Melton Mail

Rugby Academy


Alicia Tutogi – REACH Scholarship

The MSC Rugby Academy and Academy Movement are proud to announce Alicia Tavita as the first recipient of our REACH scholarship program. Alicia currently plays club rugby for Melton Rugby Union Club and works extremely hard at demonstrating our REACH values of Resilience, Engagement, Attitude, Character and Humility on and off the field. Alicia a Year 9 Rugby Academy student who is pursuing a possible career as a physiotherapist or PE teacher whilst also hoping to play professional rugby for the Rebels Super W team and international rugby one day. This scholarship offers hard working career-focussed students up to $500 per school year to cover rugby related expenses as well as offering mentoring and opportunities to help the student in pursuing the career of their choice. 

 

Congratulations

We would like to acknowledge and congratulate the following students for their selection in various state sides.

 

Rugby VIC U16 Girls State team

Alicia Tavita, Angelina Tokanovic, Nelly Hunt, Lourdez Sakaria, Amelia Tuionetoa, Tarneisha, Iliseva Sovou, Seini Kalavi, Tarniesha Brun

 

Rugby VIC U14 Boys State team

Nakauvadra Lam

 

NRL VIC U15 Schoolboys Team 

Parish Hunt

 

NRL VIC U18 Schoolboys Team 

Nelson Solo

Siaosi Sasa

I.J Ioane

 

Nelson and I.J will be travelling to Perth to play in the ‘Possible v Probables’ selection for the state squad as a curtain raiser to the NRL State of Origin II this Sunday, 2 July. 

Best of luck to the both of you. This is an outstanding achievement. 

 

U16 NRL State Final

Melton Secondary College students participated in the Under 16’s NRL 9 a-side State Finals after successfully qualifying at the Western regionals earlier in the Term. The Women’s team got off to a great start beating Craigieburn to win their way through to the State Final. Despite being down on troops due to injuries the girls showed tremendous heart and pride in the school playing the majority of the game with only 8 people narrowly losing 10-0. They finished 2nd in the state.

 

The Boys team got off to a slow start narrowly losing to Narre Warren South P-12 College 14-12 in wet conditions and a 14 all draw with cross town rivals Staughton College they had some comprehensive wins over Craigieburn Secondary College and Westall Secondary College to reach the final. Coming up against Narre Warren South P-12 College who had defeated us in the pool games the boys showed an enormous effort to work as a team and on the back of some physical defence and exciting ball play including 3 runaway tries they took out the State Title 28-6. All students represented the school in fantastic fashion, demonstrating great sportsmanship. A massive thanks and shout out to Ms Jocelyn Gilbert for driving the bus and extra support on the day.

 

U18 State Final

On Thursday the 9th of June students from Melton Secondary College participated in the NRL VIC 9 a-side state finals.

The under 18’s Girls team were down on players but managed to put in an amazing effort beating Tarneit 26-12 in the first game. In the second team substitutions from the Tarneit side led to a 12-4 victory and due to a number of injuries our girls couldn’t participate in a 3rd game. They showed enormous heart and some wonderful skill to compete in both games and were very deserving of the State Title.

Our boys team started the day with a hard-fought contest against Tarneit, but with a nice balance of flair and structure they proved too strong for Tarneit winning their first game 26-14. They played Narre Warren in the final pool match and demonstrated some bruising defence to keep the opposition scoreless and qualify for the final. Against Tarneit in the State Final the boys team played with only 2 subs but proved too strong for their rivals running out winners and State Champions 28 points to 10.

All students representing MSC played with excellent sportsmanship and in good spirits. NRL VIC will be attending MSC to present the school with the state title later in the year. 

 

Term 3 – Upcoming events

Looking ahead to the start of a new term we are enthused and excited to be entering a number of events including but not limited to;

  • State Rugby 7’s Finals Wednesday 20th July (Under 14’s & Under 16’s Boys & Girls)
  • Rebel Shield 5 week Tournament for Under 16 Girls (10 aside) & Boys (15 aside) starting Wednesday 3rd of August and continuing weekly until the 31st August
  • NRL Cameron Smith Shield Qualifiers Under 14’s Thursday 4th August
  • NRL Cameron Munster Shield Qualifiers Under 16’s Thursday 11th August

Training 

Training will continue on Monday and Friday afternoons, after school starting at 3:20pm – 4:30pm students are reminded to listen for announcements and due to limited available spaces this can change with weather forecasts.

Tim Condon and Matthew McMullen