Celeste Mucci on track for 2022

Former MSA Student Athlete and 2018 Commonwealth Games Hurdler Celeste Mucci has broken the 13 second barrier in the 100m hurdles event for the second time in her career, to win the NSW championships at Sydney’s Olympic Park over the weekend.

The run re-ignited a fantastic rivalry with NSW defending champion Abby Taddeo, who ran second in the final, with a margin of .02 of a second the final gap between the two.  The win took Celeste’s record over Abby to a 10-9 advantage from the 19 times they have raced against each other.

Celeste spoke to the Athletics NSW live stream after the race and was emphatic about her goal over the weekend “ A sub 13 run is what I came up here to do. Super happy with that”

Taddeo started off the stronger of the two with Celeste catching and passing her by the 4th hurdle.  Taddeo though just would give in. “ Yeah I could feel Abby next to me.  She’s a great starter and stuck with me.  (It) Definitely helped though”.

When quizzed on the camaraderie between the nations hurdlers at the moment Celeste praised the group. “ Yeah we have a great group of girls now,  we are definitely going to see some fast times which helps.  They are all so lovely, I love running against them.”

Celeste will next run be either the Queensland State Championships or the Sydney Track Classic in two weeks’ time.

Celeste is aiming to qualify for the Australian Track team to run at Birmingham for the 2022 Commonwealth Games starting on July the 28th.

To watch the race click here:

https://www.facebook.com/AthleticsNSW/videos/530070398322915

MSA Performances WE 20/2/22

There were plenty of former and current MSA students playing at the top level of their sport over the weekend.  Let’s have a look at how some of them went.

A-League Women  

Polly Doran and Melindaj Barbieri played for the Melbourne Victory in their 2-0 loss to the Perth Glory

A-League Men

Connor Metcalfe came on in the 67th minute and helped Melbourne City defeat Dylan Murnane’s Newcastle Jets 3-0.  Former MSA head Coach Arthur Papas is the coach of the Newcastle Jets.

Birkan Kirdar came onto the park just before the half time whistle to help the Melbourne Victory to a 1-0 win over the Central Coast Mariners

AFLW

Jess Fitzgerald had 12 disposals and 7 tackles in the Bulldogs win over Georgie Prespakis’ Cats.  The Western Bulldogs winning 3-10-28 to 2-4-16 at the Whitten Oval.

Monique Conti stared in Richmond 2nd win of the season along with teammate Elle McKenzie.  Monique had 24 disposals and 9 tackles to help the Tigers to a 23 point win over the West Coast Eagles.

Meanwhile Amy Smith had 13 touches and 7 tackles in North Melbourne’s win over Collingwood by 23 points.  Alisha Newman played for the Pies.

Libby Birch plays for Melbourne tonight against Brisbane at the Gabba.

Golf

Stephine Banque missed the cut at the TPS Murray River Tournament.  She finished 1 over after her first 2 rounds.

Cycling

Lucas Plapp in appearing in his UAE World tour event in Dubai.  Plappy was 19 seconds off the leader after the first round riding for professional team Ineos Grenadiers

Tennis

Current Student Bridget Mihulkais playing in an open Tournament in Singapore

Athletics

Celeste Mucci is back on the track winning the NSW State Championships over the weekend in the 100m Hurdles.  Celeste’s time of 12.99 is the fastest in the world at the moment..

MSA Cricketers in Dowling Shield

Photo Order: Bailey Toseland, Lachlan Fitzgerald, Archit Bhatia, Arjun Sehrawat, Guntaas Brar, Aidan Brasher, Mitchell Jamieson and Spencer Wray

Maribyrnong Sports Academy would like to congratulate our 8 male cricket students who participated in Cricket Victoria’s Dowling Shield.

The Dowling Shield is part of the Cricket Victoria representative/pathway for U17’s with three of our boys playing for the Footscray CC. The next game for the team is a semi-final match against Geelong to be played at Merv Hughes Oval on Sunday the 20/2/2022.  The winner of that game will play the winner of the Ringwood and Richmond game in the Grand Final.

Year 11 student Mitch Jamieson is have an amazing season with the bat having scored centuries in both the Dowling Shield and Premier seconds.  Mitch is current the 3rd highest run scorer in the Dowling Shield with 366 runs from his 5 games at an average of 122, he is also sitting second in the Competition for the Dowling Shield Champion player.

Footscray CC Dowling Shield players from MSA

Mitchell Jamieson

Arjun Sehrawat

Aidan Brasher

Essendon CC Dowling Shield players from MSA

Bailey Toseland

Lachlan Fitzgerald

Archit Bhatia

Guntaas Brar

Spencer Wray

Fitzroy Doncaster CC Dowling Shield Players from MSA

Darcy Gregory-Francis was captain of his team

We wish all our MSA cricketers the best with their upcoming finals matches for their respective clubs either at premier or local level.