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Dylan Hannan
Sports Co-ordinator
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Senior AFL is a major fixture on the Sports
Sport forms an integral part of Salesian College
Sunbury’s extra-curricular program and it has been calendar at the College. 2018 saw the Senior Girls
AFL move from a one-day tournament, to a fully
a privilege to lead this department for the first
time in 2018. We are fortunate to be a member of fixtured season to mirror the boys for the first time.
It’s great to see female football really take off.
the Sports Association of Catholic Co-Educational
Secondary Schools (SACCSS), which allows our The girls played extremely well and managed
students to participate in a variety of sports at a to go through the home and away season
very competitive level. undefeated. Unfortunately, the girls went down to
In 2018, Salesian students were not only restricted a well-drilled MacKillop College in the Grand Final.
to SACCSS events. Our netballers competed in Our Senior Boys AFL team had another very
the Netball Victoria State Schools Championships. successful campaign. To the boys’ credit, we had
Again, Salesian had a gymnastics team, comprised complete buy in from all players, regardless of the
of six very dedicated girls from Year 8 to 10. The representative standard that they might have been
girls competed across both the A1 and B2 divisions playing outside of school.
and all girls performed very well on the day. Our
This ‘one in, all in’ approach was a key ingredient
A1 team finished second overall against some elite
private schools and Matilda Gavaghan won the A1 that lead to the Boys SACCSS Premiership win
over the previously undefeated Emmanuel
Individual event against some quality gymnasts.
Our B2 division team also competed very well on College by 32 points. After winning the SACCSS
Competition, we were invited to compete in the
the day.
Herald Sun Shield.
Our Sport Captains, Olivia Cautley and Matt
McDonald also planned, umpired and ran a Savio The boys fought hard all day to eventually get over
the line against Padua College in the Semi Final
Lunchtime Mixed Netball Competition in the
Stadium each Friday throughout Term Two, which and then progressed through to the Grand Final
was a massive success. Every house easily filled against Westbourne Grammar at Sandringham.
a mixed netball team and we had in excess of 100 Despite being in front for 95% of the game, we
spectators supporting their houses and creating were on the wrong end of the scoreboard when
a competitive, but friendly, atmosphere in the the final siren went, going down by two points.
Stadium each Friday lunchtime. Congratulations to With many talented young players, we are hoping
Colliton House who after finishing 4th, managed to go one better next year. The Salesian boys have
SPORTS
to save their best form for the finals and were now competed in every SACCSS Senior AFL Grand
crowned 2018 Premiers. Final ever contested, equalling 15 in a row; an
achievement the College is very proud of.
Term Three saw our two Senior Soccer teams
compete in the Senior SACCSS competition. Our
girls finished the home and away season with only
one loss and faced the unbeaten Penola College

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