Annual Report 2001
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TOP PERFORMANCE ● FAIR PLAY ● NURTURING ● ENJOYMENT ● COMMITMENT ● INTEGRITY 1 TOP PERFORMANCE ● FAIR PLAY ● NURTURING ● ENJOYMENT ● COMMITMENT ● INTEGRITY 2 ANNUAL REPORT Officers President Fatulatetele Tolo Board Karen Fifield (Chairperson) Fiona Cassidy Gayle Hare Karen Harvey Nicki Zande Anthony Karauria Staff General Manager Sue Geale Games Coordinator Kylie Tuffery Netball Development Officer Maria Hegarty Netball Development Coordinator John Neho Finance Administrator Jo Beckwith Emerging Talent Officer Sandra Edge Life Membership Committee Dale Wortman, Chris Archer, Pat Maddocks, Fatulatetele Tolo Life Members Mrs K.E.J. McCann (MBE), Mrs D. Wortman (MNZM), Mrs C. Archer, Miss P. Maddocks, Miss M. Munro, Mrs M. Perry, Mrs H. Verry, Mrs D. Wilson-Young, Ms M. Haggie, Ms W. Taumaunu, Ms F. Tolo, Ms M. Taru, Mrs B. Brider, Mrs B. Reweti, Ms. S. Edge Service Award Holders Miss A.M. Temple, Mrs P. Cleland, Mrs J. Prankerd, Mrs K. Doyle, Mrs M. Dixon, Mrs J. Patchett, Mrs G. Hare, Mrs D. Morris, Mr B. Hare, Mrs F. Maurirere, Mrs M. Bradshaw, Mrs A. Hay, Mrs S. Raemaki, Ms V. Mitchell, Mrs K. Greaves, Ms C. Meredith, Ms K. Herbert, Ms K. Lloyd, Mrs P. O’Reilly, Mrs D. Mills, Ms D. Patchett, Ms J. Minchin, Mrs R. Aiono, Mrs L. Cournane, Ms S. Sullivan, Mrs S. Geale, Ms E. Dorricott, Mr R. Hogan, Ms C. Kirkpatrick, Ms P. Semu, Ms F. Solia Front cover photo credit: Fiona Cassidy NWC Centenary celebrations – Mary Blackwell & Fatulatetele Tolo pictured TOP PERFORMANCE ● FAIR PLAY ● NURTURING ● ENJOYMENT ● COMMITMENT ● INTEGRITY 3 CHAIR’S MESSAGE Netball Wellington Centre has had yet another successful year and we celebrated our centenary in fine fashion. We are committed to showcasing our talented players, umpires, coaches, officials and volunteers as often as we can and our social media presence this year has done just that. I would like to give my utmost thanks to our very committed Board who have made sure we govern our Centre in a professional and supportive fashion. Our President, Fatulatetele Tolo, and Board members Nicki Zande, Karen Harvey, Fiona Cassidy, Anthony Karauria and Gayle Hare have made sound decisions so that our Centre is financially sustainable and successful. It is a pleasure to have Daphne Martinez on the Board this year as our Board Youth Intern – an initiative we promised at last year’s AGM. I really enjoyed the celebration for our Centenary – I loved the event at the Hataitai Centre where all the stellar history of our Centre was on display and everyone had lots of fun. It is a testament to our Centre that so many people have been involved over many years and that everyone holds a special place in their hearts for our Centre. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make the weekend celebrations so wonderful for everyone but especially Sue Geale, our amazing General Manager, for coordinating everything so brilliantly. I would like to draw your attention to the changes in the accounts this year. The explanation for this is that this year we now have an additional staff member on board, we covered the cost of the Centenary, we updated the honours board at Hataitai which looks so fantastic, we painted the inside of Hataitai and still managed to hold within budget even with a significant drop in funding. Funding is ever more difficult and the Board has recognised that, while our team have continually made significant effort to find and gain funds, the future for funding will continue to remain tight and competitive. We believe that our brand is strong and we will achieve most of the funding we apply for but we also accept that we may not always achieve it all. During the year NWC has achieved much and continued to be financially sustainable, making a small surplus this year. The Annual Report reflects the work done by our capable management team and all of you throughout the year. I hope you enjoy reading it. On behalf of the Board, I want to say a huge thank you to Sue and her team for all the work they do on everyone’s behalf - they always have your interests at heart. Thank you all for the privilege of allowing me to be the Chair of NWC. I look forward to us taking the opportunities open to us to shine in the coming year. I am also very much looking forward to the Netball World Cup in 2019. Everyone can feel very proud of all that has been achieved by our Centre this year across all of our competitions and activities. Here’s to 2019! Karen Fifield MNZM, Chairperson Netball Wellington Centre November 2018 TOP PERFORMANCE ● FAIR PLAY ● NURTURING ● ENJOYMENT ● COMMITMENT ● INTEGRITY 4 CENTENARY CELEBRATION Happy 100th birthday to Netball Wellington Centre - and what a journey it has been! We started out as Wellington Ladies’ Basketball Association in 1918, Wellington Basketball Association in 1929, Wellington Netball Association Inc. in 1971, Wellington Netball Union Inc.in 1990, and Netball Wellington Centre Inc. in 2002 which is what we are known as today. Netball arrived in New Zealand in the late 1880s, and was known as women’s basketball until 1970 where it changed to netball. In the early years team player numbers varied between six, seven and nine players. New Zealand teams played with nine players between 1924 and 1959 when the seven a-side game was adopted and still remains in place. Photo credit: Fiona Cassidy Schools were netball’s nurturing ground throughout New Zealand. In Wellington it was two primary teachers, Miss J.G. Park and Miss F. Hind who championed netball and the schools are still where the base of our players come from and provide the feeders for our clubs. Wellington Technical College (now Wellington High School) was the first local secondary school to adopt the game. Other schools followed as did business-house and college old-girls teams, all adding to the growing number of netball enthusiasts. It is exciting for us to still have some of the same schools and clubs involved with the Centre currently. The first organised adult matches in Wellington were played around 1915 between Teachers’ Training College and YMCA. Three years later the Wellington Ladies Basketball Association (now Netball Wellington Centre) was established in 1918. The number of clubs joining the new association gradually grew over time, reaching 29 clubs in 1925 and team numbers to 60. Today we have 11 Clubs, 7 Member Teams and 9 Schools at Netball Wellington Centre and in our satellite we have 29 schools at Motu Kairangi, 19 schools at Northern Suburbs and 11 at Wellington West. We have a total of 90 club teams and 147 college teams, 121 intermediate teams, 873 year 5&6 players, 863 year 3&4 players and 392 year 1&2 players. These numbers tell quite a story in themselves. Within the 100 years we have grown and developed both on and off the court as a Centre. However two things that we believe haven’t changed are how we have been blessed with the many volunteers that have contributed and still do, in the following ways: started the game of netball in the 1900’s, established the Centre, managed the many changes and restructures that were implemented by Netball New Zealand, administered the Life Membership and Service Awards system, set up the referee/umpire groups, been on committee’s/boards, become administrators for their clubs and schools or part of team management, umpires – the list is endless. The second thing is the Netball Wellington Centre brand. We were proud of who we were back in 1918 and we are still incredibly proud of who we are now. We are the third biggest Centre in TOP PERFORMANCE ● FAIR PLAY ● NURTURING ● ENJOYMENT ● COMMITMENT ● INTEGRITY 5 New Zealand with results that have us up there with the biggest Centre in New Zealand. Our base of players is wide and diverse where we have those that are highly competitive to those that simply love playing the game of netball with their friends – young and not so young. We are surrounded by the right people and we ensure that we have the game of netball and the people involved at the heart of all decisions we make. To celebrate our 100th birthday we had an amazing weekend with many stories told, friendships rekindled, and fun times had by all that attended the following: Friday 22nd June – Meet and Greet at our Hataitai Netball Pavilion – along with who wants to be a netball guru quiz where the competitive streak came out for a few of our contestants. Saturday 23rd June – Celebrity game of walking netball where we had ex Silver Ferns Millie Munro and Sandra Edge playing and Waimarama Taumaunu umpiring, followed by a formal dinner at the Rydges Hotel in Wellington City. A special mention goes out to our amazing Emcee Kate Agnew and guest speaker Yvette McCausland-Durie. You made the evening fun and entertaining for everyone that attended. Sunday 24th June – Morning tea at our Dale Wortman U19 & U17 Invitational Fixtures event held at ASB Sport Centre. We welcomed past members that came from all over New Zealand and from Australia. It was so special to see the passion of netball reignited, the reminiscing over the memorabilia on show, the ‘what happens on tour stays on tour’ stories being told, and being able to secure photos and items that we had thought were lost pieces of our history. The two pieces that really were show stoppers for everyone was a beautiful Maori doll that was given to the Silver Fern players when they took their first trip by boat to England and a diary that was kept by Joyce McCann of the long trip by boat to play against England.