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WDJFC Cats News September 2016
Website: https://wembleydownsjfc.tidyclub.com
email: [email protected]
Can you believe the home and away season has
ended already?! Hope all the Auskickers and
Year 4s to 6s had a fabulous time.
And for those youth teams who didn't make it to
finals—well done for a great
season!
So the first round of the finals
were successful for the Year 8
Blues who go straight into the
grand final. Well done boys!
Commiserations to the Year 7
whites—but what a great effort!
And we have the big Year 9 derby
this Sunday with our boys playing
off for a spot in the GF…come
and watch and support our great
club.
In this edition:
Youth presentations
Dads game photos
Cheryl Aitken, 100 and
50 game medals
Life members
100 Club meeting
Auskick and mums
game
Sponsors—Thank you!
11am Sunday 11 Sept — Year 9 Whites vs Year 9 Blues at Luketina Reserve
Presidents report for 2016...slightly abbreviated
Our players across all year groups have displayed sportsmanship that we as a club
can be proud of. This year the club had 258 Auskickers, 141 juniors (Y4-Y7) & 127
youth players (Y8-Y12), totalling 547 WDJFC players. Our overall player numbers
have increased nearly 20% over the past three years, with this being perhaps our
largest player group so far.
We fielded 14 modified and age group teams including three Year 4 teams and a
standalone Yr 12 team under the stewardship of Paul Peos, Doug Baird & Mark Pope.
The WDJFC showed great participation at the District Gala Day at North Beach and
City Beach and both Mums and Dads games were played in very good spirit.
This year, both Yr 6s and Yr 7’s had fabulous Melbourne trips with the Yr 7s group se-
curing a game at half time at Etihad Stadium being the Western Bulldogs/West Coast
Eagles AFL Fixture. Both year groups also played local clubs. The WDJFC 100 club ac-
tivity continued and was again co-ordinated by past president Garry Budd.
The club has a strong financial position and thanks to Treasurer Heather Felton for
her great planning and management. Thanks also to all our other volunteers and
coaches—we couldn't run without you!
The WDJFC has an enviable reputation throughout the district as a strong club that
does not grade its teams and we hope that you will all come back for the 2017
season.
All the best, Rob Prince, President
Thank you Junior Coaches
Y4’s: Evan Hewitt, Gerard Fountain & Greg Hammond
Y5’s: Martin McInnes & Troy Wagenaar
Y6’s: Matt Beggs and Matt Petritch
Thank you Youth Coaches
Y7’s: David Woolfe (Youth
Coach of the Year in 2015) and
Glenn Winton/Robert Prince
Y8’s: Darren Beazley & Glenn
McCallum
Y9’s: Kevan Sparks and Camp-
bell McKay
Y12’s: Paul Peos
Cheryl Aitken Award Winners
2016
Ky Woodyard
Oliver Bridgwood
All parents and players for Year 7 - 12 are invited to attend this all
important finish to our season.
The will be awarded to the player in the open
rules teams (Y7’s to 12’s) who polls the most votes in the home
and away games of the season.
4 trophies shall be awarded each year to each team in the Y7s and above
Fairest and BestRunner up Fairest and Best Coach’s Award Most improved
Pizza and a drink will be provided for all players
WDJFC Youth players trophy presentations
4.00 to 7.00pm, Saturday 17 September 2016
Doubleview Bowling Club
The Y12’s finished their junior career with a terrific 18 point win over Swanbourne with our Life Member and 100 club member Doug Baird officiat-ing in his last game for Wembley Downs. Great job Doug and Roxanne!
WDJFC 50th anniversary in 2017
Next year is our 50th
anniversary!! We are planning to celebrate in style at The
Ambrose Room at the Wembley golf course on 1st September. We are also plan-
ning some special merchandise and lots of celebrations involving current and past
players and families. If you would like to be involved in planning some of the
events, please contact our past president, Garry Budd (0420 990 451)
Congratulations to
Lachie McKay (year 9 Blues)
Austin Bradshaw and
Josh Foster (Year 12)
were also welcomed
into this elite group
Ben Elliot,
Year 9 Whites—
what an
achievement!
100 game medals
WDJFC Community Day and Dads game
Our fabulously
attired umpire Garry
WDJFC 100 Club
Due to the high demand (and great times so far!) we will be
holding a 100 club meeting on the 1st round of the AFL finals.
So come down at 5.30pm on Friday 9th
September for the Sec-
ond qualifying final - Geelong v Hawthorn at the MCG
Partners are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Wembley Downs have again been awarded the hosting of finals
this weekend. This is recognition for our past performance in
hosting finals and our high standard of facilities. Any help on
these days from 100 club members would be greatly appreciated
by the club
Cheers
Jamo and Garry
Congrats Sam Ori
50 games
More awesome
efforts in the
Dad’s game
Congratulations to our two latest Life
Members!!
Liz Quail—Liz has been an integral member of the
Club for around 15 years. Liz has held just about all
the positions at the Club including Auskick coach,
Auskick coordinator, Club Secretary and Volunteers
coordinator. She has managed teams for at least 7
years and is now a faithful boundary umpire for the
Yr 7s as well as fill in manager. We couldn't do with-
out Liz’s tireless efforts to organise the trophies
and assist with all the events. She is extremely pas-
sionate about the club and the focus on developmental
football in a community environment. And she is the only club official we know of that
has had to climb a tree to rescue a ball mid game. We love you Lizzie!!
Vicki England—Vicki has been a member of the committee for 7 years, 5 of which as
Club Secretary. She has also managed a number of teams and provided a valuable and
significant contribution to the WDJFC. Vicki is always willing to help—even with 5 chil-
dren. We don’t know
how Vicki finds all the
time she shares with the
Club.
Thanks so much
Vicki!!
New Life
Members!
Auskick wind up
and
Y3 Mums game
Thanks to all our
Auskick coaches
Patrick Carden
Ben Cattalini
Travis Clohessy
Scott Coveney
Brenton Downing
Matt Farr
Ainsley Gifford
Grant Godber
Trav Gorman
Kasey Green
Anthony Harris
Paul Harris
Geoff Hegney
Evan Hewitt
Scott Hills
Adam Irving
Dan Kennington
Andrew Mackin
Kim McInerney
Marty McInnes
Anthony Muir
Dale Newsome
Brad Pense
David Rogers
Brian Rynhoud
Mitchell Stevens
Benjamin Stout
David van Rooyen
Troy Wagenaar
Stan Wholley
Andrew Willis
Luke Wundke
The Year 9s give some positive reinforcement to the Y7s!!
Coach of the year nominations!
The 2016 Tigers District Awards of
Excellence will be held on Tuesday 20th
September at the Rendezvous Hotel -
Scarborough. Wembley Downs JFC is ex-
tremely proud that we had a record num-
ber of coaches nominated this year and
that two of our coaches have been selected
by Claremont to go forward to be finalists
at the District awards. They are:
Evan Hewitt, Auskick Coach of the Year
Campbell McKay , Youth Coach of the Year.
We wish them both the best of luck
on the night!!
Year 9 Blues Vs Whites—watch
them in action again this weekend
Thanks to our sponsors for 2016!
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