Sporting Minds – Term 4

The 2022 season is heading into finals this term, with exciting, engaging (and exhausting!) sessions designed to test the ticker and grit of our young athletes.

Year 7 – Tactical Awareness

Tactical awareness is critical to game performance and this term, our Year 7 Sporting Minds athletes are learning what it means to play strategically and make decisions that will enhance theirs and their team performance.

Tactical awareness is the ability to identify tactical problems that arise during a game, to make decisions that aid our performance and to respond appropriately. Responses might involve ‘on-the-ball skills’, such as touches on the ball to attack or defend, and ‘off-the-ball movements’, such as supporting, covering and field/court positioning. The link between skills and tactics enables students to learn about a game and improve their performance, especially because game tactics provide the opportunity for applying game-related motor skills. By focusing on tactical awareness and decision making this term, our athletes will learn to apply strategy within their chosen sport and improve their performance.

Year 8 – Resilience and Team Building

Our Year 8 Sporting Minds have dug-into a unit focused on building resilience and team skills – skills needed for all athletes. Throughout the term our coaches will put these skills to the test by challenging students in high intensity games, activities and training sessions, pushing students to mental and physical limits and helping them to have the resilience to work together and keep on going.

Building resilience and team skills is a process which is built up by an athlete over time through situations and scenarios which encourage them to overcome adversity, through developing coping strategies to deal with challenging situations and become a mentally stronger individual. As an athlete experiences these situations, it is an opportunity for them to build on enhancing self-esteem and determination, while also building up a repertoire of strategies to overcome. By developing these skills, our athletes provide themselves the best chance of a flexible approach to high stress ‘clutch’ moments and a resilient nature– transferable to all aspects of life.

Year 9 – Strength & Conditioning

This term, our Year 9 students sweat it out with our partnership with G.M.G Training and strength and conditioning with a specific focus on improving sport specific speed, explosive power, strength, endurance and agility. By developing power within our athletes, they will have necessary power with movement sequences, needed within a wide range of sports. With training, power endurance can be converted into explosive power, which helps the athlete resist fatigue during repetitive efforts found in sport. This training will see athlete improvement in sports that require short, intense bursts of activity or activities which require an athlete to have short-term muscular endurance. Additionally, short-term endurance lets the players deal with fatigue and lactic acid build-up in the muscles and play at their full potential for the duration of the game.

Coach Glen Gamlin from GMG Training brings 25 years-experience in all facets of sports and recreation and has a passion for fitness and helping athletes to achieve their goals; A valuable partnership within our community and a rewarding attribute of our Sporting Minds program for our athletes.

Payment of 2022 Student Fees

As we round out the year, please refer to fee statements emailed to parent’s fortnightly and ensure 2022 Excellence Fees have been paid in full. The ability to provide fun, engaging and enriched experiences for our young athletes is dependent on this levy each year.

Refer to the article Finance Window End of Year Closure for more information.

Students who have not paid this year’s dues will not be permitted to continue in the Sporting Minds program in 2023.