Sport
House Athletics Carnival
Although the day started with a low fog cover over Dolomore Oval, the MGSC enthusiasm was still present. Students walked in through the gates with smiles on their faces and decked out in their house colours from head to toe. The vast array of options to compete in ranging from high jump and triple jump to shot put and discus; track events and, of course, the fun novelty events. There was definiately no shortage of house points to be awarded.
A number of records that were broken throughout the day. Congratulations to Jemmah Paton (Year 7) who broke the record for High Jump that was set in 2015; Zoe Cunningham (Year 11) who set a new triple jump record with a score of 11 mentres (was 10.83 set in 2002) and Emily Ryan (Year 9) who smashed the previous discus record from 2006 with her throw of 38.01 metres.
Thank you to those who came to support their daughters. Students who have successfully qualified for the divisional level will be notified later in the term.
Well done to all students and thanks to all staff who made this a successful day.
House Cross Country
The annual Cross country event will be held on Wednesday 16 May here at school. It is a compulsory event for students in Years 7 to 9. The event is run during Period 3 for Years 7 to 9 students and during lunchtime for Years 10 to 12 students. The top 15 students from each age group will go on to compete at the Beachside Cross Country carnival on Tuesday 22 May.
More information will appear on Compass and on the screens so please keep an eye out for this.
Ms Ilana Parker
College House and Carnivals Coordinator
Southern Metro Region swimming report
During the last week of term, the MGSC swim team competed in the Southern Metro Regional carnival at MSAC. We had representatives swimming across 12 different individual events and three 4x50m freestyle relay teams. On the day MGSC medalled in seven individual races, as well two relays. The 2018 Carnival was a strong meet with fourteen records broken, one of them our very own Cara Jenkins, who broke a 34 year old record in the 16 year old 50m Freestyle. Well done to Cara also winning her other two events with our 1st placed 14 year old relay team Mya Winnell, Georgia Macmillan, Poppy Livings and Mia Schroen for all qualifying for the State Championships. Congratulations to all our swimmers on a great day and good luck to our State Championships qualifiers.
State Swimming
Congratulations to our 14 year old relay team – Georgia Macmillan, Mya Winnell, Mia Schroen and Poppy Livings for representing the College at the State Championships on Wednesday 18th April at MSAC. An incredible achievement to have made this far. The team finished 5th overall unfortunately finishing short of receiving a medal. Thank you to all the parents/guardians and other supporters for assisting the students throughout the day.
Gavin Bell
Health, Physical Education & Humanities Teacher
Student achievements
Emily Ryan
Emily Ryan in Year 9 competed at the Australian Junior Athletics championships held in Sydney in March. Emily competed as an Under 16 and won a silver medal in discus and a silver medal in shot put. Emily displayed her talents in discuss at the House Athletics carnival setting a new school record. Well done Emily!
Cara Jenkins
Congratulations to Cara Jenkins in Year 10 who swam at the National Championships in Sydney recently. She reported:
"In the 100m backstroke final I came 8th (didn’t drop or add any placing) and got another PB by 0.4 seconds. I PBed in every one of my races. My two highest ever rankings were 11th in the 200m backstroke and 8th in the 100 backstroke. My 50m, 100m, 200m freestyle were all significant PBs and I managed to halve my seeding.
More sport news
Visit www.mgscsports.weebly.com for more sport news and images.