Director of Sport and Co-curricular

Last Thursday night the College came together to celebrate the achievements of our representative sports boys and girls in a ceremony held in the College Hall. The event was organised to recognise the achievements of those students who represented the College in their chosen sports at CGSSSA level or above. It has been three years since we have been able to hold this event with many of our young students there, along with their parents, not knowing what to expect. The turn out from both the students and their parents was spectacular, to say the least. Our night began with parents and students being entertained by our music students around the Siena Centre, followed by an opening piece by our infant’s dance team who brought the house down with their western-style dance. That set the scene for a truly wonderful night culminating in awarding our Santa Sabina College sportspersons of the year awards, both Junior and Senior. A highlight of the evening was listening to our guest speaker, Ms Bridget Clarke (Class of 2020), who inspired our students with her story of playing sport for the College, and now pursuing her passion as a Rugby Sevens player selected to represent Australia in the Oceania games in New Zealand recently. Thank you to all staff and students as well as our parent body who supported what is an important event in our sporting calendar at Santa Sabina College.

This week on Tuesday morning our Dance students along with their parents got together for an end-of-season breakfast. Thank you to those parents who organised the amazing food, to the students who assisted both before and after the event and a special thanks to Ms Bryony Williams and her Dance Coaches who organised the breakfast. Our students are especially lucky to have someone who is so dedicated and professional ensuring our Dance program is going from strength to strength. After two years of not much dancing our girls showcased throughout the year their amazing talent winning many awards in Eisteddfods. Thank you once again to the parents and students for your continued support of the program, your commitment to making Dance at the College the best it can be and your positive contribution to Santa Sabina College.

On Monday this week I attended the Combined Catholic Colleges (CCC) Athletics Championships at SOPAC. Ten of our students were selected to compete for CGSSSA at the Championships having qualified at earlier representative events. Congratulations to all of these students who were competing against the best in the state in their age groups. To Lily Stewart who placed first in both long jump and hurdles in the U15, Rosanna Cartwright who placed third in the U17+ Javelin and to Emma Wheadon who placed fourth in both the 800 and 400m U17+ age group. To all the other students who may not have placed we congratulate you on your achievement. Amelie McKee, Amariah Kakala, Verona Gerges, Mira Nguyen, Charlotte Rudd, Janice Leelapatra, Gabriella Morkos.

There are also many students who have been selected in other representative events which you can read about in the representative page of this Veritas Voice.

Thank you to all those students who have played sport for the College this term. For those students who have played Basketball, Football, Water Polo, Hockey, Netball and Primary Touch Football, thank you for representing the College this term. For our remaining teams in this weekend’s Finals, SSC 5 & SSC 2 Basketball and SSC 1 Football we wish you all the best no matter what the result.

George Ayoub
Director of Sport and Co-Curricular