Term 1 Review

The Lindfield boys have had a brilliant 11 Weeks in the swimming pool, on the court and on the field. So far this year we have had boys represent the College in Swimming, Basketball, Cricket, Touch Football, Tennis, AFL, Rugby 7s, Football (Soccer) and Cross Country.

Swimming

The Primary Carnival was a great day at Stanmore with boys in Years 3-6 representing their Houses in at least 3 events to gain valuable points towards the house trophy. The cheering and sportsmanship between the Houses was amazing and created an enjoyable environment from our least confident to very experienced swimmers to race in.

Congratulations to all of the boys who raced on the day and special mention to our Age Champions for 2018 – Dylan Henry, Michael Sheehy, Harry Keeping & Matteo Kadlec, Will Killen and Jack Hugo.

Following the House Carnival 15 boys went on to compete at the IPSHA Carnival at Sydney Olympic Park. This was a day of tough competition with the fastest racers from 42 schools participating.  A number of boys placed in their heats and were able to achieve personal best times on the day. The Quad Carnival was only a week later which saw boys from Year 1 to Year 6 compete at Pittwater House in the invitational carnival. Again there was some tough competition but the Lindfield boys were competitive in their events with many of the boys coming home with ribbons recognising their efforts.

Saturday Sport

Term 1 was our first term with the new coaching program managed by the Directors of Sport at Stanmore. It was great for the Primary Boys to learn some of the systems, language and plays that the older boys use and to apply these to their game play on Saturday mornings.

Our cricketers benefited not only from the experience of the coaching staff but also from a range of new equipment to help the boys to work on particular elements of their game.

The Basketballers faced a few difficulties around the building work but thanks to the flexibility of boys, parents and coaches they had a really successful season with a number of set plays and positional plays being introduced to strengthen our teams.

This term saw the introduction of Touch Football as a third choice for summer sport and we entered 2 teams into this inaugural competition. Under the guidance of Mr Christian Mayo from Play Rugby Australia, the boys learnt some great skills and improved significantly over the course of the season with a brilliant performance to beat Waverley in the final round.

The Saturday Sport program is completely reliant on the support of the parent community so I would like to thank all of the parents who travelled all over Sydney (and beyond!) to allow the boys to experience their chosen sports.

Tennis, AFL, Rugby 7s Gala Days

Outside of school and IPSHA Sport over the course of the term boys have represented Lindfield at the NSTA Tennis Competition, the AFL Paul Kelly Cup and the Primary North Sydney Region Rugby 7s Competition. The NSTA Tennis Competition happens each term on a Saturday evening. The boys play a series of games on the evening and can earn competition points across the Year.

This term we had 6 pairs of boys across Years 3 – 6 who competed in the Tennis Competition – Sasha Herbst, Misha Herbst, Athan Chronis & Dylan Henry in the Year 3 Competition, Huon Morton, Tobias Lang, Kolya Herbst and Aiden Webb in the Year 5 Competition and Toby Ashworth, Flynn Clatworthy, Max Tian and Ronan Brown in the Year 6 Competition. Boys who did not play in Term 1 are still welcome to join these boys in the NSTA Tournament later in the year.  

The Paul Kelly Cup was a great day of AFL Competition for the 2 mixed Year 5 and 6 boys teams who played. It was brilliant to see the boys, many of whom met for the first time preparing for the AFL include, support and encourage each other in great displays of teamwork. The B Team was made up largely of boys who had not played a lot of AFL before and had 2 close losses before a win in their final match against Seaforth. The A Team were very strong and finished first overall at the end of the day with a for and against of 151 – 2. The A team will now compete in the Regional Finals in June.

The Rugby 7s Gala Day saw 12 Year 5 and 6 players come up against Willoughby Public, Shore and Castle Cove in the pool rounds. The boys won all three of their games convincingly to make the cup finals. We played Knox 1st in a nail-biting fixture going down 3-2 right on the buzzer. The boys finished 4th overall after a tough fixture against a strong Redfield side.

IPSHA Football

Congratulations to Lewis Morsella who was selected for the IPSHA Football Team.  This team played at the CIS Championships and placed 4th overall in a field of 12 teams.  Following this tournament Lewis was named as a reserve in the CIS team to play at the PSSA (State) Championship to be held later this year.

Cross Country

The cross country took place in cool conditions at Stanmore. The clouds were threatening all morning but our runners were not put off with 180 boys in the Junior Race and 300 boys in the Senior Race pushing hard to the finish line. Eight Lindfield boys finished at the front of the pack to go through to represent Newington at the IPSHA Carnival at Kings. The IPSHA Carnival was a direct contrast to the day of the Newington Carnival with temperatures in the low 30’s on a bright sunny day. The boys again pushed through the conditions, with 1600 children racing on the day! Congratulations to the following boys who represented Lindfield on the Day – Finn Wicks, Tee Barrington-Higgs, Ryan Ng, Connor Mosely, Diesel James, Sam Stewart, Harry Keeping and Matteo Kadlec. A special mention to Connor Mosely who finished 3rd in a race of 165 boys and will now progress to the NSW CIS Carnival at Eastern Creek in June.

To follow on from the presentation made at the last Parents and Friends meeting please I provide the following information:

Eliza Monaghan – Sports Co-ordinator