BAYSWATER BULLETS

LITTLE ATHLETICS CLUB

2004/2005 Annual General Meeting Minutes

Saturday 2nd April 2005

at Bayswater Park Tennis Club

Present:   Amess, Barton-Smith, Bishop, Butcher, Bryant, Clissold, Egan, Holdway, Hummel, Jekot, Kenny, Moore, Pecek, Thomas, Walton

Apologies: Kerry Semfel (Hodgkinson)

Meeting Opened:  3:05pm

Minutes: From previous AGM dated 28th March 2004 read out to all in attendance

Passed:  Donna Kenny         Seconded :           Libby Egan 

Business arising out of previous minutes. –  None

Presidents Address: Given by Jeff Kenny 

2004-2005 Report Presentations: 

Team Manager's Report – Donna Moore

Passed :            Kerry Walton        Seconded:   Chris Walton

Treasurer's Report::  Maree Amess

PRESIDENTS REPORT 2004/2005

I still remember our first committee meeting this year when our last years President’s children decided they would not do athletics this season, so there wasn’t many options but myself to take on the Presidency, and it has been made very easy with special help from Stephen, Donna, Maree and Chris

It has been great to see the results for the year in which we won the Kathy Hale shield, which is the result of all our parents who did their share of duty.

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

Firstly our Team Officials, Rob, Adam ….for running the Shot Put.

Secondly our Team Manager, Donna Moore, who does a magnificent job recording the athletes times and distances in the record book.

To our Secretary and website organiser, Stephen Egan. Stephen is a ripper. He certainly is the backbone of the committee, with all his info and research and extra duty he does, it makes my job very easy. 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.

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

The Clissold family for the hand made Father Christmas craft doll for the Club raffle. Merren Clissold and all the parents for running the cake stall. The Jekot family for the AMF Showbags at today’s Presentation.

Stephen Egan for organising the Bayswater Tennis Clubhouse for our Presentation day.

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: I would like to congratulate all the Trophy winners on an excellent season and hope everyone enjoyed the year we had and will be back next season.

We are also desperate for more committee members to spread the workload.

Thank you.

Jeff Kenny

President

Bayswater Bullets 2004/2005

TEAM MANAGERS REPORT 2004/2005

Hi everyone. I would like to say that we have had another successful year at little A’s. I would like to thank all the kids who have done a terrific job, it was great to see the athletes start the season all excited and wanting to have a great time.

To all the athletes I would like to say that you were great and it was terrific being able to share your triumphs with you. This year our athletes did exceptionally well, not only in regular competition but also in Region and Knox championships.

 I would like to thank all the parents for their hard work and dedication in helping with our duty days, canteen and raffles.

Because of your hard work we were able to win the Kathy Hale award, which is a great honour for the club, also, the money we receive from this award will, help our club purchase new equipment that is needed to keep our club running successfully.

I would like to say that once again I have enjoyed my position as Team Manager, as it is a good and rewarding job. I love being able to talk to the kids and share their happiness with them. The kids just love it when they see that they have gotten another PB.

To Stephen, Marie, Estera, and Jeff thank you for your help and dedication to making sure our club was successful, also to our wonderful parents who were always willing to lend a hand when needed

I hope to see all of the kids back next season, fit and ready to compete again.

Enjoy your break.

Donna Moore

Team Manager

Bayswater Bullets 2004/2005

SPECIAL GUEST: DEAN BARTON-SMITH

	The ultimate dream of any athlete is to represent their country in the Olympic Games. Our Special Guest today is Dean Barton-Smith, an Australian Olympian, Commonwealth and Deaflympics Games competitor who is the father of Bayswater Bullets athlete, U/7 Alexander Barton-Smith. In the1992 Barcelona Olympic Games,  Dean competed in his specialist event -  the Decathlon; regarded as a first for a Deaf person in Australia to compete in the Olympics.  The Decathlon is the most gruelling of all athletics events – with ten Track & Field events competed over two days for the title of the best all round athlete. He also represented Australia in the 1990 Auckland and the 1994 Victoria (Canada) Commonwealth Games, again, in the Decathlon.   In the Deaflympics, which are held every four years that began in Paris in 1924 under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee, Dean has competed numerous times starting with the 1985 Los Angeles games, followed by the 1989 Christchurch and 1993 Bulgaria Deaflympics, winning 3 Gold Medals, 2 Silver and a Bronze. He currently holds the World Deaf Record for the Javelin and Decathlon, which still stands since 1989. After 10 years of retirement from International Sport, Dean made a comeback to compete in the 20th Summer Deaflympics Games held here in Melbourne from 5th -16th January 2005 where elite athletes from 101 countries took part in the second oldest multi-sport and cultural festival in the world. Dean was honoured by being selected as joint Australian Team Captain. His comeback had been sensational. He won Australia's first medal with a Silver in the Shot Put, and with much publicity in the media. He also had a very commendable 4th place in the Discus and finished the games with another Silver Medal in the Javelin to add to his medal tally. Throughout the Deaflympics, Dean only had one morning off from Australian Team Village, and that was to come down to Little Athletics to do his duty at the Discus rink in picking up and returning the thrown discus. He also brought his winning Silver medals, which the club and children greatly appreciated. Dean is an inspiration that deafness need not be a disability by what he has achieved in his sporting life, as well as in business where he is a Senior Executive of a National Telecommunications company. In education, he has also competed a Masters Degree. Dean is married to Fran and they also have a daughter Zoe who we hope will some day follow her big brother Alexander into Little Athletics.
Dean Barton-Smith
Silver Medals from the 2005 Melbourne Deaflympics
Dean in the Australian Team Uniform

WINNER - KATHY HALE CLUB AWARD PERPETUAL SHIELD!

“The Parent Duty Club Award”

	Daragh, Clare, Briony and Team Manager Donna holding the award with Fran in the background	Bayswater Bullets Winner Season 2004/05

Bayswater Bullets wins the inaugural Kathy Hale Club Award for season 2004/05!

Every parent or carer within the Knox Centre has a responsibility to make a Saturday morning or a Friday night program work.

This is so an effective program can be run to encourage our kids to come back every week, to participate and enjoy themselves, every time they compete, regardless of their ability. The emphasis on achieving there best time or distance.

This can only happen if there are sufficient parents on duty.  When there is not enough, some events are cancelled which only deprives our kids of opportunities of obtaining potential PB’s, Age Group Award points, or broken records not being recognised. Any program running way beyond the normal finishing time is only due to some parents skipping their duty responsibility.

The inaugural Kathy Hale Club Award, (previously known as the Club Supporters Award) is awarded to the best Club within the Knox Centre as recognition whose parents/carers regularly contribute their time to ensure the efficient running of the Little Athletics Program.

This is where our club has excelled! Because of your efforts in constantly doing the required parent duty, we have won this award!

The Bayswater Bullets Committee would like to thank each and every one of you for your support this season to make this award possible.

This season’s Parent Duty contribution and attitude has been the best in years! Special thanks also to those who volunteered to do duty beyond normal requirements, such as when extra volunteers were requested over the PA.

In season 2005/06 starting from Registration Day, the Shield will be rotated between this season’s families on a fortnightly basis so every family will get a turn of displaying it at home as recognition of your Parent Duty support. 

Trevor Billlingham – RIP

This season cannot pass without a special mention of Trevor Billingham.

Who is Trevor Billinghham? It is because of Trevor our kids are competing in Little Athletics today. Nowhere else in the world is there such a program for children’s athletics.

Sadly, Trevor passed away peacefully in Geelong on Friday 28^th January 2005, the day before our Knox Twilight Open Day.

Back in October 1963, three young boys turned up at a Senior Athletics Meet in Geelong and asked if they could compete. Trevor told these boys they were too young and could not compete. The disappointment in the faces of these boys left a lasting impression in Trevor’s mind.

Trevor then developed the idea of a Saturday morning competition for children. Despite the opposition from the Athletic community, he forged ahead and on the first Saturday of October 1964, 30 young children turned up at Landy Field, Geelong to take part in the very first Little Athletics competition.

In these formative years, it took the form of sprints up to 100m with the fundamental idea that children were graded on abilities and encouraged to achieve a personal best performance each week. Distance and field events were added as numbers grew.

From this simple beginning, athletics for boys and girls under 12 grew at a phenomenal rate and it was not long before Trevor was asked to setup competitions at other venues across the state and eventually across Australia.

Knox Little Athletics started from an initial meeting called by Cr Ehnholm, then the Knox Shire President. In an article in the Knox local paper on 21st August 1968, it stated the first Shire of Knox Little Athletics Association meeting got away to a good start when over 200 parents attended.

This resulted in a further meeting at the Shire offices on 30th September 1968 to officially inaugurate the Knox Little Athletics Centre and form clubs based on the schools within the shire. (Knox did not become a City until 1969) The Knox Centre thus became the 23rd centre in the Victorian Little Athletics Association, five years after that first meet at Landy Park, Geelong.

Bayswater Bullets Little Athletics Club, then known at Bayswater Little Athletics Club was one of these founding clubs within the Knox Centre. The first season started at the old Boronia High School oval on a grass track on 2^nd November 1968, with age groups from Under 8 to Under 12 years old.

So after 37 years of competition for Bayswater Bullets, we owe our gratitude to Trevor Billingham as the founding father of the concept of Little Athletics, which still continues as strongly today as it did way back in the late 1960’s.

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