Sport

NEWS

Melton SC Co Sports Captain, Maddy Lister, has been named as Captain of the Western Jets in the new Youth GirlsAFL TAC competition.

Manar Mahfouz, Year 9, recently competed in the Tasmanian Swimming Championships where she finished 3rd and swum a time that qualified her to compete at the National Championships.

Ebony Carter, Year 9, has been selected in the Netball Victoria Diamonds Academy.

Victorian School Sport Blues Award.

Recently at the MCG, Amy Cargill, Yr 9, received a School Sport Victoria Sporting Blue award, the highest award a student can receive in Victorian schools for sporting achievement. She received her award at a luncheon held in the members’ room. It was a high profile gathering of dignitaries, staff, parents and students. One award per 18 official school sports in both primary and secondary were awarded. Historically, a Sporting Blue is identified worldwide as an accolade of sporting excellence. The Deputy Premier, James Merlino, was the guest speaker.

Amy is only the 11th Melton SC person to receive a Blues award since its inception in 1994. Amy recently moved to Queensland, but flew down just for the event.

Morgan Mitchell, athletics, Rio Olympian 400m,
Belinda Hocking, swimming, 3 time Olympian, ex world record holder.
Ahmed Kelly, Paralympian.
Andrew Smith, hockey, Olympian
Lindsay Gaze, basketball Hall of Fame Legend, 7 Olympics
Nicole Livingstone, ex Olympian and Commonwealth Champion, and now Channel 9 commentator was the MC

Rugby League

Rugby League 9's - North/West Region

Senior Girls – played very well but lost all 4 games to Vic Uni, The Grange, Point Cook and Hume Central

Senior Boys – won enough games against Braybrook, Mt. Ridley and Craigieburn to qualify for the Region final and the State final but were disqualified for breaking the competition rules.

Intermediate Girls – defeated Lalor, Hume Central and Gladstone Park. They lost to Mt. Ridley in extra time, but as the top two teams progress, they qualified for the State Final in May.

Intermediate Boys – defeated Gladstone Park, Braybrook and Hume Central, but lost to Mt. Ridley. The 2nd place spot (and therefore a place in the State final) was decided on percentage and unfortunately Point Cook were ahead of us.

Tennis

Intermediate Girls – def Kurunjang 21/3, def Gisborne 24/1, def Sunbury 25/0 and def Sunbury Downs 14/8 to qualify for the Region Final in Geelong

Junior Boys – def Sunbury Downs 16/7, tied with Kurunjang 6/6 but lost to Gisborne 9/15 to finish 2nd.

Western Metropolitan Region Qualifiers

At Geelong Thursday 30 March

Our qualifiers are:

Yr 7 – Chloe Rees (5 events) Jorja Tuttle (3)

Yr 8 – Aleena J. Busttil (3), Shanae Besanko (3), Trinity Skenderis (1), Mateo Bonic (1)

Yr 9 – Manar Malfouz (5)

Yr 10 – Ronan Valsamis-Camilleri (2)

The competition will be very tough with some State and National level swimmers in opposition.

MSC Sport Facebook page

We have a Facebook page dedicated to our Interschool Sport and the Athlete Development Program (ADP) participants. Please have a look and ‘like” us to keep up to date with the many outstanding achievements by our students in sport.

The page is - https://www.facebook.com/meltonscsport/

General Information

Amart Sports - Melton SC has joined the community kickbacks program with Amart Sports in Woodgrove. Every time you make a purchase just mention our school and we will receive 5% of the purchase amount. If you join online you will receive a loyalty and receive discounts etc as well as already having registered our school as your preferred community kickback. We have the same arrangement with REBEL SPORTS and their Season Pass kickback.

Melton Hockey Club - The Melton Hockey club are a very progressive local club who are always looking for more members. They have a wide array of competitions. They run an internal u/8 program: for u/10 the program is called Game On. They also run Hook 2 for ages 5-12. They have a group of competitions for men and women, for all ages, young and even masters level. A social competition is also played. For more information contact Kellie on 0450643826 or check out their webpage – meltonhockeyclub@yahoo.com.au

School Sport Information - All information regarding School Sport information and State team selection trials can be found on the website – www.ssv.vic.edu.au

Information on national events can be found at the Team Vic page on the School Sport Victoria website, www.ssv.vic.edu.au/TeamVic, or the School Sport Australia website, www.schoolsport.edu.au.

Registrations are now open to nominate to trial for a number of sports:

Swimming and Volleyball are currently open.

Their monthly bulletin is sent on the last Tuesday of every month.

You can find all the latest bulletins, on the ebulletins page of the SSV website.

http://www.ssv.vic.edu.au/SiteCollectionImages/Subscribetoebulletin.jpg

Sports Dates

Wednesday 26 April – Swimming – School Sport Victoria State Finals at MSAC

Thursday 27th April – Soccer – Intermediate Girls and Boys, Yr 7 Girls

Tuesday 2nd May – Football – Senior Boys and Girls

Wednesday 3rd May – Volleyball –Region – Intermediate if they qualify

Friday 5 May – Athletics – House Athletics at Melton

Monday 8th May – Volleyball – Region – Seniors if they qualify

Thursday 13th May – Squash – Senior Girls