Sport and Co-curricular

Term 3 Sport Update

Term 3 sport is officially underway! It has been exciting to see the wonderful results from all teams across the primary and secondary campuses, leading into finals for IGSA Sport. Congratulations to the following teams who are currently sitting in first or second place on their competition ladder!

SAN02 IGSA Basketball 
SAN03 IGSA Basketball
SAN03 IGSA Football
SAN03 IGSA Hockey

Sports Awards Evening

I am pleased to inform you that on 7 September we will run the College Annual Sports Awards Night at the Sienna Centre (College Hall) from 5:30pm. It will be a celebration of the commitment our community has shown towards the College Sports Programs and the achievements of our outstanding sportspeople.

Please keep an eye out for an invitation to be sent by the College Sports Department if your son or daughter is an award recipient for the night. Please only respond if you are not attending the event.

Representative Sport 

Representative Team Competitions

Congratulations to Ava Sinot for Representing Mackillop at the NSWPSSA Football Carnival. She had a great week and the team placed third overall. Congratulations to Faith Ata who is currently representing Mackillop at the NSWPSSA Rugby Championships in Mudgee. We wish her team the very best!

Representative Team Selections

Congratulations to the following students who have been selected in various representative teams! We wish them all the very best at the next stage. 

Emma Wheadon – NSW All Schools Cross Country Team
Faith Ata – Mackillop Rugby Union Team

Conference 2 Athletics 

On Tuesday, 30 students from Years 2 to Year 6 participated in the Sydney Catholic Schools Conference Athletics Carnival held at the Ridge Athletics Track in Barden Ridge. Congratulations to the following students who have progressed to the Sydney Catholic Schools Pre-Post Championships to be held at Sydney Olympic Park on Friday 1 September. A special mention to Stefania Lazanja and Alessandra Ronsisvalle who broke the record in their respective events.

Jayden Agius 
Lillian Ayoub 
Alessandra Ronsisvalle
Freya Ingwersen
Stefania Lazanja
Isla The

Volleyball Schools Cup Results 

On Thursday, 17 and Friday 18 August SAN 03 (Year 9) and SAN 05 9 (Year 7) played at the NSW Volleyball Schools Cup. After a series of games competing with the best School Volleyball teams in the state, both teams made it to the grand finals winning silver. A great display of pride while representing Santa could be seen as well as a very high level of Volleyball played across the two days. I would like to thank Mr Lewis Jupp, the College Volleyball Coordinator and coaches Jasmine Mronese (SAN 05), Luisa Uzelac (SAN 03) for achieving such a great result with our Representative Volleyball Program.

NSWCCC Water Polo Championships Expressions of Interest

Santa Sabina will enter 1 open (Y7-11) team and 1 junior (Y7-9) team into the NSWCCC Water Polo Championships in Week 2 of Term 4. Juniors will play on Thursday 19 October and Opens on Friday 20 October at Sydney Olympic Park.

If you wish to trial for either team, and represent the College, please fill in the expression of interest form. Selected students will be required to commit to training sessions in the lead up to the Championships.

ERNA Netball 

Many teams celebrated their end of season last Saturday and enjoyed their individual mini presentations. It was a wonderful way to wrap up the regular rounds of the ERNA winter netball competition.  

Thank you to all the parents, carers, siblings, friends and relatives who supported our Santa teams throughout the season and a BIG thank you to all of our managers who coordinated the teams week in and week out. Also, a special thank you to the parents who volunteered to help with our duty allocations throughout the season, including BBQ duty this past weekend.

Congratulations to Isabella Kelly who achieved her ERNA Umpiring Badge having only just completed the umpiring development course this season and to Gianna Leonard who progressed and received her National C Badge. Gianna is currently our only active C badged umpire, so we encourage our senior players to consider participating in this program next year.

Finally, I’d like to congratulate the eight teams who have made it through to the semi-finals this coming weekend.  We have been fortunate enough to secure Paige Hadley, Swifts and recent Diamonds World Cup winner to help prepare these teams for their matches.

Best of luck to SSC03, SSC07, SSC08, SSC12, SSC13, SSC18, SSC20 & SSC22.

Joanne Gocher
Head Netball Coach
Invitational Volleyball and Basketball Coordinator

NSW Girls Team Chess Challenge – Secondary

On Friday, 18 August the College entered two Open teams to play at the NSW Girls Team Chess Challenge at the Sydney Academy of Chess in Burwood. The students competing to represent Santa Sabina College were:

Alicia Bouantoun, Year 6
Emma Gao, Year 8
Michelle Indra, Year 10
Nicole Wong, Year 10
Jayden Xie, Year 10
Kate Fernandez, Year 10

A great deal of focus and quality decision making was displayed throughout the day and the girls were very excited to represent the College competing against Schools such as Meriden, Abbotsleigh, Sydney Girls High School and Ascham.

CSDA Debating Finals

On Friday, 4 August I was once again fortunate to be present at the CSDA Debating Year 11A grand final at the Christian Brothers High School in Lewisham. The team composed of Lucia Juarez, Olivia Radford and Molly Hoogland was outstanding in debating if ‘We should ban HSC’. Their arguments were extremely convincing (they were the negative team) and well constructed giving them a great win after a close debate against the boys from St Patrick’s College Strathfield (In the words of one of the adjudicators: ‘We witnessed a masterclass in debating’).

I would like to thank Ms Sulis and Ms Simmons for their dedication to the College Debating Program and Congratulate the students for this great achievement.

Luiz Ramalho
Director of Sport and Co-curricular Activities