2020 Parent Information night is Full

All tickets for the 2020 Parent Information night have been snapped up by the community. As a result we are unable to seat anymore parents or students into our Theatre. Due to popular demand this event will now be live streamed. Details of the live stream will be published as the event gets closer. We apologise if you have missed out on being there live. But the good news is you won’t miss the event.

MSA students do well at Victorian School Sport Awards

The 2018 Victorian School Sports Awards have been held at the MCG, and it was an outstanding day of acknowledgement for student-athletes from Maribyrnong College.

The event was hosted by Steve Moneghetti and presenters were Australian Netballers: Kelsey Browne and Madi Robinson, Olympian: Linden Hall, Paralympian: Richard Colman together with Parliamentary Secretary: Tim Richardson MP.

Our congratulations to the following past and present students who were awarded the prestigious Sporting Blue Award for 2018 – the highest sporting achievement presented in the government school system. 

Athletics           Kevin Healy

Athletics           Max Busuttil – nominated by Greenvale Primary School

AFL                  Georgia Patrikios and Zak Butters

Baseball            Cody Rodwell

Hockey             Enya Talbot and Cooper Burns

Netball              Olivia Honey and Connor Lilly

Football             Nia Stamatopoulos and Idrus Abdulahi

Softball             Marlie Hurinui

Table Tennis     Eleanor Goodsell

Volleyball          Marija Lukic and Ewan Fowler

In addition, the Outstanding Sporting Achievement Award went to Lucas Plapp for his remarkable achievements, sportsmanship and dedication to Cycling.

Congratulations once again to all our winners, and all our student athletes who keep pushing the boundaries and each other to ensure that everyone gets the best out of themselves.

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Tully Watt wins National Title

2018 Maribyrnong Sports Academy Sports Director’s award winner Tully Watt has finished off a big week by being crowned National Champion at the Australian Modern Pentathlon Nationals in Brisbane on the weekend.

Tully was part of the largest Australian Championships in over a decade with 34 competitors taking part in the event. 

At 17 years of age Tully is the second youngest National Champion in the sport with only Olympic Champion Chloe Esposito winning a senior National title at a younger age. Tully told the Modern Pentathlon website that she couldn’t be happier with her results,  “I’m very excited with today as I got the personal bests I wanted.”

In the Swimming Long Course, Tully started in the lead and never relinquished it, performing a best time of 2.26.85 which was under her target time of 2.27. She had an amazing 24 victories and only 10 defeats in the Fencing piste and had a faultless clear round in the Show Jumping. While she did incur a 30 point penalty for not jumping at the maximum height she still held a four second lead going into the laser run.

Tully was happy with her overall performance, “My fencing went really well and there was probably only two bouts where I mucked up but I got a lot of competitors I didn’t expect to, so that was really exciting.

“The ride I was a bit worried about because I was jumping lower (1.00m) I thought I would drop behind but that went really smoothly, and I’m really happy with my combined time.”

Tully finished off the day with a huge Laser Run personal best of 13 minutes 30 seconds. She will now focus on the World Under 19 Championships later in the year.

Only 3 days before hand, Tully was the duel winner of the Maribyrnong Sports Academy Sports Director Award for 2018 with Taekwondo student Reba Stewart for their efforts in 2018. The MSA Sports Director award is given to a student athlete who have held a Grade point average of over 8 for the year and have represented their state or country through the 12 month period. The award also takes into consideration high school workload, injury, rehab, and the athletes contribution to the wider school community and follow the Academy core values of Respect, Honesty, Community, leadership and determination.

Sections of this story have been taken from a story posted on Modern Pentathlon Australia’s website.