MSA Alumni WE 31/07/22

Commonwealth Games

Lucas Plapp has followed up his Bronze medal at the Olympic Games with a Commonwealth bronze medal nearly 12 months later.  Plapp was 1 of 4 riders in the Australian Teams Pursuit team beating Wales for the last spot on the podium.  Lucas also finished 8th in the Men’s individual 4,000m pursuit.  Lucas still has the 40km points race to go tonight.

Badminton, Gronya Somerville and Jacob Schueler have competed for Australia in the Teams event and went down to Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the Indian teams in their group.  Gronya and her Women’s double’s partner beat Sri Lanka and the highly ranked India in their prelim matches while Jacob lost his singles match against his Pakistan opponent.  Jacob now moves onto the Men’s singles event while Gronya is set to play Mixed and Women’s doubles.

Former MSA Student/Athlete Lushavel Stickland is competing for Samoa in the Swimming in Birmingham.  Lushavel finished 6th in her heat at the 50m Freestyle event and finished 8th in her heat in the 100m Backstroke.  She still has the 50m Backstroke, 4 x 100m Freestyle and 4 x 100m Medley relay’s to compete in.

Celeste Mucci kicks off her Commonwealth games campaign this Friday.  Celeste is competing in the 100m Hurdles and 4 x 100m relay team.

AFL

Luke Ryan has 25 touches and 7 marks in Fremantle’s loss to Melbourne on Friday night.

Zak Butters had 25 touches and 5 marks in Port Adelaide’s loss to Collingwood

Buku Khamis had 13 touches and Rhylee West 10 in the Bulldogs lacklustre performance against Geelong at GMHBA station.

Touk Miller had another one of his high possessions games chalking up 31 touches and 10 tackles while Rory Atkins had 17 touches in the Suns close win against the Eagles.

Cam Rayner watched Richmond come from behind to beat the Lions at the MCG.  Cam had 16 touches and kicked a goal for Brisbane.

And finally in the game between Essendon and North Melbourne, Kayne Turner had 16 possessions and 5 Marks for North in their 18th loss of the year. For the victors, Peter Wright kicked 2 goals 1, had 13 touches, 6 hit outs and 8 marks.  Massimo D’Ambrosio had 13 touches in his return to the senior team.

Soccer

Alana Cortellino and the Junior Matilda’s have made it through to the semi’s at the AFF U18 Championships being played in Palembang, Malaysia.  The Junior Matilda’s ( The National U18 women’s football team) have defeated the Philippines, Malaysia and Myanmar to finish on top of the group heading into the finals. 

Congratulations to Naomi Chinnama who has made the final squad for the Australian team to play the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica starting on the 11th of August.  The Young Matilda’s will play Costa Rica, Brazil and Spain in their 3 preliminary games.

Tennis

Current MSA year 9 student Charlotte McGrath has returned from 3 invited ITF junior events that she competed in on the Gold Coast and in FIJI.  Playing Doubles Charlotte and her Partner Ava Beck lost in the second round of the tournament while in FIJI playing with partner Jessica Board they made the quarter-finals of both tournaments they played in.