2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT CONTENTS The Year in Pictures ..............................................................................................................................................4 Chairman’s Report ................................................................................................................................................6 CEO’s Report ........................................................................................................................................................8 OneSport Update .................................................................................................................................................10 Key Figures ...........................................................................................................................................................12 Competition ..........................................................................................................................................................14 Officials ..................................................................................................................................................................16 NSW Athletes at the Olympic Games ..................................................................................................................18 NSW Athletes at the Paralympic Games ..............................................................................................................19 Coach Development, High Performance and State Teams ..................................................................................20 Membership and Clubs, Statistics, Member List ...................................................................................................22 Marketing ..............................................................................................................................................................28 Records ..................................................................................................................................................................29 NSW Champions ..................................................................................................................................................30 NSW Roll of Honour .............................................................................................................................................32 Athletics NSW Awards ..........................................................................................................................................34 Condolences ........................................................................................................................................................36 Advisory Panels .....................................................................................................................................................37 Athletics NSW Limited Concise Financial Statements ...........................................................................................38 Directors’ Report ..................................................................................................................................................38 Auditor’s Independence Declaration under section 307C of the Corporations Act 2001 ....................................40 Statement of Profit or Loss and Other Comprehensive Income............................................................................41 Statement of Financial Position ............................................................................................................................42 Statement of Changes in Equity ...........................................................................................................................43 Statement of Cash Flows ......................................................................................................................................44 Notes to the Financial Statements .......................................................................................................................45 Directors’ Declaration ...........................................................................................................................................46 Independent Audit Report ...................................................................................................................................47 ATHLETICS NSW LIMITED ABN 11 330 775 869 FOUNDED 20 APRIL 1887, INCORPORATED 15 JANUARY 1996 Postal Address: PO Box 595, Sydney Markets, NSW 2129 Telephone: (02) 9746 1122 Street Address: Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre, Facsimile: (02) 9746 1168 Edwin Flack Drive, Sydney Olympic Park, NSW 2127 Email: [email protected] Website: www.nswathletics.org.au This report covers the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 unless specified otherwise. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABBREVIATIONS Project Management by Janet Naylon AA Athletics Australia Proofreading by Stuart Paterson ANSW Athletics NSW Limited Designed and printed by The KDR Group ASC Australian Sports Commission Front Cover – Fabrice Lapierre (Credit: Getty Images) LANSW Little Athletics Association of NSW Inc. Page 3 – Madeline Heiner-Hills and Eloise Wellings (Credit: Getty Images) NSWIS NSW Institute of Sport Photographers as credited throughout the report NSWMA NSW Masters Association TTP Target Talent Program 2 OUR VISION Our vision is for athletics in New South Wales to be a strong, vibrant and growing sport. Our purpose is to foster the appreciation, enjoyment OUR PURPOSE and development of athletics in New South Wales by: - Providing leadership and direction to clubs, athletes, coaches and officials - Supporting all athletes to reach their potential. This ranges from grassroots through to elite athletes (who are competing internationally and representing Australia) - Growing participation in a sustainable way, through the delivery of well-run competitions 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT THE YEAR IN PICTURES Credit: Andrew Atkinson-Howatt Credit: Unleashed Photography Credit: Janet Naylon Credit: Kevin Salmon Active Photography Credit: ANSW Credit: Izzy Thornton-Bott Credit: ANSW Credit: David Tarbotton 4 Credit: David Tarbotton Credit: Getty Images Credit: ANSW Credit: David Tarbotton Credit: David Tarbotton Credit: David Tarbotton Credit: Stuart Paterson 5 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT CHAIRMAN’S REPORT BRIAN WHITE CHANGE The key measure of whether these are delivered is in our membership In the 12 months to the end of numbers (how many customers?), and in the level of participation March 2017, we have seen evidence (how many times did these customers buy our services?). Improving of a range of efforts to reform and customer satisfaction makes maintaining and increasing these improve athletics in Australia that numbers sustainable. have been brewing for several years The CEO’s Report talks to our increased membership across athlete and are now being effected by categories (lots more customers), which is very solid progress. Certainly people active at national, state and the hard work done by those in clubs and at training venues continues club/centre levels with a mandate to to be a critical success factor and I am encouraged that our sport’s make changes. “front office” is positive and enthusiastic as you engage with our The Athletics NSW (ANSW) Board has made the judgement that the athlete customers to encourage them to join or continue with athletics. downside risk of staying the same is higher than that of choosing the We think our improved and more intense ANSW communications has wrong future path. In his first full year in the job our CEO has, with also triggered more athletes to seek out a club or training squad and our mandate, pushed hard along the path of the ANSW strategic sign up. We know that some of our changed competition offerings are plan put in place four years ago. encouraging new clubs to join our association, bringing new athletes to our movement. We are changing some of what ANSW does because we believe it is in the best interests of current and future athletes and we have heard One initiative this year was to run more and different meets. Not all that most of our athletics community wants change. of them were well attended, but many were, and we have definitely demonstrated progress on the way to having a more diverse range of “opportunities to participate” that better satisfies the wide range of preferences we are hearing from current and potential athletes. Overall, our participation numbers did increase on the previous year, but only modestly, perhaps showing we have more work to do both on the mix and on how we engage club administrators to sell a new and more diverse competition product range. In terms of “show me how to do it better”, we had our first full year controlling accredited coach education in the state and, while we can’t yet measure exactly how many more athletes are now getting quality coaching services, we do know more coaches are being qualified. Lack of good measures hasn’t stopped the Board committing resources to the coach communication and support services we know are needed to underpin a key expectation of participants in our sport. Our focus is that more clubs and coaches become more and better connected and, with support services from the centre that we can provide and jointly deliver more of the quality coaching services expected today Source: Quebec meme by any sport participant to “show me how to