St Joseph's Catholic High School Albion Park eNewsletter

Sport @ Joey's

St Joseph's Cross Country Carnival
We were blessed with glorious sunny weather for our annual school cross country carnival on Tuesday. It was a fabulous day with lots of active student participation. Lots of fun and enjoyment was had as teams battled it out for points in activities such as Human Naughts and Crosses, Egg and Spoon Relay, Heads and Tails, Trivia and Challenge games such as Waiter and Cookie Face. Students competed in a team cross country event for additional points and competitive runners took on the cross country course.

Many thanks to the wonderful St Joseph's staff for their hard work throughout the day and to the many student helpers. Our event was sponsored by the following sponsors: SAVVY Fitness, NSW Rugby, iBox and Rebel Sport. We would like to thank these businesses for their generous donations of prizes. Congratulations to the students who won prizes for participating in the Cross Country and for being the overall winning team from all of the activities.

St Joseph's has many talented long distance runners. Congratulations to the following students who were presented with age champion medals:

12s Girls-Lara Grimson, Keira Toohey 12s Boys - Dominic King

13s Girls - Tayissa Buchanan, Olivia Wishart, Rhianna Hogben

13s Boys - Liam Cergovski, Byron Haggart, Josh Miller

14s Girls - Grace Pomery, Daniella Avtarovski, Sienna Powell

14s Boys - Matt Leembruggen, Kalani Vella, Dylan Martos

15s Girls - Emily Allen, Hayley Kolts, Piper Latta

15s Boys - Bailey Sacco, Collins Kinyua, Marcus Chetcuti

16s Girls - Jessica Pateman, Molly Sumner, Sarah Walker/Maddison Mitchell

16s Boys - Adam Giudice, Rome McGrath, Alex Bierczynski

17s Girls - Ruby Sawtell, Tahlia Dole, Jessica Rossi

17s Boys - Jayden Allen, Quinn Dallasta, Rowan Karanja

18s Girls - Tegan O'Connor-Byrne, Kristina Puljak, Katie Saunders

18s Boys - Lleyton Mundt, Joel Dixon

Best of luck to our Cross Country Team who will represent St Joseph's at the Diocesan Cross Country Championships in Nowra on Monday 6th May (Week 2 Term 2).

Wollongong Diocesan Swimming Championships 2019
On Thursday the 14th of March, 21 of our St Joseph’s students attended the Wollongong Diocesan Swimming Carnival. Every student who proudly represented St Joseph's from this small squad gave 100% in the events they competed in, showing great sportsmanship and determination, displaying some great results. Over the day we had some amazing efforts and results.

Matthew Leembruggen from Year 8 won the 50m freestyle with a time of a 27.38 and also set a new record for the 50 Butterfly with a time of 29.49. Matthew also placed first in the 100m backstroke with a time of 1.09.55 setting a new record. Congratulations to Matthew who received Age Champion for the 14 yrs boys.

Sophie Mills from Year 11 placed second in the 50m freestyle with a time of 29.76. Sophie also received 3rd Age Champion for 17 yrs girls.

Both Matt and Sophie will be moving on to represent our school and the Wollongong Diocese at the Combined Catholic Schools level next month. We wish them well.

A special thank you to both Mr Hetherington and Mrs Mercieca for volunteering to take time out of their day, to supervise and support the students as well as make the day enjoyable for the students. Also a special thanks to Mitchell Austin from Year 11, for putting his hand up to assist the Wollongong Diocese with recording and timekeeping, in order for the day to run smoothly. Thank you also to Mrs Leembruggen who was our timekeeper for the day.