Sports Update

Student Successes

School Sport Victoria Sporting Blues Award

Lourdez Sakaria and Parish Hunt, Yr12, recently received the SSV Blues award at a gala function at the MCG. 

The Victorian School Sports Awards are the highest sporting accolades presented in Victoria’s government school system. This annual event, held for the first time in 1994, rewards excellence across all categories of major school sports. The awards are given to students who have excelled or made an outstanding contribution to school sport in Victoria. There is only one award per sport across the State of Victoria, so they are very hard to win.

Both students are members of our rugby academy. They both represented Victoria in 2023 in both Rugby Union and Rugby League, after numerous State selections in previous years. They are on the pathways to future high level rugby achievements as they enter the open rugby world. The award is a reflection and recognition of the work ethic and attitude of both students.

Lourdez and Parish are the 13th and 14th sportspeople from Melton Secondary College to receive a SSV Sporting Blue – a wonderful achievement by the school.

School Sport Victoria has announced some recent State team selections. We are very pleased to see two of our students get selected in a couple of the early announcements:

• Haleina Tanoi, Yr10, has repeated 2023 selection with getting chosen for the 2024 SSV 16yrs Netball team to play at the Gold Coast in late July.
• Baxter Maynard, Yr11, has been selected in the SSV 18yrs Baseball team to play late April in Canberra.  

Rugby - Congratulations to the following players who have been selected for the 2024 NRL Victoria U15s Schoolboys invitation only trial -Macalastar Magatogia Tamate, Texas Esera-Saluni, Tamiano Sakaria, Phoenix Niwha, and Willis Te'o.

Our school Sport Captain, Sam Fangatua, has been playing for the Melbourne Rebels u/20 team over the last few weeks. This is a terrific achievement and is a reward for the work he puts into his training and performances.               

Swimming Carnival

Final Results

Thank you to all the students who competed and the helpers who did their roles very well.

1st – Pywheitjorrk    347pts

2nd – Yangardook     265pts

3rd – Kororoit            169pts

4th – Djerriwarrh      143pts

Champions Report

Division swimming

A big thank you to the very small team that represented us at the Division swimming carnival recently. Considering the number of swimmers, approximately 30 in total, we had some good success. Unfortunately, we led going into the freestyle relays but with the low number of swimmers we struggled.

1st  Sunbury Downs      498 

2nd Gisborne                   452 

3rd Sunbury                     336 

4th Melton                       323 

5th Melton Christian     317

6th Staughton                  177 

7th Kurunjang                  131     

8th Bacchus Marsh       121

9th Alice Miller                115

Multiple event winners were - Emily Challis 5 wins, Aleisha Busuttil 2 wins (competing in a higher age group) and Ella Bristow 1 win. The girls 14yrs won both the freestyle and medley relays.

Results

Lawn Bowls - Our lawn bowls team did well, winning the pool games and the semi-final but lost the Region final. We defeated Geelong High 5/3 and Southern Cross Grammar 13/1 in the pool section, then def Maribyrnong 13/0 in the semi-final. In a final that could have gone either way, Bellarine beat us by one bowl that went down to the last bowl of the day, 8/7.

Volleyball – Division level

Senior Girls – def Gisborne and Sunbury Downs in the pool games then def Kurunjang in the Division final 20/9, 20/18.

Senior Boys – def Sunbury, Melton Christian, Kurunjang, and Bacchus Marsh in the pool games, then def Sunbury Downs in the Division final 20/8, 18/20, 21/19.

Intermediate Girls – we def Heathdale, Gisborne and Sunbury in the pool games then def Kurunjang in the Division final  20final 20/22, 21/10, 21/10.

Intermediate Boys – lost their first game to Staughton, then def Sunbury Downs, Alice Miller and Gisborne but did not qualify for the final.

Athletics Carnival

This will be held Friday week 1 next term. Students can currently submit an interest to be considered for  house selection online via the Compass post – INSIGHTS. It takes a few minutes, and the house leaders use this as a guide. If students do not enter then the leaders are not aware of any interest, especially for the unknown juniors. We will be holding the 1500m events at school on a separate day to be decided. Parents are welcome to attend. Only students who have signed the General Consent form will be allowed to attend. Every student has been given one of these to fill in a number of times this term. It is also available on the Insights tab.

Entries and Trainings

Students will be able to sign up to be considered for team selections on a Compass post that has been activated. This gives us an indication whether we have the interested numbers to enter a team. If students fail to sign up, then we must assume that there is little interest, and that team will not be entered. Look for the training Compass post send out on a Friday or each weekend.

Trainings will occur on Mondays, Thursdays and Friday afterschool 3.15pm-4.15pm. 

CSEF Fund

If your family qualify for the Camps and Excursions fund (CSEF) provided by the Govt. you need to collect a form from the General Office. This helps you pay for all camps and excursions, but it must be registered by June. 

General Sport Excursion Reminders

• All consent forms must be returned like every other excursion to the front office WITH the payment by the due date on the form.
• No student will be allowed to bring the consent form on the day and/or bring the money on the day.
• No CONSENT form - No MONEY – not returned by DUE date = No GO = get left behind = unhappy team and coach
• If your family qualify for the Camps and Excursions fund provided by the Govt. you need to collect a form from the General Office. This helps you pay for all camps and excursions, but it must be registered by June. You can only access the fund after your form has been processed.

Melton SC Sport Facebook page

We have a Facebook page dedicated to our Interschool Sport and the Athlete Development Program (ADP) participants. Please have a look and ‘like” us to keep up to date with the many outstanding achievements by our students in sport. The page name is - Melton Secondary College - Sport/Sport Enhancement

GENERAL INFORMATION

School Sport Information

All information regarding School Sport information and State team selection trials can be found on the website – www.ssv.vic.edu.au/TeamVic,

Students attending schools affiliated with SSV are eligible for selection in Victorian Teams to compete in 2024 School Sport Australia National Championships. 

Sport Dates

Term 2 (weeks 1-6)

Friday 19 April - School Sport Victoria State swimming finals

Tuesday 23 April - House Athletics Sports at Cobblebank

Tuesday 30 April – AFL – Intermediate boys and girls TBC

Thursday 2 May – Rugby 9’s

Friday 3 May – Soccer – Senior boys and girls TBC

Monday 6 May -AFL – Senior boys and girls tbc

Wednesday 8 May -Volleyball – Region finals in Geelong - Intermediate Girls

Monday 13 May - Volleyball – Region finals in Geelong – Senior Girls and Boys

Wednesday 15 May – AFL – Junior boys

Monday 20 May – AFL – Junior Girls

Thursday 23 May – Soccer – Yr7 boys, Yr8 girls

Friday 24 May – Cross Country in Gisborne