2022 Victorian School Sport Awards

It was another big year for Maribyrnong Sports Academy at the 29th Annual Victorian School Sports Awards held at the MCG.

Each Year the “Sporting Blues” recognise students, teachers, parents and carers, and Volunteers in Victorian Government Schools who have excelled at, or made an outstanding contribution to school sport.

This year MSA students collected 12 awards.  Congratulations to the following:

Gospel Ropeti: Gospel was nominated by his Primary school, Melton Primary, after becoming a duel State champion in Athletics in both shot put and discus.

Joshua Djatschenko:  Received the High School Athletics award (Male).  He was the Victorian all schools State Champion in the 100m and 200m in 2022.  Josuha also plays football in the WRFL and was named 2022 Junior Interleague Best player in the U14A division.

Sukhnoor Rangi:  Received the High School Athletics award (Female).  Sukhnoor won the 2022 National Pole Vault title, rewarding her skill and dedication to pole vaulting.  She also finished 6th at the largest indoor Track and Field event in the USA, The Simplot Games.

Jayden Kim: Received the High School Baseball Award.  Jayden had an amazing year in 2022 playing for Victoria in the U16 Nationals before being selected in the U18 Australian team for the World Cup.  He was also the youngest player invited to compete in the MLB World Select team.

Ruby Gibson: Received the High School Cricket Award.  After outstanding performances for her club Essendon Maribyrnong Park CC and in Cricket Victoria’s Youth Premier league, Ruby was one of 21 players selected Cricket Victoria’s U16 Female Emerging player program.  She also made her First XI Premier Cricket debut.

Alana Cortellino: Received the High School Football (Soccer) award for female students.  Alana represented Australia in the Asian Football Federations U18’s Championships with Australia winning the tournament.  The Junior Matilda is currently training with the Melbourne Victory as apart of their A-League Senior pathway program.

Seabil Leong: Received the High School Golf Award.  Seabil achieved great success in 2022 as the School Sport Victoria State Junior Golf Champion and the winner of the Victorian Junior Amateur Championships.  She is currently placed 3rd in the Golf Australia Order of Merit.

Ellie Jarratt: Received the High School Hockey Award.  Ellie represented Victoria in the U18 National Hockey Championships and still had time to complete her VCE in 2022.  Ellie has been selected to play for New Hockey club Melbourne Development Squad.

Charlotte Morey: Received the award for Netball.  Charlotte has been a part of MSA since arriving in Year 7.  Fast Forward 6 years and Charlotte is an exceptional athlete.  She was selected into Netball Australia’s U17 team.  She is also a part of the VIS’s Vixens Academy.

Charlize Buna:  Received the award for Swimming (Female). Charlize is respected by the MSA Swimming community including her peers and Coaches.  Charlize competed in the Australian Swimming Championships and finished Top 10 in all 3 events while also making the Victorian Short and Long course team.

Charlotte Vanstone McGrath:  Received the award for Tennis.  Charlotte won the 2022 Victorian State Claycourt Championships and qualified for the 18 and under Australian Championships where she is one of the youngest of 16 players.  Ranked number 9 for Tennis in Australia, her star is on the rise.

Luella Greer:  Received the award for Volleyball (Female).  Luella’s 2022 was spread between the State and National Teams including International Competition.  Luella won the coveted Blue and White Jacket award for Beach Volleyball State Teams.  She was selected for the Australian Youth Women’s team as well as being selected for the Australian Volleyball Academy at the AIS.

Congratulations to all students awarded “The Sporting Blue” and congratulations to our strength and conditioning team, teachers and  Coaches for the great work they do to help get our student athlete’s  to this level.

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It was another big weekend for our MSA Alumni at home and abroad.  Here are their results:

Athletics

Our MSA Athletics Alumni had some fantastic results at the 100th staging of the Australian Open (National Championships).

Congratulations to Jessie Andrew who claimed gold and is now the 400m National Champion.  Her time of 52.62 was a personal best.

Amelia Mazza Downie finished 8th in the 5,000m in a time of 16 minutes and 4 seconds

Celeste Mucci ran another sub 13 second run, her 5th for the year,  to finish with the silver medal in the 100m hurdles in a time of 12.92. That time was just .08 outside her best of the season so far.

Aliyah Canepa finished 6th in the Hammer Throw with a personal best throw of 54.54m.

Cameron Searle finished 3rd in the Men’s 400m in a time of 46.27.  That time is also his best time of the season.

Premier Cricket Final:

In Cricket Victoria’s Premier Cricket final, Melbourne played Carlton, with Kieran Elliott and Fergus O’Neill playing for the victorious Melbourne CC.  Kierann took an amazing 17 wickets in the finals series with 7 of those in the final.  And Fergus took 4 wickets in the final.  Melbourne winning the  last match of the season on the first innings result.

Women’s Football

Naomi Chinnama played for Melbourne City in their 3 all draw against Canberra United in the A-League W.

Mindy Barbieri played for Adelaide City in their 3-1 loss to Wellington.

Good luck to Naomi Chinnama in Melbourne Cities A-League W finals campaign.

In the Women’s EPL Polly Doran started in Chrystal Palace’s 2-1 win over Sunderland.

Men’s Football

Western United had a 3 all draw with Sydney FC in the A-League.  Seb Pasquale coming on for United in the 76th minute.

In the Bundesliga 2, St Pauli FC has a 1-0 victory over Jahn Regensburg.  MSA Alumni Connor Metcalfe started for the victors.

AFL

Cameron Rayner had a fairly quiet night by his standards in Brisbane’s loss to the Bulldogs on Thursday night by 14 points.  Cam finished with 16 disposals and 6 marks for the night.

Both Paul Curtis and Kayne Turner kicked 1 goal 1 behind and had 9 disposals in Nth Melbourne’s 19 point loss to Hawthorn in Launceston.

Massimo D’Ambrosio had 27 possessions, 8 marks and 2 tackles for the Bombers who lost their MCG clash to St Kilda by 3 goals. 

Zak Butters kicked a goal and had 15 disposals in Port Adelaide’s loss to Adelaide at Adelaide Oval by 31 points. 

Touk Miller’s 20 possessions, 4 marks and 6 tackles have helped the Suns grab a will earned win over the reigning Premiers Geelong by 19 points.

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Our MSA Alumni have once again been hitting the courts, ovals and tracks of the world with great results.  Here is what they were up to last week.

Weightlifting

Congratulations to Teagan Newman on her 2nd placing in the Pacific Elite International Weightlifting tournament in Hawthorn on the weekend in the F76 group.

Badminton

The Polish Open…Gronya Somerville and her partner Kaitlyn EA lost in the round of 16 in the women’s doubles.  In the mixed double Gronya and Kenneth Choo lost in the round of 16 after defeating the number 1 ranked team in the round of 32

Football

Polly Doran’s Crystal Palace had a 1 -0 win over Blackburn with Polly picking up a yellow card in the 90th minute.

Connor Metcalfe’s St Pauli FC played Hanover 96 in a friendly match and won 2-0

In the A-League W, Naomi Chinnama played for Melbourne City in their 4-3 loss to Perth Glory.

Mindy Barbieri came on In the 77th minute in Adelaide United’s 3-0 loss to Sydney FC

Athletics

Celeste Mucci has had another sub 13 sec run and finished 2nd in the 100 hurdles at the Brisbane Track Classic, once again behind Michelle Jennneke.  Meanwhile Jessie Andrew finished 3rd in the 400m event in a time of 53.46. 

Basketball

Monique Conti’s Southside Flyers went down to Townville in the 3 game final series against Townsville.  Townsville winning the first two games, with Monique now focusing her attention to the AFLW where she plays for the Richmond Tigers.

AFL

Marby’s own Cameron Rayner had 16 disposals and 4 clearances in Brisbane’s win over the Melbourne Demons in Brisbane.

Zak Butters had 18 disposals in Port Adelaide loss to the Pies at the MCG

Rhylee West had a quiet day by his standard with 4 disposals in the Bulldogs loss to St Kilda

North Melbourne have continued their great start to the season defeating Fremantle.  MSA Alumni Paul Curtis and Kayne Turner playing their roles.  Kayne had 12 possessions 3 tackles while Paul Curtis had 8 possessions and was subbed out due to illness. Luke Ryan had 30 possessions and 10 marks for the Dockers.

Massimo D’Ambrosio had 18 disposals and 5 marks in Essendon’s 28 point win over the Gold Coast Suns.  Last year’s Gold Coast best and fairest winner Touk Miller chipped in with 31 disposals 5 tackles and 5 clearances.

Cricket

Fergus O’Neill took 1/70 from 26 overs and 0/17 in the second innings in his first Sheffield Shield final.  Unfortunately for Fergus though, the Bushrangers went down by 9 wickets to WA.