Shoalhaven Dean Young & Steelers Shield Under 14’s and 16’s Rugby League

On 23 May, myself and Mr Chard took two teams to Bomaderry Sporting Complex to compete in the Dean Young and Steelers Shield against a number of other Shoalhaven teams. While the Under 14s battled bravely through the competition, unfortunately, they did not make the finals. The Under 16s, on the other hand, had a narrow loss to Kiama but followed up with fine form against Bomaderry, putting them into the grand final against a damaging Ulladulla. Full of confidence from their win over Bomaderry, the boys took the early lead. Ulladulla struck next, however, then courage and intensity of Mr Chard’s Under 16s was too much for the competition and the boys ran away with a Grand Final win! Congratulations to all of the boys, they represented our school with pride and passion. A special congratulations to the super coach Mr Chard and the victorious Under 16 SJE Rugby League Team.

Netball and Cricket

Our Boys Netball teams and Girls Cricket sides will be competing in the coming weeks. It has been great to see so many new faces try out, train and get involved in representing their school and trying new sports. Hopefully some of these students find new passions and interests in sports they can continue to be involved in for many years to come! A special mention to Mr Gray and Mr Leishman who have been busy during lunchtimes trialling and training our Year 8-10 Boys in Netball. Goodluck to these teams.

The last few weeks we have also seen a number of students attend NSWCCC trials in their chosen sports. Well done to Samuel Maher (AFL), Shania Campbell-Cooper (Netball) and Isabel Goodwin (Netball) for attending these events.

Athletics Carnival - Friday 31 May

Good luck to all students competing at the school Athletics Carnival next week. From here our school Athletics team will be selected. Nominations for 1500m track have now been open on the rep sport google classroom page. Students wishing to compete in the 1500m track event at the school carnival will need to nominate prior to Wednesday 29 May at 3.00pm. This event will begin before the rest of the carnival, at 8.30am. Students will need to meet Mrs Isemonger outside the front office by 8.15am sharp the day of the carnival, and she will walk them to Shoalhaven High. Students are not to make their own way to Shoalhaven High. Nominations for Javelin have also been opened on the rep sport google classroom page. Javelin will not take place as an event on the day of the School Athletics Carnival, and so trials will take place during specified lunchtimes after the school carnival, during term 2. Only 1 competitor per age group will progress to the Diocesan Carnival. Trial dates will be communicated to students via the daily notices. Reminder: Competing in this event will contribute to overall age champion and house points.

A reminder that students continue to check the Representative Sport google classroom page and listen to the daily notices for any new information about rep sport at St John’s. Coming up later this term will be nominations for Hockey, Volleyball and Girls Netball.

Diocesan Football (Soccer)

St John’s are proud to have a number of our senior students selected in the Open Boys and Girls Wollongong Diocesan Football teams: Zoe Anderson, Taniesha Angelkovski, Lachlan Bryce, Olivia Delahenty, Rocky Lavalle, Casey Johnson and Jasmine Tan.

Miss Kate Davis
Representative Sports Coordinator

Diocesan Soccer (Football) Gala Days

Junior Girls

With the cooler morning and minimal training the 13’s girls started the day well. Our first game against Corpus Christi resulted with an unlucky goal and a 1-nil loss. As the day warmed up, so did the girls. With great attack down the wings from both Nakita and Charlie the girls came away with a 6-1 win with Kate Drinkwater scoring a hat trick. With Ruby’s strong ball control in the midfield as well as solid defense from Jess and Marcelle the next game remained scoreless with a nil all draw. The girls were unlucky in the last game with a hand ball in the box penalty. The girls fought hard to come back to one all. Finishing an awesome day with third in our pool and just missing the semi-finals by 1 point. Thank you to all the girls for a great day of soccer.

Mrs Hayley Prayetno
PDHPE Teacher

Intermediate Girls

Congratulations to the girls intermediate soccer team who played some fantastic games of soccer. Well done girls!

Open Girls

On 3 May, the Senior Girls Football team travelled to Woonona to participate in the Annual Diocesan Football Tournament. The girls had a good day, finishing 5th overall, losing 1, drawing 1 and winning 3. By the time our last game came around the girls started to reach their potential, winning 8 - 0 against St Joseph’s. Throughout the day a representative from the Diocese carefully watched all the individual players participating in the tournament, in order to select a representative team. We had 5 students selected in the representative team and 1 selected as a shadow player. Congratulations to Olivia Delahenty, Zoe Anderson, Casey Johnson, Taniesha Angelkovski, Jasmine Tan and Jessie Abbott.

Well done to the whole team for a successful day!

Mr Joshua Watson
PDHPE Teacher

Junior Boys

On the first game we lost 0-1 but we put up a good fight. The next game we won with Matthew Page’s awesome goal! Two games in and we were very tired but thankfully we had a two game break. Hugh Vaughan had some awesome goalkeeper saves.

At the end of the pool matches we came third out of five with 2 wins and 2 losses. We played for fifth/sixth match place and Lachlan Heywood got an early goal to secure the match. Other strong performers were Riley and Josh.

Report by Tahi Ryan-King
Year 7

Intermediate Boys

Congratulations to the intermediate boys soccer team who fought hard throughout the whole day.

Senior Boys

Well done to the senior boys soccer team who also had a great day at the Diocesan soccer gala day.

Upcoming events in Representative Sport

For NSWCCC Closing Dates, please visit https://www.csss.nsw.edu.au/nswccc-home.aspx to register before the due date.

Week Four:

23 May: Boys Rugby League Shields - Bomaderry (Under 14 and Under 16 Boys)

Week Five:

30 May: Boys Netball Schools Cup- Nowra (notes & payment due Thursday, 23 May)

31 May : Athletics  - St John’s Carnival

Week Six:

3 June: NSWCCC Tennis Championships- Bathurst (notes & payment due Monday, 27 May)

Week Seven:

11 June: South Coast Schools Surfing Competition (notes & payment due Friday, 24 May)

12 June: SOCCER - Wollongong Diocesan Knockout -Open and intermediate Girls (notes & payment due Wednesday, 5 June)

12 June: CRICKET - Year 7 & 8 Girls Shoalhaven Cup (notes & payment due Wednesday, 5 June)

14 June - NSWCCC Cross Country

26 June - CRICKET - Year 9 & 10 Girls Shoalhaven Cup (notes & payment due Wednesday, 12 June)

Term 3

Week One:

26  July: CROSS COUNTRY – NSW ALL SCHOOLS Eastern Creek

Week Two:

31 July: NETBALL GIRLS - Wollongong Diocesan Carnival

Week Four:

16 August: ATHLETICS - Wollongong Diocesan Carnival

Week Five:

20 August: NETBALL NSW CCC Tournament- Penrith

Week Six:

28 August: VOLLEYBALL - Wollongong Diocesan Gala Day

28 August: HOCKEY - Wollongong Diocesan Gala Day