Secondary Sports News
SCEGGS Mid-term Break
With our impending SCEGGS mid-term break coming up on August 15, 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. Parents are required to email Ms Allum if they require leave of absence for any Saturday sporting fixtures.
NSW All Schools Cross Country
An update to our article from last week. Nancy Newton has now been added to the team to compete at the Australian Cross Country Championships in Adelaide in August. This comes after excellent results in the club pathway. Congratulations to Nancy as she joins Ruby Fry and Lily Cooney representing NSW.
Equestrian
The NSW Interschools Equestrian Championships were held in the July holidays. Unfortunately, the weather was not kind with extensive rain playing havoc. Several SCEGGS riders were able to compete in the Dressage on Day 1 (Hannah Doolan and Scarlett Webber). However, with great disappointment the entire competition had to be abandoned on the second day resulting in several of our SCEGGS riders being unable to compete at all.
Congratulations to Hannah Doolan who has been selected to represent the NSW Show jumping Team at the Australian Interschools Championships to be held in late September.
Water Polo
Junior Olympics
During these school holidays, Elizabeth Shin participated in an intense water polo training program in Santa Barbara in preparation for the US Junior Olympics.
The Junior Olympics are held in the US and is the world’s largest Water Polo competition, consisting of players and teams from several countries around the world. The competition is played in age groups and across 30 different venues across California.
Elizabeth’s team travelled to San Jose winning some very competitive games and only narrowly losing to the 2nd and 3rd placed teams.
Elizabeth’s Santa Barbara team placed 5th overall out of 96 teams in the U’14 girls age group. This is an outstanding achievement for an International competition. Congratulations Lizzie!
Junior World Cup
Good luck to Sienna Green who is representing Australia at the FINA World Water Polo Youth Championships in Belgrade, Serbia this week. We hope it is a successful tournament.
AFL
Well done to Yve Mitchell and Julia Machliss who represented NSW at the Australian U’15 AFL Championships. NSW placed 4th in a very closely contested competition. Both students enjoyed the challenge of stepping up from club football and had a wonderful time connecting with other AFL players from across Australia.
IGSA Fixtures, Results and Wet Weather
There is a new IGSA website and platform for accessing wet weather, fixtures and team results. You do not need to register or sign up to be a member to access this site.
SCEGGS Training sessions before and after school plus Saturday Sport
Please check the @SCEGGSSport Twitter feed for the latest updates relating to cancellations.
If you have any questions, 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
