ANNUAL REPORT 2020/21 TASMANIA UNIVERSITY CRICKET CLUB INC. Contents President’s Message in our Blasters programs, which were developing list of players, and to have Lions on the rise two Level 3 High Performance Coaches expertly run by Juanita Kerr and Jak leading our program, and coaching The 2020/21 was an exciting season for Gunson, with help from a number of 3 President’s Message Cricket Community Statistics our Under 15 Girls and senior female the UTAS Cricket Club, and it presented assistants. players has made an immediate impact 8 Scorer's Report 44 TUCC Scholarship 58 Awards and us with some unique challenges and on this program, the development Representative Honours some outstanding team and individual Strong numbers through all junior 10 Senior Cricket CTPL Hall of Fame of our players and the overall cricket performances. levels, and increasing numbers in our 60 Season results Under 15 Girls program are all positive experience. 38 Youth & Junior Cricket 46 Social Events Gallery The UTAS Cricket Committee is 78 Highest run scorers signs that we are building a strong responsible for the overall governance, reputation in the community as having The club had four major social events 86 Highest wicket takers management and strategic direction of a quality junior program that provides across the season. the club, and monitoring of the club's outstanding participant experiences. 94 Partnership records strategic direction and the attainment of • Season Launch its strategies and objectives. 97 Season milestones This season also saw us move our A relaxed occasion, and provided Our Strategy 2020-2025 outlines the community cricket side from the an opportunity for the presentation 98 Playing records club's vision "to be the club of choice Intercultural Sports League, to the of last seasons annual awards Southern Cricket Association (SCA), 107 Heritage Numbers - Men in Tasmania, with quality management, (cancelled due to COVID-19), and coaches and facilities" and mission "to to allow our players to participate in a announcement of Grade captains. 110 Heritage Numbers - longer season and mix of both 50-over provide an environment that inspires • Wear Your Name Dress Up Party Women and Twenty20 matches. The addition the love of cricket and develops players, This was a well attended event and of this team not only ensured we had coaches and managers to represent a great way to wrap up a positive 112 Office Bearers much greater depth for our CTPL grade Tasmania". first half of the season. We had Ali squads, but it grew our volunteer base, 114 Coaches & Captains G, Darth Vader, Madeline, a rogue Our Strategy 2020-2025 is then and provided greater opportunities for Bunny Rabbit, a Pilot but the winners underpinned by five key strategic pillars: UTAS students to participate in cricket. President: Charles Rose of best dressed went to Harley Vice-President & Treasurer: Gene Phair • Engaging and quality experiences; Quinn (Holly Kealy) and Spongebob Our performance across all grades Squarepants (Simon Coogan - NB. Secretary: Maddie Blazely • Success at representative level; saw great improvements, and it was Coogs made this costume from • Enhance infrastructure and pleasing that the club could achieve its community relationships; scratch!) General Committee: goal of placing in the Top 2 in the CTPL • Maximise the standards and Club Championship, and win three • Women's 2nd Grade GF & Sunday Rob Braithwaite Session • Grow investment and raise the profile premierships across the season. Dominic Rawlings A monumentous day for the club Paul Wales The club is continuing to attract high with our women's side taking home Engaging and quality experiences our first ever premiership, and John Paine quality players and coaches, and We aim to deliver engaging and quality this season we saw the addition of celebrated in style with the help Jackson Swain experiences to our members to leave senior players Sam Harbinson (Vic), of a convenient public holiday the Chris Gunson a positive impact on their cricket, Jake Doran (North Hobart/CT), Tim following day. We had a great turn Guy Abel education and careers and create a Ward (CT), the return of Joel Logan out from all members across the club lifelong passion for the club. (NT), Suraj Thapa (Vic), Govind Karki for the day. (Vic), Liam McLaren (Launceston), Joe • Annual Dinner at Royal Yacht Club Patron: Rufus Black This starts at our entry-level programs Fryett (Burnie), Quinton Andrew (Qld), of Tasmania and school clinics and goes all the Khushwinder Singh (India) and Meg A new record for most attendees Vice-Patrons: S Allen, W Bale, J Braithwaite, R Brown, way through to our senior men's and Harrison (Kingborough) all make UTAS with 125 squeezed into the RYCT. R Cotgrove, G Farrell, R Jackett, A Jauncey, P Jones, Prof D women's program. Cricket their club of choice. We were fortunate to have a number Le Grew, D McNamara, K McNamara, P McNamara, Prof D of invited guests attend, including McNicol, Dr P Smith, M Street, E Stokes This season we attended a number of The Women’s Premier Cricket our club patron and Vice-Chancellor school clinics in parternship with Cricket competition underwent a major of the University of Tasmania, Tasmania, including Waimea Heights revamp this year, which saw the club Senior Member: Josh Bean Professor Rufus Black. Highlights Primary, Princes St Primary, Albuera St placed in 2nd Grade. A massive coup of the night included the induction Primary, Mt Nelson Primary, St Michael's for the club was the recruitment of two new life members - James Life Members: S Allen, W Bale, J Bean, T Burbury, Collegiate and Mount Carmel School. of former Australian player Kristen Kingston and Rhett Lockyear - and J Braithwaite, M Brown, R Brown, P Cossum, R Cotgrove, Thank you to our volunteers and coaches Beams as Senior Development & the addition of a band to make the G Cunningham, S Davis, E Di Venuto, G Farrell, W Friend, who gave up their time to represent Skills Coach for our female program, event a more social evening and to M Graham-Smith, B Hilfenhaus, D Hills, M Hortle, R Jackett, Louis Smith the club at these vital community touch and the commitment from Director cater for our greater audience. P Jones, G Kerr, J Kingston, R Lockyear, M Macdonald, J points, to promote the game, the Malcolm Street Medallist of Coaching Ben Harrison to take Whilst there was significant excitement Marquet, K McNamara, P McNamara, R Page, J Paine, T Paine, P University of Tasmania and our club. on the Lead Coaching role of our Robinson, R Smith, E Stokes, M Street, L Stewart, B Thomas, M amongst a group of players and ever female program. This provided a high extending group of support staff, Unicomb, G van der Steege, I Woodgate This season we had booming numbers quality learning environment for a 2 Annual Report / 2019/20 Annual Report / 2020/21 3 President's Message President's Message unfortunately the UniSport Nationals T20 competition in Perth was cancelled due to service to the club in different areas. COVID-19. Congratulations to Melissa who has made a significant contribution to our Success at Representative Level junior program over many years, and was recognised with a Cricket Tasmania We aim to prepare players, coaches and Chairman's Merit Award, at the CT managers to succeed at representative Awards Night. level. Our scoring team led by Nigel Wilson Our Men's coaching group, led by Ben and Kim Hutchinson are the best in the Harrison (Director of Coaching), Damien business, and we are very thankful for Wright (Damien Wright), James Craig their dedication and professionalism in (Senior Development/S&C Coach) their roles, which in turn reflects very and Ben Hilfenhaus (Bowling Coach) positively on the club and is certainly have developed a high performance noted by other clubs and CT. environment that is in line with our club strategic aim - to develop first-class John Paine and Simon Coogan again cricketers. played a key role in managing our Laura Phair, Will Deck, Ben Harrison and Louise Maddock after assisting St Michael's Collegiate School with a clubrooms; Simon Allen and our past Leo Fountain assisted at a Hobart Hurricanes Blitz Clinic at Mt Nelson Primary cricket session. Many of our performance targets will players cooking our weekly Thursday need to be revised following restructuring Enhance Infrastructure & Community Bay Sports Precinct, where cricket will night BBQ’s; and the great team of honour board software which our coaching group, we could make some of CT pathway programs, however it Relationships certainly have a large footprint. Paul & Donna Wales, and Karlina & Liv members would have seen running on real improvements in a short space of was very pleasing for first year player Wright making our salad rolls every the TV screen in the clubrooms. The time and set the club up strategically for Tim Ward being rewarded for his strong Our ongoing discussions with the As this is still in the planning process, Saturday morning and running our investment in FrogBox software for live long-term success. season and 181 not out in the 1st Grade University of Tasmania continue to be the timeframes remain unclear, and the canteen. video streaming has had an outstanding Grand Final, by making his Sheffield Shield productive and the club committee is sports projects will need to fit into the impact in raising the profile of the In that time our committee, our debut this season. very optimistic that we will soon see University's overall infrastructure plan We also had great support throughout competition, so thank you to Cricket volunteers, our coaches and our players major investment in our club facilities.