Water Polo

Newington 1sts Water Polo player Chaz Poot (10/MO) was recently named in the Australian Water Polo Team for players born in 1998. This national selection will see Chaz compete in the U18s division of the Pan Pacific Youth Water Polo Festival in Auckland in July.

Newington U16 player Harry Dickens (9/LE) has been selected for the NSW U14 State Team to compete in the East Coast Challenge. Harry was also recently identified as a top player at the U14s National Club Championships achieving selection in the Tournament 7.

Congratulations to Chaz and Harry!

Fencing

On Saturday 17 May Newington senior boys fenced at the State School Championship. The boys did well with Alex Mei (12/JN) and Adam Chew (11/MO)  placing in the Final Four with Jayce Carrano (12/MA)  placing in the Top Eight as well.

Football

Newington Footballers Jonathon Aspropotamitis (12/MA), Julian Van Den Berg (12/LE), Taylor Saito-Patch (12/ME), Dario Villante (12/ME) and Peter Solomou (12/MO) (shadow squad) were selected for the AAGPS Football team. From the Schools Tournament the CIS team was selected, with Jonathon Aspropotamitis being the only GPS player chosen to represent CIS. Well done to all boys.

Rugby

The Newington Rugby Program wishes all boys participating in the State Championships this weekend the very best.

Congratulations

James Ellis (11/PR), has been selected for the CIS Secondary Open Boys Hockey team that will compete at the NSW All Schools Open Boys Hockey Tri-Series, which is to be held in June at Homebush.

Lawrence Neil-Smith (9/JN) has been selected to represent the CIS U15 AFL team at the NSW All Schools U15 AFL Championships held in Wagga Wagga this week

Tyrone Taukamo (10/ME), Harry Wilson (8/ME) and Nathanael Endemann (9/MA) have all been selected in the CIS U15 Rugby League Team to contest the NSW All Schools U15 Rugby League Championships held in Tamworth.