Basketball

Congratulations to Jaidyn Goodwin (10/JN) who won Gold as a member of the NSW U16 Country Basketball team that competed in the Australian Basketball Championships held in Geelong, Victoria over the recent school holidays. At the completion of the pool stage of the competition NSW Country found themselves top of their pool, and then went on to defeat South Australia Country in the Quarter Final, NSW Metro in the Semi Final and Victoria Metro in the Grand Final. Jaidyn playing in the point guard position was instrumental in the team’s success. Congratulations Jaidyn!

Football

Newington footballers have started their GPS competition with a first round fixture against Sydney Grammar. We wish all boys and coaches the very best in the competition. Two Newington players have gained further representation through the school system. Nicola Kuleski (12/MO) was selected to represent the AAGPS 1st XI and Jonathan Aspropotamitis (12/MA) was selected to represent NSW School in the August National Championships.

Congratulations to both boys on their selection

Rifle Shooting

Newington shooters recently attended the AAGPS Shooting Championships. Sending a young team, the boys competed very well with the highlight being the 2nds team finishing in fourth place with a score of 461 out 560. This was a pleasing result for the boys. Special mention goes to Alek Gorsevski (11/JN) who scored 184 out of 200 in the 1sts and Sebastian Hodge (9/ME) who scored 65 out of 70 in the 2nds competition.

Well done to all boys who represented Newington College.

Rugby

Congratulations to the 1st XV players who were selected for the NSW Schoolboys teams for the Australian Secondary Schools Carnival held in the July holidays.

Captain of Rugby Vuni Fifita (12/FL), Sepesa Loga-Tarogi (12/MA) and Tom Piroddi (11/FL) were picked in the NSW I team with Matt Serhon (12/FL), Simon Kennewell (12/ME) and Melie Laimani (12/FL) representing the NSW II team. Congratulations to Mr Brad Gill who was coach of the 2nd XV team.

At the conclusion of the carnival, Vuni and Sepesa were selected in the Australian Schoolboys squad to tour New Zealand in September. While away they will play against New Zealand A and the New Zealand and Fijian Schoolboys.

Congratulations to Tom Serhon (10/FL) on his selection in the NSW U16 Schools team.

Swimming

Newington swimmer Jason Hartill (9/MO) recently competed in the Australian Schools Swimming Championships in Melbourne. He won a silver medal as a member of the Junior Medley Relay team and competed in the 14 years 50 m Butterfly event. After the heats he was the fourth fastest qualifier for the final with a time of 27.10 which was a personal best. Swimming a short time later in the final he wasn’t quite able to reproduce his heat swim and finished in eighth place, still a wonderful achievement given the level of competition.

Water Polo

Keegan Wicken (12/ME), Wil Cotterill (12/LE), Cody Ingram (12/LE) and Nicholas Bertino (11/FL) were members of the NSW Blues U20 Water Polo team which took out the National Junior Championships in Adelaide during the July school holidays.

All four Newington boys played significant parts in the NSW team’s triumph. Wil Cotterill and Cody Ingram both scored important goals in the grand final against a highly fancied team from Western Australia.

The high level of representation of Newington students in representative Water Polo teams is a testament to the College’s strong school program.

Chaz Poot (10/MO) and Harry Dickens (9/LE) also competed in State and National level Water Polo at recent competitions.

Chaz took part in the Pan Pacific U20 Water Polo Competition as a member of the Australian Youth Water Polo Team. Following the Pan Pacific, the Aussie team completed a clean sweep of the New Zealand Youth Team in a three match test series. Chaz was named by the coaching staff as being one of the best Australian players in all three games of the series.

Harry played for the NSW U14 Blues in the East Coast Challenge held in Adelaide. Harry and his teammates cruised through the competition winning in fine style accounting for Queensland in the final by 12 goals to 4.