It’s been another strong week for our Alumni both at home and abroad with medal winning efforts in Athletics and Para Table Tennis.  Here is how our past students went over the past week.

Athletics

Cameron Searle has won double Gold at the Oceania Relay Championships on the Gold Coast. The men’s 4 x 400m relay team won in a time of 3.05.58, Cameron was also a part of the winning 4 x 400m mixed Relay team.  Australia winning the final in a time of 3.20.95.

 

Jessie Andrews won the 400m event at the 10th Kinami Michitaka Memorial Athletics Meet, Yanmar Stadium, Nagai, Osaka in a personal best time of 52.58.

 

Para Table Tennis

Nathan Pellissier competed in the Montenegro Para Open. He made the Quarter finals in the Singles tournament losing to the eventual winner from China.

 

Before that Nathan played in the Greek Para Open where he won Silver in the Doubles and Gold in the mixed. He also made the Quarter Finals in the Singles.

 

Gridiron

Adam Korsak has been selected to play in the Canadian Football League as he awaits a spot to open up on an NFL list. The Saskatchewan Roughriders selected Adam with their first pick in the CFL. He has been invited by the Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers to their respective NFL Rookie mini camps..

 

A-League and the World game

Congratulations to Matt Bozinovski who won the Rick Smith Young Player of the Year award at the Melbourne Victory season awards night.

 

Connor Metcalfe came on in the 81st minute for FC St Pauli in their 3-0 win over top team Darmstadt.  FC St Pauli now sit 4th on the Bundesliga 2 table.

 

Cycling

 Luke Plapp is set to ride in the Tour of Hongrie for his professional team Ineos Grenadiers this week.  It will be Lucas’ first race since early April, where he failed to finish in the Itzulia Basque Country.

 

AFL

Brisbane v Carlton

 

Brisbane beat the Blues by 26 points with Cam Rayner having 6 kicks, 3 handballs and 5 tackles in his teams win.  Josh Honey had 5 kicks, 3 handballs and 3 tackles for the Blues.

 

Gold Coast v Melbourne.

 

Melbourne defeated the Suns by 5 points in a nail bitter.  Rory Atkins had 22 disposals and chalked up 637m gained for the Suns.

 

Fremantle v Hawthorn.

 

Freo beat the Hawks by 69 points and our man Luke Ryan had 27 disposals and 9 marks with 476m gained for the Dockers.

 

Port Adelaide v Essendon

 

An inaccurate Port Adelaide won by 5 points.  Zak Butters had 28 possessions, 6 tackles and 615m gained in their win.

 

Nth Melbourne v St Kilda

 

Jack Bytel was the Sub for the Saints and came on at ¾ time to replace Jade Gresham.  Jack had 4 disposals and kicked a point.  Paul Curtis had 8 disposals for the Kangaroos.