Last Friday evening we celebrated the achievements of our Open Track and Field, 1st XIII Rugby League, 1st V Basketball and 1st IV Tennis teams at the Queensland Cricketers Club. It was a fitting way to acknowledge our open athletes and reward those students who have made significant contributions to our Sports Program. We were fortunate to have Matt Gillett, Scott Prince and Paul Dyer from the Broncos come along and be our guest speakers on the night.

Matt Gillett played 200 NRL premiership matches for the Broncos, 20 Origins for QLD and 14 games for Australia, Gillett achieved almost everything in the game after debuting in 2010. Gillett now works full time for the Broncos and will join the Broncos Game Development team in 2022 to coordinate a brand-new program in the inner-city region.

Scott Prince played 300 NRL games during his career, he also played four games for the Indigenous All-stars, five games for the QLD State of Origin team, and four games for Australia. His achievements include: 1998 - Rookie of the Year; 2005 - Inaugural Grand Final Captain for Wests Tigers, Dally M Captain of the Year and Clive Churchill Medal winner; 2007 - Inaugural Captain of the Gold Coast Titans; 2008 - RLIF Team of the Year (halfback) and 2010 - Dally M halfback of the year.

Both former players conveyed a number of important messages to the boys talking about the many hurdles they overcame to make it at the highest level. Hard work and dedication were the distinct messages they expressed that led to their success and the parents, coaches and students hung off every word. We were very grateful that the Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Club supported us in having their presence at our special night.

Paul Dyer is currently the Brisbane Broncos Game Development Manager and has extensive experience in coaching, specifically in the women’s game. He was Head Coach of the Australian Women’s Rugby League (Jillaroos) World Cup-winning team, winning the 1st ever world cup for Australia and breaking a 14-year reign for New Zealand in 2013; The Broncos NRLW Head Coach in 2018, setting up, recruiting and winning the Broncos inaugural NRLW Premiership and was a member of the coaching staff that won the 1st and only QLD under 20’s State of Origin Series.

Paul spoke passionately on the night about the Broncos and the opportunity he’d been given in the women’s game as a coach after being a former Broncos player in the younger grades. Paul’s messages included ensuring you look after your health and your personal brand as these are the most important elements to ensuring lifelong success. Professional sport is hard to make and even harder to make a living out of, so it is important everyone is planning for something other than a professional sporting career because the statistics on those that make a living from professional sport are less than 1%. So many great messages that the boys, and parents took away from their presence on the night.

Whilst we were very fortunate to have such a high calibre of guest speakers who spoke brilliantly, our purpose was to reflect on our Term 3 sporting seasons and recognize the best athletes from each of our respective Term 3 sports. The following students were awarded trophies on the night:

Basketball

Most Improved – Ethen Tsiamalili

Spirit of Ashgrove – Tom Pfitzner

Most Valuable Player – Sean O’Hara

Tennis

Most Improved – Patrick Newman

Spirit of Ashgrove – Blake Harrold

Most Valuable Player – Kyle Ephraims

Rugby League

Best Back – Lachlan Dudgeon

Best Forward – Jack Condon

Most Valuable Player – Ky Rashleigh

Track and Field

Spirit of Ashgrove – Dylan Turner

Best AIC Performance – Daniel Drew and Tom Prole

Overall Contribution to MCA Track and Field – Carl Martin

We congratulate all the boys who received awards but more importantly express our sincere thanks to our current Year 12 boys who have made significant contributions to our sporting program in their time at the College.

Marist at QLD All Schools Track and Field Championships

Following on from the success of the AIC Track and Field season the team were offered the opportunity to nominate for the QLD All Schools State Titles. After 2 days of high-quality track and field at the QLD State Athletics Facility, the Marist squad had some excellent results from the 15 Years-Open squads over the weekend. Despite a slightly smaller team due to several injuries from AIC there were great performances and a number of national qualifiers.

Medallists and Finalists who were in Top 8 included:

Lee Martin - Won Gold Medal 15 Year Shot Put (15.95m), Bronze in 15 Years Javelin (52.16m-national qualifier)
James Prole - 15 Years 800m Silver Medal 2.02.95, 12th in 15 Years 1500m 4.36.83
Isaac Roach - 15 Years 800m Bronze Medal 2.03.15, 4th in 15 Years 400m (53.55s)
Tom Prole - 17 Years 800m Bronze Medal 1.58.95, 5th in 17 Years 400m (51.45s)
Daniel Drew - 17 Years 110m Hurdles Bronze Medal (15.2s)
Note all medallists receive automatic qualification in their event for the Australian Athletics Championships in April 2022. Well done to the boys listed above.
The middle-distance team continued their good form competing with the best while our throwers also showed they are amongst the elite in the state.

Finalists

Cody Radman - 5th 15 Years Shot Put 14.26m

Sam Brassington - 7th 15 Years Javelin 42.88m

Recent Old Boys (U20)

Macgregor Leavy - 3rd under 20 100m (10.93)

Hamiltyn Burns - 5th under 20 100m (11.16)

Additional Marist competitors at QLD Championships (Timed Finals)

Sasha Sofronoff 13th-800m 16 Years 2.24.89 and 15th-16 Years 200m (25.1)

Jack Lafferty 26th 100m (12.7)

This is a great result with many of the team having been to previous State All Schools Championships while others were experiencing the event for the first time. Regardless of individual results, the experience will hold them all in good stead for season 2022.

Opportunity (10-14 years)

Following on from the State All Schools Track and Field 15yrs-Open Track and Field results, the coaching team encourage all athletes in the 10-14 Years that placed well at AIC to consider nominating for the QLD All Schools Championships on October 30-31 (Entries close 9:00am, Monday October 25). Competing at this level often gives the confidence to build for the following season. If any questions please contact the Primary or Secondary Track and Field Coaches/Coordinators or Mr Rob Martin who can provide details. (Enter at Queensland Athletics (qldathletics.org.au)

AIC Invitational Touch Football Tournament

This Saturday we are taking 8 teams to SLC Playing Fields for the AIC Invitational Touch Football Tournament. Thanks to the following staff who have volunteered their time to provide this opportunity for our students; John Lambourne, James Furminger, Liam Beatty, Tim Sedgwick, Bruce McPhee, Sam Priddis, Kathryn Badini, Simon Price, Melissa Orcher and Ben Webb.

We are entering 2 teams in the following divisions: Primary, Year 7, Year 8-9 and Year 10-11. Boys will be notified at their training session today of final teams for Saturday and training in teams will occur on Thursday afternoon. Boys who are selected and playing at this tournament are to wear the new Marist training shirt rather than have to purchase a numbered touch singlet. Numbered playing shirts aren’t required for this tournament.

AIC Invitational Water Polo Tournament

Date: Sunday 24 October

Venue: Somerville House. Limited parking in the underneath pool car park. Street parking is available but be wary of resident parking signage in streets near the pool. Please note that Sommerville House has a current capacity of 330 so I suggest that only 1 adult attends for the am session, while 2 adults may attend for the pm session. There will be QVA check-in and wear a mask if unable to socially distance.

Convenors: Keith Harron (Iona) and Jordan Sheterline (Water Polo QLD).

First aid: There will be a dedicated lifeguard on duty.

Canteen: There will be a small canteen (snacks, drinks only) in operation (TBC)

Draw: As per below draw with Year 7 and Year 8-9 from 8:00am to 11:00am and Open (no Year 12) from noon to 3:00pm.

Teams and Match Formats: Three levels of competition: Year 7, Year 8-9 and Open (no Year 12).

Year 7 and Year 8/9 is gala type round-robin.
Open is competitive with 2 pools and to eventually play off for places (see draw below). Drawn results will be based on who scored first except open final (draw is duel winners).
Schools will need to provide 2 people for table duty

Team numbers

All games will be seven-a-side (6 field players and a goal-keeper).
Schools may only field a maximum of 13 players in any single game. Need blue and white cap sets

Ball size: Open (size 5), Year 7 and Year 8-9 (size 4)

Rules: Normal water polo rules apply EXCEPT timing and exclusions.

Games will be 2 x 8 mins running time halves with 1-minute half time. NO POSSESSION TIME CLOCKS WILL BE USED BUT THE REFEREE HAS THE DISCRETION TO CALL TIME-WASTING.
Any player EXCLUDED by the referee must swim to the designated exclusion area and then may return to the field of play OR be substituted.

Brutality, disrespect, inappropriate behaviour

The referee will be expected to write an incident report on the game card and the player will automatically be excluded from at least the next game. School may also follow own internal procedures.

Draw

Year 7: Field 1 Somerville House

8:00am: Game 1	Pad v Iona	Table: Iona
8:20am: Game 2	Villa v SLC	Table: Padua
8:40am: Game 3	Ashgrove v Iona	Table: SLC
9:00am: Game 4	Padua v Villa	Table: Ashgrove
9:20am: Game 5	Padua v Ashgrove	Table: Villa
9:40am: Game 6	Iona v St Laurence’s	Table: Ashgrove
10:00am: Game 7	Ashgrove v St Laurence’s	Table: Iona
10:20am: Game 8	Villa v Iona	Table: SLC

Year 8-9: Field 2 Somerville House

8:00am: Game 1	St Peters v Ashgrove	Table: Villa
8:20am: Game 2	Villa v Padua	Table: St Peters
8:40am: Game 3	St Laurence’s v Iona	Table: Padua
9:00am: Game 4	St Peters v Villa	Table: St Laurence’s
9:20am: Game 5	St Laurence’s v Ashgrove	Table: Villa
9:40am: Game 6	Iona v Padua	Table: Ashgrove
10:00am: Game 7	St Peters v St Laurence’s	Table: Iona
10:20am: Game 8	Iona v Villa	Table: St Peters
10:40am: Game 9	Ashgrove v Padua	Table: Iona

Open: Field 1 Somerville House

12:00am: Game 1 Pool A	Ashgrove v Villa	Table: AIC
12:20pm: Game 2 Pool B	Padua v St Peters	Table: AIC
12:40pm: Game 3 Pool A	Iona v Ashgrove	Table: AIC
1:00am: Game 4 Pool B	St Laurences v Padua	Table: AIC
1:20pm: Game 5 Pool A	Villa v Iona	Table: AIC
1:40pm: Game 6 Pool B	St Peters v St Laurences	Table: AIC
2:00pm: Game 7: 3 v 3	3 v 3 each pool	Table: AIC
2:20pm: Game 8: 2 v 2	2 v 2 each pool	Table: AIC
2:40pm: Game 9: 1 v 1	Winner each pool (gold)	Table: AIC

Thanks to the effervescent Ryan Apps who has overseen the Water Polo trials and training over the past few weeks.

Cricket

AIC 2022 Season Trials

Cricket trials will begin for 2022 teams in Eeek 5 of this term on the following dates:

Monday 1 November – Year 9 and 10

Tuesday 2 November – Year 7 and 8

Wednesday 3 November – Year 9 and 10

Thursday 4 November – Year 7 and 8

More information regarding times and location, along with when other year levels will trial will be posted on the College app this week.

Please note students are to trial in the year level they will be in for 2022.

MCA Cricket Academy

The MCA Cricket Academy starts this week. The academy is for students who are currently in Year 7-9 and played in A and B teams this year. All invited students would have received an email with more information regarding the program. Please note, players are only permitted to participate in either the batting or the bowling sessions, not both. Students should attend the session of their main skill or the skill they would like to improve on.

1st XI Trials

A reminder to all students who are trialling for the 1st XI to bring their cricket equipment on Tuesday and Thursday this week. There is poor weather forecast, however, we will aim to train as much as possible. Please keep an eye on the app for changes to 1st XI sessions.

1st XI Coach 2022

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Chris Hyndes as 1st XI Cricket Coach for the upcoming 2022 season. Chris comes to us with a wealth of experience in both coaching and playing. Chris has been coaching at Nudgee College in recent years, where as a student he was their 1st XI captain, winning two Christian Brother’s Cricket week’s and a GPS title. As a player, he represented Qld GPS XI, played rep U19 Far South Coast NSW, first grade for both Ginnenderra West Belconnen (ACT) and Toombul District Cricket Club (QLD). Chris also played 4 seasons in the UK as a semi-professional player which complimented his 20 plus years playing grade cricket in Australia. As a coach, Chris has had 4 years as leading coach of Toombul 3 – 6’s after coaching both senior and junior sides in the UK. We are excited to attract Chris to the College as our 1st XI coach. He will work with Tom Gibson and Corey Lucas in our 1st XI cricket program for our 2022 season.

Volleyball

Week 3
- Full training schedule commences (from Monday 18 October) – schedule is published on College App
- Thursday 21 October– Year 7 development afternoon (3:30pm)
Week 4
- Training schedule on College App continues each week
- Thursday 28 October– Year 7 trials (3:30pm)
Week 7
- Saturday 20 November – Full trial round v ACGS for ALL A to D teams

Please note - Any boy who missed their trial must attend either second round trials or the D team training according to the year they will be in next year. This must be done this week – training and trial times are listed on the Week 3 schedule on the College App. Team lists are on the noticeboard outside the gym.

AFL Jersey purchase 2022

Next year the uniform shop will be selling AFL jerseys for all boys playing AFL to purchase and wear to fixtures throughout the 2022 AIC season. We plan on making the jersey reversible and costs will be conveyed once they come to hand.

Swimming – Mr James Boyce

Over the weekend, we had Angus Bathe and James Leigh compete at Queensland Open Water Championships. Both boys did a fantastic job and should be very proud of their achievements.

Angus Bathe

2nd in Queensland for Under 17 boys 10km
Brisbane Champion for the Under 17 boys 10km

James Leigh

Queensland Champion for the under 14 boys 2.5km
Brisbane Champion in the 14 boys 2.5km

Well done to Angus and James.

We are now entering into Week 3 of Term 4, and it is fantastic to see so many future Marist College Ashgrove Students of 2022 attend training this term. We are slowly building into the season with AIC only 140 Days away. It is not too late to join our training squads; please see the link below to this week’s schedule.

Tennis – Mr Andrew Ward

What a great week we have just had. Although not the biggest turnout for the reintroduction of the “Marist Open Singles Championship” but that did not stop the quality of tennis that was on offer. Our players ranged from Year 7 through to Year 12.

It was quite evident from the start the older boys were not going to get it all their own way. Matches were played in great spirit between the boys and we can see some stars in the making.

The competition this year was run with two round-robin groups with the highest-ranked players moving on to the semi-finals and then the final. We had some very improved players in which we saw Isaac McDonnell really pushing our No.1 Year 7 player Fletcher all through their match. Isaac was holding his own trailing very closely on the scoreboard until an injury forced him to default. It was a great match to play and also see how much you have improved in such a short period of time. The private lessons are really paying off.

In our first semi, we had Liam Webb v Frank Baker with Liam winning through to the final 6-3 6-3. In the second semi, we saw Fletcher Wessling v Lachlan Braithwaite with Lachlan getting the result 4-6 6-1 10-5 in a close match going to a 3rd set tie break.

The scene was set for a showdown between the two boys in some very oppressive heat conditions.

After a tough first set going 7-6 to Lachlan, the heat become too much for Liam unfortunately not being able to continue leaving Lachlan a very-deserved winner of not only the prizes on hand but also having his name engraved on our singles champions trophy and have his name recorded in history as “THE OPEN SINGLES CHAMPION 2021”. Please feel free to congratulate our champion and commend him on his hard work and fantastic win.

From all of us here in MCA Tennis congratulations and well done.

For those of you who missed out, we will be holding the 2022 Championship at the end of Term 2 which will also be part of our lead up and trials for AIC season Term 3. We thank all who attended and look forward to next year’s event.

On a lighter note, it is great to see our family members down utilising the courts under their memberships and helping to prepare our next generation of players here at Marist. Just a reminder that members can access the lights for nighttime play with a charge of only $10.00 per hour. Daytime is free of course. We will be looking at a booking system online for all members.

Our Gate entry system is very close to arrival and once up, we will endeavour to get your swipe card access out to all members. Thank you to all of our new members and we hope you enjoy all the benefits afforded with it.

Our coaching programs are in full swing with many new students which we have welcomed with open arms and we are loving the energy that our students bring each day with their hunger to learn and improve their games.

Term 1, 2022 is not far around the corner and we will be offering squad positions and group lesson bookings so that we can start to lock in our schedule for next year. Again, all those who took up the offer this term will have the same prices afforded to them as a way of thank you from MCA Tennis.

This year we are looking at holding a Christmas Tennis Camp running for 3 days staying 2 nights here at the College to train and have fun and get some bonding time with their hopeful teammates for AIC next season. The camp will be open to all who wish to participate but will have to be capped at 20 students. We will have activities all day with pool sessions and some gym work but also leisure time/downtime too. Dates are yet to be finalised.

We will also be offering a holiday clinic in the new year in January in preparation for a big year ahead.

All dates and prices will be released soon for Holiday Camp and also Holiday Clinic.

Thank you from MCA Tennis. Keep up the good hitting.

Qld Triathlon – Mov3 Program

Triathlon Queensland has started a Mov3 program in Brisbane. Mov3 focuses on developing fundamental motor skills and is based upon the Australian Sports Commission’s Physical Literacy Framework.

Location: Genesis Sport and Aquatic

Dates: 30/10 – 04/12

Every Saturday afternoon

Time: 4:30pm – 5:30pm

Cost: $70.00

What is Mov3?

Mov3 is a fundamental motor skills program based upon the Australian Sports Commission’s Physical Literacy Framework.

Guidance is provided to develop the child’s competency in fundamental movements, such as balance and agility, while also focusing on swimming skills, running technique and bike riding skills.

Delivery of the program is consistent with creating a positive developmental experience that encourages effort, persistence, enjoyment, satisfaction, prolonged engagement with sport and, critically, enhanced self-confidence within and outside of the sporting domain.

The Mov3 program aims to provide the foundational skills required for a range of sports, including Rugby Union, Swimming, Rugby League, Athletes, Basketball, Cricket, Softball, Netball, AFL, Touch Football, any form of Cycling and Triathlon. We hope this provides the opportunity for all in the community to be active.

Here is the link to the website page: Mov3 (triathlon.org.au)

What will you learn?

The team will focus on developing the key fundamental sporting movements highlighted in the Sport Australia Physical Literacy Framework. This will ensure all participants learn basic skills that can be applied to many sports.

Why is Mov3 unique?

Mov3 is reflective of the Sport Australia Physical Literacy Framework. We are committed to delivering a program that promotes a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. Exposing kids to this concept now is the first step to encouraging the lifelong habit of movement and physical activity.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Nat Madden on 07 3369 9600 or via email clubs@qld.triathlon.org.au

VET and Careers News

Mrs Tara Franklin and Mr Peter Gaiter

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