Inter-school competitions & Sport
Koonung students perform well at the State Chess Tournament
Congratulations to Year 7 & 8 students Henry Jackson, Ben Harding, Dhruv Mehta & James Lonnen, who have been representing the College at chess competitions in recent weeks. Etienne Folliot (Laboratory Technician at Koonung College) remarked that not only did the four boys perform well in the competition, he was also very proud of they way they conducted themselves on the day. Henry, who, along with Ben, qualified for the state final and has provided an overview of the event.
On Thursday 10 October there was a State Chess Tournament held at Kingswood College that Ben Harding and I attended. This was the follow up final to the inter-school tournament which was held last term. In each of these tournaments players are required to play 7 rounds of chess. Each game has varying time limits but is normally around 15 minutes for each player. In third term Ben, Dhruv Mehta, James Lonnen and I played in the qualifying tournament. Unfortunately, Dhruv and James narrowly missed out on making it to the State Finals. To qualify, a player required a score of 4.5. Each game won is one point and a draw gets half a point. Dhruv got a score of 4 and James a score of 3.5. Ben and I were lucky enough to get 5 and 5.5 points and made it to the final. The State Final was a very strong tournament with many schools represented and players from Years 7 -12. Ben ended up on 4.5 points and I finished on 5 points, which put us both in the top 20 Year 7 & 8s for the tournament. Thanks to Etienne Folliot for coming with us to the qualifying tournament. A reminder that Chess Club is held in room 29 every Friday lunchtime. If you are interested in entering the chess tournament next year I would greatly encourage you to come to Chess Club.
Henry Jackson (7D)
Student achievements
Sophie Zarafa (8G) has qualified for the State Track and Field Championships after an excellent performance at the EMR finals. Sophie will be competing in the 14 Years Girls Long Jump and Triple Jump events on Friday 18 October. Well done Sophie!
EMR Track and Field Competition
Congratulations to all 13 Koonung students who competed at EMR Athletics on Friday 11 October at Knox Athletics Centre. The weather conditions were ideal and the standard of competition high. A summary of our competing students’ results is below:
Sophie Zarafa
1st 14 Year Girls Triple Jump, 1st 14 Year Girls Long Jump, 2nd 14 Year Girls 100m,
2nd 14 Year Girls 100m
Nanako Masuda 3rd 17 Year Girls Javelin
Kane Collins 3rd 16 Year Boys Shot Put
Dylan Llewellyn 4th 12-13 Year Boys Long Jump, 6th 12-13 Year Boys 1500m
Mitchell Bacon 4th 14 Year Boys Discus
Elka Sorrenson 5th 12-13 Girls Triple Jump
Sienna Tallariti 5th 12-13 Girls Shot Put
Allen Guo 5th 12-13 Boys 100m
Yuyang Mao 7th 15 Year Boys Shot Put
Keiko Rice 7th 15 Year Girls 1500m
Imogen Allen, Sienna Tallariti, Elka Sorrenson, Emma Boyd 7th 12-13 Year Girls 4 x 100m Relay
Special mention for Harry Sencek who competed in 3 Multi Class events on the day:
2nd 1 2-15 Year Boys Long Jump, 4th 12-15 Year Boys Shot Put, 7th 12-15 Year Boys 100m
All students tried their best and represented their school admirably. Thanks to all the parents that supported on the day. Best of luck to Sophie Zarafa who has qualified in 2 events at the School Sports Victoria State Track and Field Championships on Friday 18 October at Albert Park.
Andrew Mangonis
Supervising Teacher
Senior Girls Cricket Team are State Premiers!
Our Senior Girls Cricket team played an amazing finals series to win the State Championships. Coach Mr Anderson was impressed with the skill level and competitiveness of the team, who arrived at matches prepared and ready to go! The team played really well together to convincingly win the grand final against Catherine Macauley College 188 - 93 runs. One of the many highlights was the standout batting performance from Caitlin Morando who scored 66 not out in the semi-final and also made 95 runs in the grand final. Well done girls!
Mark Anderson
Coach