Sporting Achievements

Sporting Achievements

Cricket

Sam H (Year 10) has spent his summer holidays playing in two of the country’s most prestigious cricket competitions, Bradman Cup and Green Shield. These tournaments bring together the best under-16 cricketers from country and metropolitan NSW.  

In the Bradman Cup, Sam represented the Greater Illawarra team who placed 3rd overall. He racked up more than 200 runs, scoring 61 runs against Central Coast. This placed him 5th top batter overall and he was named in the NSW Country Championship team of the tournament.  

Sam then went on to play in the Sydney Green Shield competition, which is one of the best Australian under-16 junior competitions and showcases the talents of the best cricketers from 20 NSW Premier Cricket clubs.  

His team, North Sydney, narrowly missed out on the finals. Sam placed 2nd for North Sydney in batting with over 100 runs and was placed 5th overall in the tournament for fielding with 9 catches. His top batting performance was 45 runs against Manly Warringah, the eventual Grand Final winners. 

Sam has been selected to attend the U16 NSW Country trial matches to be held at Cricket Central on February 22 and 23. The purpose of these matches is to finalise the selection of the U17 NSW Country State Squad. 

Sam also heads off to India in April for two weeks of cricket at the International Academy League Tournament to be held in Bangalore.  

Greater Illawarra Bradman Cup
North Sydney Green Shield

The Oxley 1st XI put on an incredible show for spectators last weekend, with particular mention to Darcy K (Year 12) who took 6/32 including 5 wickets in 5 balls against the Old Oxleyans!

Swimming

Annabel A (Year 11) had a very busy Friday in the pool – after storming the Oxley Senior Swimming Carnival and breaking the school record of each race she competed in, she participated in the NSW Country Championships at Sydney Olympic Park with the following incredible results:

  • Bronze medallist in 100m Breaststroke, qualifying for Nationals with a time of 1:17:82
  • Bronze medallist in 50m Breaststroke, qualifying for Nationals and for the Open Championships (to race against Olympians!) with a time of 35:31
  • Silver medallist in 200m Breaststroke, qualifying for Nationals with a time of 2:46:35

Athletics

A massive achievement from Pixie H (Year 7) who finished 1st in the Under 15 age group at the NSW All Schools Individual Triathlon Championship this week. She has now been selected in the NSW All Schools Team to compete in Perth at the Australian Championships in March.

Oxley’s Junior Girls Triathlon Team (Pixie H (Year 7), Charlotte H (Year 7) and Penelope B (Year 8)) came 3rd in the NSW All Schools Triathlon Championship (2nd across CIS Schools) this week. This is a wonderful achievement in a huge competition; the Junior Girls Relay had 76 teams in the NSW Championship, and 32 teams in the CIS Championship. Well done, girls!