Sport Fixtures – Saturday 3 December

There will be sporting fixtures on Saturday 3 December for all boys in Years 7–11, we will be playing Riverview in Tennis, Basketball and Cricket. There may be age groups or teams in some sports without games due to the number of teams Riverview are providing.

The 2016/17 Summer Sports Captains are:

• Basketball – Jaidyn Goodwin (12/JN)
• Cricket – Lawrence Neil-Smith (12/JN)
• Tennis – Mark Papadopoulos (12/LE)
• Water Polo – Harry Gilkes (12/KL)

Congratulations on your appointment!

Cricket

We extend our congratulations to Ned Barnet-Hepples (8/KL) on his selection in the CIS 15 Years XI Cricket team following trials at Blacktown and Hunters Hill in October. Ned will play in the All Schools Cricket Carnival at Richmond from December 5 to 7, 2016.

Mountain Biking

Congratulations to Year 7 boys Aidan Beardmore (7/LE), Makenzie Kautz (7/JN), and Preston Schreiber (7/ME) who won the Junior teams division at the NSW All Schools Mountain Bike Championships. The boys competed in a four hour enduro format, winning by 7 mins from Knox. The boys finished 1st out of 31 Junior male teams and 13th overall across the Intermediate and Senior Divisions. A fantastic achievement by the boys.

Rowing

On Saturday, 5 November, 74 Newington rowers competed in the Head of the Parramatta time trial. The regatta started at the Ryde rail bridge and finished at Sydney Rowing Club. Newington entered six eights, two fours and two quad sculls in the event, which represented all rowers in Years 8–11. The Newington crews won the 1st VIII, 2nd VIII, Year 10 1st VIII, Year 10 2nd VIII and Year 10 3rd VIII categories as well as the Schoolboy Quad division. This meant we had 50 rowers who won a medal, which was the first medal won by many of our rowers. It was great to see the boys win a medal and ring the Victory Bell at the boatshed.

Following the regatta, at 11 AM the boatshed hosted the start of season Rowing Launch hosted by the Newington College Rowing Association (NCRA). The highlight of the function was the boat christening, with two new quad sculls being named after long term rowing coaches Miss Jessica Christian and Mr Tim Christian. It was great to see such a good turn out at the shed of parents and supporters.

We would like to recognise the 1st VIII rowers Harry Crouch (10/JN) and Alex Nichol (11/PR) who both finished in the top four of their respective GPS sculling finals and progressed to be provisionally selected in the GPS 1st VIII, which is a very prestigious honour.

Tennis

We wish the Newington 1st and 2nd Tennis teams all the best for the start of their GPS season this weekend. The boys have been training well and there were some tremendous results at the recent GPS Top 6 Tournament with Jun Sasagawa (10/LE) beating Mark Papadopoulos (12/LE) in the final.

Water Polo

The following Newington Water Polo players were selected in the U17 AAGPS team to contest the CIS Championships.

• Harry Dickens (11/LE)
• Matthew Sharp (10/MA)
• Aidan Schmitt (10/MA)
• Nicholas Maclean (10/KL)
• Mark Elwaw (9/JN)
• Tom Harris (9/MO)

The GPS team beat traditional rivals CAS 11–7 to take out the championship. At the conclusion of the event three Newington boys were selected in the CIS U17 team to compete at the NSW All Schools competition in March, 2017. We congratulate all boys on their achievements, particularly Harry, Matthew and Tom for their selection in the CIS team.