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Sport Letters 2012
Sport Calendar 2012	Click here
Year 1-3 Sport Booklet and Forms 2012	Click here
Year 4-6 Sport Booklet and Forms 2012	Click here
Year 7-9 Sport Booklet and Forms 2012	Click here
Year 10-12 Sport Booklet and Forms 2012	Click here

new - Primary swim team announced here for Independent Swim Carnval (SCISSA) to be held on Tuesday 20th Feb

Save the date - Friday 10th February - _{more info coming soon}

Get Ready for Tennis



Coles vouchers
A huge thanks and congratulations to the College community for the recent Coles Sports Vouchers campaign. The College received a massive 127, 021 vouchers which has allowed us to purchase some exciting sports equipment for use before, during and after school. Thank you for your wonderful support.

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Brother and sister make Australian team
Congratulations to Louise Evans who competed at the recent Australian Youth Sailing Championships in the women's Radial Class. Louise achieved the Overall regatta win and a prestigous Australian Youth Sailing Team spot. Evans sailed extremely consistently throughout the entire regatta and earned her chance to  to represent Australia in Japan in March and at the ISAAF Youth Worlds in July in Irelandsail at the ISAF Youth Worlds in Ireland. Congratulations Louise. Kye then sailed in the Australian Optimist Nationals at RQYS last week.  In a fleet of 118 boats Kye finished 5th Australian on the last day of racing.  The top 5 boats at the Nationals secure a position in the Australian Optimist Worlds Team.  The Opti Worlds are in the Dominican Republic in July.

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Brodie again National Champ
Brdie picked up gold in the 13 years Boys 1500m and silver in the 800m to cap off a great year which he picked up three individual national gold medals and three individual national silver medals across track and cross country. His coach Brian Chapman commented - I've got a saying that training can beat ability, ability can beat training but there's nothing that can beat ability and training. He's got both' Congratulations Brodie.

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Inflatable Football
We are delighted again to offer our Football ( soccer) Program for Year 1-4 students. This is with the highly skilled 'Total Football Acdemy'. This opportunity will commence on Monday 6th Feb. All the information is available for download here. More information and an opportunity to register online is also available by clicking here

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Basketball 2012
The plans are already underway for a HUGE year of St Andrew's Basketball. Following the success of 2011 we are really excited about 2012. There are two seasons in 2012. In Terms 1 and 2 we will be entering teams in Noosa Basketball competition at U14, U16 and U18 age groups. In Terms 3 and 4 we will be competing in the Sunshine Coast Schools Basketball. For more information on how you can get involved please visit the Basketball page here

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Australian Water Polo
Congratulations to Tiana Sogaard Andersen who represented Australia in Water Polo during the holidays. She played for the Australian U17 Schoolgirls Team in December in the annual 3 test series against New Zealand. This year the games were held in Sydney. 

We wish Tiana all the best when she plays for Qld in the U20 National Championships 17-22 January in Adelaide.. This is a great achievement for Tiana as she has another 3 years in U20s. Good luck T!!

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Remy creates History
Congratulations to St. Andrew's student Remy Fairweather who has created Australian swimming history when she broke one of the longest standing age-group AUSTRALIAN records being held by Hayley Lewis for 22 years !!! The record is now Remy's. The event was 14 years Girls 400m Freestyle in a time of 4:10.55, this also got her a bronze medal in the OPEN State 400m FINAL. She is now the fastest 13 yr old and 14 year old ever in Australian swimming history in this event. On behalf of everyone at St. Andrew's - congratulations Remy - We are very proud of you. Here is an audio file of her coach being interviewed on ABC radio about Remy

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Water Polo - Queensland teams announced
Congratulations to six St. Andrew's students who have been selected in the Queensland U14 Water Polo squads announced today. They are Nic Porter, Dylan Coolican, Juliano Cerasani, Cameron Boldy, Fraser Hopkins and Jacqui Sjogren. a wonderful achievement and thoroughly well deserved after performing brilliantly at the Queensland Water Polo Championships.

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Swimming carnival
Congratulations to our Year 3-6 swimmers on a wonderful carnival. The spirit, enthusiasm and talent was fantastic. A special congratulations to Max Osborn who broke three College swimming records in the 11 years Boys age group. A huge thanks to the students, staff and families for their great support. More images and video production is available here

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Netball 2012
Our Netball preparations are well under way for 2012 and an exciting development is our Secondary program moving into the Sunshine Coast Secondary Schools Netball competition in Maroochydore each Monday evening in Term 1 and 2. Year 3-6 will compete each Thursday evening at Coolum Netball. All the information for 2012 is available here

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Queensland Primary Schools Relay Swimming
Our Primary swim team was again outstanding when they competed in the Queensland Primary Schools Relay Carnival in Brisbane with 46 other schools. It was an U10 and U12 carnival with Freestyle and Medley Relays. All our teams had top 15 finishes with plenty of finals made. Our U12 girls were terrific finishing 4th in the Freestyle and getting Bronze in the Medley Relay. Thanks to families for their support.

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Sports Celebration 2011
Congratulations to all students on a wonderful year and congratulations to our award winners for 2011. The number of students participating in co-curricular sport in 2011 has again been huge. It is great to see so many students recognised for their achievements, participation and spirit. A huge thank you to swimming superstar Emily Seebohm for presenting this year. She was outstanding. Thank you to the many families who took time out to share in the celebrations. More photos available here and full list of sport award winners here

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Water Polo 2011
Congratulations to our three Water Polo teams who competed in the finals at Kawana on Monday evening. Following on from the success of Basketball, St. Andrew's has been announced as the Runner up Champion Water Polo school behind Matthew Flinders. With 15 schools in the competition and over 70 teams playing this is a great achievement for our Water Polo community. Congratulations to all coaches and players and especially. A huge thank you to Cameron Piper for his incredible passion, knowledge and energy in driving Water Polo so successfully at St. Andrew's. It is a very popular sport and that is largely due to Cameron and the coaches who make it so enjoyable.

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