ACC Table Tennis

from Mazenodian 2022

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Year 7 ACC Year 7 Table Tennis was an experience the Division 1 and 2 teams will never forget! Each player was able to improve and make precious memories. These included making friendships and improving at table tennis. In addition, the Division 1 team was able to win the premiership, while the Division 2 team made it to the finals and emerged as runner ups! For the Division 1 team, the Best Team Man was Sadeesha Dahanayake. For the Division 2 team, the Best Team Man was Darcy Jean. Furthermore, the Most Valuable Player for the Division 1 team was Immanuel Mullapudi, while the Division 2 team winner was Sobash Mallawa Arachchige. Lastly, a special thanks to the amazing coaches, Mr Riley and Ms St Ange, none of us could have done it without them. They taught us, supported us, made sure we gave our best, and truly worked tirelessly. Congratulations to both teams for an exceptional season!! Immanuel Mullapudi

Year 8 The Year 8 ACC Table Tennis teams had a great and competitive season. Thank you to Ms Comerford and Mr Clement for their passionate coaching, great enthusiasm and reliable bus driving, which helped spur us on to our victories. Our two Year 8 Mazenod teams this year competed very well. We played with hunger to win, maximum effort and great sportsmanship… mostly. We challenged for the premiership with all our might and, for half of us, we did succeed. Mazenod’s Division 1 was placed in a group with eleven other schools! During this tough group stage, our team managed to secure steady wins, which put us into third position and into the semi finals. Our team travelled to the opposition ground and faced Simonds in a tough match. It was razor thin but sadly we came out on the losing end. However, not all hope was lost for Mazenod, as our Division 2 team had broken into the finals. Previously, Mazenod’s Division 2 team had progressed through the group stages with a record of four wins and only one loss. Now in the final, our underdogs carried the hopes and dreams of the Year 8 cohort to win the prized premiership. They arrived to find a confident St Bernard’s team but with the Mazenod spirit, they showed up big time and won the premiership. With both teams finishing at great stages in the competition, it can truly be said that our two Year 8 ACC teams had a highly impressive and successful season. Minh-Tam Pham

Year 9 Throughout Term 3, a select handful of Year 9 students had the opportunity to represent Mazenod at the ACC Table Tennis competition of 2022. For most of us, this was the first time that we got the chance to represent our school since our previous opportunities got cancelled due to COVID. It was a great experience for all of us, winning all but one game when we had a depleted team, and eventually taking home the ACC championship title for 2022. We thank our coach, Mr Becker, and all of the students who helped partake in the competition. It was a successful tournament, and we hope to be back in that position next year! Joshua Ciamarra

Year 10 After a long three years of waiting, ACC Table Tennis made a huge return with the Year 10 boys. The boys had a fiery spirit to represent their College, training every Monday, playing most lunchtimes knowing we were major competitors for the title. When the season started, we dominated every school we faced and comfortably reached the semi finals, where we versed De La Salle for the second time. It ended in another comfortable win with a scoreline of ten to five. This meant we were in the finals and were going to drive to MSAC the next week to face Parade, who also had a dominant season. It was extremely close with the championship coming down to one deciding game. Both teams were crowding around the table where the two fierce competitors were playing. Nerves could be seen on the faces of both opponents. Both players played an enticing game but unfortunately for us Parade took the win ultimately winning the title eight to seven. We were gutted to lose the final, but we will come back with the same fiery spirit and hopefully bring it home next year.

This experience would not be possible without Ms McDonald who was our guide and made sure we came to training, players such as George who kept our team together and motivated us throughout the whole tournament to push for our best and for all the boys trying their best throughout the season giving it their all for every point. It was a privilege to participate in this tournament. Tomas Jacob

Senior This year the Senior Table Tennis team did an outstanding job making it to the finals with mostly Year 11 students, a few Year 12 students and with Daniel Truong as our Captain. We had a great start to the season by beating Salesian and Emmanuel but fell short to St Bede’s with a nine to six loss. We then brought the winning streak back again, by beating Parade and Whitefriars but we had our second and final loss of the season against De La Salle. We made it to the semi finals but unfortunately we lost eight to seven against Simonds, ending our season. Thank you to all those who participated or were volunteered into playing and representing the College. Big thanks to David Nguyen who was awarded the Most Valuable Player and to our coaches. Jordan Stamatelos