Inter-School AFL

The schedule for Interschool AFL has been jam packed over the past few months, with our Junior, Intermediate and Senior teams fielding 8 teams in total. This is the largest number of AFL participants we have ever had, continuing to follow the statewide trend of girls’ participation in AFL.

Our Senior team lost the Division Grand Final to a very talented SEDA team, all of who play (or are trying out for) a TAC Cup side. Our students fought hard throughout the first half but ran out of legs against a very experienced SEDA team.

Our Intermediate team won their Division Final very easily, and then won 3 out of 3 Regional matches to get the chance to play off in the Regional Grand Final against Gladstone Park. The star-studded team, lead by Issy Pritchard, fought hard against an equally talented Gladstone Park team and unfortunately came up 5 points short. Having made the State Finals in their previous 2 years, the students were understandable disappointed, but they knew the game was extremely close for the whole game and any time could easily have won.

The Junior team, made up of a lot of Year 7’s and 8’s who have never played with each other won their Regional Grand Final, beating Whittlesea SC by 7 goals in a very one sided match. They have been coached by Georgia Marsland (Yr12), Alicia Myers and Alice McGinty (both Yr10) and have never looked like losing a game up until now. Their next two matches will be the State Quarter and Semi Finals, played in freezing Ballarat next week. We wish them all the best as they take on the best schools from the Western Metropolitan and Country Region.

MGC Weightlifting Team

Last Thursday afternoon 9 members of the MGC Weightlifting Club went to their very first competition which happened to be the Powerlifting Australia Championships. When we walked in and saw rows of chairs facing a stage with lights and a barbell it’s safe to say we didn’t know what we had gotten ourselves into. Each girl had a turn at doing 3 back squats, 3 bench presses and 3 deadlifts on the stage. Going up for our first lift all of us were terrified and unsure what to expect but coming off the stage after our last lift we felt strong from our lift and invincible from the roar of the crowd and the smiles and cheers from our mates when we got back to them.

We would like to thank our coaches Gav, Leasa and Callum for pushing us to be our best; and an even bigger thank you to our teachers Ms Shaw and Mr Beck for not only making all of this possible but for helping us figure out how strong we really are.

-Annie Coleman and Ingrid Perkins

You can watch the MGC Weightlifting team in action in the video below!

Squat is from 6min to 29min

Bench press is from 1hr and 8min to 1hr and 34min

Deadlift is from 2hr and 15min to 2hr and 37min

State Cross Country

Congratulations to all participants in the 2018 State Cross Country Championships. MGC had representatives in each age group and all runners ran exceptionally. A special mention to Year 12 students; Emily Mizis, Zara Guss and Annie Coleman who have represented Melbourne Girls’ College throughout their whole time at Melbourne Girls’ College and made up the U17-21 team who came second.

U13 Results

Chloe Kamberis 63rd

U14 Results

Overall Team: 4th

Maide Spark 9th

Abi Newman 38th

Marcella Souter 39th

Emily Mackie 56th

Bethany Zmak 68th

U15 Results

Olivia Mitchell 53rd

U16 Results

Iris Webb 10th

Coco Knowles 47th

U17-21 Results

Overall Team: 2nd

Emily Mizis 4th

Florence Webb 41st

Abby Jensen 57th

Molly Sharrock 59th

Annie Coleman 60th

Victorian U15 Lacrosse Team

Congratulations to Mim Suares-Jury 7M1 and Tara Gilmartin 8A on their selection in the U15 Victorian Lacrosse Team for 2018. Mim and Tara will be competing in the Australian Championships in Melbourne over the school holidays and we wish them well!

School Sport Victoria TeamVic U17 Soccer Team

Congratulations to Cassie Carman 11L1 on her selection in the Victorian School Sports U17 Soccer team for 2018. Cassie will be competing in the Australian Schools Championships later this month – well done and good luck!!

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