Junior development squad

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1 Bond University Triathlon Australia Collection Special Collections November 2016 Junior development squad Jane Hunt Follow this and additional works at: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Jane Hunt. (2016) "Junior development squad",,. This Article is brought to you by the Special Collections at epublications@bond. It has been accepted for inclusion in Triathlon Australia Collection by an authorized administrator of epublications@bond. For more information, please contact Bond University's Repository Coordinator.

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15 Triathlon Queensland Inc. a member of Triathlon Australia Affiliated with the Queensland Olympic Council TRI AT H LO N AU ST RA L IA P.O. Box 5510 Gold Coast M.C. Queensland 4217 Tel/Fax {075) TO : FROM : RE : DATE : Triathlon Australia ~ Secretary ALLOCATION OF INVITATIONS TO OVERSEAS RACES 1 2 Sept. l996 As a result of c oncerns e xpressed by our Junior Development Commit tee, TQ request s TA to explain what crit eri a has been used to send various juniors to internationa l races over the last few months. As well, c a n TA e xplain why J unior Nationa l Team members have been overlooke d for s uch v a luable internati onal competition oppo r t unities prio r to t h e i r World Championships? Yours since r ely!}j(~~ B {(~hapmaj SECRETARY Financially assisted by the Q u een sland Governmen t throu gh the Qu een sland Sports Developm ent Scheme Department of-t.ourism, Sport and r~uth

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42 C-""- TIC -- I'J TRIATHLON AUSTRALIA Robert Pickard Hi~h Perl"ormance M :ma~er Triathlon Australia PO Box 10 Deakin West ACT 2600 Ph 61(06) Fax 61(116) 285.no4 13:119:96 To : Secretary Triathlon Queensland Re: l. 16 Year Old I Olympic Distance 2. Allocation of Invitations for Overseas Races. Dear Brian, Thank you for your enquiries(dated 12 Sept,1996) re the above two points. The first point I will refer to the next Board meeting while the second point I will answer immediately. 2. Allocation oflm itation.. for O"erseas Races. This task has been completed by myself, the High Performance Manager and therefore if criticism is due, it should be directed at me. There were three invitations for Juniors to compete in Japan in the last 3 months. Invitation l(shodo Is) Belinda Cheney, Peter Robertson. This was offered to the current Junior Australian Champions. Joanne King had already left for Canada and therefore her position went to the next person, being Belinda. Invitation 2 (Tokyo Bay) Nicola Hoyle, Paul OBrien. Again offered to the next two Junior finishers from the Australian Championships Invitation 3 (Nakayama) Tyrone Easterbrook, Kionni Britt This invitation was originally sent to Triathlon Australia with the date of the race being 27 August. This was 2 days after the World Championships and therefore, in my opinion negated any of the Junior TWC team being invited. I made the decision to invite Tyron Easterbrook as he was first reserve to the Junior A team and was unlucky to miss out on team selection. I was th.en looking for a stiitable junior female to take the other place. The next couple of days a fax came through from Japan indicating that it was typing error and the date of the race was 27 JULY, not August and could they have a name CASIO. :=== AuCommissoon stra~ an Sports ==== i 18tifutoN UN I 0 N Founder Member ~ HUNGRY JACK'S 1 QOo/o RECYC SAUCON ~

43 .. -. in the next day. 1 had already invited Tyrone and I was not going to take the trip away from him at that stage. I couldn't ask any Junior A females as they were departing early August for Canada. I could have asked one of our Junior B females, but a few of them had already lost school time through the camp we had held at the AIS in late June plus were going to lose another week in August when they were away at the Worlds. I had one- day to make a decision on who to go. Not enough time to canvas all States. I decided to go with a junior girl, Kionni Britt from Qld, selected from the Casio 2000 squad for her attitude and keeness at the Mooloolaba camp. I can see that people may have been upset with the decision and I can understand their concern. But the circumstances were difficult at the time. In future, I will try and select from Australian Championship results as I have tried to do previously. Rob Pich.ard High Performance Manager

44 TO: FROM: RE: David Coles Tim Wilson National Executive Director StGeorge Mooloolaba Triathlon TRIATHLON AUSTRALIA PO Box 10 DEAKIN WEST ACT 2600 PH: (06) ~ FX: (06) ~ jjt :::; ll~p to.~ DATE: 2 March 1997 Dear David In refer to your query concerning drafting for juniors at the Mooloolaba event. I informed all 97 Tour race directors on the 2nd December: 1996 of the impending problems associated with new ITU junior drafting legislation (days after the ITU announcement). In my correspondence, [ ad, ised that TA intended to conduct drafting events for Juniors at both Devon port and Mooloolaba. In addition, I highlighted that the junior category could not be staged along with the elite wave (see attached correspondence). I have since been informed that Tony Fowler was no longer the race director and that Garth Pr-owd is now the race director. However, please note that as indicated in my correspondence of 2 December and subsequent representations to theta Board, that I recognise the timing of the ITU aonouncem.ent is a major concern for me and my associated race directors in staging junior events in which theta national selectors can appropriately selected an Australian Junior Team. Regards Tim 8'/a ture~c- ' I._ Owfi. ' ~ HUNGRY JACK'S 1 00% RECYCLED. SAUCONY ~

45 TRIATHLON A USTRALIA TO: FROM: TA Tour Race Directors Tim Wilson National Executive Director PO Box 10 DEAKIN ACT PH: (06) 285-'802 FX: (06) t DATE: 2 December 1996 RE: New Junior Categories Dear Race Directors L Recent decisions by the International Triathlon Union (ITU) executive board at meeting in Cancun Mexico will have an immediate impact on Tour events staging junior categories. Junior A (19-18) and Junior B (17-16) categories have been combined and are to be known as' Junior' for the 1997 Tr iathlon World Championships (TWC) in Per-th.!1! :!ddition, ctr:1fting is to be introduced into th~ Junior categor-y for the TWC in Perth. : This new development will create a problem for us ail Although it is to late for Elwood and Canberra, I hope I can do something for Devonport and Mooloolaba. That is to introduce drafting for juniors. Unfortunately, juniors can not be sent off with the elite because of the selection status of the event 2. Recent determination by theta Board will also allow those athletes 16 years on race day to race in the junior category. In addition, at junior selection races, juniors will follow the same rule as the elite category in regards to the wetsuit ntle. In the past junior s followed the higher water temp age group rule, where if wet suits were banned for age groups it also applied to the junior category. Any queries please contact me. Regards Tim 1WIATHlON ~ HUNGRY JACK'S 100% RECYCLE! SAUCONf UN I 0 N Founder Member ~

46 ILL:u eo :. 'J0lt_~ r_. _~ ~- TRIATHLON AUSTR-\LIA - TECflNICAL COl\-IMfl'TEE FAX TO: FROI\-1: RE: DATE: cc:. Tim Witson David Coles Nntional Championships- Mooloolaba P. Binnie, G. Kruger, M. Farr Tim, The Technical Delegate of the Mooloolaba Race has informed me( via Paul Binnie) of a potential problem. During discussions with Tony Fowler it was mentioned by the Race Director that he had no knowledge of any plans of a Junior-only Draft Legal Race associated w:ith the Mooloolaba Nationals. Furthermore he cannot see the possibility of adding another, separate race to the -program (given council and police pressure) to accomodate the requirement of a separate race for this group. The Technical Panel of the Race and the T.A. Technical Committee will not support a Junior Wave being incorporated into the Senior race or any other section of the existing race_, if the Junior section is to be Draft LegaL Please advise the Committee of the current status of the junior race. Recra.rds 0 David

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