A re-cap of the weeks events

WATER POLO

Congratulations to our Water Polo team, who beat CBHS 18-2 last night in the Semi-final.  This now qualifies them to meet Christ's College in the final next week.  We wish them luck in this game.

CRICKET

This year we have a record 160 boys signed up to play cricket at St Bedes. Twelve teams represent the College each Saturday in the Canterbury Metro competition.

The St Bede’s College Cricket Club are still keen to welcome new players to come along and sign up so that we can cover when players are not available. If you would like to play cricket but not currently registered please talk to Clare Kissick Director of Sport.

Annual General Meeting 

Our Annual General Meeting is set down for Wednesday 14th March 7pm in the staffroom. If your son plays cricket then you are encouraged to attend.

TENNIS

Well done to the St Bede's College Senior A team, Flynn Ness, George DeMarco, Charlie and Joe Morrison who were placed 4th at the SISS champs, Charlie Morrison won all his single matches and the team had a strong finish winning 5 games to 1 against Otago Boys’ High School. A big thank you to Mr DeMarco for taking the boys.

ROWING

Our rowers performed very well at the South Island Secondary School Champs last weekend and the results reflect well for Maadi Cup.

Results from South Island Secondary School Champs:

1st 

• U16 4+ #1 Tom Arscott, Ben Visser, Ben MacGregor, Oscar Langridge coxed by Caleb Parsons
  
• U18 N4+ Sam Fairchild, Tom Goodland, Kaleb Hammond, Louis Guzman coxed by Jackson Taylor
  

2nd 

• U16 4+ #2 Lewis Meates, Sam Reed, Will O'Brian, Ben Fleming coxed by Jackson Taylor
  
• U16 8+ #1 Tom Arscott, Ben Visser, Ben MacGregor, Oscar Langridge, Will O'Brien, Sam Reed, Matty Barr, Ben Fleming coxed by Caleb Parsons
  

3rd 

• U17 4+ Alex Roberts, Quentin Monaghan, George Watson, Tommy McIntyre coxed by Jackson Taylor
  

4th 

• U18 4+ Alex Roberts, Norbert Muller, George Watson, Quentin Monaghan coxed by Caleb Parsons
  

5th 

• U18 8+ Tom Arscott, Ben Visser, Alex Roberts, Norbert Muller, Ben MacGregor, Oscar Langridge, George Watson, Quentin Monaghan coxed by Caleb Parsons
  

6th 

• U15 2x Matty Barr, Jamie Soper
  
• U18 N8+ Sam Fairchild, Tom Goodland, Kaleb Hammond, Louis Guzman, Finn Taylor, Sam Turner, Oscar Flanagan, Liam Wagteveld coxed by Gustavo Guzman
  

Is your son interested in joining St Bedes Rowing Club for the 2018/2019 season?
This Sunday, 11 March, from 10.30 - 12pm we are offering your son an opportunity to come down to Stewart’s Gully, on the Waimakariri River. Parents and interested students, will be able to see the gear and facilities talk to Rowing Club Members, and new rowers will be able to go out with a number of our Senior Boys to see what it is like to row as a crew. Rowing is a successful and popular sport at the College since 1956. St Bede’s College has a proud history of New Zealand representatives including our current coach Ross Lindstrom.
If you are keen to find out more please call Noeline Soper on 0275 230121 or Clare Kissick email sport@stbedes.school.nz

SWIMMING 

St Bede’s College Championship races – will be held on Tuesday afternoon period 5 and 6. Your son needs to register with the Sports Office, a team will be picked from these events to take part in the Canterbury Secondary School Champs.

HOCKEY

St Bede's College Hockey Club monthly meeting will be held this Monday night in the staffroom at 7.30am.

Pre-Season training is held at Marist Park every Monday after school until 4.30pm all player intending to play Hockey this year are welcome to join in if they do not have any summer sport commitment.

“Have a GO Hockey Day” - Open day is being held on Thursday 5th of April and all players who intend to play hockey must attend.

FOOTBALL

Trial continue this week Monday U17, Monday U 15 and Under 14 on Thursday.

Junior XI trials will be held on Wednesday and Friday of next week.

St Bede’s College Football Club are holding their Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 14 March at 6.00pm in the College Staffroom, if you son is intending to play Football then I encourage all parents to attend.

Football Referee Courses

These Community Referee Course is free, so you need to get as many people on this as you can. Because it is free, we will be limiting the separate course we do at clubs, so the course dates on the web site are now the fixed dates for 2018. It is also important for us to recruit referees as well. Referees come from participants in the game and these participants belong to your clubs, so please push this for us as well? It doesn’t mean you need to lose anyone who takes up independent refereeing. We work that around their club playing or coaching schedule. It’s basically giving participants pathways in football.

Please direct anyone to this link to register for a course.

RUGBY

Committee meeting this Monday at 6.00pm in the College Staffroom.

The rugby Club is also holding a Golf tournament on Friday, 16 March for more information please email Paula Cameron p.cameron@redpaths.co.nz

BASKETBALL

“SOUTHFUELS” - A huge big thank you to “Southfuels” company who presented the Senior A Basketball team with a technology packet, which consisted of an ipad, cover, stand and headphones which their company kindly donated to the College. This is a promotion that Southfuels run where clients can nominate a school and someone out there kindly nominated St Bede's College. The Senior A Basketball team will use the ipad to take their game statics each game and it will also be used as a valuable coaching tool.

See photo attached below.

Thank you to the person that nominated St Bede's College and to southfuels every bit helps a fast growing sport like Baketball.

If you want to help the basketball club to continue to support the sport at St Bede’s please let us know and get involved.

For further information please contact Ali Hughes on howard.ali@xtra.co.nz or 021 764 553.