Winter Sport Trials

Congratulations to Isaac Flanagan and Gizelle Griffiths who have qualified for Polding Soccer and Chase Firman and Xavier Heaney who have qualified for Polding Rugby League and Elliot Mole & Chase Firman who have qualified for AFL PSSA State Championships.  These trial events will be held during early Term 2. We wish these students all the very best for these upcoming events.

NSW/PSSA Championship Swimming:

We wish to congratulate all the members of our St Joseph's swimming team who participated in this week’s NSW/PSSA Championships at Sydney Olympic Park.

Harrison Coppola, Jacob Flynn, Byron Schmidt and Archie Doyle all represented in our Junior Boys Relay team with great pride and outstanding sportsmanship. These swimmers excelled on the day, overcoming nerves and channelling their excitement to accomplish personal best times in their events.

Harrison had an extremely busy meet, participating in 50m freestyle, the 200m Individual Medley, the 50m breaststroke, the 50m backstroke and the Junior Boy's Relay.

All of our St Joseph’s swimmers from the school level, right through until these championships, have been outstanding this swim season! We are exceptionally proud of all their achievements.

Harrison so far has made it to the freestyle 50 metre finals and finished 10th in the state he swam a PB of 32.67.  He has qualified 6th fastest in the state to go through to 200 Individual Medley final today and took 4.89 seconds of with a time of 2.59.41 PB. He has swum 50 metre Backstroke today and came 13th in the state with a PB time of 40.59 which was 1.91 seconds of his PB.

The relay boys go had a fantastic swim with a time of 2.27.90 which placed them 6th in the state out of 39 teams taking another 3 seconds of their PB unfortunately they were then Disqualified due to a swimmer leaving the blocks prematurely but they all swum with great pride for St Josephs and tried so hard.

Diocesan Cross Country

The Diocesan Cross Country is scheduled for Tuesday 27^th April 2021 (backup date 4^th May). This event will be held at Maitland Park.

The St Joseph’s team will be supervised at the event by Ms Fiona McCalden.

This is a SPECTATOR FREE event. Unfortunately no spectators can attend due to traffic and WHS requirements. Anyone turning up to the designated area that has been hired will be asked to leave. The Director of Schools and the Primary Schools Sports Association have endorsed this as a competitor only event to ensure the safety of our runners. Students will arrive by regional buses and be supervised by a teacher from their school. Results will be put up on the CSO website after the carnival for parents here

All students will be transported by bus. The bus will depart St Joseph’s Merewether at 8am. Please arrive at school no later than 7.45am. Students will return to school at the conclusion of the event for a normal school finish. 

Qualifying times for this event are as follows:

Paperwork for the NSWCPS carnival will be given out at the END of the Diocesan carnival. Successful runners will need to register on the CSNSW.SPORT website by the due date. If a student is unable to compete at NSWCPS carnival, please notify Bernadette Duggan on the day of the Diocesan carnival or within 3 days of its completion. The fastest 8 runners will represent the Diocese in each category at Polding on Tuesday 8^th June at Eastern Creek. 

Upcoming Dates

Diocesan Touch Trials: Wednesday 21^st April

Diocesan Cross Country: Tuesday 27^th April

School Athletics Carnival: Wednesday 5^th May

Polding Cross Country: Tuesday 8^th June

Central Region Athletics Carnival: Friday 11^th June