De La Salle College offers an extensive range of co-curricular opportunities to complement classroom learning.
Introduced early this year, the college’s High Performance Sport program provides students
from Years 5 to 12 the opportunity to experience specialist coaching and mentoring from industry professionals in a variety of sports.
The High Performance AFL program is a litany of well-known AFL footballers and coaches, including Andrew Raines (founder of One on One Football, former AFL player and Gold Coast Suns Academy head coach), Michael Barlow (former Fremantle and Gold Coast Suns AFL player), Brett Deledio (former Richmond and Greater Western Sydney AFL player), Dom Tyson (former Greater Western Sydney, Melbourne and North Melbourne AFL player) and Shane Watson (former Collingwood AFL player).
This season has already seen the results of such high performance tuition and coaching, including the senior De La Salle AFL team winning the Associated Catholic Colleges (ACC) premiership.
The Open golf team, Year 8A soccer team and Year 8B AFL team are also 2022 premiers and there has been a notable upsurge in players’ skill, commitment and results.
If your son loves his sport or is keen to improve his sporting prowess or desire to be supported into high performance level sports, De La Salle offers a selection of sports starting at Year 5 that
seamlessly continue into secondary year levels with strong support from coaches and sports
co-ordinators.
It’s important that students enjoy their sports and have the opportunity to identify their strengths and weaknesses in a variety of sports options, so they enter Year 7 with a sense of confidence. The Year 5 and 6 Primary students have had a fun and successful year so far with the Primary Sport program.
Term 1 commenced with a 6 week Harold Holt swim program, closely followed by the Dendy Sports program in Term 2 which included weekly AFL, netball and soccer.
De La Salle’s Year 5 netball team won its grand final, while Year 6 netball and AFL came runners up in their respective competitions.
In Term 3, primary students competed in the Basketball Victoria Hoop Time tournament with
outstanding results.
Primary students have also had the wonderful experience of touring the MCG, speaking with Sydney 2000 Olympic bronze medalist, Dean Pullar, and also attended fitness classes at Harold Holt and Infinite Cycles.
This wholistic approach to sports is the pathway to students having even greater opportunities in secondary to consider high performance teams including the Kennedy Club, the De La Salle Dolphins, Agar Academy for cricket and the Di Medio athletics squad.
Be your Best at De La Salle College. Visit www.delasalle.vic.edu.au.
