Achievements & Results

Illuminate Nextgen Challenge

In the week of Monday 30 July, Gregory B, Arati N, Dinithee B and Ryan S participated in the Illuminate Nextgen Challenge at Footscray City College. These students successfully planned a social enterprise; a business that benefits society. They undertook market research, created a marketing material, planned the financial reports, and pitched their business to a panel of experts. Their business, B-Relax, provides stress relief programs for high school students. B-Relax won the Best Pitch Deck Presentation, Best Marketing Package, Best Trade Display, and Overall Best Business. Congratulations to the students for their efforts!

- Mr Brendan Taig

Sport News & Results

Term 3 has been a busy term for interschool sport we have had a lot of teams competing in the Western Metro competition as well as some State competitions.  Our Basketballers also had their first run of the year. Like is past years Suzanne Cory students have excelled in the racket sports with some great results in badminton, table tennis and squash this term. The students were also able to see the results of their consistent hockey training showing improvement from previous years.  

The results from this term are:

Badminton

The intermediate boys and girls badminton teams set out for the regional finals held in Altona Badminton Centre. Both teams won their matches against other schools comfortably in their respective pool and proceeded to the semi-finals where they faced the runner-up team of the other pool.

The boys faced their sworn nemesis, Braybrook College. While all games were held to a close score line, the boys were knocked out with only 1 out of 6 rubbers won - placing them at 3rd/4th place for the day. The girls team defeated St Albans SC convincingly in their semi-final bout, only to be knocked out by Maribyrnong Sports Academy in the final.

A great result for both teams on the day where everyone played their heart out!

- Mr. James Lam

Senior Girls Badminton

Our Senior girls badminton team competed in the regionals on 31 July. The team – Frances, Anagha, Divya and Sarah (Nguyen) from year 12 and Sneha and Maya from year 11 – fought really hard and worked really well together as a team.

In the first round, the group round, they came second, with convincing wins against Point Cook and Sunbury Downs (both won by 5 games to 1), but a loss to a really solid Belmont side (1-5). That put them through to the semis, where we played Braybrook, our old nemesis. The semi-finals was a hard-fought match. After the singles round we were 3-1 games down, and had to win both doubles by a convincing margin. We played our established doubles pair Divya / Sarah and the new partnership of Sneha / Anagha: both pairs played a fabulous game, winning the semi-final round by 4 points on a 3-3 game draw.

That meant they were through to the final, back against Belmont, who’d beaten us in the group. Divya won her singles and Sneha fought hard in hers, losing 21-19, perhaps the toughest game of the day. Sarah and Frances were beaten in the singles, but in the doubles we had a win from Anagha and Sneha. We didn’t win, but the maturity and confidence the girls showed in this round compared to their first-round game was impressive to see. No state final this year, but the runners-up flag as well as quality play to the end.

A special mention should go to Maya for her team spirit and contribution.

Thanks also to our four outgoing Year 12s, who’ve done the school proud for the past four years: here’s hoping you keep playing and enjoying badminton through your uni days…

- Ms. Helen Bradwell

Basketball

This year our intermediate basketball teams were the most competitive that they have been.  Unfortunately, we just missed out on the finals in both the boys and girls competition. The best players on the day for the girls were Trami, Catherine and Glianna and in the boys Jeffrey, Edward and Sandeepa. A lot of the students in both teams were year 9 students so hopefully they can make the finals next year.

WMR Senior Boys Netball

This year we saw the senior boys netball team qualify for the Western Metro competition, this is the first time this has happened in Suzanne Cory’s history. The boys played well and worked as a team but were simply outsized by their opponents on the day. Ms Green worked hard with the boys to ensure they all knew the rules and could utilise some netball strategy.  Well done boys.

WMR Senior Girls Soccer

The senior girls soccer team coached by Mr Chau progressed to the Western Metro competition.  Although the team looked a little different to the first round line up the girls did really well winning 2/3 games.  I think next year we will see a very strong senior girls soccer teams with our forces from Year 10 and 11 combining, good luck.

Senior Hockey

This year saw a new look Suzanne Cory senior hockey as we ended up entering a senior boys/ mixed team.  Due to SAC commitments some of our year 12 students withdrew from the teams leaving our keen year 11’s with low numbers.  We combined the boys and girls together and wow we showed what we can do. The students were competitive in every game and only lost by narrow margins against Williamstown High and Northern Bay. MSA were too good on the day but our team never gave up even with the score line. I think we learnt from some of the MSA skills and strategies however we certainly outclassed them with sportsmanship and encouragement. Well done everyone.

Table Tennis

Our table tennis teams dominated this year with the senior girls coming second in the Western Metro competition.  Our intermediate teams have both qualified for the Western Metro competition and will compete later in the year. Our table tennis teams trained consistently and hence their domination at the Wyndham level.

State Cross Country

A huge congratulation to Sophia A who competed in the State Cross Country in week 1 this term. Sophia has been continually surprising herself with her results this year in her running. I hope to see her pursue her running as with some consistent training she can.  Sophia was the only student to qualify for the State Cross Country, a massive achievement well done.

Athletics

Last week we had 65 students compete in the Wyndham region athletics across the road at the VU track. The weather couldn’t be any better for a winters day and our students were really keen to compete in every event. There were some outstanding athletes from other schools making qualifying for the Western Metro region competition difficult. We have ~20 students heading to the Western Metro event on September 20th.  We have a few relay teams plus individual athletes in the discus, shot put, long jump, triple jump, high jump and some track events represented at the WMR competition.

Aerosports

This year we have seen the reintroduction of aerosports thanks to the initiative of Mackenzie Pyke and Karmil Nguyen.  The two year 12’s students have competed in 3 competitions this year and have finished either first or second in each event.  The girls have now qualified for the National event on the Gold coast in September. We wish the girls luck.