REPRESENTATIVE SPORT
Welcome to what is set to be an action packed term of Representative Sport.
St John’s has a strong sporting culture and provides many representative sporting opportunities for students.
The Representative Sport Google Classroom is a platform where students can access information on Representative Sport. This digital notice board provides important information such as the registration to trial, trial dates, important dates and expectations.
Students must be a member of the Representative Sport Google Classroom to access the google forms.
Any questions please email Sports Coordinator
Mrs E Gray
DIOCESAN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
On Wednesday 7th February the St John’s tennis team made the trek to Lumeah Tennis Centre for the Diocesan Tennis Championships. This was a new venue for the team and the players enjoyed the new venue.
The boys were led by the experienced Billy Broadhurst and Jacob Ey and well supported by our first-timers Viktor Creighton and Toby Royston. The combination of experience and fresh talent obviously worked with the boys winning the Consolation final (going one better than last year!) Billy’s experience and focused play was an asset for the team with Billy winning his single match convincingly 6-1. In the final, Jacob and Billy combined to win their doubles match 6-1. Toby was the surprise packet of the team winning his first ever tennis singles match! Viktor, in his doubles match with Toby, was really getting into the swing of things smashing down aces and powerful forehands to wipe the opposition off the court.
The girls had an experienced team led by Hannah Phillips with Ava Groves, Amelia O’Neill and Gianna Gonzaga. The team started strongly, and it was so good to see the growth in the confidence of the girls which was reflected in their first match win, with all girls winning a set. The second round saw the girls come up against their archrivals St Marys. Hannah put on a masterful exhibition of tennis in her singles match. In fact, it was heard in the crowd that the standard of play was so good that they didn’t need to go to the Australian Open next year – they can just watch Hannah play! Ava rallied well in all her games, fighting for every point. Amelia was more confident this year and it showed in her play, she was really enjoying herself! Gianna has also improved since last year and chased every ball down and didn’t make it easy for the opposition.
As always, the sportsmanship demonstrated by the students was excellent and they represented St Johns with pride. Thank you for a great day out and to all the teachers who covered my classes back at school.
The boys were led by the experienced Billy Broadhurst and Jacob Ey and well supported by our first-timers Viktor Creighton and Toby Royston. The combination of experience and fresh talent obviously worked with the boys winning the Consolation final (going one better than last year!) Billy’s experience and focused play was an asset for the team with Billy winning his single match convincingly 6-1. In the final, Jacob and Billy combined to win their doubles match 6-1. Toby was the surprise packet of the team winning his first ever tennis singles match! Viktor, in his doubles match with Toby, was really getting into the swing of things smashing down aces and powerful forehands to wipe the opposition off the court.
The girls had an experienced team led by Hannah Phillips with Ava Groves, Amelia O’Neill and Gianna Gonzaga. The team started strongly, and it was so good to see the growth in the confidence of the girls which was reflected in their first match win, with all girls winning a set. The second round saw the girls come up against their archrivals St Marys. Hannah put on a masterful exhibition of tennis in her singles match. In fact, it was heard in the crowd that the standard of play was so good that they didn’t need to go to the Australian Open next year – they can just watch Hannah play! Ava rallied well in all her games, fighting for every point. Amelia was more confident this year and it showed in her play, she was really enjoying herself! Gianna has also improved since last year and chased every ball down and didn’t make it easy for the opposition.
As always, the sportsmanship demonstrated by the students was excellent and they represented St Johns with pride. Thank you for a great day out and to all the teachers who covered my classes back at school.
Mrs Isemonger
