Head of Sport and Activities—Mr Dave Capra

Three weeks into our sporting year and it is great to see our students and staff getting into the rhythm of training and competi-tion or fixtures. Each week it is great to see the quality of cricket, volleyball, canoe polo, water polo and swimming increase. With the improvement it is also great to see the boys bonding in their teams and sharing both a common love for their chosen sports and shared pride in themselves and their College that they represent so well.

With Outdoor Cricket commitments (and no washouts in 2014) I haven’t had the chance to see the boys play indoor cricket since 2013. I had the opportunity to stop in last Saturday morning and I couldn’t believe the quality and pace of the games that the boys were playing Our lover of all sports (except cricket) Mr Jones often tells me that cricket is a great opportunity to watch grass grow—this couldn’t be said for indoor cricket! All boys are actively involved, with batting, bowling and fielding at a furious pace—the sweaty faces and big smiles reminded me more of a football or rugby match then a cricket game. Congratulations to Mr Donatini and the many teachers who give up their Saturday mornings to run such a great program.

In just three weeks we have a engaged with a wide variety of schools in cricket, volleyball and swimming and in particular we have appreciated the chance to engage with our EREA counterparts Nudgee College and Gregory Terrace who have sought to find opportunities with the boys in green, white and blue. As the sporting year plays out (pardon the pun) we are looking for-ward to the opportunity to continue to engage with our EREA mates as well as a variety of other schools in the Brisbane and SE QLD Region. Our thanks to GT and NC for their support as we dive (pardon again) into this next phase of our life as a sporting College.

Australian Football

AFL is a big sport here at the College and with our sign on day held over the weekend, 2015 promises to be another great year for returning and new players to enjoy playing for the mighty Irish. We have also been pleased to see a large number of past students choosing to remain in contact with the College and play for the ATC JAFC. The sign on is still open and we would love to see more of our current, future and past students to join us this season. AFL co-exists nicely with football (soccer) and rugby at the College and many boys choose to play 2, even 3 codes for ATC. Below you will find the sign on link for ATC JAFC which you can use to register your son. If you would like any more information please do not hesitate to contact Brett Cashmere our AFL Coaching Coordinator, Fiona Kearney our AFL Admin and Integrity Officer. Click here for ATC JAFC SIGN ON

Wet Weather

At the time of writing (Wednesday evening) it looked like we are in for an interesting couple of days weatherwise. We will be releasing regular updates via the Ambrose Treacy College Facebook page and on the Wet Weather Line (3878 0511). With so many great events scheduled for our boys over the coming 72 hours, we do not wish to cancel too far head of time but will ensure sufficient notice for parents to organise transport and alternative arrangements. If by the time you read this newsletter we have had the anticipated 200-400mm of rain, my optimism for a full round of sport might appear some-what naive!

I hope you have a fantastic weekend and that if sport goes ahead it is an enjoyable experience for all involved!

Go the Reds this weekend!

Warriors Go Brach!

Dave Capra

19 February 2015 I Wet Weather Line 38780511

Athletic Performance Coordinator — Mr Luke Donatini

I firmly believe that one of the biggest hindrances in becoming truly successful in your chosen area (be it sport or

other) is poor time management.

For me, as a coach, time management for an athlete (at any age) is all about getting the right balance. Being able to

train well and completing the required work with a good balance of rest, recovery and other interests.

A well rounded young athlete needs to ensure that they have a good balance of:

Training (sport, culture, music)

Sleep

Study

Rest (down time/time for themselves)

Family life (interaction with parents and siblings/cousins etc)

Friend time (socialization with others – their mates!)

The real challenge is the ability to ‘fit’ this all into our busy daily/weekly/monthly life style.

If you were to reflect right now on your own life (just one week) and break your average week into the above points, what would the allocation of time to each stack up like? Lack of sleep, didn’t spend much time with family, with friends . . . .

Quality sports practice is vital for sporting success but as a school age student so is the ability to find time to study, to play, to get good quality rest (sleep). For any quality training session to take place the athlete needs to be ready to go (not tired, worn out and in a ‘negative head space’) at the start of the session.

I encourage all parents to sit down with your son/s and do up a weekly time management plan. Plot out everything that your son does each day in a ‘regular average week’ before school, during school (lunchtimes), after school, eve-nings and on weekends. Once you have done this, monitor the days when your son is really bright and cheery, the day where he appears tired and stressed etc. Use your weekly planner to see if there is any correlation. If there is, you may need to make some adjustments to your son’s weekly routine.

Often we do not realise what an average week looks like un- til we actually see it written down in front of us.

A WELL BALANCED lifestyle with ROUTINE, is essential for a successful, happy young athlete/adolescent. I often find with the athletes I work with, they achieve the greatest success (in general) when they are happy, not stressed, relaxed and well rested. They appear to be able to focus better, with the retention of the needed gross and fine motor patterns and skill development.

Aquatics Coordinator — Mr Paul Jones

SWIMMING – This Friday night will see a team from Ambrose Treacy College go to Centenary Pool to take on Brisbane Boys

College and Gregory Terrace in a three way meet. We were only able to select 6 swimmers from each age group, which has

been a difficult process. The selections were made based on swimmers that made the West Taylor Bridge team first and then

the few remaining positions were given to boys that have been training exceptionally well but didn’t make the WTB team. All

boys selected on this team have received letters and all other swimmers will have racing opportunities in a few weeks’ time.

Thursday night swimming club is coming into its third week of oper-

ation. Everyone is welcome to come along and try and it is a great

opportunity to learn some racing skills over distances that you are

comfortable swimming. Ambrose Treacy swimming club will see 7

swimmers competing this weekend at the QLD 50m sprint champi-

onships. We wish these swimmers well as they become the first

ATC swimmers competing at a state championship. The ATC swim-

ming club is open to both internal and external members.

Next Wednesday will see 18 ATC students representing the college

at the Metropolitan West swimming trials held at the Sleeman

Sports and Aquatic Centre. We wish these students well as they

strive to make the Met West team for the upcoming QLD schools

championships.

The ATC interhouse swimming carnival will be held on Friday 27 February. This will be the first full school interhouse sporting

event for the college and it will be very exciting to see which house is going to stamp their sporting dominance on the school. All

parents are welcome to come along for the day and support their favoured colour.

WATER POLO – The water polo competition went into week 9 last

week which created the game of season that no one likes. ATC 1

played ATC 2 which means we are guaranteed a win and a loss. ATC 2

put up a great effort against the older and more experienced ATC 1

team, but in the second half, they weren’t able to match the pace of

ATC 1. We saw an exceptional game from Matthew Theissen in the ATC

2 team and an exceptional team effort from the ATC 1 team with the

play and scoring spread around all players. This week ATC 1 play at

1.20pm and ATC 2 play at 2.40pm. All games are played at Musgrave

Park Swimming Pool.

TRIATHLON

After a long six month preparation our top level triathletes head to Hervey Bay this weekend for the State Triathlon and Aquath-lon Titles. With multiple disciplines this sport takes a huge amount of time, commitment and toughness to succeed and our boys have left nothing in the tank in their preparation for this. We would like to wish Josh Nowland, Tom Newell, Calum Barter, Patrick Newell, Tom Kearney, Joe Newell and Mitchell Densley the very best of luck this weekend. Our thanks to Mr Finn and Mr Scanlon for the many hours of training that they have put into getting these boys ready for this opportunity.

Cricket Coordinator — Mr Brett Henschell

ATC teams acquitted themselves well on Saturday against a mix of Churchie, IGS and BGS teams, recording four wins from eleven matches. Year 5 once again posted the best result with three wins. Come on 5A! 7A recorded their third win in a row to start the season off in great fashion whilst 4A was not to be out done by their older colleagues chalking up their third win from as many starts in Brisbane North junior club cricket. A number of other teams worked their way into good position to win the match but failed to capitalize.

Players certainly need to keep the good delivery out when batting but must be prepared to play an attacking stroke when the loose delivery presents. Too many deliveries are passing by unpunished down the leg side. On the other side of the ledger, too many deliveries are going down the leg side when ATC is bowling and batsmen from the other schools are jumping all over these deliveries to score runs. Our line must improve to make it harder for the opposi-tion batsmen to score and keep the number of wides/sundries to a minimum.

Training Session times:

Year 4 – Thursday afternoon (3:15-4:30pm)

Year 5 & 6 – Tuesday afternoon (3:15-4:30pm)and Thursday morning (6:45-8:00am)

Year 7 & 8 – Tuesday morning (6:45-8:00am) and Wednesday afternoon (3:15-4:30pm)

Indoor Cricket – Tuesday afternoon (3:15-4:30pm) and Friday morning (6:45-8:00am)

Cricket Intensives – Monday afternoon (any time between 3:15pm and 5:00pm) for boys of any Year group who may desire a little extra coaching (user pays system)

ATC teams play Gregory Terrace from Year 5 to Year 8 in Round 4 this Saturday in what presents as another great opportunity for our boys to test themselves against another strong cricket school.

TEAM RESULT SPIRIT OF CRICKET AWARD

U10 Blue Valley Seals 85 v ATC 109 Ben Roach

U10 Green Wilston North Green 140 v ATC 52 Atti Armstrong

U10 White Valley Geckos 153 v ATC 98 Jack Scott & Rob White

Year 5A Churchie 7/78 defeated ATC 3/62 Joe Newell

Year 5B Churchie 9/52 lost to ATC 2/55 Will Baker

Year 5C White BGS 9/49 lost to ATC 2/102 Riley Montagnino

Year 5C Green BGS 43 lost to ATC 0/107 Tom Musgrave

Year 6A Churchie 7/103 defeated ATC 7/83 Tom Denny

Year 6B Churchie 4/93 defeated ATC 5/54 Elijah Bolton

Year 6C Churchie 2/83 defeated ATC 2/58 Morgan Reid

Year 7A IGS 169 lost to ATC 3/170 Chris Pepper

Year 7B IGS 10/122 defeated ATC 11/121 Will Ghusn

Year 8A IGS 8/131 defeated ATC 49 Connor McCarthy

Year 8B IGS 1/99 defeated ATC 8/97 Noah Ryan

Fitness News

Cross Country Pre-Season – Years 4 to Year 8 Students Welcome

Tuesday Mornings (6.45am to 8.00am): Cross Country Preseason

We will meet at the Shed/Canteen Area at Hopgood Oval.

Thursday Mornings (6.45am to 8.00am): Cross Country Preseason

We will meet at the Shed/Canteen Area at Hopgood Oval.

Armidale Rugby Preseason Fitness – Only Students Born 2003 and 2004

Wednesday Mornings (6.45am to 8.00am): Fitness Training Circuit Work. We meet at the shed at Jack Bowers

Oval. No Rugby Boots Required (Joggers, water bottle, towel and training apparel).

Football (Soccer) Preseason Fitness – Years 5 to Year 8 Students Welcome

Wednesday Mornings (6.45am to 8.00am): Fitness Training Circuit Work. We meet at the shed at Jack Bowers

Oval. No Football Boots Required (Joggers, Water bottle, towel and training apparel).

Indoor Cricket News

Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 Games

All Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 Indoor Cricket Games for this Saturday will be played at 8.00am.

All students are to be at the venue to sign on by 7.50am

Year 7 and Year 8 Games

All Year 7 and Year 8 Indoor Cricket Games for this Saturday will be played at 9.30am.

All students are to be at the venue to sign on by 9.20am

All game and weekly draw information can be found on the Sports Notice Board outside the Sports and Activities

Office.

All Indoor Cricket games will played at Brisbane West Indoor Sports Centre, 27 Bellwood Street, Darra.

Year 4 Club Rugby— In 2015 Year 4 boys from ATC will be given the opportunity to play club rugby through Wests Rugby Club. Pending numbers, we will be entering teams into the Under 9 and Under 10 competitions. Boys will train one afternoon per week at school and one Friday evening at Wests Rugby Club. Games will be held for Under 9 on Saturday mornings at 11am and for Under 10 on Sunday mornings at 8.30am. Trial games will be held in March for grading of Under 10 and practice matches for Under 9s and the season will begin in April and run until late August. Our teams will wear ATC Jersey, shorts and socks when playing and will be coached by ATC staff with assistance from interested parents. We will be holding our sign on day here at ATC on Friday 20 February at 2.30pm. The cost for the season will be $75 per player, with jersey shorts and socks needing to be purchased from the Uniform Shop in addition. More information regarding sign on day will available in the newsletter next week. For more information please contact Mr Dave Capra. We are really excited by this opportunity and are looking forward to seeing our Year 4 boys running around in their ATC Rugby Gear. The Year 4 boys will be the very first to play in our ATC Rugby gear!!! At this stage the Rugby sign on Friday is still on, we will update parents via email and Facebook if it is cancelled.

ATC Cricket Draw—Round 4

*At the time of writing cricket fixtures are still on*

Saturday 21 February Round 4

8A VS TERRACE, Brookfield Showgrounds, 8.00am to 12.15pm (Turf - 35 overs)

8B VS TERRACE, Col Westaway Oval, 8.00am to 12.15pm, (Turf – 30)

7A VS TERRACE, WDCS, Chelmer, 8.00am to 12.15pm, ( Turf - 35 Overs)

7B VS TERRACE, ATC Brothers Oval, 8.18am to 10.45am (Synthetic - T20)

6A VS TERRACE, Bellbowrie Sport & Rec, 8.00am to 11.30am, (Turf – 30 Overs)

6B VS TERRACE, Jindalee State School, 8.15am to 10.45am, (Synthetic - T20)

6C VS TERRACE, 10.50am to 1.30pm, Jindalee State School, (Synthetic - T20)

5A VS TERRACE, ATC Jack Bowers N., 8.00am to 11.30am (Synthetic - 30 Overs)

5B VS TERRACE, ATC Brothers Oval, 10.50am to 1.30pm, (Synthetic - 20 Overs)

5C White VS TERRACE, Gregory Park, 8.15am to 10.45am, (Synthetic – T20

5C Green VS TERRACE, Gregory Park, 10.50am to 1.30pm, (Synthetic - T20)

4A Hopgood Oval East, 8.00am,

4 Green Rainworth State School, 8.00am

4 White Wilston State School, 8.00am

Upcoming events and information…. This week we will continue with early morning pre-season training sessions. Students are to be dressed in appropriate training ap-

parel for these sessions (Water bottle & towel required). Boys can have a shower and change at the pool after training.

Cross Country Pre-Season – Years 4 to Year 8 Students Welcome

Tuesday and Thursday Mornings (6.45am to 8.00am): Cross Country Preseason Fitness.

We will meet at the Shed/Canteen Area at Hopgood Oval.

Armidale Rugby Preseason Fitness – Only Students Born 2003 and 2004

Wednesday Mornings (6.45am to 8.00am): Fitness Training Circuit Work. We meet at the shed at Jack Bowers Oval. No

Rugby Boots Required (Joggers, water bottle, towel and training apparel).

Football (Soccer) and AFL Preseason Fitness – Years 5 to Year 8 Students Welcome

Wednesday Mornings (6.45am to 8.00am): Fitness Training Circuit Work. We meet at the shed at Jack Bowers Oval. No

Football Boots Required (Joggers, Water bottle, towel and training apparel).

Volleyball

There will be volleyball trials on Wednesday afternoon at the tennis courts after school until 5pm. If you are interested in partici-pating in the program please ensure you attend. Wednesday afternoon will act as a selection. There is only space for 20 boys across year 7 and 8 to be involved in the program in Term 1.

The plan is to train once a week and play once a week. All trainings and games for term one will take place after school. There is no weekend commitment in term one at this stage.

Trials will be open again in term three in preparation for the QLD Volleyball Schools Cup tournament.

Please direct all enquiries to Mr Tim Walker or 3878 0517

Armidale Rugby

Training for Armidale Rugby Carnival begins on

Tuesday mornings at 6.45am to 8.00am and on

Thursday afternoons from 3.15pm to 4.30pm.

A letter was sent

home with

students in Yr 5

and 6 and is includ-

ed at the bottom

of this newsletter

for boys in Year 7.

Reminder that this

is only for boys

born in 2003 and

2004.

ATC Head Tennis Coach—Mr Bruce Dick

After winning the Brisbane International Primary Schools Challenge we are looking forward to a big year of tennis in 2015. The program will get underway with pre-season training in preparation for the ATC Open Championships on Sunday 29 March. Boys who wish to play in ATC school tennis teams in Term 2 must participate in this champion-ships as it is a key part of our selections process.

The ATC tennis program is for boys who have played tennis before and are comfortable with fixtures, scoring and

umpiring. Boys who are keen to learn to play tennis for the first time are encouraged to contact Lifetime Tennis to

organize lessons.

Year 5—8 Training Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings 6.30am to 7.45am @ Ambiwerra Tennis Centre

Parents are to drop their sons at Ambi at 6.25am and they will be bussed back to ATC for

the start of the school day. Boys can shower and change into uniforms at Ambi and then

have breakfast once they are back at school.

Year 4 Training Tuesday and Thursday mornings 6.45am to 7.50am @ ATC

Boys can shower and change into school uniforms at the pool and then have breakfast

before school commences.

Training begins on Monday 2 March for Year 5 and 8 and Tuesday 3 March for Year 4 boys. I will be coming to speak

to boys about our tennis program tomorrow and will collect the names of boys who are interested in playing com-

petitive tennis for ATC at this time. After our school season in Term 2, there will be ongoing opportunities for boys

to represent ATC in tennis, both locally and at tournaments in Central and SE QLD.

Lifetime Tennis

Lifetime Tennis has recently launched its Ambiwerra Junior Masters series, a weekly tennis competition available for

students of all ages and standards. Matches run on a Saturday afternoon from 2-4pm at Lifetime’s Ambiwerra cen-

tre. The AJM match format is perfect to give Ambrose Treacy students a head start on their school tennis season.

We haven’t forgotten about parents out there either. The Spring Hill Tennis courts now host adult social fixtures

every Monday and Thursday night from 7-9pm. Sessions consist of a coaching lesson followed by organised social

match play. For all information please call (07) 3716 0077 to speak to one of our friendly staff or call our Fixtures

Coordinator, Luke, on 0449 745 992.