2014 Under 19 Women’s National Champions 2013 - 2014 Report Annual Annual ANNUAL REPORT 2013 - 14 O FFICE B EARERS C ONTENTS PATRON ARTICLE PAGE # The Honourable Campbell Newman MP Office Bearers 1 Premier of Queensland Strategic Plan 2 PRESIDENT President’s Message 3 Mark Jeppesen Sponsors & Supporters 4 Year In Review 5 VICE PRESIDENT Associate Members 8 Jenny Vandenhurk Recruitment 10 EXECUTIVE MEMBER Swing Into Softball 11 Stephen Wagner OzPitch 12 Kumbia Centenary 13 BOARD OF MANAGEMENT Steve Armitage Marketing 14 John Bright Awards & Recognition 15 Heather Law OAM Honour Role 16 Samantha Mathers (until 06/07/2013) Committees & Affiliates 17 Alicia Northcott (from (06/07/2013) High Performance Committee & 18 Coaching Technical Directorate STATE TECHNICAL DIRECTORS/CHAIR Lexie Pearce - Coaching Scoring Technical Directorate 20 Matt Denkel - Scoring Umpiring Technical Directorate 22 Darren Sibraa - Umpiring State Championship Results 26 State Team Lists & Results 30 ADMINISTRATION STAFF Australian Representation 36 Sue Nisbet - General Manager QLD School Sport Softball 38 Joan Jackson - Finance Manager Southern Cross Challenge 37 Nicole Watts - Operations Manager (on leave from 31/01/2014) SQ Masters Tournament 40 Nicki Riley - Events Co-Ordinator Participation Analysis - 2013/14 43 John Butterworth - Development Officer Finance Report 44 Karen Robe - Association Co-Ordinator District Associations Reports 54 Joy Leach - Database Manager Fabian Barlow - Elite Program Head Coach Kelsey Naylor - Administration Officer (contract from 15/01/2014) CONTACT DETAILS Softball Queensland Inc. Sports House South 1/866 Main Street Woolloongabba Q 4102 Phone: (07) 3391 2447 Fax: (07) 3391 4734 Email: [email protected] Website: www.qld.softball.org.au 1 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 - 14 S TRATEGIC P LAN VISION KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS To grow softball in Queensland as a sport for everyone’s enjoyment. Key Result Area 1 Increase participation by at least 3% pa PURPOSE Key Result Area 2 To provide leadership for the development Increase the number of events held each year and delivery of softball in Queensland by 10% ensuring growth in participation and increased enjoyment by everyone through KEY STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES appropriate standards of administration and behaviour and enhancing relationships Key Strategic Objective 1 between all stakeholders. Enhance the range and availability of softball products and events. VALUES In fulfilling our purpose, we will uphold our Key Strategic Objective 2 core values of: Improve the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. Leadership – We will act professionally in a strong and decisive manner. Key Strategic Objective 3 Integrity – We will be honest and ethical in Grow and enhance our facilities as a means of our actions and decision making. attracting people to softball. Stability – We will ensure the stability of the Key Strategic Objective 4 association through effective financial Improve our participation pathway from management. grassroots through to the elite level. Innovation – We will challenge the status-quo and always search for improvement. Key Strategic Objective 5 Enhance access to softball for various cultural Reliability – We will listen to and and identified groups. communicate with our members. Commitment – We are committed to growing UNDERPINNING STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES - BUILDING and developing softball throughout OUR CAPABILITIES & RELATIONSHIPS Queensland. Key Strategic Objective 6 SQ Capability Development involving ASPIRATION FOR SOFTBALL IN governance, Board and staff. QUEENSLAND We believe that, in partnership with our Key Strategic Objective 7 stakeholders, softball in Queensland is in a Softball Capability Development involving sound position to grow, both in terms of the officials, volunteers and District Associations. overall numbers of people participating in the sport, and the types of competitions, tournaments and social games available to players. 2 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 - 14 P RESIDENT ’ S M ESSAGE It gives me great While we have seen a slight increase in registrations pleasure to present the in Queensland this year, membership numbers 2013/14 Softball continue to decline across the sport nationally. As a Queensland Inc (SQI) result, it is important that we adopt new and Annual Report. innovative strategies to attract new people to our sport, and to retain current members. Firstly I would like to congratulate our State Both SQI and Softball Australia Limited (SAL) have teams, all of whom performed extremely well at made a significant commitment to address this their respective national championships. I would problem and a national Participation Reform and particularly like to note the performance of our Growth Commission has been established. While Under 19 Women who won the Elinor Mackenzie we will work hard to identify solutions, solutions Shield and the Queensland Heat who brought home also need to be found at State, Association and Club the Edebone-Weber Shield for the second year in a level. SQI continues to provide significant support to row. SAL and will continue to do so to ensure that we deliver quality services to our members and to A number of Queensland players were recognised achieve the vision of being the number one softball with national awards this year. They include Jocelyn nation in the world. McCallum (Lorraine Woolley Medal – Open Women), Laura Coulter (Player of the Grand Final - It has been particularly pleasing to see a number of Under 19 Women), Alex Cleary (Batting Award - our District Associations embracing some of the Under 17 Boys) and Rebecca McEachern (Batting innovative programs including Swing into Softball, Award - Under 17 Girls). Softball Batter Up, Community Coach and OzPitch. Hopefully this will encourage others to come on Queenslanders continue to be recognised for their board. skills and abilities with selection in Australian Teams and Squads. Clearly Queensland is doing something Risk Management is always a major issue and it is right and I congratulate everyone involved: players, important that we all adopt a risk management coaches, officiators and administrators. approach to decisions we make, irrespective of whether those decisions have national, state, local In addition, Joyce Lester was inducted as the third or club consequences. SQI Legend; Kelly Hardie, Terry Downes and Scott Sunley were inducted into the SQI Hall of Fame; Awards continue to play an important role in SQI Haylea Petrie, Brooke Wilkins and Bob Crudgington and are something that I am personally committed were admitted into the International Federation to. I look forward to another successful Awards Hall of Fame; Kelly Hardie, Terry Downes and Ngaire night. The recognition of Joyce Lester as our third Huston were admitted to the Softball Australia Hall Legend was a highlight at last year’s ceremony. We of Fame; Tricia Sibraa was awarded Life seem to struggle with award nominations, although Membership of Softball Australia and won the there has been an increase this year. This puzzles Officiator of the Year at the Queensland Sport me somewhat given that we have so many fantastic Awards; Tanya Harding was admitted to the volunteers. I ask that our District Associations and Queensland Sport Hall of Fame; and Christine Clubs continue to look carefully at their members so Denkel was recognised at the Queensland Sport that they can be appropriately recognised for the Awards with a Service to Sport Award. significant volunteer contribution that they make. Also congratulations to the other Softball It would be remiss of me not to recognise the work Queensland members who were Queensland Sport of the Board, our Technical Directorate and Award Finalists. They were Deb Clarke (Volunteer of Committee members. These volunteers make a the Year); Under 17 Boys (Junior Sport Team of the significant contribution to our sport: a contribution Year); and the Queensland Heat (Sport Team of the that should not be underestimated. I would also like Year). to thank the SQI Office which has provided great 3 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 - 14 P RESIDENT ’ S S PONSORS & M ESSAGE S UPPORTERS support to both the Board and the Sport as a whole Softball Queensland wishes to acknowledge the this year. valuable support of the following sponsors… RINCIPAL PONSOR This year the Board said good-bye to Sam Mathers P S and welcomed Alicia Northcott. Also, after many years of dedicated service, Joy Leach retired from the Scoring Technical Directorate in April 2014. Fortunately, she is remaining actively involved in scoring at all levels of the game. The Queensland Government has continued to provide strong financial support to Softball in MAJOR SPONSOR Queensland. At the state level we were successful in our three year funding application and have been very fortunate to be one of seven organisations to receive funding from the Government for the next three years as part of the Women and Girls Special Initiative Program which financially supports the delivery of the South East Queensland Women and Girls Indigenous Project. The Queensland Government also supports a number of initiatives in our District Associations and Clubs through their significant grant programs. Please join me in MAJOR SPONSOR & thanking the Government, the Minister for Sport OFFICIAL APPAREL SUPPLIER Hon Steve Dickson and our Patron, the Honourable Campbell Newman, for this support. I would also like to thank our other sponsors including the Queensland Academy of Sport, Yellow Cabs, Canterbury Clothing, Easton and OAMPS. MAJOR SPONSOR & OFFICIAL