Winter Sport

The last weekend of Winter Sport will be on Saturday 13 August. Boys will then have a recovery week before commencing their Summer Sport.

Athletics

Boys who wish to participate in Athletics will commence training on Monday 15 August with Invitational Carnivals on the following weekends:

Saturday 20 August

Saturday 27 August

Saturday 3 September

Saturday September 10 – AAGPS Championships

Details regarding Athletics training days and venues for the Invitational meets will be posted on the Athletics SPACEs page.

Summer Sport

All boys should be registered in their Summer sport, training schedules will be posted on the respective SPACES page.

Congratulations

Sailing

Henry Larkings (10/FL) was selected this year to join the NSW Youth Sailing Team and now has the opportunity to be part of the Australian 29er Youth Sailing Team representing Australia at the World Championships. The team not only races but are part of a nations parade, opening and closing ceremony as well. It will be a truly memorable experience and hopefully the first of many at this level.

Fencing

Ben Diskin (8/MO) has had some great achievements at both U14 Hong Kong Championships and the U15 National Championships. Ben started Fencing just last year when he chose it as his winter sport in Year 7 and he attributes his success to Newington’s role in introducing him to competitions.

He thanks his coaches, especially Simon for encouraging him to take up additional outside coaching and external competitions. From there, Ben met Antonio who has taken him to even greater strengths along with his training with Simon and his continued school training.

Bens hopes to compete as part of the National team for Newington and then the Junior Nationals for the Australian Fencing Federation. We wish Ben all the best; he is an example of how Newington College can help a student Discover what’s possible and how hard work and determination can allow you to reach your goals.

We look forward to seeing more boys reach their potential in the Fencing program now that we have additional coaches with proven success: Antonio Signorello, Alex Andre, Simon Capon (ON 2011), proudly supported by Felix Shannon (ON 2015) and Adam Chew (ON 2015).

Rifle Shooting

After Angus Mueller’s (10/MO) excellent success at the GPS Rifle Shooting competition last week, he was selected as one of 12 boys in the All Schools GPS team. At the All Schools Competition, 12 GPS boys made up from Scots, SBHS, Kings, Grammar and Newington were split in to two teams of six and competed against other club teams from all over the North Shore and Hunter district. The boys shot over four stages at 300, 400, 500 and 600 metres. Although Angus did not shoot quite as well as he did at GPS, he did himself and the school proud only dropping seven points on the day to finish with a score of 193 out of 200. His team finished first against the other GPS team and fourth overall. The long day concluded with a combined GPS team photo and competition presentation.