Alumni Report - WE 230423

As we have enjoyed a couple of weeks Holidays Our former and current MSA Athletes and staff have been turning up the heat right around the world.  Here are their results:

Basketball

Congratulations to our Basketball Head Coach Brenton O’Brien who coached the Victorian Country U18 squad in the National Championships over the holidays.  His team were defeated by the Victorian Metro team in the final but picked up the silver medal ahead of some more fancied State metro teams. A great effort by all.

Badminton

Gronya Somerville has finished off her European Tour winning the Dutch International Mixed Doubles with her new partner Kenneth Choo.  Gronya and Kenneth will look to continue to rise through the rankings with the hope of getting into the World Tour as a partnership.

Combat Sports

CombatAUS has finalised its Judo and Taekwondo athlete cohorts to train out of the National Performance Centre at the VIS in 2023.

Congratulations to the following Alumni, and current coaches who have made the squads.

•  Judo: Danny Vojnikovich(Alumni), Ryley Rametta (Alumni & Current Coach)

• Taekwondo: Leon Sejranovic(Alumni), Reba Stewart(Alumni), Will Afonczenko (Alumni & Current Coach)

Cricket

Current MSA Women’s cricket head coach Scott Shepherd has been appointed the new head coach of the Box Hill women’s program for the next two years. Scott has been the General Manager and Head Coach of Essendon’s women’s program for the past two seasons.

Equestrian

Current year 8 student Marly Wright has won the Interschool State Championships Intermediate Jumping title for 2023.  Marly defeated students from some large Private Schools and flew the flag high as MSA’s only competitor.

Swimming

Three current MSA Students competed at the Swimming Nationals on the Gold Coast during the Holidays.  Congratulations to Blake Hughes who competed in the Boys 15yo 200m Backstroke, 50 metre Backstroke and 100m Backstroke.  Yuan Lachama who was in the Boys 14yo 50m Freestyle and Enrico Villegas who was in the Boys 15yo 100m Freestyle and the Boys 14-18yo 4 x 100m Medley relay.

AFL

• Fremantle v Western Bulldogs

Luke Ryan had 30 disposals and 619 meters gained for the Dockers in their loss to the Bulldogs by 49 points.

• Port Adelaide v West Coast Eagles

Zak Butters had 9 kicks, 16 handballs and 6 tackles in Port Adelaide’s 40 point win over the Eagles.

• GWS v Brisbane

Cam Rayner had 6 kicks 9 handballs and 6 marks with 1 goal 1 in Brisbane’s 21 point victory over the Giants.

• Carlton v St Kilda

Josh Honey had 4 kicks and 6 handballs in Carlton loss to top of the table St Kilda by 21 points.

• Gold Coast v Nth Melbourne

Touk Miller was injured in the Suns win over the Kangaroos by 43 points.  Before leaving the field with a suspected knee injury he had 13 possessions and 3 tackles. For the Kangaroos Kayne Turner had 10 possessions as did Paul Curtis who also had an inaccurate day in front of goal kicking 3 points.

A-League Men

Seb Pasquali started for Western United in their 3-1 loss to cross town rivals Melbourne City. With 1 game to go in the championship, Western United currently sit 4th on the table and could finish as high as 2nd depending on the result between 2nd and 3rd teams Adelaide United and Central Coast Mariners.

A-League Women

Naomi Thomas Chinnama and her Melbourne City A-league women’s team have been knocked out of the finals in a penalty shoot-out with long-time rivals Melbourne Victory.  With the teams locked together at 3 all after extra time, Victory won the shoot-out 4-1 to take the win in the Elimination final.

International Football

Polly Doran and her EPL Women’s championship team Crystal Palace defeated Lewes 4-0 in their game played on Sunday afternoon.  With only one match to go in the Championship, Crystal Palace currently sit sixth on the table and play fourth place Charlton in the final game of the year.

Connor Metcalfe came onto the ground in the 21st minute in FC St Pauli’s loss to Hamburger SV 4-3.  With 6 games to go in the competition, FC St Pauli currently sit 5th on the table some 14 points from Bundesliga 2 leaders Darmstadt.

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.

MSA Alumni WE 020423

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.