Term 2 Sporting Guidelines & Cancellation update from the Catholic Schools Office:

For the remainder of Term 2, competitive contact sport or physical activity is restricted:

• Inter-school sport competitions such as Diocesan and Regional sport, state-wide competitions and knockouts, gala days or inter-school carnivals are not permitted.
• School carnivals such as athletics, cross country and swimming carnivals are not permitted.
• Full contact and semi-contact sports are not permitted.
• Until further advice, schools cannot attend external indoor venues such as gyms, bowling alleys.

The following Diocesan sports events have been cancelled for Term 3:

Diocesan sports leading into the Polding/ NSWCCC events have been cancelled as there is no event to progress to with the cancellation of CSNSW events. The following Diocesan sports to be cancelled include:

• 23 July Dio PSSA Chris Gangemi Gala Rugby Day
• 4 August Dio PSSA Athletics Championships
• 12 August Dio SSSA Athletics Championships
• 5 August Dio SSSA Rugby 7s

The Diocese is providing further consideration to the following SSSA Dio activities: golf, netball and basketball. A notification regarding these sports will be provided in the next few weeks.

The School Sports Unit has advised the following cancellations Catholic Schools NSW have confirmed the following sport event cancellations for 2020:

• 23 July NSWPSSA & All Schools Cross Country
• 27 July NSWCPS Golf Tournament
• 27- 29 July NSWPSSA Netball state championship
• 1 – 2 August NSW All Schools 15s touch football trials
• 10 August NSWCPS 10 A Side Knockout
• 10 August NSWCPS Girls Rugby 7s Selections
• 18 August NSWCCC Netball Championships
• 18 – 20 August NSWPSSA Boys Touch state championship
• 19 August NSWCPS Hockey Gala Day
• 19 August NSWCCC Rugby League Cup
• 25 – 27 August NSWPSSA Rugby Union state championship
• 28 August Polding Cricket Selections
• 31 August – 1 September NSWPSSA Girls Rugby 7s
• 31 August – 2 September NSWPSSA Golf state championship
• 1 September NSWCPS Netball Carnival
• 1 – 2 September NSWCCC Football Knockout Semi Finals/Finals
• 3 September MacKillop Girls Cricket Selections
• 3 – 4 September MacKillop Boys Cricket Selections
• 7 September NSW Champions School Basketball Tournament
• 8 September NSW Schools Football Challenge Cup
• 8 September NSWCPS Netball Carnival
• 8 – 10 September NSWPSSA Boys Softball state championship
• 8 – 10 September NSWPSSA Girls Touch state championship
• 11 September Polding Athletics Championships
• 17 September NSW All Schools Netball Challenge
• 18 September NSWCCC Athletics Championships
• 21 September MacKillop Athletics Championships
• 22 – 24 September NSWPSSA Girls Softball state championship

In addition, the following Sports events have been cancelled for Term 4, 2020

• 13- 16 October NSWPSSA Boys Cricket championships
• 19 – 22 October NSWPSSA Girls Cricket championships
• 24 – 25 October CPS Basketball Challenge
• 26 – 27 October NSWCCC Junior Boys Basketball Championships
• 28 – 29 October NSWPSSA Athletics
• 5 – 6 November NSWCCC Junior Girls Basketball Championships

Further information and updates are available from the Catholic Schools NSW website.

Further updates regarding school sport, including contact sports, will be provided ahead of Term 3.