New in 2021: Senior Sport

In 2021 ACS is introducing some changes to the senior sport program. We are opening up the fixtures to allow for more flexible arrangements. What this means is that we will build fixtures around students’ sport choices giving, more students their first sport choice as much as possible.

For example, we have been able to add two more girls volleyball, one girls tennis, three boys basketball and boys table tennis competitions based on the current demand for summer sport. In the upcoming winter season, we have added an extra girls netball, girls table tennis, boys volleyball and mixed badminton competitions. Our intention is to give as many students as possible the opportunity to represent their school.

We have received positive feedback so far and look forward to evaluating the changes as the seasons roll out. It is our commitment to continually evaluate our programs and modify them to serve the best interest of all students.

Welcome to ACS Sport 2021

On behalf of our member schools, we would like to wish everyone a very happy new year! We hope the start of Term has gone smoothly for all, and we look forward to seeing our students return to ACS sport in the coming weeks.

Round 1 of the Summer season kicks off with Year 7 & 8 sport next Tuesday 16th February, Seniors on Wednesday 17th and Year 9’s on Thursday 18th February.

Dates can be found in the calendar section of the website, and fixtures, results and ladders will be updated regularly.

ACS Cross Country Invitational Wrap Up

All involved in ACS were pleased to provide the opportunity for the ACS student community to come together and celebrate one more time in 2020. On what could only be described as a perfect day – beautiful, sunny and no wind – our five member schools came together at Westbourne Grammar School to partake in a Cross-Country Invitational.

The event began with our host school’s Welcome to Country, before our Year 7 Boys and then Year 7 Girls took off for the first races of the day. With each wave of runners – including several Year 12’s who had returned to compete for their school one last time – we saw plenty of endurance, determination and above all, unwavering school spirit and comradery.

Cross country is an event that allows our athletes to shine year after year and this year we celebrate the outstanding achievements of Caden Murray from Loyola College. In Year 7 Caden finished in 5th place but that wasn’t good enough for him so for the following year he trained hard, really hard, and won setting a new course record in 2016 for Year 8 and also won the following year with another course record when in Year 9. He won every year from Year 8 to this year when in Year 12, a magnificent achievement. We congratulate Caden on his wonderful accomplishment showing us that hard work really does pay off.

Thank Westbourne Grammar School for hosting this wonderful event. We congratulate all competitors who ran on the day, and we look forward to coming together again in 2021.

RESULTS

Year 7 Boys TIME
1 Harvey M Westbourne 0:11:09.1
2 Lucca C Overnewton 0:11:14.4
3 John G St Leonard’s 0:11:41.8
Year 7 Girls
1 Chelsea P Westbourne 0:13:00.7
2 Danielle C St Michael’s 0:13:09.9
3 Teagan D St Leonard’s 0:13:29.1
Year 8 Boys
1 Zaine P St Leonard’s 0:10:43.6
2 Sam E Westbourne 0:11:18.0
3 Cody W Westbourne 0:11:29.3
Year 8 Girls
1 Halle H Overnewton 0:12:45.7
2 Emily M St Michael’s 0:13:15.6
3 Hannah C St Leonard’s 0:13:21.1
Year 9 Boys
1 Austin B Westbourne 0:14:15.0
2 Marcus G Loyola 0:15:34.7
3 Archie E St Michael’s 0:15:58.0
Year 9 Girls
1 Chloe P St Michael’s 0:16:30.4
2 Lily T Westbourne 0:16:59.2
3 Tiffany P Westbourne 0:18:13.7
Year 10 Boys
1 Charlie M St Leonard’s 0:13:04.1
2 Ned G St Leonard’s 0:14:12.0
3 Dylan F Loyola 0:14:16.7
Year 10 Girls
1 Zoe R St Leonard’s 0:17:13.0
2 Liana T Westbourne 0:17:21.8
3 Anna C St Michael’s 0:18:50.9
Year 11 Boys
1 Luke A St Leonard’s 0:12:33.3
2 Jackson M Westbourne 0:13:50.2
3 Farhan I Westbourne 0:14:04.6
Year 11 Girls
1 Grace T St Michael’s 0:16:30.9
2 Ruby O St Leonard’s 0:17:21.8
3 Airlie S St Michael’s 0:18:20.3
Year 12 Boys
1 Caden M Loyola 0:12:05.7
2 Isaac Z Westbourne 0:14:32.0
3 Aiden T Westbourne 0:14:49.6
Year 12 Girls
1 Nicola B St Michael’s 0:21:49.5
2 Lisette A St Michael’s 0:21:49.9
3 Gabriela M Westbourne 0:25:08.0
Five-peat success for Caden Murray

ACS Update 20 July 2020

We're all in this together

The image above from our 2020 ACS Swimming Carnival shows this group of boys displaying mateship and celebrating the many years of fierce and friendly competition together and how much they were looking forward to next year’s event. In this spirit of camaraderie, we look forward to a resumption of ACS sport as soon as it is safe to do so.

For now, the return to ACS sport in Term 3 has been postponed until further announcements from the Victorian State Government, where we will continue to follow the advice from the Victorian Education Department in planning a resumption of sports events. We understand the importance of sport to our students and will consider an opportunity to resume a modified program once it is safe to do so.

Our ACS Chess and ACS Public Speaking events will be held online in August and we are thrilled to make these events possible.

ACS Public Speaking online Monday 17 August 2020

ACS Chess online Friday 21 August 2020 

We wish all members of the ACS community well and look forward to when we can safely resume participation in our sporting activities together.

2019 ACS Wrap Up and Farewell Thomas Carr College

The Year 7, 8 and 9 Summer Grand Finals signal the end of another wonderful year of ACS Sport.

Congratulations to all the students and coaches who have dedicated themselves throughout the year and have made the finals. It is a great achievement to make a grand final and not everyone gets the opportunity to play in one. It’s time to celebrate your achievements and goals; whether it’s getting fit and playing sport with your friends, being active and social, developing your sporting skills or if you have leadership ambitions or to win a grand final – we hope you have enjoyed your sporting experience this year.

Well done to all students who have competed and congratulations to the Premiership teams for 2019.

Farewell Thomas Carr College

The ACS would like to acknowledge the wonderful contribution of Thomas Carr College since the College joined the ACS in 2003. When Thomas Carr joined, they brought a new level of competition and spirit of sport which greatly enhanced the ACS program – a young school, with determined and proud students, who took to the ACS program with great enthusiasm.

Thomas Carr College will leave the ACS at the end of 2019 and after 17 years of competition, we would like to thank all at the College for their unwavering values of fair play and respect for all, determination and eagerness. Thank you to the students, Coaches and in particular, the Head of Sport; Margie White and Sports Administrator; Samantha Winch for their tireless work in supporting the values and endeavours of the ACS program in bringing diverse sporting opportunities for all students.

Thank you for the memories Thomas Carr College,

we wish you all the best for the future.

AFLW Draft News

The ACS would like to congratulate current Year 12 Loyola student, Sarah Sansonetti, who was selected by Richmond at Pick 40 in the AFLW Draft on Tuesday 22nd October.

Sarah has played for the Northern Knights Girls team since its inception three years ago, and was recently awarded ‘Best on Ground’ at the Herald Sun Shield Division 2 Final.

Well done Sarah – we look forward to seeing you play in the yellow and black!