Trinity Anglican College

FIRST IN LINE FOR LUCY

Trinity Anglican College student Lucy Hocking is happy to notch up a first for her school. The Year 6 student is the first Trinity Anglican College student to make it through to the NSW Combined Independent Schools (CIS) basketball team. An amazing achievement for her, and a very worthy selection based on her skills, training and dedication to basketball. This is also the first state representative side that Lucy has made. The NSW Combined Independent Schools Sports Council, known as CIS, aims to provide a pathway to state and national level competition in a wide variety of sports for students in the independent sector. The CIS is made up of 212 schools spread across the entire state of NSW, making this team an elite squad in which to be selected.

Lucy travelled to the Hills Basketball Stadium in Castle Hills Sydney to trial for the position in the elite team. TRINITY ANGLICAN COLLEGE

She said the competition was fierce on the day, with players required to make it through the first cut in the morning, where the large group of players were cut to a list of 20. In the afternoon, the squad was further reduced to the final team of 10 players, with Lucy selected. Lucy has been a part of Albury Representative Basketball teams since she was 10 years old and plays locally with the Lavington Panthers Basketball Club. She has participated in the NSW Development Talented Athletes Program (a specialist junior talent development program conducted by Basketball NSW in conjunction with the NSW Office of Sport), and is also part of the Southern Sports Academy, based out of Wagga Wagga. In her spare time, Lucy is also a competitive netball and AFL player. Lucy will now travel to Tamworth for the NSW PSSA Championships, which will be held from Tuesday 31 May through to Friday 3 June. Here she will compete against 12 other teams across the state, made up of Public Schools and Catholic Schools.