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ForewordWe are currently in our 41st season having started in 1968. During the 25th season we were lucky that some of our committee members had the foresight to record what they could from old newspaper reports, Knox Centre records, ex club athletes, parents and other sources to compile a loose leaf binder book on the history of our club up to that time (1992/93 season). The original is held by the author and club Life Member Kerry Hodgkinson. Most of the historical content on these pages are from this book. Please also see Some Recollections webpage for items taken from Knox LAC, Bayswater Bullets Committee minutes and club newsletters. If any ex club members have any additional historical information not covered, could you please contact us by clicking on the "Contacts" button above I have added some of my memories with details from local newspapers on the Knox Centre website about its beginnings which can be seen at: www.klac23.org.au/memories.htm The first stage of our history project is the "Little Athletics - The Early History" has now been posted on our website HERE! by Stephen Egan
Bayswater Bullets 40 Year History Computer DVD
Introduction(written in 1992) The reason for writing this book was to compile a history of the Bayswater Little Athletics Club from its humble beginnings in 1968 thru the following 25 years noting the changes that occurred, to see who our athletes were and their achievements, there parents and their contribution to the club over the years. This book was the idea of myself and Janet Caulfield and would not have been possible if not for the help of the people listed below: Many thanks go to...... Bruce Unthank (Fairpark LAC) - for the structure of this book Janet Caulfield - for helping me wade thru all the paperwork for info John Hodgkinson - for his patience while I was so absorbed with this book BLAC Committee - allowing me to do the book Noel Rasti (President KLAC) - for obtaining information & guiding me Esma Harrington - for spending an afternoon with me & relating earlier history Isobel Addicoat - for desperately trying to remember all the kids names from those early days By Kerry Hodgkinson ( in 1992 ) In the Beginning......The idea of Trevor Billingham's "Little Athletics" started on Saturday 3rd October 1964 on a Geelong oval with a small group of children doing 50 and 100 metre runs. The Knox Centre started in 1968, "arousing more public enthusiasm than almost any other youth movement", with 10 clubs, Bayswater being one of these. Our first season was at Boronia High School, Tormore Road where the dedication of parents would mow and mark out the track on a Friday night. The second season was the move to Chandler Park, no grass mowing but 5,000 metres of track to mark out each week. 1978, ten years later on - the move to an unfinished Knox Park. From these humble beginnings, 3 tracks later, greatly improved facilities achieved by the dedication of parents and athletes alike, we are still a successful club, quarter of a century later.... By Kerry Hodgkinson ( in 1992 ) Bayswater Uniforms
1982/83 to 1983/84 Season - Orange T-Shirt / Black Shorts
1992/93 to 1999/2000 Season - Fluoro Orange T-Shirt with Black Sleeves & Black sidebands with "Bayswater Bullets" logo on back with Black Shorts. The T-Shirt was designed by Rodney & Naomi Earsman.
Bayswater Bullets Club Banners
The Early YearsThe Knox Little Athletics Centre started with great enthusiasm by the Knox Shire, local schools, parents, the Victorian Egg Board (who were the Little Aths sponsors) and the Victorian Little Athletics Association, just four years after the formation of the first ever Little Athletics Centre - Geelong. Little Athletics is a concept, unique only to Australia. An initial meeting was first called in the old Shire offices in Selman Ave, Ferntree Gully by Cr Ehnholm, then the Knox Shire President. In an article in the Knox local paper on 21st August 1968, it stated the Shire of Knox Little Athletics Association got away to a good start when over 200 parents attended. This resulted in a further meetings at the Shire offices during September and on 30th September 1968, it officially inaugurate the Knox Little Athletics Centre and formed 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.
1968/69 Season Established in 1968, Bayswater is one of the foundation clubs of the Knox Centre and this first season had at least 38 athletes (obtained from local newspaper results). The original Club Affiliation form can be seen here. Apart from Bayswater, the other foundation clubs were Boronia West, Dorset, Fairpark, Knoxfield, Rangeview, St Johns, St Josephs, Studfield and Wantirna. Today, only seven of these clubs survive, with an eighth "The Fields" made up from the merging of the Studfield and Eastfield teams. The first season was held at the old Boronia High School sports field opposite the Knox Leisure Centre in Tormore Road, Boronia, which today is a housing estate. The season commenced on 2nd November 1968 and was officially opened by
the Knox Shire Mayor Cr Wally Tew. This was the first weekend after the
completion of the1968 Mexico Olympics,
and the children were already
familiar with the unusual named throwing and jumping field events from watching
the Olympic highlights on Black and White TV. (Colour TV was still 6 years away) The running track consisted of a 200m lap grass track and a separate 100m straight grass track with age groups from Under 8 to Under 12. Just two weeks later, the Knox Centre was in danger of having nowhere to hold their track meets. The Boronia High School Advisory Council and some Councillors on the Knox Shire were bickering over who will pay the mowing and toilet cleaning costs for the Saturday morning competition. This was resolved by the Knox Centre, with parents doing it themselves. They mowed and marked out the track on Friday evenings for the Saturday morning competitions for the rest of the season. The Knox Centre competed for the first time ever as a team at the Ringwood Highland Games, which was held at Jubilee Park on Sat, 1st March 1969. This festival had Scottish traditional dancing and events such as “Tossing the Caber” but also had a limited number of junior athletics events. The Knox Centre selected their best athletes to competed against the best athletes invited from the Box Hill, Springvale and Nunawading Little Athletics Centres. Knox was the winning Centre of the day despite very strong competition from Box Hill. Winning Bayswater athletes representing Knox were Girls U/9 Linda Faull with a Gold Medal in the High Jump and a Silver in the Discus, Girls U/12 Lee France with a Silver Medal in the 220 yards and a Bronze in the Discus. Boys U/11 Bruce Beaton won a Bronze medal in the 880 yards. Boys U/11 Mark Watycha won a Bronze Medal in the Discus and Boys U/12 Glen Mackwell also won a Bronze in the Shot Put.
The Bayswater team did very well in this first track and field season as they came second in the Club Shield, Bruce Beaton came second in the Champion Boys Shield and Lee France came Second in the Champion Girls Shield.
From another article in the Knox local paper on 14th May 1969 regarding the up coming KLAC First Annual Meeting "The high standard of results obtained in the first season of Little Athletics was reflected in the recent school athletic sports where many records were broken. As an example, an under 12 competitor from Bayswater Little Athletics Club, entered the Open Mile in the High School sports, and won easily in competition with boys of 16 and 17 years." This person was Glenn Mackwell.
The first Cross Country winter season commenced on 24th May 1969 under the supervision of Mr Geoff Warren, a former Empire Games middle distance runner. It was held on alternate Saturdays, at the one location which is now the Softball Fields on the corner of Gilbert Park and Ferntree Gully Roads, Knoxfield. It was used as cattle paddocks back then and was a very boggy field and hard going when wet, plus had the added obstacle of dodging the cow pats. An article in the Knox local paper on 28th May 1969, titled "They wanted it rough" Cr Grogan at the last meeting of Knox Shire said the Little Athletics Association had requested the use of Knox Park (Knoxfield) because they wanted a track, 'a little bit rough', "They're certainly going to get it", quipped Cr Grogan. The Victorian Cross Country Championships were held at McLeod on 2nd August 1969. Knox won two Gold and one Silver out of eight events and were the only centre to win more than one gold. One of the Gold Medals was won by Bayswater's Under 12 athlete Glen Mackwell in the 2000 metre event, "leaving his nearest rival 100 yards behind". In the Knox Cross Country Championships on 22nd August 1969, Glen Mackwell won the Under 12 2000 metres event in a record time of 8min 9 sec, followed in second place by Bayswater's Peter Noordhoff in 8 min 59 sec The first Annual Meeting of the Bayswater Little Athletics Club was held on 10th September 1969 at the Bayswater State School. 1968/69 Club Awards 1968/69 Championship Results 1969 Cross Country Results
1969/70 Season
This season had eleven clubs. A meeting was held at Rangeview and it was decided to divide the club into two as the previous seasons registration was over 150 athletes, with 40 of them coming from The Basin. This new club was called "Basin Heights". Another club also to join the Knox Centre this season was Sherbrooke which went on to form their own Centre a few years later, and still exists today. Wantirna, which only had 10 athletes in the previous season did not continue for this season and was not reformed until fifteen years later in season 1984/85. In the Knox Gazette on 8th October 1969; Seven hundred children, led by the Police Highland Pipe Band, marched through Boronia streets on Saturday to mark the opening of the 1969/70 Little Athletics season for the Knox Centre. The largest club was Bayswater with 97 children.
A local newspaper report from the 25th October 1969 program; Seven hundred children cheered Olympic Champion Ron Clarke when he came to the Chandler Park to watch the Knox Little Athletics Centre in action on Saturday. The champion was at the ground unrecognised for some time before one of the children noticed him. He was then introduced to the children, then circled the ground to speak to them and their parents who came to help. In a local newspaper article on 27th January 1970 titled "Records Tumble at Little Aths", Benefiting from the dedicated training given by Melbourne Walker Alan Johnson, Knox Little Athletics set three more new Walk records. Two of these were by Bayswater athletes. An outstanding performance was the Under 10 record by Stephen Davis of Bayswater Club, whose time of 4 min 20.5 sec was 3.3 sec better than the present Victorian record, and bettered Rick Dyer's two week old Knox record, which was also in Victorian time. Another record was set by Bruce Beaton of Bayswater Club also, who walked a 4 min 16 sec in the Under 12 event. Under the heading "State Time Fall to Bayswater" in the local paper on the 14th February 1970 results, Under 10 Stephen Davis of Bayswater again bettered the State Little Athletics record time to set a new Knox Walk record on Saturday of 4min 19.0 secs. His sister Susan tied with Susan Smith of Dorset in setting a new Knox Triple Jump record Under 9 of 6.98m. From the local Newspaper on 21st March 1970; On Wednesday, March 25th, Knox Gold Medallist Bruce Beaton will compete in the interstate challenge between West Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. Bruce is one of only 20 Under 12's chosen from the whole of Victoria, and it is hoped that Knox Centre supporters will turn up in force at Olympic Park to see the challenge. Bayswater's Stephen Davis won the inaugural John Bennett Memorial Trophy presented to the athlete which had the most outstanding performance in a single event during the season which was for the 800m Walk.
1969/70 Club Awards 1969/70 Championship Results The 70's1970/71 Season
1970/71 Club Awards 1970/71 Championship Results
1971/72 Season The largest registration this season was Bayswater with 59 registered athletes. A new Club to form this season was Bayswater South which had the lowest registration of 31 athletes. The first practice session for the season was reported in the local paper on 22nd September 1971 and stated the last year's Champion Girl, Bayswater's Debra Brown was off to a good start with a personal best Triple Jump of 7.88m. It also said Bayswater welcomed back a "Knox Original" in Linda Faull who has been competing for several seasons with the Bendigo Centre, and is now back with her old club. Knox resumed Little Athletics on 15th January 1972 after the Christmas break and hosted children from the Sherbrooke and Box Hill Centres as they did not start until the following week. Two Knox records were broken with Susan Davis (Bayswater) clocking 1 min10.4 sec for the Girls Under 11 400m. The Knox Centre ran out victors after the lead had changed several times during the day. Susan was awarded the "Best Girl" trophy. This meeting was held in aid of the Knoxbrooke Training Centre and the competition would be an annual event against these two other Centres. Under the heading "In Top Gear" in the Knox Gazette 25th January 1972, Last seasons premiers, Bayswater Little Athletics Club, on Saturday showed that it is the club to beat in the Knox Lions Club Premiership this season. Doubling the number of placegetters of their nearest rivals, Bayswater have extended their lead following Saturdays program. In the Knox News on 2nd February 1972 under the heading "Veterans Show Form": Two of Knox's "veteran" little athletes, Debbie Brown and Judy Addicoat, both of Bayswater, provided a thrilling finish to the day as they fought out the Under 11 girls High Jump on Saturday. Judy failed at 1.16m and Debbie, after clearing this height, failed at 1.18m. Debbie's 1.16m was the best Under 11 girl in Knox this season. An article in the Knox Free Press 23rd February 1972 on the Highland Games in Ringwood, representing Knox against eight other Centres, Bayswater's Susan Davis won the Under 11 Girls 400m event, Judy Addicoat won the 100m event and Debra Brown won the 60m Hurdles event. "Bayswater Scoops Little Aths Pool" says article in the 22nd March 1972 Knox News. Bayswater club took most of the honours on Saturday at Chandler Park, winning the Little Athletics Premiers Shield for Best Club, and the Shield for Best Girls Club. They also won the Lions Club Pennants for first in both sections and star Deborah Brown was once again named Champion Girl of Knox Centre. In the Victorian State Championships, Susan Davis obtained a Silver Medal for Knox in the Under 11 Long Jump with a distance of 4.32m. 1971/72 Club Awards 1971/72 Championship Results 1972 Cross Country Results
1972/73 Season In the Knox News on 4th October 1972, "The Olympic flag brought home from Munich by International veteran athlete Geoff Warren, flew at Chandler Park on Saturday as Knox Little Athletes complete their final day's practice competition before the official opening of the season. On the 7th October 1972, led by the Mitcham Pipe Band, Knox Little Athletics marched through Boronia for the Official opening of the season by the Mayor, Cr Wally Tew, who opened the the Centre's first season five years earlier when Shire President in 1968. Bayswater's Deborah Brown, champion girl last season held the Knox Banner along with the champion boy Barry McGhee from Dorset. Bayswater had 75 registered athletes this season - 30 Boys and 45 Girls. "Bayswater hits front" says the headline in the Knox Gazette 17th October 1972. Bayswater, last year's Knox athletics premiers, again led the placing's at Chandler Park on Saturday. And their champion Debra Brown, took the only record for the day, clocking 17.1 secs in the 100 metres for the under 12 girls. Debra's time beat the Knox record by 0.4 secs. She also won the 800m and High Jump events. In the Knox Gazette 14th November 1972, Julie Nickevich of Bayswater equalled the best ever High Jump in any competition by a boy or girl when she took the Knox record for the Under 12 record of 1.33m (about 5 foot). Julie bettered this one month later when she jumped 1.34m In the 1973 Ringwood Highland Games, Judy Addicoat won a Bronze Medal in the 100m. In the Knox Free Press on 13th December 1972 under the heading "Liz starred in athletics" Seven year old Elizabeth Addicoat was unbeatable in Knox Little Athletics on Saturday when she won all of her six events. The Knox News on 7th February 1972 titled "Susan is small but Slippery" Bayswater Little Athletics Club Susan Davis is probably the smallest under 12 girl at Knox Centre, but she is certainly one of the best at breaking records. On Saturday, Susan set one of the only two records with a leap of 9.17m for the under 12 Triple Jump record, and also won the 200m and came second in the walk and 800m events. The other record also went to Bayswater. Elizabeth Addicoat with a new High Jump record of 1.02 for Knox. Elizabeth also won the 100m and 200m under 8 events.
1972/73 Club Awards 1972/73 Championship Results
1973/74 Season 1973/74 Club Awards 1973/74 Championship Results
1974/75 Season 58 registered athletes. The uniform was changed to an Orange T-Shirt or Tank Top and White Shorts. Orange has been our colour ever since. 1974/75 Club Awards 1974/75 Championship Results
1975/76 Season 125 registered athletes. Under 7 age group introduced for the first time
1975/76 Club Awards 1975/76 Championship Results
1976/77 Season 113 registered athletes 1976/77 Club Awards 1976/77 Championship Results
1977/78 Season 102 registered athletes 1977/78 Club Awards 1977/78 Championship Results Final season at grass track at Chandler Park, Boronia after 9 years of competition there
1978/79 Season 71 registered athletes The KLAC moved to it's current location at Knox Park. Bayswater LAC nearly didn't make it. An Extra-Ordinary Meeting needed to be called on 14th August 1978 "due to lack of parent support, a strong possibility that the Club could not function" The parents were determined not to fold the club! Bayswater won the Max J. White Shield for the best Cross Country club for season 1979 with the team photo shown below:
Back Row: Wayne Riley, Andrew Perry, Peter Bath, Victoria Perry, ?, Stewart McGregor Front Row: Leigh McGregor, ?, Darren Riley, ?, Sharon Papst 1978/79 Club Awards 1978/79 Championship Results 1979 Cross Country Results
1979/80 Season 75 registered athletes The official opening day of the completed Knox Park Athletic Track was on 18th November 1979.
1979/80 Knox Centre Championships - Girls U/9 Shot Put - First championships at Knox Park 1st Samantha Stevens, 2nd Joanne Copeland (Bayswater), 3rd Sharyn Papst (Bayswater) 4th ? , 5th ?, 6th Tanya Marsh (Bayswater)
1979/80 Club Awards 1979/80 Championship Results 1980 Cross Country Results The 80'sPlease, any memories or info from past 1980's athletes and parents? 1980/81 Season 76 registered athletes
1980/81 Club Awards 1980/81 Championship Results 1981 Cross Country Results
1981/82 Season 61 registered athletes
1981/82 Club Awards 1981/82 Championship Results
1982/83 Season 74 registered athletes. The uniform was changed to an Orange T-Shirt and Black Shorts 1982/83 Club Awards 1982/83 Championship Results
1983/84 Season 73 registered athletes Ron Papst and John Guerra were elected with Life Membership for services to our club on 24th March 1984. 1983/84 Club Awards 1983/84 Championship Results 1984 Cross Country Results
1984/85 Season 83 registered athletes. The Uniform was changed to an Orange T-Shirt with "Bayswater" on back and Black Shorts Scoresby Striders was added as a new club, and Wantirna rejoined KLAC this season. Noel Maxwell was elected with Life Membership for services to our club on 2nd December 1985. Under 9 Boy Travis Bateman won Best Overall Athlete for Cross Country. Bayswater Bullets also won the Max J. White Supporters Shield for best Cross Country Club. 1984/85 Club Awards 1984/85 Championship Results 1985 Cross Country Results
1985/86 Season 53 registered athletes Under 13 age group introduced for the first time. 1985/86 Club Awards 1985/86 Championship Results 1986 Cross Country Results
1986/87 Season 31 registered athletes Under 14 age group introduced for the first time. 1986/87 Club Awards 1986/87 Championship Results 1987 Cross Country Results
1987/88 Season 65 registered athletes Changed name from Bayswater to Bayswater Bullets and the uniform was changed to Orange T-Shirt with "Bayswater Bullets" logo on back with Black Shorts. This current logo was designed by Committee Member Gary Caulfield. Lights were installed at Knox Park for the start of this season Under 15 age group introduced for the first time. 1987/88 Club Awards 1987/88 Championship Results 1988 Cross Country Results
1988/89 Season 50 registered athletes 1988/89 Club Awards 1988/89 Championship Results 1989 Cross Country Results
1989/90 Season 37 registered athletes
Winners from the 1990 Cross Country Trophy Presentation. Can you name these athletes? 1989/90 Club Awards 1989/90 Championship Results 1990 Cross Country Results
The 90's1990/91 Season 43 registered athletes. Under 13, 14 and 15 age groups were allowed to wear spikes for the first time
1990/91 Team Photo taken at Knox Park Top Row: Marissa Clarke, Rodney Earsman, Tim Pierce, Michelle Dean, Mark Blackwood, Kirsty Waugh, Daisy Candy, ?____ _____ 2nd Row: Jade Craven, ?____ ____ , David Ferroni, Scott Ellis, ?____ ___ , ?____ ____ , Peta Hodgkinson, Narelle Bos 3rd Row: Melanie Candela, Glen Ellis, Aaron Grayson, Deanne Marsh, Lee Earsman, Leigh Caulfield, ?_____ _____, Shirley Bos (Team Manager) Bottom Row: ?_____ _____, Katie Caulfield, Lindel Hodgkinson, Haley Pierce, ?____ ____ , Glenn Candy, ?____ ____, Glen Ellis Can you name any of the above athletes whose names are missing?
Winners from our Club's 1991 Cross Country Trophy Presentation Top Row: Scott Ellis, Graeme Pierce. Dale Caulfield, Paul Caulfield, Rodney Earsman 2nd Row: Leigh Caulfield, Gavin Haley, Renee Paton, Deanne Marsh, Narelle Bos 3rd Row: Lindel Hodgkinson, Garry Gruentha, Ryan Haley Bottom Row: Glen Ellis, Claire Haley, Katie Caulfield, Peta Hodgkinson, Haley Pierce, Lee Earsman
1990/91 Club Awards 1990/91 Championship Results 1991 Cross Country Results
1991/92 Season 63 registered athletes
A plaque was made out to the Blackwood family as a thankyou for their participation over the years with the club
1992 Cross Country Trophy Winners Back Row: Rodney Earsman, Deanne Marsh, Kirsty Waugh, Paul Caulfield, Garry Gruenther, Carolyn Bush, Amber Hanson Middle Row: Narelle Bos, Tara Long, Dale Caulfield, Katie Caulfield, Lee Earsman, Liegh Caulfield Front Row: David Bush, Peta Hodgkinson, Jarryd Hodgkinson, Lindel Hodgkinson, Emma Long
1991/92 Club Awards 1991/92 Championship Results 1992 Cross Country Results 1991/92 Annual Report
1992/93 Season Celebrated our 25th anniversary season with 61 registered and 59 active athletes. A newly designed T-Shirt designed by Rodney and Naomi Earsman was introduced which was Fluoro orange with black ribbed neck, sleeves & side bands and the Bayswater Bullets logo on the back. Shorts or briefs were black. This was approved by KLAC in August 1992 In December 1992, Bayswater Bullets athlete Paul Caulfield came 4th representing Victoria in the 1500m Walk for the Australian All School Track and Field Championships held in Perth. In the State finals, Bayswater Bullets had 11 girls and 13 boys who made it through to State Level. Hayden Lacy was awarded the John Bennet Memorial Trophy for his per Bayswater Bullets athlete 5 Year Certificates and 9 Year Plaques issued for first time Achievement Certificates issued for first time at AGM Trophy Presentation Day Life Member committee awards approved Photo showing Krystal McGaw with her Under 7 winners trophy.
BAYSWATER'S Hayden Lacy (above) broke a Victorian record in his bid to win a high-jump silver medal in the Australian Little Athletics Championships at Olympic Park. A student at Bayswater Secondary College, Hayden, 13, jumped 1.72 metres, breaking the Victoria Junior record. He jumped as high as the winner, but came second on the count back. A competitor with Bayswater Bullets Little Athletics, Hayden began competing when he was six. However, unlike many athletics hopefuls, Hayden does not train from one week to the next. Attempts by the coach of the Victorian State side to train Hayden did not meet with success - Hayden deciding one day a week was enough. Unlike most high-jumpers Hayden does not accelerate his run-up as he gets closer to the jump, keeping a consistent pace instead. With his recent success, however, Hayden has begun to take his sport more seriously and wants to keep jumping. "THE NEXT 25 YEARS - THE FUTURE OF LITTLE ATHLETICS" Politics, plus numerous numbers of different sporting activities available, will make keeping the large number of athletes involved with Little Athletics difficult. In South Australia the Government has passed a law that children less than 12 years are not to take part in competitive sporting activities. Because of this the Little Athletics National Championships, which were held for the Under 12's have been changed to Under 13's. Little Athletics has always been, and always will be an activity that involves the whole family. It requires parents to become involved as Officials for the program to be run. There has been a notable decrease in the number of adults attending our Friday night and Saturday morning programs, which makes the running of our program more difficult. Many things haven't changed over the last 25 years and will probably continue the same way well into the future. Reading minutes as well as talking to ex-members, obtaining the Officials required to run our programs has always been difficult, but parents always given their support when called upon. We are hoping to have the track at Knox Centre re-surfaced. This may even occur before the start of next season. This will depend on Council and State Government co-operation. If these plans come to fruition, major State Carnivals may be held at the Centre, eliminating the high cost of running these carnivals at Olympic Park. There is no reason that Little Athletics will not continue to be as successful into the next 25 years as it has for the past 25 years. There will always be obstructions arising but without parents working together with the goal of providing the best facilities and the correct environment in which to compete, any difficulties can be easily eliminated. With so many other sports available, clubs will not want to be complacent with the way they do their recruiting, or their support of their athletes in the future. As long as those elected members running the Clubs and the Centre working together towards what is best for all children, our future should remain bright. By Greg Waugh (written in 1992) 1992/93 Club Awards 1992/93 Championship Results 1993 Cross Country Results 1992/93 Annual Report
1993/94 Season 59 registered athletes The opening day started with a march past, and each club had children dressed to represent a past Olympic City. Our city was Los Angeles. State Squad member Hayden Lacy (U14B) had been selected as a member of the 1993 National Squad and had been invited to be an Ambassador for the Association at the 1993/94 State Championships Bayswater's Lee Earsman (U12) competed in the State Finals at the Primary Schools sports at Olympic Park. He jumped a personal best of 1.52m in the High Jump to finish a credible fourth. Bayswater Primary School Council approved the use of their grounds for Little Athletics training for the summer season. Ben Sword represented Victoria in the Under 13 Australian Championships held in Adelaide on April 23rd & 24th 1994. He came first in the 100m with an Australian record time of 11.70 seconds and was part of the 4x100m Relay that also won in an Australian record time. In the 200m, Ben came 8th after pulling a groin muscle. Bayswater Bullets Life Members were awarded to David Blackwood, Greg Waugh and Janet Caulfield. Grass track on the Cricket oval used for last half of season due to track being prepared for the rubber surfaced all weather sealed track. Was not complete before season's end 93/94 Season Highlights Lisa Halbert/Melanie Candela - The titanic battle in the 80m Hurdles. End Result - Dead Heat. Kirsty Waugh - Our first U16 Girl Hayley Malt - Breaking 6 year records in the 70m and 200m sprints Lindel Hodgkinson - Breaking HJ and Walk Records and Silver at State Lee Earsman - Bronze at State (not tall enough yet to break Hayden's record) Daniel Sword - The spectacular fall at State and a fighting spirit to get up and finish the race Peta Hodgkinson - Breaking an 8 year Record and Gold at State Ben Sword - Breaking numerous sprint Records and Double Gold at State. Making the Victorian State Team that competed in Adelaide. Hayden Lacy - Breaking the HJ Record at Club, Knox and Victorian Level (once again) and Gold at State. Article in the Knox Sherbrooke Post on 6th April 1994 (a simular article also appeared in the Knox News on 4th April 1994) ATHLETES IN RECORD-BREAKING FORM ATHLETES from the Bayswater Bullets Little Athletics Club have recorded some remarkable results in the Victorian Little Athletics Championships, held at Olympic Park. The club's overall medal tally was four Gold, one Silver and one Bronze but more importantly, five club records were broken and another equalled along with three Knox centre records and one State record. Sisters Peta (Under 12) and Lindel (Under 10) Hodgkinson dominated walk events - Peta won gold in the 1500 metre event in a new club record while Lindel captured Silver in the 1100 metre Walk, also in a club record time. Lindel also equalled the club record with her fourth place finish in the High Jump. It was an eventful carnival for Under 12 Daniel Sword, which started promisingly with victory in his 80 metres hurdle heat in a club and centre record time. However, with victory in sight in the final, Sword fell at the second last hurdle and was forced to spend two days in the Royal Children's Hospital after breaking his wrist. Better luck for his older brother Ben, who captured the Under 13 sprint double, setting a club record and centre record on his way to victory in the 200 metres. Star of the meeting was Under 14 Hayden Lacy, whose leap of 1.83 metres was good enough not only for the gold medal, but also earned him a club, centre and State record. Under 12 Lee Earsman also impressed in his high jump event, with a jump of 1.50 metres good enough for a bronze.
Article the Knox News on 16th May 1994 SPRINTER SUPER SHOW'S
But now aware of his natural talents, Ben believes he has the potential to compete at Olympic level one day. Ben 13, of Ferntree Gully, broke the sprinting records at the Australian Team Championships in Adelaide. Ben is this week's Knox News Sports Star. A member of Bayswater Bullets Little Athletics, he was selected for the Victorian Little Athletics Association squad to compete against other states. At the Championships he won the 100m event in 11.7 seconds, breaking the Australian Record of 12 seconds and equalling the state record. 2000 OLYMPICS He was also part of the relay team which won gold in 47.9 seconds, breaking the record of 48.8 seconds. Ben is "pretty happy" with the results. He said he did better than he expected. His mother Maree Sword said "he also came eighth in the 200m event "but pulled a muscle in the heat, so he virtually jogged" She is naturally proud of his achievements. "He also won double gold at the state championships in March", she said. "He's been doing this for three years and he's making a lot of progress." At the moment Ben is setting his sights on the 2000 Olympics. He began training three months ago. Mrs Sword said her son's coach believed he was talented ..."as long as girls and cars don't get in the way." "This is all he wants to do at the moment; he's not interested in any other sports." Nominations for the Sports Star awards can be sent to the Knox News, PO Box 439, Boronia, 3155.
David Blackwood was elected with Life Membership for services to our club on 10th April 1994. Our Club major award winners for 1993/94 was Rachel Gilder as our Best Overall Girl, Hayden Lacy as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Perpetual 'Achievers' Award was won by Emma Long 1993/94 Club Awards 1993/94 Championship Results 1994 Cross Country Results 1993/94 Annual Report
1994/95 Season 53 Registered athletes New all weather rubberised sealed track ready for use Under 13 Peta Hodgkinson represented the Victorian LAC State team in the Australian Championships held in Darwin on 22nd April 1995. The 3rd year in a row for Bayswater Greg Lacy, Janet Caulfield and Greg Waugh were elected with Life Membership for services to our club on 10th April 1994. Our Club major award winners for 1994/95 was Hayley Malt as our Best Overall Girl, Jamie Devenish as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Perpetual 'Achievers' Award was won by Zoe Devenish 1994/95 Club Awards 1994/95 Championship Results 1995 Cross Country Results 1994/95 Annual Report
1995/96 Season 44 registered athletes A KLAC foundation club Studfield, amalgamated with the Eastfield club at the start of the season to become known as Eastfield/Studfield or "The Fields". Another foundation club St Josephs had dissolved at the end of this season. The St Joseph school had been given to Rangeview as one of their schools for recruitment. A promotional day for the Knox Centre was conducted at Knox City on 9th Sep 1995. Kerry Hodgkinson was elected with Life Membership for services to our club on 30th March 1996. Our Club major award winners for 1995/96 was Lauren Fletcher as our Best Overall Girl, Stephen Aiello as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Perpetual 'Achievers' Award was won by Steven Turner 1995/96 Club Awards 1995/96 Championship Results 1995/96 Annual Report
1996/97 Season 45 registered athletes Due to its large numbers, Rowville split into two clubs this season. The second club is known as Rowville Lakes or "The Lakes". Lindel Hodgkinson represented the under 13 Victorian State Team competing in Sydney on 26th April 1997 in the Australian Team Championships. Lindel was also the Team Captain. PB (Personal Best) medals given out for first time on Presentation Day. 20 to 24 PB's win a Bronze Medal, 25 to 29 PB's a Silver and 30 and over PB's wins a Gold Medal. Our Club major award winners for 1996/97 was Haley Bottomley as our Best Overall Girl, Michael Aiello as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Perpetual 'Achievers' Award was won by Ben McDonald. In the Knox Centre Awards, Robert Guillaume won the Personal Best U/8 Boys, Lindel Hodgkinson won the Best Overall U/13 Girls, Andrew Saker won the Supporters Award and Bayswater Bullets won the Knox Supporters Award. 1996/97 Club Awards 1996/97 Championship Results 1997 Cross Country Results 1996/97 Annual Report
1997/98 Season 40 registered athletes In the Eastern Regional Metropolitan Championships on 14/15th February 1998 at the Nunawading Track, Under 10 Andrew Kane won a Silver medal in the 1100m Walk and Under 11 Haley Eadon won a Bronze medal in the 70m. Under 14 Lindel Hodgkinson won a Gold medal in the High Jump with a Club record of 1.57m. Lindel also won a Silver medal in the Long Jump. At the Victorian Championships on 21/22nd March 1998, Under 14 Lindel Hodgkinson won a Silver medal in the High Jump with a new club and Knox record of 1.63m. This is the highest jump by a girl in any age group for the Knox Little Athletics Centre. Also competing in these Championships was Under 10 Andrew Kane and Under 15 Katie Caulfield. Our Club major award winners for 1997/98 was Lindel Hodgkinson as our Best Overall Girl, Mark Pryor as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Perpetual 'Achievers' Award was won by Fabion Kauker
1997/98 Club Awards 1997/98 Championship Results 1998 Cross Country Results 1997/98 Annual Report
1998/99 Season 35 registered athletes
During the athletics season, the Hodgkinson family is on the run - literally. Every Saturday morning, Bayswater resident Kerry Hodgkinson takes her two younger children, Lori 9, and Jarryd, 11 to Knox Park to take part in Little Athletics. In the afternoon, she takes 17-year-old Peta and 15-year-old Lindel to compete in Knox Sherbrooke Woman's Amatuer Athletic Club. For the past 12 years, Mrs Hodgkinson has been involved with Bayswater Bullets LAC - all from someone who says she was never the athletics type. "I've become very involved committee-wise, which I really enjoy." she said. Mrs Hodgkinson laughingly said the family joined Little Aths "out of frustration". "When Peta was young, she tried so many different sports. There was rollerskating, which she did for about three months, then gymnastics for six months. In the end a friend said "Why don't you come down and try Little Athletics?" so we did. Peta never looked back. She was the Little Aths state champion walker for four consecutive years and has returned to training this month after a 12-month break. Lindel followed her sister into Little Aths, her speciality being the High Jump. She has competed at state and national level. Lori, following Peta's footsteps, likes the walking event and Jarryd's favourite event is High Jump. In the Eastern Regional Metropolitan Championships on 13/14th February 1999, Under 9 Lori Hodgkinson won a Silver medal in the High Jump and a Bronze medal in the 1100m Walk. Under 10 Robert Guillaume won a Bronze medal in the 800m. Under 11 Kellie Davis won a Gold medal in the Long Jump, a Silver in the 100m and a Bronze medal in the 70m Sprint. Under 11 Jurion Kauker won a Silver medal for the Shot Put. Under 15 Lindel Hodgkinson won a Gold Medal in the High Jump. Lindel went on to win a Silver medal in the Victorian Championships at Olympic Park on 20/21st March 1999. Also competing in these Championships were Lori Hodgkinson, Kellie Davis and Jurion Kauker. Our Club major award winners for 1998/99 was Carlie McCamley as our Best Overall Girl, Darren Murphy as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Perpetual 'Achievers' Award was won by Rachel Engelhardt In the Knox Centre Awards, Robert Horwill won the Best Overall U/9 Boys. 1998/99 Club Awards 1998/99 Championship Results 1999 Cross Country Results 1998/99 Annual Report
1999/00 Season We had at least 24 registered athletes this season. In the Eastern Regional Metropolitan Championships on 12/13th February 2000, Under 10 Lori Hodgkinson won a Silver medal in the 1100m Walk and a Bronze medal in the High Jump. Lori came sixth in the 1100m Walk at the Victorian Championships at Olympic Park on 18/19 March 2000. Five Year Award went to Jurion Kauker. Our Club major award winners for 1999/00 was Lori Hodgkinson as our Best Overall Girl, Darren Campbell as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Perpetual 'Achievers' Award was won by Timothy Horwill In the Knox Centre Awards, Bayswater Bullets won the Champion Boys Club Shield. 1999/00 Club Awards 1999/00 Championship Results 1999/00 Annual Report 2000 AND BEYOND2000/01 Season We had at least 21 registered athletes this season. Five Year Awards went to Tim Leggate, Ashley Leggate and Robert Guillaume. Our Club major award winners for 2000/01 was Simone Leggate as our Best Overall Girl, Tim Leggate as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Perpetual 'Achievers' Award was won by Brad Cook. In the Knox Centre Awards, Bayswater Bullets won the Champion Boys Club Shield, the Knox Supporters Award and Tim Leggate won the Best Overall U/13 Boy and Personal Best U/13 Boy.
2001 Winter Cross Country Season We had at least one athlete who competed in the Cross Country Season. U/11 Ashley Vandelaak won a Gold Medal in the Knox Centre Cross Country Championship Day.
2000/01 Club Awards 2000/01 Championship Results 2001 Cross Country Results 2000/01 Annual Report
2001/02 Season We had 23 registered athletes this season. A new Bayswater Bullets Team Banner was purchased In the Knox Championships, our athletes won 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 5 Bronze medals. U/14 Tim Leggate won 1 Gold and 1 Silver Medal, U/11 Lindsay Polkinghorne and U/8 Courtney Russell both won 2 Bronze Medals and U/12 Lori Hodgkinson won a Bronze Medal. 3 Club Records were broken this season. One each to U/11 Lindsay Polkinghorne, U/12 Daniel Peel and U/14 Darren Campbell. Five Year Awards went to Lori Hodgkinson and Bob Walker. Our Club major award winners for 2001/02 was Daragh Moore as our Best Overall Girl, Tim Leggate as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Perpetual 'Achievers' Award was won by Josh Holdaway In the Knox Centre Awards, Tim Leggate won the Best Overall U/14 Boy and Personal Best U/14 Boy.
2002 Winter Cross Country Season We had 6 athletes who competed in the Cross Country Season, with 1 competing for one week only.
2001/02 Club Awards 2001/02 Championship Results 2002 Cross Country Results 2001/02 Annual Report
2002/03 Season We had 43 registered athletes this season and celebrated our 35th Season of competition. Internet presence was established in June 2002, being the second club (not counting Centres) to do so which is still in existence - with the first being the East Geelong Little Athletics Club.
Bayswater's Jasmine Jekot won a Silver medal as part of the Knox Team in the Victorian State Relay Championships at Olympic Park on 8th December 2002.
In the VLAA Victorian State Track & Field Championships at Olympic Park on 15th & 16th March 2003, Brydee Moore competed in the Under 13 Girls as a Disabled Invitee and came first in the Shot Put, Discus & Javelin.
The most PB's for the season was by U/10 Daragh Moore with 34. 10 Club Records were broken this season. Two each by U/10 Jasmine Jekot and U/15 Darren Campbell and one each by U/7 Jenny Zaher, U/7 Joshua Jekot, U/8 Karly Peel, U/10 Daragh Moore, U/11 Shanlan Moore and U/13 Nick Williams Five Year Award went to Lindsay Polkinghorne. Our Club major award winners for 2002/03 was Jasmine Jekot as our Best Overall Girl, Josh Holdaway as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Perpetual 'Achievers' Award was won by Shanlan Moore. In the Knox Centre Awards, Brydee Moore won the Encouragement Award.
2003 Winter Cross Country Season We had 9 athletes who competed in the Cross Country Season, with 3 competing for one week only. In the VLAA State Little Athletics Cross Country Championships, U/15 Michael Zaher came 19th.
2002/03 Club Awards 2002/03 Championship Results 2003 Cross Country Results 2002/03 Annual Report
2003/04 Season We had 31 athletes registered this season. Please see the 2003/04 Season Diary page for the seasons weekly highlights! U/11 Daragh Moore and U/11 Jasmine Jekot both ran for the Knox Centre in the Victorian State Relay Championships at Olympic Park on 7th December 2003. We did not have any athletes who progressed to the State Championships. In the Knox Centre Championships, our athletes won 3 Gold, 3 Silver and 5 Bronze medals. The best results were by U/8 Joshua Jekot who won 1 Gold and 2 Silver Medals, U/9 Matija Pecek with 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze Medal, U/12 Patrick Gabriel with 1 Gold and 1 Bronze Medal and U/11 Jasmine Jekot with 3 Bronze Medals. The most PB's for the season was by U/11 Daragh Moore with 40. 11 Club Records were broken this season. Two each to U/11 Daragh Moore, U/11 Jasmine Jekot and U/15 James Hynes. One Club Record each to U/10 Tiffany Gabriel, U/12 Shanlan Moore, U/13 Bridget Kenny, U/13 Josh Hynes and U/14 Lori Hodgkinson Our Club major award winners for 2003/04 were Daragh Moore as our Best Overall Girl, Sam Kenny as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Travel Perpetual 'Achievers' Shield Award was won by Aleisha Turnbull and Todd Kenny.
2003/04 Bayswater Bullets Team Back: Abby Burman, Josh Holdway, James Hynes, Josh Hynes Second Row: Bridget Kenny, Dylan Breed, Amy Breed, Matija Pecek, Josh Jekot, Tiffany Gabriel, Daragh Moore, Jasmine Jekot, Shanlan Moore Third Row: Aleisha Turnbull, Clare Egan, Jack Pritchett, Rebecca Peel Front Row: Sam Kenny, Todd Kenny, Carly Dennis, Jenny Zaher, Briony Walton, Laura Clissold, Page Turnbull, Elise Pritchett, Annie Egan Missing: Brydee Moore, Courtney Russell, Vinay Swami, Lori Hodgkinson
2004 Winter Cross Country Season We had 5 athletes who competed in the Cross Country Season. In the VLAA State Little Athletics Cross Country Championships, U/12 Josh Holdway came 50th In the Knox Little Athletics Centre Cross Country Championships, Interaths (U/16) Michael Zaher won a Gold Medal
2003/04 Club Awards 2003/04 Championship Results 2004 Cross Country Results 2003/04 Annual Report PDF 2003/04 Annual Report
2004/05 Season We had 25 athletes registered this season. Please see the 2004/05 Season Diary page for the seasons weekly highlights! In the State Track and Field Championships, U/12 Daragh Moore came 13th in the High Jump and U/13 Josh Holdway came 16th in the Shot Put. In the Knox Championships, our athletes won 5 Gold, 3 Silver and 11 Bronze medals. The best results were by U/13 Josh Holdway with 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze Medal, U/10 Matija Pecek won 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals, U/12 Daragh Moore won 1 Gold and 4 Bronze Medals and U/7 Annie Egan won 1 Gold and 2 Bronze medals. The most PB's for the season was by U/10 Matija Pecek with 34 PB's. Four Club records were broken, 2 by Daragh Moore and one each by Shanlan Moore and Patrick Gabriel. Our Club major award winners for 2004/05 were Daragh Moore as our Best Overall Girl, Matija Pecek as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Travel Perpetual 'Achievers' Shield Award was won by Amy Breed. In the Knox Centre Awards, our club won the Kathy Hale Best Supporters Club Award
2004/05 Bayswater Bullets Team Back: Dean Barton-Smith (Special Guest), Shanlan Moore, Daragh Moore, Dylan Breed, Trent Bryant, Josh Holdway Second Row: Alexander Barton-Smith, Briony Walton, Laura Clissold, Marissa Hummel, Clare Egan, Amy Breed Third Row: Sam Kenny, Todd Kenny, Joshua Jekot, Connor Bishop, Matija Pecek Front Row: Jack Butcher, Steffi Walton, Erin Holdway, Annie Egan Missing: Zac Thomas, Jasmine Jekot, Tiffany Gabriel, Patrick Gabriel, Karly Korbay
2005 Winter Cross Country Season We had 5 athletes who competed in the Cross Country Season. In the VLAA State Little Athletics Cross Country Championships at Hanging Rock, U/7 Anne Egan came 12th and U/13 Josh Holdway came 28th. !n the Knox Little Athletics Centre Cross Country Championships, U/7 Annie Egan won a Silver Medal. In the Knox Centre Cross Country Awards, Annie Egan was equal winner in the U/7 Girls "Best in Age" Bayswater Bullets came 10th in the Max J. White Best Cross Country Club Shield 2004/05 Club Awards 2004/05 Championship Results 2005 Cross Country Results 2004/05 Annual Report PDF 2004/05 Annual Report
2005/06 Season We had 28 athletes registered this season. Please see the 2005/06 Season Diary page for the seasons weekly highlights! The season was two weeks short due to the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. A new team uniform was introduced in the form of a singlet after being a T-Shirt since inception. The PB Certificate was introduced and awarded upon obtaining 12 PB's as encouragement in leading up to the PB Medal awards. Later in the season, Bayswater Bullets Polo Tops and Caps were introduced. In the VLAA State Relay Championships, Sharnee Griffiths won a Gold Medal for the Knox Team in the U/14 Girls 4 x 200m Relay and Daragh Moore came 4th in the Girls U/13-U/15 Medley Relay. In the VLAA State Multi Event Championships U/14 Sharnee Griffiths came 9th with 2594 points and U/14 Josh Holdway came 32nd with 1360 points. In the VLAA State Track and Field Championships, U/14 Sharnee Griffiths came 8th in the 80m Hurdles Final, 10th in the Discus and 15th in the Triple Jump. U/14 Josh Holdway came 13th in the Shot Put and 18th in the Javelin. In the Knox Championships, it was our best results since the 1996/97 season. Our athletes won 10 Gold, 12 Silver and 9 Bronze medals. The best results were by U/11 Matija Pecek with 3 Gold and 1 Bronze medal, U/7 Alexander Barton-Smith and U/8 Annie Egan won 2 Gold, 1 Silver and1 Bronze medals each, U/13 Daragh Moore won 1 Gold and 2 Silver Medals, U/14 Sharnee Griffiths won 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze Medal and U/14 Josh Holdway won 1 Gold and 1 Bronze Medal.
Our Club President, Dean Barton-Smith was elected as one of the Queen’s Baton Relay Runners for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. His leg was in Wantirna South on 13th March 2006 outside of the Knox City Council Offices and the Bayswater Bullets team were out there to cheer him on. The most PB's for the season was by U/10 David Thomson with 33 PB's. 17 Club records were broken with 11 of these by U/14 Sharnee Griffiths, 3 by U/7 Alexander Barton-Smith, 2 by U/13 Daragh Moore and 1 by U/14 Josh Holdway. Five Year Awards went to Daragh Moore and Josh Holdway. Our club major award winners for 2005/06 were Laura Clissold as our Best Overall Girl, David Thomson as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Travel Perpetual 'Achievers' Shield Award was won by Cody Norton. Please click here to see the extract from the State Parliament Hansard report under "Members Statements" in which MP Peter Lockwood made a speech about his experience as one of the presenters on our Presentation Day. (the Hansard is the official transcript of all speeches made by MP's). The full transcript for all MP speeches on 6th April 2006 is here.
2005/06 Bayswater Bullets Team Top Row: Alexander Barton-Smith Second Row: Nicholas Elliott Third Row: Olivia Mellahn, Annie Egan, Nathan Goodger, Deborah Elliott, Thomas Elliott Fourth Row: MP Peter Lockwood (Special Guest), Briony Walton, Laura Clissold, Steffi Walton, Erin Holdway, Claire Elliott, Kerry Semfel (Special Guest) Fifth Row: Donna Moore (Team Manager), Matija Pecek, David Thomson, Josh Holdway, Dylan Breed, Sharnee Griffiths, Daragh Moore Front Row: Joshua Nolan, Zac Thomas, Jessica Thomson, Emma Thomson, Cody Norton Missing: Jorgia Foster, Jack Bole-Brown, Colin Shaw, Connor Bishop, Paris Bishop
2006 Winter Cross Country Season 14 athletes competed in the Cross Country Season, our most for many years. In the VLAA State Cross Country Championships, at Hanging Rock, U/7 Jessica Thomas came 26th, U/8 Annie Egan came 4th, U/9 Emma Thomson came 51st and U/10 David Thomson came 17th. In the Knox Little Athletics Centre Cross Country Championships, U/8 Annie Egan won a Gold Medal and U/7 Jessica Thomson, U/9 Emma Thomson and U/10 David Thomson all won Bronze Medals. Club Cross Country Age Group awards were introduced for the first time since the 1999 Cross Country season for those competing in at least 60% (11 of the 19) of the Cross Country dates. Annie Egan won the Best Overall Girl and David Thomson won the Best Overall Boy Club Awards. In the Knox Centre Cross Country Awards, Annie Egan won the U/8 Girls "Best in Age" and David Thomson won the U/10 Boys "Best in Age" Awards. Bayswater Bullets came 2nd in the Max J. White Best Cross Country Club Shield 2005/06 Club Awards 2005/06 Championship Results 2006 Cross Country Results 2005/06 Annual Report PDF 2005/06 Annual Report
2006/07 Season We had 33 athletes registered this season. Please see the 2006/07 Season Diary page for the seasons weekly highlights! The Bayswater Committee decided to create two new positions to provide leadership, guidance to our younger Bullets and to provide positive role models and ambassadors to our club. After much consideration, the Committee have elected to appoint U/15 Josh Holdway as our first Male Club Captain and U/14 Daragh Moore as our first Female Club Captain. This did not extend beyond this seaqson. We were very fortunate to receive two Government Grants this season with thanks to Stephen Egan in submitting them.: State MP Peter Lockwood Office called to say our Local History Grants Program application for the "Bayswater Bullets Little Athletics Club 40th Anniversary History Project" was accepted by the Victoria Public Records Office. This was submitted in conjunction with the Knox Historical Society to research our missing history, mainly from the late 1970's and1980's, and then we will produce a Digital Story DVD of our club history to sell for our 40th year celebrations throughout the 2008/09 season. The Official "Letter of Offer" from the Public Records Office Victoria of the Grant Approval with a comment by the Assessment Panel that they were impressed with the Project and stated "Good links to local historical groups and other community resources are demonstrated in this proposal for the history of a grass-roots sporting organisation". Please click here to view. Federal MP Chris Pearce called to say our club was successful in its application for a "Volunteer Small Equipment Grants 2006". This was for a Portable BBQ and gas bottle to use for our Friday twilights and other activities throughout the year and is in recognition of your contribution in carrying out volunteer parent duty and for those volunteering on our Committee. Out of the 15,000 applications for this grant, only 2800 were successful so we were very lucky! The congratulations letter from MP Chris Pearce which can be seen by clicking here. We were also mentioned in his July 2007 Progress Report. In the VLAA State Relay Championships, Annie Egan won a Gold Medal for the Knox Team in the U/9 Girls 4 x 200m Relay with a time of 2 Min 19.72 which was the fastest since 2001. David Thomson won a Silver Medal in the Boys U/11 4 x 100m Relay Team, just missing out on Gold by 0.12 sec. David's team also came 3rd in the 4 x 200m Final but the team was disqualified. A PhotoVideo of the U/9 Girls Relay season can be seen by clicking here We had three athletes competing in the VLAA State Multi-Event Championships up at the Llanberris Athletics Facility in Ballarat against around fifty of the best athletes within the state for the title of best all round athlete in each age group. Our best result was by U/11 David Thomson who won the first State Medal in this event for Bayswater Bullets. David came third winning the Bronze with 2754 points which also set a new Knox Centre U/11 Boys Record. The previous Knox Centre record was 2540 points set in 2002. U/9 Annie Egan increased her Multi-Event score by 259 points by coming 12th with1232 points. U/15 Josh Holdway increased his Multi-Event score by 352 points by coming 26th with 2363 points In the VLAA State Track & Field Championships, U/11 David Thomson won the first State Track & Field Medals for our club since the 1998/99 season. David won a Bronze in the 80m Hurdles final on Saturday and a Silver in the 60m Hurdles final on Sunday. He also competed in the High Jump coming 22nd. His sister U/10 Emma Thomson came 20th in the 1100m Walk. U/9 Annie Egan came12th in the 800m final and16th in the Triple Jump. U/15 Josh Holdway came 7th in the Shot Put, 11th in the Discus, 16th in the Javelin and 7th in the 300m Hurdles heat. All placings improving on Josh's year's State Championships. The first three events were PB efforts too! Major club award winners for 2006/07 were Emma Thomson as our Best Overall Girl, Josh Holdway as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Travel Perpetual 'Achievers' Shield Award was won by Clay Bryant. The most PB's for the season was by U/15 Josh Holdway with 63 PB's. 21 Club records were broken with 11 of these by U/15 Sharnee Griffiths, 4 by David Thomson, 2 by both U/15 Josh Holdway and U/9 Erin Holdway and 1 by both U/8 Alexander Barton-Smith and U/10 Emma Thomson. In addition, we have introduced Multi-Event Club Records with 6 athletes setting new records for Season 2006/07 - U/9 Annie Egan, U/9 Zac Thomas, U/10 Emma Thomson, U/11 David Thomson (which is also a Knox Centre record) U/12 Matija Pecek and U/15 Josh Holdway. Our Best Club Supporter was won by Mike Thomas.
2007 Winter Cross Country Season 13 athletes competed in the Cross Country Season plus one athlete running once. In the VLAA State Cross Country Championships at Lardner Park, Warragul, U/9 Annie Egan came 16th, U9 Erin Holdway came 49th and U/11 David Thomson came 26th. In the Knox Little Athletics Centre Cross Country Championships, U/9 Annie Egan and U/11 David Thomson both won Silver Medals. U/8 Thomas Elliott and U/15 Josh Holdway both won Bronze Medals. In our club Cross Country awards U/9 Annie Egan won the Best Overall Girl and U/11 David Thomson won the Best Overall Boy Club Awards. In the Knox Centre Cross Country Awards, David Thomson won the U/11 Boys "Best in Age" Awards and U/9 Nicholas Elliott won 1st in the 1500m Handicap race. Bayswater Bullets came 3rd in the Max J. White Best Cross Country Club Shield 2006/07 Club Awards 2006/07 Championship Results 2007 Cross Country Results 2006/07 Annual Report PDF 2006/07 Annual Report
2007/08 Season Bayswater Bullets were in the Knox Leader newspaper in May 2007. See: http://www.knoxleader.com.au/article/2007/05/22/15062_knv_news.html Bayswater Bullets also has a mention and photo in the July 2007 Chris Pearce MP "Progress Report" on the Volunteer Small Equipment Grant which we received last season for our new BBQ. This can be viewed by clicking here Bayswater Bullets dropped their own 40th Anniversary celebrations at the season start, apart from the History computer DVD. A Knox Centre 40th Anniversary Sub-Committee was formed with Stephen Egan Chairperson and History Co-Ordinator. Life Member John Guerra was also on this committee as Knox Council liaison. We had 23 athletes registered this season. Please see the 2007/08 Season Diary page for the seasons weekly highlights! In the VLAA State Relay Championships, Annie Egan won a Gold Medal for the Knox Team in the U/10 Girls 4 x 200m Relay. David Thomson won a Gold Medal in the Boys Medley, a Silver in the 4 x 100m and a Bronze in the 4 x 200m Relays. Also competing were U/9 Jessica Thomson, U/7 Alex Barton-Smith and U/10 Erin Holdway. We had two athletes competing in the VLAA State Multi-Event Championships up at Alexandra Park, Albury against around fifty of the best athletes within the state for the title of best all round athlete in each age group. They both performed exceptionally well in both winning Gold Medals for their respective age groups and the first time for Bayswater Bullets. Bearing in mind there are only 14 gold's up for grabs. A new "Alberta" point scoring system was introduced this season. U/10 Annie Egan won with 932 points and U/12 David Thompson won with 1430 points. In the VLAA State Track & Field Championships, Annie Egan won a Bronze Medal in the 400m final and came 5th in both the 80m Hurdles and 800m finals. In the 60m Hurdles, Annie came 9th in just missing the final by 0.02 sec. U/10 Erin Holdway came 8th in the Discus and 9th in the Shot Put. U/12 David Thomson who was carrying a leg injury, came 7th in the 60m Hurdles Final, Eq 7th in the High Jump and 10th in the Long Jump, David was also10th in the 80m hurdles missing the final by 0.10 sec. Major club award winners for 2007/08 were U/10 Annie Egan as our Best Overall Girl, U/12 David Thomson as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Travel Perpetual 'Achievers' Shield Award was won by U/10 Emily Dewar. The most PB's for the season was by Youth Athlete Josh Holdway with 50 PB's. 12 Club records were broken with 6 of these by U/12 David Thomson, 3 by U/10 Annie Egan, 2 by U/12 Claire Elliott and one by U/10 Erin Holdway. In addition, Youth Athletes Josh Holdway and Sharnee Griffiths both established initial Youth Athlete club records. YA Josh Holdway broke 2 Knox Centre records and U/12 David Thomson 1 Knox record. Our Best Club Supporter was won by Rob Holdway.
2008 Winter Cross Country Season 13 athletes competed in the Cross Country Season plus two athletes running twice In the VLAA State Cross Country Championships at Lardner Park, Warragul, U/8 Jake Holdway came 24th. U/10 Annie Egan came 2nd winning an individual Silver Medal and a Bronze Team Medal for the Knox Centre. U/10 Emily Dewar came 64th and U10 Erin Holdway came 76th . In the Knox Little Athletics Centre Cross Country Championships, U/10 Annie Egan won a Gold Medal and U/6 Josh Dewar and U/8 Jake Holdway both won Bronze Medals. In our club Cross Country awards U/10 Annie Egan won the Best Overall Girl and U/6 Josh Dewar won the Best Overall Boy Club Awards. In the Knox Centre Cross Country Awards, Josh Dewar the won U/6 Boys "Best in Age" Award and Annie Egan was a equal winner in the U/10 Girls "Best in Age" Award. U/9 Stephanie White came 2nd in the 1500m Handicap race. Bayswater Bullets won the Max J. White Best Cross Country Club Shield for the first time since season 1985. Annie Egan was featured in the 13 Aug 2008 Knox Journal "Sports Star of the Week - 2008" for her efforts in at the State Cross Country Championships. The 400m in the article was actually a Bronze. Please click HERE! to view.
2007/08 Club Awards 2007/08 Championship Results 2008 Cross Country Results 2007/08 Annual Report PDF 2007/08 Annual Report
2008/09 Season We had 33 athletes registered for this season. Please see the 2008/09 Season Diary page for the seasons weekly highlights! The "Bayswater Bullets Little Athletics Club 40th Anniversary Local History Project" was completed by Stephen Egan in March 2009 and produced on DVD. In the VLAA State Relay Championships held at Olympic Park, Annie Egan won a Silver Medal for the Knox Team in the U/11 Girls 4 x 200m Relay, missing out on first place by just 0.03 sec. David Thomson's U/12-U15 Medley came 8th in the final. Three Bayswater athletes competed in the VLAA State Multi-Event Championships in Warrnambool against around fifty of the best athletes within the state for the title of best all round athlete in each age group. U/13 David Thomson won a State Multi-Event medal for the third year in a row with a bronze obtaining 1611 points. In the Under 11 Girls, Annie Egan came 7th with 926 points and Erin Holdway was 39th with 408 points.. At the VLAA State Track & Field Championships, U/11 Erin Holdway won her first State medal with a Bronze in the Shot Put in a club record of 8.22m. Erin was 12th in the Discus and 14th in the Javelin. U/11 Annie Egan won Gold Medals in the 800m and 1500m double to be State Champion in those events. She had dropped the 80m Hurdles event as it was within 6 minutes of the 800m Final, a decision which paid off. Annie came 5th in the 400m but broke a club record in the heat with a time of 1 min 07.29sec. U/13 David Thomson, who only completed the Discus event at the Regional Championships when injured in the Long Jump, came 5th in this event at State. Major club award winners for 2008/09 were U/11 Annie Egan as our Best Overall Girl, U/13 David Thomson as our Best Overall Boy and our RACV Travel Perpetual 'Achievers' Shield Award was won by U/11 Alan Damen. The most PB's for the season was by U/11 Annie Egan with 41 PB's. 22 Club records were broken with 8 of these by U/13 David Thomson, 5 by U/11 Annie Egan, 3 by U/11 Erin Holdway and one by U/8 Sarah Cobb and U/15 Deborah Elliott. In addition, U/12 Emma Thomson broke the Triple Jump (Board) record and the Long Jump (Board). U/12 Emma Heckenberg broke the Long Jump (Board) twice to retain it by the end of the season. Our Best Club Supporter was won by Karen Van Abel
2009 Winter Cross Country Season 21 Bayswater athletes regular competed in the Cross Country Season plus two athletes running less than four times which has been our best since the early 1990's. In the VLAA State Cross Country Championships at Bundoora Park, Bundoora, U/11 Annie Egan came 20th, U/11 Erin Holdway came 75th and U/13 David Thomson came 29th. In the Knox Little Athletics Centre Cross Country Championships, U/6 Troy Maggs and U/11 Annie Egan both won a Gold Medals and U/10 Nathan Dewar and U/13 David Thomson both won Bronze Medals. In our club Cross Country awards U/11 Annie Egan won the Best Overall Girl and U/13 David Thomson won the Best Overall Boy Club Awards. In the Knox Centre Cross Country Awards, Troy Maggs the won U/6 Boys "Best in Age" Award and David Thomson won the U/13 Boys "Best in Age" Award. U/11 Erin Holdway won the 2000m Handicap race. In the inaugural VLAA Sandown Cross Country Road Relays, Annie Egan's Knox U/11 Girls team came second Bayswater Bullets won the Max J. White Best Cross Country Club Shield for the second time in a row - four times since 1969.
2008/09 Club Awards 2008/09 Championship Results 2009 Cross Country Results 2008/09 Annual Report PDF 2008/09 Annual Report
2009/10 Season
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in September 2006 in conjunction with the Knox Historical Society, a joint
application was made for a "Local History Grant" from the Public
Records Office Victoria for the "Bayswater Bullets Little Athletics Club
40th Anniversary History Project" to be produced on a computer DVD.
The
first Knox Championships was held over the last three Saturdays of March 1969 as
one of the conditions set by the Boronia High School Advisory Council is that
competition had to be completed by 12 midday. This
picture was from one of the medal presentations of the Knox Little
Athletics Centre Championship Days, this one on 29th March 1969. Sir Gib Chandler, the Minister of
Agriculture and Knox Centre Patron is seen here
about to present the medals to the winning athletes in the Boys Under 10, 800
metres event. The Silver Medallist at the rear is a Bayswater athlete wearing
the original uniform of a Black Jacket and a Yellow Sash. The Gold medal winner in
the centre was Dean Chandler of Rangeview, a grandson of Mr Chandler, from the
early settler Boronia family. The
Bronze Medallist closest to the camera is Stephen Egan from Fairpark, who today
is the Secretary of Bayswater Bullets. Bayswater
won 18 Gold Medals in these Championships. 
From
an article in the Knox local paper on 16th April 1969: "Bayswater boy wins
medal at Olympic Park" - Bruce Beaton of Bayswater, competing in front of
over 6000 people, against representatives of 37 other centres throughout
Victoria, broke the Victorian Record for the 800 metre Walk, under 11, and won a
gold medal at the Victorian Championships of Little Athletics. Bruce completed
the walk in 4 min 12 sec, 8 seconds better than the previous record and 9
seconds better than his previous best time. Others to do well at Olympic Park
were Glenn Mackwell also of Bayswater who won Bronze in the Under 12, 800 metre
run.
At the KLAC First Annual Meeting on 27th May 1969, a
presentation was made by the Little Athletics Council for the Most Outstanding
Performance of the Year for the Knox Centre. This first winner was; "Bruce
Beaton of Bayswater, who, represented Knox at Olympic Park in April, set a new
Victorian Record, and became Knox's first State Gold Medallist". The Knox
Centre will make the award an annual one (and has been known since the 1969/70
season as the "John Bennett Memorial Trophy"). A photo of Bruce receiving
his medal at Olympic Park had been obtained for the records by KLAC. 
The Summer Track & Field
season was moved to Chandler
Park Reserve on Chandler Road, Boronia. We had our first 400m circular grass track which
included
the100m track in the centre. The Long and Triple jumps events were from edge of the tarmac
courts and the rest of the Field events were conducted within the centre of the
track. It remained here until the 1977/78 season. Age groups were
still from Under 8 to Under 12's. It was nothing like the superb rubberised running
track and facilities
which Knox Little Athletics Centre has today. Bayswater had 138 Registered
athletes.
Bayswater
was prominent in the Boys Under 9 1970 Victorian Relay Championships. Two out of
the four members were from our club in Robert Stent and Robert Vertessy. They
came third in the finals of the 100 metres Relay event.
The 1970 Cross Country winter season was held
at the Fairpark Reserve on Park Avenue, Ferntree Gully which was held only at this one
location.
An
overall successful season for us. Bayswater won the Lions Club "Overall
Club Shield", won the "Champion Girls Shield" and came second in
the "Champion Boys Shield". Deborah Brown won the Champion Girl of the
Knox Centre. To mark Bayswater's performance in
becoming the top club at KLAC, the club presented special medals to all 95
registered members of the club.
The
Committee approved Kerry
Hodgkinson's work she had done so far on Bayswater Bullets first 25 years and
asked her to proceed with it. Nearly all the content of these webpages is from
the work Kerry did in compiling our club's history. If this had not been done at
this time, it probably would have been lost forever as our club only has the
records from the 1990/91 season onwards.
formance
at High Jump and he was selected in the Victorian 1993 State Team. 
The
following article and picture was in the "Sport Extra" section of the
Knox News 10th May 1993
SPRINTER
Ben Sword surprised even himself when he broke two Australian Records recently.
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 the season. Lindel Hodgkinson won this year for her
performance in the High Jump at the Victorian State Championships. Also
in the Knox Centre Awards, Bayswater Bullets won the Knox Supporters Award. 
Photo
and article in the Knox News on 6th July 1999 with heading "Out-of-the-blocks
family"
The
VLAA "Athletics in Schools" program came to our region with "Our Lady
of Lourdes" Primary School in September and "Bayswater South" Primary School in
October. Photo to the left is from the latter school clinic, showing our Team Manager
Troy Williams, Australian Olympic and Commonwealth Games 5000m Athlete 
In the Eastern Regional Metropolitan Championships on 15/16th
February 2003, Bayswater
Under 13 athlete Brydee Moore (photo on left) won a Bronze Medal in the Shot
Put for abled bodied representing Knox This was converted to a Gold for the Disabled Section. She
also won Gold for Disabled Section in both the Discus and Javelin. Brydee's
results were Victorian Records under the Wheelchair Sports Australia
and Little Athletics. Brydee's sister Daragh (Best Bayswater Bullets Overall
Girl in 2001/02 Season) won a Bronze medal in the Under 10 High Jump in this
competition.
Brydee then competed in the 12th National Junior Games for the Disabled held
in Adelaide from 11th to 17th April 2003, which is held every second year. She
won three Gold Medals in the Under 14 Girls F33 Shot Put, Discus and Javelin as
well as breaking her own National records from the ERM Championships held
two months earlier. 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. 
