Director of Sport | Mr Damian Wright

Welcome back to Term 3 activities of Basketball, Rugby and Track and Field.

This Saturday the College will travel to Brisbane Boys' College for Round 1 – Schedules are available on the College App and twitter.

At College Assembly on Tuesday, the school had the opportunity to congratulate those boys who attained 1st selection in their respective program. Congratulations to those boys, but also to all the young men in the College who have decided to represent the College.

At last count, there are 723 Rugby players and 390 Basketball players, that’s approximately 69% of the boys playing sport on the weekends. That is a great result and all boys need to be congratulated.

With such large numbers there is always a need for parents or Old Boys to step forward and assist wherever possible on Saturdays or during the week coaching. If you know of anyone who may be available – especially in Basketball, please contact the relevant director.  

Thank you to all the families and boys that attended the Basketball, Rugby and Track and Field trials, camps and clinics that were held over the holiday period. Large numbers attended all of these activities.

Selections

Selections can be an emotive issue for parents and students.  Please be assured that coaches select their players carefully.  If selectors get a team selection wrong be assured that the natural talent of the athlete will shine through in his performance and the coach will then select him.  

Supplementary games 

In a perfect world, all schools would all have the same number of teams and all boys would play at the same venue every weekend. In reality, that does not happen and every weekend there is a need for supplementary games to be identified and positioned so that boys can get a game. Rounds 1 and 2 are not that bad in regard to match ups in team numbers, Round 3 will be a challenge and boys and parents will find themselves being asked to play a school for a second time and/or being asked to travel to a different destination than other members of the community. 

I thank you in advance for your patience and understanding with this. The main focus is to  give the boys the opportunity to play.

I wish all the boys the best for this weekend - certainly the first three weeks will be challenging with BBC Round 1, followed by NC at Home in Round 2 and BSHS away in Round 3. Here’s hoping we can finish the first third of the season 3-0.