Cross Country

The NSW All Schools Cross Country Championships was held at The Sydney International Equestrian Centre on July 24. Stella had five of our amazing distance runners competing at this event: Piper B, Emily C, Amelia M, Pip Q and Lyla R. This is the highest level of competition in NSW, and all of our students had excellent results.

A huge congratulations to Pip Q who won the 15 years event to be the 2024 state champion. Pip will now represent NSW at the National Schools Championships later this month. Well done also to Amelia M who finished 9^th and is the reserve for the NSW team. Emily and Lyla also finished with top 20 places in the state!

Good luck also to Lyla who is representing NSW Athletics at the Australian Cross Country Championships.

Snow Sports

The Stella snow sports team competed at the Northern NSW Championships in Thredbo during the school holidays. We had five students in the Stella team: Mia S, Amber C, Bridey C, Archie H and Lara H. The conditions at the event were very tough, but the Stella team had fantastic results. Congratulations to Amber who has qualified to compete at the State Championships and a special mention to Lara who finished 5^th in the snow board events.

Bill Turner Cup Soccer

Stella entered a team into the Bill Turner Cup this year. This is a tournament with over 500 teams from QLD, NSW, ACT and VIC.

The Stella team has been playing in knockout matches for this competition since Term 1. They have won their way through six rounds to win the Sydney area title. The team played so well all through the rounds, knocking out some very experienced soccer teams, including Manly Selective, Mackellar, Pymble Ladies College and William Clarke. It was an amazing achievement to make it to the final 16 teams in the tournament.

Unfortunately, the Stella team ended up playing last year’s winners in the round of 16 – Westfield Sports High. The game was an amazing match – with Stella really stepping up to play an outstanding level of football. It was such a close game, being 1 – 1 at full time, and Stella was unlucky to lose 2 – 1 in the last minute of extra time. Well done to all members of the squad who all played so well throughout the tournament. We are looking forward to next year’s competition already!

April U, Camille C, Charlotte C, Ellie E, Emma B, Evie M, Gracie B, Gracie E, Jess P, Lara M, Lola H, Lyla R, Maisey S, Siena A, Sophie L, Zoe V, Amber K, Amelie V, Ann M, Kayla R and Zoe A.

Netball

Congratulations to the Stella teams who played at the Broken Bay Netball Championships at Pennant Hills on Friday 26 July. All four Stella teams played well against tough competition. Well done to the Intermediate team who finished third.

Hockey

Congratulations to Isla S (Year 7) who has been selected into the NSW Hockey team! Well done on this amazing achievement!

Athletics

The athletics season is up and running. We have a busy term with trainings on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Friday night twilight carnivals. The Stella team had a great group compete last Friday night at Sydney Olympic Park. Any student who would like to take part in the athletics program is welcome to attend.