MSA Badminton

Our 2023 Badminton program is firing on all cylinders with an amazing performance by our current Student/Athletes at the Badminton Australia – Badminton Victoria junior circuit 3 U15/U19 State Titles.

We say congratulations to our Gold Medal winners:

• Smrithi Adepu is the undisputed U15 Champion winning the State title in all 3 divisions in the U15’s including Singles, Mixed and Doubles events.  The amazing thing about these wins is the Smrithi in only in year 7 and 12 years old.

• Smrithi partnered with Kelvin Si (MSA Year 8) to win the U15 mixed doubles & Ria Bairy (MSA Year 7) to win the U15 Girls doubles.

• Shrey Dhand who is a 15yo year 10 Student/Athlete won gold in the U19 boys singles.

We also congratulate other students at the tournament who either made finals or semi-finals.

• Kelvin Si also made the U15 Boys doubles final

• Ava Wong (MSA Year 7) was a U15 singles semi-finalist and doubles and mixed doubles finalist. 

• Tanvi Sai Mushini (MSA Year 7) was a U15 mixed doubles semi-finalist. 

• Ira Sameer Acharya (MSA Year 10) U19 Mixed doubles semi finalist

• Lawrence Giang (MSA Year 12) U19 Mens doubles semi-finalist. 

Well done to all our students and we look forward to following your progress throughout the year..

Alumni Report WE 210523

It’s been another big week for our Alumni and Current Students in different sports around the world.  Check out some of the results:

Modern Pentathlon

The 2023 Modern Pentathlon Australian Championships saw 37 athletes from right around Australia battle it out for medals and MSA Alumni Tully Watt claimed Gold in the Women’s division.  Tully has just returned to Australia from International Competition and a training block which saw her contest the first two events of the UIPM World Cup in Cairo and Ankara.

Baseball

Former MSA Baseball Athlete Keenan Spence has received a great wrap in the Baseball Australia “Aussies Abroad” newsletter.  Here is what they had to say:

“The Victorian native has had a huge spring for the Howard College Hawks. After this weekend, he is now hitting .348 with 11 2B, 23 HR & 63 RBI in only 50 games. To put that into perspective, if you averaged that out for an MLB season he would hit almost 75 home runs. A ridiculous show of power from the outfielder who has also committed to Purdue University for the next two years if he is not taken in the MLB Draft in July.”

International Football

Naomi Chinnama has been selected in the squad for the young Matilda’s round 2 qualifiers, as the team looks to move to the next stage of the 2024 AFC U-20 Women’s Asian Cup.  The team will play Lebanon, Iran and Vietnam on the 3rd, 5th and 7th of June respectively in Vietnam. 

Connor Metcalfe and his Bundesliga 2 team St Pauli FC have extended their unbeaten run to 4 games defeating Holstein Kiel 4-3 over the weekend.  Connor continues his return from injury coming onto the ground in the 79th minute.

AFL

Port Adelaide v Melbourne

Zak Butters was the player of the week not just for our MSA Alumni team but for the entire AFL gathering 41 possessions including 22 kicks and 19 handballs, took 6 marks, had 3 tackles and kicked 2.1 in a best on ground performance in Port Adelaide’s win over Melbourne by 4 points at Adelaide Oval.

Nth Melbourne v Sydney

Paul Curtis had a quiet day with only 5 disposals and 1 goal 1 on Nth Melbourne’s loss to Sydney by 3 points. 

Fremantle v Geelong

Luke Ryan racked up 22 disposals in the Dockers win over the Cats by 29 points at Optus Stadium. 

Brisbane v Gold Coast

Rory Atkins couldn’t help the Suns get over the line against Brisbane, with the Lions winning by 41 points.  Atkins had 20 possessions and 7 marks in the loss.

Essendon v Richmond

Massimo D’Ambrosio was named the sub for Essendon in their Dreamtime at the G match against Richmond.  Massimo replaced Andrew Phillips at 3 quarter time in font of 78,300 people.  The Bombers were trailing the Tigers by 2 goals at 3 quarter time and came home to win by a point.  Massimo had 5 disposals, 2 marks and a tackle in the final quarter of the game.

Carlton v Collingwood

Jordan Boyd made his long awaited return to the Carlton team after missing the start of the season with a foot injury.  Jordan had 11 disposals in his return with the Blues going down by 28 points to ladder leader Collingwood.

Alumni Report WE 140523

Once again we have seen some great individual performances by our MSA Alumni and some current students in the past week.  Here is how they went.

Equestrian

Congratulations to Marly Wright who has taken out the Overall Champion trophy representing Maribyrnong Sports Academy at the Geelong Grammar Show Jumping Competition at Werribee with her horse Maeve Keeva Castiel. 

Para Tennis

Current Year 8 student Jin Woodman has been competing at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Portugal.  Jin and his doubles partner Benjamin Wenzal defeated the Brazilian pairing to help Australia wins its first round match 3-0 over Brazil.  Australia then played the United States with Jin and his doubles partner Yassin Hill losing in straight sets.  The USA team beat Australia 3-0.  Australia finished second in their group round robin then went on to finish 4th in the tournament losing to Great Britain 3-0 in the semi’s, Jin losing his singles match in straight sets  6-1,6-2.  The Aussies then lost to the Netherlands in the play off for 3rd and 4th. A great effort by Jin and his teammates.

Badminton

Gronya Somerville is currently representing Australia in the Sudirman Cup being played in Suzhou, China.  Australia lost their first match of the tournament to Malaysia 5-0.  Gronya played in both Mixed and Women’s doubles.

Australian Rules Football

Congratulations to Piper Dixon, Leivi Lane, Elle Price and Kiara Boyd who have all been selected in the SSV 15 and Under Girls Australian rules football team.  The National Championships will be played later in the year in Ballarat.  Kiara Boyd has also been selected in the SSV 15 and under Netball team to play in the Nationals in W.A.

International Football 

Connor Metcalfe came on in the 77th minute in St Pauli FC’s nil all draw against Dusseldorf in the German Bundesliga 2.

AFL

Gold Coast Suns recorded a solid win against the West Coast Eagles.  Rory Atkins had 18 disposals and 8 marks for the Suns.

Fremantle defeated the Sydney Swans by 17 points with Luke Ryan having 19 disposals and 10 marks for the Dockers.

Port Adelaide beat the Kangaroos by 70 points, Zak Butters having 32 possessions for the Power while Paul Curtis had 17 possessions and kicked 1 goal for North Melbourne.

Brisbane defeated the Bombers by 42 points with Cam Rayner amassing 20 possessions, 5 clearances and a goal for the Lions while Massimo D’Ambrosio was a late call up into the team having 9 disposals then was subbed off in the 7th min of the final quarter.

Adelaide defeated the Saints by 52 points with Jack Bytel getting 7 disposals and 3 tackles after coming on as the sub to replace the concussed Tim Membrey in the 3rd quarter.

Cycling

Luke Plapp was involved in a large crash on the first stage of the Tour de Hongrie which claimed him and Ineos Grenadiers teammate Egan Bernal with only one kilometre to go.  Luke suffered a minor concussion and was unable to continue the race withdrawing at the end of the first day.

Cricket

Congratulations to MSA Cricket Alumni Tom Rogers, Fergus O’Neill and current MSA coach Travis Dean who have all received full contracts with Cricket Victoria for the upcoming 23/24 season.  We also congratulate Dylan Brasher on receiving a Rookie Contract.

Athletics

Celeste Mucci is in Yokohama, Japan this week to compete in the 100m Hurdles at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix on Sunday.