Sport
2025 Cocurricular Selection Information Evening
We are excited to announce Churchie’s 2025 cocurricular selections will commence via a video presentation on Monday 29 July commencing at 6 pm. Information regarding GPS sports and activities, music and the creative arts will be presented, including the process for selections. All parents and students are encouraged to view the presentation.
Following the video, families will have time to review all options and submit 2025 preferences via myChurchie – GPS Sport and Activities Selections (the site will become live on Monday at 7:30 pm).
Instructions and a link to the myChurchie – GPS Sport and Activities Selections will be distributed to families and time allowed for boys and their parents to discuss their academic and cocurricular commitments.
Please find below a summary timeline for the 2025 Cocurricular Selection process:
- Saturday 27 July (week three): Cocurricular Showcase event for new 2025 Year 5 to 12 students and current Year 4 and 6 students only (11 am-12:30 pm)
- Monday 29 July (week four): Cocurricular Selection Information Evening (6 to 7 pm) with selection portal live and available from 7:30 pm
- Sunday 18 August (week six): The selection portal will be closed to all families at 6 pm
Basketball
The GPS season starts this week against Brisbane Grammar School. The match-up across the programme will be a good measure of the strength of our preseason through our Vikings club basketball games, training and recent holiday camps.
Last Saturday saw the annual Tip-Off Night, where 600 members of the Churchie Basketball community watched the Year 4 Vikings boys play a pre-game to the Old Boy versus First V Match Up for the Jocelyn Pitt Trophy.
The game did not disappoint, with the Old Boys taking an early lead before a strong third-quarter run, and an even stronger finish, saw the final score 96 to 90 in favour of the First V. Highlights were 23 points by Nash Harding and 19 from Oskar Olechnowicz, as well as some late 3-point daggers by Year 10 point guard Noah Kirk. The First V are looking to be strong contenders for the 2024 GPS Premiership.
This weekend against Brisbane Grammar, we strongly encourage all boys who are available to adopt the mantra, ‘You play, you stay’. We would love to see all boys who can stay for the 12:15 pm game in the Sir John Pidgeon Sports Complex for the First V, and hopefully replicate the support seen in football leading into their undefeated premiership. The games do not clash with them moving to watch the rugby, and the band will be in full swing to make the atmosphere that much more exciting.
Aaron Harding
Director of Basketball
Track and Field
Churchie Track and Field training commences next Monday morning at 6:30 am.
All athletes should meet at the main oval grandstand as we begin our preparations for the GPS Track and Field Championships to be held on Friday 16 October.
Strength and Conditioning
Welcome to Term 3. See here for the upcoming gym schedule for this term. If you have any questions, please contact jarrad.boswell@churchie.com.au
Jarrad Boswell
Director of Athletic Development
Sporting achievements
Congratulations to the following students for their success in the following sporting pursuits.
Basketball
The following boys were recently selected into the Queensland Teams for Representative School Sport or at the Basketball Queensland/Basketball Australia level:
- Andrew Watene (Year 9): Under 16 Queensland Team playing at the National Championships in Bendigo this week.
- Jake Miles-Wrency (Year 12) and Connor Davidson (Year 12) were selected for the QRSS Queensland Open Merit Team.
- Noah Kirk (Year 10) was selected for the National Indigenous Basketball Australia Camp.
Volleyball
Cooper Sharpe (Year 12) represented the Australian Under 20 Volleyball Team in early June. They played a three-match series against New Zealand in Canberra with the winner qualifying for the Asian Championships. The Australian side won the series 2–1. Cooper will now represent Australia at the 2024 Asian Men’s U20 Volleyball Championship in Indonesia from 23 to 30 July.
Additionally, Luka Sazdov (Year 12), Wil Fearnley (Year 11) and Frankie Sharpe (Year 10) were selected for the Youth Men’s National Indoor Squad, a pathways project focused on selecting the top 50 volleyballers around the country and providing them with additional training with the goal of future national selection.
Luka Sazdov and Wil Fearnley won the Open Honours division of the Australian Beach Volleyball Schools Cup. This ranks them as the best schoolboy beach volleyball pairing in the country for any age group. With over 184 teams across high school age groups, it was a great accomplishment to win the open division and showcase the excellent volleyball talent and development here at Churchie.
Additionally, Luka also won the Under 18 Boys competition at the Australian Youth Beach Volleyball Championships. This comes after he was named the Queensland Junior Beach Male Player of the Year for the third year in a row.
Luka Sazdov was named in the 16–19 Years QRSS Queensland Merit team after representing Met East at the Volleyball State Championships.
Oliver Dale (Year 8) was selected in the Queensland Squad for the Volleyball Australia Emerging Talent Program.
Water polo
Jack Barrett (Year 7), Xavier Ringholdt (Year 7) and Henry Juniper (Year 8) represented Queensland in the Under 13 Development Team for Water Polo in Hobart over the holidays. Their team dominated the tournament, winning undefeated, with a for and against record of 170 to 33 goals over 9 games, the most important victory being a 12–7 win over arch-rivals NSW.
Rugby
Will Whalan (Year 7) was selected as half-back and captain of the team to play in the Brisbane Junior Rugby Union Presidents’ XV team in the Under 13 SCSC Challenge Cup on the weekend. They finished as runners-up with the silver medal.
Football
Quinn MacNicol (Year 11) represented Australia in the ASEAN U16 Boys’ Championship in Indonesia. Quinn was equal top scorer of the Championship. The Subway Joeys won the Championship trophy. (See article Australia’s Joeys win ASEAN U16 Boy’s Championship on aleagues.com.au)
Lucas Herrington (year 11) has been selected in the 23-player Young Socceroos squad to play in the 2024 ASEAN U19 Boys’ Championship held in Surakarta, Indonesia 17 to 29 July. (See article Lucas Herrington named in Young Socceroos squad for ASEAN U-19 Boys’ Championship on aleagues.com.au)
Touch football
Zac Griggs (Year 12) was selected to represent Queensland in the U18 Schoolboys Team and will travel to Coffs Harbour in September for the Championships.
Track and field
Late last term, Adam Beiers (Year 12) was selected to represent Australia at the Oceania Under 18 Championships winning the silver medal in the individual 400 m in a photo finish, 0.01 seconds separating the gold and silver medallists. Adam also competed in the 4×400 m relay with Australia winning the gold medal in a Championship record.
Adam has also been selected for the Australian team to compete in the World Junior (U20) Track and Field Championships in Peru in August.
We congratulate Adam on his achievements so far and wish him the very best of luck at the World Juniors.
Cross country
Last term 22 Churchie athletes competed at the Metropolitan East Regional Cross Country Championships.
All boys ran very well with the following young men being selected to represent the Metropolitan East region at the State Cross Country Championships this weekend: Hamish Barwick, Lachlan Moore, Zac Moore, Freddie McDonnell, Andrew McConnel, Daniel Lane, Winston Rogers and George Chandler.
Special mention should be made of the following Metropolitan East Regional Championship medal winners:
GOLD
- Lachlan Moore: 16 Years
- Zac Moore: 15 Years
- Andrew McConnel: 14 Years
- Winston Rogers: 11 Years
SILVER
- George Chandler: 11 years
Sailing
Henry Piggott (Year 10) has been selected to represent Australia at the JNR World Sailing titles in Portugal this June.
Trent Goodrick
Head of Cocurricular