Sacred Heart had nine basketball teams representing the school in Albury last weekend. The basketball challenge has been running for 36 years and based on its popularity I’m sure it will continue for more years to come.

Twenty five Catholic schools from all over NSW travelled to Albury with most schools arriving on Friday given it was such a long way to travel from Sydney.

Our junior teams were made by combining students from years 3 and 4 whilst our senior teams were students from years 5 and 6. Before the tournament began on Saturday morning, a liturgy was held at 7am at the Lauren Jackson Sports Centre. After the first day of competition, all the teams were graded into divisions. On the Sunday we played a knock-out style of competition. Two Sacred Heart teams that went through undefeated and won their division were the Senior Boys A (Division 1) who won against Albury A 24-17, and Senior Girls B (Division 3) who won against Goulburn PP 11-4. Our junior boys got to the Grand Final but unfortunately were defeated by North Albury A 23-4. In the Semi Finals we had a few unlucky losses with our Senior Girls A losing by a point in over time.

Everyone demonstrated our school motto and good sportsmanship throughout the weekend. We also had a challenge to make two new friends that were not from our school and I think just about everybody achieved that goal. We all had dinner together on the Saturday night and watched the rugby world cup when England defeated New Zealand. It was a great weekend and we cannot wait to participate and be spectators next year. Thank you to all members of the Sacred Heart community who worked on making this event possible.

Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing photos of the teams that participated.

 Joseph Chard