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SPRING 2014 SPRING 2014 INSIDE Broncos Show Northern Promise Casting a Net in Ellenbrook Young Trainee Travels to Broome Swans Paint it Black and White New Tigerland Roars at Kostera Creating Chances for Kids with Disabilities PLUS LOTS MORE! PAGE 1 SPRING 2014 CONTENTS FROM THE CEO’S desk 3 From The CEOs Desk 3 From The District WELCOME everyone to another edition of Manager’s Desk ‘Black & White’ which see’s the club exceeding 4 Playing Kindergarten expectations on field and starting to build some Cop momentum off field. A strong Community focus has once again be 5 Broncos Show Northern highlighted by the large number of local zone Promise players that have represented the league team in 6 Casting a Net in 2014. For the first time in many years, Claremont Ellenbrook Football Club has been overtaken in this area and I’m proud to say that Swan Districts Football Club 7 Young Trainee Travels to leads the way in the WAFL with over 75% of Broome players used this year coming directly from our 7 Hills Spring into AFL 9s zone. The season has also, at times, seen us lead the Rodriguez Shield as the best performed club across all three grades and we currently sit second with only 8 Smashing the Glass one round to play so another great indication of what our Football Department and Ceiling players have been able to achieve. 10 Mighty Ducks Come of In terms the competition and in particular West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Age Dockers being partnered with East Perth and Peel respectively, a full review of the 11 Swans Paint It Black and rules and regulations will be conducted in October to ensure that the competition White is not further compromised by either of these clubs being too dominate nor any non-partnered club being further disadvantaged in terms of football department 12 New Hope for resources. Caversham As I write this we have one game to play against East Fremantle and if we win 13 New Tigerland Roars at we are guaranteed a home final. Either way our Colts and League teams we will Kostera be tasting September finals action and anything can happen once you’re in there. 14 Creating Chances for Taking all of that into account you can see we are well placed to be competitive Kids with Disabilities for many years as the dominant colts group and many of you young stars in the junior competition come through our development system. Good luck to those clubs participating in the finals. FROM THE district manager’s desk THE 4th edition of set to explode with the expansion of the Swans Footy Black & White Magazine Fundamentals Program to Caversham, Mount Helena and encompasses the busiest Pickering Brook by Term 4 following the completion of a period of program delivery successful pilot in Aveley in Term 2. The program provides for Swans District staff kids, aged 2 to 5, with an introduction to AFL whilst also in 2014 with both club developing motor skills such as catching and throwing. and school programs The Swans District Count Me In Program, which is now adopting an increasingly being delivered at Bassendean JFC, Chittering JFC and diverse flavour as the Swan View is a beacon for making AFL more accessible Swans District seeks to to kids with disabilities. The Swans District continues to transcends mainstream make a difference in the disability space with more than participation. The diverse 100 people with disabilities now engaged in AFL programs scope of Swans District programs delivered in Term across the Swans District. The Swans District is dabbling 2 is highlighted by the Bassendean JFC Count Me In in the multicultural space once more for the second Program, Chittering JFC Indigenous Pathways Program, wave of the WAFC Multicultural Transition Program at Swans Footy Fundamentals Program. Cyril Jackson Senior Campus and Coolamon Reserve. It was a proud moment for the Swans District to see Progressing in a similar vein is Chittering JFC with its our very own Development Officer, Chelsea Randall and impressive Indigenous Pathways Program, which provides Development Assistant, Kellie Gibson drafted by the students from Bindoon Catholic Agricultural College with Melbourne Demons at the 2014 AFL Womens Draft. junior community pathways at Chittering JFC. The Swans District continues to maintain its enviable presence in the sphere of female football, which has The Swans District now prepares for the conclusion of the quadrupled to 18,000 participants in programs six weeks 2014 junior and senior community season with the Swans or greater since 2012. District Gala Night, Swans District Junior Competition, Hills Football Association and WAAFL Final Series now in The Swans District’s smallest participation base is play. PAGE 3 BLACK & WHITE Playing Kindergarten Cop SWANS District development staff can empathise for the Cygnets with Arnold Schwarzenegger following the delivery and Ducklings, of an eight week program to some of the youngest Swans Footy footballers in the Swans District. Whilst there wasn’t Fundamentals a dumbbell in sight, staff were kept on their toes by also samples an excitable bunch of kindergartners. Swans Footy Auskick games Fundamentals is designed to introduce boys and girls, such as Farmer aged 2 to 5, to NAB AFL Auskick through a series of Sam and Rob the specialised drills and games. The program, which was Nest. Some of piloted at Aveley Junior Football Club Auskick Centre in the games include Term 2, saw more than 10 kids exposed to AFL. skills such as throwing coloured The bold new program is designed to enhance the bean bags into coloured hoops with the incentive of fundamental motor skills of kindergarteners including scoring points if bean bags make it into more than one balance and locomotor skills through sensory hoop, which prompts a healthy slice of competition. application. With kids developing motor skills at Participants also utilised other skills such as crawling different stages, Swans Footy Fundamentals provides to surpass physical obstacles through crawling under drills which are designed to suit specific age groups. or over a rainbow bridge or parachute. Swans Footy Fundamentals is divided into two different age groups namely Cygnets for kids aged 1.5 to 2 and Musical walking is one such game participants quickly Ducklings for kids aged 3 to 4. The 45 minute classes latched onto, which saw the participants walking provide participants with maximum engagement whilst around a circle of bean bags until the music stops, providing Cygnets or Ducklings with a brief entrée to which prompts them to race other participants to AFL before embarking on NAB AFL Auskick. collect a bean bag. Swans Footy Fundamentals also has a number of significant educational benefits The classes, which start at 8:30am for Cygnets and with some games engaging participants to identify 9:15am for Ducklings, coincide with the scheduling differences between colours and directions and requirements of community-based Auskick centres recognising numbers through the usage of specialised and provide parents with the opportunity to register equipment such as mats, ground markers in the shape multiple children simultaneously across Auskick of feet, hands and stars and numbered bean bags. and Swans Footy Fundamentals. Swans Footy Fundamentals classes utilise fundamental motor The success of the Swans Footy Fundamentals skills such as catching, crawling, rolling, shuffling, program at Aveley Playing Fields has paved the way standing, throwing and walking through the use of for the next wave of Auskick participants at Aveley colourful specialised equipment such as cones, bean JFC in 2015. The Swans District has now expanded bags, hoola hoops and obstacle courses. The program, its successful pilot into a second centre at Mt Helena which embraces the social interaction between child Junior Football Club. The Swans District is excited and parent allows participants to get to know AFL and about building on the success of the Aveley JFC develop their skills in a secure environment. Swans Footy Fundamentals Centre in Term 3, when the next batch of Cygnets and Ducklings swoop into Some of the games unique to Swans Footy Fundamentals Elsie Austin Oval. The Swans District is seeking to are as diverse as relays and musical walking to sing- broaden its scope beyond Aveley and Mt Helena alongs such as Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. However, with Swans Footy Fundamentals centres set to be with potential Auskick participation on the horizon established in Caversham and Pickering Brook in Term 4. The Swans Footy Fundamentals program is the perfect way to develop an Auskick pathway at junior community clubs who might be new to the Swans District or otherwise struggling for numbers. The Swans Footy Fundamentals centres in Aveley and Pickering Brook for instance will increase Auskick participation at Aveley JFC and pave the way for the development of an Auskick Centre at Pickering Brook Football Club in 2015 to provide kids in Bickley, Carmel, Pickering Brook and Piesse Brook with a suburban connection to Auskick. PAGE 4 SPRING 2014 Broncos SHOW Northern Promise MUCHEA Arena has been brimming with excitement since the arrival of four gifted Bindoon Catholic Agricultural College students at Chittering Junior Football Club. The students, who are boarding at Bindoon Catholic Agricultural College, hail from the red dirt towns of Bidyadanga, Derby, Leonora and Roebourne. The students, Derek, Jack, Julian and Nathanial, were greeted by a swathe of high fives from the Year 9s with the mostly Anglo-Saxon player group benefiting from the positive cultural exchange with the Indigenous students. Broncos President, Ian Hall said the Year 9 player group, was ecstatic when the players started coming down to Muchea Arena. “The players welcomed the new kids with open arms, including them in drills and set-plays, despite coming into the side during the second half of the season,” said Hall.