Term 1 Sport Update

Kennedy is thriving and our sports teams are doing their best under the current circumstances. 

Swimming looked a little different this year, with COVID-related restrictions in place. The Year 7 Trials and House activities were held on a warm sunny day with many enjoying the opportunity to get in the water and cool off. Each stroke was swum in heats across Houses. Our Year 8-12 Swimming Trials were held on Thursday 24 February at the HBF Stadium. Students were nominated to swim and times were recorded for eligibility to represent the College.

It was decided that the King and Queen of the pool would be crowned at the end of a 50m freestyle dash by our top 8 swimmers. Congratulations to the 2022 Queen – Kaitlyn James and King Andrew Wallace for their strong performance in the tough race at the end of the day. We missed the supportive House atmosphere of previous years and look forward to a return to our annual Interhouse Swimming Carnival in the future. 

Our swimmers are now participating in the ACC Age Swim Championships which is a replacement format for the traditional Interschool Carnival.

Specialist Cricket Program

The cricket season is now drawing to a close. It has been great to see matches played when so many other excursions have been modified or cancelled. While some year groups have had challenging games, we have also achieved some success! There were some great boundary shots and a few 6’s, some great wickets and enduring partnerships all part and parcel of a great season. See a summary of some of our games below:

Year 7OpponentResult
Belridge SCWon by 39 runs
 Kent Street SHS #1Won by 54 runs
 Kent Street SHS #2Lost by 93 runs
 Butler CollegeWon by 34 runs
Year 8OpponentResult
Belridge SCLost by 28 runs
 Kent Street SHS #1Won by 58 runs
 Kent Street SHS #2Lost by 18 runs
 Butler CollegeWon by 6 Wickets
Year 9OpponentResult
Belridge SCLost by 77 runs
 Kent Street SHS #1Lost by 71 runs
 Kent Street SHS #2Lost by 12 runs
 John Forrest SC 
Year 10OpponentResult
Belridge SCWon by 4 runs
 Kent Street SHSLost by 3 wickets
 Butler College 
1st IX Kim HughesOpponentResult
Belridge SC #1Lost by 8 wickets
 Belridge SC #2upcoming
 Kent Street SHS #1Lost by 135 runs
 Kent Street SHS #2Lost by 40 runs
 John Forrest SC #1Won by 56 runs
 John Forrest SC #2Won by 6 wickets

Specialist Basketball Program

While training for our Specialist Basketball Program has been full steam ahead, the season has made a slow start with the ACC cancelling all of its interschool sport for Term 1 including one-day carnivals, SAS, and SAS Junior weekly games.

We have been fortunate, however, that the SSWA has continued its senior basketball competitions despite the reduced number of schools participating. Our senior boys and girls teams have completed at least one game each with the following results so far.

  • SSWA Senior Boys vs Willetton #2: Lost 54-56
  • SSWA Senior Girls vs All Saints College: Won 39-37
  • SSWA Senior Boys vs All Saints College: TBC

We are looking forward to a few more games this term and hopefully, the season will continue to pick up as we head into Term 2.

Miss Karina Podmore
Sport Coordinator and Physical and Health Education Teacher