Sport News
Mr Stuart McSwan | K - 6 Sport Co-ordinator
GPCC Primary Cross Country Carnival
We were blessed with some beautiful, sunny weather for our twice re-scheduled Cross Country Carnival on Wednesday. The new course proved enough of a challenge with all keen competitors running either 2km or 3km around the College.
The endurance that an athlete must show when running cross country was well and truly on display with some competitive races and tight finishes. A huge congratulations to all the students that competed, and we can now look forward to the CSSA Carnival next Friday 27 May at the Sydney Equestrian Centre.
Age Champions (1st) and place getters (2nd, 3rd, 4th) for Cross Country will be presented at Chapel service later this term.
Thank you to all the staff and parent helpers that assisted on the day.
Primary Athletic Event Update
We are slowly making our way through the discus events that could not be run at the Athletics Carnival. I still need to have the 8/9 year discus and will then hopefully begin shot put. This is again reliant on good weather.
I hope to have all of this completed by the end of the term and will then be able to work out Age Champions, winning House and the squad for Zone which is scheduled for 1 August (Term 3). Thank you for your patience.
National Ninja Warrior Qualifiers
Last weekend Aurora H (5P), Micah H (3PH) and Ivy H (KP) competed in NSW National Ninja Warrior qualifiers.
On Saturday, all three went to Boggabri to compete in the Australian Ninja Games (ANG) qualifier. Aurora finished 2nd in the girls 11 years, Micah came 1st in the boys 9 years and Ivy placed 1st in the girls 7 years. All three have qualified for ANG Nationals later in the year.
They were back in Sydney on Sunday where Aurora and Micah competed in the Ninja Challenge League (NCL) combined girls and boys competition. Aurora finished 4th in the pre-teens and Micah placed 7th in the mature kids. As it was a full field of kids, the top 10 qualify for Nationals. Micah and Aurora will be competing in Melbourne in September this year.
Congratulations Aurora, Michah and Ivy.
CSSA and CIS Nominations
Some of the individual CSSA and CIS Sport nominations due soon are:
Please email Mr McSwan before these dates if your child (Years 5 and 6 only) would like to be considered. They need to be currently playing in the sport and have several years' experience (preferably at a Representative level):
Thursday 2 June CSSA Primary State Gymnastics Levels Only (Nominations close on 24 May)
Friday 10 June CIS Primary Boys Softball Trials (Nominations close 3 June)
Dates for your Calendar
School Carnivals
TBC (Term 3) - GPCC K-2 Swimming Carnival (Peninsula Leisure Centre)
Years 7 - 12 Sport Co-ordinator
GPCC Secondary Cross Country Carnival
Thank you to all our students that competed in our Secondary Cross Country Carnival at the College. Our students were happy to finally compete in this event at the College in the brilliant sunshine, with many of their peers cheering them on. Congratulations to the students that have made it through to CSSA on Friday 27 May.
There is an opportunity for some of our elite athletes to get involved in the Central Coast Academy of Sport winter sports programs in the following four sports:
Swimming: https://thinksport.com.au/programs/swimming/
Touch Football: https://thinksport.com.au/programs/touch-football/
Athletics: https://thinksport.com.au/programs/athletics/
Indoor Volleyball: https://thinksport.com.au/programs/volleyball/
Please click on any of the links if you would like to apply for any of these opportunities.