Secondary Sport News

SCEGGS Mid Term Break

With our impending SCEGGS Mid -Term break coming up on Monday August 14, it is timely to remind everyone that most sporting teams still have fixtures on the Saturday. All students are required to play their scheduled matches.

Sailing

Congratulations to Grace Morrow (Year 12) who travelled to Alicante in Spain to compete at the 420 World Championships. The trip was an amazing experience, with 277 boats from 20 countries competing over 6 days of racing, involving more than 600 sailors and their coaches, and supporters.

One of the main objectives for the Australian Team was to expose the sailors to the scale and intensity of elite international competition. Additional challenges were presented by the European heat wave, high humidity and the unusual sailing conditions of that part of the Mediterranean Sea.

Grace and her sailing partner competed in the Women’s Division. The division was split in two, because of its size, and the competition ran over six qualifying races and six finals races. The first two days offered light winds and a large chop, favouring the lighter local crews. The third day presented much stronger winds, more similar to our strong summer winds. This allowed the girls to demonstrate their skill and deliver their best results, finishing 7^th and 13^th. Unfortunately, the first two days of light winds, and adjusting to the Mediterranean, cost them a spot in the gold fleet. The next three days saw them deliver some great results finishing 13^th, 17^th, 6^th, 10^th, 20^th and 8^th in the final races of the championship. Overall, they finished 42^nd in the 64 boat women’s fleet the best result of the four boat Australian team. A great result for their first international regatta.

Grace is now back at SCEGGS and focusing on her trial HSC exams.

Interhouse Hockey

Last Tuesday the Interhouse Hockey Competition was conducted on the Moore Park artificial turf. Congratulations to Badham who were the eventual winners after a countback.

1^st Place Badham	19 points (countback)
2^nd Place Docker	19 points
3^rd Place Beck	19 points
4^th Place Christian	13 points
5^th Place Barton	11 points
6^th Place Langley	6 points

Interhouse Netball

Last Tuesday the Interhouse Netball Competition was conducted at the Moore Park Netball courts. Congratulations to Barton who were the eventual winners after a countback.

1^st Place Barton	21 points (countback)
2^nd Place Badham	21 points
3^rd Place Christian	19 points
4^th Place Langley	13 points
5^th Place Beck	11 points
6^th Place Docker	6 points

Do you have any sporting news or photos to share in the Green Gate?

We love seeing our students being active and want to celebrate their passion and enjoyment amongst the SCEGGS community. Please send in any action shots from the weekend and any other interesting sporting highlights to Alison Gowan (Please ensure that photos are of your daughters only. We are unable to publish photos of non SCEGGS students without parental permission).

SCEGGS Training sessions before and after school plus Saturday Sport

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

IGSA Fixtures, Results and Wet Weather

The IGSA website and platform for accessing wet weather, fixtures and team results can be found here.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact myself on 9052 2721 or 0418 491 521.

Alison Gowan
Director of Sport