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2024 CAS Track and Field

The 2024 CAS Track and Field Championships have been run and are done. A huge thank you to Mr Jeremy Roff and Ms Rebecca Gair for their efforts in leading our Athletics squad. A big thank you to all of the staff and coaches, as well as the staff that attended the big event on Thursday this week.

Our students in Years 7 and 12 as well as the 2025 College leaders who made the effort to come out and support were also extraordinary and had a wonderful evening.

Some of the highlights of the evening included Wol Albino breaking CAS records in the 100m and 200m, Evan Rowbowtham smashing CAS records in the 800m and 1500m and then backing up to win his 400m race as well as our squad captain Ricky Zanapalis winning the Opens 100m race. Our middle distance performances were extraordinary and we were also very successful in a number of field events. Our Track and Field squad have their presentation evening next Monday in the PAC starting at 6pm. Overall, Waverley finished 3rd and just 3.5 points off Knox Grammar in 2nd.

Well done to Trinity Grammar School who were deserved winners. Our journey towards 2025 Track and field glory starts in term 4 and we encourage all members of the squad to keep working as well as invite any students that also want to take part to being their training as well. Based on groupings last evening, Waverley finished second in the Juniors, second in the Intermediate and 4th in the Opens age group.

Final overall placings:

Trinity 1st – 698.50

Knox 2nd – 636

Waverley 3rd – 632.50

Barker 4th – 562.50

Cranbrook 5th – 516

St Aloysius 6th – 466.50

Just a reminder that a number of students in Years 7-11 also have summer sport trials this Saturday and our full training program and all activities commence at the start of Term 4 on Tuesday October 15.

Finally I want to wish all of our Year 12 students and families well for the final stages of their school journey.

Winter co-curricular Award Winners 2024

This week we celebrated some of the amazing achievements of individuals and teams over the 2024 winter co-curricular season. We also celebrated the outstanding contribution Mr Paul Cornish has given right across the College including his 20th season of coaching 1st XV. The full list of Years 5-12 award winners can be found HERE.

Next week is also the CAS Track and Field championships on Thursday, September 19. For those members of the Athletics team the week runs:

Monday – Training at QP

Tuesday – Training at QP followed by Carbo night in the PAC

Wednesday – Periods 5-6 team meeting in the PAC

Thursday – arrive for assembly at 8.40am, followed by the team photo and then departure for Homebush at 11am.

Tuesday, Sept 24 – Track and Field presentation evening

For all other students in Years 7 and 12 they will be in class as normal for Periods 1-4 and will then depart for Homebush at 1.15pm. Students will arrive back at 9pm and any students wishing to return to Maroubra or Hurstville must sign up in the wellbeing centre please. Students in Years 8-11 not in the Athletics squad will have classes as normal (Year 11 are on exams).

On Saturday, September 21 we also our full round of summer sports trials for Basketball, Cricket, Tennis, Touch Football and Water Polo. Please note that year groups are labelled by their 2025 cohorts (Year 7 are now Year 8 and Year 10 are now Opens).

Australian Cross Country Championships Stars

Evan Rowbotham (Year 8) achieved an extraordinary result in the Australian Cross Country Championships in Tasmania in August/September, placing first in his category in the 4000m race out of over 150 top runners around Australia.

Evan also placed second overall in the U15 and U16 4km race however was ranked the first U15 athlete in a time of 14:30.

We also extend our congratulations to Koji Howard (Year 7) who placed 29th in the U14 3km race in a time of 12:17.

Koji far left

Koji far right

CAS Track and Field

Our College Track and Field team continued to perform well at the invitational last weekend at ES Marks. Our throwers, jumpers and relays were all outstanding in particular. Mr Jeremy Roff and Ms Rebecca Gair have invested many hours into ensuring the success of our Athletics program and we are lucky to have such dedicated staff and coaches.

The CAS Track and Field Championships are on Thursday, September 19 at Homebush and Years 7 and 12 are required to attend as part of a compulsory supporters duty. Students will depart the College at 1pm and return to the College, Maroubra Junction or Hurstville by 9pm.

For those students wishing to return to either Maroubra or Hurstville please ensure that they sign up for these buses in the wellbeing centre before the day of the Championships.

Full College winter uniform is required and students will be provided with food but also must bring their own water bottles. Parents and supporters are welcome to attend but will need to pre-purchase tickets on the link sent out on the College App. There are food vendors at the venue, however, prices are high and the lines are long. Students are welcome to bring their own food.

Well done to Evan Rowbowtham who placed first at the National Cross Country Championships last weekend, as well as Koji Howard who finished in the top 30 in the country.

Best wishes to our Cadet Unit who are at Appin this weekend for their first bivouac of the program.

A reminder to all other students that summer pre-season has commenced for a number of teams and activities and that most sports have trials on Saturday September 21.

Next Thursday, September 12 we have our Winter Co-curricular awards assembly and any award winners parents are welcome to join us.

Last Friday evening, the 2024 Football End of Season Presentation Night was held at Easts Rugby Club. It was a fantastic gathering of parents/carers, students, and coaches, all coming together to celebrate the achievements of the season and honour our deserving award winners.

The evening was made possible by the hard work and dedication of the Waverley Football Supporters’ Club, who organised the eve nt and the raffle. We extend our heartfelt thanks to them for their invaluable contributions.

Congratulations to all the award recipients listed below. Your successes this season continue to build the strong foundation of our Football community, and we look forward to what the future holds.

A special thank you goes out to the families and businesses that generously donated prizes for the evening: The Rodella Family and the Intercontinental Sydney, The Hansimikali Family, The Zanapalis Family, The Barber Family and Erkoo Physio, The Scarfone Family and Ultra Football, Sydney FC, Man City Football School, bettyboo.com.au, and glosscartel.com. Your support is greatly appreciated.

As we look ahead, I am excited for the 2025 season and confident that Waverley will continue to excel.

Dear Parents and Carers,

The Manchester City Football School will be running holiday clinics for all current students in Years 3 – 8 during these upcoming school holidays.

Week 1:

Year 3 & 4 (Mixed)
When: Monday 30th September & Tuesday 1st October 2024
Time: 9am – 3pm
Where: Waverley College Tennis Courts
Cost: $200pp
Trybooking link: Year 3 & 4 (Mixed)

Year 5 & 6 (Mixed)
When: Wednesday 2nd & Thursday 3rd October 2024
Time: 9am – 3pm
Where: Waverley College Tennis Courts
Cost: $200pp
Trybooking link: Year 5 & 6 (Mixed)

Week 2:

Year 7 & 8 (Boys)
When: Tuesday 8th & Wednesday 9th October 2024
Time: 9am – 3pm
Where: Queens Park
Cost: $200pp
Trybooking link: Years 7 & 8 (Boys)

Year 7 & 8 (Girls)
When: Thursday 10th & Friday 11th October 2024
Time: 9am – 3pm
Where: Queens Park
Cost: $200pp
Trybooking link: Years 7 & 8 (Girls)

With only 16 spots available on each clinic, please secure your spot as soon as possible.

Students currently enrolled in Waverley College ONLY will receive a 30% discount, please enter the code WAVCITY30 at checkout. 

Many thanks

Ben Charlton
Manchester City Football Coach

CAS Track and Field and Summer Pre-season

A huge congratulations to Dexter Francis, Patrick Palmer and Rory Palmer on their qualifications for the National Snow Sports Championships later this term. A huge thank you to the parents and especially Ms Paula McCabe for all of her work with the Waverley teams. We wish these boys well in their wonderful representation of the College and hope the weather allows for these events to run successfully.

Our Track and Field squad continue to develop and work towards the CAS Championships on Thursday September 19. The CAS Athletics Championships are a compulsory supporters event for Years 7 and 12 who will depart at 1pm and return by 9pm. We will once again offer buses back to Maroubra Junction or Hurstville train station and any students that wish to return on these buses must sign up in the Wellbeing Centre. All other buses will return to Waverley College. Parents are welcome to attend the Championships but must pre-purchase tickets via THIS LINK.

Specific information about the day can be found HERE.

Our Summer pre-season has also commenced for a number of teams and activities. Please note that Year groups are labelled by their 2025 cohort (eg: Year 7 are now Year 8 and Year 10 are opens). We also will have internal summer trials for most activities on Saturday September 21.

Best wishes to our athletes this weekend at their invitational carnival at ES Marks.

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.

Congratulations to the following winter activities on their successful premierships in 2024:

AFL:

– 9/10A Div 1 undefeated

– 7/8A Div 1 undefeated

– 7/8B Div 2 undefeated

9/10A AFL Div 1 undefeated premiers!

Rugby:

2nd XV CAS Premiers

16A Undefeated CAS Premiers

15C Undefeated CAS Premiers

14B CAS Premiers

13A Undefeated Premiers

13B Undefeated CAS Premiers

Just a reminder that the AFL and Rugby Presentation evenings are on Friday, 16 August. The Football Presentation evening is on Friday, 30 August.

Track and Field Season kicks off

This week we commenced our Track and Field season and all students are invited to take part.

This Saturday we are hosting with Trinity Grammar at ES Marks and require all athletes to be at the venue by 7.45am please.

Training is every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and this culminates with the CAS Track and Field championships at Homebush on Thursday, September 19. This event is also a compulsory supporters duty for Years 7 and 12 from 1pm – 8pm.

We are also offering a number of Summer pre-season training sessions this term. Please note that Year Groups are labelled by their 2025 cohorts as the summer season runs from Term 4 into Term 1.

Best wishes to all of 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.

Football boots can be dropped at the Wellbeing Centre by Friday, September 6 (Week 7).

A huge thank you to all members of the College community for their efforts over the 2024 Winter season. In particular those parents who helped out every weekend, the staff, coaches and Convenors as well as Year 12 students who will play their final round this coming weekend. We hope everyone can come and support these senior students. Debating still have two more rounds after this Friday evening.

Next week we immediately commence the Track and Field season at Queens Park on Monday from 3.30pm and any student is invited to take part.

The following Saturday, August 16 we have our first invitational carnival at ES Marks from 8am. Track and Field athletes are encouraged to participate in as many activities as possible but once your events are over on a Saturday you are not required to stay until the end of the carnival.

The Athletics season culminates with the CAS Championships at Homebush on Thursday, September 19 from 1pm-8pm. This event is a compulsory supporters duty for students in Years 7 & 12 and more information will be published closer to the date.

Congratulation to Owen and Jacob Roorda as well as Ryan McNamara who competed at the Australian Pool Lifesaving Championships over the weekend.

Jacob won 3 silver medals and 3 bronze medals, and Owen won 2 bronze medals. Owen and Ryan also received a silver medal for being part of the NSW team, which achieved 2nd place overall in the competition.

Jacob Roorda and Owen Roorda

Ryan McNamara and Owen Roorda

Please also note that we have various Presentation evenings coming up with AFL and Rugby on Friday, August 16 and Football on Friday, August 30.

Best wishes to all teams and activities this weekend.

Fixtures, Training Schedules, Maps and Venues

Click HERE.

Waverley College played Barker in a tough round of activities last weekend. There were some pleasing results as well as a last second heartbreaking loss in the 1st XV Rugby.

1st XV Waverley v Barker

We still have two more rounds of sport and Debating continuing for a few more weeks to complete their CAS rounds.

Students in Year 12 who commence their Trial HSC Examinations next week are still expected fulfil their final week of co-curricular commitments and we have a couple of key rounds against Knox and then Trinity to determine a number of premierships.

Well done to James Peate and his efforts in representing NSW and Waverley College at the National Public Speaking Championships in Hobart on the weekend. Whilst James did not secure the victory we are extremely proud of his performance and know he will give it another almighty shake next year.

Well done also to Roman Leilua and Charlie Grant on their selections over the weekend in the U16 Gen Blue Rugby squad. This is a high performance group and both of these students have demonstrated the commitments and aptitude required to be selected at this level.

We also have a handful of students competing this weekend at the National Pool Rescue Championships in Queensland. Best wishes to Jacob Roorda, Owen Roorda, and Ryan McNamara for their events.

A reminder to any student in Years 7-11 that if they wish to apply for a change in their summer activities, this needs to be completed by the end of next week. We are offering golf as a new activity and applicants will be assessed on their handicap and golfing experience for this new inter-school sport.

We also have a number of presentation evenings coming up and invite all members of the College community to come and share the celebrations of a successful winter season.

Knox v Waverley 1st XV

The Knox v Waverley game will be broadcast live on NSW Rugby TV on Saturday, 3 August at 3:05pm.

You can stream the game live by clicking HERE.

Mr Steve O’Donnell

Director of Co-curricular

sodonnell@waverley.nsw.edu.au

Kicking Club

Waverley College is pleased to announce that Mr Eddie Paea from The Kicking Academy will deliver kicking skills sessions for all age groups. Players who would benefit from these sessions include any player who wants to improve their in-game kicking and goal kicking skills.

Venue: Queens Park

Day/Time: Friday 6:45am

Skills targeted:

• Kicking for accuracy
• Kicking for distance
• Goal kicking

For any questions, please email ldrewmorris@waverley.nsw.edu.au

Mr Lachlan Drew-Morris

Director of Coaching – Rugby

ldrewmorris@waverley.nsw.edu.au

We would like to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation who are the traditional Custodians of the land on which Waverley College is located. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We are committed to honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual connections to the land, waters, seas and sky and their rich contribution to society.

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