Achievements

Darcy Connell

Congratulations to Darcy Connell who participated in the 2022 Victorian Country Swimming.

Darcy won gold in the 50m Freestyle with a time of 26.99, just 0.20 seconds off the National Time. He also won silver in the 50m Butterfly with a time of 29.17 seconds.

Darcy has now qualified for the Victorian Country Meet in Ballarat, with the following events:

100m Freestyle
100m Butterfly
100m Backstroke
100m Breaststroke
100m IM

Cooper Belsham

Well done to Cooper who made the Division 1 Interleague Team for Southeast Juniors.

Ayla Grbic

Congratulations to Ayla who was selected for the Under 15 State Volleyball Team as well as being named our June Athlete of the Month.

Mitchell Hauxwell-Te Paa

Former Lowanna College Sports Academy student, Mitchell Hauxwell-Te Paa, recently graduated from Real Salt Lake Academy in The United States as the Dux of the school. He had interest from 5 different basketball colleges across the USA at the division 2 and 3 level and recently signed to Sierra College in Sacramento, California. We were lucky enough to have Mitch visit on Wednesday and pass on his knowledge and skills to our students!

Riley Morehu

Congratulations to Riley Morehu who represented Victoria in the National Under 16 Basketball Championships.

Addison Howe

Well done to Addison who was appointed captain of the SSV Under 15 AFL girls side playing at the National Championships.

Logan Troughton

Congratulations to Logan who represented and captained the Gippsland Under 18 Soccer Team at the Victorian Country Champs in Geelong.

Athlete of the Month

The Athlete of the Month for June is Ayla Grbic and Addison Howe for July.

Ayla Grbic

Ayla was chosen as our athlete of the month as she was selected for the Under 15 State Volleyball Team.

Addison Howe

Addison was selected for athlete of the month as she was appointed captain of the SSV Under 15 AFL girls side playing at the National Championships.

Well done to both girls!

3 on 3 Basketball

Last month both our Sports Academy students and Sport and Recreation students in conjunction with Gippsland United, created and ran the very first 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament. We had 49 teams enter ranging from Drouin through to Lakes Entrance. Our students did a terrific job of umpiring, scoring, and facilitating the day. A big congratulations to St Michael’s Heyfield Primary School for winning the boys competition and Newborough East Primary School for winning the girls competition.

Big thanks to Gippsland United for their support in making this event happen.

AFLX

For the second time, we will be running the AFLX event in conjunction with Hawthorn Football Club (AFL) and AFL Gippsland. This event was a huge success last year.

Many of our students will have roles on the day including umpiring, scoring, and facilitating grounds.

We would love for you to pass on information to any primary schools you think would like to be part of the day and encourage them to contact the College on 5127 9200.

Feel free to come down and see the day in actions and the terrific job our students do in running the day.

Coach News

Allan Chandler

Our Academy Director and AFL Coach has been very busy over the last few weeks being an assistant coach with the Vic Country under 16s AFL team. They played games against Vic Metro, SA and WA traveling to Gold Coast and Adelaide in the second week of the holidays.

Ramayer Gourley

Congratulations to our Head Netball Coach, Ramayer Gourley, who has been selected as part of the Collingwood Magpies Netball ANC Team this year and will compete at Nationals. Well done Ramayer- we can't wait to see you smash it!

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Issue 3 · 29 Jul 2022

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