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IGSA Athletics Carnival 2023

Congratulations to all students who competed at the IGSA Athletics Championships that were held at the Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre. SCEGGS placed 12^th overall out of 27 schools.

Event		Name	Division 2 Heat	Final Result
Hurdles	12 Years 80m	Stella Brenton	3^rd	5^th
	13 Years 80m	Tyra Ifada	3^rd
	14 Years 90m	Sarah James	1^st	3^rd
	15 Years 90m	Annaliese Stackpool	2^nd
	16 Years 100m	Eleanor Lawson	6^th
	17 Years 100m	Janet Zheng	5^th
	18 Years 100m	Hannah Guest	3^rd	6^th

800m	12 Years	Georgina Auld	8^th
	13 Years	Annabelle Jessup	5^th
	14 Years	Summer McCarthy	5^th
	15 Years	Annabel Lavery	5^th
	16 Years	Molly Andrews	7^th
	17 Years	Janet Zheng	6^th
	18 Years	Hannah Peacocke	6^th

200m	12 Years	Georgina Auld	3^rd	7^th
	13 Years	Isabella Campbell	6^th
	14 Years	Sofia White	7^th
	15 Years	Mia Sparks	7^th
	16 Years	Stella Argyrides	3^rd	8^th
	17 Years	Tessa McCarthy	1^st	3^rd
	18 Years	Mietta Paipetis	6^th
	Para-athlete	Coco Espie		2^nd

1500m	Junior	Annabelle Jessup	3^rd	8^th overall
	Intermediate	Annabel Lavery		15^th overall
	Senior	Harriet Christie		18^th overall

100m	12 Years	Georgina Auld	3^rd	8^th
	13 Years	Isabella Campbell	5^th
	14 Years	Adelaide Sewell	8^th
	15 Years	Mia Sparks	6^th
	17 Years	Tessa McCarthy	1^st	4^th
	18 Years	Hannah Guest	8^th
	Para-athlete	Coco Espie		2^nd

4 x 100m Relay	Junior	Pui Wai Evelyn Li Adelaide Sewell Isabella Campbell Tyra Ifada	9^th
	Intermediate	Stella Argyrides Eleanor Lawson Isla Hootman Jemima Sewell	1^st	3^rd
	Senior	Tessa McCarthy Hannah Guest Mietta Paipetis Sophie Myles	8^th

400m	Junior	Sofia White	6^th
	Intermediate	Isla Hootman	5^th
	Senior	Tessa McCarthy	1^st	2^nd overall

Long Jump	12 Years	Stella Brenton	6^th
	13 Years	Pu Wai Evelyn Li	4^th
	14 Years	Sarah James	5^th
	15 Years	Eden Smith	2^nd	4^th Overall
	16 Years	Eleanor Lawson	7^th
	17 Years	Sophie Myles	5^th
	18-19 Years	Amanda Aroney	5^th
	Para-athlete	Naylise Thompson		3^rd overall

Javelin	Junior	Veronica Leys	4^th
Javelin	Intermediate	Annaliese Stackpool	5^th

Shot Put	12 Years	Stella Brenton	9^th
	14 Years	Ivy Platt	6^th
	15 Years	Eden Smith	4^th	9^th Overall
	16 Years	Eleanor Lawrie	8^th
	17 Years	Sophie Myles	5^th
	18-19 Years	Mietta Paipetis	6^th
	Para-athlete	Coco Espie		1^st Overall
	Para-athlete	Naylise Thompson		2^nd Overall

High Jump	Junior	Sarah James	6^th
	Intermediate	Annaliese Stackpool	7^th
	Senior	Amanda Aroney	2^nd	9^th Overall

Discus	Junior	Veronica Leys	9^th
	Intermediate	Eleanor Lawrie	8^th
	Senior	Hannah Guest	7^th
	Para-athlete	Coco Espie		2^nd Overall
	Para-athlete	Naylise Thompson		3^rd overall

Good luck to the following students who will be competing at the NSWCIS Athletics Championships:

Stella Argyrides (Year 10)
Matilda Emanuel (Year 9)
Coco Espie (Year 9)
Isla Hootman (Year 10)
Eleanor Lawson (Year 11)
Evelyn Li (Year 8)
Tessa McCarthy (Year 11)
Jemima Sewell (Year 10)
Naylise Thompson (Year 10)
Ava Pepper (Year 6)
Beatrice Emanuel (Year 4)
Klemintine Chylek (Year 4)
Clementine Finlayson (Year 4)

Australian Cross Country Championships

Well done to our four SCEGGS representatives who competed at the Australian Cross Country Championships that were held in Canberra.

Under 18 4000m	Ruby Fry 24^th
Under 16 4000m	Matilda Emanuel 16^th Nancy Newton 33^rd Lily Cooney 37^th

Taekwondo

Congratulations to Holly Johnston (Year 8) who won the Gold Medal at the NSW All Schools Taekwondo Championships. Holly is currently a Green Belt with a Blue Tip, and competes in the Junior class. Holly trains out of the Wyllie Martial Arts in Willoughby. She also holds a brown belt in Karate!

Gymnastics

Congratulations to Alexa Falzon (Year 7), Jamilla Yamani (Year 7) and Annalise Zimmerle (Year 8) who all competed at the State Clubs Competition that was held last Saturday.

Alexa represented Five Dock Gymnastics Club who won the gold medal for the Level 7 team event. The team finished 1^st on bars, 2^nd on floor and 2^nd on beam.

Annalise and Jamilla represented Bunnerong Gymnastics who placed 4^th in the Level 8 Team.

The students also previously competed at the NSW Championships achieving excellent individual results:

Alexa placed 22^nd Overall in Division 1
Jamilla placed 9^th Overall in Division 2
Annalise placed 25^th Overall in Division 3

AFL

Well done to Emma Juneja in Year 12 who was selected for the National Futures Training Camp to play and train in Melbourne last weekend. Emma was one of 4 NSW players to be selected in the group of 44 U’17 players from around the country. Not surprisingly Emma was also nominated for a Rising Star Award in the Premier League earlier in the season. Emma will now be focusing on the HSC for the next few weeks before getting back into training again. We look forward to following her progress with the Sydney Swans.

Equestrian

Congratulations to Chloe Copp in Year 12 who placed 4^th in the Young Rider Class (Under 21) at the Tamworth World Cup Equestrian Event. We wish her well as she now focuses on the HSC for the next few weeks.

IGSA Hockey

SCEGGS 1 finished the season strongly with a 3-0 win over Ravenswood to place 6^th in S01 playing against the “best of the best”. We say farewell to many of our Year 12 players who have been in the Senior 1^st team over several years. It was an emotional morning for everyone, especially Head Coach James Birkefeld who has coached many of these players since primary school.

SCEGGS 2 faced some tough opposition throughout their season and finished 8^th in S03.

SCEGGS 3 finished 5^th in S04 and narrowly missed out on semi-finals.

SCEGGS 4 finished 4^th and were defeated by Ascham 3-0 in their semi-final on the weekend.

IGSA Basketball

SCEGGS 1 finished the regular season in second place and were narrowly defeated in the semi-final by Kambala 20-18 in a thrilling match.

Upcoming Grand Finals Schedule – Saturday September 16

Event	Where	Time
SCEGGS 2 v Monte 2	Wenona	10am
SCEGGS 5 v Wenona 6 in J02	Kincoppal Rose Bay	8am
SCEGGS 6 v Ascham 7 in J03	Kincoppal Rose Bay	9am
SCEGGS 7 v Santa 3 in J04	Billbergia Court 3	11am

Good luck to our four teams who are playing in Grand Finals this weekend.

IGSA Netball

The SCEGGS 1 Netball team were defeated by Ascham 35 -41 in the S02 Semi-final that was played here at SCEGGS.

Upcoming Grand Final Schedule – Saturday September 16

Event	Where	Time
SCEGGS 6 v St Vincent’s 11 in J07	Sydney University	10am
SCEGGS 7 v Ravenswood 15 in J09	Ravenswood Indoor	9am
SCEGGS 11 v PLC Sydney 25	PLC Sydney	11am

IGSA Football

Grand Final & Round Robin Schedule – Saturday September 16

Event	Where	Time
SCEGGS 1 v Kambala 1	Heffron Park	9am
SCEGGS 2 v Kambala in S03	Tom Wills Community (TWC) Field	9am
SCEGGS 4 v Loreto Kirribilli 4 in J01	Cammeray Synthetic Field	11am
SCEGGS 7 v Wenona 7 in Y701	David Phillips Synthetic	8am

SCEGGS Touch Trials for Term 4

Date	Event	Time	Where
Tuesday 19 September	Year 10/11 including any juniors trialling for Senior 1^st team	3.15 pm – 5pm	Moore Park Synthetic
Wednesday 20 September	Year 7 (all students required even if you are trialling for Junior 1^st)	3.15 pm – 5pm	Rushcutters Bay
Thursday 21 September	Year 8/9 including any Year 7 students trialling for Junior 1^st team	3.15pm – 5pm	Rushcutters Bay

SCEGGS Water Polo Trials for Term 4

Date	Category	Time	Where
Tuesday September 19	Years 10-11	6:30am – 7:30am	UNSW Pool
Thursday September 21	Years 7-9	6:30am – 7:30am	UNSW Pool

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

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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