Principal's Welcome

Welcome to Sale, the largest centre in the Wellington Shire in the heart of Gippsland. The settlement of Sale began around 1840 as a strategic location on the route between Port Albert and the Omeo gold diggings. The Wellington Shire hosts some of Victoria’s greatest natural beauty including its famous lakes, Ninety Mile beach, sun, water, bush and distinctive wilderness to the picturesque alpine country and snow fields.

The Marist Brothers arrived in Sale in 1922 and established St. Patrick’s College – a boarding and day school for boys. Half a century later, in the seventies, St. Patrick’s College amalgamated with Our Lady of Sion, a boarding and day school for girls, to become Catholic College Sale.

Catholic College Sale has a long tradition of involvement in the various Marist sporting carnivals having previously hosted Cricket, Basketball and Netball. We are delighted once again to extend a very warm welcome to all our visitors from the competing Marist schools St. Joseph’s Hunters Hill (NSW), St John’s College, Woodlawn (NSW), Sacred Heart, Auckland (NZ), Marist College Ashgrove (QLD) and Notre Dame Shepparton (VIC).

The Carnival Organising committee, headed by our Head of Sport and Carnival Convener, Jamie Murphy, and well supported by his team, is to be commended on its great work leading up to the carnival. If their efforts in the lead up are any indication the Carnival promises to be a wonderful success.

To our billeting families, our sponsors, the clubs of the Sale Maffra Cricket Association and the many members of our College community who have had, and will have, a part to play in the hosting of the carnival, my very sincere thanks for your generous support for this popular event in the annual Marist calendar.

Sport, and in particular team sport, has long been a characteristic of Marist schools. Once again, we gather to enjoy competition and friendship in the name of St. Marcellin Champagnat.

On behalf of Catholic College Sale, I welcome all the players, team officials, staff and community members from our Marist Schools across Australia and wish everyone a joyful and successful competition.

CHRIS RANDELL

PRINCIPAL