Secondary Sport News

Secondary Sport News

NSW All Schools Athletics Championships                                            

Congratulations to Coco Espie on her outstanding results at the NSW All Schools Athletics Championships that were held in December. Coco placed first in her four events and broke the Australian record for discus and shotput for her classification and age! At the completion of the competition, Coco was named in the NSW All Schools Merit Team. Coco has now qualified for the Australian Championships to be held in March. We wish her well as she continues to train in preparation for these championships.

Easts Touch

Round 1 commences this weekend on Saturday February 5. Teams and draws will be finalised and emailed to all students by Friday.

All other sports will commence next week. More information to follow.


SCEGGS Boarders Need You

We have several boarders at SCEGGS who need your help getting to sport on Saturdays. If your daughter has a boarder in her sports team and you live nearby, could we ask families to support and assist with getting the student to and from Saturday sport from the St Vincent’s College Boarding House in Potts Point.

 

Spectators at Saturday Sport

For the commencement of Term 1 Sport, we ask families to limit spectators to one person per student on a Saturday.


Wet Weather Arrangements for Term 1

SCEGGS Training sessions before and after school

Please check the @SCEGGSSport Twitter feed for the latest updates relating to cancellations.

IGSSA Wet Weather website

For all Saturday Tennis and Softball matches please refer to this webpage. Venue closures can be found on the top right hand corner of the page.

Easts Touch

 

 Secondary Swimming Trials – Monday February 7

All students have been emailed the following details regarding the swimming time trials to be held on Monday at Lane Cove Aquatic Centre.

As you are aware we will not be conducting the Secondary Swimming Carnival due to Covid concerns. On Monday February 7 we will be conducting Swimming Time Trials to select a team to attend the IGSA Swimming Carnival on March 25. This will be aimed at swimmers who would normally place in the top 5 in each of our SCEGGS age finals.

We will be conducting time trials in 50m Freestyle, 50m Backstroke, 50m Breaststroke and 50m Butterfly and 100m Freestyle. We will be using electronic timing so any school records that are broken on the day will be valid. This will be your only chance to break any school records in 2022.

A bus will depart SCEGGS at 9am at the completion of assembly on Monday to travel to Lane Cove Aquatic Centre. It is anticipated that we will return to SCEGGS at approximately 12:45pm in time for period 4.

Please wear your PE uniform to school on this day. You will need to bring your own goggles, swimming cap, towel, swimming costume or race suit, lots of food and drinks.

The squad selected from this day will then be required to attend the MLC Invitational Carnival on Friday February 18th for final selection.

Please click on this link to sign up for the events you would like to enter: https://forms.gle/8167YJGNSkdAVBdU8

You must sign up no later than 10am on Friday February 4. Anyone who has not signed up will not be permitted to race on the day.  If you have any questions, please come and speak with myself.

 

Ash Barty and the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup

We thought everyone might enjoy hearing a bit more about Daphne Akhurst and her connection with SCEGGS, following on from Ash Barty’s thrilling win in the Australian Open Ladies Singles Final on Saturday evening.  At the presentation you will have seen Ash being presented with The Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup.

Prue Heath, our SCEGGS Archivist, has provided some more information about Daphne. Daphne Akhurst, as a school girl, played tennis against SCEGGS students.

Born in 1903, Daphne Akhurst was a student at the Normanhurst School in Ashfield (no connection to Loreto Normanhurst). She regularly played as part of the Normanhurst team on a tennis court then on the lawn in front of Barham. She was a friend and rival of SCEGGS student Muffie Wilson [1920] who always just failed to beat her. Daphne won the first three Tildesley Shield singles and first two doubles events, with Muffie runner-up in both in 1918 – 19.

In 1933 with Daphne’s premature death, SCEGGS remembered her life and achievements in Lux, recalling that “Her sincerity, her modesty in her many victories, and her gallantry in her few defeats, her charm of person and of manner, whether the courts or off them, combined to make of Daphne Akhurst one of whose personality her countrymen were rightly as proud as of her prowess.”

Although the language is perhaps old fashioned, the sentiments could also be applied to Ash Barty’s sportsmanship and behaviour!

Daphne Akhurst was a pioneer of Australian women’s tennis, winning five Australian singles and doubles titles, and the mixed doubles four times. In 1925, she was a member of the first women’s tennis team to travel overseas competing at Wimbledon

In 1934, the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup was donated by the NSW Tennis Association.

This year, with the centenary of IGSSA which now administers the Tildesley Shield, it is nice to also remember the opportunities institutions like these give students to not only participate, but sometimes to excel.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact myself on 9052 2721 or 0418 491 521. Alternatively, if you have any news or photos that we can highlight in the newsletters please email alisongowan@sceggs.nsw.edu.au

Alison Gowan
Director of Sport