Sport News
By Mr Thomas Duggan, Sports Coordinator
Congratulations to the QISSN netball team who competed in Brisbane over the holidays. The girls were awarded runners up in Division 6 for 2023. We would like to congratulate the following girls who were awarded Most Valuable Player throughout the week:
- Mikayla O’Neill
- Heidi Burton
- Imogen Fox
- Claudia Barton
A special mention to Mikayla O’Neill who received the overall most valuable player for Assumption College, and Imogen Fox who received our Tourist of the Carnival.
The girls demonstrated great sportspersonship throughout the week, and ACW are very proud of how they conducted themselves both on and off the court.
The Confraternity Rugby League team had a very successful carnival. Their 5 wins and 1 loss earned them 5th place in Div 2 and 21st overall out of a total of 52 schools across QLD. A special congratulations to Lachlan Collins who was awarded the Spirit of Confraternity Medal and Harrison Boal who was awarded the best and fairest player.
Samuel Wainwright and Mitchell Ranger were awarded as our Team’s Tourists of the Carnival whilst Harrison Boal was voted as the Players Player by his teammates.
The following players were also recognized by selectors at the end of each game for their man of the match performance:
- Lachlan Collins
- Harrison Boal
- Hamish Gartery
- Cooper Morton
- Sam Wainwright
- Mitchell Ranger
We look forward to Townsville in 2024.
The sporting life within our College has not slowed during Term 3 with many of our sporting teams and young athletes already conquering massive achievements.
The Open Rugby League team recently become the first ever Assumption College team to win the Open Darling Downs Schoolboys Competition also known as the Jonathon Thurston Cup. This team defeated Lockyer District SHS in Week 1 of term with only 13 players available to earn themselves a spot in the Grand Final. The team was strengthened with 2 of our players becoming available in the lead up to the Grand Final against Harristown SHS. The ACW team were able to seal the victory against Harristown 20-14 which created history. This is the first ever time that ACW has ever won the Jonathon Thurston Cup after appearing in the final a handful of times in the past. Special mention goes to Harrison Boal for his Man of the Match performance. Following this success, the team will now compete in the NRL Schoolboys Trophy competition. This competition has taken place on Wednesday, 02 and Thursday, 03 August 2023. Pending results of these 2 days will determine if the team progresses further.
Term 3 sees the beginning of our All School Touch Football preparations as our u15 boy and u15 girl teams have been mixed to create 2 ACW Mixed Touch Footy teams to compete in the local Mixed competition. Our teams have started the season off well with a mixture of wins and losses for both teams. We will continue to play on Wednesday nights leading up to the All Schools Touch Football Competition in Week 1 of Term 4.
On Thursday, 27 August, ACW had 40 students attend the Border District Track and Field Championships hosted by Warwick SHS. This was a wonderful day of track and field with many of our young athletes setting personal bests and making qualifying standards for their events. The day was topped off by being awarded the Girls Aggregate Trophy as the School to have the most points earned by our girl athletes. We also ranked 2nd overall which is a massive achievement. Congratulations to the following students awarded with Age Championships and Runners Up awards:
- Hayley Wainwright (14 yrs Girls Age Champion)
- Jazmine Cruda (14 yrs Girls Runner Up)
- Mikayla O’Neil (16 yrs Girls Runner UP)
- Samuel Wainwright (Opens Boys Age Champion)
We are also very proud of our 12 year old students who competed at Allora at the Southern Downs Athletics Carnival on Tuesday, 01 August 2023.
We look forward to attending the 101st Warwick Secondary Schools Sporting Association Track and Field Championships on Thursday, 10 August 2023 as well as having many of our athletes attend Darling Downs Trials in late August.
Assumption College will also have 3 teams competing in a local Interschool Netball competition in Weeks 7, 8 and 9 this term against our neighboring schools. Nominations for our Years 7/8 team, Years 9/10 team and Years 11/12 team will be happening during Week 5 of term as we look forward to taking part in this competition.