Liverpool Primary School Sports Association

Liverpool Zone AGM/5th General Meeting Minutes Thursday 8th December, 2016

Moorebank Sports Club

Meeting opened: 4:10pm

Attendance: David King, Emma Campbell, Natalie Maine (Casula), Chris Hannan, Joanne Georgiadis (Chipping Norton), Andy Mathews, Jackie Joseph, John Brook (Dalmeny), Craig Hughes (Hammondville), Ashleigh Wilks, Mikaela Butters, Stuart Carr, Siabhan Bethe (Holsworthy), Josh Lanham, Paul Murray, Alicia Kinnaburgh, Helen Petinos (Liverpool West), Troy Verey, Andrew Clayton, Ben Taylor, Andrew Donnan (Marsden Rd), Daniella Georgakopaoulos (Newbridge Hts), Michelle Snowdon, Rebecca Gonzalez, Linda Smith (Nuwarra), Paul Meoni, Charonne Brown, Mo Lloyd (Prestons) Apologies: Donna Moffat, Andrew Mlinac (Dalmeny), Michelle Danne (Marsden Rd), Lyn Lynch, Aaron Hartwell (Sackville St), Adrianna Bywater (Liverpool), Julie Finn (Wattle Grove)

AGM Meeting:

Thanks to John Brook who played the part of our returns Election of Executive, Convenors & Coaches Executive:

• President: Andy Mathews (Dalmeny) • Secretary: Jackie Joseph (Dalmeny) • Treasurer: Rebecca Gonzalez (Nuwarra) • Vice Presidents: David King (Casula) & Michelle Snowdon (Nuwarra)

Positions:

• Area Delegates: Alicia Kinniburgh (Liverpool West) & Andrew Clayton (Marsden Rd) • Webmaster: Craig Hughes (Hammondville) • Council Delegates: Jackie Joseph (Dalmeny) • Certificates/Trophies: David King (Casula)

Friday Convenors:

• Boys T-ball/Softball: Andrew Clayton (Marsden Rd) • Girls T-ball/Softball: Liz Todhunter (Dalmeny)

• Cricket: Marissa Madern • OzTag: Jackie Joseph (Dalmeny) • Newcombeball: Michelle Carey (Casula) • Boys Football: Ben Taylor (Marsden Rd) • Girls Football: Josh Lanham (Liverpool West) • Rugby League: Andy Mathews (Dalmeny) • Netball: Charonne Brown (Prestons)/Michelle Snowdon (Nuwarra) • AFL: Alicia Kinniburgh (Liverpool West) • Hockey: Krista Atkins (Holsworthy) • Touch Footy: David King (Casula)

Coaches:

• Boys Football: Andrew Mlinac/ Daniel Melissari (Dalmeny) • Girls Football: Paul Meoni (Prestons) • Rugby League U11s: Vacant • Rugby League Opens: Andy Mathews (Dalmeny) • Rugby Union: Josh Lanham (Liverpool West) • Diving: Craig Hughes (Hammondville) • Tennis: Craig Hughes (Hammondville) • AFL: Josh Lanham (Liverpool West) • Netball: Michelle Snowdon (Nuwarra)/Belinda Partridge (Newbridge HTS) • Boys Hockey: Krista Atkins (Holsworthy) • Girls Hockey: Lauren Eagles (Nuwarra) • Boys Basketball: Andrew Clayton/ Michelle Danne (Marsden Rd) • Girls Basketball: Adrianna Bywater (Liverpool) • Boys Softball: John Brook (Dalmeny) • Girls Softball: Liz Todhunter (Dalmeny) • Boys Cricket: John Brooke (Dalmeny) • Girls Cricket: Vacant • Girls Touch: Paul Meoni (Prestons) • Boys Touch: Paul Murray (Liverpool West)

5th General Meeting: Meeting Open: 4:40pm

1. Reading of the minutes: 2. Business Arising:

Touch Football to be offered during Winter PSSA (David King)

• Idea behind it, to cater for students less suited to the physicality of Rugby League. • Run like Oztag • 7 a side teams (up to 14 players per team) • School will be limited to one Jnr and one Snr team • Assistance from Touch Football Australia

Thoughts from different school delegates:

School: Thoughts: Holsworthy Happy to stick with Rugby League as concerns maybe that Touch would take over Nuwarra Stick to Rugby League Liverpool West Happy to try Touch as there are not enough supporting Rugby League over the

years Will have plenty of support for it

Chipping Norton Touch Footy would appeal more to the girls, happy to support. Will work out cheaper, if the venue is near Chippo

Dalmeny Concerns that it will affect Soccer and Rugby League numbers Hammondville Happy to go with it as further down the line it may ease the load from OzTag Prestons Happy to go with it as next year there will be no Rugby League team

• Vote taken to include Touch Footy in 2017, with an eye on numbers. • Schools only to enter one senior and one junior team • In favour : 25 • Against: 2 • Motion Passed!!!!

Constitution Changes: (Andy Mathews)

Constitution Changes: Adjustments to be made and sent out to everybody via email. Voting on adjustments will occur at the first meeting next year.

7.1.1 7.13 15.1 PSSA Constitution Changes: 1.2 12.1 12.2 12.2.1 12.8.1 20.2 20.3 20.4

• Calendar has been sent out to all, once coaching courses are out we will add them to the calendar as well.

3. President’s Report: (Andy Mathews)

• What a great year, more kids in more teams playing sports from more schools at more grounds than ever before.

• Bigger team representation than ever before • 136 summer teams • 188 winter teams • New pennants are in place

• We are now reimbursing players who need to travel fro their SSW representation, extending from State reps to SSW travel reps.

• Girls soccer Champs Well done Paul • Boys Basketball Champs Well done Troy • U11s Rugby League runners up Well done Mo Lloyd

Goals/Challenges for next year:

• Bring Lurnea into PSSA competitions • Tighten up lines of communication so all our reps and successful comps are made public • Secure new playing fields • Retain Sackville Street • Trial Touch Footy

Thanks To:

• Jackie, David, Michelle and Rebecca for all their help doing all the other things you don’t see behind the scenes

• Craig for being on top of the website • All Friday sport Convenors • All the Zone Coaches • Everyone of you for coming along to our meetings and taking teams. • Without you all it doesn’t get off the ground

4. Finances:

(Andy Mathews) • Our balance at the end of 2016 is $9000

5. Summer PSSA Results:

Cricket (Grant Withers) • JNR: Newbridge Hts • SNR: Holsworthy

OzTag (Jackie Joseph)

• JNR: Hammondville • SNR: Dalmeny A

Newcombeball (Linda Smith)

• JNR: Wattle Grove A • SNR: Joint premiers Dalmeny A & Wattle Grove

T-Ball/Softball Boys (Liz Todhunter/ Andrew Clayton)

• JNR Boys: Wattle Grove • SNR Boys: Holsworthy • JNR Girls: Hammondville • SNR Girls: Joint premiers Hammondville/Holsworthy • Issue with school spec at the same time as semis

AFL (Alicia Kinniburgh)

• JNR: Liverpool West • SNR: Liverpool West • Hopes to splitting the comp into boys and girls

6. General Business:

Changes to AFL (Alicia Kinniburgh) • Having teams that are girls/boys and mixed teams (opens team) • Will benefit the girls greatly to be on a team of just girls • Changes will be further looked into next year • Will be flexible

Cricket (Charonne Brown) • Is there a set number of girls that are required in a pssa cricket team? • Officially there is no clearly ruling, majority are boys but girls are more than welcome!

SSW Orienteering Gala Day (Siabhan Bethe) • Sydney South west runs an orienteering day • Start with coaching and training at school level, once kids are ready send the team on to

be part of the orienteering fun • Schools can apply for grants to be upskilled in orienteering • Perhaps one day look at having a gala day as a zone

Draws (Josh Lanham) • With the amount of schools/teams competing in pssa, perhaps its worthwhile to look at

running pssa as east and west teams • Due to the amount of schools, we miss out on playing all schools during a season

PSSA semis/finals (Ashleigh Wilks) • Convenors can we please have the semi’s and finals draw at the start of the week and not

the day before as its too difficult to organise buses Pennants (Andy Mathews)

• Pennants are in! • Green smaller ones are awarded to winning teams and Large Yellow pennants are for

winning schools across our 3 major carnivals Uniforms (Michelle Snowdon)

• All uniforms need to be returned and will be kept safe for the following year • Please contact Michelle throughout the year if you need any

Thanks (Everybody) • A massive shout out to Andy Mathews for his super job as President over the year and

years gone. • Zone is running exceptional well with him as our leader, fantastic job! • Many thanks for all your efforts in every aspect of this job!!!

Meeting Closed: 5:25pm