Competitive Sport

Over the last two weeks, it has been great to see more of our secondary students participating in inter-school sport as well as representative sport.

Our open basketball teams continued in their Friday night competition with both Senior A teams unfortunately going down to Mountain Creek. The Senior E Boys and Senior B Girls also had narrow losses. Both the Senior D Boys and Girls teams recorded wins, with our Senior D Girls now undefeated so far this season. Thank you to Mr Mark Hauser and his team of coaches and scorers who give up their time on a Friday evening for these teams.

The Sunshine Coast Open Water Polo competition started this week. Pacific is fielding an Open A Girls team and they played against St Andrew’s Anglican College, who are competition favourites. Unfortunately, our girls lost the game but played very well against a much more experienced team.

Lastly, our touch football teams played their first games with the Intermediate A Girls recording a convincing win over Suncoast Christian College. However, our Junior A Girls lost to Matthew Flinders Anglican College.

Athletics Carnivals

• Year 3-6 Athletics Carnival – Thursday 20th August
• Year 7-12 Athletics Carnival – Friday 21st August

With the rescheduling of our carnivals, we have planned to reduce the number of events at the Year 7-12 carnival in order to fit everything in. These events will not be for house points but results from these events will be used to determine age champion results and also selection into our District Athletics team. The events will be held in Week 5 as follows.

Javelin and 1500m Events

• 13-18 years javelin – Wednesday 12th August (7.15am – 8.00am on the Primary Oval)
• 10-18 years 1500m – Wednesday 12th August (1.00pm – 1.40pm on the Meridan AFL Field)

Under 12 High Jump Event

The under 12 high jump event will also be held prior to the carnivals on Tuesday 11th August from 3.20pm. Students from Year 7 who would like to be considered for district selection or intend on going for age champion will need to attend this event. Year 6 students who would like to compete in the district high jump event need to attend this afternoon as well as participate at their Carnival to earn age champion points.

Students wishing to compete in these events need to email Mr Darren Hooper (dhooper@pacluth.qld.edu.au) to register prior to Thursday 6th August.

Virtual Surfing Contest

A final reminder that the Virtual Surfing Contest finishes this Friday 31st July. Students who are registered need to submit a short clip of their best two waves to Mr Darren Hooper by 3.00pm tomorrow afternoon. We have some great vouchers and prizes on offer for the winning students, so get your entries in!

District Basketball Trials

This week, a number of students participated in the rescheduled district basketball trials across the 13-15 years age groups. Congratulation to the following Pacific students who were selected to be part of the Independent District Basketball teams to play in upcoming Sunshine Coast regional trials.

• Brock Rudes
• Ryan Salvesen
• Katie Graves
• Kiana Campbell
• Laayla McAuliffe

Good luck to these students in their upcoming trials.

Parent Spectators

A quick reminder that under the current guidelines there is a blanket rule of no parent spectators at any training or games for both Pacific and inter-school sporting competitions. All schools are working under these arrangements. We thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Mr Darren Hooper, Head of Sport