Sport

Rugby

We had 4 girls in the Victorian NRL u/16 Girls Rugby team The girls are- Akosita Siola’a, Arleah Hunt, Jessica Rastrick, Lea Galu. Malia Lole was named as an emergency. The girls played in Adelaide last weekend at the National Championships and finished 2nd overall – an outstanding performance.

Pierre de Coubertin Presentation

On International Olympic Day, June 23rd, 188 Victorian Senior Secondary School students and State Sport Association athletes were acknowledged with the prestigious Pierre de Coubertin award.

Named after the founder of the Modern Olympic Games, the Pierre de Coubertin Award recognises students who demonstrate academic excellence and sporting prowess whilst exemplifying the Olympic values. Each award recipient must participate in sport and display the Olympic values, in particular, good sportsmanship.

Melbourne’s own Nicole Livingstone OAM was the Emcee for the awards ceremony. Rio Gold Medallist Catherine Skinner OAM presented students with their awards.

The Minister for Sport was represented by Judith Graley MP, the Parliamentary Secretary for Education.

The 2017 recipient is Katie Bibby – our co Sports Captain. Katie has been an outstanding contributor to the whole school sports program, consistently performing at a high level across many sports, namely State level cross country and squash, region level at athletics, tennis and netball.

Katie with Catherine Skinner p- 2017 Olympic Gold Medallist

Katie’s citation read – “ Katie has been an extremely consistent performer across a wide variety of sports throughout her school career. She has made SSV State finals in athletics and cross country most years. She has been part of a team that has won the SSV State title in squash. Katie is our School Sports Captain and a leader in our Athlete Development Program. Katie is able to balance her participation across a number of sports as a player, coach and umpire whilst maintaining a high standard of academic performance.”

Western Region Cross Country

Results:

12/13yrs Girls - Ella Tyson 47th, Eva Lavanda 80th, Chloe Rees 76th,

13yrs Boys – Jarrod Bibby 28th, Bailey Kershaw 84th

14yrs Girls – Trinity Skenderis 24th, Gloria Win 57th Jasmine Kincaid 60th, Kaylee Crees 65th , Aleena Jane Busuttil 54th

14yrs Boys – Cooper Tregear-Danton 12th, Kane Henderson 42nd,

15yrs Girls – Manar Mahfouz 12th, Lexie Leyden 37th

17/20yrs Girls – Katie Bibby 9th, Phoebe Warren dnf,

17/20 Boys – Ricky Frew 25th Paul Bridges 26th

Best results – top 20

Manar Mahfouz qualified for the state final
Katie Bibby missed qualifying for State final by 1 place
Cooper Tregear-Danton also just missed qualifying for the State final

Team Sports

Football:

Yr 7 and 8 Boys

Game 1 – Melton 12-6 def Kurunjang 0-0

Game 2 – Melton 2-0 lost to Staughton 11-3

BEST PLAYERS – Kane Sullivan, Jayden Coutts, Jarrod Bibby, Ethan Sullivan.

Senior Boys

Melton 3-3 lost to Gisborne 11-11. Paul Faoagali 3 goals.

Netball:

Yr 7 and 8 Girls

Yr 7 – def Staughton 14-9, def Bacchus Marsh 12-8 def Kurunjang 23-3 but lost the final to Sunbury 13-21.

Yr 8 – lost to Gisborne 6-40, def Kurunjang 13-3 and lost to Bacchus Marsh 10-15

Soccer:

SENIOR Boys - def Kurunjang 13-0 then def Sunbury in the Division final 5-3 in a terrific game. They qualify for the Region final next term.

SENIOR Girls – def Kurunjang 5-2 but lost the Division final to Sunbury Downs 0-1

Melton SC 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 name is - Melton Secondary College - Sport/Sport Specialism.

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Woolworths Earn and Learn

The annual Woolworths Earn and Learn program is returning. It starts on Wednesday July 26th through to September 19th. If you shop at Woolies it would be appreciated if you could collect and send the stickers to us to collect so that we can continue to restock some of our sporting equipment. We have qualified for approx. $1000-$1500 worth of gear each year of our participation. We appreciate the community support that you have given us and hope that you will all continue this support.

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.

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.