Term 1 Dates – Sport Weekends

• 17 February – Summer sport
• 24 February – Summer sport
• 3 March – Summer sport
• 10 March – Summer sport
• 17 March – Head of River Regatta, Penrith
• 24 March – Winter sport
• 31 March – Easter, NO sport
• 7 April – Winter sport, final weekend

Swimming Update:

There were three records broken at the Newington Age Swimming Championships held on Friday, 9 February:

• 17 years 50m Backstroke (28.98 sec) – Lachlan Sheehy (11/JN)
• Opens 50m Freestyle (24.30 sec) – Jack Rudkins (12/MA)
• Opens 100m Freestyle (53.39sec) – Jack Rudkins 

Congratulations to the following Age Champions:

• 12 Years – Tom Farr-Jones (7/JN)
• 13 Years – Jackson McCleery (7/MO)
• 14 Years – Thomas Oates (9/JN)
• 15 Years – Christopher Mina (9/PR)
• 16 Years – Sam Lye (10/LE)
• 17 Years – Lachlan Sheehy
• Open Swim Champion 2018 – Jack Rudkins

Congratulations!

Water Polo

Over the holiday break, Newington’s Water Polo teams took part in the Trans Tasman Schoolboys Water Polo Tournament in Melbourne. The Newington Firsts overcome their local AAGPS rivals, Scots College, to take out the Bronze medal. An outstanding, controlled game of water polo ending in a 6-3 victory was a fitting end to a tough campaign. Thomas Harris (11/MO) was like a brick wall in the goals not allowing the opposition shooters opportunity to score during the match. Matthew Sharp (12/MA) also led from the front out in the field.  All of the boys contributed a mountain of effort during the weeklong tournament. The Newington College Development team capped off a week of learning and experience with a heart-breaking, close loss 6-7 to host school Melbourne High school in the play-off for 15^th and 16^th position.

Basketball

The summer school holidays proved to be a busy time for Newington Basketball with a series of camps and tournaments. Newington 1sts basketball team participated in the 18^th Annual Trinity tournament with the team going through the sixteen-team tournament undefeated and the 2nds who won the twenty team Newington Basketball Classic tournament. Not to be outdone the 14A and 15As participated in the Kings Cup Y8 and 9 tournaments with both teams making the final series.

Swimming

congratulations to swimmers Lachlan Sheehy, Luca Polvere (12/KL), Christopher Mina and Jack Rudkins for their strong results in the GPS Open 4x100m Medley Relay. The team came in first place, and set a new GPS record for the event!

Congratulations to Henry Larkings (12/FL) for earning a spot on the 2018 Australian Youth Sailing Team! Henry and his teammates will represent Australia at the Youth Sailing World Championships in Corpus Christi, Texas in July.

Photo courtesy of Beau Outteridge