Basketball

NSW All Schools won GOLD at the recent Australian Schools Basketball Championships, beating Queensland
70—54 in the championship game. Rex Nottage has coached the NSW team to victory for four years in a row now.

Chiir Maker (10/FL) and Lewis Holey (12/MO) (pictured above) both played in the NSW team and with Maker scoring 29 points and gathering 17 rebounds in the final he was named MVP of both NSW and the entire tournament.

Both Lewis and Chiir were selected in the Australian Schoolboys (only 3 players from NSW made the final ten). Congratulations to both boys on their outstanding achievement.

Rugby

Tepai Moeroa (11/JN) has been chosen in the 28 member Australian Schools Rugby Union Squad which will Tour Fiji and New Zealand later in the year.

The team will play against:

• Fiji Presidents XV – 22^nd Sep @ Nadi
• Fiji Schools – 25^th Sep @ Nadi
• New Zealand “A” – 29^th Sep @ Auckland
• Samoan Schools – 2^nd Oct @ Hamilton
• New Zealand Schools – 6^th Oct @ Auckland

Tepai has been chosen from his AAGPS competition performances for Newington College, representing NSW 1 at the National Rugby Championships and Australia “A” versus Tongan Schools.

We wish Tepai all the best for the tour.

Rowing

James Chapman (ON ’97) represented Australia in the London Olympic Games in Rowing in the Men’s Coxless Four event. The crew had a great regatta, setting a new World’s Best Time in their heat and then eventually finishing with a silver medal in the final behind the very strong British crew.

Jesse Coyle (12 LE), represented Australia in the World Junior Rowing Championships last weekend in the Men’s Junior Coxless Fours event. The crew made it into the B-Final and eventually finished a close third place, giving them 9^th place overall.

Water Polo

Newington Firsts Premiership goalkeeper Anthony Hrysanthos (11/ME) is currently in Europe with the Australian Born ’93 team. He was rewarded for his great performances in the week Hamburg Cup, being named the goalkeeper of the tournament. The team now travels to Syros, Greece for the Vikelas Cup against Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Serbia and Greece.

Meantime, another goalkeeper, Newington Old Boy James Clark (ON ’08) performed admirably for the Australian team that finished a credible 7th at the London Olympics. He was a member of the Newington 2007 Premiership winning 1st Grade team and he will now continue his university studies at Los Angeles based college, University Southern California.

Also at the London Olympics, popular former Newington U14 coach Courtney Mathewson was an integral part of the United States gold medal winning women’s water polo team.

Well done to all.