Director of Co-curricular, Mr Steve O'Donnell
Launch of Track & Field Competition Season
Last Saturday the Waverley College 2024 Track & Field team commenced our competition season with a meet against arch rivals Trinity at ES Marks. It was a strong start, particularly by our middle distance team as well as some of our jumpers and throwers.
Homebush Meet Brings Together CAS Schools
This Saturday we are at Homebush against the other five CAS schools and this meet will be a good test to see where we are currently at. Thank you to those staff and students who came and assisted last weekend and it is not too late for any students who want to come and still be a part of this strong squad.
CAS Championships – 19 September
The Track & Field season culminates with the CAS Championships on Thursday 19 September 2o24. This event is a compulsory ‘Supporters’ Duty’ for Years 7 and 12 and students will be bussed to and from the event starting at 1pm and concluding at 8pm. Students will arrive back at the College by 9pm that evening.
Pre-Season Summer Training
We also commenced pre-season summer training this week for a number of activities. Track & Field training and meets take priority but any other student is also welcome to join in the pre-season training on offer.
19 Japanese Students Experience the Waverley Way
Last Friday we hosted 19 visiting Japanese students who had a great time. A huge thank you to our 13A and B Rugby players who paired up with the students to give them some experiences in the classroom, a BBQ lunch as well as an opposed Rugby training session. A big thank you also to Mr Lachlan Drew-Morris for facilitating the training that afternoon.
These global connections are an important part of the experience of being a Waverley College student and hopefully some of these students will get to experience an exchange and visit to Japan in future years.
AFL, Rugby and Football Presentation Evenings
Thank you and well done to our AFL and Rugby convenors and Supporters’ Group parents on their fine work at the presentation evenings last Friday. Well done also to all of the award winners.
A reminder that we have the Football presentation evening on Friday 30 August 2024.
Winter Co-curricular Awards Assembly
Our winter co-curricular awards assembly for all activities on Thursday 12 September in the College Gym. Parents/carers of award winners are welcome at this assembly.
Good luck to our Athletes this weekend.
Football Boot Drive for Immersions
Please donate any spare football boots you no longer need to our Immersion programs in Fiji and Timor-Leste.
Football boots can be dropped at the Wellbeing Centre by Friday 6 September (Week 7).
Thank you in advance for your generosity.
Rugby for Good Campaign
An exciting initiative for our Rugby program this year was our ‘Rugby for Good’ campaign.
This gave our 13s age group and our Opens age group the chance to raise money for two different charities that are extremely close to the Waverley community.
Two local business The Field at Easts rugby and Advanz Therapies, came on as sponsors and committed to donating $1 for every point scored throughout the five-round CAS competition.
We are grateful to both businesses for their support throughout the season, in particular Advanz Therapies who ensure our players are right to go every Saturday. Our 13s charity was the R U OK? foundation.
In total our 13s raised $571 which is an outstanding achievement given the fact that two out of the five rounds were washed.
Our Opens charity was the Hearts 4 Arch foundation. In total our Opens raised $486 which is a great achievement considering many fixtures were impacted and cancelled due to wet weather.
Thank you again to our players, businesses and charities for supporting our campaign, we hope to make this a mainstay of our program moving forward.
