MSA Alumni WE 31/07/22

Commonwealth Games

Lucas Plapp has followed up his Bronze medal at the Olympic Games with a Commonwealth bronze medal nearly 12 months later.  Plapp was 1 of 4 riders in the Australian Teams Pursuit team beating Wales for the last spot on the podium.  Lucas also finished 8th in the Men’s individual 4,000m pursuit.  Lucas still has the 40km points race to go tonight.

Badminton, Gronya Somerville and Jacob Schueler have competed for Australia in the Teams event and went down to Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the Indian teams in their group.  Gronya and her Women’s double’s partner beat Sri Lanka and the highly ranked India in their prelim matches while Jacob lost his singles match against his Pakistan opponent.  Jacob now moves onto the Men’s singles event while Gronya is set to play Mixed and Women’s doubles.

Former MSA Student/Athlete Lushavel Stickland is competing for Samoa in the Swimming in Birmingham.  Lushavel finished 6th in her heat at the 50m Freestyle event and finished 8th in her heat in the 100m Backstroke.  She still has the 50m Backstroke, 4 x 100m Freestyle and 4 x 100m Medley relay’s to compete in.

Celeste Mucci kicks off her Commonwealth games campaign this Friday.  Celeste is competing in the 100m Hurdles and 4 x 100m relay team.

AFL

Luke Ryan has 25 touches and 7 marks in Fremantle’s loss to Melbourne on Friday night.

Zak Butters had 25 touches and 5 marks in Port Adelaide’s loss to Collingwood

Buku Khamis had 13 touches and Rhylee West 10 in the Bulldogs lacklustre performance against Geelong at GMHBA station.

Touk Miller had another one of his high possessions games chalking up 31 touches and 10 tackles while Rory Atkins had 17 touches in the Suns close win against the Eagles.

Cam Rayner watched Richmond come from behind to beat the Lions at the MCG.  Cam had 16 touches and kicked a goal for Brisbane.

And finally in the game between Essendon and North Melbourne, Kayne Turner had 16 possessions and 5 Marks for North in their 18th loss of the year. For the victors, Peter Wright kicked 2 goals 1, had 13 touches, 6 hit outs and 8 marks.  Massimo D’Ambrosio had 13 touches in his return to the senior team.

Soccer

Alana Cortellino and the Junior Matilda’s have made it through to the semi’s at the AFF U18 Championships being played in Palembang, Malaysia.  The Junior Matilda’s ( The National U18 women’s football team) have defeated the Philippines, Malaysia and Myanmar to finish on top of the group heading into the finals. 

Congratulations to Naomi Chinnama who has made the final squad for the Australian team to play the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica starting on the 11th of August.  The Young Matilda’s will play Costa Rica, Brazil and Spain in their 3 preliminary games.

Tennis

Current MSA year 9 student Charlotte McGrath has returned from 3 invited ITF junior events that she competed in on the Gold Coast and in FIJI.  Playing Doubles Charlotte and her Partner Ava Beck lost in the second round of the tournament while in FIJI playing with partner Jessica Board they made the quarter-finals of both tournaments they played in. 

MSA Alumni WE 24/07/22

AFL

North Melbourne’s Paul Curtis has had a fantastic  couple of weeks for the Kangaroos kicking 3 goals against Richmond in the Roos 2nd win of the season.  He also laid 6 tackles against the Hawks in Nth big loss on the weekend.

Luke Ryan had 24 disposals and 11 marks for Fremantle in the drawn match against Richmond.

Zak Butters had 20 touches and 5 tackles in Port Adelaide’s loss to the Cats. 

Rory Atkins had 21 touches and Touk Miller had 34 touches and 7 tackles in their loss to Cam Rayner’s Brisbane.  Cam had a quiet day compared to his high standard with just 2 kicks and 8 handballs.

Buku Khamis had 11 possessions and 5 marks, and Riley West had 11 touches and kicked a goal in the Bulldogs win over Melbourne.

Josh Honey kicked 1 goal 1 and had 14 touches in Carlton comfortable win against GWS.

Two metre Peter Wright kicked 3 goals, had 12 touches and 8 marks in Essendon’s after the siren loss to Collingwood.

MSA has 2 current students at the AFLW National Champions in NSW.  Piper Dixon and Alex McBride-Loane are representing Victoria at the U15 championships.

Soccer/Football

Congratulations to Alana Cortelino who was brought on as a substitute to make her debut for Australia (Junior Matildas) in the opening match vs Philippines for the AFF U18 Women’s Championships being hosted in Myanmar, Indonesia.

Commonwealth Games

Celeste Mucci made the semi-finals of the 100m Hurdle World Championships.  Unfortunately for Celeste her race was over when she hit the Second last hurdle, but there is no doubt that she is in great form making the top 24 at the World Champs and we look forward to seeing how she goes against the best in the Commonwealth.

Joining Celeste at the Commonwealth Games this week are Lucas Plapp in Cycling and Badminton’s Gronya Somerville and Jacob Schueler.  We wish them all the best.

MSA Alumni WE 17/07/22

It’s been another solid weekend for our MSA Alumni.  Here are their performances

Athletics

Celeste Mucci will have her final warm up for the Commonwealth Games in Oregon when she competes in the World Athletics Championships on the 22nd -24th of July.  She will run in the 100m Hurdles and 4 x 100m relay team.

AFL

Paul Curtis scored 3 goals in North Melbourne’s upset win over Richmond at Marvel Stadium.  It was Paul’s first win with the Kangaroos

Touk Miller’s 28 disposal game for the Gold Coast Suns against Essendon wasn’t enough to stop the Bombers taking a 48 point win.  Peter Wright kicked 2 goals 3 for Essendon.

Cam Rayner had 19 disposals and kicked 3 goals in Brisbane’s 40 point win over the Giants.

Luke Ryan had 24 disposals for Fremantle in their unexpected loss to Sydney.

Zak Butters had 20 touches and 5 marks in Port Adelaide’s loss to Melbourne in Alice Springs

Soccer

Birkan Kirdar came on as a substitute for Melbourne Victory in the 79th minute against Manchester United at the MCG last Friday.  Manchester United won the game 4-1

Coming Up

A reminder that we have 4 Alumni attending the Commonwealth Games starting next week the 28th July in Birmingham, UK. 

Jacob Schueler and Gronya Somerville are competing in the Badminton Competition

Celeste Mucci is running in the 100m Hurdles and also will be a part of the 4 x 100m relay team

And Lucas Plapp will be riding track events in the Cycling competition .