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Annual Report 14/15
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REPORT 2014- 2015
K E W D A L E
L I T T L E A T H L E T I C
C L U B
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Kewdale Little Athletics Club Annual Report 2014-2015
Contents
President Report ............................................................................................ 2
Financial Report ............................................................................................. 5
Records and Rankings ................................................................................... 6
Registrar's Report .......................................................................................... 7
Club Managers Report ................................................................................... 9
Senior Coach ............................................................................................... 11
Junior Coach ................................................................................................ 13
Delegates Report ......................................................................................... 14
Equipment Report ........................................................................................ 15
Our Sponsors ............................................................................................... 17
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President Report
It is with enthusiasm and pride that I
reflect on the successes of the Kewdale
Little Athletics Club this past year. The
triumphs we have had both in the field
of play and off the track administratively
are now ensuring that a significant
number of our athletes are enjoying the
benefits of our program in various
formats undertaken by our club.
A revitalised spirit of cooperation
between Committee, parents, athletes
and the Belmont Little Athletic Centre
(BLAC) has blossomed over the past
twelve months. I believe in part this is
due to the introduction of new training
shirts and a club banner, provided by
David O’Heare from Café2U, as their
purpose was to encourage a sense of
belonging and unite amongst athletes
and our families. It also displayed to
other centre Clubs a social
togetherness and warm fellowship
exists at Kewdale, as that would exist in
a cheerful family.
Throughout this year, members and
other Club and Centre officials have
commented and acknowledge that
there is a clear indication attitudes have
changed around the Club for the better
and this has created a sense
collectiveness. This was my primary
focus from day one and I wish to thank
the Committee for backing this vision.
All the success this year could not have
been achieved without Coaches Brad
Gray, Steeve Howes and Paula
Pereira-Ninyett. This excellent group of
diverse and multi-skilled individuals, all
have a passion for athletics and
performing their duties on a voluntary
basis. We are very fortunate indeed to
have such an enthusiastic and
competent individuals bringing their
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experience and unique characteristic to
the Club. Together they have raised the
bar even higher for our athletes. I
contend they deserve extra special
recognition for their leadership and time
and energy that they gave to our
athletes to prepare for competition.
To my right and left hands and my back
support; Kelly Taylor, Joanne Gray,
Karen Winterburn, Kelly Ninyett and Liz
and Greg O’Meara thank you for your
much-appreciated advice, counsel and
support. You all embedded the vision
of fun and harmony into the Club. I have
been impressed with your ‘strong
commitment’ to the Club and this gave
me confidence in our decision-making
during the year. For me, working closely
with you has been an extremely positive
and rewarding experience. I believe it
has been vicariously through these
types of relationships that has
witnessed the KLAC morph from a Club
to a family.
As a not-for-profit organisation we
fiscally operator through the generosity
of others. The support and patronise
from BLAC clubs and KLAC members
to our fundraisers was significantly
higher than previous years. This can
only occur with the backing and support
of sponsors, local businesses and our
great members; to whom I send a big
thank you.
There has been a significant amount of
work occurring in the background this
years with sponsors and local industry
and I wish thank Wayne Ninyett for his
efforts in creating new sponsorships
and donations from a variety of
organisations. The Finance Report
highlights a significant increase to our
bottom line as a direct results of these
efforts.
The Committee has continued its
responsibilities to athletics and worked
in close association with the BLAC
executive. The relationship between
the two groups continues to strengthen
and I commend the very hardworking
BLAC staff for their tireless work in
keeping the wheels in motion toward
achieving common goals.
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Last but not least; to our wonderful
Athletes. In the private sector they
measure success through shareholder
wealth. In public sector on value
delivered. At KLAC we measure
success from the number smiles and
volume of laughter. I am happy to report
the smile counter and sound level meter
both broke due to being over worked
this year. It is also measured by your
attendance and enjoyment, not just
winning and personal bests.
We’ve seen great progress over the last
year. I wish you all unlimited success
for the season 2015/16 and ask that as
an athletics community we work
together in a positive spirit of harmony,
to improve the sport of track and field
for our local community. I trust the new
committee will continue to build upon
the successes of season 2014/15.
Mark D. Ninyett President
Our Future
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Financial Report
The Kewdale Little Athletics Club commenced the 2014-2015 season with an opening
balance of $5649.59.
The following entries highlight the broader incoming and outgoing for the 2014/15
season of the Kewdale Little Athletics Club. A few outgoing are to paid these including
the approximate windup costs of $1700.00 (trophies, food and entertainment)
Incoming
Registrations / Uniforms $6950.00
Fundraising $3132.45
Interest $13.49
Sponsorship $4500.00
Sub-total: $14,595.94
Outgoings
Registration Fees to BLAC $4750.00
Training Course $60.00
Club Badges $61.30
Fundraising Expenses $769.30
Uniform Purchases $3251.04
Website $79.00
Equipment $53.90
Kewdale Banner $484.00
Hurdles Training $260.00
Xmas Wind up $404.15
Sub-total: $10,172.69
Profit/loss: $4423.25 as at 5 March 2015
Closing balance: $10072.84 Joanne Gray Treasurer
Note: A closer inspection of the journal is available upon request.
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Records and Rankings
Each event an athlete competes in is added up and when the athlete reaches 100,
200, 300, 400 or 500 events they receive a badge for the milestone. The intention is
to remind athletes they are on a journey and that they have reached another milestone.
Participation and doing your best is more important than winning at Kewdale. No other
Centre recognise these milestones.
The following represents achievements by our athletes in 2014/15.
Given Surname Date Badge
Joshua Ninyett 22-11-14 100
Lillian Ninyett 22-11-14 100
Chloe Reder 22-11-14 100
Montana Nichols 17-01-15 100
Biana Di Lello 17-01-15 100
Mitchell Pontague 17-01-15 100
Klara Tilbee 08-02-15 100
William Tilbee 08-02-15 100
Damon Winterburn 23-01-15 200
Britney Winterburn 23-01-15 200
Kye Scott 08-02-15 200
Bordie Gray 22-11-14 300
Jed Appleton 22-11-14 300
Jordon Hickmott 08-02-15 300
In addition to these achievements our athletes broke twenty nine (29) Kewdale
Records, competed in 2065 events and achieved 1114 personal bests. These PBs
represents an increase of 4.8%, which is an exceptional effort considering our
membership decreased by 48% from 64 members in 2013/14 to 43 this year. This
outstanding effort has to be contributed to our athletes drive to achieve and an
outstanding coaching effort.
Finally, our total clubs points equated to 11905 an increase of 31% up from 9077 total
points in 2013/14. Need we say any more about how successful our athletes were in
2014/15. Well done to all.
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Registrar's Report
I am pleased to report forty three (43) athletes
registered for the 2014-2015 season. Despite a
smaller number of registrations in comparison to
previous years and at the bottom of the Olympic year
trough, Kewdale Little Athletics Club continued to
have a core of dedicated athletes and parent
volunteers.
Table 1 details distribution of our athletes by age
group. This season the genders were more balanced
than previous years with boys previously
outnumbering our girls. The biggest age groups were
the under 7, 10 and 12’s, the under 15-17 athletes
continue to be underrepresented.
Table 2 compares current registrations with previous years. Fewer athletes registered
than in previous seasons despite advertising in all local primary schools and at the
local Belmont City College.
Table 1: Registrations of Athletes by Age Group 2014-2015 Season
Year Current Year 2013/14 2012/13 2011/12 2010/11 2009/10 2008/09
Registrations 43 61 86 61 71 65 53
Table 2: Registrations for Previous Years
U6 U7 U8 U9 U10 U11 U12 U13 U14 U15 U16 U17 Totals
Boys 4 2 1 2 4 3 0 1 3 1 1 0 22
Girls 1 4 3 1 2 1 6 2 1 0 0 0 21
Total 5 6 4 3 6 4 6 3 4 1 1 0 43
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Olympic years are highlighted in yellow. There tends to be more interest and athlete
registrations during Olympic years.
Table 3 and the accompanying graph, compare the retention of existing athletes
versus the recruitment of new athletes. Kewdale LAC has retained 29 of its previous
61 athletes which is just less than half. The table and graph illustrate that older athletes
are more likely to remain with their club once registered.
A future challenge for the Club will be to retain their older athletes whilst marketing the
benefits of our Club to younger athletes. Strategies to support younger athletes and
their parents to remain in the sport will need consideration.
U6 U7 U8 U9 U10 U11 U12 U13 U14 U15 U16 U17 Totals
New 5 3 1 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 14
Existing 0 3 3 1 4 4 6 2 4 1 1 0 29
Total 5 6 4 3 6 4 6 3 4 1 1 0 43
Table 3: Comparison of New Vs Existing Athletes 2014-2015 Season
Karen Winterburn
Kewdale LAC Registrar
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Club Managers Report
Well, what can I say, a year of being
Manager for the Kewdale Little Athletics
Club. Before I start I want to say a huge
thanks to my family for supporting me
through this year. The question was
asked, “why do you take on these
positions”? After this year I can say, “It’s
for all those kids that come every week to
training and competition”. You may not
achieve PB’s but they have smiles on
their faces just for being here.
Once I got to know everyone and if I don’t
know you; I do sincerely apologise. The
he job was easier than I thought because
of the support of everyone, the
committee, coaches, officials, parents,
and athletes this year saw many events
accomplished by our little club and the
rostering system was easy for
competition day. Some days did see me
twist a few arms and rip off a few legs but
no harm was done; I hope?
We had athletes compete in the Teams
Events at WA stadium, State Relays and
Field Events, Multi-event at Gosnells,
Christmas Gift Runners and the Zones
and State Events in March. And we had
a parent team in the Christmas Gift Relay
– thank you Dave, Anna, Tanya and
Geoff.
To help these athletes learn new skills a
huge thankyou to our coaches, Brad,
Paula and Steeve. Also the organisation
of Glen, Sandra and Cathy throughout the
season gave a little bit of expertise into
the trainings. Unfortunately we ended up
cancelling a few of our training sessions
later in the season due to uncontrollable
weather predictions, but the athlete’s
health and safety comes first.
The well organised fundraisers, saw the
club raise healthy funds for the club to use
where necessary. Mark and Wayne you
have done an amazing job behind the
scene with club sponsors, Kassems, John
Hughes, The Coffee Guy, IGA and the
Belmont Professionals.
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Before I finish I must say a huge thank
you to Greg O’Meara my computer brain.
Without you half the Facebook and
communication with our families would
not have happened.
So to the athlete’s, take care in the off
season, look after your parents and
guardians and we will see you back here
at the end of the year for another season.
Kelly Taylor
Club Manager
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Senior Coach
I hope all the athletes and parents enjoyed the season, a very long and hot one, in a
new look Kewdale club where the athletes and parents have been fantastic. We a
very high Personal Best count and numerous Kewdale records broken, not to mention
a very high strike rate in the BLAC awards considering the size of our club. Our only
downfall was our parent relay team who may need a little more training.
BEFORE
AFTER
During the season I have had the opportunity to coach all the athletes at one time or
another. I have been very impressed not only by their ability but some wonderful
personalities and lovely children.
To my senior group, I thought I had scared you all off in the first week due to the hard
work ethic I employ. But to your credit you all did yourselves proud by sticking with it;
you’re are a great bunch.
I have seen so much improvement through the year, well done to all of you.
Remember hard work means great results not just as an athlete but in everything you
do in life and you all have thoroughly deserved all the success this season.
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Thanks to the other coaches Paula and Steeve and to all the parent helpers during
training.
Finally, Mark and KT (Kelly Taylor) and the rest of the committee; job well done, you
have the club in good shape for next year.
Brad Gray
Senior Coach
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Junior Coach
I short message to say it has been a good year coaching the 6-8 year olds. As you
can imagine as parents it was challenging at times, but very rewarding. The athletes
have all improved and most rewarding was witnessing the increase of PB's.
I couldn't have done the coaching it without the help of Jeff, Daniel and David and the
numerous of other parents who jumped into assist. The training was also well
programmed this as we considered the weekly program and we trained for those
events to get all the athletes ready for Saturday competition.
It was great to see newcomers like Alexa
and Will awarded the runner up champion
trophies for BLAC. As their coach this
was a very reward experience for me,
thank you to all for a wonderful year.
Paula Ninyett
Junior Coach
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Delegates Report
It is the responsibility of the club delegate to
attend the Executive and Delegates meetings
once a month. These meetings can be very
involved (often over 3+ hours) and general
contains information relevant to our club. More
often than not it is more about what the BLAC
Executive is doing as a whole to improve
conditions for our athletes. This year the focus has
been on providing better facilities and equipment.
As club delegate, our role was more as an ‘interested
onlooker’. More often than not, the ‘juicy’ stuff was
behind closed doors and decided by the Executive which
did not require any input from the club delegates. As
such we had fairly limited involvement at these BLAC
meetings.
Liz O’Meara and Karen Winterburn
Club Delegate
Special message –
Liz would like to take this opportunity on behalf of Greg, Kate and herself to thank the
club for their patience and understanding during Kate’s illness. Whilst we have not
been in attendance at Kewdale, Greg continued his role as Chief Track Umpire and
Timing under the banner of Belmont though performed the function as a Kewdale
parent.
We are very proud to be part of the Kewdale family and all parents and athletes should
be as well.
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Equipment Report
The equipment has been brilliantly
looked after by the coaches, parents
and athletes this season. We had a few
issues in the first half of the season with
BLAC not being happy with how the
equipment was left at times. On those
mentioned days Bradley Edwards and
myself went and cleaned it up after
most had left on a Saturday. Also there
were some issues with the increase
tents being taken out but that has all
worked out and everyone was smiling
once more.
For the second half of the season all the
equipment was correctly packed away
and there were no more tent incidents
and other equipment issues, which was
great. If we can continue to do this
throughout the next season it will
support what is now a positive
relationship with BLAC and make the
new Equipment Officers that much
easier. Not to say to the incumbent
Equipment Officer the role difficult, just
why make something hard when it
doesn’t have to be. Essentially we don’t
want BLAC frowning upon us and not
being happy with the equipment being
messy in their shed.
After four (4) years of serving KLAC I
will not be returning on the committee
next season. I wish all the new
committee members the best of luck
and remember to have fun. At this
point, Kate may not return either next
season, though I will most probably
continue as Chief Track Umpire (CTU)
and may consider a role on the BLAC
Committee. If I do continue as CTU I
will be taking on the role as a KLAC
volunteer, which means one less
position to roster each week.
Many thanks to KLAC for four (4) years
of fun and enjoyment. It is a fantastic
club and I have made some great
friends.
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Leading the Way
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