The year kicked off with the locals partaking in some pick up indoor
ultimate at the Aitkenvale PCYC. It was great to try a different form of
Ultimate but unfortunately the venue really wasn’t up to scratch. We’ll look
into this again after the semester 2 league and hopefully we can find a more
suitable venue.
Shortly before the semester 1 league kicked off, Duncan informed us
that he was leaving for WA (I’m really concerned about this trend of
President’s moving to WA….). Duncan has been with the club for many years and
has been a great contributor to the sport, not only at JCU but also through his
work and community engagements. You will be missed sir!
Our Regionals campaign had a somewhat slow start this year with QUDA
giving people minimal notice of when (and where) it would be held. Fortunately
this was offset with a generous subsidy from QUDA which was around $150 per
person to attend (Thank you QUDA!). A full write up by David Phang is available
on the blog http://townsvilleultimate.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/northern-regionals-2013.html
The QUDA AGM was held on the same weekend as Regionals and the QUDA
committee had some fresh blood elected in.
President - John McNaughton - president@quda.org
Secretary - Jo Ashdown - secretary@quda.org
Treasurer - Myall Hingee - treasurer@quda.org
General Members - Chris Ende, Emma Briggs
Secretary - Jo Ashdown - secretary@quda.org
Treasurer - Myall Hingee - treasurer@quda.org
General Members - Chris Ende, Emma Briggs
A part of my role is looking after Regional Development. At this stage
that has primarily been securing funding for regional teams to attend Halibut,
assisting with the establishment of Mackay as a new club, and supporting the
group in Charters Towers to establish some regular pickup. In the not too
distant future I hope to see a School program being rolled out and hopefully
some support for players wanting to try and make the U19 team next year. If you
have any ideas or concerns, feel free to contact me townsvilleultimate@gmail.com.
Semester 1 League was the largest Townsville has seen, 173 active
members across 10 teams (we wanted to push for 12 teams but with Duncan
leaving we didn’t have the captaincy capacity)!
As far as results go, it was certainly a motley arrangement with the
undefeated Fluro Fantasy
going down to the bottom placed Purple Haze in the final round robin round. This
result cost Fluro Fantasy
the minor premiership and seemed to have a cascade effect as they narrowly lost
to Tie Dyenosaurs in the semi-finals. It only goes to show, you
gotta win them all! Congratulations go to The Seagulls
for winning the final over the Tie Dyenosaurs.
Townsville had two representatives attend the U23 training camps, Dee
and Matt Finn. By all accounts both played extremely well and it is encouraging
to see Townsville players being considered for National Team selection. I have
no doubt that Dee can make the team in 2015 if she keeps at it. Hopefully QUDA
will attempt to bridge the gap between regional centres and high level ultimate
player development in the coming year.
Part 2 will be next week so until then, scheme well!
Evil Genius
