Issue 15 February 2007 Prez Sez Hello and welcome to the February edition of the The 2006 / 2007 Enfield Harriers AGM / Presen- Enfield Harriers News. This newsletter is a busy tation will be held on April 1st, 3pm at the club- one with State champs, National Champs, Youth rooms. Please put the date in your diary and Olympic Festival, Athletics Australia Cup, Athlete come along to join your club members to cele- Inside this issue: of the year, Sports Stars of the Year, OAMs, brate the past year's achievements. More details World Cross country teams, grants, coach of the on the presentation night can be found below. year, presentations and official openings! Please also give serious consideration and thought Top Performances 2 to joining the Enfield Harriers committee. With- As the seasons draws to a close, we must make out an active committee, Enfield Harriers can not VSEG 2 appropriate acknowledgements to our Enfield Har- operate and survive. Your help will help to lessen rier Officials and committee who have represented the load for the loyal few who continually toe the us with long, faithful and HOT service to the ath- line for the club. SA Sports Star of the 3 letes and association. Thank you on behalf of all of Year our members, not just for this event, but for your Good luck to Meggan O’Riley who is taking the regular help throughout the season. Hopefully we plunge to move to Melbourne to continue train- Entertainment Books 3 can recruit more helpers for the next season! ing with her coach Vasilly. Meggan recently placed 2nd in the Long and Triple jump at the U20 na- John Pearce OAM 4 As per usual for Enfield Harriers athletes, there tional championships and to continue her devel- have been many fantastic performances on the opment in the sport; has decided to align herself track and in the field. Congratulations to Kristy with her coach in Melbourne. Everyone at Enfield U20/U23 National 5 Villis who has been selected to take on the Ken- Harriers hopes that your move goes well and you Champs yans in Kenya, for the 35th IAAF World Cross are able to chase down your athletic dreams. Country Championships to be held in Mombasa on Comm. Games Im- 6 24 March 2007. This will be a tough assignment for With the onset of Winter training after the sen- pressions Pt2 Kristy and we wish her all the best for the trip and ior national champs it is timely to remind every- competition. Other outstanding performances are one that athletics is a year round sport. Train Enfield Harriers Internet scattered throughout this newsletter for you to hard throughout the Winter and your will reap read. Remember, if you know of a great perform- the rewards in the Summer. Remember, Winter enfieldharriers.athleticssa.org ance send us an email and the performance can be is when the hard work is done, Summer is for added to the web site and this newsletter. showing off. [email protected] The official clubroom opening will be held on Hope to see you all at the official opening and March 25. Details are a little sketchy at this point in club AGM/Presentation evening. Important Dates: time, but expect an invite from the council in your Feb 24 State Field Relay Darren Billett letter box soon. Champs Mar 4/5 - Interclub Finals Enfield Harriers AGM / Presentation Mar 9-11 - Open Na- tional Championships Enfield Harriers will recognise and reward its tional drinks can be purchased for $1. BYO champion athletes at the AGM and Presentation hard stuff. Still want more??? Well dessert will Mar 25 - Official Club- on April 1st. Please also consider nominating for be from a selection of luscious ice-creams. room Opening a committee position to help YOUR club. Apr 1 - AGM / Presenta- The format for the afternoon will be: tion April 1st 3pm Award presentations EH Clubrooms, St Albans reserve AGM A BBQ will be on the menu for dinner. For the Dinner low low price of only $5 you can dine on an all Fun & Games you can eat selection of succulent BBQ meats and delicious salads. Want more?? We will also Please RSVP to [email protected] by chuck in your first can of soft drink free. Addi- March 18 to assist with catering. Page 2 Enfield Harriers News Clubroom Official Opening Australian Athletics Cup It’s finally on! After what seems an eternity, the end of the Congratulations to more of EH finest - Kristy Villis & Meggan month is upon us (well almost) and the date for the official O'Riley who were selected to compete in the Australian Athletic clubroom opening has been set. The Enfield Harriers new Cup, to be held in Brisbane, Jan 20. clubrooms will be officially opened by the Port Adelaide Enfield Council on Sunday morning, March 25. The inaugural Australian Athletics Cup was staged at Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre in Brisbane. Its was state vs state as the best of the best put on their state colours to fight it out for suprem- Keep an eye on your letter box for an invite from the acy for the Australia Cup. The Australian Athletics Cup was a council - See you there! team competition over 12 individual events and relays. $5000 was awarded to the winning team from the competition. The events contested were: SASI Female Athlete of the Year Men: 100 metres, 200 Metres, 400 metres, 1500 metres, Shot Put, Javelin Throw (Mixed medley Relay ) At the annual SASI awards night, Brooke Billett won the athletics program athlete of the year and the overall SASI Women: 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 1500 metres, Long female athlete of the year awards. The female athlete of the Jump, Pole Vault (Mixed Medley Relay) year award is a huge honour, as Brooke was judged the best athlete from all sporting programs in SASI. This award Final Score’s caps off the successful season Brooke had which culminated with winning Gold at the Commonwealth Games and a Victoria 66 solid performance at the World Cup. Queensland 63 New Zealand 62 Enfield Harriers congratulates Brooke on her outstanding ACT 58 Western Australia/ Northern Territory 52 success! South Australia / Tasmania 46 New South Wales 43 Pacific All Stars 40 National Reps This competition was be Meggan ORiley’s first selection in an A number of EH athletes have competed on the national stage 'open' team and it is pleasing to see the rise of another EH junior since the beginning of the new year. The following is a brief out- into the senior ranks! line of our recent national competitors. January 2007 VSEG Enfield Harriers is continuing its fine tradition in securing any Youth Olympics Festival - Sydney Sara Jaric - 4th in Javelin with a throw of available funding for the clubs athletes and volunteers; having Mitch Fox - 3rd in Pole Vault with a vault of recently being awarded $3,000 for the Volunteers Small Equip- ment Grant (VSEG). The purpose of the grant is to encourage Athletics Australia Cup - Brisbane and support volunteers by enabling organisations to purchase equipment that contributes to making volunteering activities eas- th Meggan O’Riley – 6 in Long Jump with a leap of 5.83m ier, safer and/or more enjoyable. Australian Cross Country trials - Canberra The grant will be used to purchase the following equipment: rd Kristy Villis – 3 in the 6km with a time of 20.43 min- Boardroom Table and Chairs utes Stereo/CD player Kitchen Utensils/Equipment Telstra A Series – Canberra BBQ st Gardening tools: Mower, petrol blower, petrol trimmer, Darren Billett – 1 in Hammer Throw with a throw of shovel, rake etc 64.35m Claire Woods - 3rd in 20k Race Walk in a time of It is interesting to note, that the Flinders Athletic Club was 1:35:36.00 the only other senior athletic club to be awarded the grant - at least they are taking advantage of the same opportuni- February 2007 will see Jacqueline Emms, Kate Shierlaw, Meggan ties that Enfield Harriers are. There were also 3 little ath- O’Riley & Branko Jaric compete at the Telstra Australian Under 20 National Championships which will be held in Hobart. It is also letic clubs that were successful. Hopefully next round the expected that a number of Enfield athletes will travel to Brisbane Enfield Little Athletic club will apply and be successful as th for the 85 Telstra National Australian Athletics Championships well! in March. We wish all our athletes the best for their perform- ances. Enfield Harriers News Page 3 SA Sports Star of the Year Congratulations to Brooke Billett who has been nominated for the 2006 South Australia Sports Start of the Year. ―A gold-medal performance at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne last year thrust Brooke Krueger-Billett into the international spotlight. The junior primary teacher from Dernancourt Primary School won a gold medal in the hammer-throw event. In front of 80,000 people, the champion athlete broke a Games record with a throw of 67.9m. She beat a field of 12, including Manchester gold-medallist Lorraine Shaw of England to win the event.‖ The SA Sports Star of the year will be announced on Friday, February 23 at the SA wine centre. Thank you to all of those who voted for Brooke for the peoples choice awards! ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS—2007/2008 The entertainment books are great value and worth while. Last year the books were very popular and raised over $552 for Enfield Harriers. What is the Entertainment Book? The entertainment book is a book full of 2-for-1 coupons and percentage off deals at café’s, pubs, restaurants, hotels, leisure places, video hire etc all over Adelaide and South Australia.