MSA Alumni - WE 14/08/22

Once again our MSA Alumni have been working hard on the local and International stage. Here’s how they have been going

Football/Soccer

Naomi Chinnama has represented Australia in the first two of games in the FIFA Women’s U20 World Cup in Costa Rica.  Australia beat the home team 3-1 and lost to Brazil 2-0.  Naomi started in both games. Australia’s next 1st round game is against Spain which they will need to win to be in contention to move into the next round.  Catch Naomi talking about National Team life in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uGdEtUGRRo

AFLW

Our AFLW players started off their season with practice matches over the weekend.  Monique Conti, Elle McKenzie, Charlotte Baskaran and Libby Birch all got the opportunity to play a practice match prior to the AFL Men’s games on the MCG.  Stay tuned for our AFLW Season preview next week.  The AFLW Season starts on Thursday the 25th of August.

AFL

St Kilda v Brisbane – Cam Rayner kicked 4 goals and had 18 touches in Brisbane’s win over the Saints, ending their finals hopes.

Western Bulldogs v GWS – Rhylee West had 13 touches in the Bulldogs narrow defeat of the Giants.  The Bulldogs now need to beat Hawthorn in Tassie and hope Carlton lose to Collingwood so they can make the finals.

Adelaide v Nth Melbourne – Paul Curtis gathered 8 possessions and 4 tackles in Nth Melbourne loss to the Crows.

Geelong v Gold Coast – Touk Miller continued his fantastic form amassing 36 possessions and 5 Clearances in the Suns loss to the AFL Minor Premiers and McClelland Trophy winners Geelong.

Fremantle v West Coast – Luke Ryan had 14 touches as the Dockers defeated the Eagles in the Derby.

Richmond v Hawthorn – Emerson Jeka continues his good form with 10 touches and 3 marks in the Hawks loss to the finals bound Tigers.

Essendon v Port Adelaide – Zak Butters had another solid game for the Power claiming 25 possessions, 6 clearances and kicking 3 goals in Port’s massive win over the Bombers who had Massimo D’Ambrosio with 9 possessions 5 marks, 3 tackles and 2 goals, while Peter Wright had 8 touches and 1 goal in a game where the ball didn’t go into Essendon’s forward line much.

Basketball.

Congratulations to former MSA teacher and Basketball Coach Shane McDonald who has been appointed the inaugural head coach of the West Australian Institute of Sport women’s basketball team.  McDonald telling the West Australian Newspaper  “My philosophy and approach to coaching is based on creating optimal learning environments enabling athletes to strive for personal excellence.  Player development is at the core of my coaching experiences and expertise. I enjoy assisting athletes chase their goals by optimising their strengths and building positive habits that leverage their talents.”

https://wais.org.au/news-archive/shane-mcdonald-appointed-wais-womens-basketball-head-coach/

MSA Alumni - WE 07/08/22

It’s been an action packed week for past and present students and also some of our past and present coaches have been in the lime light as well.  Let’s have a look at all they have done.

Commonwealth Games

Lucas Plapp became MSA’s first duel Olympic and Commonwealth games medal holder adding a Bronze in the 400m Team Pursuit at Birmingham to the Bronze won in Tokyo last year.  Lucas also competed in and placed highly in the Individual Pursuit, Points Race, Road race and Time trial.

Gronya Somerville and her partner finished 4th in the Women’s doubles losing the Bronze medal match 2-0 to India.  Gronya also made the round of 16 in the Mixed Doubles

Jacob Schueler made the quarter finals with his partner in the Men’s doubles

Celeste Mucci placed 7th in the final of the Women’s 100m hurdles in what was considered to be a World class field.  Celeste ran a Personal Best in the Semi’s.

And Lushavel Stickland competed for Samoa in the 50m Freestyle and Backstroke, the 100m Freestyle and relay events

Also congratulations to Nicole Richardson a former Marby Netball coach on her Commonwealth Games Gold as an Assistant coach of the Australian Netball Team. Brett Valance coached  Jemima Montag to a Gold medal in the 10km walk, while our own Darren Clarke coached Celeste Mucci to the final in the 100m Hurdles.

We Congratulate all on their amazing efforts.

Football/Soccer

We have had some amazing news in the past week in the World Game

2019 Graduate Polly Doran has signed a contract to play in the English WSL2 with Crystal Palace.  The Melbourne Victory fullback played 42 with Victory including back to back premierships in her 3 years with the club.  Polly has signed for the 22/23 season.

And Alana Cortellino was a part of the Junior Matilda’s team which won the Asian Football Federation U18 Championships over the weekend – Came on in 67 min

AFL

In the game between Gold Coast Suns and Hawthorn, Suns superstar Touk Miller had 21 touches and 7 clearances – Meanwhile for Hawthorn Emerson Jeka had 16 touches and 7 marks playing off a half back flank.

Essendon tall Peter Wright had 11 touches and kicked 2 goals in their defeat to the Giants.

Bulldogs v Dockers – Luke Ryan had 32 touches and 15 marks in Fremantle’s win over the Bulldogs with Rhylee West getting 6 Possessions.

Zak Butters had 28 touches and 8 tackles and kicked a goal in Port Adelaide’s loss to Richmond

Paul Curtis had 11 disposals and 5 tackles in Norths loss to the Swans

And Cam Rayner has had 16 touches and 6 Marks in the Lions defeat of the Blues

MSA Alumni win Gold and Silver at U21 Champs

Current and Past Maribyrnong Sports Academy students have competed and played major roles in Victoria’s success in the Men’s and Women’s U21 State hockey teams at the National Championship wrapped up in Perth last week.

In the Women’s final, Victoria won the Gold Medal defeating Western Australia in an exciting match - scores were level at 2-2 at full time, however Victoria brought home the Gold in a thrilling shoot out, prevailing 3-1 in a nail-biting finish.  

In the Men’s, the Victorians were crowned silver medallists, with Western Australia defeating Victoria 2-1 in a captivating display of Hockey with Cooper Burns scoring the only goal for the Victorians.  Cooper enjoyed a great Championships with 7 goals and he finished equal second highest goal scorer across the tournament.

Our congratulations to MSA Alumni who represented Victoria - Juliette Sheriff (Graduated MSA 2021), Alannah Hibbard (Graduated MSA 2020), Connar Otterbach (Victorian Team Captain – Graduated MSA 2019), Cooper Burns (Graduated MSA 2020) and Nye Roberts (Graduated MSA 2020),and Sam Lowndes (Year 12)