Sportswwatchatch Summer 2017

What’s Inside

From the QSport Offi ce Page 3

A golden future for sport Page 5

AFL Women’s League off to great start Page 9

QLD Government ups

support for State level Three members of the 2016 all based Australian Women’s 4 x freestyle Olympic Gold Medal winning sport bodies team awarded XXXX Queensland Sport Team of the Year at the Queensland Sport Awards / Hall of Fame Presentation in December on a big night for women in sport. From left: , sister Cate and Emma McKeon. More inside. Page 12

Sports input into Blue Card review QSport set revised Page 13

AGM’s set for 29 March course for 2017-20 Page 14 Queensland’s sports collective will work to a revamped strategic direction for the remainder of this decade following a lengthy review and planning More help for kids to get process over the greater part of 2016. started in sport Page 15 The way forward devised by the QSport Board takes account of Sports Federation activities in other States and information gleaned last year Women to the fore at from QSport member State sporting organisations and the Queensland Sports Awards Government. Page 16 The Board’s vision is for QSport to be the voice for , consistent with its role as the representative body for organised sport in this Gold Coast Comm Games State. a step towards a local Australian Olympics Its purpose will be to continue to infl uence and assist the growth and development of sport in Queensland, continuing to work with members Page 18 to grow their activities and developing their people via a range of developmental opportunities. Apply to be a Volunteer at the Aligning the Queensland sport sector with government policies and in 2018 programs, wherever possible, is a key plank and dialogue between QSport Page 26 and the State, at ministerial and agency level, will be vital to progressing the plan over the next few years.

Sportswatch is a quarterly publication of QSport which is an independent collective of State sporting organisations established to enhance the development of sport in Queensland. Sportswatch aims to inform readers and views expressed in Sportswatch are not necessarily those of QSport. No responsibility is accepted by QSport for consequences emanating from actions or failures to act on material within this publication. For contributions, advertisements and enquiries, contact the QSport Office at Sports House, Cnr Castlemaine and Caxton Streets MILTON Q 4064 Telephone 07 3369 8955 Facsimile 07 3369 8977 Email [email protected] 2 Sportswatch - Summer 2017 From the

This summer edition of Sportswatch arrives in months, including the arrival of new Federal and February of a new year in 2017, the last of the Queensland Minister for Sport in Greg Hunt three months of the summer season that began and Mick de Brenni and further material that back in December. has surfaced on the relationship between the Australian Sports Commission’s Chair John Wylie The calendar year 2016 brought a fair amount of and Australian Olympic Committee President John additional anxiety to the world in which we live, Coates over who’s running sport in this country. according to some commentators, and let’s just say that from where I sit in the QSport Offi ce, I It’s a question that needs to be addressed and not agree with that commentary. just at Federal level, given the Australian Sports Commission is not the only government agency So, out with 2016 and on with 2017, I say, hoping in this country that thinks it is leading the sport like many that the year ahead gives rise to a more sector in its respective jurisdiction. optimistic end than the year past – for the world, the country, the community in which we live. Looking back over December – January just passed, the performance of women and girls in If I think back over 2016 and fi x on the one liner Queensland sport during 2016, borne out in a that stuck with me the most, it would be “it is what majority of contenders and ultimately winners it is”. at the Sport Awards, was noteworthy, as was the support for the pink ball Test at the Gabba and In the context in which it fi rst struck me, it was the Heat in the Big Bash League, both at code for “don’t waste your energy trying to change home games and on television. something you can’t and get on with what you can do to do the best you can”. The summer sporting scene is certainly a more diverse one than in earlier times. Not always easy but ultimately the course of action most likely to change things for the better. By the time this column is being read, the inaugural AFL Women’s League, the Global Rugby So on the last work day of the year for me in Tens and the new all Australian netball competition 2016 prior to going leave over Xmas, at the last will have been held or started, before April when gathering of the QSport Board, staff and some a Horn / Pacquiao world boxing title stoush at members in mid-December, some nine months Suncorp would add another dimension, less on since I fi rst heard it, the “it is what it is” than 12 months out from next year’s Gold Coast message resulted in a revised strategic direction Commonwealth Games. for the State’s sports collective for the remainder of the decade. All of that and the return of the traditional winter season sporting competitions means a veritable The task now is to confi rm support for that plan sporting smorgasbord lies ahead. with stakeholders, a process that will be underway by the time this edition of Sportswatch appears and prior to the QSport Board’s fi rst meeting of the year on 24 February.

That meeting will refl ect on a number of things Peter Cummiskey that have come to light over the past few CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Sportswatch - Summer 2017 3 4 Sportswatch - Summer 2017 A golden future for sport

While the Gold Coast is world- MAJOR EVENT HOSTING renowned for its sun, surf and sand, The Gold Coast has an ambitious event acquisition strategy and has invested signifi cantly to grow its the city is proving it can kick big goals existing event portfolio. in a range of industries, emerging as one of Asia-Pacifi c’s elite sporting The city has successfully hosted the 2014 Pan Pacifi c Championships, 2015 and destinations. 2016 FINA Diving Grand Prix and 2015–2018 International Triathlon Union World Triathlon In the lead up to the Gold Coast 2018 Series. On the back of these successful events, Commonwealth Games™ (GC2018), the Australian the Gold Coast is preparing to host the city is undergoing major transformation and 2017 World Team Badminton investing in key infrastructure projects with championships, Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth approximately $12bn in major developments Games™ and 2020 World Championships. planned or underway. This development, combined with the Gold Coast’s enviable natural However, the city isn’t just looking internationally environment and its proven strengths in hosting to build its event portfolio having supported 58 large-scale sporting events has seen the city step state and national championships since 2014 out onto the world stage and be recognised for worth $26.6 million, including the 2016 Volleyball its evolving sporting culture. Junior National Championships and the 2016 AFL Masters National Championships. The Gold Coast is carving a niche as a city recognised for sport excellence and innovation; ELITE TRAINING DESTINATION from cutting-edge research in sport science Over the last two years, the Gold Coast has and leading coaching techniques to innovative hosted elite teams including Manchester City product development and manufacturing. Further Football Club, Spanish Villareal CF Football Club, bolstering the city’s success as an emerging sport English Team and the American, powerhouse is the growing number of high- Canadian, Chinese and Japanese swim teams for profi le sports teams that choose to train on the pre-event or pre-season training. Gold Coast.

The Gold Coast also welcomed a number of PREPARATION FOR THE GOLD COAST ™ Australian national teams including the Australian Women’s Basketball team and the Australian The international spotlight will be on the Gold Women’s Cricket team. Meanwhile, the Australian Coast in 2018 when the city hosts one of the largest multi-sport events in the world. In Institute of Sport calls the Gold Coast home for preparation, the City of Gold Coast is embracing its sprint canoe, triathlon and BMX programs, transformative projects with approximately $12 with also having a number of billion in major infrastructure projects planned endorsed training facilities on the Gold Coast. or underway. This includes approximately $200 million in new and upgraded sporting The city is also the base for a large number of infrastructure, building on the city’s existing high high-profi le athletes including Sally Pearson, performance sports facilities. Cameron McEvoy, Mick Fanning and Emma Moff att, who are supported by some of the For the city, GC2018 is more than an event world’s best coaching, management and medical hosting experience; it is a once-in-a generation staff . opportunity to bring about rapid transformation across the economy and community, while ENVIABLE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT showcasing the city as an emerging global With a sub-tropical environment, the city destination. experiences an average of 10 hours of sunshine

Sportswatch - Summer 2017 5 6 Sportswatch - Summer 2017 for approximately 300 days of the year. The destinations around the world. climate makes training possible year-round. The Gold Coast had a meteoric rise up 39 places Unparalleled natural assets give athletes access of the Sportcal Global Sports Index, ranking it as to 57 kilometres of coastline, 21,000 hectares of the 18th top sporting city in the world – auguring parklands, 200 kilometres of navigable waterways well for the city as it heads towards GC2018. and heritage-listed rainforests for training and Head judge of the Ultimate Sports Cities Rankings, recovery sessions. As the city has grown it Rachael Church, was delighted to award the has maintained its natural environment, with Gold Coast Best Newcomer. “Using events such specialised management of key natural assets to as GC2018 to develop new infrastructure and enhance and ensure long-term sustainability. In revitalise existing infrastructure, Australia’s Gold addition, Southern Gold Coast surfi ng beaches Coast is a city coming of age,” Church said. were recently classifi ed as a world surfi ng reserve, protecting the future of the city’s iconic PEAK SPORTING BODIES breaks. Leading Australian sporting bodies have secured their future on the Gold Coast, investing in WORLD-CLASS FACILITIES headquarters and elite training facilities for With the ability to host one of the largest multi- their codes. Baseball Australia, Surfi ng Australia, sport events in the world, the Gold Coast Mountain Bike Australia, V8 Supercars and inevitably boasts a well-rounded portfolio of Triathlon Australia are among a growing number international-standard competition venues. With of organisations capitalising on the city’s sporting the city’s sport mindedness, many of its premier excellence. competition venues are made available to professional teams for pre-event training camps Olympian and CEO of Triathlon Australia, Miles and friendly competition matches. Stewart, said the Gold Coast has everything any high performance athlete would want in terms Gold Coast has two multi-purpose stadiums, two of training facilities and lifestyle. He said the Gold fl exible indoor sporting arenas, international Coast’s accessibility to the rest of the country standard aquatics centres, diving facilities, and and international fl ying routes makes it a perfect three Olympic-standard athletics tracks. There destination for elite athletes to base themselves are also sport-specifi c venues for hockey, tennis, and host competitions. “The climate is key – our basketball, cricket, beach volleyball, gymnastics, athletes have the ability to climb (cycle or run) lawn bowls and sailing. mountains just 15 minutes from the city where they can breathe clean air which is an enormous The Australian Women’s Basketball team regularly advantage,” he said “In addition, we also have some uses the Gold Coast for its high performance of the best coaches in the country if not the world.” training camps. “The most important thing for us is being able to get access to the best facilities,” CUTTING-EDGE SPORT SCIENCE said Tamara Sheppard, Australian Women’s The Gold Coast is pushing for excellence and Basketball Team Manager. “Training on the Gold innovation in health and knowledge related Coast we know we can get access to the best sectors, with cutting-edge research in sports facilities so our team can focus on getting the sciences and world-leading specialists in the job done. “It is also important to keep our team fi elds of physiotherapy, physiology, psychology, happy and that’s something we know we can biochemistry, biomechanics and strength and count on when we travel to the Gold Coast.” conditioning.

INDUSTRY RECOGNITION The city is home to three world-class universities The Gold Coast is racing up the ladder of the – Bond, Griffi th and Southern Cross – each a world’s top sporting cities. Respected British centre for sport excellence, off ering state-of-the- company, Sport Business International, has art testing facilities and clinicians with extensive recognised the success of the city by honouring experience treating national, international and the Gold Coast as the Best Newcomer in its Olympic level athletes. The Bond University bi-annual Ultimate Sports Cities Rankings and Sport Research Centre is at the forefront of the Awards which considered submissions from 150 industry undertaking Australia’s largest sports

Sportswatch - Summer 2017 7 science research project and having established The co-location of the Commonwealth Games Australia’s fi rst Doctor of Physiotherapy Village with a world-leading teaching and research program. Griffi th University’s Sport and Exercise university, Gold Coast University Hospital and Science Research Laboratories include state- allied medical facilities is creating a knowledge of-the-art motion analysis and performance hub that has the capacity to attract internationally testing equipment. Professors from Griffi th recognised researchers, clinicians and enterprises – University’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland once again boosting the city onto the world stage. are undertaking research in a range of areas including injury prevention strategies. The economy is growing from a platform of tourism and construction to a diverse knowledge- The city is also home to an Altitude Training based economic environment, with expertise Centre that works with coaches and athletes in in the sport, health and education sectors. As a the areas of Intermittent Hypoxic Training (IHT) relatively young city in transformation, the best is for sports performance and rehabilitation. yet to come.

INDUSTRY INNOVATION GOLD COAST SPORTS EVENTS The city has become a hub for cutting-edge The Gold Coast’s major events include: sport businesses; from manufacturers of high • 2014 Pan Pacifi c Swimming Championships performance sporting apparel, equipment • 2015 and 2016 FINA Diving Grand Prix and nutritional products to experts in sports • 2015–2019 Australian Open Lawn Bowls coaching and management. The Gold Coast is a • 2017–2019 Australian Open (Table Tennis) classic example of industry co-location, providing • 2017 World Team Badminton Championships city-specifi c opportunities for the industry to (Sudirman Cup) collaborate, innovate and grow. It’s a city where: • 2017/19/20/21 Australian Surf Life Saving • leading sports academics partner with Championships professional athletes to research, design and manufacture leading high-performance sports • Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games™ apparel; • 2020 World Bowls Championship • universities partner with commercial enterprises to secure grants to research The Gold Coast’s annual events include: environmentally friendly garment materials; • Magic Millions Racing Carnival • junior athletes directly access and partner with • Quiksilver and Roxy Professional Surfi ng (World world-leading sporting apparel brands; Surfi ng League event) • a company founded on sports nutrition turns • Gold Coast Triathlon including the 2015 – its talent into creating premium pressure 2018 International Triathlon Union (ITU) World garments for elite athletes; Triathlon Series • technology specialists partner with elite • Gold Coast Airport Marathon athletes to develop market-leading sports • Australian University Games (biennial) applications; • Coolangatta Gold • a university partners with one of the largest • Gold Coast 600 - V8 Supercars sporting events in the world – GC2018. • Pan Pacifi c Masters Games (biennial) • Australian PGA Championships (golf) ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION The Gold Coast’s success in building a globally CONTACT recognised sports city is testament to its forward- The City of Gold Coast’s has a dedicated team thinking and bold attitude towards growth and that assists peak sporting bodies, clubs and development. GC2018 is a catalyst for the city to teams interested in hosting their event or training galvanise and deliver once-in-a-generation, city- camp at the Gold Coast. transforming legacy projects. The development of Web: www.sportgoldcoast.com.au the Commonwealth Games Village is one of the Email: [email protected] largest urban renewal projects undertaken on the Tel: 07 5581 7269 Gold Coast and post GC2018, it will form the key residential, commercial and retail centre for the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct.

8 Sportswatch - Summer 2017 AFL Women’s League off to great start

The profi le of women and girls sport has lifted Demons opponents and the other six another notch in the past few weeks with the teams in the fl edging completion on notice with build up to and media coverage following the a solid fi rst up win in front of some 6,500 that opening round of the inaugural AFL Women’s nudged the opening round attendance past the competition in early February. 50,000 mark.

It’s no secret that Melbournians love their AFL. So while “another step for mankind” might be So do many Queenslanders and while over a bit of a stretch, it was defi nitely a great leap 50,000 people turning up on the fi rst weekend in forward for women and girls sport in this country footy mad Melbourne and was the story that over time, with the resources the AFL has of the round, the television ratings (and a fi rst up and will continue to throw at its new arrival, will win by the Brisbane Lions women) will be what enhance the notion of greater opportunity for all also pleased AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan and the in sport. AFL Commission.

The eight team women’s competition is one of the biggest steps, if not the biggest step, forward for women’s sport here for quite a while, indeed for about six months since the Australian women’s won gold at the Olympics in Rio.

With the competition’s establishment brought forward by a couple of years to keep abreast of the growth in elite competition opportunities in other sports, the expectations of an opening round such as the one the AFL experienced on 3-5 February would not have been as optimistic when the decision was taken to push ahead faster than originally intended.

But with Melbourne in particular off ering up a Carlton vs Collingwood opener at the old Princes Park on a Friday night and entrance to the event free, it was not that surprising with the media build up that some 25,000 turned up to see history for sport in that sport mad city.

It was a bit diff erent out at outer suburban Casey Field on the Sunday afternoon in wet conditions where the Brisbane Lions women put their

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Sportswatch - Summer 2017 11 Queensland Government ups support for State level sport and recreation bodies.

QSport member State sporting organisations In the meantime, discussion with the State via the (SSO’s) are the major benefi ciaries of State Department of National Parks, Sport and Racing Government support for State level organisations (DNPSR) as the agency responsible to Minister Pitt under the 2017-19 State Development program for negotiating the level of State support for the announced by Treasurer and then Minister for pursuit of the plan is expected to take place, also Sport Curtis Pitt late last year. before the Board meets on 24 February.

Of the 77 Queensland State level organisations Support available no doubt is a major factor in how with funding approved for the next three years, well any plan progresses and this one will be no 63 are QSport member SSO’s. The State diff erent. Development Program allocation of over $10million per annum continues support at the The intent of the plan arguably is to extend the highest level of any State Government in this QSport reach after three years of containment country, support that has continued under both brought on by reduced support and a narrower LNP and Labor Governments over the years in specifi cation in funded activity than applied in acknowledgment of the vital coordinating role of earlier times. SSO’s in the most decentralised State population wise in the Commonwealth.

Next best allocation of this type across the States in WA’s $8million to help 102 State sporting organisations and peak bodies run their organisations and stay sustainable for their members.

The Queensland allocation does not include at least $500,000 per annum that has been indicated to QSport and the Queensland Outdoor Recreation Federation as available for the two peaks in this State to help pursue their plans to assist the development of sport and recreation.

For QSport, its revamped Strategic Plan for 2017-19 focusses on three pillars or drivers in Leadership and Promotion, Capability and Capacity, and Sector Support and Development.

At its 14 December meeting, the QSport Board cleared the plan for discussion with members and agreed the plan be operationalised for consideration at the next Board meeting on 24 February.

12 Sportswatch - Summer 2017 Sports input to Blue Card Review

Twenty fi ve representatives of QSport member Working with Children Checks (WWCCs) such as State sporting organisations have met to hear Blue Card in Queensland, it was no great surprise from Queensland Family & Child Commission that given sport is played across borders in this representatives on the current Review of the country, forum participants supported the thrust Blue Card System being carried out for the of Royal Commission recommendations on a Queensland Government. nationally consistent standardised model for WWCCs. A forum held on 7 February at Sports House, Milton, Brisbane convened by QSport was briefed It was also no great surprise to hear participants on the background to the review, its terms of question recommended continuation of volunteer reference and progress to date and an update by parent exemption in the sporting context, an way of recommendations and fi ndings from the issue that has been raised over the years the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Blue Card system has been in existence. Child Sexual Abuse. Participants were very interested in how other The forum participants then discussed their jurisdictions have tackled WWCCs, notably New experiences with the Blue Card, concentrating on South , and expressed a desire to see issues participants felt were the most pertinent changes here that remove some of the delays in to the review in terms of potential change to processing approvals / renewals of applications strengthen or streamline the system and build and provide a system that enhances public public confi dence in the Blue Card system. confi dence that children’s involvement in sport is in as safe as possible an environment. With all States / Territories having their own

Sportswatch - Summer 2017 13 Annual General Meetings set for 29 March

What’s better than attending one AGM if you’re a Recent AGM’s have been held at night but Queensland State sporting administrator? organisers have opted for a lunchtime gathering this time around and with Olympic Council and Well, try three if you’re the nominated delegate Commonwealth Games Association members to QSport, the Queensland Olympic Council and also members of QSport, the move continues the Australian Commonwealth Games Association all three organisations’ endeavours to optimise (Queensland) and interested to hear how those attendance at these annual gatherings. three bodies fared in 2016 and what’s ahead in 2017. As this edition of Sportswatch went to print, the “batting order” for the three meetings was QSport Proving that coordination is not lost on the from 12 noon, followed by the ACGA and then organisers of their annual meeting schedules, the QOC, with formal notices, agendas etc to be their upcoming meetings will be conducted forwarded to each individual member in line with one after the other on Wednesday, 29 March constitutional requirements. at Sports House, Milton, Brisbane from 12noon through to 2-2:30pm.

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14 Sportswatch - Summer 2017 More help for kids to Get Started in sport

Treasurer and now former Minister for Sport Mr Pitt said the Get Started vouchers program Curtis Pitt has made an extra $750,000 available helped Queensland children whose families may to help up to 5,000 Queensland children kick- not otherwise be able to aff ord the cost of joining start their involvement in organised sport or a sport or recreational club. recreational activities through Round 9 of the “The vouchers provide up to $150 to help eligible popular Get Started vouchers program. children cover the cost of membership or Mr Pitt said at the end of January that high participation fees at a local club,” he said. “Overall demand for the $150 vouchers in the current more than 150,000 vouchers have been issued to Queensland families since the very fi rst round of Round 9 of the Get Started program had led him the program.” to boost funding. Mr Pitt said more than 4,100 clubs across “The vouchers fl ew out the door when the current Queensland were registered for the Get Started round of online applications opened, exhausting vouchers program, ensuring a huge range of almost all of the original allocation of $4.2 million activities on off er. The Get Started vouchers in the current round,” Mr Pitt said. scheme is one of four funding programs that “I want to see as many young Queenslanders as make up the Get in the Game program which has possible taking the opportunity to be involved in provided more than $100 million in investment from the Palaszczuk Government to support sport which is why I have increased the budget grassroots sport and recreation. for this current round. “With extra funds now available in Round 9, we will be able to help as For more information on how to apply for Get many as 5,000 more children to get involved in Started Vouchers, visit www.npsr.qld.gov.au/ their favourite sport or recreation activity.” getinthegame

Sportswatch - Summer 2017 15 Women to the fore at Sport Awards Presentation

The world record holder for the fastest ever November last year, becoming the fi rst woman to 100m freestyle swim by a female in Cate swim under 51seconds. Campbell is The Courier-Mail Channel 7 Queensland Sport Star of the Year Award In winning the award, Campbell saw off a line-up winner for 2016, announced at the 22nd of nine other contenders that included teammate Annual Queensland Sport Awards / Hall of Fame and fellow Rio gold medal winning swimmer Presentation in Brisbane on 8 December. Emma McKeon, Rio gold medal winning rugby seven’s Charlotte Caslick, NRL joint Dally M medal A 700 strong black tie audience at the Brisbane winner in Queensland and Australian rugby Convention and Exhibition Centre heard the league halfback Cooper Cronk, world number announcement of Campbell’s win at the end one ranked golfer Jason Day, Firebirds’ Australian of a night which saw 11 Awards presented netball defenders Laura Geitz and Clare for Queensland’s top on and off fi eld sporting McMenamin, Rio Hockeyroos captain Madonna performances in the period October, 2015 to Blyth and Rio Paralympian gold medal winners September, 2016 and three further Service to in para-canoeist Curtis McGrath and swimmer Sport Awards presented for outstanding service. Lakeisha Patterson.

Campbell was accompanied at the Awards Caboolture teenager Patterson won the Presentation by Rio Olympic Australian swim McDonalds Queensland Athlete with a Disability teammates sister Bronte and Emma McKeon Award for her six medal winning haul in the pool who along with teamed up in in Rio while McGrath, winner of that award last an all Queensland line-up in the fi nal of the Rio year, won the Queensland Academy of Sport’s Olympic women’s 100m freestyle relay to win Peter Lacey Award for Sporting Excellence, gold in a new world record that won them the named after the Queensland surf lifesaving great XXXX Queensland Sport Team of the Year Award and presented for the fi rst time as part of the for 2016, Campbell swimming the fi nal leg and Queensland Sport Awards Presentation. after the missing a podium fi nish in the individual 100m freestyle fi nal, backed up in the fi nal leg Young Far North Queensland world champion for the Australian women’s 4x100m medley relay sailor Kristen Wadley won The Courier-Mail team, coming from behind to win silver. Channel 7 Queensland Junior Sport Star of the Year Award and the Queensland Government Campbell broke the world record for the 100m at sponsored Junior Sport Team of the Year was the Brisbane Grand Prix in July in a time of 52.06, awarded to the State’s national championship which broke German Britta Steff en’s record set winning Under 18 Boys’ Table Tennis team. in 2009 during the “super suit “era, and broke the world short course record for the 100m in Swimming coach Michael Bohl won the

16 Sportswatch - Summer 2017 Queensland Sport Coach of the Year Award, also new inductees in AFL’s Simon Black, rugby sponsored by the Queensland Government, league’s John McDonald, swimming’s Stephanie while netball took away winners in three Rice and triathlon’s Emma Snowsill, as was categories with the BCEC Queensland Sport former Queensland and Australian Event of the Year in the double extra time ANZ centre Tim Horan who was elevated to Legend Trans-Tasman Netball Championship fi nal at status as the 16th Legend of Queensland Sport. the Brisbane Entertainment Centre won by the Queensland Firebirds, the Brisbane City Council The Queensland Sport Awards are conducted Queensland Sport Volunteer of the Year going each year by QSport as the industry peak body of to Downey Park and Valleys netball stalwart sport in Queensland which also coordinates the Elizabeth White and the Queensland Sport Queensland Sport Hall of Fame. Administrator of the Year sponsored by Arthur J Gallagher in Netball Queensland CEO Catherine QSport’s principal fi nancial supporter is the Clark. Queensland Government while Channel 7 and The Courier-Mail also are major sponsors of the Hockey’s international Rio Olympic referee Awards and the Hall of Fame. Adam Kearns won the Konica Minolta sponsored Queensland Sport Offi ciator of the Year Award The date for this year’s Awards/Hall of Fame while early in the night, longstanding servants of Presentation is to be confi rmed at the QSport para-sport, basketball and hockey in Ray Epstein, Board meeting on 24 February. Ken Madsen and Faye Wastell respectively were awarded Coca Cola Amatil sponsored Queensland Service to Sport Awards. .

The Queensland Sport Hall of Fame welcomed

Sportswatch - Summer 2017 17 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games a step towards a local Australian Olympics?

At the time of drafting this item, the 2018 Gold No doubt conversations will have gone on about Coast Commonwealth Games were exactly 14 that notion, indeed are going on now here and months to the day away from commencing with there, with how to stage such an event of events an opening ceremony at Metricon Stadium that in this neck of the woods without adding unduly will see the eyes of the country and much of the to the local, State and / or national debt. world focussed on the Gold Coast, Queensland and Australia. With the Council of South East Queensland Mayors investigating the feasibility of staging such By that time, Queenslanders and Australians in an event here and all three levels of government signifi cant numbers will be fi lled with a sense of currently and into the foreseeable future fi scally expectation, indeed excitement, about the week challenged, including at the time a bid would have and a half ahead, with the usual questions to to go forward, it will be an interesting debate. follow about success of the event, Australian on fi eld performance and legacy. A recent mention in The Courier-Mail indicating that a panel of academics and business At the same time, politicians, bureaucrats and consultants, in a report submitted to other signifi cant players will be further down Governor Yuriko Koike, think the cost of the 2020 the track on what it all does for the notion of a Olympics could exceed $A39 billion, won’t be lost Summer in this part of the world on those looking at a Summer Olympics in this in a further 12 or 16 years or even longer. part of the world.

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20 Sportswatch - Summer 2017 Awards MC’s Pat Welsh & Victoria Carthew kept Robert Craddock interviewed Tim Horan who was the night running smoothly. installed as the 16th Legend of Queensland Sport.

Hall of Fame Inductees (from left to right) Rachel Martin accepted the QAS Peter Lacey Simon Black (AFL); John McDonald (rugby league); Award for Sporting Excellence on behalf of her Stephanie Rice (swimming) and Emma Snowsill partner Curtis McGrath from Bennett King (left) (triathlon) and Bruno Cullen.

Service to Sport Award Winners (from left to right) Ray Epstein (para sport); Ken Madsen (basketball); Faye Wastell (hockey).

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22 Sportswatch - Summer 2017 Sponsor Recognition Awards were presented to (from top left) Michelle Golley & Rod Chiapello (McDonald’s); John Mullins (Mullins Lawyers); Cr Krista Adams (Brisbane City Council); Donnita Maher (Rydges South Bank); Bob O’Keeff e (Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre). Waterford also received a Sponsor’s Award, but were absent on the night.

The Courier-Mail Channel 7 Junior Sport Star of the The Courier-Mail Channel 7 Sport Star of the Year Year went to sailor Kristen Wadley whose mother winner was Olympic swimmer . Annette accepted the award from Karl de Kroo (The The award was presented by News’s Queensland’s Courier-Mail) & Todd Dickensen (Channel 7) Karl deKroo & Channel 7’s Todd Dickensen.

Sportswatch - Summer 2017 23 Elizabeth White (left) from Netball received the Catherine Clark (left) from Netball Queensland Brisbane City Council Queensland Sport Volunteer accepted the Administrator of the Year Award of the Year Award from Cr Krista Adams. from Arthur J Gallagher’s Christine Osborne.

Three of the four (Emma McKeon, Cate Campbell The Queensland U18 Boys Table Tennis Team was the & Bronte Campbell) members from the Women’s winner of the Queensland Government sponsored 4x100m Freestyle Relay Olympic Team were on hand Junior Sport Team of the Year Award. Di Farmer, to accept their award for XXXX Sport Team of the Year Member for Bulimba representing Minister for Sport from Lion’s David Bruhn. Brittany Elmslie (absent) Curtis Pitt presented the trophy to Coach Gavin Duff y.

Swimmer Lakeisha Patterson capped off a stellar year, with 6 medals at the Rio Paralympics. Her training partner and Paralympic swimmer Brenden Hall accepted the award on her behalf for Athlete The Queensland Government sponsored Coach of with a Disability from McDonald’s representatives the Year Award went to Swimming’s Michael Bohl and Michelle Golley and Rod Chiapello. was presented by the Member for Bulimba Di Farmer.

24 Sportswatch - Summer 2017 Teneille Kelloway from Netball Queensland, Konica Minolta’s Scott Jackson (right) presented the accepted the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition trophy to Adam Kearns from Hockey, winner of the Centre Queensland Sport Event of the Year award Sport Offi ciator of the Year Award. for the Trans-Tasman Netball Final. The award was presented by Shaun Mitchell, Director of Sales at BCEC.

QSport Volunteers (from left to right) Standing: Natalie Rapisarda, Kara Daymon, Kylie Thomson (QSport Operations Manager), Jesikah Ings, Gabi McGill, Sitting: Sammy Cox, Peter Cummiskey (QSport CEO), Robyn White

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