Melbourne Waverley

A reminder that next Sunday we have a number of teams entered at the Dandenong and Districts Netball Association Tournament.

If you want to play but your regular team is not playing, and you haven’t been told yet which team you will be in, please speak to your coach at training tomorrow night.

NOTE: even if your team is not playing we will do our best to find you a spot in another team.

The fee for the day will be $15, to be paid to your team manager or coach at the start of the day.

IMPORTANT: Volunteers are needed to spend an hour each helping out in the canteen, and we would appreciate some assistance cleaning up at the end of the day also.  Please speak to your team manager or a committee member about this.

Thanks to Shanae Chamberlain for this match report.

15 3’s versus Mountain District

On Thursday night the girls got off to a slow start allowing the other team to pull away. In the second half we put up a strong fight making Mountain District work hard for their win. To our teams credit we played a competitive game and never gave up. It was great to see the girls trying hard to implement our training drills into the game especially the preliminary moves. Well done to Tanya who played a fantastic game getting many intercepts and using her voice to create good talk. Good job girls!!

Melbourne Waverley will be holding trials for the Waverley Night Netball Association Spring Competition on the following dates:

17/U and Open teams: Trials will be held on Sunday 3rd of June and Sunday 17th June from 7 – 9 pm.
Click here to register for 17/U and Open trials.

15/U teams: Trials will be held on Sunday 24th of June and Sunday 1st of July from 5 – 7 pm.
Click here to register for 15/U trials.

All current players need to attend trials to be reassessed for their age level teams. You need to register by clicking the link above, even if you are a current player, so that we are sure to have your latest details and your up to date preferred playing positions.

We also welcome any new players interested in playing with Melbourne Waverley to register for this event.

All players and parents please note that tournament costs are covered by a small fee on the day, not by your season membership fee.

For players playing at the Association Championships on Sunday, please make sure you give your team manager or coach $10 at the start of the day.

For future tournaments after Sunday, the fee will be $15, to be given to the team manager or coach at the start of the day.  This is to cover one umpire per team plus the entry fee for the team into the tournament.

To all 15/U, 17/U and Open players:

Henderson Regional Trials

Registrations close this Saturday May 12


Register on-line here.

More congratulations are in order - this time for Lauren Hargreaves of our 15/U-1 team.

Lauren is into the last round of 27 players for the SSV 15/U State schoolgirls team.

To be one of the top 27 players in the state in your age group is a great achievement. We are hoping Lauren can take it to the next stage and represent Victoria later in the year.

The last trial is on 20th May - best of luck Lauren!

More good news on the VSS state trials front. In addition to the girls mentioned here, the following players also made it past the third round of trials:

Jemima Price
Holli Dent
Kate Moffatt
Isabella Ebeyan
Taylor Howie
Hinemoa Collier

This brings the total to 9! (Hope we didn’t miss anyone - if we did please let us know).

And in even better news, the VSS South Metro trials were held this morning and four girls were successful and have gone through to the next stage (metro trials).

Kate Moffatt
Taylah Howie
Jemima Price
Hinemoa Collier

Congratulations to all players, parents and coaches!  Four players out of fourteen in the regional team is a fantastic effort, and is by far our best showing ever at SSV.

Please note that the club has recently experienced an email outage, which has now been resolved.

If you recently sent messages to secretary@melbournewaverley.org and have not received a reply, please resend your message.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Please note that Mums need a well-earned break and so there will be no training this coming Sunday May 13 unless you are told otherwise by your coach.

Also, the training centre is not available until after 6:00pm so any junior teams wishing to train will need to take this into account.

To all of the club’s devoted Mums - have a great day!

The Hawaii Sports Festival April 2013

Waikiki

Melbourne Waverley Netball Club sent our senior team to Hawaii in April to compete in the 16th Annual Hawaiian Sports Festival. It was a resounding success and we are now gauging interest to see if we can offer the trip to more players in 2013. If we can get enough players we will enter three teams across the U/15, U/18 and Open divisions.

Dates:-

Frid 29th March 2013 midday(ish) Melbourne to Sydney
Frid 29th March 2013 9.00pm(ish) Sydney to Hawaii (10.5hrs)
Arrive in Hawaii midday(ish) Frid 29th March

*Thurs 4th April 2013* 9.00am transfer to Hawaii airport for 12.40pm flight to Sydney, arrive Sydney 7.20pm Frid 5th April.

*Please note that extra nights stay cost $90.00 per person per night twin share ($70.00 per person per night triple share) and we recommend that an extra 2 to 3 nights be added to ensure you get to see and enjoy all that is on offer in Hawaii*

Costs:-

$2420.00 p.p (twin share) – each room has (2) double beds
$2380.00 p.p (triple share) – 2 to one bed or trundle added to room.

PLUS:-
Allow appx $350.00 for airline taxes
Allow appx $230.00 to $280.00 for Melb-Syd (&return) flights

NOTE:-
You need to be prepared to pay appx $3300.00 (staying an extra 3 nights) per person twin share

** Only 125 tickets have been reserved at this price for the entire of Australia. The early birds will benefit from cheaper tickets.
** We intend to set up an independent Fund Raising Committee as soon as possible. In only 3 months we raised appx $1200 toward the 2012 trip. If we start NOW, we believe we could raise in excess of $5000.
** Players who are members of MW in 2012 but who are not selected for regular MW 2013 teams are still eligible to play for MW on this trip

Julie and Minnie attended the 2012 trip and we propose the following guidelines:-

* Positions will be offered to ALL players 14 years of age as at 1st January 2013
* Parents/Family are welcome to attend at same costs
* We recommend that atleast 2 extra days be added to make it a min 8 night stay
* $100 deposit per person be paid to hold your ticket.
* $100 deposit will be refundable if you change your mind up till 20th June 2012
* Total of $1000 per person MUST be paid by 30th November 2012 to cover domestic flight costs and balance of deposit for International flight & accommodation
* Payment in FULL MUST be made by NO LATER than 10th Feb 2013

We will arrange an information meeting shortly, but please declare your interest as soon as possible:-
Minnie: brimin@bigpond.com
Julie: cdjmanderson@bigpond.com

Mahalo !