If you have any questions about Primary sporting matters please contact me. 

Wendy Van Kerk Oerle 

Primary Sports Coordinator

Secondary Sport

Archdiocese Basketball Gala Day - Tuggeranong

Congratulations to our teams who competed at the Basketball Gala day in Canberra last Friday. 

The Yr 7/8 teams learnt a lot by playing some very experienced sides. They did not win any games but managed a few goals.

The 9/10 Boys won 2 out of 4 games, with some excellent lay-ups and rebounding. The last game was very close and we managed to win by one point in a nail biting finish.

The 9/10 Girls won 2 out of 3 pool games to progress to a Semi-Final. We lost the Semi-final by only 6 points. This was a great effort considering 2 of our team were playing up from the 7/8 girls team.

Thank you Mr Mahon for driving and helping with the teams, and to all the parents for helping to complete our scoring duties.

North West Equestrian Expo - Coonabarabran

Congratulations to Emily Perryman, Jack Clancy, Eliza Tozer and their dedicated parents for representing Sacred Heart in an exceptional manner at the Coonabarabran Equestrian Expo. It looked like an amazing event to attend. The organisers arranged for the Melbourne Cup to be at the Expo for photo opportunities as you will see in the accompanying photos. 

The team produced some impressive results and individual improvements in performance.

Eliza Tozer on Mersey

Completed the Working Horse Challenge

Completed the Warrumbungle Way Stockmans Challenge 

Completed the Sporting Challenges

Jack Clancy on Lyalls Merlin

Combined Training 4 - 1st place

Junior Pentathlon - 3rd place

Show Jumping 80-3 - 2nd place

Elementary Dressage 3B - 7th place

Elementary Dressage 3C - 5th place

Emily Perryman on Tocal Question

Combined Training 2-1 - 9th place

Novice 2B Div3 Dressage - 5th place

Novice 2C Div3 Dressage - 9th place

Completed the Sporting Challenges

All competed in the Team Barrels (with 80 other teams)

All competed in the Team Penning

Some of the events are explained below:

Combined Training - includes combined scores and placings from Dressage and Show Jumping

The Working Horse Challenge consists of completing patterns of movement to replicate some of the control and actions required of working horses. It is designed to demonstrate the horse’s skill in changing direction, changing speed, jumping, opening gates, propping and back tracking. It demonstrates the rider's ability to control and manoeuvre the horse through the obstacles.

Pentathlon Events include:

• Cross Country run around the EvA80 course including obstacles (approx 2.4km) on horseback
• 80cm Top Score showjump on Sunday
• Javelin throwing
• Rams run - on horseback bending around barrels, collecting a rams skull from one barrel and placing on the last barrell
• Mountain Bike Ride - individually timed on the back half of the cross country course

Team Barrells - combines the teams’ times for the barrel runs.

Team Penning - riders have to work together to separate a few head of cattle from a herd of 20-30. This is a timed event.

Sporting - There are five sporting events

• Flag Race
• Barrel Race
• Bending Race
• Time Trial - Through a course
• Keyhole

Congratulations to all involved.

NSWCCC Cross Country

Congratulations to the students who attended the NSWCCC Cross Country at Eastern Creek this week. The results are as follows:

Nellie Ward - 60th out of 62

Alex English - 72nd out of 74

Lily McLeod - 40th out of 54

Zara English - 42nd out of 47

Pathways Sports

For further information on registrations for NSWCCC representative sports, please see Ms Withers, or go to the links below. 

• SPORT at SHC Google Classroom
• CSNSW Sport website https://csnsw.sport/ 
• Canberra Goulburn Sport Nominations https://www.sport.cg.catholic.edu.au/nominations

Please note that registrations and travel are the responsibility of individual families. 

If you are concerned about anything to do with PE or Sport, please arrange a meeting or get in contact with me at your earliest convenience. I can be contacted at megan.withers@cg.catholic.edu.au or on 02 69422612 during school hours. 

Regards

Megan Withers

Secondary Sports Coordinator