The Sports Report

Sporting Excellence!

Congratulations Evie Scott and Zara Lanigan

We would like to congratulate both Evie Scott and Zara Lanigan of Year 9 for being selected to be members of the 2023 Victorian 15 & U Girls Australian Football team. 

This is a fantastic achievement and the MGC community would like to wish both Zara and Evie the best of luck in their future matches. We look forward to cheering you on and hearing about your efforts in the upcoming Australian Football National Championship in Ballarat. Best of luck. 

Congratulations Mim Suares-Jury Yr 12

For the second consecutive Lacrosse U18 National Championship, MGC College Sports Captain Mim Suares-Jury is the Women’s Tournament MVP! Congratulations on another incredible performance in the school holidays, sweeping both team & individual honours and leading the Victorian U18 Team to another Australian Championship Title. 

Exciting times for Mim, who has already committed to Loyola University in Maryland, USA next year on a full scholarship. Watch this space!!

Congratulations Elena Salmas Yr 10

Elena is one of Australia’s elite junior Fencers, recently winning international competition, open age and U16 Victorian Titles in 2023.

Elena is pursing her dream to represent Australia future international events and on the 12th of July will be traveling to Greece to start training with an elite coach who works with Olympians and Paralympians 

Have a look at Elena’s local Greek news paper called the news of Kefalovryso for more – amazing achievement Elena and can’t wait for the next chapter!

Ms. Carre and the HPE and Sport Team

Year 8 Tennis, Regional Finals – Thursday April 27th.

On Thursday the 27th of April our Year 8 Tennis Team competed at the Regional Finals, which was held at Oak Tennis Club. Our MGC Team consisted of Maia Gurov, Claudia Popovic, Ines Cooper. Unfortunately, Kristina Bratkova was away for the day, but thankfully Sofia Arevalo Diaz stepped up to help the Year 8 Team.

The weather was not on our side, with scattered showers and strong winds. This was perceived a considerable challenge for all participants. However, our Year 8s adapted to the conditions and rose to the challenge. We won the first 2 rounds, both in double and singles. Everyone played extremely well, showing great depth, and moving their opponents around the court. This resulted with MGC winning our Pool, making it through to the final against Gladstone Park. 

The Final was very competitive and both teams displayed a fantastic level of skill. But once again, our Year 8s adapted to the conditions and utilised their strengths. Maia played an incredible defensive game; Ines controlled the match with her serve, Claudia took risks and utilised her power and Sofia continued to run down every ball. The games were close, and it came done to the last doubles to determine the winner. Ines finalised the scores finishing the final play with another strong serve. The final score consisted of 4 – 2 games with Gladstone Park winning 1 single and 1 double. While our Year 8s took away the win, winning 3 singles and 1 double, qualifying for the State Championships. 

State Swimming Championships – Friday April 28th 

On Friday the 28th of April the State Swimming Championships were held at MSAC, we had 24 MGC students compete on the day, consisting of 4 individual events and 6 relays. It was a fantastic day, and our students swam incredibly well, with Lucinda Goudie placing 4th in the Under 13, 50m Breaststroke, Alexis McCarthy, placed 8th (31.94) in Under 14, 50m freestyle and Allegra Di Domenico placed 4th (30.04) in the Under 13, 50m freestyle. Well done to everyone on their outstanding performances. Chloe Millard won the Under 18-20, 50m butterfly. Chloe’s swim was seamless, producing an outstanding time of 30.23. Additionally, Zeina Abbass placed 2nd in the Under 14, 50m backstroke. Zeina swam incredibly well, producing an amazing time of 33.31.

Our relays teams were strong across the board, with our under 12-14 medley relay team placing 4th with a time of 2:22:33, our under 15-16 Medley Relay placed 6th with a time of 2:26:84. Our 12-13 freestyle relay team placed 4th with a time 2:16:08 and our under 14 Freestyle relay team placed 5th with a time of 2:10:48. 

Additionally, our under 17-20 Medley relay team won the 200m Medley with an incredible time of 2:15:51. This included Chloe Millard, Charli Campbell, Manon Shaw and Mahalia De Krester. Furthermore, our Under 15 Freestyle relay team, won the 200m Freestyle Relay with an amazing time of 2:09:07. This included Lucy Crouch, Alyssa Blair, Amelie Szoeke and Zeina Abbass. As a result of our outstanding Swimming Team and their amazing performances, MGC placed 8th overall in the State.

Senior Netball

Our Senior Netball Players had a fabulous day last  Thursday- a wonderful group of students represented MGC in our senior netball first round. With not having won this round for the past four or five years, our senior netballers played brilliantly to beat SEDA (for the first time) in the final and go on to the regionals in July.

Thank you to the Year 12 students who gave up their studies and competed before their English SAC -  Very stressful…

Shout out to: 

Imogen Cain

Abigail Forster

Grace Jensen

Chloe Kamberis

Jaqueline Petherick

Sophia Qureshi

Monique Ronai

Amelia Singh

Charlotte Thondan

Alex Wilson

Georgia Moulton

Freya Trounce

...they were all very well supported by the Year 11 students 

Rebecca Comerford

Zoe Quinlan

Scarlett Harrison

Pippi Kennedy

Josie Lennon

Eleanor Sass

Luca Sherman

Jade Simoni

Tayla Mulholland

It was a great day, not only the win but the way our students conducted themselves and ‘played the game’.