By Mr Thomas Duggan, Sports Coordinator

This year, Assumption College has decided to join neighbouring schools to start a year-long Interschool Sporting Competition. We are starting the competition with a T20 cricket tournament, which is taking place this term. Starting on Wednesday 23 February 2022, our u14 and Open team will play St Joesph’s Stanthorpe and Warwick State High School, respectively. The last matches for the term will be played on Wednesday 9 March 2022 against Scots PGC College. Our College teams will be selected based on nominations made by Friday, 18 February 2022.

Assumption College has once again entered the QISSRL and QISSN Confraternity for 2022, which will be hosted in Mackay in June. Our players and coaches are looking forward to this carnival and have commenced training this week, in preparation for trial matches and local competitions, leading up to the Confraternity. We wish these teams an injury free preparation.

Our College sporting calendar is very busy during Term 1 with plenty of representative opportunities arising for students in an array of sports. I encourage students to listen to the daily notices each morning and follow up with me, Mr. Duggan, so that they do not miss out on these opportunities. Coming up is the Border District Winter Trials for Rugby League, Netball, Soccer and Basketball, more information about these trials to follow.

Border District Representative

Wednesday 9 February, Assumption College had four (4) students selected to represent Border District at the Darling Downs trials for Cricket and Touch Football. Anytime a student is selected in a representative team is a massive achievement. We would like to congratulate, and celebrate the achievement of our students making the following teams: Cooper Murray – u15 Touch Football, Hamish Gartery – u19 Touch Football, Harry Marshall – u15 Cricket and Tom Doherty – u19 Cricket.

Darling Downs Representative

On behalf of Assumption College, we would like to congratulate Tom Doherty for attending the u19 Darling Down Cricket Team trials held on, Tuesday, 15 February 2022, and being successfully selected. This is a great achievement, and we wish him all the best for the upcoming state carnival.

During the school holidays, Ella Hagenbach was selected in the u15 State Hockey team. Ella will represent Queensland at Newcastle in the Easter holidays. We wish Ella the best of luck and congratulate her on this outstanding achievement.

Pink Stumps Day
By Tom Doherty, Year 12 Sports Leader

Last Friday, Assumption College had their annual Pink Stumps Day. As a College, we raised over $2,308.50 for the McGrath Foundation.

After school, the annual Assumption staff vs Year 12 students game took place. It was a fun and exciting game of cricket which came down to the wire. The game went down to the last over with the students winning by 3 runs. Great efforts all round from the students and teachers.

We would like to thank our sponsors, Hire Solutions (Eastwell family), Back to Heath Chiropractor (Matt Lonsdale), Sovereign Hotel (Worth Family) and ACW College.

We thank everyone for their efforts and donations towards the McGrath Foundation.