Marist Cricket Carnival 2011

 

 

Sacred Heart College is delighted to host the 2011 Marist Cricket Carnival.

The Carnival takes place from 6-12 December, 2011.

Mr Neil Penfold

Director of Sport at Sacred Heart College

Email: npenfold@sacredheart.school.nz

Phone +64-9-529 3660 

History 

The concept of Marist schools across Australia meeting annually on the cricket field was born from an idea tossed around between Br Jordan Redden (Sacred Heart College, Somerton Park) and Tony Lantry (St Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill) as they sampled some of the “spirit of the Institute” in Adelaide in 1973. A love of both the Marist traditions and the game of cricket prompted the use of the second of these to further the ideals of the first. And so, from humble beginnings at Hunters Hill in 1974, where Sacred Heart College, Assumption College Kilmore and Marcellin College Bulleen joined the host in a round robin of matches leading to a final, the Carnival grew to maturity, attaining its 21st birthday in Adelaide in 1994. Along the way, St Patrick’s College Sale replaced Kilmore in 1975, then Ashgrove Brisbane, Marist Canberra and Newman Perth joined the others in Adelaide in 1976 and set the pattern for many years.

The original concept of the Carnival was to expose our boys to the wider Marist community, to help them remove school or State blinkers and see there are schools, Brothers, lay staff and boys just like them, with the same ideals and background, and steeped in the same Marist spirit and tradition, in places right across the nation; to have our boys meet these of the Marist men on and off the cricket field; to provide an opportunity for boys, staff and families to make friends across the nation; to involve parents as workers and supporters; in short, to promulgate and strengthen the Marist message. Giants of men like Br Majellan, Br Crispin, Br Jordan, Br Evan, Br Charles, Tony Lantry and Frank Egan have laid the foundations and ensured we have a very worthwhile and lasting event. The change from boarding school accommodation at the first two Carnivals to the billeting of players by local Marist families thereafter helped realize another of the original goals, visiting boys and hosting families forging life-long friendships.

Following the 21st Carnival in Adelaide, the Principals of the participating schools paid the Carnival and its supporters the greatest compliment when they decided it was so worthwhile it should be offered to all Marist Schools in Australia and New Zealand. By the 1995 Carnival, expressions of interest from 18 Schools had developed into firm commitments from 12; and from 1996, two Carnivals were held in different States each January, catering for a progressive mix of 12 schools until 2001. From 2002, an additional four schools joined the two Carnivals. From 2010, 18 teams will compete across three Carnivals.

 

Sacred Heart College Auckland	Marist College Ashgrove	Catholic College Sale

 

Marist-Sion College Warragul	Marcellin College Bulleen	Newman College Perth