Swimming

Newington College 2016 Swim Team Captain, Calum Lowe-Griffiths (12/PR), has been announced as a captain of the Australian Life Saving Youth Team for the 2016 Lifesaving World Championships in The Netherlands in September. Calum is looking forward not only to representing his country and wearing the green and gold but also to being a leader of the team in and out of the water. The Australian youth team coach, Brett Dowker, said that the two Captains of the team “Jemma and Calum are outstanding young leaders and will do a great job as team captains. We did some leadership identification and development work and they shone through.”

Calum is an example of a student who has managed to find success in a number of different sporting disciplines.  This year Calum received Colours at Newington for both Swimming and Water Polo and was also awarded the perpetual Jeff Snare “Spirit of Swimming” Award for the second consecutive year. Calum’s recent performances at the NSW All Schools Swimming Championships have also earned him selection in the NSW team for the School Sport Australia Swimming Championships also later this year. 

Football

Congratulations to Sam Mehmet (12/MA), Connor Eldridge (12/PR), Finn Ballard McBride (11/PR), Jamie Gorgovski (11/LE) and Malcolm Ward (11/MA) on their selection into the GPS Combined Football team.

In particular, special Congratulations go to Sam Mehmet (12/MA) for being selected as Captain. 

Cricket

Congratulations to Lawrence Neil-Smith (11/JN) who was recently selected in the Cricket NSW Under 19 Academy Program. He will be joining Jordan Gauci (ON 2015).