Sports Bulletin – Issue 16, 7th November 2024

A quick snapshot of Sport for Week 6, Term 4:

• Selection trials for AFL and Cricket have now concluded. AIC teams are training and playing trial matches in Term 4.
• Volleyball selection trials will conclude this Saturday 9 November. AIC team selections will be posted to Parent Lounge by this Sunday 10 November.
• The draw for trial matches this weekend versus Iona College is available on the website Locker Room Overview page.
• Students competing in trial matches in Term 4 are encouraged to wear their HPE uniform – shorts and HPE/House shirt for games. AFL and Volleyball hire jerseys will be handed out soon. Information will be distributed via the daily notices.

Mr Shaun McLean, Director of Sport

Draws & Team Lists
The draw for this Friday 8/Saturday 9 November is available on the Locker Room Overview page.
Team lists are available on Parent Lounge.
Generally, during normal AIC weeks, draws are available by Wednesday and team lists by Thursday prior to that weekend. This is the earliest we are able to provide accurate draws and lists for the community.

Sports Club – Volunteers
Sports Club will have a canteen operating at Goold Hall this Saturday 9 November from 9am-12pm. Please register here to offer your assistance.
There will be no canteen operating at Villa Park in Term 4.

Communications
Families are reminded to access all Sport information via the Villanova College website and the Villanova College App. The Locker Room Overview page provides updated information regarding training schedules and current AIC/trial draws.

Training Schedules
The Term 4 Training Schedule, for Weeks 4-9, is now available on The Locker Room Overview page of the Villanova College website. This does not include Term 1 Sports – AFL, Cricket and Volleyball.
The AFL, Cricket and Volleyball trials and training schedules for Term 4 are available on both the Locker Room Overview and the individual Sport pages.
Please visit the website Locker Room for specific dates and timings for 2025 Year Level trials. Please note all trials are in 2025 Year Level – if your son is currently in Year 7, he needs to trial with the Year 8 (2025) group.
The AFL Training Schedule for Weeks 6-9, the Cricket training schedule for Weeks 5-9 and the Volleyball training schedule for Week 7 only are now available on the Locker Room.

Save the dates – Sporting Tours, Camps and Clinics

• Christmas holidays 2024/2025 – Cricket Oblate Tour to Perth, Volleyball AVSC Tournament Gold Coast & Swim Camp at Tallebudgera.
• ** International Tour ** – Football & Rugby Tour to Japan – Easter 2025. Approved.
• ** International Tour ** – Basketball Tour to USA – Christmas holidays 2025/2026. Pending approval.

Sport Uniforms
Families are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the Villanova College Uniform Look Book. This information is found on the College website Uniform Shop page. Opening hours for the Uniform Shop can also be found here. All students selected in AIC teams are expected to wear the correct uniform for AIC fixtures each week.

Term 4 Pre-Season Games – expectations for uniforms, understanding that hire jerseys are not available until Term 1 and many new students will not have Villa sports uniforms yet:

• AFL Term 4 games –
  • Current students – Villanova Green HPE shorts and HPE/House shirt
  • New students – (where possible) Green shorts and a dark green shirt.
• Cricket Term 4 games –
  • Current students – Villanova College Cricket whites.
  • New students – Plain/Regular Cricket whites.
• Volleyball Term 4 games –
  • Current students – Villanova Green HPE shorts and HPE/House shirt.
  • New students – (where possible) Green shorts and a dark green shirt.

Example Villanova Green HPE shorts and HPE/House shirt.

Sport Contact List
If you are requiring information about a specific Sport, in the first instance, visit the website Locker Room page. If you need further clarification, please contact the relevant Coordinator below. For any training or game absences, please contact your Sport Coordinator.

Director of Sport – Shaun McLean, smclean@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC AFL Coordinator – Matt Conlan, mconlan@vnc.qld.edu.au on leave Term 4, contact bpascoe@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC Cricket Coordinator – Nathan Dufty, ndufty@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC Swimming Coordinator – Juanita Jacobs, jjacobs@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC Volleyball Coordinator – Todd Kropp, tkropp@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC Cross-Country Coordinator – Brian Pascoe – bpascoe@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC Chess Coordinator – Kath Underhill, kunderhill@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC Football Coordinator – Nathan Dufty, ndufty@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC Rugby Union Coordinator – Chris Everding, ceverding@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC Golf Coordinator – Todd Kropp, tkropp@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC Basketball Coordinator – Contact, sportsoffice@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC Rugby League Coordinator – Contact, sportsoffice@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC Tennis Coordinator – Nathan Dufty, ndufty@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC Track & Field Coordinator – Anthony Kemp, akemp@vnc.qld.edu.au
AIC Water Polo Coordinator – Juanita Jacobs, jjacobs@vnc.qld.edu.au
Composite District Sport – Todd Kropp, tkropp@vnc.qld.edu.au
Lytton District Sport – Chris Everding, ceverding@vnc.qld.edu.au

Wet weather cancellations
If there is any reason to cancel training sessions or weekend games, this information will be posted to the Villa App in the Notices section or emailed to the specific students and their parents. Please ensure you have downloaded the Villa App and updated your preferences and settings.

The Villa Sports Department will endeavour to cancel morning training sessions by 6am and afternoon training sessions by 1pm. If a training session is cancelled, boys are not able to be dropped off to the training venue as there will not be supervision present. Please check the Villa App and your emails regularly for these notifications.

If any AIC fixtures are cancelled, we will follow the same procedure above. Timing will be dependent on when that information becomes available.

Selection trials for AFL have now concluded. AIC team selections have been posted to Parent Lounge. New families received an email from our Enrolments Office.
Selected students will continue training in Term 4. The Term 4 Weeks 6-9 Training Schedule is now available on the Locker Room pages.
There are two pre-season games scheduled – versus Iona 8/9 November (all year levels and teams) and versus SLC 15/16 November (only Year 8-Open teams 2025). Draws will be available on the Locker Room.

Mr Brian Pascoe, AFL Coordinator for Term 4

AIC – Villanova Cricket – save the dates:

• Weeks 5-9 of Term 4. Aggregate A/B Cricket squads weekly training at Little Langlands nets.
• Saturday 9 November. Team trials against Iona College for 7A,8A,9A,10A, 2^nd XI and 1^st XI teams. Teams have now been posted in the Parent Lounge.
• Wednesday 4 December. 7A (2025 team), 10A, 2^nd XI and 1^st XI trials Vs Gregory Terrace at Tennyson.
• Sunday 8 – Friday 12 December. Oblate Cricket tour to Perth, WA.
• 1^st XI Cricket trial Vs SLC – Friday 9 January at SLC playing fields.
• January Villanova Cricket Camp – January 20, 21 and 22 at Villa Park (8:00am-12:00) daily. This camp is open for all students in Year 5-10 and it will be a user pay camp.
• Cricket trials for all A/B teams on Friday 24January, some teams will play against opposition colleges, while other teams will do internal trials.

The upcoming Cricket trials vs Iona on Saturday 9 November are planned to be conducted in the afternoon commencing at 1.30pm (except for 1^st XI which will be all day). This will involve certain A teams across the College. We are aware that most club games are played in the morning. However, I was made aware that there are some afternoon Zone Cricket fixtures in both EDJCA and Bears planned during the season. It was suggested that boys involved in these games should request via their clubs for their games to be played in the morning on these weekends, so that the players involved would be available for the upcoming trial’s vs Iona College.

All Villanova cricket teams have now been selected and are available for viewing in the parent lounge. Please note – if your son would still like to play cricket in term 1 (2025), please get in touch via email, so that we can add him to a cricket team.

We hope to publish our AIC Cricket season schedule soon, so as our cricket community has time to consider any potential further clashes that may occur.

Please email Mr Nathan Dufty, ndufty@vnc.qld.edu.au, if you have any questions regarding Villanova Cricket.

Mr Nathan Dufty, Cricket Coordinator

All Swimming families are reminded there is now a payment pending for your participation in our AIC Swim Squads. The costs cover pool hire and coaching. Please visit Parent Lounge to make payment for the 2024/2025 season. Note the three different payment categories. RSVP for payments is mid-November.

Information has been distributed to all Gold Squad Swimmers in Years 7-12 about the Tallebudgera Swim Camp from 18-20 January, 2025. The Expression of Interest form has now closed. If you are wanting your son to attend, please contact jjacobs@vnc.qld.edu.au as soon as possible.

A friendly reminder that all swimmers and parents are reminded that it is a responsibility of each swimmer to have their own kit bag containing kick board, flippers and pull buoy.  They are not to be borrowing from other students or the lost property bins at the pool.  You are also asked to arrive about 15 minutes early, dressed and ready to be in the water at the start time of the session.

Congratulations to the following boys who performed exceptionally at the Brisbane Relays recently:

• Harry Gibson 14&U Mixed 5x50m Medley Relay gold medal.
• Harry Pregnell, Ethan Haywood, Ben Landers 14&U 4×50 Freestyle relay – bronze medal and fourth in the medley relay.
• Ben Landers was also fourth in the mixed medley relay.
• Oliver Jacobs, Tyler Schafer – 4×50 16&U Medley relay – bronze medal.
• Charlie Kerr Men’s Open – 4 x 50 Freestyle relay – Silver medal, fourth in the medley relay.
• Charlie Wiggans (CHANDLER) – 4x50mFreestyle relay – fifth place.

Mrs Juanita Jacobs, Swimming Coordinator

A big thank you again to families for their effort made throughout the trials. A friendly reminder of a few things –

• Team lists for this weekend’s game v Iona can be found via Parent Lounge
• With the Iona match being the final trial, team/squad selections will be published via Parent Lounge on Sunday 10 November. Students listed will be invited to continue training and play in the trial game v SLC on Saturday 16 November. If students are unsuccessful in being selected in a volleyball team, they may choose to register for a cricket team for the 2025 AIC Season.

For those students selected beyond this weekend’s final trial, one of the commitments for AIC volleyball is helping out with court duty. For teams playing at Villanova on game day, each team will have a game commitment and a court duty commitment which is helping with officiating the match before or after their playing time. Students will be asked to either help with the scoreboard or be a linesman during the match, coaches will provide training for this requirement. A maximum of four students will be assigned court duty per round, and we anticipate that students will have no more than two per season including trials. Court duty timings will be included in the team list document each week.

As above, each team from Year 10-12 will have court duty allocation this weekend for the trial game against Iona. Timings are included with the team-list document.

Finally, the expected uniform for the trial is the Villanova squad or house shirt, Green HPE sorts and Villanova socks.

Wishing all our teams the best of luck for the remaining trials.

Mr Todd Kropp, Volleyball Coordinator

The S&C training schedule for Weeks 4-9 can be viewed on the Locker Room page.
Please note, the following sessions will be available in the Christmas holidays:

• December 2024 – final session on Friday 20 Dec
  • Mon/Wed/Fri Villa gym -7:45-9am (Andrew Slack Rugby only)
  • Tues/Thurs Villa gym – 7:45-9am (any student Years 7-11)
  • Tuesday’s Speed Development Session at Little Langlands – 8-9am (any students Years 7-11)

• January 2025 – from Monday 6 to Friday 24 January
  • Mon/Wed/Fri Villa gym -7:45-9am (Andrew Slack Rugby only)
  • Tues/Thurs Villa gym – 7:45-9am (any student Years 7-11)
  • Tuesday’s Speed Development Session at Little Langlands – 8-9am (any students Years 7-11)

Boys need to bring a towel and water bottle to gym sessions. For the Speed sessions a towel, water bottle, hat and sunscreen.

The Term 1, 2025 schedule will then commence from Tuesday afternoon 28^th January (first day of school for some year levels). The Term 1 training schedule will be available on the Locker Room soon.

The Term 4 programme is being held on Friday mornings from 11/10 to 29/11. Registrations are now closed. The Speed & Agility Programme for Years 5-8 students will be back again in 2025.

Nomination paperwork is now available from the Sports Office for the following Sport/s –

Villa Sport – humble in victory, gracious in defeat.