Lorenzo Pope signs with Moderna
MSA Alumni Lorenzo Pope has been signed by one of the biggest Volleyball teams in the world, Moderna and will play alongside some of the biggest names in the Sport.
Congratulations to MSA Alumni Lorenzo Pope on signing with Italian Volleyball league team Modena Volley for the upcoming IVL.
Modena has played in the highest level of the Italian Volleyball League without interruption since 1968. It is the most successful Italian club, having won the national league twelve times and the national cup as well. The club is one of the most prominent and prestigious in Europe too, having won thirteen European trophies including four CEV Champions League.
At 205cm tall Lorenzo will play as an outside hitter for Moderna after a successful period at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra over the past 4 years here in Melbourne. Lorenzo has also stood out for Australia in past games
Lorenzo will complement 3 of the biggest names in the World of Volleyball being Brazilian national Bruno, French national superstar Earvin Ngapeth and young Italian superstar Tomasso Rinaldi
In world sport likeness, signing with Moderna in Volleyball is like signing with Manchester United or Real Madrid in Soccer or maybe the New York Yankees in Baseball.
We wish Lorenzo all the best in the European Season which start later this year.
School Holiday Sports Results
The two weeks of the Term 2 holidays saw plenty of current and former MSA students do some amazing things in their respective sports. Here are their results.
The two weeks of the Term 2 holidays saw plenty of current and former MSA students do some amazing things in their respective sports. Here are their results.
Badminton
Year 8 MSA Student Ohmkkar Neelam was crowned U15 National Doubles Champions while also making the Semi-finals in the singles tournament.
Year 8 student Yash Jha made the Semi Finals and won a bronze medal in the U15 Invitational Doubles event at the National
Year 9 student Shrey Dhand made the Quarter Finals of the U19 singles tournament at the Nationals while also being a member of the winning Vic U19 State team at National Champs with our MSA Head Coach Vee Vian Chong as the coach of that team
Baseball
Year 9 students Jayden Kim , Andy Land and Lauchlan Schumann were part of the Victorian U16 team to win a silver medal at the U16 National Youth Championships played in Brisbane. NSW winning the final 12 -6
AFL
MSA Alumni Massimo D’Ambrosio was nominated as the AFL’s NAB Rising Star for R16. Massimo had 23 disposals and 6 marks in a solid defensive performance for the Bombers in their win against the Swans. It was only his 3rd game in the AFL after being picked up by Essendon in the Mid-Season Draft.
Congratulations to Charlotte Baskaran who was drafted to Hawthorn with pick 9 in the 2022 AFLW draft.
Georgia Nanscawen our MSA Hockey coach was a co-captain of the Essendon VFLW team which won the premiership defeating the Southern Saints. The recently drafted AFLW pick sadly injured her knee late in the game which will see her miss a large chunk of the next 12 months
Athletics
MSA Alumni Celeste Mucci has been selected to compete in her second Commonwealth Games in the 100m hurdles and 4 x 100m relay for the Games in Birmingham starting on the 28th of July. Celeste first competed in the Heptathlon at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast
Former MSA Student Bianca Puglisi was announced as a member of the Victorian team to compete at the Australian Half Marathon Championships.
Netball
At the Waverley International Schools tournament, MSA had 3 teams representing our school.
In the junior comp MSA 1 defeated MSA 2 in the semi’s before going on to win the Silver medal, meanwhile MSA 2 went on to win the bronze.
In the Senior comp our MSA team also went on to win silver against teams from around Australia and parts of Asia and New Zealand.
Cycling
Lucas Plapp has been named in the Australian track team for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Football (Soccer)
Former student Rhys Bosinovski and current student Jake Najdovski have recently signed professional contracts with current A-League champions Western United.
Taekwondo
MSA had students competing in the Korean open with our coach Ryan Carnelli also a part of the team. Congratulations to Jamie Cefai and Mason Harrison who won Gold in their respective competitions. While Xavier Nikolovski won a Bronze medal. Jackson Lobb also competed well in the tournament.
Volleyball
Lorenzo Pope is playing for Australia in the Volleyball Nations League. Lorenzo plays as a Pass hitter for the team
Joey Yigit a past student of our Academy has just accepted a position as a coach at the South Australian Sports Institute in their High Performance Beach Volleyball Program.
Jaspreet Singh is a part of the Australian youth team touring New Zealand while LuLu Greer was a part of the U18 Australian indoor team at the Asian Championships.
Basketball
Year 9 Student Kofi Aden was part of the Gold medal Vic Metro team at Under 16 National Championships played in Perth. Vic Metro defeated the Queensland South team 85 to 70 in the final.
Lacrosse
Former MSA Students Bonnie Yu, Sarah Mollison and Rebecca Lane played for Australia in the Women’s World Championships played in the USA. Australia lost the Bronze medal match to England 8-7 after 3 over times.
Meanwhile MSA Alumni Lucas Parsons is playing with the Australian Men’s Lacrosse team at the World Games in Birmingham, Alabama.
And finally as a side note Akos Kelly a student in year 7 here at MSA will have both his parents involved in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. His Mum Maria Pekli is a team manager of the Judo team while his dad Daniel Kelly is a coach of the Judo team…
VIc Metro and Interleague results
Plenty of MSA Student Athletes played rep footy over the Queens Birthday long weekend.
MSA AFL student athletes Luca Grego and Jayden Nguyen have performed well for the U16 AFL Vic Metro team in their game against Vic Country over the Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend.
Luca was captain for the Vic Metro team and shone through the midfield as he led his team to a 27 point victory at Icon Park. Missing a goal on the run in the third quarter, Luca made up for it kicking a goal in the fourth quarter at a critical time for his team.
Jayden played on the wing and made the position his own running hard to both ends of the ground. Jayden kicked the first goal of the game for Vic Metro and continued to drive low and hard at the ball all game while backing his speed on the outside as well.
Meanwhile Maribyrnong College and Academy athletes Jaime Starzer, Jackson Barber, Tom McGuane, James Manfre and Arden Stevens all played their roles for the EDFL U15 Interleague team which defeated the SMJFL over the long weekend break by 98 points on Monday and the WRFL by 3 goals on the Saturday.
Congratulations to all of our Interleague reps who on their performances over the long weekend games.
