Annual Report
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Annual Report 2013 Mission Statement Athletics Victoria will promote, develop and grow athletics as a vibrant, healthy, fun and accessible sport available to all Victorians. Vision For athletics to be the premier Olympic sport in the state and for Athletics Victoria to be the premier athletics body in the nation. Athletics Victoria Annual Report 2012-13 Contents From The President 2 Past Presidents 5 Honour Roll 6 Office Bearers & Staff 8 From The Acting General Manager 10 Development 13 Membership Statistics 16 Officials 18 Competitions Report 21 Victorian Records 24 Summer Awards 26 XCR Cross Country & Road Racing 28 XCR Awards 30 Victorian Institute of Sport 33 Financial Report 36 Tribute to Joyce Isabel Davis 52 2013 1 From The President Dr Ian Jones, President I was honoured and humbled when the Board of with LAV is essential for the continued growth of Directors elected me for a second term as President our sport, and remains one of the Board’s highest of Athletics Victoria. I am pleased to be able to priorities. I thank our officials and our coaches who make this, my second report to our members, are making a success of integrating their activities partners, sponsors and the community at large. with those of LAV. This report covers the 2012-13 athletics year, and focuses on activities and developments at Board Our policies focus in the last year has seen level. developments and refinements relating to financial management, occupational health and safety, risk The past year has been another successful one for management, and member protection. Our policies our sport. We have collectively set athletics on a never stand still – they need constant revision steady growth path – consolidating the initiatives of and scrutiny to meet the evolving requirements recent years whilst developing some exciting new and expectations of all our stakeholders. In activities. We now have well over 5,000 registered particular, occupational health and safety and risk members, including over 1,000 dual and youth management are particularly important for athletics. members, reflecting the tireless efforts of our staff Given the high number of hazards to which we and our clubs to offer a product that attracts and are exposed in the normal conduct of an athletics engages with the wider athletics community. At meeting, it behoves us to be not only vigilant, but this juncture, I acknowledge and thank our Board also looking for ways to make our sport safer for all members for their highly professional and diligent participants, officials and spectators. work: Vice-Presidents Russell Clowes and Lisa Hasker, Treasurer Eric Sigmont; and Rohan Claffey, One of our main strategic priorities is to increase Rod Griffin, Alan McCauley and Heather Ridley. revenue streams without imposing too heavily on Together they make a well-balanced team that our members. The costs of meeting our members’ brings a high standard of governance to our sport. expectations are constantly increasing, so we have to find funds from a variety of sources. In the last Last year I reported on the consummation of the year our revenues from managing athletics events, move of our premier athletic activities from Olympic from participation and development grants, and Park to wonderful new facilities at Lakeside Stadium. from selling merchandise (mainly AV clothing) have Last year’s AGM was the first meeting to be held grown. We hope that the GP Fun Run, in which we in the completed office building. I can now report are a partner, will grow from its small beginning this that the splendid new office building with its modern year to become a significant revenue-raiser for us in facilities was officially opened by the Victorian future years. Minister for Sport and Recreation, The Hon Hugh Delahunty MLA, in December last year, and has We face big challenges in our sport. For one, been named Athletics House. Accompanying the although we have made good progress, there is still Minister was Catherine Freeman, who, to the delight a great deal more that needs to be done to harness of our community, has bestowed her name upon the potential of information technology. Athletics the function room. It is the hope of the Board that Australia is coordinating a nation-wide drive to the Cathy Freeman Room will not only be used for make a large forward leap in our exploitation of meetings such as our AGM, but will be hired out technology. This development will be welcomed by for seminars, small conventions and for private all of us, but it will require a substantial investment functions. Further investment is required to enable from AV, and the Board will monitor developments this. closely. After years of poor standard and make-shift As mentioned earlier, we have moved along well offices, the Board is very pleased to see our staff in developing good relations with Little Athletics; properly accommodated in efficient and pleasant however the Australian Sports Commission wants us surroundings. The Board is also pleased to see to make a lot more structural progress – and rapidly. the operations of our administration becoming The Board will continue to liaise with Athletics increasingly integrated with those of Little Athletics Australia and LAV over the coming months and will Victoria (LAV). The consolidation of our relationship share developments with our members as they arise. 2 Athletics Victoria Annual Report 2012-2013 Another challenge for us is the following: how do of Acting General Manager in the interim period we engage with or provide services for the large between CEOs. number of recreational runners and fans of athletics who at present have little to do with us? We are To our athletes and coaches, we thank you for constantly looking at opportunities to attract these your continued participation and development of walkers, runners, jumpers and throwers into the our sport, and send a special congratulations to realms of our club-based training and competition our London Olympians. Our thanks also go to our structures, and welcome suggestions from all remarkable officials and volunteers, whose skills members. and tireless forbearance enable us to run athletic meetings. In Victoria, we provide more athletic The media area is one that is a challenge for us, but meetings than the rest of Australia combined. also has enormous potential. We have done very well in the areas of improving our web interface, Victorian athletics has thrived through its club system developing social media and the growth of athsvic and the competitions that are organised around TV. In fact, we celebrated 1 million video views on that. I thank our member clubs for their cooperation our athsvicTV YouTube channel this year. and assistance throughout the year. The last year has seen the departure from our office We welcome the appointment of Glenn Turnor of several experienced staff members, including the as our new CEO, and thus we enter a new era in resignation in January of our CEO, Nick Honey. I Victorian athletics. It will be interesting and it will have nothing but admiration for our staff. They have be exciting. I am greatly looking forward to it, as I pulled together, helped each other, and worked way am sure are all of you. I thank you all for making beyond the call of duty to ensure that our events 2012-13 a successful year, and wish you well for proceed with minimal hiccups. I take this opportunity the coming years. to acknowledge the enormous contribution of Nick Honey over nine and a half years. There is so much that could be said, but I am simply going to say that he left the organisation in a very different and better state than that into which he was introduced a decade ago. I also acknowledge and thank Hamish Beaumont for the deft touch and gentle leadership Dr Ian Jones that he exhibited when he stepped up to the role President 3 4 Past Presidents Victorian Amateur Athletic Association 1891 - 1897 Hon Robert W BEST MLA * 1897 - 1897 Mr Walter T COLDHAM * 1897 - 1901 Mr Montague COHEN * 1901 - 1905 Mr Lawrence A ADAMSON * 1905 - 1918 Sir John MADDEN * 1918 - 1943 Sir William H IRVINE * 1943 - 1957 Sir John G LATHAM * 1957 - 1970 Sir Wilfred K HUGHES * 1970 - 1976 Sir Edgar S TANNER * 1976 - 1978 Hon Justice Allan W McDONALD 1978 - 1982 Sir Murray V McINERNEY * Victorian Women’s Amateur Athletic Association 1929 - 1935 Miss Louise C MILLS * 1935 - 1937 Mrs Doris M MULCAHY * 1937 - 1938 Mrs Flora HYAMS * 1938 - 1945 Miss Louise C MILLS * 1945 - 1948 Miss Doris J CARTER * 1948 - 1952 Mrs Doris IL DAVIS * 1952 - 1961 Mrs Mabel E ROBINSON * 1961 - 1962 Mrs Lena BERZINSKI * 1962 - 1965 Mrs Aileen VE KENNEDY * 1965 - 1976 Mrs Joyce I DAVIS * 1976 - 1982 Mrs Margaret L MAHONY Victorian Athletic Association Inc. 1982 - 1983 Dr Frank P LARKINS 1983 - 1984 Mr Gary A COZENS 1984 - 1989 Mr Stan M L GUILFOYLE 1989 - 1992 Dr Brian HODGSON Athletics Victoria Inc. 1992 - 1994 Dr Brian HODGSON 1994 - 1995 Mr Greg D LEWIS 1995 - 1997 Mr Kevin L DYNAN 1997 - 2002 Mr John K HIGHAM 2002 - 2005 Mr Max C BINNINGTON 2005 - 2011 Ms Anne LORD 2012 - Dr Ian K JONES *Deceased 5 Honour Roll Athletics Victoria Life Members 1981 BEOVICH Beverley L * CHUGG Jack W * 1896 PARKINSON Basil J * MAHONY Margaret L OAM 1901 COHEN Montague * 1982 BELL Donald F OAM * 1904 BARRETT Albert O * DYNAN Kevin L 1906 TRAVIS Herbert A * 1983 DAVIS Robert L * 1909 BRIGGS Walter E * TUNALEY William S * 1912 CROLL Robert H * 1984 GALBRAITH Alec C * 1914 ADAMSON Lawrence A CMG MA* 1985 BIGGINS Jack McD * 1915 SERLE E Hamilton OBE* DOWNES Lola C OAM SHAPPERE Philip