SPORT NEWS

WELCOME BACK TO THE WORLD OF PE & SPORT AT MCKINNON IN 2023

We hope everyone had a lovely summer and was able to stay active and be inspired by the many sporting highlights that took place over the break from the Australian Open to the Big Bash. There was a lot going on!

Back at school we are busy organising lots of extracurricular activities for students to take part in during lunchtimes. Keep an eye out on the Compass news feed for all the details.

At the East campus there will be some Volleyball sessions on Wednesday’s in the gym and on Thursday’s a Rock Up Basketball competition. Over at the Main campus we will be organising a Year 7 Rock Up Basketball competition and some AFL Skills sessions.

We also have weekly sport for our Years 7 & 8 students and Intermediate and Senior Sports Competitions for Years 9-12 students. Sign Up’s and details of training sessions for Intermediate and Senior teams will be posted on Compass soon.

In addition to all this Sport, our McKinnon Swimming Trials will be held on Wednesday 1 March at GESAC, more information will be sent out to students who wish to compete soon.

During Term 1 it is imperative that all students have their school hat for both PE & Sport. If you haven’t been able to purchase a school hat at the moment you are able to wear another hat to keep you sun smart. Please make sure that student’s names are on their hats, jackets and rugby shirts.

Stay active

Jen Pemberton

Head of PE & Sport

MCKINNON VOLLEYBALL NEWS 

New Website

McKinnon Volley has a brand-new website detailing info about trials, training times, info pack, contact details. 

https://sites.google.com/view/mckinnonvolley/home

Beach Volleyball News

Class of 2022 student Will Kay competed in the Australian Beach Volleyball Tour (ABVT) (Elite Men) in Canberra recently, resulting in 13th place. He also participated in the Australian Junior Beach Volleyball Tour (AJBVT) and finished in 7th place. 

Class of 2022 student Sam Kay competed in the ABVT (Div 1 Men) in Canberra recently, resulting in 3rd place. He also participated in the AJBVT and finished in 9th place. 

Class of 2022 student Max Chilco-Burns also competed in the ABVT (Challenger Div 3 Men) competition.

James Kay (current Year 11 student) competed in the ABVT (Challenger Div 3 Men) in Canberra recently, resulting in 2nd place. He also participated in the AJBVT and finished in 9th place.

Rosie O’Brien (current Year 9 student) won the Vic Beach ‘Queen of the Beach’ (intermediate women's) tournament recently.  

Sandy Hope

McKinnon Volleyball Co-ordinator

VOLLEYBALL NEWS - NATIONALS

The Australian Volleyball Schools Cup was a 6 day tournament held from Monday 5 December - Sat 10 December, 2022 on the Gold Coast, Queensland. With 2000 games, 390 teams competed against the top teams in the country as well as international teams from New Zealand. 

It was the first time for our top three McKinnon Volley teams (Open Honours Girls, Year 10 Honours Girls and Year 7 Boys Division 1) to participate in a National tournament to compete with the best. The games were tough, but each team fought hard and played some brilliant volleyball. The atmosphere of team spirit, camaraderie and enthusiastic competition was evident in the stadium every day. 

The stadiums were humid and athletes were certainly feeling the heat and pressure. There were many tears of joy and sadness as they experienced the highs and lows that come with playing at a very competitive level. Every athlete improved immensely throughout the tournament, pushing their body to the limits.

Overall, the Open Honours Girls placed 7th place, the Year 10 Honours Girls also placed 7th and the Year 7 Boys placed 8th. 

Well done on the amazing efforts of all of these wonderful, hard working athletes:

Year 7 Boys 

Maximus Atherinos

Mateo Capurro Martinez

Kynan Enwright

Braden Fischer

Michael Gordeyev

Jonathan Greenberg

Ashley Hill

Leigh Kontopoulos

Jacob Koulaouzos-Chun

Rhys Peel

Adam Suchard

Jayvier Yang

Year 10 Girls

Chloe Apps

Sofia Atchison

Matilda Brown

Charli Guss

Jess Hart

Bernice Koh

Vernice Koh 

Anita Sofia Krapivsky

Tali Rudzki

Zara Salisbury

Open Honours Girls

Steph Baker

Hannah Foran

Molly Forehan

Ashleigh Hart

Aspen Lehmann

Kyla Peel

Holly Spencer

Amy Van Der Linden

Minja Zlatic

Thanks to all the Staff, Coaches and Support crew: Rhiannon Parker, Liam Adlington, Pip Andrieux, Sarah Ridout, Ellie Adler, John Van Noorden, Zoe Fischer, Arwen Verdnik and all the parents and families that came to cheer and support the athletes. We look forward to doing it all again next year!

Sandy Hope

McKinnon Volley