Bullants Netball Club Inc.

Update: 5.30 games have been cancelled for today.

SCNA will make a call on the other games at 5.30pm – check their website (link on RHS of this page).

Given the weather today please keep an eye on the SCNA website as that will be the first place that any cancellation will be notified.

Netball can be played in light rain. Games are usually only cancelled if rain is particularly heavy or there are any issues with lightening.

Unfortunately Navajo will not have a game this week due to the opposition forfeiting.

Hi Bullants families

We hope you enjoyed the first round of Twilight Social Netball last week. There was some excitement with new players finding their teams, getting umpires to the correct courts etc. But overall we think the first week went well.

Tonight we have the following teams playing

At 5.30:
Chinook, Chickasaws, Potawatomie, Apache, Cherokee, Mohicans, Sioux and Arapaho.

At 6.30:
Mohawks, Navajo, Curtin Champers, Shawnee and Cree

At 7.30:
Allsorts

Chiefs and Braves have a bye this week.

A few families have raised with us the “issue” of Halloween falling next Wednesday. Please let you team manager know tonight if your Halloween activities will prevent you from playing next week.

See you at the courts!

Tomorrow marks the start of the 2018 Bullants Twilight Social Netball season and it runs until Wednesday 5 December.

All registered players have been allocated to teams (via email). The draw is up on the SCNA website – please check to see what court you are on, and what time you are playing as some teams will swap time slots over the course of the season.

The Twilight season is a social competition so there is no training and the club does not allocate coaches to teams. That also means parents, carers, older siblings or friends are pitching in and helping to look after the kit bag and allocate players to positions. Please pitch in and help if for some reason there is a gap. And please be supportive of those who are doing the sorting.

It would be good for players to arrive in plenty of time tomorrow (at least 20 minutes before start time) to find your court, have a warm-up, and for the manager to have enough time to prepare the players to take the court.

While it is a social competition the usual rules of netball apply – e.g. short nails, no jewellery (including piercings).

Things can be a bit confusing this first week. Look out for a Bullants t-shirt to ask questions – members of the executive will be on site/umpiring/playing etc. If you need to collect a kit bag for the junior time slot (5.30) tomorrow please go to the storage cupboard near the ladies toilet before 5.10.

Thanks to those who have volunteered to umpire for the Twilight comp. By now you should have received an email with your team allocation. Please let Julie know at Bullantsnetball@gmail.com or 0432260912 if you are not available for your nominated slot. We are still looking for umpires for once off games or if you’d like a regular slot it is not too late to let us know!

We are looking forward to a really fun season.

Thank-you to all those who came to our end of season party. This year we celebrated the fun and success of our 19 teams in the 2018 winter season. That is quite a few players, coaches, umpires, managers, scorers and supporters to pull together week in week out.

A special thank-you to the tireless volunteers who put their time and energy into the smooth running of our club and who made the season such a success.

The full list of 2018 player awards can be found below. (If you were unable to collect your award email bullantsnetball@gmail.com)

And, importantly we marked the changing of the guard. Ruth Mahon, the backbone of the club over many years, is passing the netball to a new group of volunteers (yes it takes a group to replace Ruth) to take the club forward into the Twilight competition and beyond. We wish Ruth all the best for the future and thank her for her many years of dedication to our club, our players and our association. Her cheerfulness, kindness and wisdom have set the benchmark for us all to aspire to.

At the AGM we had a reshuffle of the committee to fill the Ruth shaped gap. This sees Bernadette Mihaljevic take on the crucial task of Treasurer and Registrar. Thank-you Bernadette for your excellent guidance as President during 2017-18 and for taking on this important task for the new season. Other positions were re-confirmed and Belinda James joined as a general committee member.

In summary, the 2018 AGM elected the following Bullants Executive Committee:

• President:  Meghan Quinn
• Vice-President:  Tanya Parkin
• Treasurer and Registrar:  Bernadette Mihaljevic
• Secretary and Public Officer: Heather Bond
• Uniform Coordinator:  Emma Mahon
• Umpire Coordinator:  Julie Glover
• Coach Coordinator: Heather Bond
• Committee Member: Belinda James

The club is in good financial health and we are thinking about opportunities to make the next seasons even better. So if you have thoughts or suggestions please email them in for consideration (bullantsnetball@gmail.com).

As with all volunteer clubs many hands make light work. All help is welcome. You do not need to have particular expertise and being a volunteer looks great on a CV (hint hint for those students out there). If you would like to find out more, please email us at bullantnetball@gmail.com, or ask one of the committee members at the courts.

Lastly, the Twilight competition gets under way on 17 October, with registrations closing tomorrow.

Meghan Quinn, President

List of Awards

Seniors Div 1:

Goshute: Players player – Eloise Millington & Lucy Burgess
Chickasaw: Players player – Belinda James

Seniors Div 2:
Chiefs: Players player – Yvette McKay, Heather Bond, Meghan Quinn
Shawnee: Excellence – Yassamin Bagheri, Improvement – Rachel Lockhart-Wood, Players Player – Natasha Zagar

Seniors Div 3:
Cree: Excellence – Eliya Henckle Quinn, Improvement – Anna Connolly, Players player – Sophie Chapman

Inters Div 1:
Dakota: Excellence – Imogen Godfrey & Kaitlyn Godfrey, Improvement – Ari Murphy, Players player – Carly Heyman

Inters Div 2:
Kiowa: Excellence – Abbey Robb, Improvement – Lily Mackay, Players player – Patrice Parker
Mohawks: Excellence – Sophie Lowe, Improvement – Jasmine Misner, Players player – Ellie Minogue & Lauren Williams

Inters Div 3:
Braves: Excellence – Kimberley O’Hara, Improvement – Charlotte Bray, Players player – Olivia Lewis
Navajo: Excellence – Ellen Mihaljevic, Improvement – Bronwyn McGauley, Players Player – Ellen Mihaljevic

Inters Div 4:
Cheyenne: Excellence – Hannah Bagheri, Improvement – Sophie Frawley, Players player – Saskia Blackburn

Juniors Div 1:
Cherokee: Excellence – Aliesha Limmer, Improvement – Ava Ghenossis, Players player – Stella Kennedy

Juniors Div 2:
Mohicans: Excellence – Alita Gilmour, Improvement – Erin Wilson, Players Player – Honey Proudfoot & Alita Gilmour
Apache : Excellence – Adelaide Crosbie, Improvement – Ella Graham, Players player – Lucinda Varnes

Juniors Div 3:
Comanche: Excellence – Holly Mackay, Improvement – Jacinta Monteleone, Players player – Indiana Troupakis

Juniors Go:
Sioux: Excellence – Eve Rawlings, Improvement – Paisley Battisson, Players player – Lucy Mihaljevic & Noor Moharam
Arapaho: Excellence – Grace Hennecke, Improvement – Elinor Harris, Players Player – Mia Buchanan

NetSetGo 1:
Chinook: Players player – Gemma Evans

NetSetGo 2:
Potawatomie: Players player – Willow Battisson

Hi Bullants families,

We have received updated information from SCNA about registrations for the Twilight competition commencing 17 October. SCNA requires us to nominate all  teams competing in the Twilight competition by 1 October. Accordingly we need all players registered by Saturday 29 September so that we can guage numbers and submit teams to SCNA in time.

Click here to register for Bullants in the Twilight competition. If you have a team, or a group of players, that you would like to be nominated together then please email the list of names to bullantsnetball@gmail.com.

If you have any questions about this process please email us or call Bernadette Mihaljevic (Bullants registrar) on 0404 061 201.

Please take care to register to the correct Registration Link.  Use the links on the Twilight Social WEBPAGE [link] NOT through your MyNetball profile.  It is really hard to reverse registrations done in error as the payments go automatically through to Netball ACT or SCNA.  Don’t forget to get  your registrations through quickly so we can nominate teams.

Don’t forget our end of season celebration starts at 530pm at the Deakin Soccer Club.

See you all there 😀🎉🎈

Dear Bullants Families

I hope you have all sent in your RSVPs for the end-of-season presentation night on Wednesday 19th September at the Deakin Soccer Club. Click here if you haven’t yet sent in your RSVP. Formalities will commence at 5.45, so please make sure you arrive in good time.

Immediately after the presentation night we will hold our Annual General Meeting. It would be great if some club members can stay to participate in the meeting. Indeed, we cannot hold the meeting unless we reach quorum of 5. The positions on the committee are all up for election. Some committee members have already indicated a willingness to continue to serve on the committee in some capacity, but we do have some vacancies. Below is a list of the roles on the committee with a summary of their responsibilities. Should you be interested in participating in the management of our club please call me or send an expression of interest to bullantsnetball@gmail.com.

President – chair committee meetings (3 per year), provide strategic direction, oversee and support the work of other committee members, co-authorise payments.
Vice President – chair meetings in President’s absence, contribute to strategic direction of club, act as first point of contact for disputes/concerns/complaints.
Secretary – prepare minutes of meetings, deal with external correspondence.
Treasurer – provide financial management of club, keep record of accounts, prepare and arrange audit of annual financial statement, lodge annual return to Office of Regulatory Services.
Public Officer – act as contact point for regulatory authorities (normally this role is taken on by the Secretary)
Registrar – manage registration process, allocate players to teams, maintain and keep updated the club information in mynetball.
Uniform Coordinator – receive orders and arrange for purchase and distribution of uniforms to players.
Coach Coordinator – Source coaches from SCNA community, allocate coaches to teams, brief coaches about club policies and expectations, coordinate access to coach development sessions.
Umpire Coordinator – Source umpires from Bullants and broader SCNA community, allocate umpires to games/teams, work with treasurer to make umpire payments.
Manager Coordinator – Seek volunteer managers for all junior and inters teams, brief managers on club policies and expectations.
Equipment Coordinator – Check team bags to ensure all necessary equipment available, work with treasurer to purchase missing items over the summer break, distribute bags to coaches.

On Saturday Bullants is running the bbq. This is a great opportunity for our club to raise some money which will be spent on our end-of-season presentation night, new equipment, umpire payments etc. At the moment only 6 of the 20 x 1 hour timeslots have been filled. If you have an hour to spare on Saturday please come to help. You can sign up here.

Bernadette Mihaljevic
0404 061 201