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Big Turnout at Ryde Athletics

Centre Presentation Day &

AGM The Auditorium at Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club was filled with excited Little Athletes, parents and grandparents on Sunday 19th May waiting to see who was going to win what awards at our Annual Presentation Day. With a number of special guest presenters including Bennelong Federal MP, John Alexander, Jim Hull OAM, Betty Moore, Trent Whalan & Margaret Davey, the afternoon was soon underway. Special mention to our U7 girls & parent who were one of the first groups to get their awards who all stayed on and cheered on the rest of the groups. Ryde Pryde well and truly alive amongst this age group. Congratulations to all our athletes whose achievements were celebrated that afternoon.

Major Little Athletics Trophy winners for the 2012/2013 season were;

The Julie Reynolds Spirit of Ryde Athletics Award

Won by the Sunderland Family, Dave & Justin Jim Scullion shields for most improved Under 6 athletes. Girls – Isabel Dooley Boys – Owen Chandler Lyn Crawford All Round Trophy for U/7's to U/11's Won by Chiara Lillis

Trent Whalan True Blue Medal Won by Chloe Davis & Zoe Latham

Ryde Sports Foundation All Round Trophy for Under 12’s to Under 17’s Won by Justin Sunderland

Louise Trimble Jumps Trophy

Won by Sachi Kayama

Bob Crawford Throws Trophy

Won by Nicholas Kelland

Merrin Aldridge Sprints Trophy & the Betty Moore Trophy for Outstanding Hurdles

Performance. Won by Jordan Metcalfe

Shannon Arnott Single Most Outstanding Performance Trophy & the David Lewis Middle Distance Trophy

Won by Harrison Wade

Steve Refenes Medal for setting State records

Girls U17 Discus/Shot Put Relay team - Maddy Bergfield, Sachi Kayama, Sarah Kelland, Kara Talty, Niamh Simula Junior Boys 4 x800m Relay team - Jett Tall, Harry Stevenson, Jeremy Plummer, and Adam Bruntsch. Jordan Metcalfe (U10 60m hurdles), Harrison Wade (U13 3000m) Exceptional Effort Trophy Won by Christian Ridey

Luke Adams Trophy for Race Walking Won by Georgia Arcus

Sportsmanship Award Won by Stephanie Wilson

Life membership of Ryde Athletics

Simon & Louise Bergfield

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22nd May 2013 Issue 16 12/13

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AAAwwwaaarrrdddsss Jack Armson & Ryan Thompson

Xavier Calder, William Gore, James Hanlon, Haydn Houssenloge, Veronika Jukic, Sarah Kelland and Ed Penrose

Full Age group Results Age Girls Boys

U/6 1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Georgia Phillips Jessica Johnston Gabriella Rushworth

Regan Dinh Sienna Beram Ella Costigan

1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Marcus Signorelli Jeremy Jubb Aarish Mistry Toby Dorahy Maxx Heaton Jordan Morris

U/7 1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Natasha Fairhall Alicia O’Connor Sophie Byrne Allanah Burns Ruby Worrell Nellie Muir

1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Owen Douglas, Harry Court James Lugsdin Dominic Herngren Lachlan Wong Ivan Prizmic

Most Improved

Allanah Burns Dominic Herngren

U/8 1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Clare Doherty Mikayla Kelleher Alexis Aldous Emma Lamers Emily Metcalfe Izabella Kalachian

1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Jeremy Plummer Luke Jubb Ashton Gleeson Benjamin Harris Luke Andriopoulos Toby Stanley

Most improved

Izabella Kalachian

Thomas Ralph

U/9 1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Chiara Lillis Sophie Lamers Georgia Arcus Montanah Signorelli Zoe Redwin Aneeka Sutherland-Robinson

1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Adam Bruntsch Liam O’Donovan Tom Stone Henry Worrell Marcus Badaoui Andre Bianchi

Most improved Montanah Signorelli

Henry Worrell

U/10 1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Portia Amy-Wilson Alyssa Lowe Sophie Boland Rachel Fairhall Emma Brown Mikaela Bruntsch

1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Jordan Metcalfe Joshua Arcus Jett Tall Martin Leerberg Adam Jubb Elija Keenan

Most improved Isabella Sheehan

Adam Jubb

U/11 1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Eleanor Plummer Lydia Todoroska Lauren Hilder Emily Ralph Mia Flodin Danijela Dobric

1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Christian Cirino James Bragg Noah Hain Harry Stevenson Ronald Ryan Zane Camroux

Most improved Emily Ralph

Moses Vartikian & Charlie Workman

Full Age group Results U/12 1

st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Anna Badaoui Julia Kelland Katrina Lyon Hannah Tall Junyi Fang Daniella Bianchi

1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Daniel Bowtell Marko Prizmic Samuel Plummer Oliver Arcus Benjamin Nogajski Michael Matheson

Most improved Daniella Bianchi

Benjamin Nogajski

U/13 1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Chloe Davis Amy Court, Zoe Latham Cherie Pan Brooke Matheson Emma Brown

1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Justin Sunderland

Thomas Rice Jay Butler. Tony Huang Alexander Galati Luke McLachlan

Most improved Emma Brown

Alexander Galati

U/14 1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Katherine Du Jadine Zajic Scarlett Kidman Crystal Overton Nicola Bowtell Claire Higginson

1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Dylan Rodgers Lance Cheney Raymond Ahsan Mitchell Byrne Chuan Jiang Sam Hain

Most improved

Crystal Overton Mitchell Byrne

U/15 1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Sarah Kelland, Eugenia Munoz Prieto Sierra Collender Veronika Jukic Simone Rodgers

Haydn Houssenloge Nicholas Purcell James Hanlon, William Gore Gaurav Gholkar

Jango Tsang

Most improved

Veronica Jukic William Gore

U/17 1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Maddy Bergfield Kirsten Parker Niamh Simula Sarah Pak Kara Talty Lenora Cagica

1st

2nd

3

rd

4th

5th

6th

Anthony Overton Antonio Galati Jack Rodgers Jayden Young Xavier Calder Patrick Harrison

Most improved

Sarah Pak Jayden Young

Upcoming Little Athletics Events

Registration Day for 2013-14 is Sunday,

25th August 2013 from 10-2 at Dunbar.

Reminder emails will be sent to the email on

file in the registration system - if you have

changed emails, please remember to update

them, or advise Kate registrar@ryde-

athletics.org.au If it is raining, please check

our website http://www.ryde-athletics.org.au/

for more information.

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Winner of the Ian Pereira Memorial Trophy (Relays) Was the Under 14 Women’s 4 x 100 metres Relay (C Pan, K Cooper-Phillis, B Matheson, N Bowtell, and A Court) Winner of the Jean Hill Memorial Trophy for Most Outstanding Walker Was Sarah Kelland Winner of the E. G. Buckingham Trophy for Most Outstanding Under 18 Track Athlete Was Georgia Winkcup Winner of the W. S. Shield Trophy for Most Outstanding Under 18 Field Athlete Were Maddy Bergfield & Sachi Kayama Winner of the E. Godfrey Trophy for Most Outstanding Under 14 Athlete Was Harrison Wade Outstanding Individual Performances All-rounder –Voitek Klimiuk Jumps – Sam Hain & Cameron Pappas Middle Distance – Ed Penrose Winner of the Mrs F Downing Trophy for Most Outstanding Field Athlete & Winner of the Davis Family Trophy for Most Outstanding Field Athlete Was Ben Cox Winner of the Hellyer-Read Sprint Achievement Award Was Nicola Bowtell Winners of the Most Outstanding Veteran Field Athlete Was Lajos Joni The Senior Captains for 2013/2014 were also elected at the AGM and congratulations to Maddy Bergfield and Nicholas Kelland. For further details on our Seniors Division please contact Ross Forster on 9801 4407. Below Ryde Seniors Coach Ross Forster was presented with a special coaching award. Ross was joined on stage by a some of the many athletes he has coached. Congratulations Ross.

Nicola Bowtell Nicola Bowtell

Nicola Bowtell

Senior’s News Major trophy winners in our Senior Division Following on straight after our Little A presentation day each year is the Senior’s Trophy Presentation. Congratulation to all the winners as listed below Winner of the

Michael Atterton Trophy for Most Outstanding Female Athlete,

Mrs F. Downing Trophy for Most Outstanding Track Athlete and the

G. C. Spittler Memorial Trophy for Middle Distance

Waterford-Wade Memorial Trophy for Cross Country

Burke Family Trophy for Most outstanding Under 20 Track

Was Kate Spencer. Winner of the Cramp-Mitchell Trophy for Most Outstanding Under 16 Track Athlete

Was Sierra Collender Winner of the E. Godfrey Trophy for Most Outstanding Under 16 Field Athlete

Was Johanna Volos Winner of the Betty Moore Trophy for Best Club Athlete

Was Andrew Atkinson-Howatt Winner of the Most Outstanding Veteran Track Athlete

Was Ron Wills & Sue Gore Winner of the Kendall Simpson Memorial Trophy for Most Outstanding Male Athlete

Was Robert Hanbury-Brown

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Your Little Athletics

Committee for 2013/14

PRESIDENT: Ron Daniel VICE PRESIDENT: Dave Sunderland SECRETARY: Vacant ASS’T SECRETARY: Andrew Wilson TREASURER: Paul Simula REGISTRAR: Kate Kelland AGE MANAGER: Janine Bowtell FIRST-AID: Carla Matheson BBQ: Jo Houssenloge CANTEEN: Linda Hanlon CHAMPIONSHIPS; Mark Lillis COACHING: Craig Matheson ASST COACH: Thomas Jubb EQUIPMENT: Tristan Tall OFFICIALS: Vacant PUBLICITY: Peter Davis RESULTS: Linda Talty SOCIAL DIRECTOR; Clare Boland TRACK and FIELD OFFICER: Dave Sunderland Chief – Track ; Dave Sunderland Chief - Throws: Simon Bergfield Chief - High Jump: Chief - Long Jump: UNIFORMS: Louise Badaoui WEB SITE: Simon Bergfield/Ron Daniel

Your Club needs new

Committee Members

As you’ll see from the above we have two important vacancies to fill on our Committee, Secretary & Officer for Officials. Our Club needs new members to join the Committee to keep it going. If you and your children enjoy Little A and would like a stronger say in how our Club is run then one of these may be the roles for you. The key responsibilities of the roles are detailed below. Secretary (a)Give notice of upcoming Committee meetings (b)Compile agendas for Committee meetings and take & distribute minutes of the meetings. (c) maintain and handle a file of correspondence in and out (d) keep on file, all material that may assist the organisation of the Club’s activities;

(e) file all results of athletic competitions conducted by the Club; (f) act on behalf of the Club as directed by the Executive; and (g) assist Committee members as required.

The Officer for Officials (a) ensure that all parent helpers sign the Helper register before going on the field (b) help coordinate a pre-season training session for parents on how to help at events (c) coordinate helpers out on the field so all events are covered (d) report to the Executive on the availability and standard of officials and submit a list of officials present at Championships; (e) be responsible for the organising of officials for attendance at Zone, Region and State Championships. No one on our Committee works alone. There will always be someone to offer help or to talk things over if you choose to take these roles. If you are enthusiastic about getting all our parents out helping on the field then Officer for Officials may be for you. This is a key role in ensuring we have coverage for our events on a Saturday morning and at Carnivals. Our Secretary role currently comes with an Assistant Secretary so there is already someone to share the load with! If you are passionate about ensuring that you and your family can get the most out of their time here at Ryde then please consider joining the Committee. As someone who has spent three years on the Committee I can say that it is a great Committee who are interested in making the Club as good as it can be and the Little Athletics experience a great one. If you are interested in finding out more then please email our Club President Ron Daniel at

ron.daniel58@gmail.com.

Do you need a Baby sitter? Need a night out? 17 year old experienced babysitter, great with children, especially little athletes! Reasonable rates. Please contact Maddy on 98765063 or rlapublicity@hotmail.com.

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Presentation Day 2013

A very proud dad. Dave & Justin Sunderland. Great ambassadors for Ryde Little Athletics and well deserving winners of the Julie Reynolds Spirit of Ryde Trophy

Above the U6 Boy Placegetters and the winner of the Scullion shield for Most Improved, Owen Chandler

My last Footprint After 49 editions of Footprint it is time to hand over to a new Publicity Officer. Over the past three years I have tried to make our newsletter a more regular, more colourful and bigger feature in our member’s homes than in has been in the past. It’s covered all the major carnivals, records, blue patches, state, national and international representation as well as examples of some good old fashioned friendships and club spirit. I’ve tried to include our Seniors as well, as Ryde is first and foremost, an athletic centre that caters for athletes from Tots to over 70’s. Thank you to all my regular contributors with the camera. I hope that you’ll keep up the contribution with our new Publicity Officer, Peter Davis. You can look forward to his first edition later this year. I will miss being involved as much in the Junior Club but haven’t moved too far away as I have joined our Senior Club committee as their Publicity Officer! Louise Bergfield

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Above the U6 Girls and Winner of the Scullion Shield for Most Improved, Isabel Dooley

Maddy Bergfield presented Dylan, Jessica & Owen with an award for attending every week & competing in every event. At right are Jordan & Harrison being presented by John Alexander with the Steve Refenes Medal for setting new State records as are below Niamh, Sarah, Maddy, Jett, Jeremy & Adam who were members of the U17 Girls throws team and Junior boys 4 x800m that set new State records at Little A State Relays.

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Above Christian Ridey was presented with the Exceptional Effort Trophy by John Alexander & Nicholas Kelland winner of the Bob Crawford Throws Trophy presented by Ian Trimble. Below Betty Moore presented Jordan Metcalfe with the Betty Moore Hurdles Trophy & the Merryn Aldridge Sprints Trophy. Sarah Kelland presented Georgia Arcus with the Luke Adams Walks Trophy.

Sarah Kelland & Haydn Houssenloge received 5 year Service Awards from John Alexander and Stephanie Wilson the Sportsmanship Award from Ron Daniel.

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Above Harrison Wade collected both the David Lewis Middle Distance Trophy & the Shannon Arnott Single Most Outstanding Performance Award. Trent Whalan presented Chloe Davis & Zoe Latham with the Trent Whalan True Blue Medal.

Above Ross Forster presented Chiara Lillis with the Lyn Crawford All Round Trophy for U7-U11 & Jim Hull OAM presented Justin Sunderland with the Ryde Sports Foundation All Round Trophy for U12-U17. Justin will do the Club proud wearing the No.1 shirt next season. Below The U7 Boys with Age Manager Alison

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Left; The U7 Girls with Darren. Directly below left the U8 Girls with Jo-Anne and below right the U8 Boys. Third Row is Age Manager Mark with the U9 Girls and to their right are the U9 Boys with Daniel & his Assistant Age Manager Michael.

Thank you to all our Age Managers and Assistant Age Managers for the great job you do.

At Left New Club Life Members, Louise & Simon Bergfield.

Have you checked out the new photo galleries on our website? Since the end of the competition season some changes have been made to our website including the addition of a number of photo galleries. Please go to http://www.ryde-athletics.org.au/ and select “photo galleries” on the left hand side for photos from around our field and the big carnivals during the last season. We have also improved the look of our website with a photo slide show on the home page. So check that out too!

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Above Andrew & the U10 Girls. The U10 Boys with Amanda. Below the U11 Girl with Ivana & Michael & the U11 Boys

Below Bruce & the U12 Girls and Janine with the U12 Boys

Trophy Collection Dates in June If you still haven’t collected your trophy from the Age Group Trophies Day in March or from the AGM on the weekend you should be able to collect them from our Committee Rooms at Dunbar on 16th and 23rd June from 10.15 to 11.30am.

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Craig & the U13 Girls & Helen & the U13 Boys. Below Josephine with the U14 Girls & Jenny with the U14 Boys Bottom U15/17 Boys & U15/17 Girls

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Ryde Seniors Presentation Day 2013

Above If only Kate Spencer were a thrower she might be able to lift the five trophies she won at the Seniors Day! Well done Kate on winning the Michael Atterton Trophy for Most Outstanding Female Athlete, the Mrs F. Downing Trophy for Most Outstanding Track Athlete, the G. C. Spittler Memorial Trophy for Middle Distance, the Waterford-Wade Memorial Trophy for Cross Country & the Burke Family Trophy for Most Outstanding Under 20 Track Athlete.

Above Andrew Atkinson-Howatt won Best Club Athlete & Nicola Bowtell the Hellyer-Read Sprint Achievement Award

Above Ron Wills & Sue Gore shared the Award for Most Outstanding Veteran Track Athlete & Sarah Kelland won the Jean Hill Memorial Trophy for Race Walking

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Above Life Member Margaret Davies presented Maddy Bergfield with the W S Shield Trophy for Most Outstanding U18 Field Athlete and Georgia Winkcup the E G Buckingham Trophy for Most Outstanding U18 Track Athlete

Andrew presents Brooke Matheson, Amy Court & Nicola Bowtell with the Ian Pereira Memorial Trophy (Relays) Ros Mitchell presents Johanna Volos with the E. Godfrey Trophy for Most Outstanding Under 16 Field Athlete.

Ros Mitchell presents Harrison Wade with the E. Godfrey Trophy for Most Outstanding Under 14 Athlete and Ross present Voitek Klimiuk with a Trophy for Outstanding Individual Performances (All Rounder).

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Ross Forster presented Sam Hain and Ed Penrose with Trophies for Outstanding Performances in Jumps (Sam) and Middle Distance (Ed).

Zoe & Harrison at the Australian Little Athletics Championships Two of our Athletes, Zoe Latham & Harrison Wade were recently selected in the NSW team and competed at the Australian Little Athletics Championships (ALAC) on Sunday 28 April 2013 at the AIS Athletics Track, Canberra, ACT. Harrison competing in the U13 Boys finished 2nd in the 1500m and 4th in the 800m. Zoe in the U13 Girls finished 5th in the 400m, 6th in the High Jump and 10th in the 800m. Great results at a national level to our two Ryde athletes.