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BAYSWATER BULLETS LITTLE ATHLETICS CLUB 2007/2008 Annual General Meeting Minutes Saturday 3rd May 2008 at Bayswater South Primary School
Present:
Barton-Smith,
Bole-Brown, Bryant, Dewar, Egan, Elliott, Griffiths, Holdway, Norton, McCourt,
Richardson, Thomas, Thomson, Papst, Guerra, Gill Apologies: Semfel, Lacy, Nolan, Goodger, Maggs, Stephens Meeting Opened:
3:10pm
2006/07 AGM Minutes:
Copies from previous AGM dated 21st April 2007 on table to pick up when
signing in. Passed: Libby Egan Seconded : John Griffiths Business arising out of previous
minutes. – None
Presidents Address: Given by Stephen Egan Passed : Tracey Bryant Seconded: John Griffiths
2006-2007 Report
Presentations: Team
Manager's Report – Read by Alex Thomson Passed : Rob Holdway Seconded: Kath Elliott Treasurer's Report – Read by Emma Shearer
Open Balance as at April 2007 $2274.50 Balance as at April 2008 $2475.47 Passed : Fran Barton-Smith Seconded: Tracey Bryant
Appointment of Auditor for 2007-2008: Auditor
HMH in Doncaster – accepted
Election of 2007-2008 Committee:
Chaired by Dean Barton-Smith
Other Positions:
Ge None Draw of Sports Bag: Donated by Stephen Egan in receiving a $40 Knox City voucher for his article in the Knox Leader 40th Anniversary on the first season of the Knox Centre. This was drawn by John Guerra and won by Erin Holdway.
Cross Country: Meeting Closed: At 3:40pm followed by the Trophy Presentations and a speech by special guest presenters Life Member Ron Papst and Knox City Councillor Adam Gill.
Presidents Report 2007-08
Firstly, a warm welcome to our special guests Ron Papst, a club Life Member whose grandson Troy is currently competing in Cross Country and Cr Adam Gill, our local Ward Councillor. Both of our guests will be helping present the awards a little later. There is a lot of work that goes into running a club and I would like to thank those who helped throughout the season. To all our parents in conducting your official parent duty. Bayswater Bullets came second in the Kathy Hale Supporters Award, which puts our club at the top in supplying the weekly officials needed and helping the Knox Centre in setting up for special event days, working bees and other areas such as letter stuffing night. To Alex & Tracey Thomson as our Club Team Managers who I cannot thank enough for all the work they have put in at the track. The many hours spent weekly at home in keeping the results and PB’s up to date as well as creating the PB results for the website. Especially in keeping everyone informed with the notices and following up on entries for Region and Knox major events. Jenny Thomas in taking the committee minutes as Secretary, distributing flyers at Bayswater Primary School; arranging the twilight BBQ supplies and for picking up the additional items for the Christmas raffle. Also to Mike Thomas as our twilight BBQ cook once again. Emma Shearer in looking after the books as club Treasurer, doing the banking duties, paying the club’s bills, organising the audited report, and helping out at the Bayswater Super Fete stall. Committee Member Fran Barton-Smith in organising our stall at the Bayswater Super Fete last year. In particular, the work she did for our Christmas Raffle. Fran had spent many hours approaching shops in the local area as well as Knox City to have 14 businesses donate items for our Christmas Raffle, which was a fantastic effort. Fran also organised the booking of this hall with the school. Committee Member Tracey Bryant as our Tattslotto fundraising person as well as our Newsletter Editor. I would also like to thank Tracey for all the work she did in organising the Christmas BBQ. Tracey came up with this idea as a way for the families to get to know each other, as we are normally so busy at the track. Rob Holdway as our discus Chief Official who he has just completed his fifth season. Rob is also our club representative on the Knox Centre Competition Committee, which involves attending the Wednesday night monthly meetings at the track. Rob was Bayswater’s only representative at the Knox track “Clean up Day” back in January as well as representing our club in helping set up for our two major events - the Knox Open Twilight and Knox Championship Day. Libby Egan as Bayswater’s representative at the Knox Centre “letter mail out” night last September; for dropping flyers off at Bayswater South and Bayswater West Primary Schools and helping write events on the events board. Clare Egan for also helping write out events as well as the many athletes who did the same in between their events. For our two rostered Canteen duty dates, we had assistance from Sharon Holdway, Melissa Norton, Kate Gerrard, Tricia Richardson, Libby Egan, Doug Nolan, Alex Thomson and Leo Maybus. The latter two also did double shifts to ensure we had parents cover the whole shift.
To everyone that
made cakes or cookies or donated money in lieu and donating items for the
Christmas Raffle and Cake Stall. To Maria Nolan and Leo Maybus who helped on the
stall, to Mike Thomas, Stacey Goodger, Tracey Bryant and Emma Shearer who helped
sell raffle tickets around the ground. A special mention to Joyce Norton,
Cody’s Grandmother who generously made numerous cakes and cookies for us as
well as helping on our stall as well. Thankyou to Stacey Goodger in being our Bunnings BBQ fundraiser Co-Ordinator once again. This included obtaining the permits and liaising with Maroondah City Council as well as Bunnings to ensure all paperwork was in order as well as helping on the day. To Fran Barton-Smith in ordering our Bunnings BBQ meat supplies In addition, Brenda Ammann, Dean Barton-Smith, Rob Holdway, Doug Nolan, Neil Richardson, Emma Shearer, Jenny Thomas, Alex and David Thomson also assisted at various times throughout the day. Little Athletics main focus apart from fitness and having fun is on each athlete continually improving on the own best time or distance. It is very pleasing to see that all Bayswater athletes who have completed the full track & field season all gained at least a Bronze PB medal. The plans we previously had for Bayswater Bullets 40th Anniversary next season will no longer be done at a club level, but at the Knox Centre level. The Local History Grant we obtained 18 months ago is now up in the air. This was after losing our local sports researcher at the Knox Historical Society AGM during a hostile committee takeover, which was disappointing, as we have not received any of the research either done or partially done. I‘m the Chairperson of the Knox Centre’s 40th Anniversary Sub-Committee as well as being the Centre History Co-ordinator. For those coming back next season, we have a few events to make it a special season to remember. The celebrations will be officially kicked off in September by Mayor Cr Jim Penna, in celebrating and recognising the contributions Little Athletics has brought to the Knox area for the children and their families as an activity that involves the whole family. In no other junior sport do you have as many parents joining in with their children by the conducting events. There will be a “Come Back to Knox” family fun day on Saturday afternoon, 22nd November 2008. On this day, each registered child will receive a limited edition commemorative 40th medallion. Other 40th memorabilia items will be available for sale. We have planned a photographic day where all athletes and committees will be photographed as a group in the grandstand. Other events planned will be on the Knox website under the “KLAC 1968-2008” button. The Cross Country season well is underway and there are no fees for those competing in the track & field season. So if you are not doing any other activities over winter, come down one day to try it out. Already we have twelve athletes competing per week including five new athletes joining Bayswater Bullets last month. As I finish this report, I urge those parents coming back next season to please consider coming onto the Bayswater Bullets committee. We only have two nominations so far and require at least six for the season to be run effectively. We meet around 6 times per season for about 2 hours to plan activities such as the season start, cake and raffle stall, Bunnings BBQ and other activities such as today’s presentations. To those that leave us this season, thankyou for your time with us and wish you and your children all the best for their future activities. Stephen
Egan President It’s hard to believe that another Track and Field season has come to an end. Where did the year go? As usual we may still be a small club but our Athletes are nothing short of brilliant, with so many fantastic results we should all be very proud of them all. This season has had some wonderful moments with all Athletes trying their best every week, once again everyone has added many PB’s to their tally. One of the highlights of been a team manager is to see the look on each child’s face when they discover they have obtained yet another PB. It makes it all worth it. We started the season with Relays, Nathan, Emily, Jessica, Alex, Erin, Annie and David all took part this year and the last five made it through to State Level at Olympic Park. Keep in mind that just making it to this level in any competition makes you an instant winner. Alex Barton-Smith came 4th in the 4 x 100m; Erin Holdway came 4th in the 4 x 100m; Annie Egan won a gold medal in the 4 x 200m; and David Thomson brought home a full set of gold, silver and bronze medals. The fantastic thing about Relays is that it’s a team sport and a fun way to make new friends from all the other clubs. For a lot of kids it’s is the highlight of the year. So keep it in mind for the start of next season. Our athletes accomplishment continued throughout the year, Alex, Nathan, Annie, Erin and David all took part at Regional Track and Field, which this year took place at the Knox Track, which made a lot of us parents happy. Annie Egan & Erin Holdway both U/10 girls, and David Thomson U/12 boy all qualified for State Track & Field which was held at Bendigo this year. It was at Regional Track & Field that I experienced one of my personal Highlights of the year. On this day I witnessed the true spirit of Little Athletics even though he didn’t qualify for State this year, Nathan Goodger smashed a few of his PB’s proving that competing against the best in region can really bring out your best. He was overjoyed with his results and had a smile on his face all day; you could just see how excited he was. Keep up the fantastic attitude Nathan and I’m sure you’ll go a long way. Before heading off to the big weekend at State Track & Field, two of our athletes David and Annie made a quick detour to Albury to take part in the ‘State Multi-Event’ competition. It was well worth the long drive as both David & Annie won gold medals making them the best overall athletes in their age group in the state. Once again proving our club may be small but our Athletes accomplishments aren’t. State Track & Field was a lot like last years…..HOT! The weather certainly wasn’t kind, a cool breeze would have been nice, but it didn’t happen. But it didn’t stop our athletes from doing their best. David Thomson came 7th in state with his 60m Hurdles & High Jump, 9th in long jump & 80m hurdles; Erin Holdway came 9th in state with Shot Put & 8th in Discus; And Annie came 9th in the state for the 60m Hurdles, 5th in the 80m hurdles & 800m, and brought home a bronze medal for the 400m. The final big event for the season was Knox Championship Day; we had a really good turn out and some very happy athletes who did extremely well. Annabell Thomas came 4th in Triple Jump & won a silver medal; Tom Richardson won gold, silver & bronze; Nathan Goodger won two silver & two Bronze; Clay Bryant took home two silver & a bronze; Jack Bole-Brown won silver & 2 Bronze; Annie Egan received four gold medals; Erin Holdway took home two gold; Emily Dewar came 4th in the 60m Hurdles; Zac Thomas won a Bronze & came 4th in High jump; and Finally Josh Holdway won three gold, one silver & one bronze. As far as club records went this year the book had to be rewritten yet again. Erin Holdway has broken a club Record, Claire Elliott set two new records, Annie Egan broke three and David Thomson managed to rewrite six of them. Because Josh & Sharnee are Bayswater Bullets First Youth Athletes, they both have the honour of setting all the Youth Athletic records for the Bayswater Bullets. Josh Holdway also set a new Knox Club Youth athletic Record for the Discus & Hammer Throw, while David Thomson set a new Knox Club U/12 Record for the Long Jump. And just to top it all off Annie Egan, David Thomson & Josh Holdway also all won best overall athlete in their Age Groups at the ‘Knox Little Athletic centre’, what a fantastic achievement. Just keep in mind the reason so many of our athletes do so well is the amount of time and effort they put into training. And we are very fortunate that Knox Little Athletics has some of the best coaches around who put in a amazing amount of their own time at no cost to the athletes, a full time table of training times is available at the Knox Web site, and well worth looking into for any athlete at any level. Training actually starts before the next season begins, so keep your eye on the internet for future details. I think the main reason our athletes do so well is because they all have great families standing along side them. So thank-you to all of the mum’s, dads, grandparents and friends that have supported them and the club over this last season. If we didn’t have the support of families we wouldn’t have little athletics. So for all of you who regularly do your duty at the track, canteen & cake stall, not to forget all the other fundraising during the year including Bunning’s & Tattslotto, a very big thank you. And if any of you would like to join the committee now would be a good time as we really need your help. I have been on the committee know for the last two years, and I can personally say I have enjoyed this time immensely and I look forward to the coming years. I would like to quickly thank our president Steve Egan for the extraordinarily good job he does, and not just for our club, he puts in just as much work for the Knox little athletic centre as well. He’s always helping out everywhere and the work he puts into the club internet sites is just mind boggling. We would be lost without him. Steve, thank you We also need to say a special farewell to two of our athlete’s, Josh Holdway & Sharnee Griffiths. This has been their final track & field season with us as Bayswater Bullets, it’s just a fact of life that every child eventually grows up and moves on to bigger and better things. We wish you both the very best for your futures and any future sporting endeavors, you will be missed. As for the rest of you, we hope to see you early next season, but if that seems like a long wait don’t forget that the cross country season has started, and it is a great way to keep in shape for next seasons track and field.
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