Sports

SSV State Champions!

The Senior Girls Table Tennis team are State Champions!

We are so incredibly proud of this team with their determination over their journey.

In 2022, the team placed third in the state, in 2023 they were runners up, and in 2024 State Champions!

For each school, we needed to play four singles matches (in seeded order) and two doubles matches (any player combination). Brentwood had a solid team with all five team members focused on doing their part.

The team won their pool after defeating Wodonga Senior SC 6-0, Suzanne Cory HS 4-2, and Aitken C 6-0. In the cross over semifinals we played play Glen Waverley SC, who were invited to compete after coming second at EMR to Brentwood.

This was a rematch we did not want to lose, and the Brentwood girls won 4-2!

Our grand final match, to determine the SSV State Champion Team, was against MacRobertson Girls HS. We won 4-2!

It was such a great result for the team. The team will now wear their PE polo with extra pride, with their special embroidery.

Team members – Kristina Dew, Lisa Lau, Lulu Yao, Xiao Xu & Angie Nikolova

Kim Nash

Proud Coach!

Senior Boys Table Tennis

The Brentwood SC Senior Boys Table Tennis team have performed exceptionally well this year. The A team was made up of Year 11 students and they were able to progress through to the Region Competition earlier in Term 1.

They competed at Region earlier this term under the guidance of Dustin Kim (past student) and were runners up to Glen Waverley Secondary College in the finals.

The boys thought their journey was over for the year, however, were granted a spot at the State Finals due to their efforts in the EMR competition.

Dustin Kim was able to join the team again for a great day of competition at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. The boys had some very tough schools in their pool and were able to beat one school but unfortunately were not able to make the semi-finals.

We were so thankful and grateful to Dustin for joining us at the championships and love that a past-student has been able to stay connected with the school community and current students.

I congratulate the boys on their efforts and sportsmanship and look forward to seeing how they go next year in their final year of interschool sport.

Well done!

Sarah Swilks – Teacher Coach

Dustin Kim – Past-student Volunteer

Senior Boys Table Tennis Team:

Ari Rezayazdi

Khang Thai

Satvik Srinivas

Jake Dong

Antonios Plokamakis

Intermediate hockey – Thursday 22nd August

The intermediate girls hockey team had a great day out at the Monash Division competition on Thursday 22nd August at Hawthorn Hockey Club. This fabulous group of girls have never played hockey before, and they improved throughout their 2 matches against Wheeler’s Hill and played very well as a team. We trained for several weeks leading up to the competition and on the day, they came away with one win and one loss. As the scores were tied with Wheelers Hill, it meant that we had to go to a penalty shootout. We selected 5 of our team members to go one on one with the opposition’s goalie and our amazing goalie Sunny Zhao was very aggressive and did a great job saving many of the goals. We came away as winners in the shootout 3 goals to 1. Great work girls! We will now go onto the regional competition on Tuesday 15 October.

PE Footwear Reminder

Dear Parents and Guardians,

This is a reminder that students should be wearing appropriate footwear to PE classes. Students should be wearing sports runners with adequate grip on the bottom of their shoes. PE classes are completed on a wide range of surfaces including, but not limited to, gym floor, asphalt and grass, also in a variety of weather conditions.

Shoes should be worn that allow students to participate safely across all terrain. PE staff make decisions on a daily basis, whether it is safe to complete classes, students need to wear shoes that are appropriate for all scenarios. If shoes are deemed inappropriate, students may be unable to participate. Students should not be wearing street or lifestyle runners to class as these shoes do not provide adequate grip and support.

Please see below images for shoes that are appropriate for PE classes and those that are not appropriate for PE classes.

Kind regards,

Meg Wrench Joseph

Head of Health and Physical Education

Competition Sports Uniform

With interschool sport competitions, some teams must wear sports tops with numbers and special-coloured sports socks. Brentwood provides these tops and socks. However, sometimes students wear these tops/socks home instead of handing them back to the teacher in charge at the end of the day. So, as you spring clean or change your bedroom layout during the term break, keep an eye out for any missing Brentwood Sport Specialised team uniforms. So, drop them off to the main office or the PE staffroom when you return. No questions asked!

We are hoping for Brentwood AFL jumpers, Soccer/Hockey/Volleyball/Basketball numbered tops, and navy long socks to be found and returned!

Kim Nash & Sarah Swilks

Directors of Sport

Please find a photo below for reference:

Brentwood School Sports

Brentwood competes in the School Sport Victoria (SSV) program. We are a successful school due to the commitment of students and staff to the program.

Staff volunteer their time to provide opportunities to the students to get involved.

Students can learn new skills, develop tactical thinking within a competitive environment, meet new friends, build rapport with staff outside the classroom, demonstrate leadership skills through student coaching, display good sportsmanship no matter what the outcome, and most of all students can grow as a person.

Brentwood look the part when we go out to compete. When we arrive at a competition, other schools know exactly who we are; as we arrive as a team and we look like a team. Students wear our sports uniform with pride.

We have a strict uniform policy. If you are part of a Brentwood team you look like a Brentwood student. We wear our sport uniform: Brentwood polo, Brentwood navy shorts, Brentwood navy track pants, Brentwood rugby jumper, Brentwood jacket, Brentwood hat, white socks, and appropriate footwear. We do not wear casual clothing or other teams clothing. We represent Brentwood.

We enter teams into all SSV competitions and compete within the Monash Division.

Our local competition come from Wheelers Hill Secondary College, South Oakleigh College, Wellington Secondary College and John Monash Science School.

Winning teams then progress to the Eastern Metropolitan Region (EMR) round robin competitions, and successful teams from EMR compete at the SSV State Championships.

Communication is via the Compass portal. Consent and payment for events must be completed via compass. Consent must be finalized by 11.59pm two school days prior to the event/excursion. If a student does not have consent and payment is not complete before this time, they will not be permitted to attend. Unfortunately, some students do miss out.

We also like to celebrate student sporting achievement. We would love to hear about your child’s super special milestones and achievements in their chosen sport. A quick email is all that it takes : sports@ms.brentwood.vic.edu.au

I do hope that you encourage your child to try a new sport through the many opportunities at Brentwood to get involved. Even if they do not make a team, they have learnt new skills and developed abilities during the selection trials and trainings.

We also love to have supportive parents attend sporting events.

So feel free to come along and cheer on Brentwood throughout the year.

Kim Nash & Sarah Swilks

2024 Directors of Sport

PE uniform reminders:

Below are some PE uniform reminders:

Years 7 – 9 may wear their PE uniform all day on days in which they have PE. This is made known to students by having GYM1, GYM2, GYM3 etc. for their “room” location. On days where students have Health, they are required to be in their academic uniform.
Year 10 students may only wear PE uniform if they are completing either PE elective (Enhanced PE or Sports Science) on the days their teacher has selected for them to complete their practical classes for the week. Students will be given uniform pass cards from their teacher which will list what days these practical classes are on. Students are to carry these card at all times. If a student is in PE uniform on a day that a practical class is not on or cannot present their card then they will receive a uniform chronicle.
Year 11 and 12 students are to change into and out of their PE uniforms for periods that they have a practical class. If students have PE in period 1 they are allowed to come to school in their PE uniform and will change at the end of this period. If students have PE in period 5 they will need to change at lunch time and are permitted to leave school in their PE uniforms. If students have practical classes in period 2, 3 or 4 then they must be changing in and out of their uniforms during that classtime. If a year 11 or year 12 student comes to class in their PE uniform and they do not have a practical class in that period then they will receive a uniform chronicle.
PE uniform items can be purchased here - https://www.psw.com.au/schools/brentwood-secondary-college.html?p=2

Kind regards,

Meg Wrench Joseph

Head of Health and PE