ACTOC Annual Report 2015 Annual... · 2019-07-23 · 5 President’s Report The Australian Capital...

2015 ANNUAL REPORT

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Address: C/- 53 Glasgow Street HUGHES ACT 2602 Website: www.olympics.com.au/act/ E-mail: See ‘Contact Us’ in www.olympics.com.au/act/ Formed: December 1979 (as ACT Olympic Sports Association) Patron: Andrew Barr MLA Chief Minister of the ACT President: Robin Poke AM Vice President: Andrew Dee Treasurer: Harry Carroll Secretary: Bruce Coe Executive Members: Kim Crow Owen Heness Jenny Owens (Ceased 12 June 2015) Brendon Prout Marty Rabjohns (Olympians) Heather Reid AM Lachlan Searle (Ceased 30 March 2015) Auditors: Ernst & Young Life Members: Peter Anderson OAM David Dickson Denis Wilson AM

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Contents Sports Directory President’s Report Page 5 Treasurer’s Report Page 7 Education Page 8 – Pierre de Coubertin recipients Page 9 Olympians Page 10 Financial Reports Page 11 Olympic Team Partners & Suppliers Page 26

Sports Directory

ARCHERY www.archeryact.asn.au ATHLETICS www.athleticsact.org.au BADMINTON www.badmintonact.asn.au BASEBALL www.act.baseball.com.au BASKETBALL www.act.basketball.net.au BOXING www.boxingact.org.au CYCLING www.act.cycling.org.au EQUESTRIAN www.actea.asn.au FENCING www.actfa.org.au FOOTBALL www.capitalfootball.com.au GOLF www.actgolf.com.au GYMNASTICS https://act.gymnastics.org.au/ HANDBALL www.acthandball.org.au HOCKEY www.hockeyact.org.au ICE HOCKEY www.ihact.org.au ICE SKATING www.actisa.asn.au JUDO www.judoact.com ROWING www.rowingact.org.au RUGBY www.brumbies.com.au SAILING www.act.yachting.org.au SHOOTING – Clay www.canberrainter.org.au SHOOTING – Pistol www.pistol.org.au/about/associations SHOOTING – Rifle www.canberrarifleclub.org.au SNOW SPORTS www.snowsportsact.com.au SOFTBALL www.act.softball.org.au SWIMMING www.swimmingact.com.au TABLE TENNIS www.tabletennisact.org.au TENNIS www.tennis.com.au/act/ TRIATHLON www.triathlonact.com.au VOLLEYBALL www.volleyballact.com.au WATER POLO www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=1-3212-0-0-0&sID=311215# WEIGHTLIFTING A website currently inaccessible WRESTLING www.act.wrestling.com.au

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President’s Report The Australian Capital Territory Olympic Council (ACTOC) represents the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) in the ACT and is recognised as the ‘umbrella’ organisation in the Territory for the associations whose sports are among those on the Winter and Summer Olympic programs. ACTOC also promotes the interests and activities of Olympians resident in Canberra and provides administrative support to the Olympians Club of the ACT. It liaises with the ACT Government, its departments and agencies, including the ACT Academy of Sport, and supports the AOC’s education program by liaising with and providing material to schools and educational authorities as part of promoting the Olympic Movement, its ideals and ACTOC activities. It also assists the AOC in raising funds for Australian athletes preparing to participate in the Olympic Games. It therefore has a key role in the ACT’s sporting and community activities, and I am pleased to present the Council’s 2015 Annual Report and to outline the activities that took place during the year. For the Council’s Secretary, Bruce Coe, and myself, the year began on a sad note with the death in Queensland of long-time AOC historian Harry Gordon. As fellow historians Bruce and I had always been very close to Harry, and for that reason ensured our presence at memorial services for him held on the Gold Coast and in Melbourne. Harry made a magnificent contribution to the chronicling of the Australian Olympic Committee, and, thereby the State and Territory Councils, and will be sorely missed. A major facet of the Council’s ongoing strategic plan incorporates the AOC’s requirements regarding fundraising. As was the case in 2014, a significant amount of time was spent in the early part of this year consulting with the AOC about putting such strategies in place as part of the 2016 Australian Olympic Team Appeal. A meeting of State Olympic Councils at the AOC AGM, attended by Bruce Coe, provided a fundraising template, while meetings were also held in Canberra with potential chairs of a fundraising committee. The strategies formulated eventually came part-way to fruition with the appointment of prominent businessman Paul Powderly as chair of the committee. Mr Powderly is the local head of the national property company Colliers International and has excellent fundraising credentials. Vice President Andrew Dee and I met Paul in September at Colliers, and were impressed by his business and government networking potential and the plans he wanted to put in place. By year’s end he had met AOC President John Coates and Chief Minister Andrew Barr and assembled a committee of corporate identities. We await with interest further developments. Independently of the fundraising committee we are in negotiations with Canberra Tradies about an Olympic Trivia Quiz. Assistant Secretary Owen Heness once again took responsibility for the administration of the annual Pierre de Coubertin awards, a key facet of the AOC’s education program. The awards engage students from Canberra’s secondary schools and colleges, whose nominees are required to have taken an active part in their schools’ sporting activities and to have also prepared a literary or artistic work demonstrating their appreciation of the Olympic Movement and its values. On Friday 19 June, four days before the internationally-recognised Olympic Day, 32 students were presented at the Weston Campus of the Canberra College with their awards by rowing Olympians Marty Rabjohns and Hannah Every-Hall, who also enthralled the students with descriptions of their Olympic exploits and what the Olympics and representing Australia meant to them. The Council again wishes to record its appreciation to Diane Heness, who once more provided superb catering. I presented a token of the AOC’s and the Council’s appreciation to Jenny Noordhuis who,

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after many years’ service, stepped down from her role as the ACT Department of Education’s link to ACTOC and the awards. We were able to facilitate the attendance at the 2015 International Pierre de Coubertin Youth Forum of Canberra Girls Grammar student Olivia Sutton, a previous recipient of a Pierre de Coubertin award. An outstanding candidate, Olivia was the school’s sports captain for 2015, helped organise athletics, cross-country and swimming carnivals, and arranged a variety of fundraising functions. We were also very happy to part-subsidise her journey to Slovakia. Olympians, some 130 of whom live in the ACT, are role models to sportspeople of all ages and abilities, most notably aspiring Olympians, and are a great resource, potentially, in terms of assisting the Council’s fundraising efforts and profile. In recent years, however, only a few Olympians have either assisted with or attended events organised by the Council. There were signs in 2015 of assistance and encouragement, but the Olympians Club remains a work in progress. We were nevertheless delighted by the accomplishments of those Olympians or potential Olympians preparing to compete in Rio, notably Council member Kim Crow, winner of the single sculls at this year’s world championships in France. We later also congratulated Kim, and her sculler husband, Scott Brennan, a 2008 Olympic gold medallist, on their marriage. I was delighted early in the year to receive agreement from Chief Minister Andrew Barr that he would accept the position of the Council’s Patron. The Council continued to maintain an excellent relationship with the ACT Government, notably with Mr Barr’s successor as sports minister, Shane Rattenbury. The good relationship we had with the ACT’s sports lobby group ACTSport ended when Mr Rattenbury announced that the organisation would cease operating, but not before Bruce Coe, in his capacity as a member of ACTSport’s ACT Hall of Fame selection committee, had successfully re-nominated Olympic basketballer the late Sue Geh. Bruce and I attended Sue’s induction, at which we met and congratulated members of her family. I had meanwhile facilitated the signing by Mr Barr of a letter to the President of the Australian Olympic Committee, John Coates, supporting a change in the AOC’s constitution ‘to recognise the heritage, culture and contribution of our nation’s first people, and to give practical support to the issue of indigenous reconciliation through sport’. Among several other networking opportunities arising during the year were the launching at the University of Canberra’s Sports Hub of elite athlete scholarships, and a charity fundraising quiz night organised and hosted by Steve Doszpot MLA for which the Council contributed Olympic ‘collectables’. Marty Rabjohns and I arranged and attended a rowing Olympians’ social function for the 2015 world championships women’s eight, while I accepted an invitation from Basketball ACT to attend the opening ceremony of the 2015 Australian Schools Championships. I also attended, when appropriate, social functions at the Brazilian Embassy. ACTOC has maintained a cordial relationship with the executive and staff of the AOC in the areas of Olympic history, website operations and the AOC database. Treasurer Harry Carroll, contributed to the AOC’s efforts relating to best practice in governance by providing sound counsel on the financial management of State Olympic Councils (SOCs). Harry, Bruce Coe and I attended the pre-OIympics ‘Aspire’ event at the Australian Institute of Sport and Bruce was the Council’s constant ‘attendee’ of the regular AOC/SOCs teleconferences.

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I wish to thank all members of the executive for their support and assistance throughout the year. Despite ongoing professional and personal difficulties, now resolved, Andrew Dee, provided great support to me, as did Bruce Coe, a tower of strength, prepared always to deal not only with ‘regulation’ tasks but also those from ’left field’ allocated to him by the AOC. Harry and Owen maintained the support they have delivered over a number of years, while behind the scenes Brendon Prout quietly facilitated venue opportunities and gave sound advice. Robin Poke

Treasurer’s Report All fundraising revenue and expenditure is processed through the AOC accounts and does not appear in the ACTOC Financial Statements. The AOC provides $5,000 in revenue for the ACTOC to undertake day- to-day activities in representing the AOC in the ACT. In 2015 we spent $3,076 of the $5,000. With the additional $236 raised by ACTOC, this left a surplus of $2,160 for 2015. The majority of expenditure was spent on conducting the Pierre de Coubertin Awards and supporting a previous recipient to attend the international forum ($500). Other expenditure included attendance at functions representing the AOC, such as Sports Hall of Fame dinner, catering at council meetings and general administration costs. All fundraising revenue and expenditure is processed through the AOC accounts and does not appear in the ACTOC Financial Statements. I would like to thank the President, Robin Poke, Secretary, Bruce Coe, Vice President, Andrew Dee and the rest of the committee for their support during 2015. Harry Carroll

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Education

Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of effort, the educational value of good example, social responsibility and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

Olympic Charter Fundamental Principles of Olympism (No. 1)

The AOC’s a.s.p.i.r.e. school network aims to highlight the Olympic sport traditions and values as the context for teaching life values and life skills.

The Pierre de Coubertin Awards continued to be ACTOC’s contribution to the AOC’s Olympic education program. These awards were administered and promoted by ACTOC in conjunction with the ACT Department of Education and Training and Sport and Recreation ACT. Dianne Desmet of the Department provided invaluable support in the functioning of the scheme through coordinating the distribution of the nomination forms to all government and independent high schools and colleges in the ACT, receiving all applications, arranging the venue and providing other administrative support. Jenny Noordhuis who, after many years’ of sterling service, stepped down during the year from her role as the Department’s link to ACTOC with the awards, The awards were presented on the basis of students actively participating in school physical education and sport programs and the production of a piece of work, literary or artistic, depicting an appreciation of the Olympic Games. All high schools and colleges in the ACT were invited to nominate one student each, from years 10, 11 or 12. On 19 June 2015, a presentation morning was conducted in the Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning at the Weston campus of the Canberra College. Rowing Olympians Marty Rabjohns and Hannah Every-Hall, enthralled the audience of students, teachers, parents and friends with descriptions of their Olympic exploits and what the Olympics and representing Australia meant to them. Both then presented the 32 award recipients with their framed certificates, AOC pins and a copy of the book Olympic Gold: Our greatest individual Olympians since 1896.

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Recipients of 2015 Pierre de Coubertin Awards

The theme for works in 2015 was: Participation in sport being a core value of the Olympic Games.

Riley Budd Mt Stromlo High School Leila Basic Narrabundah College Nathan De Meillon Trinity Christian School Emily French Dickson College Jessica Giovinazzo Melba Copland Secondary College Taylah Grady St Mary MacKillop College Portia Sarris Canberra Girls’ Grammar School Laura Pease Canberra High School Lauren Quilter Canberra College Catherine Risbey Gungahlin College Kieran Reilly Marist College Jamie Stewart Campbell High School Abigail Ryan St Clare’s College Sophie Lambie-Haylan Gold Creek School Patrick Kirk Burgmann Anglican School Sarah Daisley Melrose High School Britney Gill Belconnen High School Izaiah Lomax Harrison School Ben Pratt Erindale College James Roberts Telopea Park School Freya Brent Radford College Hayley Mason Wanniassa School Jacob Emmerton Mulwaree High School, Goulburn, NSW Sarah White St Francis Xavier College Kendrick Seignarack Lanyon High School Daniel Smart Canberra Grammar School Meagan Wigney Lyneham High School Tanisha Jory Amaroo School Jake Lewkowicz Caroline Chisholm High School Madeline Morton Daramalan College Zoe Haseler Merici College Danielle Jager UCSSC Lake Ginninderra

One of the recipients, Ben Pratt from Erindale College, had represented Australia as a

wrestler at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.

Olivia Sutton of Canberra Girls’ Grammar School, a 2014 award recipient, attended the 10th International Pierre de Coubertin Youth Forum in Slovakia, in August–September.

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Olympians Activity-wise, the Olympians Club of the ACT had a relatively quiet year. After finishing an excellent seventh in the Women’s Aerials at Sochi 2014, Laura Peel annexed the world title in the event at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships held in Kreischberg, Austria. On the waters at Aiguebelette, France, Kim Crow regained the single sculls title at the FISA Rowing World Championship that she had previously won in 2013. Caroline Buchanan finished second in the elite women’s event at UCI BMX World Championships held in Zolder, Belgium. London Olympians Melissa Breen and Lauren Wells competed at the 15th IAAF World Championships held in Beijing. Lauren made it through to the semi-finals of the 400 metres hurdles for the third successive world championships. Aspiring Olympian Rebecca Wiasak won the individual pursuit at the UCI Track Cycling World Championship held in Paris. She successfully defended that title at the 2016 world championships held in London. Basketballer Sue Geh was belatedly inducted in to the ACT Sport Hall of Fame, joining 25 other Olympians, as a full member. She was scholarship holder at the Australian Institute of Sport 1983–84, a member of Australian women’s basketball teams 1983–1986, including the 1984 Olympics Games in Los Angeles. When selected for Los Angeles 1984, Sue was the first ACT-born female basketballer to join the national women’s team. The ACT community had previously recognised her contribution to sport by naming a street in her honour in 1999 in the suburb of Nicholls where the theme for the street names is ‘Sportsmen and Sportswomen’. Away from sporting competitions, Sasa Sestic, 2000 Olympian in handball, won the Barista World Championship held in Seattle.

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