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Milson Island played host to the most recent youth sports camp with kids

attending from all over NSW to participate in Golf, Goalball, Cricket, Bas-

ketball, Swimming, AFL, NRL, Tennis, T Ball and for the first time THE

AMAZING RACE. In addition to the fun sports sessions the camp partici-

pants also tried archery, canoeing and abseiling to increase the adventure

component of the camp experience. The campers also had so much fun

with our social nights including Trivia, Games and Disco nights where they

joined the conga line and did the chicken dance. These camps are a vital

part of a child’s ability to step out of the bubble and truly experience

choice around active recreation and sport. They build social networks with

new friends, while steeping into an adaptive and supporting environment.

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THIS ISSUE

Milson Island Sports Camp

Activate Inclusion Sports Days

DSN WrestleMania 66 Wrap

Pacific School Games Trials

NSW Football for All Gala Day

NSW Premier Inclusion League

The Back Page

Thank you Supporters

Contact Us

Blind Sports NSW Newsletter

MAY 2017 Edition

INCLUSION SPORTS CAMP

MILSON ISLAND

ACTIVATE INCLUSION SPORTS DAYS REGISTER

www.sportnsw.com.au Sport NSW, Variety NSW, Blacktown City Council & Ability Links

collaborate to bring you a fun and informative day at Blacktown

Leisure Centre in Stanhope Gardens on Wed, May 31st 10am-2pm

The Mayor will be on hand to open this new program which Sport

NSW and Variety NSW deliver in partnership with Blacktown City

Council to school aged children with a disability or who are under

privileged in the Blacktown LGA.

This is a community based program and will benefit families and

teachers greatly as the program focuses on sustainable outcomes

and information sharing on available services, funding and support

to families in the Blacktown LGA.

On the day Variety NSW will provide fun show bags to the 150 par-

ticipants filled with fun things from State Sporting Organisations,

Variety, Sport NSW, Ability Links and Blacktown City Council.

State Sporting Organisations will provide expert and experienced

coaches who will use adaptive equipment to support any child who

needs special adaptions to games and drills. The coaches will be

supported by a team of Therapeutic Recreation students who are

interns with Sport NSW who are the peak body for sport in NSW.

Local clubs and sporting associations will also be on hand to learn

how to best work with various disabilities and to provide a pathway

to sustainable programs in schools and community for Blacktown.

Click on the register link in the top right of the document to fill in

the quick 2 minute registration form which includes a downloaded

version of the Risk Assessment form for schools wishing to register.

Please contact Murray Elbourn, Disability Inclusion Manager for

Sport NSW on 0427186734 or inclusion@sportnsw.com.au with any

questions you might have. Sports on the day will be as follows:

Tennis

Futsal

Netball

Basketball

Play NRL, Touch Football

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WrestleMania also broke records for sellouts, digital and social me-

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WrestleMania 33 was the most social event in WWE history, accord-

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and Twitter during the broadcast alone. There were also 2.8 million

tweets about WrestleMania throughout the day.

WWE Network

WrestleMania reached a record 1.95 million global households on

WWE Network alone, making it the most-watched WrestleMania in

history, with pay-per-view data still forthcoming.

WWE Network subscribers viewed 22.5 million hours during Wres-

tleMania Week or 13 hours per subscriber during the week. This

compares to 21.7 million hours last year, a year-over-year increase of

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Sales WWE generated $3.7 million in WrestleMania merchandise

revenue, an increase of 164 percent or $2.3 million, from Wrestle-

Mania 24 in Orlando. It was also WWE’s second-highest grossing

WrestleMania, only behind last year’s WrestleMania 32 in Dallas.

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PACIFIC SCHOOL GAME TRIALS REGISTER

www.goalball.com.au NSW Goalball, NSW School Sport Unit, Blind Sports NSW, Sport

NSW, NSW Government & ACPE support the Pacific School Games

try outs for the Paralympic sport of Goalball at Australian College

of Physical Education located at 10 Parkview Drive, Sydney Olym-

pic Park on Monday, June 19th from 10am to 2pm for school aged

children with a vision impairment aged 10/15yrs old at the end of

2017.

The Pacific School Games is the elite standard for School Sports

competition in Australia. The competition will be held in Adelaide

from December 1 through December 10 this yea. Goalball will be

played as a feature competition sport after being an exhibition

sport in the 2015 Pacific School Games. Head Coach Jenny Blow is a

two time Paralympic athlete in this sport and will lead the team in

competition against state teams from SA, WA, VIC, QLD and other

possible international teams from the Oceania and Asia Pacific re-

gions. The above 2015 pictured team now has 3 members of the cur-

rent 2017 Youth Girls Australian team that will travel to Budapest,

Hungary to compete this July in the IBSA Youth World Champion-

ships. Pacific School Games provides an outstanding pathway for

students aged 10/15yrs old at the end of 2017 with vision loss or

blindness to try out for the team on Monday, June 19th from 10am.

Football for all GALA DAY, June 25th

BLIND SPORTS NSW FUTSAL

WINTER LEAGUE DATES

Sunday, June 4th at 4:15pm

Sunday, July 23rd at 4:15pm

Sunday, Aug 6th at 4:15pm

JONES PARK, WESTMEAD

May 28th, 10am kick off

After an extremely successful season of Futsal in the Football NSW

AWD League and the Football NSW State Championships with Raid-

ers winning both competitions, it’s time to set our sights outdoors

and to enter a team into the Football NSW Football for all GALA

DAY at Valentine Sports Park in Glenwood on Sunday, June 25th.

This competition is open to ages 12yrs and up and we encourage all

junior and youth players to sign up by going to our website and fill-

ing in the form at www.blindsportsnsw.com.au/resources then se-

lecting Football for all GALA DAY in the drop down form and regis-

tering to play on the team. Also sign up for our Winter Futsal

League with dates to be announced for June, July & August. Games

will be played at Trinity Grammar Prep School in Strathfield.

Premier Inclusion Leagues Grading, May 28th

This competition is open to ages 14yrs and up for both male and fe-

male competitors we encourage all youth players to sign up by go-

ing to our website and filling in the expression of interest form at

www.blindsportsnsw.com.au/resources Premier Inclusion League

Touch Football Team in the drop down form. Fill in the registration

form or come along to the Jones Park grading day to play in a team.

Touch Football competition is supported by Blind Sports NSW,

Sport NSW, Office Of Sport, NSW Rugby League & NRL.

Judo NSW hosted their first program day exclusively for Blind and

Vision Impaired participants at their home dojo in Sydney Olympic

Park on April 10th.

The team of instructors were amazing and the two hour session ran

extremely well with both Blind Sports NSW and Judo NSW keen to

establish a regular come and try event leading into main stream

clubs being trained to take on more students with blindness and

low vision. Want to join a club: www.blindsportsnsw.com.au

Judo is a Paralympic sport for the vision impaired and blind so the

opportunity to create a strong pathway around the sport with the

State Sporting Org and Clubs is an outstanding opportunity.

Judo NSW establish club program for Blind

Thank you Supporters THE BACK PAGE

CONTACT US

PO BOX W292

Parramatta NSW, 2150

0427186734 Murray

0413376583 Kristy (Tues & Wed only)

Kristy.berthelot@blindsportsnsw.com.au

blindsportsnsw@gmail.com

www.blindsportsnsw.com.au

Inclusion Sports Workshop at

Sport NSW

The workshop focused on partnerships, re-

sourcing, funding and being agile across

their various organisations to change focus

around program delivery to assisting the

main stream State Sporting Orgs to conduct

knowledge exchange days. At the Knowledge

exchange days staff of State Sporting Orgs

can learn how to work effectively with Devel-

opment Officers who deliver programs to

schools and in the community.

Follow up sessions are being planned and

Blind Sports NSW will be adapting their pro-

gram scope to now assist main stream sport.

This has already began in regional NSW. CEO

Murray Elbourn traveled to Wagga Wagga on

May 2nd and 3rd and assisted Netball, NRL,

AFL and Cricket at the NSW School Sport Unit

day with ISTV teacher Natalie and her totally

blind student who was supported by his

mum.

In the Wagga Wagga session, Murray worked

with the various sport development officers

in his capacity as Sport NSW Disability Inclu-

sion Manager. Murray also met with Wagga

Wagga Council, Ability Links and the Region-

al Office of Sport in Wagga to create more op-

portunities for inclusion in the region.

Blind Sports NSW are also assisting regions

in Northern Rivers, Central Coast, Hunter,

Dubbo and in the Sydney Metro Area. Con-

tact our Program Manager Kristy on Tue or

Wed for more info.