Sport

Weekend Sport

Another great weekend of Sport is in the books for Term 4, with a number of teams making the long journey down to Mittagong to play their fixtures against Frensham. I would like to thank all the parents, supports and of course the students who are often up before the sun to ensure they get to the venue on time and it was extremely pleasing to be contacted by Ms Erin Gray, Head of Sport at Frensham, to send on her appreciation of the attendance and attitude of our teams across the board.

Once again, we have wet weather on the radar for games this weekend, so please make sure you check the relevant wet weather sites before you leave home to confirm the status of your fixture:

IGSSA Sport (touch football/water polo)

IPSHA Sport (basketball/cricket/tennis)

HKDTA tennis

Taekwondo

Good luck to Juliet Lahood (Year 9) who is currently in Korea representing Australia in the Kimunyong Cup International Taekwondo Championships. We wish Juliet every success!

Gymnastics

At time of publishing, our secondary gymnastics squad are making their way around their bar, floor and vault rotations at the IGSSA Gymnastics carnival so we’ll provide a summary of results in next week’s newsletter and keep our fingers crossed for those girls involved.

On Thursday, we had our primary students on show at the IPSHA Gymnastics Carnival. Congratulations to Francesca Byrne-Fister (Year 5), Rhiannon Doyle (Year 5), Eleanor Low (Year 5), Kayla McKeown (Year 5), Jessica Roche (Year 5) and Lucia Van Der Heiden (Year 5) for some excellent displays, with a big thanks to secondary students Alexa Yu (Year 7) and Tatiana Chapman (Year 10) who were able to call on their wealth of gymnastics knowledge to provide some expert coaching and guidance to the primary girls.

Swimming

Massive congratulations to Maddison Hinds (Year 6), who competed in the Australian Short Course Championships this week. Maddison swam in the Opens 50m Breaststroke Multi-Class event and her time of 44.88 makes her the 5^th fastest swimmer in that event in Australia! Well done Maddison!

Term 1, 2018 Sport Nominations

It’s that time of year already! Nominations for Term 1 Sport in 2018 closed today and students will be notified via email on Monday with the list of successful nominations. Please make sure you and your daughter check that she has nominated for the correct sport and that she is also aware of the commitment she is making by nominating, particularly regarding her attendance at all training sessions and fixtures.

Trials for teams will occur later this term, with information regarding specific sport trials being sent out to students in the coming weeks, so students should keep an eye on their school emails for that information.

Loreto Sports Girl Profile: Juliet Lahood

Current sport/activity: Taekwondo.

Favourite school sport/activity: Touch football.

Highest level of sporting achievement: Winning gold for Australia at the 2016 Oceania championships in Fiji.

Best moment of Loreto Sport for you: Scoring my first try in touch football.

Favourite sporting moment as a spectator: Cheering on my taekwondo training partners whilst they compete.

Best subject at school: Drama.

Best tune to listen to before competing: ‘Seven’ – Prince.

Photos

We love seeing photos of our girls enjoying sport, but unfortunately we can’t be everywhere at once. If you’re out and about over the weekend at your daughter’s fixtures, please send through any snaps you get to sport@loretonh.nsw.edu.au.

If you’re on Twitter, you can follow us at @loretonhsport – tweet us and use the hashtag #LetsGoLoreto and we’ll retweet as many as we can!

If you’re on Facebook, our page is at www.facebook.com/LoretoNHSport

EVENTS CALENDAR

SATURDAY SPORT BBQ ROSTER

Week  3 Saturday 28 October

Week 4 Saturday 4 November

Duties involve cooking on the BBQ or serving. If you are unable to fulfill your duty you must arrange a replacement (contact other day girls’ families in your team from the team contact list).

2017 Sport Contacts Term 4

Primary

Secondary

For IGSSA competitions, the full draw points table, venue lists and wet weather details are also available from the IGSSA website here.

 Mr Matt Mulroney

Acting Head of Sport