Melton Mail

Sport

NEWS

  • Melton Secondary College Co Sports Captain, Maddy Lister, featured on Channel 7 news and page 3 of the Herald Sun last week in  a promotion for the new Youth Girls  AFL TAC competition.
  • Trinity Skenderis, Year 8, qualified for the Victorian Little Athletics Final in 4 events – 100m, 200m, long jump and triple jump. She finished 7th in the u/14yrs Triple Jump, 10.25m, and 9th in the 100m, 13.30 secs. She was unable to compete in the 200m and Long Jump due to a clash with the final tryout session for the Victorian Country U/16 basketball team.

House Swimming Carnival

The annual House swimming Carnival was held at Melton Waves recently.

Results were:

1.  Djerriwarrh       622pts

2.  Kororoit             595pts

3.  Pywheitjorrk    446pts

4.  Yangardook      362pts

 

INTERSCHOOL SWIMMING SPORT RESULTS – UPDATED FINAL SCORES

 

1st    Sunbury Downs        630pts

2nd  Sunbury                        551pts

3rd   Melton                            504pts

4th   Gisborne                        432pts

5th   Staughton                     398pts

6th   Kurunjang                      213pts

7th   Bacchus Marsh               69pts

 

Outstanding Performers

  1. Manar Mahfouz - 4 x 1st Place – 4 records
  2. Chloe Rees - 3 x 1st Place
  3. Ronan Valsamis-Camilleri - 2 x 1st , 2 x 2nd
  4. Alena J. Busittil (swimming in a much higher age group) – 1 x 1st. 1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd
  5. Shanae Besanko - 1 x 1st, 2 x 3rd
  6. Mateo Bonic - 1 x 1st, 1 x 3rd
  7. Jorja Tuttle  - 1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd
  8. Medley Relay Girls 13/14  - 1st and record (Shanae, Aleena, Chloe, Jorja)
  9. Freestyle Relay 14yrs Girls  - 1st (Shenae, Aleena, Chloe and Trinity Skenderis)

We had a lot of students who competed very valiantly against some really good opposition.  Thank you to all the competitors and the helpers.

Student recorders at the swimming carnival
Student recorders at the swimming carnival

Western Metropoliton Region Qualifiers - At Geelong Thursday 30th March

 

At the moment our qualifiers are:

Yr 7 – Chloe Rees, Jorja Tuttle

Yr 8 – Aleena J. Bustill, Shanae Besanko, Trinity Skenderis, Mateo Bonic

Yr 9 – Manar Malfouz    

Yr 10 – Ronan Valsamis-Camilleri

Most of the above have qualified in multiple events.

Record breakers - 13/14 girls medley relay
Record breakers - 13/14 girls medley relay
Ronan butterflying home
Ronan butterflying home

Cricket

Intermediate Boys – Round 1

  1. Melton 2/136 Brandon Foley 51n.o. Cody Chapman 51n.o. def Staughton 24, Brandon Foley 4/2
  2. Melton 1/128 Jason Hibbert 58n.o. Brandon Foley 42 def Kurunjang 6/127 Dylan Millard 3/13

AFL Umpiring Training Programme

Melton Secondary College has been selected as one of the Secondary schools across Melbourne to host an umpiring academy run by AFL VIC. The program is running on Wednesday afternoons for the rest of the term.

MSC 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  is - https://www.facebook.com/meltonscsport/

Western Bulldogs Leadership Project

Applications have closed. All applicants will be notified regarding the outcome of their nomination in mid-March.

General Information

Amart Sports - Melton SC has joined the community kickbacks program with Amart Sports in Woodgrove. Every time you make a purchase just mention our school and we will receive 5% of the purchase amount. If you join online you will receive a loyalty and receive discounts etc as well as already having registered our school as your preferred community kickback. We have the same arrangement with REBEL SPORTS and their Season Pass kickback.

 

Melton Hockey Club  -  The Melton Hockey club are a very progressive local club who are always looking for more members. They have a wide array of competitions. They run an internal u/8 program: for u/10 the program is called Game On. They also run Hook 2 for ages 5-12. They have a group of competitions for men and women, for all ages, young and even masters level. A social competition is also played. For more information contact Kellie on 0450643826 or check out their webpage – meltonhockeyclub@yahoo.com.au

 

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

Information on national events can be found at the Team Vic page on the School Sport Victoria website, www.ssv.vic.edu.au/TeamVic, or the School Sport Australia website,  www.schoolsport.edu.au. 

Registrations are now open to nominate to trial for a number of sports:

Swimming and Volleyball are currently open.

Their monthly bulletin is sent on the last Tuesday of every month.

You can find all the latest bulletins, on the ebulletins page of the SSV website.

 

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Sports Dates

Thursday 23rd March – Rugby League 9’s – Intermediate Boys and Girls in Werribee

Wednesday 29th March – Volleyball – Senior and Intermediate Girls and Boys in Melton

Thursday 30 March – Swimming – Western Metropolitan Region at Geelong

Term 2 – two main dates

Wednesday 26 April – Swimming – School Sport Victoria State Finals at MSAC

 Friday 5 May – Athletics – House Athletics at  Melton