Snowsports
The week beginning Monday 19 August saw the start of the 2024 Mogul Ski World Victorian Interschool Championships.
We had three new skiers join our team for the first time this year, Lucas Jiang, Michael Mak and David Xu. Also competing were our two Junior School students, Isabella Jabbour and Lucas Luo. Our regular snowboarding boys put in a great effort again, Donavan Cockerell, Aemon Trollope and Alexander Jabbour, and our snowboarding girls Lucia Cockerell and Lily Wilby did us proud.
Matthew Wilby had already received a fabulous podium finish, placing 2nd in the Cross-Country event held earlier in the season.
The conditions were challenging again this year with poor snow cover and very low visibility for most of the week but every one of our athletes did their very best and had fun. A special mention should be made for David Xu who competed in the moguls event for the first time. This is a challenging event that involves being judged on a large jump at the end of the challenging course.
Four of our students made it through to the Australian Championships again this year, Lucia, Donovan, Matthew and Lily. This is a tremendous achievement as only the top students in their events are invited to compete in the Nationals at Perisher.
Recently at Perisher, Year 8 student Jess Davies competed in the SA Children’s Championship. We were thrilled to hear that Jess was runner up in the Under 16 Slalom event. What a wonderful achievement.
Kathryn Brentwood | Snowsports Coordinator
Badminton
We congratulate our Senior Boys Badminton team who won the EISM Badminton Grand Final this week! What a great team effort well done!
Soccer
We congratulate Year 9 student James Svigos who made his debut for the Port Melbourne Sharks in the National Premier League (NPL) Soccer, against Avondale FC on Sunday 18 August. The NPL is the top soccer division in Victoria, and James is the youngest player in the club’s history and indeed the youngest player in the NPL’s history. Congratulations to James on this achievement, and we look forward to hearing more about James’ soccer achievements in the future.
Swimming
We congratulate Year 8 student Weylen Truong, who competed to qualify for the 2024 Victorian Age Short Course State Championships in swimming. Weylen competed in 11 individual events, plus freestyle relay team A and medley relay. She achieved lots of personal bests and one gold medal.
Netball
We congratulate Year 7 student Harry Stansfield who has been selected to join the Under 12 Victorian Boys Netball Team. Harry has been playing netball for a number of years, and currently plays domestically for Trinity Netball Club, representative netball for the Melbourne East Netball Association (MENA) and the MENA boys team in the Junior M-League competition in Parkville.
Harry was recently presented with his team uniform by four of the current Australian Kelpie players and he was introduced as the team’s ‘pocket rocket’ which is a great description of him.
The National Tournament runs from Sunday 8 September – Friday 13 September at the State Netball Centre in Parkville and we wish Harry well.
Wheelchair basketball
Following on from Brady Cochrane’s performance at the Nationals, he has now been selected in the 20 man Australian under 23 training squad for 2025 Worlds.
Brady will go to Queensland in September and train with the squad, and from there the final team will be picked to go to Thailand in November to compete in the first of the qualifying games. Brady is only 16 and by far the youngest player, and we are so proud of what he has achieved already, but also for what awaits him in the future.
Cheerleading
Congratulations to Year 9 student Zara Maitland and her All Star Cheerleading team from Melbourne Cheer Academy who flew to England in the July school holidays to compete in the Future Cheer Internationals, Europe’s largest cheerleading competition. Zara’s club was the first Australian club to participate in the competition and her team ‘Mystics’ placed 2nd in a tough division of 13 teams. It was exciting in the lead up to the competition as the team was featured on Channel 7s morning show Sunrise.
EISM Tennis
Recently five Tintern students: Emma Cooke, Emily Stokes, James Winduss, Jack Taggert and Ryan Jayarathna competed in the EISM Tennis Tournament. In extremely blustery conditions at the Notting Hill / Pinewood Tennis Club, the students played 3-4 sets in a Round Robin format during the day. The students represented Tintern Grammar proudly, trying their best whilst being fair and respectful to their competitors. Special mention to Ryan, who was Runner Up in the Boys’ competition.
Ashley Viney | Head of Sport
