Sport News
Sports News
Term 1 is a busy term with many opportunities for students to represent St Joseph’s at various sports events. We kick off the Diocesan Secondary Schools Sports Calendar with Boys Touch Football and Open Boys and Girls Tennis in Week 4. Girls Touch Football is in Week 6 and Swimming in Week 7.
Swiming carnival
To select our St Joseph’s Swim Team for the Diocesan Carnival, we will be holding a competitor’s only school swimming carnival at Albion Park Pool on Wednesday 24th February. The carnival is for students who can swim 50m competently. A consent form will be sent to parents and carers electronically via Compass this week. Students will be required to nomionate for the events that they would like to compete in on the electronic consent form.
Due to current Covid Safety Guidelines, no spectators are allowed (except for parents who are timekeeping). Year 11 SLR students are attending as officials.
All swimmers will be required to attend homeroom at school on the day and walk under teacher supervision to the pool in year groups. Students are reminded to follow social distancing measures, use the hand sanitiser provided and avoid mixing with students across year groups in between events. Students are not permitted to attend the carnival if they are feeling unwell.
Soccer Gala days
To prepare our teams for the Soccer Gala Days at the end of this term, Chipper’s Finishing School is running a Development Program for U14’s at St Joseph’s on Thursdays from Lunchtime to the end of Period 5.
Sports Calendars
Please see below for the 2021 Secondary Schools and NSWCCC Sports Calendars.
Key Dates for Term 1 Representative Sport:
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February 15th |
U13’s, U15’s & Open Boys Touch |
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February 18th |
Year 7-11 Tennis |
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February 24th |
School Swimming Carnival |
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March 1st |
U13’s, U15’s & Open Girls Touch |
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March 12th |
Diocesan Swimming |
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March 16th |
School Cross Country Carnival |
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March 17th |
U15 & Open Boys Rugby League Trial |
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March 19th |
Boys and Girls Football |
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March 29th |
NSWCCC Swimming |
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2021 NSWCCC Sport Registrations
There are opportunities for students to progress through NSW Catholic School pathways to represent in their chosen sport. The diagrams below explain the pathways available to students:
Nominations opened on Feb 1 2021 for individual students with a strong representative history to register for the following sports:
- Boys 19 yrs Cricket (closing date 15th Feb)
- Girls Cricket (closing date 10th Feb)
- Softball (closing date 12 Feb)
- Boys 15 yrs Cricket (closing date 18th Feb)
- Rugby League (closing date 19th Feb)
- Tennis (closing date 22nd Feb)
- Golf (closing date 25th Feb)
- Baseball (closing date 26th Feb)
- Volleyball (closing date 5th March)
- Waterpolo (closing date 11th March)
- Triathlon (closing date 15th March).
Unfortunately the NSW All Schools Triathlon Teams Championships set down for March 31 has been cancelled.
Please note that it is the responsibility of parents to register their child for these selection trials. This needs to be done on the Catholic Schools NSW Sport website: www.csnsw.sport
Here is an information sheet to guide parents/carers through this process.
Best of luck to our students as they represent St Joseph’s with pride in the sporting arena this year. Thank you in advance to all of our dedicated coaches, school administration staff and team officials who work tirelessly behind the scenes and on competition days to make these events a success.
Please email me if you have a good news sports story that you would like published in future newsletters. We have many talented athletes at St Joseph’s and we love celebrating sporting success. My email address is: garbuttm01@dow.catholic.edu.au
Mrs Garbutt
Representative Sports Coordinator