2022 off to a great start
Maribyrnong Sports Academy welcomes all students and staff back for what promises to be a massive 2022 school year.
Maribyrnong Sports Academy welcomes all students and staff back for what promises to be a massive 2022 school year.
While most of us were enjoying a little time off during the Summer break, some of our students and coaches were busy performing out on the ovals, courts and stadiums of Melbourne playing the sport they love and doing a great job.
We congratulate the following students on their achievements over the last 6 weeks
Year 11 Basketball student Lucas Impey for making the U18 Victorian Country state team. MSA Head Basketball coach Brenton O’Brien says “this is an amazing effort by Lucus who comes into the team as a bottom age player. He has worked hard to get here and we wish him all the best”.
Year 10 Students Andy Land and Lachlan Schumann as well as Year 11 student Declan Spears were selected for the Victorian Baseball Showcase held at the Melbourne Ballpark. The Showcase allows the best 40 kids in the State to play games against each other and replaces the National U16 and U18 championships which were cancelled due to covid.
Our tennis players got the job done with year 12 student Brian Capalnean winning his first professional men’s title. While Year 11 student Alex Kim also won a men’s event.
Year 10 student Bridget Mihulka played her first pro event and won a match. She also made 2 x singles semi-finals and 2 x doubles titles at the ITF in Singapore. Charlotte McGrath won an open Women’s Event
The Victorian State Teams for Netball were announced this week and MSA has great representation once again.
Montaya Sardi & Charlotte Morey (Year 11) both made the 17/U state team.
Akira McCormack Made the top 25 for 19/U (final round of selections but did not make the final squad of 12)
Congratulations to all and good luck for the rest of the year.
On the Field - Week Ending 12/12/21
It was another great week of performances by MSA Alumni at home and Abroad. Here are some of the results
A-League Women
Once again Annabelle Martin made a late entry to the field of player coming into the game at the 80th minute for the Wellington Phoenix in their 5-1 loss to Newcastle. MelindaJ Barbieri and Polly Doran both started for the Melbourne Victory and helped their team to a 2 -1 win over crosstown rival Melbourne City. Naomi Thomas Chinnama came into the came for City in the 72nd minute.
A-League Men
Connor Metcalfe started for Melbourne City and helped his team to a 1-0 over Perth Glory at AAMI Stadium. Matthew Bozinovski found himself stuck on the bench for Wellington Phoenix as they dropped another game this time to Dylan Murnane’s Newcastle Jets. Dylan scoring a goal in the 68th minute making his former MSA coach and now Jets Manager Arthur Pappas a happy man.
Basketball
Zac Triplett played a couple of minutes of the NBL game between Melbourne United and Sth East Melbourne Phoenix. The game saw United come back from 19 points down and take the game into double OT before losing by 8.
Badminton
Gronya Somerville made the trip to Southern Spain with her mixed doubles partner Simon Leung to play in the 2021 Huelva Badminton World Championships. Due to an Ankle injury to Simon the pair didn’t go as deep into the tournament as they would have liked.
American Football
Adam Korsak was named in the Football Writers Association of America All American second team. He also received the same placement on the Walter Camp All-America team.
MSA Paralympic focus
Off the back of a successful Paralympic campaign by form student Nathan Pellissier, where he won silver at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic games in July, Maribyrnong Sports Academy has decided to increase its focus on the development of Paralympic athlete’s leading into the 2024 Paris Games and beyond….
Off the back of a successful Paralympic campaign by form student Nathan Pellissier, where he won silver at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic games in July, Maribyrnong Sports Academy has decided to increase its focus on the development of Paralympic athlete’s leading into the 2024 Paris Games and beyond….
MSA is looking forward to welcoming its newest Paralympic student/athlete next year after the successful enrolment of Wheelchair Basketball and Tennis athlete Jin Woodman. Jin joins the Academy from Over Newton Primary School next year in year 7.
With the increase in focus towards enrolments of Paralympic Athletes MSA Sports Director Mark Mcallion says the academy looks forward to welcoming more Paralympic Athletes over the years to come. “ It’ great to see Paralympic sport getting the recognition it deserves and it’s exciting for MSA to focus on it. In conjunction with Paralympics Australia and Achper’s Active schools programs, our staff recently participated in a professional development session to provide Paralympic athlete’s the best environment for them to thrive”
MSA looks forward to welcoming Jin and all other year 7 students to the college next year for the start of term 1.