SUTHERLAND SHIRE NETBALL ASSOCIATION INC. MINUTES DELEGATES MEETING 15 th February 2012 MEETING OPENED: PRESENT: APOLOGIES: 7.50pm As per attendance book Vanessa Mitchell Heathcote ENC Lisa Woodham Storm Julian Finch Connells Pt Yvonne Vickers Executive Dianne Ward Executive Alison James Comets Meredith Douglas Jannali Jo Saunders - Sylvania MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING: Gymea Executive BUSINESS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS MEETING: Court works at Bellingara. Fence has been erected and work commenced. Concern that works will not be completed by Day 1. Executive moved that Day 1 be moved back until 21 st April and practical grading be moved back until 10 th March. Seconded by Storm N/C. CARRIED CORRESPONDENCE IN: 1. Various Accounts 2. Netball NSW Round Robin 3. Netball NSW Invitation 4. Sutherland Shire Council Sports & Active Communities Sub Committee 5. M Brook Grading Committee 6. Oncology Foundation Thankyou 7. Leader Sportstar of the month award 8. R Aitkin Thankyou 9. Penrith N/A Carnival Invitation
10. Cessnock N/A Carnival Invitation 11. Wyong N/A Carnival Invitation 12. Liverpool N/A Carnival Invitation 13. Netball NSW Postal Voting Policy 14. Entire Fitness Fitness Training 2012 15. C Corbett Thankyou 16. Sutherland Shire Council Public Liability 17. Queanbeyan N/A Carnival Invitation 18. Netball NSW Election of Directors 19. Netball NSW Postal Voting Policy 20. M & J Beudeker Club transfer 21. Storm N/C Life Membership Nomination 22. Air 55 P/L Indoor sports facilities 23. Holy Family N/C Breast Cancer fundraiser 24. Baulkham Hills N/A Carnival Invitation 25. F & R Finau Club transfer 26. Bathurst N/C Carnival Invitation 27. Netball NSW Notice of Election 28. Fatima N/C Advice Player transfer 29. Comets N/C Request 30. S McLachlan Physio coverage 31. Netball NSW Net Set Go 32. Camden N/A Carnival Invitation 33. Netball NSW Selectors workshop 34. Heathcote N/C Request 35. Netball NSW Round Robin BUSINESS ARISING FROM CORRESPONDENCE IN: Item 23 Breast Cancer awareness day to coincide with Mother s Day. More information to follow. CORRESPONDENCE IN BE RECEIVED: Holy Family Sharks CORRESPONDENCE OUT: 1. Various Accounts 2. Menai Indoor Fee Introduction 3. I Keogh Congratulations
4. M Hay Congratulations 5. K Bryce Congratulations 6. Dept Fair Trading Annual Statement 7. Sutherland Shire Council Court works 8. Netball NSW Affiliation Form 9. Netball NSW Conference 2012 10. Sydney Airport Sponsorship request 11. Netball NSW Umpire nominations 12. Netball NSW S/L Team registrations CORRESPONDENCE OUT BE RECEIVED: Comets Storm REPORTS: TREASURER: Financial report attached Training Courts down by 9 courts with current court works. Please think carefully about what courts your club will require. May need to double up teams. Lights will go on last weekend in March. Heathcote Fatima NSW REPORT: EXECUTIVE: Constitution changes underway. Will be presented later in the year. Comets Connells Pt
REGISTRARS: Swap Night abandoned as many 2010 pink cards had not been returned. Please ensure these are returned ASAP. Registrations commence next week. Registrars will be in attendance at office Tuesday to Friday 10.00am to 2.30pm. Must send through 1 team rego form, and treasurer s summary sheets. SSNA to acknowledge receipt of all team sheets. All info available to be recorded on team sheets. Sharks Taren Pt UMPIRES CONVENOR: Beginner Umpire Practical Day Saturday 3 rd March start and finish time will be confirmed after nominations finalised. Possibly 9am to 12:30pm Practical session in conjunction with 10 s grading. Umpires will meet in the stadium for a short discussion one hour before starting time. Umpires will meet their umpire coach who will then take umpires to their allocated court. I realise clubs are still in the process of finalising registrations so will take nominations up to Wednesday 29 th February - $15 per umpire SSNA will invoice clubs Netball NSW National C Umpire Camp 10 th and 11 th March. All details can be found on the SSNA or Netball NSW website Level One Umpire (education) Accreditation Course 17 th March 10am to 2pm Bellingara Rd Stadium. $35 per umpire. This is a theory course endorsed by Netball NSW For beginner umpires and all umpires who have a goal of attaining a National C Umpire Badge. Successful completion of this course is a prerequisite for a National C Badge. All umpires will need to complete the Section One On-line exam and achieve a pass mark of at least 70% Club convenors or people not wishing to be accredited are very welcome to attend - no cost
2012 Rule Changes An updated rule book will be available in 2012. Most of the rule changes do not affect our local competition. Summary of rule changes on the SSNA or Netball Australia website. 2012 SSNA Umpire Committee Dianne Ward, Anne Keir, Hayley Burgess, Bronwyn Moar, Dianne Maclachlan, Nicole Greene & Joanne Goudie (assisted by Duncan Lang (badging) and Robin Glennan (modified netball) The SSNA Umpire Committee welcomes all feedback & innovative ideas on how to improve our programs and what courses you would like offered Umpire Log Books Available for sale to club umpires to maintain a record of their games. - $5 per book Given to all umpires in the SSNA Development Program National B Umpire Camp 6 umpires will be attending the Netball NSW National B Camp Emma Watts & Claire Darby (Barden Ridge,) Anna Agius (Menai), Vicki Johnson (Cronulla RSL), Brenda Richardson (Thistles), Lauren Cremona (Magpies) SSNA Shirts for National Badged Umpires - available for sale first play day - $40 per shirt St Caths Bosco TOURNAMENT: Tournament requests must be in writing required by Rego Day. Coaching clashes considered a valid request however managers are not. Magpies Sylvania COACHING CO-ORDINATOR: Player clinics Wed 18 th & Sun 29 th April
Prelude to coaching Fri 02 nd March Coaching Conference date to be advised Coach mentoring to begin this year Holy Family Fatima SELECTION & REPS: State League Sutherland has selected 6 State League Teams. The selectors went to great lengths to accommodate all Sutherland players of State League standard and turned away players from other districts to ensure our players were included even though the points numbering system used by NSW is to the detriment of the larger associations. State League teams have been submitted to Netball NSW and provisional gradings have been announced. Once gradings have been finalised the teams will be placed on the website with their final grading and coaches and managers names. Fitness has commenced for all teams with Justin Lang and Kristy Ferguson. State Age State Age team selection will be finalised this month. Names will also be placed on the website. The 12, 13 and 14 years attended a twilight gala day at Manly in their squads which assisted selectors. Clubs are reminded that if a representative player wishes to transfer from another club a letter detailing why has to be submitted to the Sutherland Executive prior to registration. Championships State Age this year will be held at Wyong on weekend of 30 June 2012 and State Championships will be held at Penrith on the weekend of 9 June 2012. Other News Carla Dziwoki from State League one has been selected to play with the Sydney Swifts Our undefeated 2011 under 17 State Championship Team has been nominated for a Leader Sports Award. Isabella Keogh, Kaitlyn Bryce and Madeline Hay have been selected to play in the Under 17 State Team and Emilee Lang and Teisha Ojeda have been selected to play in the under 19 State Team. Congratulations have been sent to all of these girls.
We have a number of players selected in Academy Teams. Congratulations to Tara Liley, Zoe Liley, Eliza Nelson, Chloe Ojeda, Kealey Pennell, Elyssa Pierce, Roslyn Walster and Madeline Woods. St Caths Holy Family SPONSORSHIP: Sponsorship Follow up e-mail sent to Tradies re our sponsorship request Sponsorship requests ready to be sent out to various local businesses (any ideas please drop an e-mail to the office) Doreen Gigg has offered her assistance with the sponsorship/uniform committee a big thank you to Doreen Facebook like link uploaded on to the front page of the SSNA web site, please share this link to increase our exposure Approximately 119,000 visitors to the SSNA web site in 2011 Uniforms & Equipment Representative equipment is being ordered balls/bags, training equipment, backpacks for players, bench seating for players for championship weekends New representative junior dress being phased in over the next 2 years: - 2012 12 & 14 years, 2013 14 years, - a discount will be offered on their new dress of $25 to buy back their old style bodysuit (these can be used for train on squads) - Style will be based on senior dress, colour will be the same as current junior bodysuit (azure blue/white) Gymea Connells Pt RETURNING OFFICER: Nominations attached
GENERAL BUSINESS: Pre-season Competition. To run for 5 weeks commencing Mon 27 th Feb. For up to 16yrs. $100 per team. Clubs have until Wed 22 nd Feb to give expressions of interest. Clubs may also like to consider the possibility of a Monday night comp throughout winter. Connells Pt presented their new uniform Jannali to present new uniform at next meeting. Jannali raised the issue of traffic chaos at Bellingara on a Saturday and suggested the possibility of paying someone to manage the traffic exiting the grounds. The President advised that any sort of traffic control needs to be approved by the RTA, and it could be quite costly. She is to discuss at the Council meeting next week. Clubs please indicate if any requests for over 35yrs teams. Jenny to enquire with council if RTA Carpark at Seymour Shaw can be utilised this year. Storm N/C requested that as agreed to at a meeting last year, the By-Laws in the front of the Fixture Book be available on the website. NEXT DELEGATES MEETING: MEETING CLOSED: Wed 21 st March 8.45pm