Melbourne Rebels Visit Marcellin

The flagship team of Victorian Rugby, the Rabo Direct Melbourne Rebels,  visited Marcellin College last Thursday at the venue for the ‘Captain’s Run” before their home game against the Wellington Hurricanes. The entire squad were on site for a pre-training meeting, warm up and then the session followed by a meet and greet with students and staff.

Head coach Tony McGahan was full of praise for the school and the facilities, promising that the team would return in the future as they connect with the wider Victorian community.

The Captain, Scott Higginbotham presented the Principal Mr Mark Murphy, Captain of Rugby Ben, Captain and Vice Captain's of the 1stXV, Evander and Tom with a signed Rebels jersey to commemorate their visit.

Students flocked to Gartner field at lunchtime to witness these professional athletes go through their paces in what was a ...

Congratulations to Owen Rice who has been elected 2021 Sport Captain. The Redden student has been an active member of both the Athletics and Rugby programs in his five years of the college and has also been involved in swimming squad for four of those years. In Athletics, Owen has won several titles in the disciplines of Shot put, Discus and Hammer throw and has competed at the Australian All Schools Championships on three separate occasions. When he isn’t competing for Marcellin he is continuing to develop his passion by representing Doncaster Athletics club.

In winter, Owen swaps his throwing shoes for boots and runs onto the rugby field. New to the sport in year seven, Owen has developed his skills dramatically, culminating with selection in the Victoria in the Under 15 Melbourne Rebels Junior Gold Team last year.  Following an extremely successful event in NSW, he...

With the easing of COVID restrictions to allow contact training at sport, Marcellin will recommence its Winter sport program for 2020. The AGSV, Cross Country Football, Hockey and Soccer competition is planning to have a three week season at the start of term three. VSRU Rugby is planning to have a nine week season in term three. 

The aim of the Sport program this season is to get our students back active and enjoying participation with their peers.

COVID Training Safety Protocols
All participants must adhere to the COVID protocols that are listed below.

Training Squads
Cross Country, Hockey, Soccer – Full squads to return next week
Football – Due to large numbers some year levels squads will be split in two. These reduced squads will train on selected nights with the aim of equity and participation. All training roster information will be shared by TIC of ...

As of March 16, Winter Sport will start for all teams in term two. This may change due to the Colleges response to COVID 19 but I wanted  to share all logistical information with our community to help with planning.

Each individual team coach will be in touch will all players well prior to the season commencing. They will confirm training nights and pre season expectations. Families are encouraged to speak to Year level coaches or TICs if they have questions.

The first round of Cross Country will be on Friday April 17th with Marcellin hosting a twilight event at the college. The 1st XVIII will play their first game on Saturday April 18^th at Mentone Grammar. 1^st Hockey will play Ivanhoe in round one on Thursday April  30^th as part of the AGSV Centenary round and the 1st XV Rugby team will be commencing their season against St Kevins on Saturday May 2^nd .

On this day all other ...

The 2020 House Swim carnival was held on Friday in great conditions at Northcote Swimming Pool. 

The Senior boys started the day with their events running from 9:00am - 11:30am.  The morning session was split into three sections.  One year level moves to the novelty pool were all students are encouraged to participate and support their house.  Points are awarded for the house with the most entrants.  Body boards, pool noodles, water polo balls are all used in modified relays and numerous events with boys looking to get as many house points as possible.  Whilst the novelty events are on a second year level heads out to the Volleyball arena where house teams play four games to determine final rankings.  At the same time the third year level is in the main pool contesting twenty individual events and three relay events.  All year levels rotate through each of the three ...

Semi Finals February 29nd

1st Basketball - Daniel Reid

It was great to have a big home crowd supporting us this week, as we took on Mentone Grammar in the Semi Final, and we were eager to prove to the AGSV why we were undefeated all season, and make it through to the Grand Final. Although we had previously beaten Mentone by 41 during the regular season, we knew that they were not going to be any sort of push over and came with the right mentality from the get go. However Mentone came out even stronger then us, and were able to get an early lead on us, with their great inside finishing. Finishing up the quarter with the scores set at 14-10, Mentone’s way. However after a quick rev up at quarter time, we were able to come out playing our usual game of fast basketball, pushing the floor and getting some good looks in transition. This allowed us to regain the lead, finishing the ...

Australian Schools Basketball Championships

Report by Mr Brett Atley – Teacher in Charge of Basketball

This week Marcellin has embarked on another tilt at the Australian School Championships. Marcellin has teams in the u15 and u17 division 1 competitions and we attempt to emulate the success of both teams winning the Champions Cup, State championship in September. We thank boys who continue to make large sacrifices to represent their College at the highest level and show great culture and camaraderie at such events. We wish the boys well! 

Marist Cricket Carnival

The 2019 Marist Cricket Carnival started on Sunday with a squad of 12 players travelling to Lismore in NSW. Host school St Johns College Woodlawn is 45 minutes south west of Byron Bay and has done a great job in organising the carnival of over 100 players and officials.

The schools that have joined ...