Sport

Churchie gained another glorious addition to our silverware cabinet on Saturday, clinching the GPS 2024 football premiership. Congratulations to our First XI team, coaches, director and all staff involved. It was a fantastic turnout of supporters who witnessed history in the making.

After another exciting GPS round eight last weekend, we invite everyone to see the weekend’s results summary via myChurchie – GPS Sports and Activities.

Football

The last game of the GPS football season saw us host TSS.

We finished the season on a high with 20 wins, 4 draws and 8 losses. We also recorded 3 losses in the 3 supplementary games. The result cemented the third spot in the overall GPS football programme.

In front of a crowd of more than 1,000 people, Churchie and TSS locked horns in an epic battle.

The game was very evenly matched in the first half, with neither side creating many clear-cut chances.

With about 20 minutes to go, Levi Collins broke the deadlock to send the home crowd into a frenzy. He broke down the left-hand side before beating a defender and then cooly converting from a tight angle. TSS came back strong and scored with 10 minutes to go through a nice turn and finish. The last 10 minutes were a real arm wrestle with neither side being able to score the winner.

The game finished in a stalemate, which secured Churchie’s second-ever premiership in the competition’s 34-year history. It was a workman-like performance from the Churchie team. A fitting way to farewell the captain Luke O’Sullivan and the rest of the Year 12 boys.

A number of the Year 12 boys have been involved in the first team setup for three years now. They have seen the lows (ninth place finish with one point in 2022) and now the highs of winning the premiership. We could not be any prouder of them. Their growth on and off the field has been phenomenal.

Alex Rados, Director of Football

A nine-month journey has now come to an end. The boys’ hard work and dedication have paid off. The success came about from the wonderful culture and high standards of all 22 players who were involved in the 2024 First XI set-up.

Scott MacNicol, First XI Coach

Below are a few of the many examples of boys living by the Churchie Football values of integrity, discipline and determination in round eight.

Integrity: Henry Brown (11D)has looked to improve both his technical skills and leadership all season. Very well done!

Discipline: Olan Cruikshank (9B) played a fantastic match and was a key member of the team.

Determination: Chace Buick (9D) is a real team player who never gives up.

Prep School players of the week:

Beau Gough (5A) for his continual effort, attitude and sportsmanship, not only on the weekend but all season. Beau is the first to pick his mates up and encourage others on and off the field.

Tom Burke (6A) for always working extremely hard on gameday and throughout training. Tom continually supports his mates and keeps a positive attitude no matter the result, capped off with another strong performance on the weekend.

Thank you for a fantastic football season. Next year, we will come back bigger and stronger.

Alex Rados
Director of Football

Tennis

Round eight saw Churchie Tennis conclude the 2024 season with much success. The blue and grey took on the boys from The Southport School in 26 matches plus two supplementary games against Brisbane Grammar. Seventeen wins against TSS gave us the overall win on the day and put the tennis community in a great mood to celebrate our end of season event.

Our overall programme only lost to BGS and BBC this season, as we defeated every other school we played—a fantastic effort from all our boys across our 30 teams.

Our First IV finished the season with a very narrow loss to TSS, only going down by five games in total after the final match tiebreaker decided the whole day. It was another tough day for the four First IV boys, but they remained staunch and battled hard as they had all season.

The season was celebrated in great spirits at our End of Season Presentation, with over 170 players from Years 7 to 12 and their families joining us for a well-catered night of awards and recognition. The night was another fantastic success; congratulations to the Tennis Support Group.

Thank you to our fantastic tennis families for transporting our athletes this season, and thank you to the staff and coaches for their efforts to make the season run as smoothly as it could. Most importantly, I thank all our Churchie boys for representing the School in the manner they have; we had many compliments about your sportsmanship and behaviour and that is as important as a win.

Ian Malpass
Director of Tennis

Sporting achievements

Congratulations to the following students for their success in the following sporting pursuits:

Swimming

Max Cunningham was selected in the team to represent Queensland for the New Zealand National Swimming Championships in August.

Cross Country

Hamish Barwick, George Chandler, Archie Ellis, Daniel Lane, Andrew McConnel, Freddie McDonnell, Lachlan Moore, Zac Moore, Finn Platz and Winston Rogers were selected in the Metropolitan East team to compete in the QRSS 10 to 19 years Cross Country State Championships in Brisbane this weekend.

Trent Goodrick
Head of Cocurricular