School Sport Newsletter: 11th February 2022

Swimming - 

On Tuesday 8th February, 41 students from Yrs 3-6 at St Gabriel’s went to the Ford Swim Centre for Swimming trials . The students showed great endeavour as they swam 50 metres of the pool in Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly. The students with the fastest time in their events will Swim next Tuesday 15th February at the Gippsland Regional Aquatic Swim Centre in Traralgon. These students will be notified on Friday and will receive a permission notice and program detailing the event on the day. I would like to congratulate all the students who participated on the swim trial day for ”giving it your best”. The behaviour and sportsmanship of all students on the day was outstanding. I would like to thank also Miss Johnson and Mrs Mihaly for assisting with the program on the day. 

Sporting Schools Grant 

At the commencement of this year the school was notified of its successful application of the Sporting school grant. Next Tuesday, Thursday and Friday for the next three weeks Mr Graham Charlton from the Traralgon Tennis Club will be coming to the school to run tennis lessons during the students physical education time. Students will be permitted to bring their own tennis racquets to school when they’re having their lesson with Mr Charlton.

Sporting Achievements- 

Basketball 

On Friday some families from St Gabriels travelled to Warrnambool to compete in the Warrnambool Telstra Junior Seaside Classic Basketball Tournament.  The families included Giblett and Adams. Both Harry and Tyler represented the T-Birds U12 Boys and they won the Grand Final against Warrnambool by 3 points.  The Traralgon T-Birds lost to Warrnambool in the first round by 3 points. The team played 3 rounds and a semi final to reach the Grand Final. Michelle Giblett said “it was a wonderful achievement and it has been a number of years since Traralgon T-Birds had won this Warrnambool tournament”. She said the team worked really well together and shared the ball around. 

Sat 5th Feb

ROUND  1 -Warrnambool - 28  Traralgon T-Birds - 25          

ROUND  2 -Traralgon T-Birds - 62   Colac Kookas - 22

ROUND  3 - Traralgon T-Birds - 47  Hamilton Hurricanes - 16

Sun 6th Feb  SEMI FINALS -  Traralgon T-Birds - 46  Hamilton Hurricanes - 20

GRAND FINAL -Traralgon T-Birds - 39  Warrnambool - 36

Sporting Achievements -

If you have any sporting news of an individual or a team please email me at: dhogan@stgtraralgon.catholic.edu.au Please include photos if you can. Greatly appreciated Damian Hogan