NSW CCC Athletics Championships

Gemma Eady-Muxlow, Year 9 and Cade Van Ewyk-Campbell, Year 7 represented the Maitland/Newcastle Diocese at the NSW CCC Championships held on Monday, 12 September.

Cade Van Ewyk-Campbell competed in the 13 years’ boys Discus and Javelin.  Cade finished fifth in the Discus with a best throw of 29.72m.  Cade finished fourth in the Javelin with a best throw of 28.02.

Gemma Eady-Muxlow competed in the 15 years’ girls 800m and 1500m.  Gemma finished tenth in the 800m with a time of 2:37.53.  Gemma finished seventh in the 1500m with a time of 5:25.97.

Congratulations to both Cade and Gemma on their results.

Gemma Eady-Muxlow & Cade Van Ewyk-Campbell

Luke Rowe
Sports Coordinator

14’s Boys Rugby League 9’s

Congratulations to our U14’s boys Rugby League team, who travelled up to Port Macquarie to compete in the Harry Wells NRL 9’s Gala Day on Tuesday, 13 September.  The boys played with terrific skill, toughness and sportsmanship throughout all their matches, with some excellent and highly entertaining Rugby League played.

The boys played Camden Haven High School in their opening round fixture.  Camden Haven laid on back to back tries in the opening minutes of the first half to jump out to an 8-0 lead.  However, St Clare’s slowly found their feet with long periods of ball and attacking field possession to claw back a try of their own early in the second half.  St Clare’s had a golden opportunity to level the scores late in the game only to be denied from a try saving strip over the try line.  Camden Haven scored from the following set and final play of the match to seal a 12-4 victory.

St Clare’s came up against Wauchope High School in their second round encounter, where they displayed attacking flare and strong defence throughout the match, scoring multiple well-structured team tries to come away with a comprehensive 38-4 win.

The boys played a well drilled and skilful St Paul’s College in their third game.  In what was a hard fought and bruising encounter, St Clare’s ball handling errors and missed tackles lead to several run away tries being scored against them.  With only 9 minute halves, St Clare’s found it difficult to work their way back into the game, going down 24-0.

The fourth and finalgame the boys played was an exciting and seesawing contest against Hastings Regional College, St Clare’s displayed great defensive efforts under fatigue and athleticism and skill in attack, however, Hastings came away eventual winners 8-5.

Lastly, a big thank you to Mrs Parvin as well as Troy Wright, Samuel Schilt and Kobi Critchley (who contributed as water runners) for their time and dedication in training, coaching and supporting our team, without their outstanding and tireless efforts, events such as this would not be possible.

Matthew Collier
Rugby League Coordinator

Diocesan Golf Tournament

On Friday, 16 September four St Clare’s students headed down to Maitland Golf Course to compete in the annual Diocesan Golf Tournament.  There were some great individual results on the day.  Well done to the following students that competed on the day:  Riley Dawson, Rohan Dormor, William Gregory and Georgia Sparks.

Riley Dawson, Rohan Dormor, William Gregory and Georgia Sparks

Congratulations to Riley Dawson who finished Runner-up in the Year 10 to Year 12 division for Single Scores in Nett Order.

Luke Rowe
Sports Coordinator