From World Championships to World Cups our MSA Alumni have been once again showing the World what they can do. Here are their efforts.
Firstly, before we get into this week’s results, we must mention that we have 2 Alumni in World Championships over the next few days. Gronya Somerville is playing in the Badminton World Championships in Denmark. She will be in the Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles.
Celeste Mucci is in Budapest for the Athletics World Championships and will run her heat of the 100m Hurdles at 2.30am Wednesday the 23rd of August Melbourne time. The race will be live on SBS. Celeste is aiming to run a personal best time which is currently 12.84 seconds.
Athletics
Congratulations to former MSA High Performance Manger Brent Vallance who coached Jemima Montag to a silver medal in the 20k walk at the Athletics World Championships in Budapest.
Baseball
MSA Alumni Declan Speirs (Pic Above) and Current Year 10 student Jayden Kim have been selected for a second time in the Australian U18 Baseball team to play in the World Cup. The tournament is in Chinese Taipei starting on the 2nd of September.
Netball
Over the past couple of weekends, we have had a great mix of current and past students and coaches, compete in the Victorian Netball finals.
MSA Alumni Kiralee Collings played in the U19 final as a co-captain for the City West Falcons coached by Hayley Cran. The Falcons lost to Melbourne Uni U19’s team who had Current student Montaya Sardi, Akira McCormack who was named best player in the final, Tepaea Hobson and Sarah Mylrea-Norton as their coach. Kim Borger lined up for the VNL Championship Winners the City West Falcons.
Special mention to Tepaea who is currently away competing in ANC (Australian Netball Championship) in Queensland. Tepaea was a late inclusion into the Vic team due to injury. This competition is made up of a lot of up-and-coming players currently playing SSN or on the fringe of being contracted! This is a fantastic achievement from our Tepaea. All games are streamed FREE on Kayo.
NRLW
Najvada George and her West Tigers had their 4th loss in a row after starting the season with 2 wins, this time to the Dragons by 4 points. Najvada played 55 minutes and had 6 tackle breaks for a total of 26m gained post contact. She had a season high 36 tackles and received the ball 21 times.
AFL
Brisbane v Collingwood
The Lions defeated The Pies by 24 points with Cam Rayner having 14 disposals, 4 tackles and kicking 2 goals 1 for the victors.
North Melbourne v Richmond
Paul Curtis had 16 possessions and kicked a goal for North Melbourne while his teammate Kayne Turner had 11 possessions and 3 tackles in their loss to the Tigers by 29 points.
Carlton v Gold Coast Suns
Rory Atkins continues his good form with 23 disposals and 389m gained while Touk Miler had 29 possessions, 8 tackles and 1 goal in the Suns 4-point loss to Carlton
GWS v Essendon
Peter Wright had 5 disposals in Essendon’s poor performance against the Giants going down by 126 points.
West Coast v Bulldogs
Former MSA student Harry Birch was one of 4 field umpires in this game. Rhylee West had 11 possessions and kicked a goal for the Bulldogs in their 7-point loss to the Eagles.
Hawthorn v Melbourne
Joel Smith kicked 2 goals and had 7 possessions in the Demons 27-point victory over the Hawks.
Fremantle v Port Adelaide.
Zak Butters had 31 possessions, kicked a goal, and had 5 tackles for the Power in thier 16-point win. Luke Ryan had 25 possessions, 9 marks and 6 tackles for the Dockers.
Next week we will have an AFLW preview before Round 1, focusing on the MSA Alumni to watch in this year’s competition.