BAYSWATER BULLETS

LITTLE ATHLETICS CLUB

2003/2004 Annual General Meeting Minutes

Sunday 28th March 2004

at Bayswater Park Tennis Club

Present:   Amess, Burman, Clissold, Dennis, Egan, Gabriel, Holdway, Hynes, Jekot, Kenny, Moore, Pecek, Peel, Pritchett, Turnbull, Walton, Zaher & Maxwell

Apologies: None

Meeting Opened:  2:15pm

Minutes: From previous AGM dated 6th April 2003 read out to all in attendance

Passed:  Jane Pritchett         Seconded :           Janette Turnbull 

Business arising out of previous minutes. –  None

Presidents Address: Given by Noel Hynes 

2003-2004 Report Presentations: 

Team Manager's Report – Donna Moore

Passed :            Jim Moore        Seconded:            Maree Amess

Treasurer's Report::  Maree Amess

PRESIDENTS REPORT 2003/2004

It really has been 6 months since we started the 2003/2004 season, but as the saying says: “time flies when you’re having fun.

It has been great to see those Orange/ Black T-Shirts out on the field, yes we can see you all from up in the grandstand Well Done! Donna has had to replenish the stock of stickers on a number of occasions.

The bullets have had the least amount of athletes this season, and it has been the same with the committee. Only the four office bearers have been keeping the “behind the scenes” running.

There are many people I need to thank not only for their support but also their extra efforts throughout the season.

Firstly out Team Officials, Rob, Adam and Stephen….who tirelessly, train and judge all athletes competing in Shot Put.

Secondly our Team Manager, Donna Moore, who is there every week with the sweaty and smelly athletes recording their times and distances in the record book.

To our Secretary and webmaster, Stephen Egan. Stephen is a treasure. He is the backbone of the committee, and keeps us all under control at our meetings. Check out our site at:” www.klac23.org.au/Bayswater “ and see Stephens handywork for yourself.

To our Treasurer, Maree Amess who managed to keep our accounts in good order and the selling of the tattslotto numbers.

To Adam Jekot, for supplying the showbags for the athletes today.

The Pecek family for donating the Nutrimetics gift basket for the club raffle.

Jack and Elise Pritchett’s Grandfather Miro Krsevan who helped out on duty almost every week throughout the season. Without ever being asked to do so.

Chris Marshall for running the cake stall.

Michelle Peel for helping out with the team managers duty each week.

Debbie Polkinghorne for chatting with the president of the Bayswater Tennis Club, and we have the use of the clubhouse today.

And:

Last, but not least, to you the parents for participating in duty throughout the season, working in the canteen, baking cakes for the cake stall, donating goods and services for the raffle and the selling of tickets.

Again I thank all athletes and families for your endless help and commitment during the season, the committee members for their efforts to keep Bayswater Bullets up and running for our children.

In closing:

The future of Bayswater Bullets Little Athletics Club now depends on us, children and adults, to stay on and become involved with the running of the club.

As I mentioned earlier, this year has been a lean one in numbers, in both athletes and committee members. I urge you all to have a think of what you could bring to the club being on the committee. We can function as we did this season, but it will only become harder to keep the bullets flying in future seasons.

I hope everyone enjoyed Little Aths this past season, and hopefully you will return next season.

Thank you.

Noel Hynes

President

Bayswater Bullets 2003/2004

TEAM MANAGERS REPORT 2003/2004

Firstly I would like to say how much I have enjoyed this position it was great working closely with the kids. Sometimes it became a bit hectic but it was great to be able to call on other parents to help out.

  I would like to thank Noel, Stephen, Maree & Michelle for their help. Also I would like to thank Jack and Elise’s grandparents Miro and Lesley for their help in doing duty and Rebecca Peels Aunty Chris for her help on the cake stall and to everyone else thank you for coming along doing your duty and helping out where needed. We have a good bunch of parents and I think that the season went rather well because of everyone’s willingness to pitch in and help out.

  It was great seeing the kids Competing, and behaving quite well.  It was nice to see their happy faces when they were told it was a PB. We had a couple of good performances from different athletes, good to see that some records were broken.

  It is really rewarding to see athletes who were unsure of themselves at the start of the season but become pretty confident by the end of the season.

  I would like to congratulate all the children on their behavior the season ran pretty smoothly without too many dramas.

  I would like to acknowledge Bayswater Bullets and Knox Little athletics continued support for our disabled athlete Brydee Moore, unfortunately Brydee is leaving little aths, as she cannot get any support from VLAA.

  Hopefully for the next season we will see the club numbers increase and that our current athletes will come back and compete again.

  Thank you for giving me the opportunity to work with your kids. I hope I didn’t scare them too much?

  Hopefully everyone enjoyed themselves and that we will see you all back for the 2004/2005 season

Donna Moore

Team Manager

Bayswater Bullets 2003/2004

SPECIAL GUEST: LIFE MEMBER NOEL MAXWELL

We have a special guest today, a Bayswater Little Athletics Committee Member from thirty years ago. Noel joined the Committee in the 1974/75 season when his sons Dean and Andrew joined our club, which had just been going for six years back then. Dean finished Under 12’s in the 1976/77 season and Andrew in the 1977/78 Season. 

Noel was our Team Manager for 3 years, our Club President for 2 years during the 1975/76 and 1976/77 seasons, and at the same time, was our Club Delegate.

A motion was passed on 19th March 1984 to introduce Life Membership to our club. This was after Noel’s time at Bayswater. Noel was made a Life Member on 2nd December 1985 by the Committee, at the time when David Blackwood was President. For some reason, Noel had not been informed he had been made a Life Member.

Earlier this season, while with a friend of Noel’s, who was looking on the internet, they did a search on” Noel Maxwell” and our Life Membership webpage came up. Noel called Stephen Egan and through this contact, Noel is here today to officially receive his Life Member Badge and Certificate, 19 years after being awarded. Noel will present the Age Group Award Trophies today.

There have only been 8 Life Memberships awarded in our Club’s 36 year history, the last being in 1996 and we would like to thank Noel for his time and effort in those early years he was associated with us, and I’m sure he is glad we are still going strong.

BRYDEE MOORE

Our disabled athlete, Under 14 Brydee Moore is sadly leaving our club at the end of this season.  Brydee is one of our most successful athletes within the 36 Year history of the Bayswater Bullets Little Athletics Club in terms of Australian Records as she holds eight Junior  Australian records and now,  as of last month, two Senior Australian Records.

Representing Victoria, Brydee last month competed against Adults in the Telstra A Australian Championships at the Sydney Athletics Centre (Olympic Stadium), Homebush, NSW over the 26^th -29^th February 2004 weekend. This was the Athens Olympics Athletics selection trials.  Not only did Brydee hold her own in the Mixed Seated Wheelchair throwing events, she also beat all the Adult women competing, only beaten by the Men including five times Para Olympians.

Brydee won an “Athletics Australia” Bronze Medal in the Javelin event with an Adults Women’s Australian Record of 9.59m beating the old one by 36mm. The Women’s Adults Shot Put Australian record was 4.29m.  Brydee smashed it with a throw of 5.20m. (The Winner of the 2002 Sydney Olympics won the Gold Medal with 5.21cm). She now has her sights on the World Record of 5.60m. Brydee came fourth in this event, remembering it was only Men who beat her. In the Discus, she threw 9.55m, just short of the  Australian  Record of 9.94m but again, still came fourth. Brydee was a big hit amongst the experienced Para-Olympians up there as she was the youngest Disabled Competitor and she will be a name to surely watch in the future World and Commonwealth Games to come.

Brydee also holds the National records for all three events for the Under 12 Girls F33 when she competed in the 11th National Junior Games for the Disabled held in October 2001 in Brisbane. These Records are listed at: www.sports.org.au/sport/athletic.html 

We are fortunate that the Knox Little Athletics Centre has been very supportive of Disabled Athletes, but sadly, not so for the Victorian Little Athletics Association as they have been a very disappointing let down for Brydee. The VLAA at first seemed supportive to Disabled Athletes including mentions to the fact in their Newsletters and Magazine etc,  but when it came down to putting it into practice, certain areas of the Association left a lot to be desired.

Brydee’s complaints through the Knox Centre to the VLAA of the insensitive and disgraceful treatment she received by some of the Field Event Officials at the 2003 Victorian Little Athletics Championships held at Olympic Park last season was met with that Brydee could not compete again this year because there were “No Facilities”???? She has not even received an apology.

This year, Brydee was allowed to compete at the Regional Championships but could not progress though to State, so she could not see the point of going to Region and finishing there as she wasn't getting anything out of it.

It has been a pleasure having Brydee with us for the past two years and we wish her the very best for her sporting successes in the future.

HODGKINSON – END OF AN ERA!

Under 14 Lori Hodgkinson will be leaving Bayswater Bullets Little Athletics Club this year after being with us for the past 8 years. This will be an end of an era for the Hodgkinson name. Lori is the youngest of the Hodgkinson family and they have been involved with our club at all levels for the past 15 years. Lori was our best Overall Girl in the 1999/00 season and she leaves us breaking a Club Record in the Javelin earlier this season, a record previously held by her sister Lindel.

It all started with Lori’s eldest sister, Peta, with the Under 7’s back in the 1988/89 season. Peta was a Champion State Walker for four consecutive years and represented Victoria in the Under 13 Australian Championships held in Darwin in 1995. Peta still currently holds 6 Club records and finished the Under 15’s in 1997. Peta has also been our Assistant Team Manager and Club Secretary.

Lori’s second oldest sister is also a Club Champion competing in State and National levels. Lindel represented Victoria in the 1997 Under 13 Australian Championships held in Sydney and was elected Captain for our State. Lindel currently still holds the most Club Records with 24 still standing. She finished Under 15’s in 1999. The John Bennett Memorial Trophy, donated by the Bennet family since the 1969/70 season is awarded to the Athlete out of all the KLAC clubs which had the most outstanding performance in a single event during a season. Lindel won this award in the 1997/98 season for her performance in the High Jump at the Victorian State Championships. She was also our Best Overall Girl in 1997/98. Lindel has also been our club Secretary.

Their brother Jarryd competed with our club from the Under 7’s in 1994/95 season through to the Under 11’s in the 1998/99 season favouring the High Jump event.

Their parents have been heavily involved on the committee side of the club with their father, John being our Club President for the 1995/96 and 1996/97 seasons.

Their mother Kerry Hodgkinson is a Club Life Member having joined the Committee in the 1989/90 season and finishing in 1997/98 and has been the Vice President, Team Manager, Knox Executive Member, Club Historian and  on the General Committee. It was Kerry who had the forethought back in 1994 to spend nearly a year’s research in compiling our club’s first 25 years history and is the main source of our club’s webpage content. Her work is on display today.

At the Knox Centre level, Kerry has been the Vice President, Centre Team Manager, Competition Director, Referee, Open Day/Championship Day Co-ordinator and Region Delegate. Kerry also spent 6 years on the Cross Country Committee 1990 to 1996 as the Recorder/Point Scorer and Chairperson for 3 years a piece.  Kerry became a Knox Centre Life Member in 1998 and for the past 5 years was involved at the VLAA Regional level just recently finishing as the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Secretary.

The Committee would like to thank all the Hodgkinson family for everything they have done for our club over the past fifteen years and to let future members know of their contribution both on the track and behind the scenes

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