THE FATMAN Volume 1, Issue 1 November/December Issue
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THE FATMAN Volume 1, Issue 1 November/December Issue - By Matt Dawson and Lauren Miller In this issue... UWA Athletics Club 3UHVLGHQW·V&RUQHU 2 Notice Board As the season is upon us it seems an opportune time to inform the UWA sporting community of our plans and how we see UWAA going forward. 4 Kylie @ the Olympics At present UWAA has a membership in excess of 550 which has occurred through the integration and affiliation that we have struck with PLLAC. 6 Cross Country Results UWA Athletics Club has embarked on a process of increasing membership by embracing the junior members and ensuring that they are not lost to the sport of athletics at the age of 13 to 14 which has traditionally been the scenario. 9 Athlete Assistance Grants This initiative which is gaining fantastic momentum is allowing us to promote the sport of Athletics to aspiring young athletes by embracing and encouraging them to move into the seniors once they feel that they have outgrown the Little 10 2007/2008 Rankings Athletics structure. Through our wonderful network of coaches under the guidance of our head coach Lyn Foreman, we are now seeing the benefits of our endeavors. We are 12 Club History very fortunate to have a coaching compliment of eight experienced and enthusi- astic volunteers some of whom coach both levels; Little Athletics as well as sen- iors. This has allowed the junior athletes to not feel intimidated by moving into a senior club, as they are familiar with the coaching staff and feel very comfortable 13 A Moment in History in coming down to training. We are also very fortunate to have a wonderful group of dedicated senior athletes who have been amazing in encouraging and assisting our juniors. 14 Open Nationals There is no one more inspirational and motivating than our Captain and es- teemed Heptathlete Kylie Wheeler. Kylie has just competed in her most suc- 15 Social Pages cessful Olympics achieving personal bests in two of her events and achieving her highest points tally ever. We are very proud to say that Kylie finished in the top 10 at the Olympics which is just an amazing achievement. We are always looking at ways to improve our facilities and it is a pleasure work- ing with Craig Boyce who is in charge of UWA Sports Park. Craig is very keen for us to upgrade our image and facilities and we are working together to try and implement his vision. As always a very big thank you to Chris Marsh and his team who consistently provides us with the best grass track in Australia, on that note I would just like to stress to all our members and athletes to look after this amazing track. Dave Van der Walt President UWAA Are you in the Social .\OLH·V2O\PSLF Pages?????? Pg 15 Experience Details Page 14 See Page 4-5 Who is the Fatman? Pg 12 UWA Notice Board ds BIG 6 r ID Car embe and Corporate Mile ³coming soon!!! M ID card as proof of membership. Friday 13th February All athletes are required to obtain an wing dates from the UWA Tennis All corporate teams please forward interest to m. These can be obtained on the follo [email protected] Club (near McGillivray Oval): 4-6pm More information in following issue. ovember y 21st N -6pm Frida vember 4 28th No Friday on all athletes when using McGillivray ID cards will need to be kept UWA Quiz Night Oval as ID checks will soon take place. 14th November Duty Cl ub Days @ Newman College 29th November 15th March $10 a head All UWA athletes (or a represen Tables of 8 at one of the above competition days. Duties will be broken up tative of theirs) need to assist -10 into setup, hurdle moving du Prizes to be won! With lots of helpers it wil ring competition and pack up. Athletes should nominatel theirend uppreferred being verydate lightto Kylie. work. Details Page 15 ([email protected]) ends d Fri ily an tion , Fam tten ners. rents A and Run Pa s Walkers Thrower Jumpers, L[UHSUHVHQWDWLYHVWRZULWHDQ Anyone who would like to haveget involved a certain as number offi- ¶7KH)$70$1·LVORRNLQJIRUV article about one of the following: cials at competitions please contact Kylie. High Jump Each club is supposed to ily be a weekly com- Long Jump/Triple Jump of officials & we could do with some more!! Throws Walking This would not necessar appreciated. Long distance mitment, but any assistance where possible Sprints would be greatly Juniors Uniforms All athletes should now be wearing the new The article could discuss newsrecent etc. competitions, competitors, uniform which may be purchased from Kylie at the Athletica office (at If you are interested0407 please195 278, contact or Lauren on: 2 Perry Lakes). [email protected] Ph: 9287 1200 Calender November Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1st 2nd All Schools All Schools 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th .</,(¶6 Program A WEDDING 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th QUIZ NIGHT Program B 17th 18th Duty19th Club 20th 21st 22nd 23rd Program C 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th Program D December Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th Reduced Program & X-Mas Party 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th Knockout UWAAC Program A Zatopek Christmas Party 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st Sunday 7th DecemberȂ Reduced Prog. Hollywood Bowling ClubȂ after competition State Relays 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th Christmas Boxing Day 29th 30th 31s 3 8:$$WKOHWH« Kylie Wheeler @ The Olympics ,¶GOLNHWRVWDUWE\VD\LQJDKXJHWKDQN\RXWRDOOWKRVHZKRKDYHHQ couraged & supported me on this Olympic journey. Not being a high profiled sports person & unaccustomed to the attention, I have been tickled pink by the support. It has been genuinely appreciated & wel- comed. $OORZPHWRWDNH\RXWKURXJKP\FRPSHWLWLRQ« The day before comp I briefly caught up with my mum & fiancée, but essentially laid low getting ready. After a reasonable night sleep de- spite the mind racing, I woke with nervous energy & raring to go. We were quite fortunate to have two days of sensational weather ± blue skies & warm, but not hot weather. The 100m Hurdles was a good start for me, just outside my personal best time. We then moved onto High Jump & after a couple of scares at the lower heights, I man- aged to keep scraping over the higher ones! It was the best HJ comp I have been in ± achieving a personal best that has been a long time coming. Kylie celebrates in the Women's Heptathlon High Jump Final at the National Stadium after finishing the event in second place with a height of 1.89m With a long break between the HJ & shot put, I made my way back to the village for a brief rest & feed. Then the shot put was unfortunately nothing spectacular. I had thrown well in training & at my last compe- WLWLRQEXWXQIRUWXQDWHO\,MXVWFRXOGQ¶WJHW LW DOOWRJHWKHURQWKHGD\ 1HYHUWKHOHVV LW ZDVQ¶W GLVJUDFHIXO WKH VKRZ ZHQW RQ 7KH P felt like a good run, but I thought the time should have been faster. It was a solid effort, but once again nothing spectacular. At the end of the first day I was sitting in 9th spot & I required some medical treat- ment to make sure the body would still fire for day two after a twinge prior to the 200m! When competition finishes late on day 1 & starts again early on day 2, unfortunately you just cant get as much sleep in as you would like, so reluctantly I woke & soon fired up for another day of comp. Long (L-R) Ganna Melnichenko of Ukraine, Kylie and Anna Bogdanova of jump normally being one of my strengths was very disappointing. I Russia compete in the Women's Heptathlon 200m Final warmed up gingerly & after putting my all in my first attempt, I started to feel a twinge in my right leg increase. After my second attempt I knew that something was wrong & reluctantly cut my losses by pass- ing my 3rd jump. That was difficult for me, as I had not posted a big jump & was sure I could do better, but then another part of me real- LVHGWKDW,SUREDEO\ZDVQ¶WJRLQJWREHDEOHWRJRDQ\IXUWKHUJLYHQ, was getting sorer & my first two attempts I had given my all. Without wanting to risk the remainder of my hep, I withdrew from the LJ & the PHGLFDO WHDP WKHQ ZRUNHG WKHLU PDJLF« $IWHU DQRWKHU ELJ EUHDN magic hands, I returned to the track in the evening for Javelin- my favourite! I managed to get all my three throws over my previous pb, which I was very happy about. Equally importantly I was not both- ered by my right leg for the remainder of the hep, which was good. 7KHQLWFDPHWRWKHGUHDGHGP« ´7KHILYH6 VRIVSRUWVWUDLQLQJDUH6WDPLQD6SHHG6WUHQJWK 6NLOODQG6SLULWEXWWKHJUHDWHVWRIWKHVHLV6SLULWµ 4 --Ken Doherty Kylie during her 100m hurdles race Kylie @ The Olympics ,¶GOLNHWRMXVWSRLQWRXWWKDWWKLVZDVWKHILUVWFRPSHWLWLRQ,KDYH ever moved up a place after the javelin! I went into the 800m in 10th place with a couple of girls quite close around me. I was in the perfect race & gave it a good go running a reasonable time. At the end of it all we did our usual group victory lap which is al- ways nice & I finished in 11th place with a personal best score of 6369 only one point behind 10th. As it turns out, in the ensuing few days, it came to light that the athlete who finished 2nd returned a positive drug test & conse- quently was stripped of her medal ± I moved up to 10th!! Only have to wipe out a few more & I could get a medal!! Kylie throwing her Javelin After my competition I enjoyed the whole Olympic experience.