Kristy Reed – Sports Co-ordinator and PDHPE Teacher

It has been an exciting start to the year for the Emanuel Basketball program. Emanuel School now has five teams competing in the Easts Basketball League competitions on Wednesday nights and Sundays. These teams train each week in preparation for weekly games and are coached by the School’s basketball coach, Hank Foster. Last Sunday there was a fantastic game involving the two Emanuel 16s teams competing against each other. The match was quite intense, with there only being a three point difference in the final score line. It was excellent to see the sportsmanship as well as the friendly competitiveness amongst the students. One of the goals of the School’s sports program is to develop qualities that are required in team sports and this program is assisting with the development of these attributes.

Earlier in the term many of our top basketball players attended the Combined Districts Secondary Sports Association (CDSSA) Basketball Trials at Moore Park. I congratulate the following students who were selected in the CDSSA teams:

Amy Altman – open girls

Aidan Zlotnick – open boys

Blake Nixon – open boys

Gabriella Goodridge – 15 years girls

Claudia Burman – 15 years girls team

Zac Greenberg – 15 years boys team

Ariel Odes – 15 years boys team

This term Emanuel’s most experienced basketball team, the open boys team, competed in the AICES Schools Cup Championships. To qualify for this tournament the team had to win in their Association competition, of which these boys did last year at the CDSSA Basketball gala day.  The boys started the day well with a convincing win in the first game. Unfortunately they lost by a narrow margin to a strong Central Coast team and did not progress to the finals. I congratulate the following boys on their continued commitment to School basketball: Joshua Behr, Robert Feher, Shalom Frischling, Asha Lancaster, Mitch Lipman, Blake Nixon, Darren Sacks, Jake Sharwood, Aidan Zlotnick