SPORT NEWS
YEAR 7 GIRLS SUPER 8s CRICKET – STATE FINALS
Congratulations to our Year 7 Girls Super 8s cricket team who participated in the SSV State Finals on Tuesday 27 November. On the day the girls participated in three matches against Bairnsdale SC, Springside West SC, and traditional rivals Balwyn HS.
In the City v Country Derby in Round 1, the girls from Bairnsdale were too strong with the bat as they coasted to an easy victory. However, the girls bounced back smashing Springside West SC and Balwyn around the park to finish the day with two wins and 3rd place in the State.
Well done to all the girls in the team, and special credit to our team leaders Casandra Joseph and Aspen Lehmann.
Chris Hudd
Coach
TABLE TENNIS
SENIOR MIXED TABLE TENNIS
Congratulations to the Senior Mixed Table Tennis Team who became Kingston Champions on Monday 7 May 2018.
The next round, the Southern Metropolitan Region Finals, was held on Monday 6 August at the Dandenong Table Tennis Centre.
The following Senior Students Lucas Catherall, Ashley Hunter, Tae-Seong Kim, Andrew Wang, Wei Qi Xie and Ashleigh Hoffman defeated Nossal High School four matches to two in the Preliminary Final to reach the Regional Finals.
In the Regional Finals, they defeated Frankston Secondary College four matches to two and Mornington Secondary College six matches to nil to reach the Final.
In the Final they played against a strong Melbourne High Senior Team where they unfortunately lost five matches to one.
Congratulations to these students being Runners-Up in the Southern Metropolitan Zone.
A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY
Two of these boys, Tae-Seong Kim and Wei Qi Xie have been playing Table Tennis every year since they were in Year 7.
Every year the two boys have competed in the Southern Metropolitan Region Finals.
YEAR 8 BOYS TABLE TENNIS
Congratulations to the following Year 8 Boys Haruku Nishikawa, Kevin Feng, Zong Yu Li, and Aaron Zachariah who became Kingston Champions at the tournament that was held on Friday 14 September at the Dandenong Table Tennis Centre.
They defeated Bentleigh Secondary College, Mordialloc Secondary College, Sandringham Secondary College and Brighton Secondary College winning six matches to nil in all their games.
In the Southern Metropolitan Region Finals held on Tuesday 30 October the following boys, Zong Yu Li, Kevin Feng, Aaron Zachariah, Marco Guo and Andrew Seamer defeated Kambrya College five matches to one in the Preliminary Final to reach the Regional Finals.
In the Regional Finals, they defeated Frankston Secondary College six matches to nil and Mornington Secondary College four matches to two to reach the Final against Glen Eira Secondary College where the boys also won four matches to nil.
Congratulations to these boys for being Southern Metropolitan Zone Champions.
They will be representing McKinnon in the Table Tennis State Final on Friday 30 November at MSAC.
YEAR 7 BOYS TABLE TENNIS
Congratulations to the following Year 7 Boys Kanato Sato, Kar Wei Kwong, Ashton Eikelis, Ryan Kaminsky and Shuban Balamurugan for becoming Kingston Champions at the tournament held on Sunday 18 September at the Dandenong Table Tennis Centre.
In the Southern Metropolitan Region Finals held on Tuesday 30 October, the Year 7 Boys defeated Gleneagles Secondary College by the narrowest of margins.
Both schools won three matches each so it came down to games won. The boys won 11 games to 10 games in the Preliminary Final so they progressed to the Regional Finals.
In the Regional Finals, they defeated Frankston Secondary College five matches to one and Mornington Secondary College five matches to one to reach the Final against Yavneh College where the boys also won four matches to two.
Congratulations to these boys for becoming Southern Metropolitan Zone Champions!
They will be representing McKinnon in the Table Tennis State Final on Friday 30 November at MSAC.
Ray Braniska and Deon Weingarten
Coaches
MCKINNON SPORTS LEADERSHIP AWARD
MSLA is an elective designed to give students a basic understanding of sports leadership and enable them to progress further in areas of leadership. This elective consists of both theory and practical elements and involves visits to local primary schools and assisting with Year 7 and 8 sport where we have the opportunity to test out our newly developed skills.
Before we start refereeing matches or run activities for the primary school kids, each student has to complete two online courses: Community Coaching General Principles and Community Officiating General Principles. Once completed we get the opportunity to coach and officiate. In the weeks leading up, my teacher Mr King gave demonstrations and ran example warm ups and skill drills. We learnt handy tips on how to control a group of kids, give instructions and how to efficiently organise teams.
After learning the skills of sports leadership, we took on the challenge of Year 8 sport, specifically, myself and Jordan assisted Mr Shaw and Mr Jhoomun with Boys Soccer for three consecutive Fridays. We both conducted warm ups and ran drills before refereeing the inter school matches. If we weren't coaching or officiating matches, we would be at Valkstone Primary School running fundamental motor skill activities for a Grade 1 class. This was a valuable experience and a great opportunity to grow our leadership skills.
Our major assessment task was to put together a short video of our time during MSLA, and reflect on how we went coaching and refereeing. This included what went well and what we can improve on. Overall MSLA was a very rewarding experience and grew my confidence in officiating and coaching. MSLA is ideal for students who are looking for a challenge and would like to improve their ability to organise, plan, prepare and become a leader in interesting and exciting activities.
Liam Ayres
Year 9 Student
YEAR 8 GIRLS TENNIS
On Thursday 22 November, the Year 8 Girls (as School Sport Victoria Regional Champions), set off to play in the State Finals against schools from across the state. We were down to the last eight with our champion team of Joanna Lee, Georgia Foran, Surina Chakravorty, Lisa Liu and Sophie Willis.
Initially we had a slow start but we quickly found our rhythm. Against the first school in our pool - Mary MacKillop, Leongatha we had a hard time but then we confidently paved a path that would take us to the Semi-Finals by beating St Joseph’s Horsham and Heathmont. As pool winners we played University High School. It was a nail biting game in the Semi-Finals. We drew so close with them with even sets and even games. This meant we had to play a decider to determine whether we rose or fell. One game all ... two one down ... it was a fierce battle for the match, with determined looks of gladiators our warriors lost yet another game, resulting in puddles of tears on the green (synthetic grass). Now we had lost. There was nothing else to do but shake hands, hang heads and walk away contemplating our defeat. This time we lost and came 3rd in the State but ... “we’ll get ‘em next time for sure ….”
Thank you to Mrs Hooper for her support and assistance from when we began in Term 1 through to our State Final in Term 4 and to the Assistant Coach Sam Bajracharya, who gave us great advice at training and at the Finals.
Go McK!
Sophie Willis (Year 8 Student) &
Sam Bajracharya (Year 9 Student & Assistant Coach)