Sport and Co-curricular

Term 3 Sport

Term 3 sport is officially underway! We have over 40 teams playing across various competitions and associations such as IPSHA Touch Football, IGSA Basketball, Football and Hockey, Sydney Volleyball League and ERNA Netball. We wish these teams the best of luck for the term ahead!  

A friendly reminder to communicate any training or game absences and any team photos taken during the term to the College Sport email sport@ssc.nsw.edu.au. 

Term 4 Sport and Co-curricular Activities Registrations

Term 4 Sport and Co-curricular Activity registrations have officially opened and will close on Friday 18 August. We have changed registration platforms and will remain on this platform for all future registrations, please look at the ‘How to Register’ cheat sheet for further information on how to register your child to term 4 Sport Activities. If you have any further questions, please email College Sport email sport@ssc.nsw.edu.au. Further information regarding team trials will be posted to the respective VO pages. 

IGSA Tennis
IGSA Touch Football 
IGSA Water Polo
IPSHA Girls Basketball
IPSHA Boys Basketball
IPSHA Girls Tennis
Santa Invitational Basketball
Santa Invitational Volleyball
NSW Girls Rugby Sevens Competition
Swim Club
Run Club
Fit Club
Dance Club 
Senior Boxing 10-12
Super Sports P-2

Representative Sport Update

Interschools Sydney Regional Snowsports Championships 

During the July school holidays one of our Year 2 students, Woowon Cho, represented the College at the Sydney Interschools Snowsports Championships at Thredbo. He competed in the division 6 alpine event and placed 12th out of 39 competitors with a best time of 38.04s! He has now qualified for the NSW State championships in August. 

Volleyball

This week, on Thursday, 03 and Friday 04 SAN04 (Year 8) and SAN02 (Year 11) will compete in the NSW Volleyball Schools Cup at the Olympic Park.

We wish our students all the very best of luck as they have been working really hard at training and the Sydney Volleyball League games (SVL) in preparation for it.

Please note that we will have an information session for all the Volleyball Representative Program parents and players on Thursday 3 August at the College Lecture Theatre from 7:00pm.

CGSSSA Basketball

In Week 1 the College sent three teams to participate in the CGSSSA Basketball Tournament. The girls faced some tough opponents but overall had an exciting day. Congratulations to our Junior team who placed third on the day! 

Cate Crampton
Acting Assistant Director of Sport and Co-curricular Activities

Dance update

Our representative dancers have hit the ground running this term, competing at Ryde Eisteddfod and our Junior teams competing at the Sydney Eisteddfod. Six out of our eight teams competed at Ryde Eisteddfod and showed professionalism and excellence during their performances. We had amazing results and are so proud of our dancers:
Infants Dance Team – 1st Place
Primary White Dance Team (Yr 3-4) – 1st Place
Primary Black Dance Team (Yr 5-6) – 1st Place
Senior Jazz Team – 2nd Place
Senior Musical Theatre Team – 2nd Place

Our Senior teams have already competed at the Sydney Eisteddfod and it was now our Junior teams’ turn, on one of the biggest stages in the world, the Sydney Opera House! It was a beautiful day and such an amazing experience for all four of our junior teams to compete in one of their toughest competitions for the season in such an iconic venue. Our students were commended on their energy, enthusiasm and respectful demeanour throughout all events. We also had incredible results at this challenging eisteddfod:
Infants Dance Team – Highly Commended
Primary Hip Hop Team (Yr 5-6) – Highly Commended
Primary Black Dance Team (Yr 5-6) – 2nd Place  

We continue to be so proud of our dancers and are thankful for the supportive dance community we have at Santa who cheer our dancers on at every eisteddfod.

Bryony Williams
Year 5 Teacher and Dance Coordinator

Deabting update

On Tuesday last week, we hosted Round 6 of the Archdale (IGSA) Debating Competition. We had debaters across Years 7 to 12 and after 2 and a half hours of arguments, counter arguments, agreements and disagreements Santa Sabina College brought home four wins out of eight debates.

I was also very fortunate to be present at the CSDA Debating Semifinals watching our 11 A team at Rosebank College. The team composed of Lucia Juarez, Olivia Radford and Molly Hoogland was outstanding in debating if the ‘UN should intervene in the Russia/Ukraine war’. Their arguments were extremely convincing (they were the negative team) and well constructed giving them the right to participate in the CSDA Debating grand finals on Friday 4 August. Congratulations girls! 

Luiz Ramalho
Director of Sport and Co-curricular Activities

Co-curricular update

Please ensure that you get on to Term 4 registrations before the cutoff date as most of the programs are very popular and sell out really quickly. For IPSHA and IGSA sport it gives us the opportunity to sign more teams up for each competition. If you have any questions before registering in any activity, please email sport@ssc.nsw.edu.au .