proud. It was great to see East Adelaide finish in 2nd position in the 11 year old girls age group.

Netball

Our teams have started the season strongly with some wins, excellent numbers at training and fantastic family support at matches. The grading rounds are now finished and following the week off for the King’s Birthday we will find out our grades for the remainder of the season.

We have had some instances of illness to contend with the last few weeks and the Loreto community has jumped in to help. Some girls have doubled up and played back-to-back matches. Others have rushed from club games to fill in. A huge thank you also to Year 3 Tiana who put her hand up to fill in for her sister’s team in the Year 5/6 competition. Fearless!

Our Year 5/6 teams played an internal Lightning Carnival this week in place of training, given that there are no games on Saturday. Players were split into five teams – Yellow, Red, Black, Purple and Green. The teams played four x 7 minute matches each with positions rotated each game. All teams managed to get a win and in the end the Red and Purple teams finished on top with 2 wins, a tie and a loss from their four matches. The tie breaker was goals scored… however Red and Purple had also scored the same number of goals. The next tie breaker was who won the match between these two teams? Hmmm… that game was the tie!

So, no winner yet! We will go again next Thursday. The Purple and Red teams will have their grand final at the end of next week’s training.

Aerobics

Our teams continue to train hard on Wednesday and Friday mornings in preparation for our next competition – the FISAF State Championships on Saturday July 1st.

The girls performed well in the Super Series earlier this term. Results from the event:

Primary Phase 1

LC Thunder (1st) – Adella, Dana, Ella, Jemima, Lilah, Lily, Matilda, Scarlett, Serena

LC Diamonds (3rd) – Elsie, Grace, Gugulethu, Kalani, Rosie, Scarlett

Primary Phase 2

LC Illusion (1st) – Alyssa, Ella, Gabriella, Grace, Leja, Maeve, Millicent, Poppy, Vivienne 

LC Dynamite (2nd) – Anja, April, Indea, Kartia, Michelle, Milla, Olive, Rosina

Soccer

Well done to our Year 4s who picked up their first win of the term – a 3-2 victory over St Peters Girls!

Tough Stuff

We had a nasty fall in a Primary 8 netball game a couple of weeks ago. Eva stumbled and crashed to the ground. As the crowd winced and oohed, worse was to follow as Maya tripped over Eva and also crashed heavily to the ground.

I quickly started rummaging through our first aid kit (how many ice packs do we have…? Can you make two injury subs at once…?) however I needn’t have bothered. Eva and Maya both picked themselves up, dusted themselves off. “I’m ok.” “Me too.” No blood. No tears.

Play on!

Despite what looked like a train wreck, Eva and Maya both jumped straight back into the fray. What message did this send to the other team? Whoa… these girls are tough. Sure enough, we won the game. Compare Eva and Maya’s reaction to some examples we’ve seen from opposition teams, eg a girl getting bonked on the nose by the ball: Instant tears… straight off the court… consoled by mum and dad… subbed off… (“I’m never playing netball again!”)

When we get bumped, knocked or fall over it does hurt. Yes it hurt, but am I injured? Do I need help or can I handle it? It hurts a bit now but if I give it a minute…? Can I keep playing or do I need to come off? Help is always there when you need it of course but sport will sometimes provide opportunities for you to demonstrate your toughness, courage and resilience.

Basketball

Due to various circumstances, we only ended up with 4 players on the court on Wednesday against Concordia. Despite being outnumbered, Beatrice, Erin, Michelle and Greta worked tirelessly up and down the court. We were 10 points down at half time but a dominant second half saw us draw within 2 points with a couple of minutes left. All four players hit the scoreboard and also picked up a number of steals. In the end we went down 22-26 but it was a courageous effort!

Mr Ben Johnswood

Sport Coordinator