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This past year has seen the continued evolution of the Club. Your committee has maintained the determination to keep the Club running smoothly and ensuring that the members expec- tations are met, if not exceeded. Kym Lau and Carol Packard continue to open and run both the Monday night and Sunday afternoon sessions and are to be commended on their dedication to our Club. If anyone can help them with either or both of the sessions, please speak to Kym, Carol or myself. All three club championships were well attended with some excellent games played. Thank you to Carol, Simon Oaten, John, Jeff, Jane and Sandy for running the events, and to Eli Awwad for his bbq skills.

Junior training has been well attended and ably managed by Nigel, Jeff, Simon Packard, Jane and Alex. Our young people seem to enjoy it immensely as they did the club championships. Thank you to our team managers John Ly, Steve Todd, and Nick Seal.

This year will see the end of Jeff Green’s association with bad- minton and in particular the Glenelg Club. He is retiring to pursue his other great love, golf. He was honoured by being awarded Life Membership of Badminton SA at the SABA AGM held in October. He will be sorely missed and hard to replace. Simon White, the first junior member of the Club, received Life Membership of the Glenelg Badminton Club at the Glenelg AGM held in October.

You do not need me to tell you that you belong to a good, strong club. There are a number of components that conspire towards making a good club, one is an energetic and competent committee. Another vital ingredient is agreeable and coopera- tive members and there can be no doubt that is the case. All in all it’s a pretty good package and long may it continue. Robert

1 Jeff Green receiving his Life Membership badge from President of Badminton SA Simon White, on Saturday 27th October, 2012.

Junior League: Best Team Player Div 2: Zac Evaniadis:Glenelg Marlins Presidents Medal : Div 1. Dylan Hua Glenelg Dolphins 2012 Glenelg Badminton Club Championships SENIOR RESULTS 2012

MENS SINGLES - Winner:Andrew Harvey

Runner Up: Michael Chappell

LADIES SINGLES - No event held

MENS DOUBLES - Winners: Kym Lau/James Abraham

Runners Up: Andrew Harvey/Michael Chappell

LADIES DOUBLES – Winners:Emma Seagrave/Linda Robertson

Runners Up: Jane Awwad/Karen Roberts

MIXED DOUBLES - Winners: Andrew Harvey/Verdet Kessler

Runners Up: Kym Lau/Emma Seagrave

JUNIOR RESULTS 2012

BOYS SINGLES - Winner:Dylan Hau Runner Up : David Bosco

GIRLS SINGLES - Winner:Alysha Hau Runner Up :Asmitha Devenand DOUBLES - Winners: Alysha Hau/Rowan Katti

Runners Up: Hilmi Mohomed/Nupur Srivastava

SOCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2012

Ladies winner: Anna Olshansky Runner Up: Amy Allman

Men’s winner: Gabriel Nouju Runner Up: Adrian Wong

3 Jason and Mary Ellen Thomas (Linford) married on the 3rd November, 2012 under the elm trees at Carrick Hill

BABY NEWS

- Expecting parents - Rain & Mike Yang Emma & Phil Seagraves

4 2012-13 Committee Members President: Robert Riggs Vice President: Simon White Secretary: Carol Packard Treasurer: Kym Lau Members: Simon Oaten Nigel Isherwood John Ly Helen White Kim Doung Rebecca Valentine

BRAIN TEASERS or for us oldies….how to keep the Alzheimer's at bay!!

1. Name 3 consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday or Sunday.

2. Stands (What does this say?) ————- 0_2345

3. How can you alter the following equation by a single stroke to make it correct? 5+5+5=550

4. Which 7 letter word has 100’s of letters in it?

5. If you have a ton of feathers and a ton of stones which would be heavier?

6. Tom’s mother has 3 children. One is named April. One is named May. What is the 3rd child’s name?

(Answers on page 11…..DON’T CHEAT!!!)

5 Congratulations to Verdet Kessler on being selected in the following: Australian Team Australian Oceania Team Australian World Junior Championships Team Australian Youth Olympic Festival Team and achieving Oceania Women’s Singles Runner Up Triple winner Joy Twining Open Tournament

Michelle Chan won the first match for New Zealand but equalled the score to 1-1 after the second womens singles. The Aussie then took the lead 2-1 when junior Verdet Kessler beat Anna Rankin in 2 very close games 21-19, 21-14. then won the crucial match and the tie when the women's doubles pairing of Rosie Tan and Leanne Choo domi- nated Amanda Brown and Stephanie Cheng 21-7 21-5.

Well done Verdet!!

6 SOCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Ladies runner up Amy Allman Men’s winner: Gabriel Nouju

Ladies winner Anna Olshansky Jacqui Kerr founding member (after whom the trophy is named)

Men’s runner up: Adrian Wong presented by Life Member: Fergie Kerr

7 Simon Oaten is awarded the 2012 David Currie Club Award by Cathy

Alex Awwad received the 2012 Shannon Riggs Achiever’s Award from Reannen Pettman (Shannon’s cousin)

A GM sp ec ial aw ard s Simon Packard with the Most Improved Award

8 Goodbye & Thanks Sandy After many years serving on the commit- tee, Sandy Faithfull has decided to step aside and hand the mantle to someone else.

Sandy Faithfull joined the Club some 25 years or more ago. She started playing socially, then ventured into competition in a C grade team with Bobbie Salotti, Jeff Green, Marilyn Bowey and Trudy Green and ventured up to B grade for one season.

Possibly Sandy would have viewed the inclusion of Bennett Sandhu in the team, as a small problem, Bennett being the troublesome teen that he was.

Sandy’s contribution to the club over these years, has been significant and very much appreciated. We all wish her much enjoyment in her life ahead and hopefully she can avoid the rough and bunkers.

Sandy remembers……. Going to a Come and Try session at the Glenelg YMCA with a friend and although not being able to hardly hold a racquet, they found many nice people to show them the ropes. David Currie, Michelle Currie (Whitehead) was 12 or 13 years old then. Trudy Green’s dad, Brian Emery (life Member) and Edna Bannister (Life Member) and Rose MacDonald were there as well. She remembers tea and bickies around the kitchen, quiz nights, social nights, golf days (Dodgy scoring system) and bbq’s at Bonython Park. The atmosphere was very social back then. After the move to Lockleys, there were some fun nights at Carol Packard’s home pre- paring the prizes for quiz nights.

Sandy has always enjoyed her association with badminton, enjoyed playing, enjoyed the Committee work and has made some good friends. She is not stepping away as a club member but is pursuing her golf ( I think it is catching eh Jeff!!!)

9 JEFF GREEN FAREWELL Way back in 1988 one of the club’s long time members Trudy Green nee Emery brought along her recently acquired husband Jeff Green to introduce him to bad- minton. After being shown which end of the racquet to hold by Peter Vanderlans he soon got the hang of it. That was the beginning of a long association with badminton Along the way he joined the club committee and took on the role of team’s co-coordinator and Vice President. As time went on he be- came involved in many club activities and functions. It is hard to say which facet is the most memorable. Some elements are that infamous liaison with Adam Russell which gave birth to the Dodgy Brothers a name that really exemplified that association. Anything goes was the motto of the duo sheep manure, used fluro tubes and I am sure Bobbie Salotti is still trying to work out the maths of their betting board at a day at the races and that is to say nothing about the golf days and got ya! You may need to ask Jeff for an explanation of that one. There have been many things over the years I could speak about but I am trying to keep it brief.

In about 1996 Jeff started umpiring and perhaps it was as much about the realization that his badminton talents were not going to take him to state or national let alone international selection. Jeff has managed to achieve many significant things in his umpiring career including line judging at the Olympics, umpiring at the Commonwealth games, national senior and junior tournaments and at he Macau Open to name a few.

In 1995 Jeff and I restarted the Glenelg junior program and I don’t think I am stealing Jeff’s words when I say I think this is one Jeff’s best achievements probably the most satisfying. We have seen many young people come through the program to achieve their goals.

I am of no doubt Jeff has achieved many of his goals through and in badminton and his commitment should not be understated. Thank you for your time and dedication watch out for those bunkers even though I am sure your past experience with them will serve you well.

10 SIMON WHITE—GLENELG LIFE MEMBERSHIP

Back in 1995 Jeff and I reinvigorated the Glenelg junior program this coincided with a visit to Sacred Heart College from the then Association SDO and now Glenelg life member David Nash to run an introduction to badminton clinic. The following Sunday one attendee at that clinic pedalled his bike from Glenelg North to Glengowrie to be the first and only participant in our inaugural junior training ses- sion. He became a regular attendee and soon looked for further opportunities to improve his skills. There being no junior league at that time he was included in a senior C grade team. Every Wednesday evening he was picked up by Kate Noonan and Tommy Nolan and taken to Lockleys for competition. As time went Prince William? on he progressed to B grade in the beached whales group then A grade and ultimately Sate League. During this time he became a committee member and then Vice President of the club. He teamed up with Ben Schwidder to win 2 club men’s doubles titles. Simon has recently made a come back to A grade in a stadium packed with interested on lookers well there were at least 2 cars in the car park.

He has been a member of the state U17 and U19 teams. He has also been team manager for the state senior team and has just been re-elected as President of the Association.

Simon is a fitting recipient of Life Membership of the club.

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11 Life Members of Glenelg Badminton Club 1978 Fergie Kerr 1978 Jacqui Kerr 1984 Pat O’Shaughnessy 1985 Anne Stoneham 1988 Brian Emery 1989 Glen McPherson 1992 Peter Van der Lans 1996 Edna Bannister 1998Robert Riggs 2000 David Nash 2001 Bobbie Salotti 2002 Jeff Green 2003 Sandy Faithfull 2006 Sally Brauer 2007 Jane Awwad 2007 Carol Packard 2007 Malcolm Wainwright 2007 Jamie Deans 2012 Simon White

Presidents of Glenelg Badminton Club Glenelg has had only 5 Presidents in 44 years Fergie Kerr 1968—1973 Roy Bierton 1974 Ted Gentle 1975—1979 Glen McPherson 1980—1987 Robert Riggs 1988—Present

This stable leadership has been one of the main ingredients for the club’s success over the years

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