Athletics

Newington athlete Angus Beer (8/ME) has just returned from the Australian All Schools Athletics Championships held in Melbourne over the weekend with two wins in the U14 800 m and 1500 m events. This is an outstanding achievement by Angus as he is still U13. Congratulations Angus.

Basketball

Over the course of the last week over 40 Newington Basketball players and staff headed to Canberra to participate in the National Schools Championships. Newington played schools from all over Australia in the week long tournament.

Congratulations to the boys from the 2nds Basketball teams that won the Yeend Shield. This is a knockout tournament featuring the other GPS Schools. The boys were able to back this up with a tough win against The Shore School in the first round of the GPS competition.

Cricket

Saturday 28 November was one for the batsmen with three Newington player scoring hundreds. Jordan Gauci (ON 2015) became the thirteenth youngest player in the 125 year history of 1^st Grade Cricket to score a hundred, Jordan scored 108 n.o.for Campbelltown/Camden.

1^st XI player Lawrence Neil-Smith (10/JN) scored 115 in the team’s victory over Shore. 2^nd XI batsman Sam Hochuli (10/JN) scored 105 n.o. against Shore in his team’s chase of 312. Congratulations to all players.

We would like to welcome the Sydney Thunder men’s and women’s teams to Newington, the players will be using the College as its training base for the 2015/16 Big Bash League (BBL).

We look forward to watching the Thunder players, most notably Jacques Kalls, Shane Watson and Michael Hussey, plus rising star Chris Green, prepare for the BBL. 

Pacific School Games

Over the course of the last week Newington students have been competing in the Pacific School Games in Adelaide.

The NSW Basketball team won the Final against Queensland, 93-88 with Mr Rex Nottage at the helm and Grant Anticevich (11/KL) with 15 points and Makuach Maluach (11/FL) with 34 points playing well in the Final. In great news for both boys they were selected in the Australian team named at the end of the competition.

Newington swimmers Callum Lowe-Griffiths (11/PR), Jason Hartill (10/MO) and Jack Xu (7/ME) competed in over 20 individual and relay events. All boys won medals and achieved some fantastic results.

Well done to all boys.

Rowing – House Regatta

We had some very exciting racing at the weekend and the boys all enjoyed the opportunity to get some house spirit working. The quads were made up of seniors and juniors so there were many boats with Year 7 as well as Year 12 rowers. After a heat where all the crews were timed, we then had a B Final, followed by an A Final. The results are as follows:

2nd Quad Event:

• 1st Prescott
• 2nd Kelynack
• 3rd Fletcher
• 4th Metcalfe

1st Quad Event:

• 1st Johnstone
• 2nd Prescott
• 3rd Fletcher
• 4th Le Couteur
• 5th Kelynack
• 6th Metcalfe
• 7th Manton
• 8th Moulton

It was a terrific day and thanks to all the parents who were there to support.

Water Polo

The Aussie Sharks National Men’s Water Polo Team were recently involved in a training camp and three test series with the Japanese National Water Polo Team. All of the action took place at Sutherland Aquatic Centre. Firsts Water Polo co-coaches Tyler Martin and James Clark (ON 2008) are regular members of the Sharks. Current student, Chaz Poot (11/MO), received his first call up to the senior national team level and acquitted himself very well. Congratulations Chaz.