Sport Matters

Matters

Volleyball

Congratulations to Girls Volleyball A who recently won the Senior EISM Premiership.

Girls Volleyball A – EISM Grand Final Winners

Badminton

Congratulations to Mixed Badminton B who recently won the Senior EISM Premiership.

Mixed Badminton B – EISM Grand Final Winners

Congratulations to the following Senior EISM Sport teams who finished as runners up in their Grand Finals

Boys Football

Girls Football

Mixed Badminton A

EISM Cross Country Carnival

On Wednesday 6 September Tintern Grammar competed in the annual EISM Cross Country Carnival at Ruffey Lake Park, Doncaster. On a very windy, but otherwise perfect day for cross country running, Tintern Grammar students competed to the best of their ability against other schools in Division 2. The 3km course is challenging due to the number and gradient of hills throughout the course. Our students achieved some excellent individual and team results on the day.

Congratulations to the following students who finished on the podium.

U/13 Girls

Weylen Truong 1^st

Zara Brand-Starkey 2^nd

U/14 Girls

Avie Lee 1^st

Naomi De La Pierre 3^rd

U/15 Boys

Dash Clarke 2^nd

U/15 Girls

Amelie Scherer 1^st

Elisabeth Ng 3^rd

U/16 Girls

Millie Blank 1^st

Tintern Grammar won the following age groups:

Girls:

U/13

U/14

U/15

U/16

Boys:

U/15

Tintern was the overall girls’ winners for Division 2

Tintern was the overall winner for Division 2 (Lowest Score Wins)

1^st Tintern Grammar 505 Points

2^nd Mt Scopus 545 Points

3^rd Kilvington 651 Points

4^th Kingswood 708 Points

5^th Oxley 777 Points

6^th Bialik 927 Points

7^th Plenty Valley 1,190 Points

Thank you to Jess Crundall, Sheryl Jurey, Trine Ord and Sam Prime for their assistance.

National Cross Country

We congratulate Year 9 student Amelie Scherer who competed in the National Cross Country Championships in Canberra last weekend, as part of Team Victoria.

Team Victoria won their age group category overall for Under 16 girls with some incredibly strong performances. Personally, Amelie improved her ranking in the Vic Team by 4 places giving her a Top 10 State result. Amelie was really happy with her performance holding a fabulous time on the difficult course to a top 3 of all participants (in under 16 category). We are excited for Amelie and look forward to hearing about her future competition successes.

Swimming

Harry Luo recently competed in the 3 day 2023 Victorian Age Short Course Championships held at MSAC. He made a big improvement on his swimming this year by making 4 finals including winning a Bronze medal in Breaststoke. His results were:

100 Breaststroke 3rd

200 IM 9th

100 IM 7th

200 Breaststroke 5th

Snow Sports

The Victorian Interscshools Snowsports Championships were held at Mt Buller this year. The conditions were challenging due to poor snow coverage but our Tintern team competed with tremendous camaraderie and team spirit. It was wonderful to see the older members cheering on and encouraging our younger ones. We had two students from our Junior School; Lucas Luo and Isabella Jabbour and our secondary team consisted of Lily and Matthew Wilby, Donovan and Lucia Cockerell, Alexander Jabbour, Aemon Trollope and Leo Tieu. Lucas was not only our youngest competitor, in Year 2 but he was also our only team member on downhill skis this year, with all the other athletes on snowboards and Matthew on cross country skis.

We had tremendous success with Donovan, Lucia, Lily Matthew, Leo all qualifying for the National events but unfortunately the event had to be cancelled due to the lack of snow.

Leo achieved great success in his first ever Junior FIS race and then his first NZ AUS Cup, as well as gaining a silver medal in the Snowboard Slopestyle.

We have another snowsports Olympian in the making in Matthew Wilby. He has been very busy with the following results:

Victorian XC Championships – U18 male
Sprint – 1km – 2nd
Distance – 2.5km – 2nd
Victorian Biathlon Championships -U18 male
Sprint – 7.5km – 4th
Distance – 12.5km – 3rd
Victorian Interschools – Div 2 – male
Classic – 3km – 1st (by 57 seconds!) – Koomerang Trophy

Matthew is also currently in 4th position for Junior Olympics (biathlon) to be held in Korea, January 2024. Unfortunately, the remaining two selection races could not be held due to lack of snow. He missed out on selection by less than 0.5%.