Year 7 – 12 Sport

A big welcome from the Sport Department for the 2025 school year and we hope to see many of our students enjoying all the sport opportunities on offer at PLC this year.

Introduction Information:

A lot of our initial sport information has been sent out last week. This would have included an introduction letter with lots of information regarding sport at PLC, as well as some further correspondence about representative sport. In 2025, the PLC Sports Department will use Parent Lounge via TASS (https://tass.pacluth.qld.edu.au/parentlounge ) to collect consent for sport activities and will complete sign ons and disperse team information and scheduling for all sporting activities via Clipboard.

The weekly newsletter Compass will also be used to pass on information regarding upcoming sporting opportunities and events, as well as competitive sport results updates and celebrations of student sporting achievements. Please don’t hesitate to let us know if your student has achieved highly in an outside school sport event and we will endeavour to acknowledge them in the weekly newsletter.

Competitive Sport:

Students will have the opportunity to sign up and participate in a number of competitive sport teams throughout the year. These teams play outside of school hours, generally on a weekday afternoon/early evening. We encourage all students to play in at least one competitive sport team per semester in order to maximise their engagement (and enjoyment) within the school community (as a plus, they will have a lot of fun). All competitive sport sign ups are done online via the Clipboard link which will be available to students on the My PLC Portal and the Year 7-12 Sport NAV Page. Students will be told in advance about signing up and it is a very quick procedure to access a sign up portal. If there are any issues with signing up, they should contact a member of the Sport Department.

Students in competitive teams will be provided with playing shirts/singlets/jerseys/ dresses throughout the year. It is important to note that these are loaned to students just for the duration of the season and need to be returned at the conclusion of the season, otherwise there will be a fee charged for any unreturned items.

Weekly Friday Sport:

Each week students from Year 7-12 will participate in sporting activities on a Friday afternoon. These activities range from competitive sport training, sport development sessions for upcoming competitive sports, and sport for life options which provide students with a variety of physical activity and movement opportunities. Students only ever need to choose their competitive sports or development options in a term. Students who wish to participate in non competitive sports on a Friday will be allocated to activities with their year level peers.

Friday Sport Schedule

Yr 11-12 Sport: 12:15-1:15pm

Yr 7-10 Sport: 1:45-3:15pm

Swimming Carnival: Inter-House Swimming Carnival

ALL students must:

-          be at their allocated meeting places (TBC) by 8:25am

-          attend and are encouraged to swim (where possible)

-          wear correct house uniform and swimmers as outlined in this letter

-          return on buses in completely dry clothes

-          not be on mobile devices on buses or at the pool

-          swim in house coloured swim caps (provided on the day) for all events

-          students are permitted to dress up (zinc, costumes, etc) but must do this once they arrive at school

A full program with further details will be sent to parents prior to the carnival.

District Carnival

The fastest 4 freestyle students and fastest 3 students in backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly will be selected in the PLC Swim Team to represent the college on Thursday 27th February at the Independent District Swimming Carnival held at Sunshine Coast Grammar Pool. This is a school hours carnival and it will be a school championship points event only (Not a district team qualifier). Nominations for representative swimming will be direct to regionals. More information about this will be sent in Interhouse Swimming letter.  Students who are in the 12 years age division will have their times integrated with the junior carnival results and selections will be made from this listing.  The 9-12yrs Independent District Carnival will take place during school on Tuesday 26th February.

Competitive Sport News

Netball: We are excited to kick off our 2025 Netball Competitive Netball season. Our PLC Netball Teams have been mostly finalised for our upcoming season and Friday Sport time will be used to allocate any new players to teams. We are fortunate to have a great cohort of experienced coaches taking out teams again, including Sunshine Coast Lightning Player Ash Ervine, who will be coaching our Senior A team. Information regarding the upcoming season will be sent out next week. The first round will be the 10th of February with the full draw to be emailed out soon. Students will be emailed over the next week to collect their playing dresses. Please email Michelle Dufty at mdufty@pacluth.qld.edu.au  if you have questions regarding netball for your student this year.

SCISSA Sport Term 1: Students in Yr 7-12 also have had the opportunity to pick a competitive sport for Term 1 and represent PLC in either Yr 11-12 Volleyball or Yr 7-10 Soccer in the Sunshine Coast Independent School Sports Association. Interested students have signed up via the Clipboard link which was sent out through email and put on the 7-12 NAV page. Students who have signed up will trial on Friday 31st January and Friday 7th February to be placed into teams. Information regarding the season will be sent out to parents and students by the start of Week 3. Game schedules will be able to be accessed through Clipboard and NAV Calendar when the draw is released. Please contact Mr Cameron West-McInnes at cwestmcinnes@pacluth.qld.edu.au  if you have any questions about Volleyball or Soccer for this year.

Rugby Opportunities Term 1: Keen Rugby students will have the opportunity to participate in Representative Rugby Tours/Tournaments in Term 1. These events include the one day Fraser Coast Rugby 7s tournament and the Armidale Rugby Tour in the Easter Holidays. Sign on will be up by the end of the week. These are fantastic Rugby experiences to start off the year before building into the Boys 15 aside and Girls 10 aside competitions in Terms 2 and 3. Please email Mr Josh Cummins at jcummins@pacluth.qld.edu.au  if you have questions about rugby opportunities for your child this year.

Sharks Volleyball Development Opportunity

Sharks Volleyball Weekly Junior Session is available for Years 4-12 and caters all levels, from complete beginners to seasoned representatives. The session runs on Thursday evenings at Pacific Lutheran College, starting this week (30th of January), from 6-7:30pm for Years 4-8 and 7:30-9pm for Years 9-12. The program costs $185 for 10 weeks of structured training sessions designed by Max Senica, an Australian National Team player, and coached by our team of experienced and passionate coaches. For more information about the program and a place to register, please follow the link below.

https://sharksvolleyball.com/weeklyjuniorsession

13-19yr District Trial Information: (See trial list following)

Mr Cameron West-McInnes, Head of Sport