Sports Corner

Bill Turner Cup Football 

Our boys team played St Columba from Port Macquarie in Round 5 of the Bill Turner Cup on Thursday 11 August on the synthetic fields in Coffs. The team played an intense and highly disciplined game, coming away with a win 1- 0. The boys have now reached the top 16 in this national event. Round 6 and 7 will be played at the Leisure park on the 24 and 25 August. Congratulations to our amazing boys!

Diocesan Basketball - Junior and Intermediate Championships

Our Junior and Intermediate Basketballers had an outstanding tournament over the two days at the Diocesan Basketball Championships. Our teams were dominant all carnival, only dropping 3 games between all 4 teams (1 in the rounds and two finals). 

Both of our girls teams came away with excellent wins in the finals to be crowned Diocesan Champions. The boys fought hard and were challenged the whole final, both finishing second and receiving silver medals. 

Overall, our 6 Basketball teams across all aged divisions achieved 3 firsts and 3 seconds in the Diocese, resulting in SJPC receiving the coveted Gerard O’Brien Memorial shield for top Basketball school in the Lismore Diocese.

The next stage is CCC Basketball in Penrith in November!

Thanks must go to our coaches who gave up many hours and mornings to coach our teams. Mr Tim Davis, Darcy Mills (Year 12) and Mr Michael Hewitt trained their teams 7.30am one morning a week for about 10 weeks, while Mrs Trish Furey and Mr Nick Haworth combined outside school hours training with our new 9/10 sport coaching program to achieve these amazing results.

Basketball is very much alive and well in the college! Congratulations to our dedicated players and coaches.

College Athletics carnival

The Athletics carnival was a fun filled, energetic day with many personal bests and funny memories created. Of particular note was the 33 year old record for the 14 years boys 100m being smashed by Cooper Moore. Cooper knocked the 1989 record of 12.23 down to an amazing 12.01! Lincoln Henry also smashed a record from 1998, the 200m 14 year boys record. His 24.56 obliterated the old record of 25.34! Henry also broke the old 14 years boys Triple jump record of 10.25m, attaining a massive jump of 11.49.

Also of note was our Staff/Student house relay. While we did not have time to run all the relays due to an exceptional participation rate, we did have time to run the Staff/Student 8 x 50m relay. Kelly was not able to win this one, with McAuley finishing first, Kelly second, Hargraves third and Casey fourth. It was a highlight of the day!

The house competition was once again enthusiastically contested with the final placing are as follows:

Congratulations Kelly House!!!

Congratulations Age Champions

Those students who finished 1st or 2nd in an event (except 400m) qualify to represent SJPC at the Diocesan Athletics carnival on Wednesday 24 August. A permission note and payment slip will be sent to those students who qualify through COMPASS. Any student who qualifies but decides not to progress needs to decline the event through COMPASS, as well as let me know ASAP via email so that another athlete can be substituted. The full results will be displayed on the Palace notice board on Monday 15 August.

Finally, thank you to the Lord for holding the weather for us and for the amazing staff who make the day happen!

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