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Football
The Football season of 2017 proved to be
one of the most outstanding in Riverview’s
stellar footballing history. Both 1st and 2nd
XI teams completed their GPS seasons
as undefeated Premiers. The 1sts did not
concede a goal throughout the campaign
and lost only one GPS competition match
in four seasons. The 2nd XI defended their
Premiership from the previous year. In
addition, members of the 1sts were joined
by some Seconds players to successfully
complete 6 rounds of the CIS Football Cup
knockout competition, beating Newington
College 1-0 in the final, having scored at
least four goals in each of the preliminary
matches.
Riverview also provided four of the GPS
representative team – Angus Pugh, Lachlan
Heyworth, Dominic O’Brien and Sam
Fanning being selected. Oliver Kalac and
Joe Roddy have been selected to represent
Australia in their respective age groups and
the Riverview Under 14A team swept all
before them in dominating their season.
The Senior team played in the St Andrew’s
pre-season tournament in April, a junior
players’ clinic was held in the July holidays
and a development squad was dispatched
to the Gold Coast to play in the Downunder
Colleges’ Cup, also in July. Otherwise, the
College’s 30 football teams provided over
360 players across a wide range of skills
and abilities with the opportunity to play
organised matches during a relatively brief,
but highly competitive season.
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1st XI in action, left to right Cedric Danso-Boame takes an almighty kick; the defensive wall goes up; Lachlan Heyworth
and Jesse Gray on defence
Rugby
Rugby is a sport that has been played at Riverview for over 100 years. In
2017, we fielded around 40 teams across the whole school, and boys were
given every opportunity to grow and learn the game. Across the school,
our team won approximately 50% of their fixtures. This leaves a clear
goal in 2018 for all teams to continue to improve on these successes. In
senior competition play, both our 1st and 2nd XV enjoyed a mixed season
finishing 4th on the competition table. The gap was small for the 1st XV,
who lost narrowly to Kings and Joeys.
There were many individual successes across our teams. Congratulations
to Captain of Rugby, Charlie Rorke, who was selected in the NSW and
Australian Schools teams and recently signed with the Canberra Raiders
in the NRL. Also Dom Easy and Angus Bell, who were selected for NSW
Schools and to Lachlan Albert and Cassius Clinton who were selected in
the NSW Schools, U16 Team for the National Carnival. Lachlan Albert
was then selected in the U16 Australian Merit Team.
The 2018 season brings new challenges for Riverview Rugby and we look
forward to seeing how the boys react to a changing game.
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