Koonung swimmers bring home the medals

On Thursday 4 March, 33 students across all year levels attended the Division Swimming Competition at Aquarena Doncaster. The students, although a little chilly at first, thoroughly enjoyed the day and had many success’ in the pool. Sen Li and I were so impressed with their efforts as well as their sportsmanship poolside, where they spent the day watching and cheering on, not just Koonung students, but all competitors. Congratulations to Jowdy Moh, Jet Cheung, Bridget Dods, James Hu, Ava Booth, Cora Davis, Keira Tait, Michael Teo, Charlotte McVie, Justin Bao, Jack Brennan, Dylan Bee, Matilda Will & Joelle Yau who will be heading off to compete in the EMR event next Tuesday 23 March. Good luck to all competitors as you continue to represent and make Koonung very proud. Special congratulations to Jowdy Moh, Keira Tait, Michael Teo and Cora Davis who were all awarded the Age Group Champion in the Division event. What an amazing achievement!

Congratulations and good luck to the Senior Girls Netball, Senior Girls Tennis and Year 8 Girls Softball who have all progressed through to EMR in their respective sports.

House Cross Country

Koonung’s House Cross Country is running next Wednesday 24th March in period 5 at Elgar Park. Students will meet their period 5 teachers for roll marking and will then walk to the venue with their class. The event is compulsory for Years 7-10 students and optional for Years 11-12 students (VCE PE students are required to attend as part of their course). Any Year 11-12 student who wishes to attend must sign up via the google form link on Compass Newsfeed. Competing students may wear their PE uniform for the whole day on Wednesday and are encouraged to get into the house spirit and wear a t-shirt in their house colour! More information can be found on Compass Newsfeed and the Compass Event. Any further questions please email Sam Prosenak at sport@koonung.vic.edu.au

Sam Prosenak

Interschool Sport/Carnivals Coordinator & Humanities Teacher

EMR Swimming finals – 23 March

Mr Dunn and Mr Kimonides were delighted to join Koonung students and some parents at Ringwood Aquatic Centre on Tuesday 23 March for the swimming finals. All schools in the Eastern Region were represented so it was a very competitive day. The Koonung swim team competed in 13 events.

Congratulations to all students who were involved:

Kion Afkari (10A), Judy Ahmed (8F), Ava Booth (10A), Jet Cheung (7D), Cora Davis (10B), Bridget Dods (8D), James Hu (8D), Jowdy Moh, (7D), Keira Tait (10F), Michael Teo (9B), Tilly Will (8H), Joelle Yau (7C), Dylan Bee (7I), Justin Bao (7C), Charlotte McVie (8D), Jack Brennan (7F)

Highlights

Kiera Tate was one of the stars of the program winning all her events – Gold! Gold! Gold! Kiera will now go onto State Finals.

Women 50 Fly
Women 50 Free,
Women 100 Free
Women 50 Backstroke

Judy Ahmed also starred, winning Under 13. Judy will now go on to State Finals

Gold 50m Fly in a new EMR record,
Gold 200 Freestyle and a
Bronze in the 100m fly.

Jowdy Moh silver in the 12-13 age group breastroke event.

Justin, Jack, Dylan & Jet – silver in the Under 12-13 200 freestyle relay

Stephen Kimonides

Enrolment Officer

Senior Girls and Boys Volleyball

Twenty three keen senior volleyballers went out to Dandenong Volleyball centre to represent Koonung SC in the Whitehorse division competition. Many of them had not played the game for many years but were happy to compete on the day. All were enthusiastic, encouraging towards their peers and developed in their skill level and team work as the games progressed and represented the school admirably.

In sport it is not all about winning to be successful and this group of students had a lot of laughs and fun despite the results on the day. It was a pleasure to take them on the day. Hopefully next year (as all were Year 11 students) they can win more than one set from their ten tight matches.

Trevor vanden Driesen and Sen Li

Accompanying Teachers

Senior Girls Tennis

Congratulations to Hema, Millicent, Phoebe and Keiko for representing the college at the Eastern Zone tennis competition on Friday 26 March. The girls gave it their best however unfortunately we did not progress through to the next stage. Well played team 😊

Michael Oaten (team coach)

Director of Learning: Learning Enhancement

Health & Physical Education Teacher

Designated Teacher- OoHC & Koorie Students

School Sports Victoria are now live streaming events

The Victorian School Sports Awards are being live streamed this Friday 26 March 2021.

All the details can be found on this page of the SSV website: https://www.ssv.vic.edu.au/Pages/VictorianSchoolSportsAwards.aspx.

Sending this link on to your school community, families and friends would be great to assist in getting the word out.

We also have four more live stream events. Football (Soccer) Premier League Grand Final, and State Swimming Championships. There are plenty more to come throughout the rest of the year.

All the live stream details will be available via this link: watch.SSVtv.live

Interschool Sport at Koonung

Welcome back to another great year of sport at Koonung. We are very excited to be able to send teams out after a long break in 2020. A few reminders for Interschool Sport:

Check Compass regularly for information about team sign-ups.
Please ensure payment and consent is provided by the due date (at least 3 days prior to the event, otherwise it will result in the student being unable to attend the event)
If students decide to pull out of the event before the day, they MUST let either the teacher coaching the team OR Miss Prosenak know ASAP so that we can find another student as a replacement. If not, the team may not have enough players and be unable to go. Simply leaving your payment/consent unattended on Compass is not enough. This helps us to plan or amend bus bookings, staffing and costs for the day.

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