The Club held another most successful Trivia Night on Saturday 19
June 2004, with over $5200 raised to help contribute to the cost of completion of the
second storey of the club rooms.
About 210 members and friends turned up to the Ashburton Primary
School Hall on a cold winter's night to test their trivia knowledge against a series of
questions prepared by Chris O'Connor. Simon Bromley’s friends and family proved to be
too good for the rest of us in attendance to lead the scoring for most of the night and
win comfortably in the end.
Many thanks to Leana Tilley for her wonderful efforts once again in
organising the night, ably supported by her boyfriend, Cameron and the rest of the Tilley
family. Thanks also to Chris O’Connor for preparing the questions and performing a
great job as quiz master, to the fundraising committee of Simon Bromley, Ian Sloane, Julie
Milner and Adam Pepper and to all those who donated goods and assisted on the night.
At long last, work has finally started on completion of the upstairs
club room extension. The builder has advised that the works should be completed by the end
of August. In the meantime, it likely that there will be restrictions on access to the
grandstand while works are being undertaken on the front of the building. We apologise for
any inconvenience that this may cause, however there should be minimal impact on access to
any other areas at the track.
While it now appears likely that the club room upgrade will be
completed by the start of the track season, it also seems likely that we will only be
allowed restricted access to the new facilities for some period of time. As a condition of
issuing the building permit for the works, the building surveyor has stipulated that
access for disabled persons must be provided to the upper level prior to the issue of a
Certificate of Occupancy. This means that we will need to construct an access ramp to the
first floor of the building before it can be used by Club members and the general public.
We are currently investigating options for provision of this disabled access, however
there does not appear to be a simple solution so it may still be some time before we can
gain full access to our new club rooms. Hopefully we will have a much better idea about
what is required by the time the next newsletter is published.
The completion of the clubroom upgrade is fully stretching the financial resources of
the Club so it is imperative that all club members support our continuing fundraising
initiatives to ensure that we can pay off our debts as soon as possible.
The Annual General Meeting for the Box Hill Athletic Club will be
held in the club rooms at 7:30pm on Tuesday 20 July 2004. The committee would appreciate
if all members could attend this meeting to show their support for the huge amount of
administrative work done by the committee each year to enable the facilities to be
maintained and upgraded and the Club to function in an efficient and effective manner.
The agenda for the meeting is:
1.
Apologies
2.
Presentation of Reports and Financial
Statement
3.
Election of Office Bearers
·
President
·
Vice President
·
Secretary
·
Treasurer
·
Committee Members
4.
General Business
All members and friends are invited to join the committee afterwards
for Pizza and soft drinks in the club rooms. The committee welcomes new members to join us
for a monthly meeting and assist in providing input to the planning and decision making
process involved with administration of the Club.
Please click on the following link to download an application form to
join the committee: Annual
General Meeting Notice.
Membership fees are due and payable from 1 April 2004. Please forward your membership form and
Athletics Victoria form (both can be obtained from the internet) to the Club Registrar, Angela
Robbie, PO Box 247 Box Hill. Please ensure that the declaration at the
foot of each form is signed. Non financial
members are not entitled to train at the track or use the facilities and membership checks
will commence shortly. A training fee of $5.00
per session will be payable if you are a non financial member.
It is important to note that your Club Registrar will be
overseas for the month of September and therefore it is in your best interests to get
registered before this time or you might find yourself missing out on the first few weeks
of the summer competition.
For a limited time there are some "State League" Long
Sleeve Training Tops now available for only $20. Also a new order of Club Tracksuit tops
has just arrived so get in early before they all go for $85.
There are also copies of the video shown at the 70 Year Dinner
and Presentation Night available for purchase in DVD format for just $30. The
professionally produced video shows many of our members from the last 30 years in action
and is a great record of some of the athletes who have competed for Box Hill.
For any of the above, or uniforms please contact Julie Milner on 9818
1278 or email jmilner@tpg.com.au.
Box Hill Athletic Club operates the Barlow Foundation as a registered
project with the Australian Sports Foundation for the purpose of supporting elite athletes
and coaches in state league interclub competition. The project makes grants to athletes
and coaches from tax-deductible donations made to the foundation. These grants have played
a significant part in the success of the State League teams over the past few seasons and
the Club is committed to continuing to provide these opportunities for our State League
athletes.
The distribution of Barlow Foundation grants made at the
presentation night for the 2003/04 season was:
·
$200 Reimbursement
of expenses to the leading Female State League points scorer
·
$200 Reimbursement
of expenses to the leading Male State League points scorer
·
$200 Reimbursement
of expenses to the coach whose athletes (both male and female) score the greatest combined
total of State League points.
To help ensure the continued success of our State League teams,
we are requesting donations to help fund these grants. All donations are tax deductible.
If you would like to obtain a donation form to send in a donation, or have any questions
about the Barlow Foundation, please contact Colin Organ on 9813 3597 or via email
(colo@bigpond.com). Alternatively you may wish to download a form directly from the
Club’s web site at http://www.boxhillathleticclub.org.
Only current financial members are entitled to hold keys
to the clubrooms. A check of the key register
will take place shortly and if you were issued a key last season and you have not
forwarded your registration for the 2004/2005 season you will be asked to return your key
and your deposit will be refunded. Your immediate registration is required.
The Club is most fortunate to have recently signed a new sponsorship
arrangement with Stadium Sports in Box Hill Central Shopping Centre. As well as providing
financial support to the Club, they will also be issuing discount cards to all members
which will enable members to receive substantial discounts on shoes, clothing and other
sporting equipment in the store. All members are encouraged to take advantage of the
discounts offered and support Stadium Sports so that they continue to support us. Further
details of the sponsorship arrangement will be provided in future editions of Club News.
Our two members selected to represent Australia at major track and
field championships this year are in their final preparations for their international
competition.
World Youth Discus Champion, Ronnie Buckley is currently
overseas with the Australian team preparing to compete at the World Junior Championships
in Grosseto, Italy from 12th to 18th July 2004. While he will be
competing against athletes who may be a year or more older, Ronnie has shown a wonderful
competitive spirit and fantastic ability to produce great performances on big occasions so
we wish him luck with his preparations and hope that he can reproduce the form that he
showed 12 months ago in Sherbrooke Canada when he gets to Grosseto.
Pole vaulter, Steven Hooker has been training hard in Melbourne
and is about to head overseas to gain some competition at meets in Europe in the lead up
to the Olympic Games in Athens. He is sure to enjoy training and competing in the warmer
temperatures in Europe after training through the cold Melbourne winter. We also wish
Steven good luck with his training and competitions in Europe, and most importantly when
he joins the Australian team in Athens and walks out to compete in the qualifying heats in
the Olympic Stadium.
No editors note today. Just a list of some of my favourite athletic
related web sites who can give you way more gossip then what I can:
http://www.iaaf.org
The home page of athletics. Most of the crap I spout down at the
track is taken from the forum pages where debate rages over who is the sexiest athlete,
and who is on the juice.
http://www.algonet.se/~pela2/men.htm
The best athletics all time list site on the web. Did you know that
Mel Lattany has the 1004th best time of all time with 10.09 that he ran in Zurich
on 19/8/1981. Link for female list is on left hand side.
http://run-down.com/fantasy/index.php
Home of the Fantasy Track and Field League. Look out for team Good
Thing. Finished 9th last year and while placed 40th after 3 rounds
is moving up the ladder.
http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/tfn/index.jsp
The bible of the sport since 1948.
http://www.neovault.com
Any page that has a photo of Jason Hinkin is at least worth a look.
Download some of the best pole vault videos you will ever see.
http://www.olympic.org/uk/utilities/multimedia/gallery/results_uk.asp?entid=52&MediaType=vid
Watch videos of great Olympic performances of Bob Beamon, Michael
Johnson, Cathy Freeman and Carl Lewis among others on the offical Olympic site.
http://www.iaaf.org/antidoping/news/Kind=2/newsId=23876.html
Article about a normal guy that decides he wants to see how good he
can get by using drugs that is enthralling reading.
http://www.dutchsportgirls.com/
Website dedicated to helping young Dutch athletes raise money.
To submit articles either see Cameron Baker or
el Presidente Graeme Olden down at the track or email Cameron on vaultcam@hotmail.com.
Uniforms
Unfortunately,
due to an increase in the manufacturing costs, the price of club singlets and
women's bodysuit tops will be increased to $30.
New Email Address for Club Secretary
Our Club Secretary, Julie Milner has a new email address: jmilner@tpg.com.au
Please forward all email correspondence to her
at this new address.
The
Club’s tax deductible Barlow Fund also includes a separate building fund. With
additional funds needed to be able to fund the Stage II Pavilion Upgrade (upstairs
extension), donations to this fund are urgently required. Any donations made to this
building fund will be directed solely towards the club room upgrade. Now is an excellent
time to help the Club to fund your new club rooms and reduce your tax bill. Any donation
of $100 or more will be recognised with a plaque recording your donation prominently
displayed on a brick in the new clubrooms. Donation forms can be downloaded from the
Club’s web site - www.boxhillathleticclub.org
- or obtained from Colin Organ – phone 9813 3597 or email at colo@bigpond.com.
Due to their undefeated State League season, the Box Hill men’s
team was nominated for Victorian Team of the Year at the Victorian Sports Awards held at
the Melbourne Exhibition Centre on 30 June. Alisa Camplin was the star of the night,
taking out the women’s, women’s teams with her World Cup winning teammates and
the overall awards for her superb year of aerial skiing.
Box Hill faced some tough competition and were eventaully
relegated to 3rd place by the Pura Cup Cricketers and Jamie Tomkin and Drew
Ginn (who were nominated team of the year by the international rowing federation).
However Box Hill was not to leave empty handed with Ronnie
Buckley taking out Victorian Junior Athlete of the year. Well done Ronnie!! If only the
Athletics Victoria representative had known what he was talking about in his acceptance
speech.
The Box Hill Athletic Club is required to provide 10 assistants to
help with officiating at the Cross Country Championships at Bundoora on Saturday 17 July.
If we do not provide these assistants then our teams will be penalised and will lose
premiership points.
If you are able to assist for a few hours from 12:15 pm on the
17th then please contact Julie Milner on 9818 1278 or by email at jmilner@tpg.com.au.
Following on from the success of the Trivia Night, the Club is
holding another fundraising event on Sunday 11th July at the Balwyn Cinema
Centre, 231 Whitehorse Road, Balwyn, where we have booked tickets to see Spiderman 2. The
evening is being organised by the pole vault group with proceeds from the event being
split between purchase of new equipment for the pole vaulters and funding for the club
room upgrade. The movie starts at about 3:30pm, however you are invited to get to the
cinema at about 3:00pm to enjoy afternoon tea in the foyer which is included in the ticket
cost. Tickets for the evening cost $15 for adults, $13 for students and $10 for children.
For
more information or to purchase tickets, please contact Mark
Stewart
on 0419 514 521 or by email at mark.stewart@rmit.edu.au.
For full reports and results from the winter races, please go to the
"results" area of the Box Hill web site at http://www.boxhillathleticclub.org
Lardner Park 8 K Cross Country Results
The 8 km cross country was held at Lardner
Park near Drouin this year. The two-lap course
attracted a large field, and 10 Box Hill seniors commenced in the field. Soon after the
leaders passed through at the end of the first lap, Adrian Vincent emerged in 25th
position, followed by Paul Boxshall, 33rd, Graeme Olden 36th, with
Kynan Dawes (who didn’t complete the race) seven seconds behind Graeme. Alan Craigie was 58th, David Jimenez was
running smoothly in 60th immediately followed by Chris O’Connor 61st, with
Lachlan Aspinall, 66th. Adam Pepper
and Matt Slater were further back in the field.
Adrian Vincent improved by three places in the second lap to be the
first Box Hill athlete over the line, with Graeme Olden holing on to finish 35th. Paul Boxshall found the second lap more testing,
finishing six places behind Graeme Olden in 41st place, a creditable
performance nevertheless. Lachlan Aspinall
appeared to run better than he had in the Cross Country relays in finishing 57th. Alan Craigie’ name was omitted from the
finishers’ list, but he was the next Box Hill finisher in 61st position,
with David Jimenez, 67th, Chris O’Connor, 68th following
quickly after. Adam Pepper 148th
and Matt Slater 173rd were our other two finishers.
Box Hill’s team performance was considerably better than a
fortnight earlier in placing 5th, with two top athletes, Marcus Tierney and
John Meagher, set to commence their winter season.
In the Under 20 race, Andrew White led the field through the first
kilometre,, and then gradually relinquished his position at the front of the field, being
in third position after one lap. Eventually he
finished sixth overall and in 5th place in the Under 20 competition. Graham and Kevin Craigie also competed in the
underage race, running by invitation.
Sandown 10 km Road Race
Box Hill was able to field more athletes at the 10 km road
championship, held on Saturday 29th May at Sandown Race Course than started at
Warragul.
John
Meagher was the leading Box Hill athlete at the completion of the first lap in the early
part of the race, in 18th place. Adrian Vincent and Lachlan Aspinall have moved
into the senior ranks this year and both have recorded promising performances. Adrian, at the end of the first lap, was 11 seconds
behind John Meagher, three seconds ahead of Graeme
Olden and Kynan Dawes, running by invitation, Other Box Hill Athletes to show prominently
were David Jimenez, who was moving through the field, with Paul Boxshall not far away. Alan Craigie and Lachlan Aspinall were a little
further back, separated by a couple of seconds. New
club member Ben McNab commenced impressively, whilst David Ayers, Adam Pepper and Matt Slater were mid field, with
Dave Boyd completing our complement.
After the completion of the second lap, John Meagher was
approximately two minutes behind the leaders, but putting up an excellent race
performance, in 16th position. Adrian
Vincent was also performing well, and backing up his good Cross Country form from Drouin,
being 19 seconds adrift of John Meagher in 26th position. David Jimenez, 33rd
was also running well, and led Kynan Dawes by about three seconds and four places. Paul
Boxshall, was next through, about nine seconds behind Kynan Dawes, followed by Graeme
Olden, running with the same group of runners. Alan Craigie and Lachlan Aspinall were a
little further back, 20 seconds apart. David
Ayers passed the line next, with Adam Pepper 20 seconds further back, 18 seconds in front
of Matt Slater at the end of the second lap.
John Meagher was the
first Box Hill runner to finish placing 17th, unfortunately outsprinted in the
last 60 metres by two opponents, running 31 m. 44 for the ten kilometre course. Adrian Vincent surged past four opponents in the
last lap to place 22nd, a very encouraging run.
David Jimenez also lifted in the last lap and placed 33rd, with
Paul Boxshall 13 seconds behind him in 38th position. Kynan Dawes completed his race 9 seconds later
placing 43rd with Graeme Olden ranked 50th a further 18 seconds
behind. Lachlan Aspinall and Alan Craigie
finished close together in 78th and 79th places respectively. Ben McNab was 109th. Our remaining runners were David Ayers (36 m. 04), Adam
Pepper (37 m. 40), Matt Slater (38 m. 06) and David Boyd who looked happy to finish (49 m.
56).
Despite not having our strongest team, our Division 1 team did
exceptionally well to place second behind Glen Huntly who won the teams’ race.
We
had five U/20 starters, four of whom finished, plus an U/16 invitee, who had missed the
earlier U/16 starting time. Andrew White was
prominent in the Under 20 race finishing 5th. Graham and Kevin Craigie ran
close together during the race with Graham (18th) eventually prevailing over
Kevin (19th), closely followed by Iain Reitman. making up significant ground in
the latter two laps to finish 20th. Michael
Bourne didn’t complete the distance after competing in a school cross-country race in
the morning. Matthew O’Connor, competing
outside his age group, also finished the 10km course.
