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CRONULLA SLSC111TH ANNUAL REPORT2017-2018 SEASON

GEOFFREY FORSHAW – LIFE MEMBER, SURF LIFE SAVING NEW SOUTH WALESCronulla’s Geoffrey Forshaw’s foray into Surf Life Saving began as a 17-year-old when he obtained his Bronze Medallion in 1961.

Over the next five decades his passion for the movement would continue to grow as he went on to make significant contributions across a diverse range of areas.

A more than handy surfboat rower in his youth, Geoffrey has held many important positions at club and branch level.

He has held almost every leadership position at his beloved club and has served an incredible 48 years on various committees.

In the late 1980s he served as Sydney Branch President for five years during a time of great change, and was instrumental in overcoming operational issues within the helicopter rescue service. It was just one of many roles this quiet achiever performed at branch level.

Geoffrey is also a recipient of the International Lifesaving Society (ILS) citation of merit, an award he achieved in 1993.

Today he continues his role as respected Patron of Cronulla SLSC where his counsel is often sought.

He was made a Life Member of Cronulla SLSC in 1978 and of Sydney Branch in 2001.

Congratulations Geoff!

Geoff being presented with his Life Membership by David Murray, SLSNSW President, at the 2018 SLSNSW State Championships

Cronul la Surf L i fe Saving Club Annual Report 2017-2018 1

CRONULLA SURF LIFE SAVING CLUB INCORPORATEDFOUNDED 1907

OFFICIALS FOR THE 2017-2018 SEASON

PATRONG.C. ForshawVICE PATRONSJ.W. Bentley, K.E. English, I.A. Goode OAM, J.H. HollingdalePRESIDENTR.C. PinkerDEPUTY PRESIDENTD.J. WoodCLUB CAPTAINC.A. BarberSECRETARYE. LarssenTREASURERC.D. Giles

W.F.J. Stroud† (1919)N.W. Cayley† (1920)C.O.J. Monro† (1923)W.C. Pickering† (1924)Hon. R.T. Ball† (1924)Hon. J.C. Fitzpatrick† (1924)J. Garlick† (1924)R.W.S. Harris† (1925)H.S. Tugwell† (1925)G.P. Rogers† (1925)J.W. Richardson† (1925)W.J. Bennett† (1925)R.E. Whitfield† (1926)T.E. Rofe† (1926)M.J. Farrell† (1926)A.C. Crammond† (1927)C.H. Crammond† (1927)W.G. Pooley† (1927)L.V. Puckle† (1927)T. Watson† (1930)R. Michaelis† (1931)G.L. Durrell† (1932)J. Dodson† (1934)R. Field† (1936)L.D.S. McPherson†(1936)F.W. Lewis† (1939)H.A. Small† (1944)E. Salisbury-Baker† (1944)A.H. Swadling† (1945)B.G. Pearson† (1949)A.J. Purcell† (1949)

J.H. Borserini† (1950)D.C. Lucas OBE† (1950)E.C. Sier† (1952)G.R.M. Challis† (1953)R.C. Miller† (1955)J.R. Switzer OAM† (1956)W.G. Marshall OAM† (1958)R.W. Grant† (1960)K.E. Dunkley† (1960)H.T. Spurway† (1961)W.R. Buchan† (1963)N.A. Dixon† (1964)R.A. Thompson† (1964)A. Moseley OAM† (1965) W.H. Eady OAM† (1968)R.J. Simmons† (1970)F.J. Elmer (1970)I.W. Provan† (1971)F.R. Jordan†(1973)R.J. Leix (1976)D.P. Murray (1977)J.H. Hollingdale (1977)G.C. Forshaw (1978)J.H. Stansell† (1978)M.J. Costello† (1980)P.G. Banister† (1981)B.M. Ezzy PE (1982)I.A. Goode OAM (1985)K.E. English (1987)W. Halpin OAM† (1988)A.J. Hanson (1990)

K.S. Morton (1992)C.R. Gough (1995)R.F. Hitchenson (1995)J.W. Bentley (1996)A.P. Metti (1997)K.J. Neilson (1998)L. Macpherson (2001)J.F. Wilson (2001)B.L. O’Donnell (2003)N.T. Johnstone (2003)M.F. Butterfield (2005)R.B. Bignold (2006)K.R. O’Donnell (2006)P.W. Hamilton (2007)J.E. Johnson (2008)J.E. Salmon OAM (2008)B.S. Henderson (2008)K.R. Suann (2008)J.R. Holt OAM (2008)C.J. Elliott (2009)R.J. Short (2012)S.J. Neilson (2012)F.P. Doran (2013)R.C. Garnsey (2015)R.C. Pinker (2015)P.W. Day (2015)P.M. Day (2015)G.G. Holland (2016)

† denotes: DeceasedPE denotes: Patron Emeritus

R. CasaceliJ.P. CassidyJ.L. CattB.A. ChristianT. EadyR. EnderbyJ. FredericksM.T. FreeJ.C. GibsonR.E. GibsonK.J. Hollingdale

M.G. HowlinA.J. HunterJ. JamiesonM.J. Kerr OAMS.J. MarshallV.F. MarshallS. Morrison MPG.W. NeilsonS.T. O’DonnellE.M. Petinos MPF.W. Pengelly OAM

S.F. PhillipsJ.M. PurcellJ.W. Rayner PSML.F. SavilleR.K. SmithM. Speakman SC MPG.B. Staunton MBEC.J. StephensonJ.M. StephensonE.B. Suann

VICE PRESIDENTS

LIFE MEMBERS

2 CRONULLA SURF LIFE SAVING CLUB ANNUAL REPORT 2017-2018

AUXILIARY LIFE MEMBERSRobyn E. Ellis, Rhonda M. Elmer, Kim D. English, Denise A. Gough, Faye O. Marshall, Margaret A. McFarlane, Diana M. Provan, Ann D. WoodVICE-CAPTAIND.J. EastonASSISTANT SECRETARY/TREASURERD. RaynerIRB CAPTAINR.E. WalkerIRB VICE-CAPTAING. BurtPUBLICITY OFFICERVacantSOCIAL ORGANISERB.D. TurnerHOUSE CAPTAINM.P. BanisterREGISTRARP.R. LarssenCADET CAPTAINVacant JUNIOR CAPTAINR.I. Ford MEMBERS ON COMMITTEEM.P. Banister, R.A. Diver-Tuck, C.A. Larssen, W.L. Lloyd, D.S. MettiLIFE MEMBERS ON COMMITTEER.C. Garnsey, C.R. Gough, G.G. Holland, N.T. Johnstone, K.J. NeilsonJUNIOR ACTIVITIES CHAIRPERSONM.R. ColeJUNIOR ACTIVITIES VICE-CHAIRPERSONJ. PowerCHIEF INSTRUCTORS.A. RofeDEPUTY CHIEF INSTRUCTORVacant BEACH CAPTAIND. KaragiannisBEACH VICE-CAPTAINN. HadfieldBEACH SELECTORSC.A. Barber, D. Karagiannis, M.A. RedrupBEACH COACHM.A. Redrup BOARD CAPTAINM. BanisterBOARD VICE-CAPTAINS. BraineBOARD SELECTORSC.A. Barber, M. Banister, S. BraineBOARD COACHH.G. AllumSKI CAPTAINA. PalamidisSKI VICE-CAPTAINM.D. VitnellSKI SELECTORSC.A. Barber, A. Palamidis, M.D. VitnellSKI COACHH.G. Allum, M.J. Roye

SURF BOAT CAPTAINB.C. Trotter (res.18Sep17)R. Wood (elec.18Sep17)SURF BOAT VICE-CAPTAINVacantSURF BOAT SELECTORSB.C. Trotter, R.A. Wood, G.J. Allman, C.A. HawkingsSURF BOAT COACHG.J. Allman, C.A. HawkingsSWIMMING CAPTAINR.I. FordSWIMMING VICE-CAPTAINVacantWATER SELECTORSC.A. Barber, R.I. Ford, K.J. NeilsonMASTERS CAPTAIND.E. BrukmannMASTERS VICE-CAPTAIND.S. MettiMASTERS SELECTORSD.E. Brukmann, D.S. MettiMARCH PAST COACHVacantJUNIOR MARCH PAST COACHI. Crowe CHIEF GEAR STEWARDR.P. ShortGEAR STEWARDSK.E. English, R.J. Short, C. Villanti,RACE SECRETARIESD.R. & W.L. WardRADIO OFFICERR. DunnFIRST AID OFFICERD. Dalla-CaminaHON. LEGAL OFFICERSGibsonHowlin LawyersHON. MEDICAL OFFICERDr. Guia FindlayHON. RESIDENT MEMBERNot appointedDOOR CUSTODIAN - LOCK UPW.L. LloydSAFETY OFFICERC.A. BarberSLSS DELEGATESR.C. PinkerHONORARY CLUB CHAPLAINRev. R. WendenASSISTANT HONORARY CLUB CHAPLAINN.R. SwaneAPPAREL COMMITTEEM.R. Cole (Convenor), K. Ford, M. VitnellAUXILIARYPresident: Mrs Denise A Gough Deputy President: Mrs Faye MarshallSecretary: Mr. Ken EnglishCommitee: Ros M Dalgarno, Kim English, Joy E Hitchenson†, Robyn E Ellis, Rhonda M Elmer, Irene Forshaw, Kristie C Garnsey, Richard C Garnsey, Ann L Holland, Ellena Johnstone, Sandra J Neilson, Margaret A McFarlane-Bentley, Jennifer J Maclachlan, Jan Metti, Jenny A Pinker, Diana M Provan, Deborah A Short, Jenny Wild, Ai Wood, Ann D Wood

BUILDING DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE R.P. Short (Convenor), K.C. Adams, C. Giles, S.J. Mackay, D.P. Murray, R. C. Pinker, J.A. Suann, D.J. WoodCOACHING AND COMPETITION COMMITTEE K.J. Neilson (Convenor), C.A. Barber, M.P. Banister, R.I. Ford, D. Karagiannis, A. Palamidis, R.E. Walker, R.A. WoodCONSTITUTION REVIEW COMMITTEE W.J. Druery (Convenor), R.C. Pinker, G.G. HollandCRONULLA CARNIVAL COMMITTEE G.A. Allum OAM (Convenor), C.A. Barber, M.R. Cole, K.D. Day, W.J. Druery, G.C. Forshaw, C.D. Giles, I.A. Goode OAM, K.J. Neilson, C. VillantiFINANCE AND SPONSORSHIP COMMITTEE F.P. Doran (Convenor), C. Giles, M.R. Cole, G.G. Holland, W.L. Lloyd, S. Mannion, J. Power, D.R. Ward, J. ZagameFOOD AND BEVERAGE COMMITTEE W.L. Lloyd (Convenor), P.R. Larssen, D.J. WoodGOLF DAY COMMITTEE M.P. Banister (Convenor), R.A. Diver-TuckHISTORY COMMITTEE B.S. Henderson (Convenor), M.P. Banister, P.W. Day, J.H. Hollingdale HONOURS AND AWARDS COMMITTEE I.A. Goode OAM (Convenor), G.A. Allum OAM, J.W. Bentley, R.B. Bignold, K.E. English, E. LarssenHOUSE COMMITTEE M.P. Banister (Convenor), B. Dalgarno, K.D. Day, R.P. ShortINFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS & TECHNOLOGY

COMMITTEED.J. Wood (Convenor), D.J. Easton, E. Larssen, N. Musico, N. SchuttJUNIOR ACTIVITIES GROUP (CRAYS) COMMITTEEChairperson: M.R. Cole, Vice Chairman: J. Power, SECRETARY: N. Schutt, Treasurer: C.M. Tumeth, Registrar: R. Ingram, Lifesaving Co-Ordinator: S. RofeLIFESAVING COMMITTEE C.A. Barber, D.J. Easton, M.P. Banister, D.E. Brukmann, G.L. Burt, D. Carlton, J.M. Clark, D. Dalla-Camina, R.J. Dunn, R.I. Ford, S.D. Jackson, D.C. Karagiannis, M.F. Kennedy, J.L. Macpherson, A. Palamidis, S.A. Rofe, K.V. Rosebery, N. Rubbi, R.P. Short, S.M. Spencer, C. Villanti, R.E. Walker, R.A. Wood, P. WyerMASTERS TWILIGHT CARNIVAL COMMITTEED.E. Brukmann (Convenor), C.J. Elliott, D.S. Metti OPERATIONS COMMITTEE D.R. Ward (Convenor), J.W. Bentley, P.W. Hamilton, N.T. Johnstone, W.L. Lloyd, R.C. Pinker PHOTO AND TROPHY COMMITTEE J.H. Hollingdale (Convenor), K.E. English, R.W. Johnson, B.H. Maclachlan


PRESENTATION NIGHT COMMITTEE C.A. Barber (Convenor), R.M. Dalgarno, E. Larssen, J.A. Pinker, D.A. Short SHARK ISLAND SWIM COMMITTEE K.D. Day (Convenor), F.P. Doran, W. J. Druery, P.W. Hamilton, G.C. Hewett, K. Kemp, M. Kennedy, S.J. Mackay, S.A. O’Donnell, R.C. Pinker, R.P. Short, C.J. Stephenson, S.J. Williams SOCIAL COMMITTEE B.D. Turner (Convenor), K.D. Day, P.R. Larssen, G. Redrup, R. Wood, A. Vanderlouw (res. March 2018)WORLD TOUR COMMITTEE - RESCUE 2018(app.21Mar2017) R. I. Ford, K.J. Neilson, S.J. Neilson, S. Pocklington, J. Power

200 CLUB COMMITTEEC.R. Gough (Convenor), J.W. Bentley, P.E. Cavanagh, C.J. Elliott, P.W. Hamilton, K.J. Neilson, C. Villanti SLSS BOARD OF SURF SPORTS (BOSS) ACTIVE OFFICIALS G.A. Allum OAM, P.M. Allum, R.B. Bignold, G.J Bruce, P.E. Cavanagh, P.A. Cole, T. J. Cooper, W.J. Druery, I.A. Goode OAM, R.F. Hitchenson, G.G. Holland, C.J. Jordan, E. Larssen, D.S. Metti, S. F. Phillips, S. Scott, S.D Strawbridge, N.R Swane, C. Villanti, M.D. Vitnell, K. Walker, R. E. Walker, D.J. Wood, M.M. Hawkings

SLSS BOARD OF LIFESAVING (BOL) TRAINERS & ASSESSORS C.A. Barber, D.E. Brukmann, G. Carter, A.F. Coffey, B.N. Dalgarno, F. Elliott, K.E. Hammell, C. Jordan, J.J. Maclachlan, R. Sanchez, H. Sawyer, R.P. Short, S. Rofe, C. Villanti, R.E. Walker, D.J. Wood, B.G. Wild SUTHERLAND SHIRE COUNCILLORS Mayor: Cr Carmelo Pesce Deputy Mayor: Cr Peter Scaysbrook, Cr Carol Provan, Cr Michael Forshaw, Cr Marie Simone, Cr Barry Collier OAM, Cr Jack Boyd, Cr Kent Johns, Cr Daniel Nicholls, Cr Ray Plibersek, Cr Tom Croucher, Cr Diedree Steinwall, Cr Greg McLean, Cr John Riad, Cr Steve Simpson

LONG SERVICE AWARDS Our heartiest congratulations to those Members who qualified for SLSA Long Service Awards.Members who join the select group who have completed twenty-five years service membership of the Surf Life Saving Association are: Clare Walker Members who join the select group who have completed fifty years service membership of the Surf Life Saving Association are: Warren SawyerMembers who join the select group who have completed seventy-five years service membership of the Surf Life Saving Association are: Gordan Hogarth SURF LIFE SAVING ASSOCIATION Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club has continued its long tradition of involvement in the affairs of Surf Life Saving Sydney, Surf Life Saving New South Wales and Surf Life Saving Australia. During the 2017-2018 Season, the following members maintained our contribution on appointed Boards, Committees and administrative roles: INTERNATIONAL LIFE SAVING FEDERATION Greg Allum OAM: Sports Commission – Member Rescue 2018 ILS Management Committee - Member SURF LIFE SAVING AUSTRALIA Greg Allum OAM: National Sports Technical Adviser (Rules and Equipment) Surf Sports Advisory Committee – Member Australian Championships Event Management Committee – Technical Adviser Wayne Druery: Australian Open & Masters Championships Referee Carlo Villanti: Australian Youth Championships Sectional Referee - Beach Adam Weir: Chief Executive Officer (appt. June 2018)Chief Operating Officer (December 2017-June 2018)

SURF LIFE SAVING NEW SOUTH WALES Greg Allum OAM: Technical AdviserWayne Druery: Selection Committee - Member Adam Weir: Chief Operations Officer (res. December 2017) SURF LIFE SAVING SYDNEY Wayne Druery: Director, Surf Sports Committee Board of Management - Member, Selection Committee Carlo Villanti: Surf Sports - Competition Manager Ian Goode OAM: Surf Sport - Water Adviser Judiciary Panel - Member Life Membership Committee - Member Greg Allum OAM: Surf Sports - Craft Adviser Craig Hawkings: Surf Sports - Surfing Adviser Graham Bruce: Surf Sports Committee - Officials Adviser SYDNEY TEAM REPRESENTATIVES: SLSS: Ngaire Hadfield, Carla Papac, Sam StonestreetSLSS Surf Boats: Open Women Boat Crew - Ashley Wright, Rikki Orford, Alyse Wright, Garry Allman (sweep) U19 Men Boat Crew – Matthew Blinkhorn, Lewis Hannah, Lachlan Jones, Matthew Watson, Craig Hawkings (sweep). Craig Hawkings (Team Manager)NSW TEAM REPRESENTATIVES & DEVELOPMENT TEAM REPRESENTATIVES: Under 18 Pool Rescue Development Team: Nathan Ford, Philippa Emery SLSNSW State Youth Team: Ngaire Hadfield, Chloe Mannix-Power SLST State Team: Carla Papac (drafted)AUSTRALIAN DEVELOPMENT TEAM REPRESENTATIVES: Australian Life Saving Team High-Performance Squad: Ngaire Hadfield OTHER NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES: Australian Young Matildas Football Team Doctor: Dr. Brandi Cole Australian Masters Indoor Cricket Team 2017: John Adamson

LIFE MEMBERS SLSS Graham BruceKen English Geoff ForshawIan Goode OAMGus Staunton MBEGreg Allum OAM Richard Bignold

LIFE MEMBERS SLSNSW Greg Allum OAMRichard BignoldGraham BruceKen English Geoff ForshawIan Goode OAMKevin NeilsonGus Staunton MBE

LIFE MEMBERS SLSAGreg Allum OAMRichard BignoldGraham BruceIan Goode OAMGus Staunton MBE

ILS GRAND KNIGHTSGreg Allum OAMGus Staunton MBE


MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Front Row L to R: Michele Cole, Emma Larssen, Chris Barber, Geoff Forshaw, Richard Pinker, Daniel Wood, Chris Giles, Carole Larssen, Denise Rayner, Kevin NeilsonBack Row L to R: Bill Lloyd, Darryl Easton, Darryl Ward, Richard Ford, Kieran Day, Robert Johnson, John Bentley, Ross Diver-Tuck, Jamie Power, Robert P. Short, Brad Turner, Michael Banister, Richard Garnsey, Robert Walker, Daryn Metti, Paul LarssenAbsent: Wayne Druery, Chris Gough, Greg Holland, Neale Johnstone

2017/2018 Management Committee Meeting Attendance

Position Name HELD ATTENDED APOLOGY AbsentPatron Geoffrey Forshaw 12 9 3 President Richard Pinker 12 10 2 Vice President Daniel Wood 12 11 1 Hon. Secretary Emma Larssen 12 12 Hon. Treasurer Chris Giles 12 12 Club Captain Chris Barber 12 12 Vice Captain Darryl Easton 12 9 3 Ass Secretary/Treasurer Denise Rayner 12 12 Registrar Paul Larssen 12 8 4 Publicity Officer Vacant 12 IRB Captain Robert Walker 12 10 1 1House Captain Michael Banister (elec.28Aug17) 12 7 1 4Junior Captain Richard Ford (elec.18Sep17) 12 4 1 Social Organiser Brad Turner 12 9 1 2Senior Vice President Kieran Day 12 12 Senior Vice President Wayne Druery 12 1 5 6Senior Vice President Robert Johnson 12 11 1Senior Vice President Rob Short 12 10 2 Senior Vice President Darryl Ward 12 11 1 Committee Person Michael Banister 12 7 1 4Committee Person Ross Diver-Tuck 12 11 1 Committee Person Carole Larssen 12 8 4 Committee Person Bill Lloyd 12 7 3 2Committee Person Daryn Metti 12 9 3 JAG Chairperson Michele Cole 12 11 1 JAG Executive on Committee Jamie Power 12 6 6 Life Member on Committee Richard Garnsey 12 2 7 3Life Member on Committee Chris Gough 12 10 2 Life Member on Committee Greg Holland 12 5 6 1Life Member on Committee Neale Johnstone 12 7 5Life Member on Committee Kevin Neilson (elec.28Aug17) 12 8 3 1

VISITORVice Patron John Bentley 6 2 Boat Coach Craig Hawkings 1 Life Member Phill Hamilton 2 Life Member Ken English 2 Life Member Ian Goode 2 Active Member Carlo Villanti 2 Long Service Member Brent Trotter 1 Life Member Ray Hitchenson 1


PATRONS MESSAGE“No lives lost while on patrol” is again a great achievement by our active members.

Forty-three Members gained 100% attendance, with Nathan Wild gaining 100% for the tenth year in a row.

Club Vice Captain Darryl Easton, who organises our patrols, has justifiably been award Most Inspirational Member of the year.

Scott Rofe and his team of trainers have again put in many hours training members for their various awards.

President Richard Pinker and his management are to be congratulated on the running of the Club over the past year.

Under Chairperson Michele Cole the Crays numbers have continued to increase providing a great nursery for our future lifesavers.

Congratulations to our competitors and coaches on their achievements throughout the season, they did the “sky blue, black and white” proud.

Due mainly to the efforts of Darryl and Wendy Ward the camaraderie around the club on a Sunday has been great.

Congratulations to club member Adam Weir on his appointment as Chief Executive Officer of Surf Life Saving Australia.

The coming season without a club house will present its challenges and I urge members to be patient.

Rob Short and his committee are working to make the club function as smooth as possible during the rebuilding period.

Geoff Forshaw - Patron

Geoff Forshaw - Patron

Nathan Wild obtained 10 Years of 100% patrol this season, with his father Bryan Wild now up to 14 Years.


PRESIDENT’S REPORTThis first year as President of Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club has passed extremely quickly and that was largely due to the final preparations for the commencement of the building project. In just a few short months the tender documentation was prepared by our architects Redshift Architecture & Art, after a selection process The Project Studio was appointed as our project managers, we successfully applied for and received a grant of $350,000 towards the project from the NSW Government Surf Club Facility Program, discussions were held with the Commonwealth Bank and we negotiated a finance facility of $1.5M to fund the project, a tender for the construction of the building was conducted with Momentum Built Pty Ltd being the successful tenderer, arrangements had to be made to vacate our building and relocate a temporary office at Hungry Point, negotiations were held with Sutherland Shire Council regarding our lease renewal and that was on top of conducting our normal patrol, competition and nipper activities. This was achieved with the assistance of many members and I thank everyone for their assistance in making the building project a reality.

Firstly, I would like to acknowledge all of the members who volunteered their time to keep our beach and surrounds safe. Our patrols did this in an efficient and professional manner and this occurred due to the diligence of our Club Captain Chris Barber, Vice-Captain Darryl Easton and all of our Patrol Captains. It goes without saying that the training and education that our members receive is responsible for the skills that they possess, this is a monumental but important task so many thanks to our Chief Instructor Scott Rofe and all the trainers who assisted in educating our members. Without your dedication our core activity of lifesaving would be hard to achieve. Apart from the many rescues and preventative actions performed this year two incidents emphasised the importance of this training, they were:-

• Patrol 2 in attending to a patron of Zimzala who was unconscious and suffering multiple seizures. This event occurred in the middle of a busy restaurant which meant that the patrol had to deal with the confusion of the diners in addition to attending to the patient. I received emails commending the actions of this patrol from both the lifeguards and paramedics in attendance. I would like to mention a paragraph from the email received from the paramedics – “your patrol were well prepared, professional and courteous and provided an excellent handover of the patient. They made good notes and provided me with a succinct and accurate timeline of events. They also took great care of the patient’s wife; reassuring her and making sure her needs were well taken care of”.

• Then there was the solo rescue made at 7:30pm last December by Darcy Macpherson who without any other assistance rescued a swimmer in difficulty in hazardous conditions. There is no question that Darcy saved that gentleman’s life that evening.

Well done to everyone who has kept our beach safe.

In the competition arena the many hours put in by our coaches is showing dividends. Whilst we still have some way to go with our young team the improvement is clearly apparent and importantly the attitude and camaraderie amongst the members evident. Our Cronulla short course carnival is proving to be immensely popular and competitor numbers increased significantly this season. The Club’s Sunday Surf races have been re-energised with a large number of members across all sections participating each

week in the handicap format. This has been pleasing to see and the Club spirit is clearly evident at these races every week, but like most things it does not occur without someone(s) putting in hours of work behind the scenes, thank you Darryl and Wendy Ward, your efforts are appreciated. Apart from the Sunday surf races Darryl has also for many years been the Clubs point of contact with our commercial tenants which is another demanding role.

Throughout this Annual Report there are the reports of the various sub-committees that make our Club great, they provide the operational and financial platform for our existence and I know that they are working diligently to overcome the operational difficulties while our building renovations occur, yet at the same time they are planning for moving back in when construction is complete. I must mention, congratulate and thank one particular member who this year has announced that they are not seeking re-election. That is Vice Patron and Life Member John Hollingdale. John has given outstanding service for twenty nine years on the Photo and Trophy Committee and was the Convenor for twenty six of those years. What a fantastic contribution to the Club. John has also for many years provided his wisdom to other committees and the Club is in a much better space thanks to John’s contributions. Thanks Holly.

The next season will involve some operational hurdles but I am certain that with the patience and co-operation of members that the time will pass as quickly as the last season did. Our operational plans are mostly completed but it is an ongoing process and they will change as situations arise. The Club has never previously had to deal with such a comprehensive building process interrupting our activities so there will be challenges ahead but we will keep members informed as the project evolves. Twelve months ago I said at the AGM that management would have to make some hard decisions in our budgeting to ensure that the building project was financially responsible and to not leave future generations with a debt that might be difficult to manage. The management committee has acted responsibly in this regard and our financial position is sound, thank you to all committee members for being financially responsible and having a view to the future not just the present. Our future generations will benefit from this.

Richard Pinker


Being my first year as President I wish to thank the members for their acceptance of me and also my fellow Bate Bay Presidents, Geoff Budd, Peter Carney and Mark Sargeant for their assistance and guidance throughout the year, I look forward to working with you again next season. To identify all of the individuals and committees that have made this year a success in this report would make for a long list so I would ask that you read this annual report comprehensively and to everyone that has contributed to the Club’s operations I say thank you. There are, however, two groups that I would like to especially acknowledge:-

• To our office staff of Jenny Pinker, Robyn Cole and Kathy Ford, thank you for everything you do. I am sure that every member who has been to our office can see the tremendous workload you deal with daily and your diligence makes every committee’s job much easier. You will never see any of these staff taking a break and they do many hours of volunteer work at home, they are not asked to they just do it to make sure everything happens when it needs to.

• To my fellow Executive members Daniel Wood, Emma Larssen, Chris Giles and Chris Barber, thanks team. It has been a pleasure working with you, everyone has contributed as a team to make a successful year. The Club has been successful financially, administratively, in lifesaving and education, in competition and in seeing the building project commence, and all of you have played a large part in those successes. On a personal level I particularly thank you all for the extra effort you made since February this year when I succumbed to a serious illness, you worked together as a good team does, at a point in time when some very important decisions needed to be made, possibly the most important decisions in the Club’s history. I was not available to assist but I had complete faith that the Club was in good hands, you proved me right and I was able to concentrate on my recovery. I am extremely pleased that you have all chosen to remain part of the Executive during a very important period ahead.

I could write much more on the year that was but I will leave it there. I anticipate an extremely exciting year ahead and also being able to see you everyone back on the beach.

Richard Pinker - President

Richard Pinker with Mark Speakman SC MP, Stuart Ayres MP and David Borg from Momentum Built.

Rob Short, Emma Larssen, Richard Pinker, Marcus Kennedy, Greg Holland - signing off from Patrol and “closing the doors” on the last day of patrols, and of the Club House


SECRETARY’S REPORTWelcome to the 111thAnnual Report for the 2017/18 season, the season that will most likely be known as the one of great changes. It has been a long and hard road to get here and it will be challenging for the season ahead, but the results we are all looking forward to when the new Club House is built will be well worth the wait.

I won’t say too much more about the Building Development as that is covered elsewhere in this report, but to all the members who have put in countless hours of their time to get us to this stage, I say thank you.

The Annual Report aims to capture and reflect the many milestones accomplished throughout the season by our members including, patrolling our beaches to ensure no lives lost, competing under the sky blue, black and white, developing our future generations, educating our members, supporting various social engagements and the overall functioning of the Club.

There were several faces welcomed back onto the Management Committee this season, in particular the President Richard Pinker, Treasurer Chris Giles and of course Denise Rayner in the position of Assistant Secretary/Treasurer. For me personally, it was great to see Denise back on Committee and I thank her for all her help this year in keeping the Management Meeting minutes and supporting me in my role as Secretary. Her presence has also increased the number of female representatives on Committee.

It has once again been a successful year for Cronulla SLSC. Successful for many reasons but most importantly, being able to report that no lives were lost whilst on patrol this season, the primary reason of our function. A great effort by the Lifesaving Committee and indeed, by all patrolling members. The season also saw another patrol member join the ranks of 10-years of 100% Patrols. Congratulations Nathan Wild on reaching this outstanding achievement! Nathan is now chasing down his father, Bryan Wild, who has just clocked up an astonishing 14-years of 100% Patrols! Fantastic effort!

The Club also saw individual successes rewarded earlier in the year with Wayne Druery being awarded SLSNSW Volunteer of the Year for the 2016/17 season and Rob Short being recognised with a Cook Community Award for his

contribution and service to the community. This rounded out the events that celebrated 10 Years of the Cook Community Classic and saw the event raise over $1 million dollars for local charities during this time. The Crays came out on top in the Nipper events on the day, showing us what was to come for the season ahead.

The annual Cronulla Short Course Carnival was well attended and the Shark Island Swim was held earlier than usual but finally ‘got a start’ with some great weather. It is always encouraging to see the Club come together when we host events and these two fixtures on the calendar really show how well our members manage to create magic and get things done when the need arises.

Cronulla SLSC played host to a number of visitors, once again including Japan Lifesaving Association. Representatives from JLA came out this year in particular to learn about how we run our Nipper programs each week. It has been great to see this relationship between our clubs develop over the years and I thank the Club for their continued support in this regard. I also thank Michele Cole and the Wood family for their time and assistance. We also saw a group of students from the Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange Program (AIYEP) drop in for a fun and educational day at the beach. Many of these students had never been out of Indonesia, so it was a good

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opportunity to teach them about surf safety and the beach before they started their three-month learning experience in Australia. After spending such a long time in Indonesia I was thrilled to see these young adults enjoying an Aussie beach experience for the first time. For some of them it was their first beach experience ever! How lucky that it could be spent at Cronulla. Once again, thank you to the Club and thank you to Wayan Eka Diana for his valuable language skills during this event too.

On the competition front we were represented at various events throughout the year starting with the SLSNSW Board Riding Championships during the off-season, followed by the Coolangatta Gold, Ocean 6 Series, ASRL, and various local carnivals through to Branch, State and Aussies. There were many outstanding results, which are captured elsewhere in this report and covered in the various sectional reports, but it was great to note the many placings achieved across the Belt Race events – something Cronulla SLSC have been well known for. We had members selected on representative teams including the SLSNSW U18 Pool Rescue Development Squad tour to New Zealand, SLS Sydney Branch Team, and the SLSNSW Interstate Team that completed in South Australia. Congratulations to all members selected on these teams. Special mention must go to Ngaire Hadfield who was again named on the Australian Life Saving Team High-Performance Squad for her fantastic results on the beach.

Socially the Club came to life making use of the C.O.J. Monro Memorial Room, the Tony Purcell Memorial Room and the Bill Marshall OAM Ballroom for the last time. Weekly events got bigger and better as the season progressed, and it was great to see members across all areas coming together to support a range of events or just catch up overlooking arguably one of the best outlooks in the world. On top of our Friday Night Bar and Sunday social, there was a Comedy Night, Cook Community Classic, Cronulla Carnival, 200 Club, Grind “Garry

Allman” Boat Launch, Australia Day celebrations, Shark Island Swim, Life Members Dinner, Golf Day and of course the final day celebrations for the end of season and closing of the club house. The camaraderie and friendship shared off the beach is warming to see and makes this club extraordinary.

To Jenny and Robyn, and Kathy, who is now very much part of the furniture, words will never be enough to thank you for the amazing work you do for all our members. You have had a tough year having to say goodbye to that beautiful view from the office window and physically move out, but it seems you have settled into your new home at Hungry Point nicely. It will be an interesting season ahead but I’m sure we will make it work. I’m excited to see what your new ‘digs’ will look like when the building is completed. Thank you personally for your support this season, particularly in making sure that all reports are prepared every month for Management meetings.

Thank you to the members of the Executive and the Management Committee and to all the convenors and members of sub-committees. The countless hours you put in to help your club function to make it a great club for its members must be very rewarding. To those members stepping down, your time in various roles has been recorded and does not go unnoticed. And, for anyone thinking of taking on a role within the Club, just do it! This Club has such a vast knowledge amongst its pool of members and is full of mentors happy to help and give guidance if needed, to those interested in participating in these learning and rewarding experiences. I take this opportunity to encourage you to do so.

I am looking forward to the coming season and am very excited in knowing that what unfolds in the future will create many more memories to add to my life’s experiences.

Emma Larssen - Hon. Secretary, Cronulla SLSC


CLUB CAPTAIN’S REPORTYet another successful year from a lifesaving and competition perspective and I cannot express how much enjoyment I get out of being involved with these two major areas of the club, seeing the families and members smiling faces whether it being patrolling the beach, training or competing. The friendships and team comradery on our beach, at carnivals and club functions is one of our measurements of success. We are a club that unites and supports each other as a community, which was continually demonstrated throughout the season with working bee’s, gear inspection, club functions, and fundraisers.

Next season will be challenging but exciting with the major refurbishment of our clubhouse and our temporary operation. Embrace this positive change and think about how fantastic our new clubhouse will be along with building on our club culture.

Thanks go out to so many great people that volunteer their time to make this club tick. I’d like to especially thank my Vice Captain, Darryl Easton, for his support, many hours of hard work and passion undertaking his role.

Special thanks goes the Life Saving Committee including all our Patrol Captains, Vice Captains, IRB Drivers and crew, IRB Captain Max Walker, Gear Steward Rob Short, Radio Officer Rodney Dunn, First Aid Coordinator David Dalla-Camina and our Chief Instructor Scott Rofe with the support of his trainers for their commitment, diligence, expertise and support. Congratulations to our patrol members who gained 100% attendance, an extraordinarily high number of 43 members, including 2 outstanding attendance patrolling members. Winning Patrol was No. 6 for the second consecutive year led by Nick Rubbi who unfortunately will be stepping down this year. A special congratulations goes to Paul Peters as our Patrol Person of the Year. To demonstrate how competitive some of our major awards are to win, there were 11 persons nominated in a strong field who all participated in the interview process including Amie Dunlop, Darcy Macpherson, Craig Jordan, Katrina Jones, Paul Peters, Greg Cooper, Glenn McLachlan, Bryan Wild, Richard Hedley, Rodd Sanchez, and David Dalla-Camina.

I cannot tell you how many worthy nominations we received for the major awards and how difficult it was to decide the winner of these awards given the standards were so high. Some of the star studded people included - Most Inspirational Member to our very own Vice Captain Darryl Easton, Tony Purcell Memorial Trophy went to Harry Came who excelled this year, Gibson Howlin Lawyers Award for the member his/her efforts in enhancing the reputation and standing of the club went to Darryl Ward who along with the Sunday surf races continues to inspire, Kieran Day who you’ll agree just continually gets involved won the fundraising award, to our quiet achiever Michael Roye for his efforts in the instruction and or training of club members, and then our Most Improved Member Nathan Schutt who did so many all-round roles including over 100 additional patrolling hours on the RWC (jet ski).

I sometimes sit at home on a weekend and never need to be concerned about how or whether patrols are being run because of our reliable, professional and highly experienced captains. I can relax knowing that everything will be in order and functioning effectively as they lead their teams. Our beaches are kept safe because of our patrolling member’s involvement, expertise, dedication, professionalism, and volunteering of your time which we thank you on behalf

of the club and the community. Our patrols continue to be extremely strong and probably what I consider to be the strongest in Bate Bay. Regrettably, one of our highly esteemed Patrol Captains, Jonathan Clark resigned due to making a warmer sea change move to Queensland. Jonathan has been a great leader and a major asset to the club and we wish them all the best. Thank you also to our water safety volunteers, an area which I’m very passionate about as they often get overlooked. Carnivals cannot proceed without our club providing water safety and officials. If Cronulla doesn’t provide these vital resources, our club can be denied the opportunity to compete on that day. Again thank you for your tireless efforts and like me, I know you all enjoy getting involved and doing your bit to ensure our great club and your kids compete.

On behalf of the Lifesaving Committee and the Club Executive, we’d like to thank every patrolling member for their dedication, commitment and support throughout the 2017/18 season. Your commitment ensured Cronulla remained a safe beach throughout the season and resulted in no lives lost. We are extremely lucky to have such highly experienced Patrol Captains, Vice Captains, IRB Drivers/crew and patrolling members on our great beach.

The lifesaving training function is a major role in the club. Thanks to the leadership of Chief Training Officer Scott Rofe, we excelled in the number and type of educational awards achieved including recognition by Sydney Branch. We have great trainers in our club including David Brukmann, thanks for his exhaustive efforts in taking several of the bronze and SRC courses with Scott Rofe and our other trainers (Scott Phillips, Brian Dalgarno, Rodd Sanchez, Tony Coffey). Hayden Sawyer expressed a keen interest to really ramping up his IRB training efforts with the support of Max Walker, which really put us in good stead in this area. I heard this quote at a SLS forum this year, which is so true – everyone who assists with training and mentoring our lifesavers and competitors act as trainers and coaches in some way. This example extends to our nipper age group leaders who coach, train and mentor our 620 plus future nippers/lifesavers. Like the rest of the club, training and coaching whether in the water or in a classroom never stops and continues all year round.

The Coaching and Competition section steered us in a positive direction, thanks to everyone who was involved. Our key leaders in this area were again Kevin Neilson supported by Richard Ford and Mark Redrup. Thank you to our team managers that supported our State and Aussie Championships being Michele Cole and Richard Ford. I’d

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like to recognise Rachael Dawson for her behind the scene work who in conjunction with the office ladies managed the carnival entries and logistics. I always enjoy watching the boaties in action along with the beach and water sections, the comradery and friendship along with competition is just amazing. A tough year for the boaties this season with some unlucky results unfortunately but I’m sure next year will be the year of the boaties. Our coaching structure again was very strong with thanks to Hayden Allum, super beach coach Mark Redrup, Guy Telfer, Stuart Braine, Mick Roye, Alex Fleming, Daniel Neilson, Gary Allman, and Craig Hawkings. Next year we’ll build on our successes and intend building an even stronger coaching structure.

Some of our exceptional events throughout the season included:

The 4th annual IRB Gala Night proceeded in less than favourable conditions and still drew a large crew of IRB Drivers and Crewpersons (18 persons) having fun and a crack. Thanks to Max Walker as the gala starter and referee and all the competitors, members and friends who turned up to support from the ‘Tony Purcell’ balcony. Thanks to Nathan Robinson for the cooking the BBQ. Awards / prizes went to Katrina Jones (best crewie and best effort), Phoebe La Coste and Cody Gaddes as the best new young gun drivers for their involvement.

Garie Voluntary Weekend – Unfortunately the Nipper Garie weekend didn’t proceed this year due to accommodation issues at Garie but rest assured this event will proceed next year. However the senior club proceeded with the Garie pilgrimage to hold a patrolling weekend to support their club. Always a great experience and we hope more members will get involved in this great social and community opportunity, supporting Garie SLSC next year.

Cronulla Short Course Carnival and Cook Classic Support - The entire club fully committed to the success of the Carnival. Particular acknowledgement is made of the excellent work of the Auxiliary, Office, Executive, Crays, officials, water safety, patrol, first aid, IRB, and workforce. The Crays and the Senior Club worked seamlessly together as one Club to deliver a magnificent event. We were honoured to have several senior officials including Wayne Druery, Carlo Villanti, Kieran Day and Wayne Pierce. A major highlight, if you want to call it that, was the shark sighting by Marcus Kennedy and Graham Burt in the IRB and the rescuing of a nipper and others in the vicinity. Overall a good outcome for an important delay of the carnival ensuring competitor safety. Once again Greg Allum, the carnival was a credit to you as a born organiser. The next day the club then backed up with the Cook Classic too.

SLSNSW State Championships at Blacksmiths Beach, Swansea Belmont - Great “one club” result from our age (nippers), masters and open. Nippers finished 5th overall, Masters 17th overall (from 53 clubs) and Opens finishing in 6th place overall. Look out next year. Six boatie crews participated in challenging and dangerous conditions which provided very good spectating but unlucky results. Beachies held their heads up high with even more improved results and some of the water areas bringing home plenty of points, forecasting a good transition from these age groups to Opens, which is crucial to the future success of the club. Another strong improvement for the nippers with a strong contingency of 116 nippers entered, including R&R and March Past and very much in the running to climb up the point score ladder. The goal to beat last season’s 90 points to just over 100 was achieved.

Australian SLS Championships all the way across at Perth - Great team representation with over 70 competitors and

many spectators and supporters making the pilgrimage to WA. Great final results with gold medals being won by U/14 Male Beach Flags - Sasha Popovic, U/17 Female Beach Sprint - Chloe Mannix-Power , 30-34yrs Female Beach Flags and Beach Sprint - Nicole Jones and 40-44yrs Male Beach Flags - David Haggart. Silver medals went to Harry Came, Lachlan Vitnell, Ngaire Hadfield. Bronze medals to Tim Ford, Ngaire Hadfield and Harry Came. Followed by 5 team (including an Open Boat Mixed Relay team) / 1 individual 4th place positions, 4 individual 5th place positions, and 2 individual and 1 team 6th place positions. Great support and cheering all around with the wateries supporting the beachies when they weren’t competing. Forecast poor weather for the Sunday compressed the timetable leading to an action packed final fever Saturday.

The community spirit of the club was continually demonstrated throughout the year at every event, with the major fundraising events for Richard (Bluey) Garnsey also supported by the Bate Bay clubs including the Swim-a-Thon. What an amazing end to the season with the closing of the club doors event was huge on the same day as the lowering of the flags ceremony. The next week the major renovation of the club began with the construction fencing being erected the next day. Leading up the renovation, well organised working bees were arranged and again well supported. These examples again demonstrate the community and unified spirit of our club. Without the exhaustive efforts of the Building Committee with again years of endless hours, none of this would have ever eventuated so we owe our thanks to these members. Anyone who’s ever attempted to gain these type of approvals will attest to their hard work and perseverance. The next 12 to 15 months we know will be very exciting and not to overlook will be challenging as we enter the next season. An operational plan will be provided as we develop our temporary patrol operations, office facilities, club activities and other contingencies.

To Jenny, Robyn and Kathy in the office, a big thank you for your expertise, advice and assistance over the season and also my fellow Executive members Richard Pinker, Emma Larssen, Daniel Wood and Chris Giles. Lastly and most importantly, without the support of our partners and this note is dedicated to my wife Julie for her support, I couldn’t have committed fully to this role.

Chris Barber – Club Captain


CLUB VICE-CAPTAIN’S REPORT Fellow Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club members,

My third season as Vice-Captain, and things are chugging along nicely. We have had a great season, with good patrol attendance, lots of 100% awards, a strong patrol competition, and most importantly, great lifesaving and no lives lost.

The monthly Life Saving Committee meetings have been extremely positive. We generally start each meeting sharing patrolling moments from the month, so the patrol captains can learn from each other’s experiences. This is the best forum for information to make it’s way to the wider Life Saving Community of the club, so I encourage all Patrolling Members to ask their Patrol Captains what is happening.

Patrols teams and structure were pretty stable from the prior season, giving us a chance to solidify the strong base that we have built. There will be some small changes next season, with a couple of long standing patrol captains stepping aside and new captains stepping up.

The patrol competition was hotly contested this year. We had good participation in all areas; new awards, competition days, Lifesaving Awards, Patrol Leadership, and patrolling members competing in Sunday races 563 times.

After chasing the patrol competition for years, and winning last year, Patrol 6 Captained by Nick Rubbi, took out the Patrol Competition for the season by a good margin, placing in the top 3 across all competition criteria. Congratulations to Patrol 6, and Nick.

This season 43 members earned the 100% Award and 2 members the Outstanding Patrol Attendance Award (100% less one with a substitute). Cronulla has always held the 100% Award in very high regard, and sets an equally high criteria to achieve the award. Thank you to all the 100% Award and OPAA recipients for your service over the year, and congratulations on your achievement.

Finally to our Patrol Person of the year. This award was decided by a process of nominations from each Patrol Captain, the Club Captain, and myself as Vice-Captain. 11 candidates were interviewed by the Club Captain and last years’ winner, Daryn Metti (I was unavailable). Chris and Daryn reported that it was very difficult to split the candidates, but the eventual winner was Paul Peters from Patrol 9.

This patrol season was typically busy on our beach. We provided over 11,200 total patrol hours and 9250 rostered patrol hours, to keep a recorded 77,056 people safe. We recorded 163 first aid instances, including 3 where the victim

required ambulance transport. We helped 6 lost parents. We rescued 62 people whose day at the beach could have ended tragically if not for our intervention. Most importantly, we recorded 692 instances where we intervened before someone got themselves into serious danger.

As a Life Saving Committee, our big push is to drive the number of people patrolling to the roster. This season Rostered Hours attendance was a little over 60%. That means to be confident we can get a target 10 members to a rostered patrol, we need 20 in the Patrol Team. If we can increase rostered attendance, we can reduce patrol sizes, increase the total number of patrols, and therefore reduce the number of patrol days we are each rostered for. This will continue to be a focus for next season as we work with all sections of the club to improve out Life Saving activities, and we hope you will support us and each other by doing your best to patrol to the roster.

Thanks must go to all of our Life Saving Committee, Patrol Captains, Vice captains and IRB crews, a special thanks to Chris Barber (Club Captain), Robert ‘Max’ Walker (IRB Captain) and Scott Rofe (Chief Training Officer) and his team of trainers for all your support and hard work once again this last season.

It is with some sadness that we farewell Nick Rubbi as a Patrol Captain, although not as a patrolling member, and Jonathan Clark as a Patrol Captain and from the club. Nick has been Patrol Captain for 9 years, and is going out on a high as the captain of the winning patrol for the last 2 years. Jonathan Clark moved to the Sunshine Coast where he will undoubtedly find his place with another club. Johnathan did a stellar job as Patrol Captain, bring the organisational skills from his professional life to Surf Lifesaving, and managing his team with great skill. Thank you to Nick and Jonathan for your great service at Cronulla.

Finally to our Patrolling Members. Thank you all for your service over the season, and willingness to trial the changes that the Life Saving Committee introduced for the season. Without your contributions, our club would not be able to meet our obligations to our stakeholders, and most importantly, keep the public safe from harm. I hope that you will return next season to continue our life saving service and maintain our club’s high standards of Life Saving.

Yours in Life Saving,

Darryl Easton - Club Vice-Captain

Darryl Easton - Vice Captain


100% ATTENDANCE AWARD100% Patrol Attendance CONSECUTIVE YEARS 100%

Judy Alexander 3Chris Barber 13

David Brukmann 1Graham Burt 1

Chris Chambers 1Gregory Cooper 1

Max Cooper 1Samara Cooper 1Tania Cooper 1

James Crompton 1Zoe Duchet-Catherine 1

Bradley Dunn 3Rodney Dunn 2Stewart Dunn 4Darryl Easton 4

Rachel Gaddes 1Kerrie Hammell 2Kate Hawkings 3Katrina Jones 2

Marcus Kennedy 3Jarod Lackey 2

Darcy Macpherson 3Jeremy Macpherson 5

Glenn McLachlan 1Daryn Metti 2

Mitchell Pountney 2Genevieve Reiprich 1

Eric Roe 1Wojciech Rogulski 1Kenneth Rosebery 1Catherine Rubbi 3

Nick Rubbi 9Bob Sagar 1

Robert Short 1Maj Sibai 2

Bronessa Smith 1Nina Tetzlaff 1

Jennifer Trevillion 5Malaika Walker 1

Maximillian Walker 1Bryan Wild 14

Nathan Wild 10

KEY SEASON 2017-18 LIFESAVING STATISTICS Rescue Types ReportedNo Gear 33Rescue Tube 6Rescue Board 15IRB 8Total 62Live Lost NIL Beach Attendance ReportedSwimmers 22073Craft 3028On Beach 51955Total 77056 First Aid Type Performed ReportedFractures/Dislocation 1Major Marine Stings 6Major Wounds 3Minor Cuts/Abrasions 67Minor Marine Stings 81Other 5Total First Aid 163Incidents Requiring Ambulance 3 Preventative Actions Type ReportedLost Children 6Preventions 681Searches 2Shark Alarm 2Total Preventative Actions 691 Weather ReportedFine 71Overcast 33Partly Cloudy 0Raining 4Total 108

SEASON 2017/2018 PATROL COMPETITION RESULTS

Patrol TeamFirst Aid -

Resus Surf SportsAverage Patrol

HoursAverage 100%

AwardAwards Gained

Meeting Attendance

Sunday Surf Races Points Placing

Patrol 6 11 11 11 12 11 12 10 78 1Patrol 8 11 8 12 5 9 12 12 69 2

Patrol 12 0 5 10 10 12 12 7 56 3Patrol 3 6 0 8 9 10 12 8 53 4

Patrol 11 5 10 7 11 1 6 11 51 5Patrol 4 8 4 6 8 6 12 4 48 6

Patrol 10 7 7 4 7 8 6 9 48 6Patrol 5 12 9 2 3 4 6 6 42 8Patrol 9 9 12 5 1 7 2 5 41 9Patrol 1 0 6 1 6 3 12 2 30 10Patrol 2 0 0 9 2 5 3 3 22 11Patrol 7 0 0 3 4 2 2 1 12 12

PATROL COMPETITION WINNER: PATROL 6 Darren ColquhounJoanne WynnChris ChambersKenneth AndersonZac BrooksJackie BryantCatherine RubbiMalaika Walker

Isabella TurnerGeorgia TurnerElliana PracyNick Rubbi (C)Kerrie HammellGenevieve ReiprichJanine PatonEric Roe

Tegan AnthonyElla LythallMark HardickGlenn McLachlanMaj SibaiWalter Weterings


Lifesaving Committee Meetings 2017/2018 SEASON POSITION NAME POSSIBLE ATTEND APOLOGY ABSENTClub Captain Chris Barber 8 7 1 Vice Captain Darryl Easton 8 7 1Asst Sec/Treasurer Denise Rayner 8 8 IRB Captain Robert Walker 8 7 IRB Vice Captain Graham Burt 8 4 4Junior Captain Richard Ford 8 8Chief Instructor Scott Rofe 8 6 2Beach Captain Daniel Karagiannis 8 8Board Captain Michael Banister 8 8Ski Captain Angelo Palamidis 8 8Surf Boat Captain Brent Trotter/Ryan Wood 8 8Swimming Captain Richard Ford 8 8Radio Officer Rodney Dunn 8 8 Chief Gear Steward Rob Short 8 4 1 3First Aid Officer David Dalla-Camina 8 7 1Cadet Captain vacant 8 No. 1 Patrol Captain Peter Wyer 8 7 1Sub Tony Greenwood 1 No. 2 Patrol Captain Jonathan Clark 8 5 3Sub Peter Fynn 1 No. 3 Patrol Captain Chris Barber 8 7 1 No. 4 Patrol Captain Stuart Spencer 8 1 7Sub Bob Sagar/Darryl Easton 4 No. 5 Patrol Captain Marcus Kennedy 8 6 1 1Sub Emma Larssen 1 No. 6 Patrol Captain Nick Rubbi 8 8 No. 7 Patrol Captain Ken Roseberry 8 4 4No. 8 Patrol Captain David Brukmann 8 3 5 Sub David Dalla-Camina 5 No. 9 Patrol Captain Damien Carlton 8 4 2 2No. 10 Patrol Captain Jeremy Macpherson 8 2 5 1Sub Annette Tasker/Hoani Tangahou/

Darcy Macpherson 5

No. 11 Patrol Captain Carlo Villanti 8 7 1No. 12 Patrol Captain Scott Jackson 8 5 3 Sub Rob Short/Rodney Dunn 3

LIFESAVING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Front: Chris Barber, Damien Carlton, Rodney DunnBack: David Brukmann, Robert Walker, Nick Rubbi


WINNING PATROL – PATROL 6

Front: Darren Colquhoun, Maj Sabai, Chris Chambers, Nick Rubbi (C)Middle: Mark Hardick, Janine Paton, Cathy Rubbi, Kerrie Hammell, Eric RoeBack: Malaika Walker, Ken Anderson, Elliana Pracy, Isabella Turner, Genevieve Reiprich

100% PATROL WINNERS

Front: Darcy Macpherson, Maj Sabai, Katrina Jones, Malaika Walker, Genevieve Reiprich, Elliana Pracy, Isabella Turner, Chris Chambers, Nick Rubbi Middle: Greg Cooper, Samara Cooper, Max Cooper, Tanya Cooper, Rodney Dunn, Stewart Dunn, Judy Alexander, Cathy Rubbi, Kerrie Hammell, Eric RoeBack: Max Walker, Chris Barber, Zoe Duchet-Catherine, Graham Burt, Nina Tetzlaff, David Brukmann, Bradley Dunn, Jenni Trevillion, Bob Sagar


CHIEF INSTRUCTOR REPORTFriends, I have the pleasure in presenting the Education Report for 2017-18 season. Lifesaving education is the gateway to our great club and this past season we have excelled in producing new lifesavers, upgrading lifesaving skills and a general improvement in knowledge of our members. No lives lost starts with good education and the Cronulla education team has provided the necessary skills and knowledge The impact our lifesaving trainers have on our membership is vast and ensures compliance with our patrolling obligations. These very special members volunteer and dedicate much of the season attending to their own re-endorsement processes, including attending planning meetings, branch upgrade courses, proficiency and new skill development, just to mention a few. This is all before we even start training lifesaving squads. Many volunteer hours are spent in preparation so that our lifesavers meet our patrolling obligations. So, who are our trainers:Scott RofeDavid BrukmannBrian DalgarnoRodd Sanchez Robert (Max) WalkerCarlo VillantiHayden SawyerTony CoffeyChris BarberGeorgia CarterRob ShortAt the September 2017 Lifesaving Committee Meeting it was accepted that the club would make several changes to its proficiency and skills maintenance process by adopting the SLSNSW Proficiency Delegated Authority guidelines. This change allowed the club to appoint our patrol captains as Delegated Authority Members. The patrol captains oversaw the physical side of the proficiency, which included the Run Swim Run, Board and Tube rescues, water and beach carries and Intra- team communications. The trainers were on hand

for every patrol from the 23rd of September to 11 November to assist in the process. Upon completion of the physical components every patrol member attending CPR, Oxygen, First Aid, Radio Communication, Spinal management, IRB Drivers/Crew and general knowledge training to complete the skills maintenance proficiency process. Of the 325 patrolling members 281 had completed their proficiency by 11 November 2017. A further 16 proficiency dates captured the remaining club members.Total Proficiencies for 2017/18.59 SRC375 Bronze / Certificate II Aquatic Rescue & Public Safety38 ARTC-Aid24 Spinal Management68 IRB Drivers105 IRB CrewNew awards and up-skilling our members is a key goal and to achieve this the training team meet to develop a training plan for the season ahead. Of particular importance was to incorporate club lifesaving training to include the Crays membership. To do this we needed assistance of the club committee, Crays committee and a number of our trainers. Strategically the training team felt we could better deliver ongoing support and improvements with lifesaving education by starting with the eligible nipper membership and we completed 33 SRC awards by 2 October 2017. Thanks to Carlo Villanti, Brian Dalgarno and David Brukmann for their work in this area.Whilst still with the Crays our trainers assisted with 67 Age Managers awards and the delivery of 463 Junior Surf Education awards. This would not have been possible without the direct involvement of the age managers and the Crays Executive. Furthermore we held two lifesaving education days for the Crays where various members of the club volunteered to demonstrate different aspects of lifesaving. Trainers and patrol members presented and offered demonstrations in IRB and RWC, CPR, First Aid, board and tube skills and patient assessment and care. This great achievement would not have been possible without a special mention going to Michele Cole,

U14 SRC group

SLSA AWARDSSURF RESCUE CERTIFICATE - SRC Brett BothmaJake CavanaghKayla GarciaDemie HawkesTaliyah McCarthyMichele ColeAnnabella KalabricAshleigh PorterRiley BurdenLaura CameHamzah ChamiIndie FelipeTrista GibsonGrace HawkesKate HawkesCaityn JohnsonIsabella KotisBryson PetersMatthew PonteyZack PonteySasha PopovicElliana PracyEthan ShipleyNicholas StonestreetNavrin TumethJasper WalkerLili-Rose WindleGeorge OrdenesSarah-Bronte AndrikisMikaila KadlecZafira LeontsinisCrystal PountneyBRONZE MEDALLION - BM/CERT II Harry Cook Jarrod CrumpBradley DunnTom HallettNathan HartleyMelissa IrwinDanielle KatzosJess KnightTia La CosteJarod Lackey Thomas MaileDeclan MulcahyMatthew O’ConnorMitchell PountneyBreanna ShipleyDamian StonestreetSamuel StonestreetDiaan VitnellIsabellah WalkerCharlotte WilliamsAndrew BowringJonathan BrownJayleen BruceAllegra CandiagoBianca CandiagoAailyah ChamiConstantine ChristofarisSue CohenMichele ColeJubal CooperAnnalyse CraneRory CurranLisa EllisMaree EmeryThomas HallidayDaniel HawesWilliam HetheringtonNicholas MaggioKelly MountierMatthew MurrayTrent SmithRhys TelferNick Vaitsas

Walter Weterings Bradley DunnJarod LackeyMitchell PountneySleiman MahmoudAmie DunlopGenevieve ReiprichGeorgia TurnerIsabella TurnerEthan MillerRachael BartonJessica ColquhounGuillaume FerrerDanielle FieldQuentin FrachebougJosephine GiaourisHayley LeekCarlo OpreniMiranda PalmerAlec PittetMalte SchottADVANCED RESUSCITATION TECHNIQUES - ART (AID) Mitchell BarberJo BuchananJake CavanaghChris ChambersStewart DunnCody GaddesKatrina JonesRachel Gaddes Phoebe La CosteGeorge PalamidisGeorgina PalamidisPaul PetersNathan SchuttJennifer TrevillionAndrew BowringMichele ColeBradley DunnRodney DunnGlenn McLachlanMitchell PountneyHoani TangohauRhys TelferBradley TurnerWalter WeteringsAmie DunlopGeorgina RedrupMark RedrupGenevieve ReiprichGeorgia TurnerIsabella TurnerRobert ShortCallum RedrupIRB CREWMAN Phoebe La CosteSumaya AkkawyBradley DunnJarod LackeySleiman MahmoudMitchell PountneyEmma BarberMatthew BlinkhornStuart BraineZac BrooksHarry CookLewis HannahKate HawkingsMelissa IrwinGenevieve ReiprichBronessa SmithRhys TelferGeorgia TurnerIsabella TurnerNick VaitsasWalter Weterings Mark Teuma

Jaylene BruceAmie DunlopSILVER MEDALLION IRB DRIVER - SMIRBD Stewart DunnPeter FynnCody GaddesRachel GaddesScott JacksonPhoebe La CosteDarcy MacphersonGeorge PalamidisKeegan StreetGerard WinstonSILVER MEDALLION BASIC BEACH MANAGEMENT - SMBBM Cody GaddesRachel GaddesDamien CarltonPhoebe La CosteEric RoeNina TetzlaffStuart BraineRodd SanchezBronessa SmithSILVER MEDALLION AQUATIC RESCUE - SMAR Cody GaddesRachel GaddesHoani TangohauRWC OPERATOR Graham BurtJohn TangohauChris ChambersJeremy KnottNathan SchuttRADIO OPERATOR George OrdenesSarah-Bronte AndrikisMikaila KadlecZafira LeontsinisEthan MillerCrystal PountneyRESUSCITATION (AID) Richard BignoldIan GoodeJohn HollingdaleDouglas MurrayAndrew BowringMichele ColeRodney DunnGlenn McLachlanMitchell PountneyHoani TangohauRhys TelferBradley TurnerWalter WeteringsSPINAL MANAGEMENT Bradley DunnRodney DunnStewart DunnCody GaddesRachel GaddesScott JacksonBrigitta SchynsNina TetzlaffPhoebe La CosteTAE TRAINERS UNITS CLUSTER Robert ShortTRAINING OFFICER & ASSESSOR ARTC (AID) Scott Rofe


Jamie Power, Justin Ingram, Nathan Schutt, Ilana Crowe, Marcus Kennedy, Stewart Spencer, Georgia Carter, David Brukmann Robert (Max) Walker, Scott Phillips and Brian Dalgarno.Moving onto our regular lifesaving awards, we ran 5 Bronze squads, 2 SRC squads, 4 ARTC-Aid courses, 1 Resuscitation Course, 1 Radio Operators Course, 4 IRB - Crew squads and 2 IRB Drivers courses. The first course commenced on the 5th of August 2017 and our course was completed on the 5th of May 2018. The total number of awards were:13 - Resuscitation awards35 - SRC 6 - Radio Ooerator 56 -Bronze 31 - ARTC-Aid 9 - Spinal 24 - IRB-Crew 10 - IRB-Driver 50 - Junior Age Manager 17 - Junior Age Manager upgrade These courses run by Scott Rofe, David Brukmann, Brian Dalgarno, Carlo Villanti, Robert (Max) Walker, Hayden Sawyer, Rodd Sanchez, Tony Coffey and Chris Barber.We also had a large number of our members obtain advanced lifesaving awards. These awards were run by Surf Life Saving Sydney Branch:3 - Silver Medallion Aquatic Rescue9 - Silver Medallion Beach Management 1 - Senior First Aid5 - RWC OperatorThis season we welcomed back Rob Short into the training team after a number of years off. Rob completed his TAF Training Unit Cluster and achieved endorsement for ARTC and Spinal Management.Extra special thanks to David Brukmann for this constant advice, support and encouragement.I would like to thank the District Education Supervisor - Stephen Urquhart and Linda Perrin of Sydney Branch administration office for their assistance and guidance. In closing, I have had immense support from David Brukmann, Chris Barber, Darryl Easton and Michele Cole. Without their personal support and encouragement the education results would not have been as successful as they are. See you on the beach.Scott Rofe - Chief Instructor

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CRAYS EXEC & AGE MANAGERS Michele Cole ChairpersonJamie Power Vice ChairmanNathan Schut SecretaryKellie Walker Assistant SecretaryCaroline Tumeth TreasurerKelie Dalgleish Assistant TreasurerRebecca Ingram RegistrarRichie Hedley Assistant RegistrarScott Rofe Life Saving CoordinatorAlanna Street Assistant Life Saving CoordinatorIlana Crowe Assistant Life Saving CoordinatorJustine Ingram Age Manager CoordinatorJamie Power Assistant Age Manger coordinator Harry Leontsinis Gear Steward Jeffery Kotis Assistant Gear Steward Brad Turner Team Manager Scott Rofe Team Manager Michele Cole Team Manager Jamie Power Team Manager Matt Aiken Assistant Team ManagerJustin Ingram Assistant Team ManagerAndrew Mayfield Child Protection OfficerHarry Leontsinis Beach set up Coordinator Jeffery Kotis Assistant Beach Set CoordinatorDarryl Gaddes Assistant Beach Set CoordinatorRandall Barge Assistant Beach Set CoordinatorNeil Swane Photographer Neil Swane JAG Chaplin Nathan Schutt Publicity & newsletter co-ordinatorIllana Crowe March Past / R&R Coordinator Lisa Dietrich Assistant March Past CoordinatorCaroline Tumeth Apparel CoordinatorMichele Cole Assistant Apparel CoordinatorBronessa Smith Assistant Apparel CoordinatorNatha Schutt Assistant Apparel CoordinatorCarlo Villanti Water safety coordinator Nathan Robinson Assistant Water safety Coordinator Marcus Kennedy Assistant Water safety Coordinator Nathan Steiner Coaching Coordinator Alexandra Fleming Assitant Coaching Coordiantor Jamie Power Sydney Branch Delegate Michele Cole Sydney Branch Delegate Phil Cole Officials delegate Michele Cole Carnival Coordinator Rebecca Ingram Assistant Carnival CoordinatorGeorgina Redrup Social event CoordinatorBronwyn Porter Assistant social event Coordinator Rebecca Ingram Presentation Coordinator

Group LeadersIan Goode OAM u6 & u7s age manager coordinator & mentor Andrew Bowring Under 6 Boys Age Manager Michalea Whitmee Under 6 Boys Assistant Age Manager Tayla Robinson Under 6 Boys Assistant Age Manager Richard Andrikis Under 6 Girls Age ManagerChris Giles Under 7 Boys Age Manager Charlotte Williams Under 7 Boys Assistant Age Manager Nathan Schutt Under 7 Boys Assistant Age Manager Rohan de Carle Under 7 Boys Assistant Age Manager Rod Sanchez Under 7 Boys Assistant Age Manager Mark Teuma Under 7 Girls Age ManagerDan Waller Under 7 Girls Assistant Age Manager Samara Cooper Under 7 Girls Assistant Age Manager Caroline Tumeth Under 8 Boys Age Manager Bridget Cole Under 8 Boys Assistant Age Manager Samuya Akkaway Under 8 Boys Assistant Age Manager Ameila Dalgleish Under 8 Boys Assistant Age Manager Richie Hedley Under 8 Girls Age Manager Jennifer O’Brien Under 8 Girls Assistant Age Manager Lucy Stanley Jones Under 8 Girls Assistant Age Manager Treaven Martinus Under 9 Boys Age Manager Jarrod Crump Under 9 Boys Assistant Age Manager Natasha Siedel Under 9 Girls Age Manager Julia Howison Under 9 Assistant Age ManagerLara De Battista Under 9 Girls Assistant Age Manager Kayde Bruce Under 10 Boys Age Manager Russell Brinkley Under 10 Boys Assistant Age Manager Chris Hodge Under 10 Boys Assistant Age Manager Bronessa Smith Under 10 Girls Age Manager Matt Aitken Under 10 Girls Assistant Age Manager Jamie Power Under 10 Girls Assistant Age Manager Isabel Workman Under 11 Boys Age Manager Luisa Kulitapa Under 11 Boys Assistant Age ManagerScott Fava Under 11 Girls Age Manager Maddison Larsen Under 11 Girls Assistant Age Manager Justin Ingram Under 11 Girls Assistant Age Manager Mark Huntley Under 12 Boys Age Manager Liz Huntley Under 12 Boys Assistant Age Manager Cody Gaddes Under 12 Boys Assistant Age Manager Chonteau Poot Under 12 Girls Age Manager

Carla Papac Under 12 Girls Assistant Age Manager Rebecca Ingram Under 13 Boys Age Manager Helena Candiago Under 13 Boys Assistant Age Manager Rob Stanley Jones Under 13 Girls Age Manager Sue Scott Under 13 Girls Assistant Age Manager Blair Tumeth Under 14 Boys Age Manager Sandra Popovic Under 14 Boys Assistant Age Manager Tahlia Villanti Under 14 Girls Age Manager Maddison Vitnell Under 14 Girls Assistant Age Manager Yvette Larkin Black Caps Age manager Georgia Carter Black Caps Age Assistant manager Nicole Mannix - Power Black caps Assisant age manager Emma Lisser Black caps Assisant age manager

CRAYS CHAIRPERSON’S REPORTCronulla Crays season was operative from the first registration day in September through to the last event at Scarborough Beach WA.

Registration numbers this season was over 620, an increase on last year. Many parents obtained their Bronze and SRC awards enabling them to help with water safety at carnivals and Sunday nippers. With the ever-increasing nipper registrations over the last couple of seasons we’ll need more parents to obtain their awards to assist. Taking pressure off the regular helpers. Without their assistance, our nippers would not function.

Comradrie & participation carried over from last season proving these are just two keys elements why Cronulla Crays continue to enjoy the range of activities with their parents and age managers every Sunday.

Our age managers were under the guidance of Justin Ingram, Age Group Coordinator, this season. Justin put in many hours behind the scene to create different and interesting Sunday programs. We introduced two lifesaving days to the program proudly sponsored by Aussies Home Loans Cronulla. These were popular and successful although weather conditions were against us one day. Most nippers and their families enjoyed the challenges and the change in scenery.

Surf Education is another component, incorporated to Sunday morning nippers, it is as important the competition and skills part of the program. Scott Rofe supported by Ilana Crowe ensured all nippers completed the surf education program. Approximately 562 awards achieved an increase of 51 from last season.

Thank you to some of our young cadet age managers who are adored by our young nippers. Enjoying giving back to our nippers every week in every capacity. Their experiences are being handed over to their groups helping the future of our club for the better.

The Black Cap group are nippers with disabilities, run by Yvette Larkin, Nicole Mannix- Power, Georgia Carter and Emma Lisser. These ladies do an excellent job and I know the parents of this group appreciate their efforts. Next season we will look to expand the group with some exciting inclusions. We look forward to seeing you all returning next season.

The parents of the U6 & U 7 nippers are lucky to have as part of their Sunday program a swim lesson every second week. Purely an introduction to make sure your child has learnt some basic swim techniques & skills. Parents do ensure in the off season you continue with swim lessons at your local pool. This program would not have been possible without the support of Tradies Gymea, our proud sponsors.

The competitive section at Cronulla Crays performed better than predicted. With the JAG Coaching and Competition Team headed by Nathan Steiner, Alex Fleming and Mark Redrup. Results would not have been possible without their support


team: Mark Simpson, Guy Telfer, Stuart Braine, Bruce Dixon, Blair Tumeth, Justian Goode, Bronwyn Porter, Paul Littlejohn, Ngarie Hadfield, Tara Stortenbeker and Nicole Jones.

The inclusion of Cadet mentors at State Age proved beneficial – thanks to Cody Gaddes, Chloe Mannix-Power, Bridget Cole and Callum Redrup. These cadets taking time to attend the event of their own accord.

The JAG Coaching and Competition team is structured, controlled & managed in a safe environment. Developing and adapting throughout the season to accommodate a variety of different abilities with baselines. There was again improvement across all skills including: surf board riding, ocean, beach, 1 & 2KM beach, march past, R&R & multi discipline events. Proudly, many of our nippers competed in over 20 carnivals across many levels: District, Branch, Country, State Age & Youth Australian events.

We achieved top placings at all major competitions across most age groups.

Competition highlights this season:

Cook Community Classic Equal 1st - It was the first time in eight years.

Cronulla JAG Carnival 1st Proudly sponsored by Frank Doran Financial Services

4Way Carnival -3rd place

Branch results were amazing – improving across all disciplines

State Age Titles - 4th place Swansea Belmont improving 75 points in one season. The time and effort with late night meetings and preparation put into our State Age Team this year, well worth it. Lead by Team Managers: Brad Turner, Scott Rofe, Matt Aiken, Jamie Power, Justin Ingram supported by the Water Safety Team - Nathan Schutt, Chris Barber, Brian Delgarno & Chris Hodge. Most of these gentlemen DO NOT have children in nippers and selfishly attended State Age to support Cronulla Crays, giving up their free time. Thank you.

I will use a quote from Alex Fleming stating. “This season Cronulla Crays were like a well-oiled machine. No matter what carnival attended the Crays were there and competed to the best their ability every time”.

Ilana Crowe must be acknowledged for her contribution and dedication towards a discipline for a long time in our club that has been forgotten - R&R. Ilana contacted members from other clubs for assistance in how best to train our teams, organized attending a workshop and made sure the girls trained at least once or twice a week. Proudly at Branch and State Age the sky blue, black and white caps were on show.

Ilana didn’t stop there she took on the role as March Past Team leader taking over from Kiera Metti. We organized new March Past uniforms proudly sponsored by Neil Swane and didn’t the girls look amazing. With the support of the JAG executive, Ilana organized both disciplines to compete at low key carnivals to gain experience to help overcome their nerves. Thank to Danielle and Lisa who help Ilana with training and support.

Personally, as I watched the March Past team compete, at times it moved me to tears. The emotion of listening to the local Scottish Pipe Band and the girls proudly marching to the beat, carrying our beloved Club flag. Why? Because I knew Cronulla Crays had reached yet another milestone – competing in two traditional lifesaving events that for a long time had a stigma attached to them. We had broken that stigma and showed Cronulla Crays can and will compete in all events related to surf lifesaving.

Thirty-Three u14s completed the SRC courses this season. Our u14s worked hard fund raising for their end of season trip to the South Coast. The remainder of funds raise approx.$4K will be donated towards the reframing of club memorabilia when the new clubhouse is completed next year.

The couple of social events like the Mexican Themed Twilight disco organized by the U14’s was a success. Many parents commenting that we should have a social Twilight afternoon at least once a month to let our hair down and enjoy each other’s company. The volunteers thank you night was well attended again this season and enjoyed by all.

The highlight this season socially for me was again, the NSW State Age dinner organised by Danielle Devereux. Held at Belmont Golf club approximately 280 nippers, parents, water safety, officials and committee members attended. Special mention to Nathan Schutt who helped organised a GET-WELL video message from all our competitors to club Patron Geoff Foreshaw and President Richard Pinker. Danielle and her daughter Indie outdid themselves this year by preparing120 cupcakes and lolly bags. Thank you, Danielle and Indie we will miss you both, as you move into the Senior club next season.

Season 2017/18 new JAG Executive Team included Jamie Power, Nathan Schutt, Caroline Tumeth, Rebecca Ingram and Scott Rofe all doing an amazing job. After their election they hit the ground running and didn’t stop until after State Age titles. With their positive attitude and energy, ready to take on all that was thrown at them, I think we can all agree for most, it was a job well done.

New assistants to the executive, Richard Hedley, Kellie Walker, Kelly Dalgleish, Ilana Crowe backed up by our apparel team Demi Leontsinis, Ange Kotis made our Sunday mornings run smoothly. With this team setting up our apparel and taking payments every week, they contributed to the success of the season. Thank you.

Cronulla Crays made an $80K financial contribution towards the new clubhouse this season. In my eyes this is a very small token of thank you to the Senior Management team and members for their support over the many years of the Crays Nipper movement. In the new season we hope to assist with another financial contribution towards the new clubhouse knowing we are part of a wonderful new legacy.

One of reasons the contribution could be made due to the fine efforts from the JAG Finance and Sponsorship team headed by Jamie Power and supported by Matt Aiken. Both these gentlemen spent many hours meeting with existing and new sponsors. Thank you.

Club Captains Laura Came and Ethan Shipley represented the Crays on several occasions including the laying of a wreath Anzac Day, participating in patrols and competing.

In closing my report this season I must touch on Sabina De Batista for winning a SLS Sydney Branch Award of Excellence Award in May, it has been quite a few years since Cronulla Crays has placed in this age group category. Congratulations.

Let’s remember this is a club for all members, belonging to one of the biggest voluntary organisations in the country. This in itself is an honor.

Thank you to everyone for the ongoing support given to me last season by those involved at all levels.

Michele Cole – Chairperson JAG


CRAYS SECRETARY’S REPORTThe 2017/18 season was another fantastic fun season for the Cronulla Crays’ Nippers. Our objective each and every year is to provide a safe and fun environment for children aged 5 to 13 years to enjoy the beach and surf. To also promote fellowship, fair play, and enjoyment while learning very valuable lifelong water, surf and beach skills. To train the children for a series of awards under the auspices of SLSA Board of Junior Development, which covers:1. Surf Awareness 2. Surf Skills 3. First Aid 4. Resuscitation We also want to encourage those interested, to use their natural skills in competition at a series of carnivals held throughout the season. But above all, we want everyone to have fun.

With just over the 630 registrations we knew we would have a busy season. It takes more than 100 volunteers to run the Cronulla Cray’s Nipper program throughout the season. The Cray’s would not be able to function without this valuable support and I know the nippers, nipper parents and the Cronulla Surf Life Saving and Crays Executive teams all thank you and congratulate you on a fantastic season.

The age mangers did an amazing job this season. Thank you to all the age mangers, it’s been said many times, but you guys are the backbone of the junior activity group (JAG).

A special thanks goes to the Beach Setup, Water Safety and Officials who worked hard every week with low numbers this season to look after the kids. Currently the committee is working hard to encourage more parents to help out with water safety and officiating for next season. You will be surprised at how much you will get out of helping and getting involved, it’s a lot of fun and you will make some great friendships. All parents are very welcome to get involved, as many hands will make light work.

The ‘One Club’ ethos was more than ever prevalent this season with the Cray’s receiving help, support and advice

from the senior club members, many who have or their kids have passed though nippers at some stage. It’s a team effort, which only comes together with the contribution of many people from many areas of the club. I must also thank the patrol captains who worked in with us on Sunday mornings keeping the public safe whilst nippers was running.

It was great to see more parents and kids socialising after nippers in the Purcell Room this year, I think some of the kids had just as much fun together after the nippers upstairs.

Next year is shaping up to be a challenging season for Crays with the club house undergoing a major building redevelopment, therefore nippers will be run out of a temporary structure for the season.

I look forward to seeing you all next summer, enjoy the winter months off. Next season is shaping up to be another amazing one. Have a great off-season!

Nathan Schutt – JAG Secretary

Nathan Schutt

Welcome to new sponsors Aussie Home Loans Cronulla, with Vaughan Fowler (owner), Michele Cole (Crays Chair), John Symond (Aussie Home Loans Chairman), Fiona Fowler (owner) and Jamie Power (Crays Vice-Chair)


U14 NIPPER CAPTAIN – LAURA CAMEI am Laura Came and I have had the privilege of being the Cronulla Crays female captain for the 2017-2018 season. My nipper journey has been a full blown rollercoaster and I would not have been able to get through it without the help and support of everyone at the Club who believed in me and encouraged me to do my best. It’s been a long 8 years that wouldn’t be possible without all the most amazing people to cheer me on.

I would like to thank Tahlia Villanti and Maddie Vitnell for putting up with me for 8 years and making my nipper experience the best it could be, no matter how loud I was. There have been so many great people that have really made a difference to my nipper experience including all of the parents and helpers that set up the beach every Sunday.

There have been so many amazing coaches this year who have given up there time to ensure we did our best and achieved our goals and thanks for all your hard work in getting us nippers where we want to be. I also want to thank the Cronulla Crays Committee for all you hard work in ensuring our nippers journey is successful, and thanks to the senior club committee who helped us transition into the senior club.

A big thanks to Scott Roffe and Carlo Villanti for helping the U/14’s get our SRC and help us become active patrol members. Thanks for teaching us skills that will be useful all throughout our lives. Thank you to Bernadette, Danielle, Blaire, Sandra, Bart and all the parents of the U/14’s that came on the trip away I know we’re all a handful so your patience and tolerance with us was amazing.

And thanks again Danielle, Sandra and Caroline for all your work with our fundraising and making sure we didn’t give away too many free snow cones. Thanks to my mum and dad for not giving up on getting me out of bed every Sunday and making sure that I got to where I needed to be for all my training sessions and carnivals.

Last but not least thank you so much Michele Cole for making this year so incredible and memorable, and for all of your efforts in ensuring that we all had a great time and competed to the best of our abilities. You made my journey as an U/14 so much easier and so much more enjoyable.

Now I can’t forget about all the amazing friendships I have made over the last 8 years. I remember when we we’re the tiny redcaps just learning about the surf and now we’ve grown into the most amazing surf lifesavers, wearing our sky blue, black and white caps with pride and sharing our final year at nippers all together. I have cherished every moment with you guys and I know that I have made some lifelong friendships.

Thanks again to everyone that has assisted me over the last years especially my age managers who have helped me develop into the person I am today. I know I’m going to miss waking up early on a Sunday to see my friends at the beach and I will especially miss a nice warm handshake off of my favourite supporter, official and photographer Neil Swane. Thank you.

U14 NIPPER CAPTAIN – ETHAN SHIPLEYMy name is Ethan Shipley and I am the junior club captain for the 2017/18 nipper season. This has been a great experience and an honor to represent you guys and the Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club community.

For the younger nippers I hope you stick with this great sport because nippers provides unique skills that you will have with you for life. These skills include the ability to educate others about the ocean, to perform the necessary procedures to make a rescue, to keep others safe, to swim confidently in the water and most importantly being able to work with others and make friends for life. These are some of the many skills I have obtained over my short 7 years at Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club.

Over the course of the past 7 months my fellow Under 14 nippers and I have accomplished so much. We have completed our surf rescue certificate, our first season of patrol, our last junior state, competed at many junior and senior carnivals, helped with water safety during training sessions for the younger nippers and sold thousands of snow cones. One of the highlights of the year was our end of season trip away where we spent a lot of time surfing and not a lot of time listening to our age managers. This trip cemented our bond as a group and gave us great memories.

I’d like to stand here and tell you about how we smashed the field at state and aussies but i’d be lying. None of the Under 14s results were particularly impressive but our efforts always were and we had a hell of a time not winning medals. Except Sasha. However one of the many things we learned was that not everyone is going to get a gold but if you try your best and have fun doing it - it is gold. It’s not about being the best athlete it’s about doing your best. One of the greatest things about this sport is that there’s always room for improvement and I know for a fact that there is not one of you out there that wouldn’t give everything for this club.

For as long as I can remember I’ve woken up early on Sunday morning to head down to the beach to have fun with my friends and compete in a friendly couple of races. This only fueled my love for the beach and developed my water skills. I would like to thank all the nippers that turn up every Sunday rain or shine, the parents who give up their mornings to take them, the coaches and age managers and the many people behind the scenes who keep us in uniform and in competition.

I would especially like to thank Michele Cole and Jamie Power for their work running the 2017/18 nippers season. Also I couldn’t end without saying a massive thank you to Blair Tumeth (manager of the best age group ever) and Sandra Popovich (the under 14s beach mum). It really did take incredible teamwork to subdue a bunch of crazy boys with pumping waves behind the pools. Even though we never really showed it we really appreciate everything you’ve done for us for all these years. Sunday mornings will never be the same again.

Nipper Captains - Laura Came and Ethan Shipley


THE BLACK CAPSThe Black Caps is our life saving program designed for school aged children with a disability 6yrs and older. The program aims to give young people with disabilities beach safety and water awareness skills.

Black Caps is run entirely by volunteers, the program ensures that students with disabilities and their parents can be involved with surf skills and lifesaving like their siblings, peers and community. This season our Black Caps program had 10 registered members and 4 dedicated volunteers who ran our program fortnightly throughout the entire season. Three of these members and their families were new to the club and their level of participation and enjoyment was happily evident.

Our group took part in regular events and activities such as flags, wades, relay, beach games, some board practise and ocean/pool swimming, dependant on weather.

We look forward to another exciting season ahead and once the renovations are complete would like to encourage some growth in memberships and an increased profile within our club and in the broader community, promoting the individual skills of our group members.

I have been networking with neighbouring clubs at Elouera and Wanda in the hope we can come together once or twice per season and do some interclub activities.

In June 2018, three of our volunteers represented Cronulla SLSC in an Inclusion Forum held at SLSA head office in Bondi. The forum provided a great opportunity to meet with clubs that are already running a special needs program and for those wishing to commence. Inclusion / Accessibility and its importance will become more apparent within SLSA and the fact that our club has been running our Black Caps program for almost 6yrs is something we should be very proud of and strengthen it going into the future.

We plan a name change for our group this coming season and a change of hat colour too so we can be more visible in the water and on the beach.

Thankyou

Yvette Larkin - Age Manager


CRONULLA CRAYS POINT SCORECronulla Crays Overall Point Score AwardU/8 GIRLS 1ST ESTELLA DONELLYU/8 GIRLS 2ND MATILDA NOONU/8 GIRLS 3RD KIARA WHEELEU/8 BOYS 1ST DARCY PASZYNU/8 BOYS 2ND HUGO SIMMONSU/8 BOYS 3RD MITCHELL IRVINEU/9 GIRLS 1ST ANNABELLE HOWISONU/9 GIRLS 2ND PHOEBE GIAOURISU/9 GIRLS 3RD SOPHIA SANTILLANAU/9 BOYS 1ST TENZER PETTERSONU/9 BOYS 2ND TY MCLELLANU/9 BOYS 3RD BRADY TOMKINS

U/10 GIRLS 1ST TAYA KENNEDYU/10 GIRLS 1ST ALANNAH PIKEU/10 GIRLS 2ND PIPER TAMU/10 BOYS 1ST SAULEI GILSENANU/10 BOYS 2ND JAMES DOMAZETOVSKIU/10 BOYS 3RD CHRISTOPHER ORDENESU/11 GIRLS 1ST ELLIE HOWISONU/11 GIRLS 2ND DANIELLE BRUSU/11 GIRLS 3RD OLIVIA DALGLEISHU/11 BOYS 1ST MARCUS BERNARDU/11 BOYS 2ND MALACHI SMITHU/11 BOYS 3RD RORY LEWISU/12 GIRLS 1ST LOUISE PRIESTLEYU/12 GIRLS 2ND HALA MAHMOUDU/12 GIRLS 3RD BILLIE POWELLU/12 BOYS 1ST NOAH GILSENANU/12 BOYS 2ND RILEY TOMKINSU/12 BOYS 3RD LUKE DIXONU/13 GIRLS 1ST ELLY HOLLINGSWORTHU/13 GIRLS 2ND AIMEE GOUGEONU/13 GIRLS 3RD SHANA CROWEU/13 BOYS 1ST ROCCO CANDIAGOU/13 BOYS 2ND EVAN TONGU/13 BOYS 3RD ARCHIE COPELANDU/14 GIRLS 1ST TALIYAH MCCARTHYU/14 GIRLS 2ND CAITLYN JOHNSONU/14 GIRLS 3RD KAYLA GARCIA

Cronulla Crays Encouragement AwardsU/8 GIRLS KYLIE WOOD

U/8 BOYS SAMUEL SAEEMADARAE

U/9 GIRLS AMIIRAH TARGETT

U/9 BOYS TOMAS SUMMERS

U/10 GIRLS CHARLOTTE NICHOLS

U/10 BOYS LACHLAN BRINKLEY

U/11GIRLS PYPER PASZYN

U/11 BOYS JOSEPH MURRAY

U/12 GIRLS CHLOE ADDISON

U/12 BOYS MARKO POPOVIC

U/13 GIRLS CHARLOTTE FLANAGAN

U/13 BOYS ANGUS HUGHES

U/14 GIRLS ANABELLA KALABRIC

U/14 BOYS HAMZAH CHAMI

Nipper of the Year Awards

CRONULLA CRAYS STATE GOLD MEDALLISTS U/9 BOYS SURF RACE, U/9 BOYS SURF TEAM

BEAU GRIGGS

U/9 BOYS SURF TEAM JAKE BOYLEU/9 BOYS SURF TEAM AUSTIN MARTINUSU/9 BOYS SURF TEAM HENRY SCHNEIDERU/10 BOYS BEACH RELAY, ALL AGE BEACH RELAY

DANIEL GREEN

U/10 BOYS BEACH RELAY LIAM MITCHELL-BRUCEU/10 BOYS BEACH RELAY LEVI STATEVSKIU/10 BOYS BEACH RELAY JACK STONESTREETU/11 GIRLS BOARD RELAY MIKAYLA BIRDU/11 GIRLS BOARD RELAY WAVERLEY MARTINUSU/11 GIRLS BOARD RELAY, U/11 MIXED BEACH RELAY

ELYSSA REDRUP

U/9 FEMALE BEACH SPRINT, U/9 GIRLS BEACH RELAY, U/9 MIXED BEACH RELAY

SABINA DE BATTISTA

U/10 GIRLS FEMALE BEACH RELAY RUBY POWERU/10 GIRLS FEMALE BEACH RELAY CHLOE ROGERSU/10 GIRLS FEMALE BEACH RELAY ISABELLA MCDONALDU/10 GIRLS FEMALE BEACH RELAY, U/10 GIRLS FLAGS

EDEN TACIAK

U/9 GIRLS BEACH RELAY ZAHLI BLATTMANU/9 FEMALE FLAGS, U/9 GIRLS BEACH RELAY, U/9 MIXED BEACH RELAY, ALL AGE BEACH RELAY

TALEAH MILLER

U/9 GIRLS BEACH RELAY ELLA MINCHEWU/12 FEMALE 2KM RUN HANAH DALGLEISHU/11 MIXED BEACH RELAY DJ KULITAPAU/11 MIXED BEACH RELAY SAVARNA MILLERU/11 MIXED BEACH RELAY, ALL AGE BEACH RELAY

ADDISON RAMIREZ

U/9 MIXED BEACH RELAY JOEL BISHOPU/9 MIXED BEACH RELAY AUSTIN CRUMPALL AGE BEACH RELAY SASHA POPOVICALL AGE BEACH RELAY CHRISTOPHER ANTONIOUALL AGE BEACH RELAY JOEL STEINER

CRONULLA CRAYS AUSTRALIAN GOLD MEDALLISTS U/14 MALE BEACH FLAGS SASHA POPOVIC

NENA WARD FEMALE SUB-JUNIOR NIPPER OF THE YEAR TALEAH MILLER

GERARDINE MORRIS MALE SUB-JUNIOR NIPPER OF THE YEAR HENRY SCHNEIDER

MERV COSTELLO FEMALE JUNIOR NIPPER OF THE YEAR NICOLA BARGE

PETER BANISTER MALE JUNIOR NIPPER OF THE YEAR BENJAMIN HUNTLEY

WARREN BUCHAN FEMALE NIPPER OF THE YEAR INDIE FELIPE

CESS TUCKWELL MALE NIPPER OF THE YEAR SASHA POPOVIC


CRONULLA CRAYS CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTSU/8 GIRLS JASMINE EATON 1ST SPRINT 1ST FLAGS

U/8 GIRLS KARA BIRD 1ST WADE

U/8 GIRLS YVETTE RAMIREZ 1ST FLAGS 3RD SPRINT

U/8 GIRLS OLIVE FAVA 2ND SPRINT 2ND WADE 3RD FLAGS

U/8 GIRLS CALANI BATES 3RD WADE

U/8 BOYS NATHAN SUTTOR 1ST SPRINT 1ST FLAGS 1ST WADE

U/8 BOYS OLIVER UNWIN 2ND SPRINT 2ND FLAGS

U/8 BOYS LACHLAN TURNER 2ND WADE 3RD FLAGS

U/8 BOYS ANGUS GRIFFIN 3RD SPRINT

U/8 BOYS VAN KOME 3RD WADE

U/9 GIRLS SABINA DE BATTISTA 1ST SPRINT

U/9 GIRLS TALEAH MILLER 1ST FLAGS 2ND SPRINT

U/9 GIRLS TIA HALE 1ST SWIM 2ND BOARD

U/9 GIRLS JADE SEIDEL 1ST BOARD 2ND SWIM

U/9 GIRLS ZAHLI BLATTMAN 2ND FLAGS 3RD SPRINT 3RD SWIM 3RD BOARD

U/9 GIRLS ELLA MINCHEW 3RD FLAGS

U/9 BOYS AUSTIN CRUMP 1ST SPRINT 1ST FLAGS

U/9 BOYS BEAU GRIGGS 1ST SWIM 2ND BOARD 3RD SPRINT 3RD FLAGS

U/9 BOYS HENRY SCHNEIDER 1ST BOARD 2ND SPRINT 2ND FLAGS 3RD SWIM

U/9 BOYS AUSTIN MARTINUS 2ND SWIM 3RD BOARD

U/9 BOYS COOPER SANDERS 3RD FLAGS

U/10 GIRLS RUBY POWER 1ST SPRINT

U/10 GIRLS ISABELLA MCDONALD 1ST FLAGS 3RD SPRINT

U/10 GIRLS ELIZA DALGLEISH 1ST SWIM 1ST BOARD

U/10 GIRLS EDEN TACIAK 2ND SPRINT 2ND FLAGS

U/10 GIRLS TIFFANY CROMPTON 2ND SWIM

U/10 GIRLS LUCY AITKEN 2ND BOARD

U/10 GIRLS CHELSEA DIETRICH-CULLEN 3RD FLAGS

U/10 GIRLS EMILY GREEN 3RD SWIM 3RD BOARD

U/10 BOYS DANIEL GREEN 1ST SPRINT 1ST FLAGS 2ND SWIM 2ND BOARD

U/10 BOYS JACKSON TURNER 1ST SWIM 1ST BOARD

U/10 BOYS JACK STONESTREET 2ND SPRINT 2ND FLAGS 3RD BOARD

U/10 BOYS CALEB TUMETH 3RD SPRINT

U/10 BOYS LIAM MITCHELL-BRUCE 3RD FLAGS

U/10 BOYS JAYDEN SMITH 3RD SWIM

U/10 BOYS BAILEY SMITH 3RD SWIM

U/11 GIRLS ELYSSA REDRUP 1ST SPRINT 1ST FLAGS 3RD SWIM 3RD BOARD

U/11 GIRLS MIKAYLA BIRD 1ST SWIM 2ND BOARD

U/11 GIRLS WAVERLEY MARTINUS 1ST BOARD 2ND SWIM

U/11 GIRLS CAITLYN SCHNEIDER 1ST IRON

U/11 GIRLS CAYDELAN MITCHELL-BRUCE 2ND SPRINT 3RD FLAGS

U/11 GIRLS CHARLOTTE MARIANO 2ND FLAGS

U/11 GIRLS JESSICA STONESTREET 2ND IRON

U/11 GIRLS SAVARNA MILLER 3RD SPRINT

U/11 GIRLS ALISHA MAUNDER 3RD IRON

U/11 BOYS WILL STEINER 1ST SWIM 3RD BOARD 3RD SPRINT 3RD FLAGS

U/11 BOYS ADDISON RAMIREZ 1ST SPRINT 1ST FLAGS

U/11 BOYS MITCHELL GREEN 1ST BOARD 1ST IRON 2ND SWIM

U/11 BOYS HARRY BRAINE 2ND IRON 2ND BOARD

U/11 BOYS DJ KULITAPA 2ND SPRINT 2ND FLAGS

U/11 BOYS RYAN VAN DER WEEGAN 3RD SWIM

U/11 BOYS MAX WORKMAN 3RD IRON

U/12 GIRLS MACKENZIE PORTER 1ST SPRINT 2ND BOARD 3RD FLAGS

U/12 GIRLS RHEANNA LEONTSINIS 1ST FLAGS 2ND SPRINT 3RD BOARD

U/12 GIRLS INDIANA FIELD 1ST SWIM

U/12 GIRLS HANAH DALGLEISH 1ST BOARD 1ST IRON 3RD SWIM

U/12 GIRLS KAYLA BARGE 2ND FLAGS


U/12 GIRLS MANI HALE 2ND SWIM 3RD IRON

U/12 GIRLS JAIME PORTER 2ND IRON

U/12 GIRLS JOLINA MACKAY 3RD SPRINT

U/12 BOYS JOEL STEINER 1ST SPRINT 1ST FLAGS 2ND BOARD 2ND SWIM

U/12 BOYS GUS GYLLENHAMMER 1ST SWIM 1ST BOARD 3RD FLAGS

U/12 BOYS RYAN DIXON 1ST IRON 2ND FLAGS

U/12 BOYS BAILEY SIMMS 2ND SPRINT

U/12 BOYS BRENT GADDES 2ND SWIM 3RD BOARD

U/12 BOYS BENJAMIN HUNTLEY 2ND IRON

U/12 BOYS NOAH DUCHET-CATHERINE 3RD SPRINT

U/12 BOYS ARCHIE COOK 3RD IRON

U/13 GIRLS KENDRA BLATTMAN 1ST SPRINT 2ND FLAGS

U/13 GIRLS GEORGIA EARL 1ST FLAGS 2ND SPRINT

U/13 GIRLS TALIA FIELD 1ST SWIM 1ST IRON

U/13 GIRLS ELLEXA GIBSON 1ST BOARD 2ND IRON 2ND SWIM 3RD SPRINT 3RD FLAGS

U/13 GIRLS ZAFIRA LEONTSINIS 2ND SWIM 3RD BOARD

U/13 GIRLS CRYSTAL POUNTNEY 2ND BOARD 3RD IRON

U/13 GIRLS LAURA ANDRIKIS 3RD SWIM

U/13 BOYS CHRISTOPHER ANTONIOU 1ST SPRINT 1ST FLAGS

U/13 BOYS JACK DIXON 1ST SWIM 1ST IRON 3RD BOARD

U/13 BOYS KAYNE TELFER 1ST BOARD 2ND SWIM 2ND IRON 3RD SPRINT

U/13 BOYS TOBY TAM 2ND SPRINT 3RD FLAGS

U/13 BOYS JAIDYN MCCARROLL 2ND FLAGS

U/13 BOYS TATE BROWNING 2ND BOARD

U/13 BOYS ADAM WANNOUS 3RD SWIM

U/13 BOYS DYLAN INGRAM 3RD IRON

U/14 GIRLS INDIE FELIPE 1ST SPRINT 1ST FLAGS

U/14 GIRLS ISABELLA KOTIS 1ST SWIM 1ST BOARD 1ST IRON 2ND FLAGS

U/14 GIRLS TRISTA GIBSON 2ND SPRINT 2ND BOARD 2ND IRON 3RD SWIM

U/14 GIRLS LAURA CAME 2ND SWIM 3RD FLAGS 3RD BOARD

U/14 GIRLS PARIS ALCORN 3RD SPRINT

U/14 GIRLS SARAH-BRONTE ANDRIKIS 3RD IRON

U/14 BOYS SASHA POPOVIC 1ST SPRINT 1ST FLAGS

U/14 BOYS JASPER WALKER 1ST SPRINT 1ST IRON

U/14 BOYS NAVRIN TUMETH 1ST BOARD 2ND SPRINT 3RD IRON

U/14 BOYS NICHOLAS STONESTREET 2ND FLAGS 3RD SWIM

U/14 BOYS RILEY BURDEN 2ND SWIM

U/14 BOYS ETHAN SHIPLEY 2ND BOARD 2ND IRON

U/14 BOYS HAMZAH CHAMI 3RD SPRINT 3RD FLAGS

U/14 BOYS BRETT BOTHMA 3RD SPRINT

U/14 BOYS MATT PONTEY 3RD BOARD


OPERATIONS COMMITTEEA summary of the operations of Zimzala restaurant, Barefoot on the Beach Juice bar, Elite/ Cronulla Swim School sports complex and the Tony Purcell function room for the 2017/18 period.

Zimzala restaurant Cronulla SLSCs jewel in the crown has continued to trade well offering a varied variety of affordable dining including daily specials with some promotions being available to all club members at a reduced price.

From owner – Ray Nelson:

The last 12 months has seen Zimzala continue to grow and improve its events and general menu performance. We have hosted weddings, anniversaries, and family events from birthdays to christenings. Our “special nights “have included wine dinners during the winter months, French nights, ZKR new menu launches, corporate training and parties etc. during the day we have grown our major event including Australia day, Easter, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Melbourne Cup and more. Our high teas have been a huge success with 2 or 3 being held over weekends. We have to be innovative in a market place, which is continually changing and proving to be tough with new competition opening almost monthly. We are proud to be associated with Cronulla SLSC and are very excited to see the Clubs rebuild now in progression.

Barefoot on the beach, owners Michael and Sue Stiropoulos have worked tirelessly over the past years to build a strong customer base offering their fine food and juices, this is apparent when you see customers on any given day lining up and down the promenade waiting to be served.

Elite personal training/Cronulla swim school sports complex. In an extremely competitive industry both tenants Cameron Hoban and Mark Simpson are stand outs in the Cronulla district due to their professional approach to fitness, learn to swim and swim squads. This ageing Sports Complex has in past years had many upgrades, which has been very costly for the club and this year was no exception with the underwater viewing window in the 25metre pool leaking. This required major repairs including replacing lane rope anchors, replacing missing tiles, expansion joint replacement and a full acid wash. The results were excellent with water clarity at its best.

Purcell Function Room. Angela Vanderlouw was employed as the approved function room manager on the 14th February 2017. In the time of Angela’s employment, she performed her duties extremely well, coming from a corporate background Angela found it very challenging at first finding the balance of functions verses club activities. Angela’s good work ethics and hard work managing engagements, weddings, birthdays and other occasions was always done in a very professional manner and as a result profits for 2017/18 were increased dramatically compared to previous years.

These Operations are instrumental in providing a strong financial future for our club and I would encourage all members to support them whenever an occasion arises.

All revenue for the above Operations is reflected in the treasurer’s report.

Thank you to the committee members Phill Hamilton (LM), John Bentley (LM), Neale Johnstone (LM) and Bill Lloyd for their support during the 2017/18 season.

Darryl Ward - Convenor

CHIEF GEAR STEWARD’S REPORTCronulla SLSC lifesaving equipment was prepared and presented for the annual inspection held on Saturday 2nd September 2017. All equipment was laid out in the IRB Shed, Ballroom, Patrol Room, Training Room, Radio Room and Monro Room and as usual the display was quite impressive. This equipment included the following items.20 rescue boards 36 rescue tubes 10 radios 2 patrol first aid kits 1 club first aid room and supplies1 trauma/haemorrhage kit 3 spinal boards and straps 3 defibrillators4 oxy-viva kits 4 suction equipment sets 2 stretchers18 resuscitation mannequins3 trainer defibrillators5 IRB6 IRB fuel cells9 outboard motors11 lifejackets7 trailersPatrol area and tentSignal flags, evacuation (shark) flags and beach signs Miscellaneous items including fins, loud hailer, binoculars, patrol bum bags.

The inspection team visited all clubs in the Branch in one day this season. This was made possible due to new computer based recording technology and a large dedicated inspection team. Starting at North Bondi on Saturday morning they arrived at Cronulla mid afternoon. After completion of the Cronulla inspection we supplied refreshments to the inspection team to finish up their day.

Rod Dunn took up the role of Radio Officer this past season and ensured that all radios were in top condition and available for patrol and water safety uses throughout the season. David Dalla-Camina continued in the role of First Aid Officer and all first aid equipment and consumables were available and of a high standard throughout the season. The following members helped prepare the club gear and premises for the start of the season - David Dalla-Camina, Rod Dunn, Rob Short Jr., Bill Lloyd, Brian Dalgarno, Carlo Villanti, Robert Walker, Maximillian Walker, Graham Burt, Craig Jordan and Chris Barber.

Lifesaving is our core business and the cost of purchases of new and replacement equipment along with service and

Darryl Ward


repairs is a necessary and justifiable expense. Cronulla’s patrols are always well equipped with all necessary items. Excluding IRB items, the expenditure this season was a little over $13,800. This included purchase of four rescue boards ($4691), board repairs ($1082 ), purchase of three new radios ($2250), radio servicing ($320), oxy-viva and defibrillator servicing ($541), oxy-viva and defibrillator items ($1403), first-aid supplies ($847) and miscellaneous expenditure ($150). We also purchased a new patrol tent frame ($461), some uniforms, rash shirts, caps, log books and other patrol items from the SLSA shop ($1135) plus patrol caps ($930).

As in previous seasons all new Bronze Medallion and Surf Rescue Certificate awardees had a uniform, patrol cap and sunhat presented at their assessment and all IRB drivers and crewpersons were presented a SLSA rash shirt and peaked cap presented at their assessment - all to wear while on duty. New Patrol Captains were supplied with a heavy duty SLSA patrol jacket and peaked cap. The Club continued to subsidise the purchase of PFDs by IRB Crewpersons and Drivers if they wanted to purchase their own. Having these lifesavers fitted properly and safely on the beach and in the water is a high priority.

The Australian Government, for the fourth season, funded every Club in the country with a grant towards the cost of lifesaving equipment. This season that amount was doubled from previous years and we received $10,000. Surf Life Saving Australia provided $2230 (66 uniforms) as a patrol uniform subsidy. Cronulla RSL donated the full cost of an IRB motor. The remainder of the lifesaving expenditure was from Club funds.

Cronulla SLSC has a large amount of lifesaving equipment which must always be in good condition and ready for purpose. Once again, this season, I believe that we have been able to provide the Club with the best possible equipment for patrol, water safety, training, competition and community purposes.

See you on the beach at Cronulla – where else would you rather be?

Rob Short - Chief Gear Steward

HOUSE COMMITTEE During the 2017-18 season the House Committee of Rob Short, Brian Dalgarno, Kieran Day, Bill Lloyd and myself, along with the office staff, helped keep the club maintained for our Members. I would like to personally thank the above-mentioned people for their many hours volunteering behind the scenes.

The Bay Shed finally had the new ramp installed. The plumbing and electrical have presented some problems

this past season due to their age. Sutherland Shire Council assisted where needed and things are working OK. We can look forward to these being replaced in the Clubhouse refurbishment.

Michael Banister - House Captain

2018 SNOW TRIPThe annual snow trip was attended by 33 members over the weekend of the 16th June. An amazing total of 60 members were eligible to attend, comprised of all lifesaving members that obtained 100% Patrol Attendance plus Winning Patrol No.6.

Most years Cronulla is renowned for bringing the snow to the mountains and this was so true this year. The snow bucketed down, slowing our travel to the snow on the Friday evening. Safe approach to the snow covered roads delayed our arrival until the early hours of Saturday morning. It didn’t matter, everybody was up and into it not long after the sun came up. Over the weekend we saw more than 40cms of snow fall and both beginner and experienced skiers enjoyed their skiing and snowboarding on a colder than usual weekend. All tour members attended a celebration dinner at the Sundeck Hotel on Saturday evening. Our thanks go to the lodge owners who donate the in-snow accommodation to the club and our hosts at Christina Lodge, Cronulla Lodge and the Sundeck Hotel.

Members were very thankful for the club providing this fantastic weekend away.


BUILDING DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEEThis last year has finally seen what many thought may not be possible, at least for a long time - the commencement of construction of our refurbished Clubhouse.

A brief recap of lead up eventsThe Development Application for our building, submitted in June 2016 was approved by Sutherland Shire Council and the NSW Joint Regional Planning Panel on the 21st October 2016.

At his stage we had only approximately half the funds required. On Sunday 9th April 2017 our local Federal Member of Parliament, Scott Morrison delivered the momentous news that he had secured a $3 million Federal Government Grant for the refurbishment of the Clubhouse. This Commonwealth Development Grant pushed us towards a construction phase starting at the end of the 2017-18 season.

2017-18 activityA Special General Meeting of Members was held on Sunday June 4th 2017. At this meeting the final plans and the funding model were unanimously endorsed and approval was given to proceed with the required preparations and ultimately commence construction.

The first part of the preparation was assembly of detailed design documents for all aspects of the building. This was done by the architect in association with a range of engineers and other professional consultants. The design documents include complete architectural drawings and specifications plus details of materials, finishes, furniture and fittings. These documents provide all of the information required to be used for the tender process to select a builder and are also submitted to obtain a Construction Certificate. Full design documentation was completed and tender documents assembled in early December 2017.

The Club appointed an independent project management company, The Project Studio (TPS) on 27 November. The project manager is responsible for running all facets of a successful build and liaising with all parties on behalf of and in the best interests of the Club. Shane Henn, Managing Director of TPS has taken ownership of our project and has worked closely with the Club and all other parties since that date.

A detailed tender requirements and review process was designed and documented by the project manager in consultation with the Building Committee. This process was, in turn, reviewed and endorsed by the Management Committee. A tender package which included the full design documentation plus tender process information was issued to a shortlisted profile of builders on 15 December. A Tender Review Panel comprising the project manager, project architect and Chris Giles as the Club representative was proposed by the Building Committee and endorsed by the Management Committee.

Five companies had indicated intent to submit tenders with four finally being submitted. These were assessed by the Tender Review Panel against the criteria in the predefined process and the highest ranking tender company was subsequently interviewed. The Tender Review Panel then provided a recommendation on preferred builder to the Building Committee which they accepted after extensive deliberation. On 19 March 2018 the Management Committee endorsed selection of Momentum Built as the successful builder. Momentum Built is a local company based at Taren Point. They have been involved in several local projects including a project for Sutherland Council.

BudgetThe cost of construction presented to the Special General Meeting, was $6.5 million dollars based on early quantity surveyor estimates. Following provisional acceptance of the successful tender, discussions were held with Momentum and significant early savings of approximately $130,000 were identified prior to signing the contract. The contracted construction cost with Momentum is $5.99 million. The Club has included a contingency amount of 10% to cover unforseen issues so the full budgeted construction costs are now set as $6.59 million.

Momentum have identified some other areas of potential savings which are being explored in the early stages of construction. These savings are based on the use of some alternate suppliers and products and may offer the Club further savings in the range of $50,000-$100,000.

To ensure good financial governance, processes have been developed for the approval of all payments to Momentum, contractors and consultants and also for the consideration and approval of variations to the contract. These processes were developed by the Building Committee in consultation with the project manager and were reviewed and endorsed by the Management committee. In simple terms, these processes require scrutiny by the project manager and Building Committee prior to payment approval plus additional scrutiny and approval by the Club Executive and/or Management Committee for high cost or unprogrammed invoices and payments

Construction site preparationConstruction was notionally planned to start immediately post season at the end of April 2018 with a twelve month build period.

To allow this, an extensive process for decanting and storage or disposal of Club items was put in place. For the majority of Club items, the decant was successfully completed by Saturday 28 April. This was achieved due to great input from Club Members. There were two well attended working bees at which a large amount of items were moved to storage locations while unwanted items were discarded to the tip. Essential lifesaving equipment and Purcell Room furniture and fittings were removed a few days after patrols finished. The Club engaged Cronulla Removals to pack and relocate all memorabilia, the bulk furniture and all of the office furniture and fittings. Sutherland Shire Council assisted with the removal of three tippers of unwanted metal items. These latter activities were completed and the Club effectively empty by Wednesday 2 May.

The construction site was established immediate post season in the first week of May. A large site compound was erected in the south western corner of Cronulla Beach Park in the first week of May. Momentum installed their site sheds close to the clubhouse and a construction access road was laid through this area to minimise impact on the park and the normal access road. Site fencing was placed around Clubhouse on Friday 4 May and Momentum formally took control of the site on Monday 7 May and site preparation then proceeded for a week.

Building demolition commenced on 16 May. The project at this stage was on schedule with completion date set as the end of May 2019.

Funding and supportAs previously reported, the funding model includes a Club cash commitment, Sutherland Council cash commitment, the Commonwealth grant and a Club financed bank loan.


As the funding plan includes a bank loan, earlier discussions with the Commonwealth Bank were continued by Richard Pinker and Chris Giles. Sutherland Shire Council agreed to guarantor the loan and a Deed of Guarantee was signed. Subsequent to this, the bank gave final approval of our loan and provided a formal Letter of Offer to the Club.

A Member and Sponsor appeal for financial assistance has been launched. The Members appeal has seen a reasonable early response with almost $25,000 donated by the end of April 2018. The Club continues to seek financial contributions from the wider membership base. There has also been response from some corporate sponsors with offers to contribute directly to specific components of the building materials or process. These offers will be developed further with the builder and sponsor.

In late 2017 the Club applied for a NSW Government Surf Club Facility Grant and on 19 December we were advised that we had been successful and a grant of $350,000 was awarded for our project. The Finance and Sponsorship Committee continues to seek other grants to direct to fit-out of specific areas and to lessen the impact on the Club of its own financial commitment.

Sutherland Shire Council has committed heavily to our project. As well as providing funding for the DA and construction it has also committed to a large range of frontage works and parks works to the rear of the Club. Council is also providing valuable support with project planning and delivery and a group of Council officers meets with Building Committee representatives on a scheduled fortnightly basis, or more often as required.

Club operationsThe establishment of good Club operations during construction has been a keenly discussed topic and one which has received considerable focus. An operational plan,

ensuring good access to equipment and other Club facilities and the operation of the Club’s essential activities has been established and continues to evolve. These operations incorporate lifesaving, surf sports, education, administration, nippers, social and community activities. Our Club Executive is planning and managing this process under the umbrella of their various briefs and will ensure an interesting, exciting and at times challenging but highly successful 2018-19 season.

NextImmediate post completion of season, the construction site is well established and demolition is well under way. No project is without issues and those encountered early are in process of resolution. I hope to be able to advise in next year’s annual report that the project is close to completion and reoccupation of the building is imminent.

In closing, I thank all of those people who helped in the latter stages of preparation, specifically the decant and store process. The working bee attendees came from all sections of the Club and are too numerous to mention by name. However, I particularly thank Bill Lloyd, Graham Bruce and Dick Bignold for the roles they played.

Importantly, I again offer my thanks and that of all Club Members to the members of the Building Development Committee who have all contributed extensively over the length of the project. They are Daniel Wood, Steve Mackay, Doug Murray, John Suann, Ken Adams, Richard Pinker, Chris Giles, Greg Holland, Lee Schmalfeldt, Alan Metti and Brad Turner. The success of this project has relied on their commitment of time and effort plus their very professional approach.

Robert Short - Convenor


KURRANULLA SWIMMING CLUBThe 2017/18 Season has been another successful year for Kurranulla Swimming Club. The hard work done by the club committee, Margaret McKeon’s social committee, and our Captain Chris Barber and Vice Captain Ann Wood who contribute to the running of competition nights and social events.

Col Elliott, Daryl Easton and Ann Wood thank you for the many weeks you three have arrived early on Wednesday nights to set up computer/printer and fill out the sheets, plus record the times.

A big mention must go to a very special Lady of our club who send’s the weekly emails and runs the club raffles Anna Cox.

The Club continues to have some great nights away at invitational swims hosted by Cronulla Sharks, Cronulla RSL, Maroubra Seals with a mixed bag of results.

Other events that were held through the year include the annual golf day at Calderwood valley, Anna’s bike challenge and State of Origin nights which are will attended by members and guest.

August brings our Life Members swim with many a club enjoying the friendship and competition, with team Tits ’n’ Bits taking the 10 a side honours this season. As Cronulla SLSC undergo renovations this year, Cronulla Polar Bears has kindly allowed us to use their space for our night.

Robert Short gained Life Membership to Kurranulla this year, he has been in the club since 1996, Race Secretary

(Handicapper) from 1999-2016, Race Starter since 2000 and continues in that role today. He has contributed to the club in many areas in Management, Social and Competition and is respected by the members.

December we hold the Xmas Family Presentation Party with members wearing their memorial “Micky Fitz “ Hawaiian attire, it is a great day with our annual award presentations to our point score and trophy winners, it is a great family day.

Finally thank you to the Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club for your continued support and the use of the COJ Monro Room for our social events.

David Hicks - Chairperson

Rob Short

REGISTRARS REPORT On behalf of Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club I welcome all new members and hope that they had an enjoyable and rewarding time over the past season.

My first year as Registrar has been very interesting and certainly a busy one. The task at hand was made a little easier with the help our office staff, Jenny Pinker (it is amazing what a coffee can do…) and Kathy Ford, and that of the Hon. Sec. Emma Larssen. I thank them, for their assistance in the processing and co-ordination of new member applications, transfers and membership category changes.

In comparison to the previous seasons membership, there was an increase in overall numbers but it was particularly pleasing to see an increase in the 13-18 years members.

Growing numbers in the General category is great to see, as these are mainly Nipper parents joining up to assist and take on various roles such as Age Group Manager. This is needed as Nipper numbers were also up from previous years.

Special mention must go to 75 Year Member, Gordan Hogarth, who reached this incredible milestone this season. Gordon joined Cronulla SLSC on the 4th January 1943, and after attaining his Bronze Medallion, gained several season’s of 100% patrol and was also a Patrol Vice Captain. Through the 1940’s and 1950’s he was an Instructor and Examiner for the Club. A great achievement!

All members are encouraged to check that their membership category accurately reflects the awards they hold and the activities they are engaged in within the Club.

A more detailed list of the club and individual membership categories appear at the rear of this annual report.

Wishing all members a rewarding and successful 2018/19 season.

Paul Larssen - Hon. Registrar

Paul Larssen - Registrar

75-Year Service - Gordon Hogarth


LIFE MEMBERS DINNERThe Life Members’ Dinner was held on Saturday 17 March 2018 thanks to the diligent work of the organising committee of Greg Holland (Convenor), Geoff Forshaw, and Kevin and Sandra Neilson. Life Members had the opportunity to catch up and relive past events and discuss current and future plans of Cronulla SLSC. The guest speakers for the dinner were two of Cronulla SLSCs outstanding Members; two time Australian Water Polo Olympian and recent Survivor competitor, Nicola Zagame and the 2016 ITU Under 19 World Sprint Triathlon champion and current SLSA Open 2km beach run champion, Nathan Breen. Both Nicola and Nathan have been Members of Cronulla SLSC since Nippers and continue to be terrific ambassadors for Cronulla SLSC and Australia.

PHOTO & TROPHY COMMITTEE REPORTOur main aim for this year was to prepare for the clearing out of all the items in the clubhouse that were the Photo and Trophy Committee’s responsibility in readiness for the building renovations to start.

We started eighteen months ago working through a mountain of paperwork and items in the Archive Room that had accumulated since our present clubhouse was built. Many important decisions had to be made as to what was important to save and what we needed to discard, keeping in mind the amount of space needed to store these items in the renovated clubhouse. Twenty-two boxes of items have gone into storage, these boxes have been numbered and itemised. I thank Ken English, Bob Johnson and Bruce Maclachlan for the many hours they spent clearing out the Archive Room, which was not the best environment to work in.

We decided after much discussion to store the mural on the stage of the Bill Marshall OAM Memorial Ballroom of our beach and clubhouse from the early 1950’s. The mural of the boat that was on the wall leading up to the Purcell Room, also

the Australian Championship Touring team photos will also go into storage. The N.S.W State point score winning plaques on the wall of the Monro Room above the fireplace had deteriorated due to salt corrosion and we have kept six of these plaques and put them into storage. The winning Crays State Championship team Perma Plaque photos that were in the entrance foyer of the Tony Purcell Room were also badly damaged by salt corrosion and had to be destroyed, fortunately we do have photos of these winning teams.

On the 27th of April our committee members Bobby Johnson, Bruce Maclachlan and myself were on hand to assist the team from Cronulla Removals to remove all the items on the walls of the Monro Room, the first floor landing and Bill Marshall OAM Memorial Ballroom.

It was sad to see the Monro Room stripped bare of its wonderful competitive history with the Perma Plaque photos of our great Australian Champions, Australian Representatives and Meritorious Award winners that were proudly displayed on the walls of this historical room. We felt the same sadness to see more of the great history of our club with the removal of our Honour Boards, Life Members and Office Bearers Boards dating back to 1908, also all of our Club

Auxiliary Life Members Seated: Faye Marshall, Rhonda Elmer, Robyn Ellis Standing: Ann Wood, Margaret McFarlane, Denise Gough

Life MembersSeated: Ian Goode OAM, John Bentley, Barry Ezzy (PE), Geoffrey Forshaw (P), John Hollingdale, Ken English, Bob Leix, Brian O’DonnellStanding: Lex Macpherson, Paul Day, Tex Morton, Frank Doran, Malcolm Butterfield, Chris Gough, Phill Hamilton, Col Elliott, Neale Johnstone, Allan Metti, Doug Murray, Brian O’Donnell, John Holt OAM, Richard Bignold, John Wilson, Greg Holland, Sandra Neilson, Robert Short, Kevin Neilson, Frank Elmer, John Salmon OAM, Peter Day


Championship Boards male and female, Crays Championship Boards male and female, and our special Award Boards from the Bill Marshall OAM Memorial Ballroom. It is hoped that much of the clubs rich history will find a place on the walls of our renovated clubhouse. There will have to be some difficult decisions as to what and how much of our history that has been taken off the walls of the Monro Room and the Bill Marshall OAM Memorial Ballroom will be able to be displayed again. My thanks to Bobby and Bruce for the assistance they gave to the removalists over many hours - ‘’great effort’’.

We obtained photos of our Australian Champions from this year’s Australian Championships from Emma Larssen by Harvie Allison, and we had them Perma Plaqued and also had the trophies engraved. We organised the framing of a Club and Patrol Cap for Nathan Wild who achieved 10 consecutive years of 100% patrol attendance for Presentation Night. We continue to display more framed photos of our early clubhouses and beach scenes. Bobby Johnson also took photos of our active members, he framed and displayed them on the wall leading up to the Monro Room.

My thanks to the members of our Photo and Trophy Committee - Ken English, Bob Johnson and Bruce Maclachlan, for your assistance throughout a very busy year. Your help was much appreciated. Bobby has been a wonderful help to me with his involvement on this committee over many years and Bruce has been a great acquisition to this committee and is the committee’s handyman. My thanks to our office ladies Jenny, Robyn and Kathy for your help throughout the year.

As I am standing down from the Photo and Trophy Committee next year I would like to thank all those past members of our committees who were of valuable assistance to me over many years. They could all be very proud of themselves when they looked around the clubhouse at what we achieved over all the years with the wonderful display of photos in the Monro Room and the display of honour boards and photos in the Bill Marshall OAM Memorial Ballroom. My thanks to Brian O’Donnell who took over as convenor of this committee for three years while I stayed on as a committee member. I must mention Keith and Betty Suann who travelled up from Bulli for eight years to attend our meetings once a month and many times twice a month. They both became family to the rest of us on this committee and they are still sadly missed.

My best wishes to the incoming Photo and Trophy Committee convenor and committee members. There will be a huge task ahead deciding on how much of our past history will be able to go back on the walls when the clubs renovations are finished. I am confident that the Club and the Photo and Trophy Committee will make the right decisions in this regard as they always have in the past.

For and on Behalf of the Photo and Trophy Committee

John Hollingdale - Convenor

JOHN HOLLINGDALE RETIRES Our esteemed Vice Patron and Life Member John Hollingdale has announced he is standing down from his long involvement with the Photo and Trophy Sub-Committee, and will not be seeking re-election.

John has given the Club remarkable and outstanding service during his twenty-nine continuous years as a member of that Sub-Committee. Of the those twenty-nine years, John was the Convenor of the Sub-Committee for twenty-six years, which meant during that time he was responsible for co-ordinating the responsibilities of this very important

operation within our Club. John’s meticulous attention to detail was most obvious during his time in charge of the Sub-Committee. Each year our many notice boards have to be sign written with the names of the many club champions and office bearers, which entails a mammoth effort to ensure all names were spelt correctly and were recorded correctly. The Committee is also responsible for hanging the photos of every Australian and World Champion within the clubhouse, as well as members of representative teams. It is Club policy that each Aussie and World Champion also receives a personal photo, which John arranges, correctly sign written and framed for presentation at the presentation night each year. This is a mammoth task, which John cheerfully accomplished every year, for nearly thirty years.

Prior to the current clubhouse renovations, the display of our collection of photos, championship boards, trophies and club memorabilia was an outstanding testament to the dedication of our longest serving custodian of our most precious items.

Our collection was often regarded as the best presented of any surf club in Australia, or anywhere for that matter. Many visitors to the Club were often blown away by all of the many historical items we had on display, and were often heard recalling that “they’ve never seen any thing like it”.

Words cannot adequately convey the Club’s sincere appreciation of John Hollingdale’s efforts during the past twenty-nine years. His contribution was far in excess of what’s considered normal or expected, and the Club can’t thank him enough for his hundreds of hours of work and dedication to a task he loved.

John, may you enjoy your well-earned retirement with the knowledge that your fellow members really appreciate everything you have done to keep our records so accurate and up to date during the past twenty-nine years. Your constant commitment, and attention to detail will be truly missed by us all.

Thanks Holly!

Barry Ezzy – Patron Emeritus

Michael Banister & Ross Diver-Tuck

John Hollingdale


ANNUAL GOLF DAY REPORT 4th May 2018 held at Woolooware Golf Club

This year’s event was presented on a nice sunny day with gusty winds appearing around midday and late into the afternoon, making play tricky. The course presented in very good order for 129 golfers, a record attendance for the event and an outstanding

result.

Our major sponsor for the 4th year in a row was Pat Bourke of Southern Cross Protection - his financial support over this period has been absolutely outstanding, he was also responsible in coercing extra hole sponsors along, he even supplied bottled water and sandwiches on course which were well received. An unbelievable effort, our events’ success was a large part of his doing, we are extremely grateful for his continued support.

The day kicked off around 10:45am with late registrations, followed closely with a magnificent burger & beer lunch in the golf club. The Ambrose event commenced with a shotgun start around noon with groups supplied with liquid refreshments by 2 drinks carts traversing front and back 9’s during the round. Through the course of the day golfers were confronted by conventional contests like longest drive for A, B & C grade, nearest the pins on the 10th and 16th with the services of a ‘golf pro’ on both holes, and novelty activities on the 14th ‘oyster’ hole - left and right hand vice versa drives (that is right handed golfers tee off left handed & vice versa for lefties) there was certainly some laughter emanating from this tee, straightest drive on 16th and a putting contest on the practice putting green, made for plenty of variety in windy testing conditions.

At the end of the round with cards checked and handed in, groups moved into the dining room for the evening proceedings, where they were greeted by our MC, Rob Short. Major Sponsors were presented with a copy of our 100 year book “The Cronulla Story” in appreciation for their generous support. Our President Richard Pinker then welcomed the playing group, thanking them for their support on the day. A dinner of alternately served barramundi & steak was then devoured by the multitude. The meal was absolutely superb, complimented by a buffet for any that still had room for a bit more.

Our guest speaker John Peard gave a magnificent presentation of footballing anecdotes relating to his time spent with such greats as Jack Gibson, Arthur Beetson and John Brass mixed with a variety of stories and jokes which had the audience captivated with raucous laughter.

The night proceeded with a super raffle, which was extremely well patronised by our guests and greatly received with the array of prizes on display, so generously donated by our contingent of prize donors. An auction then followed with auctioneer Murray Cole of McGrath’s Cronulla conducting proceedings and what a great job he did. Prizes were then awarded for the various contested events, with the evening drawing to a close at around 8.30pm.

At this point I must give gratitude’s to Brad Ulph and his

professional approach in assisting our cause, the green keepers, Lance Thompson and his catering staff for the magnificent fare and service they provided, Simon, Ben and Chris the bar managers and their staff for the ‘no fuss’ professional service they provided throughout the day. Last but not least our photographer Bob Johnson for capturing the essence of the day and our supportive band of workers organised by Chris Gough - “the working party” - who made this day the success it was, THANK YOU!!

Below are listed our sponsors and prize donors whose generous support was an integral component in also making the day a great success. Please support them for the support they showed us.

MAJOR SPONSOR: Southern Cross Protection. HOLE SPONSORS: Ayers Management, Archer, Easy Payroll, Trainer Connections Jaycee Building, Freight Power, Converged Communication Network.

MAJOR PRIZE DONORS: Infront Surf Craft, Eventhouse Cronulla, Quest Apartments Cronulla, Total Tool Taren Point, Wilson’s Shoes Jannali, Fiori’s Italian Restaurant Jannali, Oakley Sunglasses, Cronulla Sharks, Southern Star Inspections, Drummond Golf Taren Point, Rinnai, John Halpin Optometrist.

PRIZE DONORS: Bianchini’s, Bloom’s the Chemist, JD’s Bar and Grill Cronulla, X Golf Caringbah, Jensen’s Restaurant Kareela, Rocksalt Italian Restaurant Jannali, The Prince Hotel Kirrawee, Souvlaki Bar Cronulla, Notaras Seafood Cronulla, Emery’s Oysters, Signarama Miranda.

Ross Diver-Tuck and Michael (Bano) Banister

Golf Day Committee.

REPRESENTATIVE TEAMS2018 AUSTRALIAN LIFESAVING TEAM SQUAD REPRESENTATIVE

SLSNSW Team Representatives - Ngaire Hadfield & Chloe Mannix-Power

Pat Bourke


FOOD & BEVERAGE REPORTThe 1917-18 season has been a busy one for the Food & Beverage Committee.

With Angela Vanderlouw as Event Co-ordinator, the Purcell Room was indeed very busy. The bar staff and committee performed extremely well under the increased workload. Daniel Wood worked tirelessly keeping the beer lines clean for the critical palates of the members and guests, and everyone worked well together to ensure events went ahead smoothly.

The use of third parties to operate the Friday night bar and cater for food, additional functions and the Sunday BBQ was well received and highly successful. It was rewarding to see the success of the Sunday Raffles and BBQ as more members joined in to enjoy the club facilities.

The 200 Club was again a success and once more exceeded expectations for the funds raised. The Nippers held several successful functions during the year in the Purcell Room.

There were several times when the Friday night and Sunday bars had to be moved to the Munro Room, but the extra revenue made by the private functions certainly made it worthwhile.

The profit from the bar sales last season was over $60,000. I would like to extend a big thank you to all the bar staff that made this possible. The increased use of the Purcell Room also placed extra workload on the office staff, so I extend a huge thank you to Jenny, Robin and Kathy for their commendable efforts.

We thoroughly enjoyed the final “last drinks” function prior to the club closure for renovation. It was most a successful night and we were grateful for the bar staff staying on so that members could keep telling stories of the history and experiences with the club.

Please bear with us this season during the renovation as problems may arise from time to time. We look forward with anticipation to the opening of the new, improved club facilities and to once again enjoying many great social gatherings at the club.

Bill Lloyd - Convenor

200 CLUB Once again we had our very generous major sponsors of last year Craig Sims of CCNA, which is an IT supplier company, and also Jeremy Macpherson of Hot Water and Heating Gas Flame Fires.

Once again our 200 Club was a huge success, both with ticket sales and the enjoyment factor for Club Members and their families. Of course this would not be possible without a dedicated band of ticket sellers and our very generous sponsors.

To the following list of businesses and individuals I, on behalf of the Committee and Club, would like to offer my sincere thanks and gratitude for your kind donations:*JD’s Bar & Grill *Rydges Cronulla *Northies Hotel *Club Cronulla and Restaurant 41 *Miranda Hotel *JDA Hotels*Darryl Ward*Brian Hollman*Allan Metti *Scott Rofe Once again I would like to thank and congratulate Michele Cole and the nipper helpers who looked after the children on the day, entertaining them in the ballroom with a movie and ice cream.

To all the volunteers that helped on the day many thanks for the preparation of the food for the afternoon.

A big thanks to Scott Rofe, Carlo Villanti and Kevin and Sandra Neilson for their ongoing support of this function. I would also like to thank the Auxiliary for all their assistance on the day and especially from my wife Denise Gough, who is the Convenor of that committee.

To the 200 Club Committee consisting of John Bentley, Carlo Villanti, Phil Hamilton and Darryl Ward, thank you for all your support and assistance in making the day the success it was. Last but not least I would like to thank Jenny, Kathy, Robyn and Emma in the office and Paul Cavanagh for their work in the preparation of all the ticket sales and paperwork prior to and on the day.

Cheers and beers.

Chris Gough - Convenor


VALE - JOY ELAINE HITCHENSONIt was with great sadness that the club recorded the passing of Auxillary Life Member Joy Hitchenson, beloved wife of Life Member Ray, mother of Nicole, Danielle, Melissa and Gregory, mother-in-law and grandmother to their families as well as a sister to Rhonda. Joy passed away on the Sunshine Coast on the 5th of April 2018 after several years of ill health.

Joy joined the club on the 22nd of April 1985 as an associate member when the children joined nippers. Not content to sit on the sideline, she became involved with every aspect of surf club life. It wasn’t long before she found she was a natural when it came to march past, after all she was a physical education teacher. She coached both the junior and senior club over many years.

In the 93/94 season, she was elected as convenor of the Auxillary, a position she held for 8 years. In 2007 she was elected a Life Member of this committee. During this time, she also became a beach official with Sydney Branch. She loved going to surf carnivals so had intended to continue judging when she went to Queensland and joined Alexander Headlands SLSC, unfortunately her health issues intervened.

At her funeral, her family spoke of a woman who was devoted to her family and took great pride in all their achievements. She was an enthusiastic supporter at all their events often letting various referees and officials know if she didn’t agree with their rulings. This trait was never more evident than when she watched her Sharkies. She was a very vocal supporter of all things blue, black and white.

Joy will be sadly missed by all who knew her. She was a great club member and wonderful friend. On 11/11/2018 her ashes will be scattered off Cronulla.

Rest In Peace Joyous Elaine...thanks for the memories.

Denise Gough...Auxillary Life Member

VALE - LES HARDYLes was one of four brothers who joined the Cronulla SLSC in the 1950s.

After gaining his Bronze Medallion in 1954, Les was a Patrol Captain for 5 years and Open Beach Sprint Champion on two occasions. He was a member of the 1956 Open Beach Relay team, which won the NSW State and Australian titles. As well as this, Les was an outstanding rugby league player, playing for St. George and later Queensland.

Les was anxious for his family to become involved in surf life saving and as the Crays did not have provision for female members at the time, Les was lost to Elouera SLSC. Les and his family became distinguished members of Elouera in all facets of surf life saving. In 1992 Les was awarded Life Membership, an honour well deserved.

May he rest in peace.

VALE BIRTHS, DEATHS & MARRIAGESWe offer our condolences to the relatives of Members who have passed away during the year and to Members who have suffered bereavements.

DEATHSJoy Hitchenson – Auxillary Life Member (refer VALE)

Robert Cullen – Long Service member

Cid Lanser – Long Service and 50 Year Service Member

Paul McEwan – Associate Member

Dave Moss – Honorary Member, Vice President, Long Service member

Brian Briggs – Honorary Member

Jen Irvine - sister of Long Service Member Denise Rayner

Gary Schmalfeldt – father of Long Service Member Lee

Maurice Grundy - grandfather to Daryn Metti, great- grandfather to Emily & Jade Metti, and father in-law to Alan Metti

Max Street – father of Steve Street, grand-father of Alanna, Shivaun, Keegan and Tyeson

Active Member David Brukmann’s father

Audrey Stafford – grandmother of Long Service Member Dean Stafford, and wife of past Wanda SLSC Life Member Bill Stafford (deceased)

William Mako

Les Hardy – past member, brother of Long Service Member Bruce Hardy, Life Member of Elouera SLSC

Alan Cameron OAM, BEM – Life Member of North Cronulla SLSC

Harry Brown OAM – Life Member of North Cronulla SLSC

Ron Siddons OAM, MBE – past SSC Beach Inspector and Lifeguard Superintendent

MARRIAGESSarah Rayner & David Twogood

Maddison Elliott & Luke Anderson

Kimberley Short & Luke Tanielu

BIRTHSJaime Eaton (nee McKee) – baby boy

Carl Larssen – baby girl

Kimberlee Hill – baby girl

Brandi Cole & Murray Cole – baby girl

Kimberley Tanielu (nee Short) – baby boy

Lee Schmalfeldt – baby boy

Lauren Mason – baby boy

Sharne Mertell – baby girl


GARRY ALLMAN – A TRIBUTEWhen you split time between Sydney and London, you inevitably miss some of life’s milestone moments, as they unfold on the other side of the world. Weddings, funerals, boat launches. I was gutted not to be able to attend the launch of the Garry Allman surfboat, so I could not say yes quick enough when Emma asked me to pen an article about “Gaz” for the annual report. I thank her for this opportunity.

The office kindly provided a copy of Garry’s membership record, but they needn’t have bothered; anyone who knows Garry well enough, knows that he has never been near a committee in his life. And we’ll get to his competitive record in a moment. Thus, about the only thing of note on file was that Garry has now served in the capacity of Surfboat Captain and head sweep/coach, for more years than not, since he joined Cronulla back in 1997.

Garry’s love for Cronulla is partially born from the absolute disdain he holds for the other Bate Bay surf clubs. He has been heard to joke about this from time to time. “When I die, don’t scatter my ashes off Cronulla. You can wrap me up in black plastic and dump me overboard off Greenhills. I want to wash up on Wanda beach, a stinking, rotting carcass.” It’s fair to say the tempers that once flared upon mention of our northern neighbours, are now more of a warm simmer, and Garry has forged strong bonds with sweeps, coaches and rowers from not just Sydney branch but all over Australia. There must be a level of respect reciprocated, as he is even invited to stand for the boat panel on the odd occasion.

Anyone who has spent time with the boat section, will know Gaz not just as a coach or sweep, but as a great mate, probably even family. His is the face that springs to mind whenever you think of the Cronulla boaties. Short and stocky, he has biceps thicker than most rowers legs, and a chest that could rival any belt swimmer (though you will never, ever find him in the water voluntarily). He sports a mop of wavy blond hair that would befit any surfer that grew up in the 70’s, which has only just started to show signs of fading with age. Garry delights in telling people about the time he found his first grey pube, “I just picked it off the pizza and kept munching away.” He loves telling jokes (in fact, the same jokes) over and over again. When you’re onto a good thing, stick to it.

Given that his stature (and enormous upper body strength) lends itself more to holding ‘the big oar up the back’, it might come as a surprise to some, to learn that before he picked

up a sweep oar, Garry cut his teeth as an actual rower, spending several years at Elouera, where he gained his Bronze Medallion and allegedly did some patrols. Eventually he realised the sand was squeakier down the south end of Bate Bay.

As you would expect from somebody who lives and breathes surf boat racing, Garry has a drawer full of medals, with gold in nearly every division at the Sydney Branch championships, and several accolades at a State and National level too. He seems to have a knack for drawing alleys one or six (a constant bugbear, which again is now just another running joke) and also a knack for qualifying in lifesaver relay and boat medleys, sweeping many successful teams through the qualifying rounds and into State and Australian finals. To maximise the clubs ability to include star open competitors from other disciplines, Garry has been challenged with some interesting team combinations over the years, often incorporating younger members with little-to-none experience in actual rowing, leading to some exciting… spectacles.

It is almost a statistical anomaly that Cronulla’s long bemoaned Aussie gold medal drought hasn’t been broken under his watch. We have teetered on the cusp of glory several times, with some outstanding Junior and U23 crews in recent years, the odd women’s combination that has shown great promise, rounded out with an exceptionally experienced core of senior rowers that rotate through the section, year after year. These are guys that you can throw into a boat and trust with their surf skills, honed by over a decade or more in the game. I’ve always maintained that good crews make their

Garry Allman - Grind Boat Launch


own luck, and the reality is, at the top end, there isn’t room to make mistakes in this sport anymore, and dumb luck never seems to be on your side. Thus, that Aussie gold continues to elude us for the time being. What doesn’t elude however, is the famous Gaz ‘bitter taste of defeat’ which manifests as a battered sav from the Dagwood Dog stall at Aussies – a mandatory stop once your crew has been eliminated. This should come as no surprise, given we once discovered that Gaz had setup a kebab shop on speed dial.

As a licensed builder, Garry has been instrumental in several bay shed working bees, and on two occasions has completely rebuilt the ramp, as well as constructing the original front steps. When I was Club Captain, he helped construct and fit-out the new club gym – the first facility of its kind that club members could truly call our own, without and commercial interests getting in the way. He did all of this for free, with materials at cost. He has towed boats to most Australian championships and to nearly every surf carnival up and down the east coast. He repairs broke oars, charges the pump batteries, helps man the BBQ’s, checks that the lights work on the trailers, bending rowlocks back into shape, mentors new sweeps, the list goes on. These are the things that aren’t ever mentioned on any membership card, but maybe they should!

One of Garry’s most brilliant traits is his ability to be able to teach a novice - who has never picked up an oar in their life - the basics of surfboat rowing, in just a single water session. Over the years, this has been incredibly useful so that we can onboard junior rowers with confidence and integrate them into the more senior crews quickly.

Unsurprisingly, Garry has been the recipient of several major club awards, including the Gibson Howlin award in 2013 (for his contribution to training and instruction of club members) and also the Nick Dixon Memorial Boatman’s Trophy in 2007. Given that he was the Boat Captain at the time, I should clarify that he did not award this to himself.

If you ask anybody in the surfboat scene what stands out about Cronulla’s boaties, it’s our fearlessness in the surf. We are a ‘big wave’ club, much preferring to row in large surf than on a flat millpond, any day. Gaz is one of a handful of veteran sweeps around Australia, still on the carnival circuit today, that carries huge respect in the big surf. With recent tragedies at the Aussie Championships, the new, younger generation of sweeps (and rowers) will rarely, if ever again, race in the conditions that we were allowed out in 20 years ago. We once cracked an enormous 16ft screamer off the Queenscliff bombie, with Garry standing up the back. The blokes in the boat that day will never forget it and happily recount the story over a beer (where of course it gets bigger with every schooner!). Garry makes cracking waves look so easy, he could almost do it with his eyes shut.

One of the best things about the new ‘Garry Allman’ surf boat, is that it is named after a member who is still actively competing. That is a rare thing these days, and I think last time this happened, it was because Ken English came out of retirement to sweep his own namesake. This resurgence didn’t last for long thankfully, as the club was nearly sent bankrupt through the cost of repairing all of Superman’s broken oars. Gaz, on the other hand, probably holds the club record for the longest stretch of having not broken a single oar, either in training or competition, while a surfboat was under his command. It lasted well over a decade I believe, probably longer, and this alone would have saved the club a repair bill with Croker, nearly up there with the value of his new boat.

It can’t go without mention that this surfboat is not the first ‘namesake’ to bear Garry’s name, to have made itself a part

of the furniture at Cronulla SLSC. There is another, and I’m talking about that, yapping, entitled ball-of-wool that goes by the name Jim. Yes, Garry ‘James’ Allman named his prize poodle after himself. We’ve known each other for over twenty years, and I never took Garry to be a dog lover, until one day a few years back, he turned up with this black pedigree poodle (so ‘nulla these days). Gaz and Jim quickly became inseparable, from the jobsite, to coffee at Grind, to helping pull chicks at the beer garden, regular trips to Bunnings... they go everywhere together. Jim took to water like a fish, and is regularly ‘ballast’ in the boat when Cronulla crews train up and down Gunnamatta Bay. I’m not sure if Jim is the first dog to ever crack a wave in a surfboat, but he’s certainly the first to be seen doing it on Channel 7 News. Jim is also a much better swimmer than Garry ever will be, and perhaps that’s why Gaz is so at ease with Jim in the boat (he floats).

It would be remiss not to mention Linda, Garry’s wife who has to put up with her adopted surfboat ‘family’ nearly every waking hour. If ever there was a rowing widow, it was Linda, and she needs to be thanked for being so bloody tolerant over the years. There is only ever one evening every year where Garry won’t make himself available for rowing, and that is Linda’s birthday. There’s a joke there too, but I’ll let Gaz tell that one. I’m not sure when Jim was born, so it’s possible there’s now a second birthday evening permanently off the cards too. No joke.

I could go on and on about the great times I’ve shared with Gaz, his achievements and contributions over the years, and we haven’t even touched the subject of the infamous ‘C-Crew’… but we need to save something for his eulogy... So I’ll finish by saying, on behalf of all surfboat rowers that have ever had the privilege of being under his sweep oar, that we are honoured to have had Gaz ‘up the back’ and it’s fantastic that there are still future generations of rowers coming through our ranks, that will have the opportunity to be coached by Garry before he finally hangs up his club cap. There’s plenty of life in the salty dog yet. And Gaz.

Having known Gaz like family for over half my life, I can say with complete certainty that this is honour is thoroughly deserved. Let’s hope that the club can finally bring home some of that elusive surfboat ‘Aussie gold’. Keep that clown wheel turning, one day I hope we can write a song about it.

Matthew Bruce

Foreign Correspondent | Cronulla SLSC

CRONULLA SHORT COURSE SURF CARNIVALCronulla SLSC’s 7th Annual Short Course Carnival was conducted on Saturday, 18 November 2017.

Our Carnival is a major club event on the surf lifesaving sport calendar. There was a record 1170 U8 to Masters aged competitors from 21 clubs from as far afield as Port Macquarie in the North and Warilla Barrack Point to the south.

The carnival format, which is continuing to evolve, features fast and enjoyable short course racing in traditional swim, board, ski and run disciplines complemented by boutique run and ski races over longer distances.

The new 1km and 2km Beach Runs and Relays commenced at 7 am. The U8 to U13 age competitors participated from 8am to 12.30pm and the U14 to Masters age competitors raced from 1pm till 4pm. The Vici Shark Island Ski Challenge


and the FREIGHTPOWER All Age Beach Relay separated the sessions in the middle of the day.

This programme was well received as competitors and their families have the opportunity to participate in a number of races and they do not need to spend the whole day at the beach.

This year the weather and surf conditions were testing and there was a shark sighting, which closed the beach for an hour. Nevertheless the festival atmosphere prevailed with supporter stalls, club tents and club BBQ and Snow Cone stalls in the Park.

The major club sponsors were Caltex, Doran Financial Services, Letizza Pizza Bases and 7 News. In addition, support was received from Engine Swim, Ohana Ocean Athletes, FREIGHTPOWER, Get Hooded, Infront Surfcraft, Slix, and Vici Swimwear. In addition Bresnahan’s Butchers and Fine Foods, Nespresso and Smith’s Seafood, provided raffle prizes. Thank you to these valuable and sponsors, supporters and donors.

The highlights of the Carnival included:

The whole of the Club fully committed to the success of the Carnival.

Particular acknowledgement is made of the excellent work of the Auxiliary, Office, Executive, Crays, officials, water safety, patrol, first aid, IRB, and workforce.

The Crays and the Senior Club working seamlessly together as one Club to deliver a magnificent event.

Fantastic support and cooperation from the Sutherland Shire Council led by Brett Richardson and his Lifeguard Service.

Excellent promotion for the Club through John Veage at the “St George and Sutherland Shire Leader”.

Prizes, medals, trophies and random draw give-aways totalling significantly more than the $7,000 advertised, which were distributed to around 40% of the event winners and participants attending on the day.

Introduction of 1km and 2km beach runs and relays with over 70 athletes competing under the direction of Wanda’s National Coach of the Year Jock Campbell. Ali Najem of Wanda won the feature Payce Open 2km Race.

Club Member Chris Allum, now living on the Northern Beaches and competing for Queenscliff took out the Men’s Vici 2km Shark Island Ski Race.

Wanda’s Elyssa Pierce impressing to take out the Women’s Vici 2km Shark Island Ski Race and Open Ironwoman double.

Elouera’s Chris King taking out Open Ironman Race in fine style.

Cronulla SLSC showing their depth in winning the feature FREIGHTPOWER All Age Beach Relay.

The Cronulla Crays demonstrating that they are on the rise in taking out the Junior Pointscore from Elouera SLSC and winning an Infront Nipper Board.

Cronulla SLSC retaining the Frank Doran Perpetual Trophy for the Overall pointscore with 610 points ahead of Elouera on 499, Wanda on 403 and North Cronulla on 377 points and Elouera; and a sound financial return to the Club.

The Sub Committee was delighted with the outcome of the day and believes its challenge for 2018 is to refine a few small operational delivery matters and to ensure that the surf life saving community up and down the coastline continues to support our event

Greg Allum OAM - Convenor

SHARK ISLAND SWIM REPORTSunday the 4th of February 2018 marked the return of the PAYCE Shark Island Swim for its twenty-ninth year running. It was beyond pleasing to see the swim get in the water after a two year hiatus due to unfavourable conditions.

Thanks to each and every member for your assistance in the lead up to the event and on race day. Every task completed by you, the members, be it big or small is valued and doesn’t go unnoticed. I must however make special mention of every member that did water safety on the day. Events like this don’t run without that, and it is something that separates events like the Shark Island Swim from other events. The turn out from club members of all ages was amazing and the pride shown by club members, as you all turned up to the clubs biggest fundraiser, represents your respect, love and commitment you have for your club.

Whilst handing out thanks I must make mention of our wonderful organising committee of Kieran Day, Kerry Kemp, Chris Stephenson, Steve Mackay, Scott Williams, Frank Doran, Rob Short, Marcus Kennedy, Daniel Wood, Chris Chambers, Richard Pinker and Greg Hewett. In this report last year I went into some detail on what all these people do. I don’t need to go into that detail again this year, I will simply say well done!! This is a group with a can do attitude that gets it done.

Race day ran like clockwork and it was pleasing to see some solid numbers there in the 2.3km PAYCE Cronulla Shark Island Swim. We watched on as the following people filled the top three places: 1. Jesse Goodyear 2. Harry Came 3. Noah Steiner. The places in the 1km Cronulla Beach Fun Swim were: 1. Emma Southwell 2. Lachlan Vitnell 3. Nicholas Durkin. Along with various age category winners, these were the top three of both swims out of 514 entries, 347 Shark Island and 167 1km Cronulla beach fun swim.

Thanks to our valued sponsors PAYCE, Doran Financial Services, Ace Gutters AW Signs, Eyeline, Caltex, JD’S Bar and Grill, Seven News, Letizza Pizza Bases, and of course Sutherland Shire Council, who this year came on board as corporate partners. A community event such as this doesn’t work without all this fantastic support.

Kieran Day - Convenor

AUXILIARY REPORTThe 2017/2018 season has come and gone quickly just like all the others before it. There are many adjectives to describe the activities of the Auxiliary but here are a few that spring to mind...successful, fun, challenging. Each function seems to always have these elements.

Our main events this year were the AGM, Cronulla Short Course Carnival and Shark Island Swim. The latter two functions attract many members either working or competing as well as officials from other clubs and VIP’s all of whom need to be catered for. We also had scattering of ashes and assisted at the 200 Club/Christmas Party.

As always the committee carried out their duties with diligence, resourcefulness and good humour. The last one is definitely a requirement when working in the old kitchen.

On a sombre note it was with great sadness that we said goodbye to much revered Auxiliary Life Member Joy Hitchenson, wife of Ray, mother of Nicole, Danielle, Melissa and Greg and mother-in-law and grandmother to their families on the 5/4/18 on the Sunshine Coast. Joy was a


former President for 8 years as well as devoting much of her time to several other sections of the surf club. She will be sadly missed by all who knew her. RIP dear friend.

The 2018/19 season will soon be here and it promises to be a little different for our team because of the reconstruction of our club. But with the “can do” attitude of everyone involved, I’m sure we will prevail especially knowing we will have a wonderful new kitchen to work in, in the not too distant future.

In conclusion I would like to thank everyone who contributed to making each function run as smoothly as possible. Your efforts are very much appreciated. A special thank you goes to Anne Wood who took over the reigns when I was unable to attend. I am so proud to be associated with such a dedicated group of people who are keeping the tradition of the Auxiliary alive.

Wishing the Management and Members of Cronulla SLSC all the best for the coming season.

Denise Gough - Convenor

IRB CAPTAIN REPORTAnother good season has come and gone.

The season started well with the annual IRB Gala afternoon to entertain all those on the balcony, well done the all those who took part and thanks for a fun afternoon. Hope to see you all back next season for more fun and hope to see some new faces as well.

This year we have put through 24 IRB crewpersons and 10 IRB Drivers. Well done to the drivers as we had some great swell challenging us in training, so again WELL DONE.

With thanks to Hayden Sawyer, Chris Barber and Scott Rofe.

It was great to see driver’s step-up to do water safety at the surf carnivals so the competitors were able to compete for this great Club.

A BIG thanks to my Vice Captain, Graham Burt who stepped up when called upon and his great crewing ability for me at the Australia Surf Boat Rowers League Championships held at Elouera. Due to the large and challenging swell one of our own crew was injured and put out of action for the final day (I think he just has soft bones). He did however provide plenty of comic entertainment while making his way along the beach at carnivals and became an easy target for practical jokes. Thanks Carlo for some fun weekends and glad you’re all better now for the coming season.

Lastly when our NEW Club is up and running we will hopefully be able to get back into IRB Competition for anyone interested.

Robert (Max) Walker

IRB Captain

IRB SectionFront: Darcy Macpherson, Chris Barber, Jenni Trevillion, Graham BurtBack: Ryan Wood, Nick Musico, Cody Gaddes, Maj Sabai, Robert Walker, Nina Tetzlaff, William Lloyd, Chris Chambers, Phoebe La Coste, Bob Sagar, David Brukmann, Darren Colquhoun, Stuart Braine


CLUB AWARDS CRONULLA SLSC 2017-2018The excellent standard of the Nominees for the Club’s Special Awards made the task of the selectors very difficult and the deliberations that ensued are in keeping with the prestige of the Awards.

We extend our congratulations to the Winners and our sincere thanks to the Donors of the Trophies.

LUKE & JACK GIBSON MEMORIAL TROPHY For the Most Inspirational Member Donor: The late Jack Gibson OAM Holder: Marcus KennedyWinner: Darryl Easton

TONY PURCELL TROPHY The Member for his/her contribution at the Australian Surf Championships Donor: The Purcell FamilyHolder: Chloe Mannix-PowerWinner: Harry Came

GIBSON HOWLIN LAWYERS AWARDS The Member for his/her efforts in enhancing the reputation and standing of the Club Holder: Paul LarssenWinner: Darryl WardThe Member for his/her efforts in fundraising and/or innovation for the Club Holder: Ross Diver-TuckWinner: Kieran DayThe Member for his/her efforts in the Instruction and/or Training of Club Members Holder: David BrukmannWinner: Michael Roye

THE BILL MARSHALL OAM MEMORIAL AWARDAWARDED TO PATROL PERSON OF THE YEAR Donor: Marshall family Holder: Daryn MettiWinner: Paul Peters

MOST IMPROVED MEMBER Holder: Jack RobertsonWinner: Nathan Schutt

U15 FEMALE CLUB MEMBER OF THE YEARHolder: Isabellah WalkerWinner: Genevieve Reiprich

U15 MALE CLUB MEMBER OF THE YEARHolder: Sam StonestreetWinner: Will Banister

U17 FEMALE CLUB MEMBER OF THE YEARHolder: Chloe Mannix-Power Winner: Bridget Cole

U17 MALE CLUB MEMBER OF THE YEARHolder: Chris Breen Winner: Harry Came

U19 FEMALE CLUB MEMBER OF THE YEARHolder: Tara Stortenbeker Winner: Ngaire Hadfield

U19 MALE CLUB MEMBER OF THE YEARHolder: Cody Gaddes Winner: Cody Gaddes

MASTERS COMPETITOR OF THE YEAR Holder: John Pleasance Winner: Nicole Jones

WINNING PATROL CAPTAIN Holder: Nick RubbiWinner: Nick Rubbi

INSTRUCTOR’S AWARD Holder: Scott RofeWinner: Hayden Sawyer

OUTSTANDING CLUB OFFICIAL Holder: Phil ColeWinner: Carlo Villanti

NICK DIXON MEMORIAL BOATMAN’S TROPHY Holder: Ashley WrightWinner: Lewis Hannah

THE BILL FREE MEMORIAL ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD An annual grant to assist one boy and one girl to attend the Australian Surf Life Championships each year. Donor: Matthew Free Holders: Female - Diaan Vitnell Male - Mitchell PountneyWinners: Female - Genevieve Reiprich Male – Noah Steiner

THE KEN BROWN AWARD The competitor who contributes most to the Beach Section at the Australian Championships. Donor: The estate of the late Ken Brown Holder: Ngaire Hadfield Winner: Ngaire Hadfield

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE IRB SECTION Donor: Robert Macpherson Holder: Chris ChambersWinner: Phoebe La Coste


MAJOR CLUB AWARD WINNERS

LUKE & JACK GIBSON MEMORIAL TROPHY

For the Most Inspirational MemberDonor: The late Jack Gibson OAM Holder: Marcus KennedyWinner: Darryl Easton

GIBSON HOWLIN LAWYERS AWARDS

The Member for his/her efforts in enhancing the reputation and standing of the ClubHolder: Paul LarssenWinner: Darryl Ward

TONY PURCELL TROPHY

The Member for his/her contribution at the Australian Surf ChampionshipsDonor: The Purcell FamilyHolder: Chloe Mannix-PowerWinner: Harry Came

The Member for his/her efforts in fundraising and/or innovation for the ClubHolder: Ross Diver-TuckWinner: Kieran Day

BILL MARSHALL OAM MEMORIAL AWARD

AWARDED TO PATROL PERSON OF THE YEARDonor: Marshall family Holder: Daryn MettiWinner: Paul Peters

The Member for his/her efforts in the Instruction and/or Training of Club MembersHolder: David BrukmannWinner: Michael Roye


CLUB AWARD WINNERS

THE BILL FREE MEMORIAL ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD

An annual grant to assist one boy and one girl to attend the Australian Surf Life Championships each yearDonor: Matthew Free Holders: Female - Diaan Vitnell Male - Mitchell PountneyWinners: Female - Genevieve Reiprich Male – Noah Steiner

club award

MASTERS COMPETITOR OF THE YEARHolder: John Pleasance Winner: Nicole Jones

THE KEN BROWN AWARD

The competitor who contributes most to the Beach Section at the Australian ChampionshipsDonor: The estate of the late Ken Brown Holder: Ngaire Hadfield Winner: Ngaire Hadfield

club award

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE IRB SECTIONDonor: Robert Macpherson Holder: Chris ChambersWinner: Phoebe La Coste

NICK DIXON MEMORIAL BOATMAN’S TROPHY

Holder: Ashley WrightWinner: Lewis Hannah


AUSTRALIAN GOLD MEDALLISTS

Sasha Popovic U14 Male Beach Flags

Nicole Jones30-34 Female Beach Flags & 30-34 Female Beach Sprint

Dave Haggart 40-44 Male Beach Flags

Chloe Mannix-PowerU17 Female Beach Sprint

14th - 22nd April 2018 - Scarborough Beach & Trigg Island, Western Australia


14th - 22nd April 2018 - Scarborough Beach & Trigg Island, Western Australia

COACHING & COMPETITION This season has been memorable on many levels. Our competitors have banded together to be a very tight knit group. Their results are well documented in this Annual Report and gave the Club excellent results in the Overall Point scores, at both State and Aussies.

All sections were well served by their Section Heads and their helpers. Communication was evident at all stages throughout the season.

Training was well organised and involved all of our members. The logistics for next season will be difficult. This will mean that communication and support from all areas within the club is paramount.

The co-operation between the Nipper Section and the rest of the Club was brilliant at our Annual Carnival and Shark Island Swim. It was a great way to start the season and then to promote the Club and help with revenue rising. Congratulations to the Cray’s on their outstanding results at the State Championships. Looking forward to see the flow on effect to the senior part of the Club.

The results at State showed that our competitors took up the challenge after last seasons’ terrible conditions (at both State and Aussies) left them high and dry or exhausted. Well done to everyone it was really a whole team effort.

The 2018 Australian Championships threw some challenges at our Touring party, but once again putting our best foot forward we attained some great results. This was especially true in the Belt competition where teams were thrown together and skilled on the run. This was all accomplished, despite cutting a day off the competition, and putting more stress on our carers.

The training plan for next season will be finalised by the time of the distribution of this Report. With an emphasis of involvement by all, and continuing our skills and conditioning work, we are looking forward to even better results. I congratulate Hayden Allum for his hard work and expertise.

A special thank you to all members of the Coaching & Competition Committee for your hard work and support. Chris Barber has been a great support to the Committee, as have Richard Ford and Mark Redrup, who were always working hard to make everything go well for the competitors.

As I look back over the last 4 years and 4000 emails it is time for a more youthful person to take the helm and I fade into the shadows. I am pleased with what we have done and look forward to supporting all the competitors at State, Aussies and World’s.

See you near the Club,

Kevin

Convenor – Coaching & Competition Committee

Front: Richard Ford, Michael Banister, Chris Barber, Ryan WoodBack: Robert Walker, Mark Redrup, Michael Vitnell, Angelo Palamidis


AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Wayne Druery - SLSNSW Volunteer of the Year 2017

Sabina DeBatista - Surf Life Saving Sydney U9-U10 Junior Development Athlete of the year with Crays Chair, Michele Cole


COACHING COORDINATORS REPORTFirstly I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the Cronulla coaches this season. Whether it be Hayden Allum and Michael Banister at board and iron training, Michael Roye and Mike Vitnell and myself at Ski or the Beach captains Daniel Karagianis and Ngaire Hadfield who assisted me at beach training each week, we had a positive season with increased numbers in each section, and are building something quite special for the future.

Training numbers were consistently at 20 plus for the board section, around 12-15 for the ski and well in excess of 30 for the beach section (some sessions had to be split into 3 hours to accommodate individual needs). Tempo run training saw the peak in the numbers with 53 at training on one of the social dinner nights, and were consistently over 40.

Performances Again Chloe Mannix-Power and Ngaire Hadfield were our best and both achieved medals at State and Aussies, with Chloe winning her 4th sprint title in a row. A magnificent effort and just rewards for her dedication to the sport. Young up and comings Sasha Popovic (Gold in the 14 Flags) and Jacinta Davison Bunch (Silver in 15 flags) also strengthen the point score next season, as does the U15 Female relay team who achieved Bronze at the Aussies in Perth. A notable achievement on the beach was winning every Female relay at the State titles. A special thank you to Jamie Power for his assistance with the relay teams on game day at this years titles. Your help is much appreciated.

In the water Harry Came was our best winning medals at Aussies in both swim disciplines and narrowly missing a board rescue title with Callum Redrup. Noah Steiner made significant progress in the board race events and will certainly go from strength to strength as he grows into his body.

Again Cronulla tradition was continued with the Belt races at both State and Aussies. Callum Redrup and Lachlan Vitnell winning Gold at State, and at Aussies Tim Ford and Lachlan Vitnell picked up medals in the Under 19 event.

Jack Robertson was our strongest male Open competitor and has made significant progress thanks to Hayden’s guidance in the Iron man event.

Team SpiritThis season certainly felt like we were all a Cronulla family and the beach and water competitors were united as one club. A few nippers were present at senior training sessions and the momentum is positive at the moment. This is a key aspect of young people wanting to return and bring a friend or two, and we must never lose sight of this positivity.

RecommendationsWith the increasing numbers at training and the differentiation in coaching needs for maximum progress it is essential that extra personnel are engaged in the coaching team. Alex Fleming is back on board as a female coach/mentor and Sasha Vujanic will strengthen the ski coaching once again. Stuart Braine and Guy Telfer lead the board coaching team and already winter training is well attended.

Bring on season 2018/19!!

Mark Redrup – Coaching Coordinator

State Touring Team Front: Carla Papac, Isabella Turner, Elliana Pracy, Phoebe La Coste, Noah Steiner, Will Banister, Rhys Telfer 2nd Row: David Brukmann, Genevieve Reiprich, Finlay Browning, Daniel Karagiannis, Cody Gaddes, Tim Ford, Jack Robertson, Harry Came, Darcy Macpherson, Michael Banister 3rd Row: Craig Hawkings, Bastein Wallace, Nina Tetzlaff, Phill Hailton, Chris Barber, Nathan Ford, David Came, John Pleasance, Laura Came, Emma Larssen Back: Nick Musico, Ryan Wood, Tom Maile, Ngaire Hadfield, Chanel Pocklington, Matt Lisser, Alanna Street

Mark Redrup


BOARD SECTION It has been a joy for me to be involved with the board section during the 2017/2018 season. Under the guidance of Hayden Allum as head coach and with the involvement of Stuart Braine, Guy Telfer, Alex Fleming, Nathen Steiner and Mark Redrup we were in good hands. Winter sessions kicked off in July and numbers built up as the Spring sprung.

Our development squad was run on Saturday afternoons and straight away there were natural abilities in the group who were stepping up from nipper boards to the 10 footers. Nav, Ethan, Jasper and the late inclusion of Sam Braine, are all showing signs of a promising future. It was great to see another Braine in training to continue the family tradition of great board paddlers. Nav and Ethan also enjoyed cracking a few waves after training, which was great to see. Izzy, Laura and Trista transitioned really well, and with time on the mals they will only get better.

In the 15’s Naomi had some early success in the opening carnivals and shows great skills when the surf is bigger. Hopefully next season she will have more company as Australian open champion Alex Fleming mentors the girls. It would be great to see more of Izzy T, Georgia T, Ella L and Malika and I would like to encourage them to join us to build on the natural talent in that group. The boys 15’s were powerful all year lead by Noah S along with Finn B and Will B. Their relay team realised at State that they were the real deal. It was a great year for Noah who finished 4th at State and an unlucky 4th at Aussies after being in medals contention at the dying stages of the race.

In the 17’s Bree and Diaan rarely missed a session and got better and better. The boys 17’s prospered. Harry had limited board training times in his heavy schedule but is a great natural paddler and surfer. Callum is so talented as a board paddler that he could easily match with the best in the

business. With more skill in the ocean I feel this kid could be unstoppable. Nathan F gets the job done and will become the best Ford paddler very soon if the others don’t get too slack. The surprise packet was third generation paddler Rhys Telfer. Like a great race horse the blood lines have been handed down too from Bob to Guy and now to Rhys, the technician. Mitch decided to make a late start to the season and managed a 3rd in the Open Mal at the North Cronulla carnival. These guys were all backed up by Macca G and Tyson when needed for teams, it would be great to see more of Macca and Tyson next season.

The under 19’s, Lachie, Cody, Tim, Darcy and Hoani are all becoming great watermen. Whenever the surf was on they’d be the first ones out and having a dig on the sets. Their surfs skills have come a long way and they are backing it up with good results throughout the year. Lachie showed great leadership all year and I thank him for that.

The girls, Carla, Chanel and Phoebe also aren’t afraid to get out when the surf is on and all their skills training helped them in the heavy shorey at State. Carla also achieved her goal of qualifying for the Ocean 6 finals at Coolum. Congratulations on becoming a Nutri Grain Iron Woman.

Robbo lifted the vibe of our group every time he came to training, and along with that, the intensity was raised. Jack F loves coming to training and he was an enormous help with logistics, thanks Jack for being Jack.

To our coach Hayden, your knowledge and leadership was outstanding. Our kids and I have learnt so much and it was great to have a positive role model coaching our team. This influence will benefit our board section now and into the future.

From here, the sky is the limit. Call your mates, grab your board and go have fun.

Michael Banister – Board Captain

Board Section Front: Guy Telfer, Rhys Telfer, Noah Steiner, Harry Came, Malaika Walker, Isabella Turner, Michael BanisterMiddle: Stuart Braine, Chris Barber, David Brukmann, Jack Robertson, Cody Gaddes, Tim Ford, Finlay Browning, John PleasanceBack: Sam Braine Phoebe La Coste, Nina Tetzlaff, Nathan Ford, Will Banister, Darcy Macpherson, David Came, Phill Hamilton, Laura Came


BEACH SECTION REPORT Season 2017/18 has been very successful for the beach section at Cronulla SLSC. Firstly, a special thanks to our beach coach Mark Redrup who has made this season one of our most successful yet. Without all his hard work, endless hours and dedication, none of our fine athletes would be able to achieve performance goals as high as we have seen throughout this year. He has attracted several new members who have had major contributions to our competition performance, as well as implementing cross-disciple training with all other sections, competitors and club members to create a strong culture and support throughout the club members.

We had a regular turn out of up to 45 highly committed athletes to training sessions at the track, oval and beach throughout the year, in which every single athlete put in the hard work and effort required to improve. It was good to see both our young competitors and masters participating in these sessions. This hard work and dedication clearly translated into success for our competitors, with improvements seen across all carnivals throughout the season, with competitors from all ages regularly performing well in finals at all carnivals. The highlights of our season were seen at the state and Australian titles. At the state titles, the beachies earned 118

points for the club, with Cronulla taking out gold in every female relay team on finals day. Our overall medal tally was 6 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 6 bronze medals at these titles. We took this momentum through to the Australian titles in Perth, with outstanding efforts from Chloe Mannix-Power, Sasha Popovic, Nicki Jones and Dave Haggard all winning gold medals throughout the titles.

Not only were our members highly successful in representing our club, but also two of our members were selected to represent NSW at the interstate competition. Ngaire Hadfield and Chloe were selected and performed exceptionally well, with Ngaire and Chloe both winning their events in their respective age groups. I think this just shows the potential of all our athletes within the club.

Finally, I’d like to thank Ngaire for her help this season as beach vice-captain. Without all help, assistance and mentoring, my job as beach captain would have been much harder this season. Also, a thank you to all the parents and supporters, volunteers and officials who have been committed to the club and have helped every step of the way. I look forward to seeing the performance of all our athletes at the World Titles that are approaching in November, as well as for the 2018/19 season.

Daniel Karagiannis – Beach Captain


SKI CAPTAIN REPORT We are pleased with how the season unfolded. The clubs Ski Paddlers achieved some promising results during the State and Australian championships. Our dedicated Masters performed honourably, the highlight was Mark ‘Hoppo’ Hopkins claiming gold at State in the 55-59yrs individual ski. John Pleasance, Phill Hamilton, Allan and Daryn Metti showed true spirit and determination.

Our members benefited from some great mentoring and coaching thanks to Hayden Allum, who brought loads of experience and enthusiasm, bonding the team into a happy healthy squad. His insight to course strategy, training ethics and positive attitude has rubbed off onto all of our competitors who trained throughout the season. Thank you Hayden!

At the State Championships, all of our Male and Female Ski Paddlers encountered a nasty break zone in very rough conditions at the northern end of the competition area but persisted with tremendous courage and conviction. Carla Papac again showed her versatility and all round performance claiming 8th in the final of the Open Female Ski, as well as 8th in the Open Iron event. Diaan Vitnell made the Semi Final in the U17s ski, while Bridget Cole claimed a very credible 7th in the U17 Ski Final. Jayde Bagnall and Montannah Murray put in a gutsy effort to score a highly commendable 4th in the Final of the Open Female Double Ski race, only narrowly missing out on the Bronze Medal.

The limited number of Ski Paddlers who chose to compete on the other side of the country in Western Australia at Aussies,

gave it their best up against the best athletes in the country and did our Club proud.

The Annual Ski Orientation Day at the Bay was a huge success, with some very enthusiastic young Cadets displaying a talented future as ski paddlers. A treasure to the club, Michael Roye is continuing the effort to further develop the clubs future Paddlers every Sunday morning at the Bay, which has become an even more important facility during the redevelopment of the Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club. Thanks to the ongoing commitment and dedication of Mike Vitnell who has instigated and engaged our ski paddlers to participate in another season of ski paddling and racing at Swallow Rock during the off season to further enhance all paddlers technique, build strength, endurance and confidence.

Many thanks to Mark Redrup on top of everything he does for the club, for his initiative towards the development of younger paddlers.

We should also recognise some fantastic efforts by our younger members: Phoebe La Coste competing in her first true single ski open surf carnival at Queenscliffe in tricky large surf. She made it around the course showing true determination. Bridget Cole making the final in the U17 single ski on the same day - great work.

A quick thank you to all of the clubs owners of private skis who assisted in swiftly removing their skis during the decant of the club. Our paddlers will patiently endure the short-term pain of inconvenience, to enjoy the long-term benefits of the clubs new amenities and storage facilities.

Angelo Palamidis – Ski Captain

Ski Section Front: Angelo Palamidis, Michael VitnellMiddle: Mark Redrup, Phoebe La Coste, Phill Hamilton, Cody Gaddes, Jack Robertson, Tim FordBack: Tom Maile, Chris Barber, Nathan Ford, Darcy Macpherson, John Pleasance


BOAT CAPTAIN REPORTThe 2017/2018 season was a successful one for the Cronulla boat section. With several brand new rowers making up some developing crews and plenty of seasoned rowers making up the more experienced crews. We had seven crews in action this season, which started off strong with some good results from crews in the first rounds of the Warilla Bowls Surf Boat Premiership and the NSW Australian Surf Rowers League state point score carnivals and continued on with crews making finals at the Branch Championships and the Manly Open Carnival. There were great results at the Sydney Branch Championships with the Wildcats finishing 2nd and the Vision Blasters finishing 1st, beating some strong local competition and becoming the Sydney Branch Champions. Testing conditions saw some of our crews eliminated earlier than expected at the NSW State Championships. Wildcats made top 12 with our best result by the Vision Blasters who finished 6th in the final. By far the most successful carnival for our section this season was the ASRL Australian Open, which took place in our very own backyard yard at Elouera beach with near perfect surf boat racing conditions. This year the Australian Open was the biggest carnival of the season for boat rowers, with over 320 crews competing from across the country and New Zealand, it saw more boat competitors than at the SLSA Australian Championships. I am proud to say that Cronulla crews made three of the eight finals with two crews winning medals. With only four Cronulla crews entered in the carnival this is a terrific result. The season ended on a high with our boat relay team finishing 4th in the final at the Australian Titles and the Vision Blasters finishing top 8. This season, with help from our partnership with Grind coffee shop, we saw the launch of the Garry Allman Surf Boat. Garry has put a huge amount of time and effort into the Cronulla boat section over the last twenty plus years, and is very deserving of this honour. We are very grateful for Grinds generous contribution to our section. We would also like to thank Kieran Day and anybody else who helped facilitate this partnership. We would also like to thank Michelle Hawkings for officiating at carnivals and to everybody else that provided water safety at carnivals throughout the season. Crew Summaries RESERVE MEN: Riots (Ryan Wood, Brent Trotter, Adam Orford, Nick Musico, sweep Garry Allman). Solid start to the season with a 3rd in round 1, and a 1st in round 3 of the Warilla Bowls Surf Boat Premiership, finishing in 3rd Place overall in the series. Also with 2nd placings in both the Mollymook and Nth Cronulla carnivals, were in a good position to be selected for the NSW interstate representative crew. Top result of the year at the ASRL Australian Open finishing 5th in the final after a heartbreaking collision from another crew. Part of the boat relay team that finished 4th in the Australian Championships final. RESERVE WOMEN: Wildcats (Laura Fagan, Ashley Wright, Rikki Orford, Alyse Wright, sweep Garry Allman). Consistent results all season from the Wildcats, picking up placings at carnivals early in the season, but really finding some form towards the back of the season. A good result at the Queenscliff carnival and a 2nd at the Manly carnival had this crew in a good position to be selected for the NSW interstate representative crew, but just narrowly missed out. Top result of the year was a 3rd at the ASRL Australian

Open. Selected as a Sydney Branch representative crew that won the Interbranch challenge. Part of the boat relay team that finished 4th in the Australian Championships final. U/19 MEN: Vision Blasters(Matthew Blinkhorn, Lewis Hannah, Lachlan Jones, Matthew Watson, sweep Craig Hawkings). In their second season as a crew, the Vision Blasters showed a lot of improvement, regularly making finals. Finishing 4th at the Manly carnival, 6th in the NSW State Championships final, and 1st at the Sydney Branch Championships. Top result was a 3rd at the ASRL Australian Open. Selected as a Sydney Branch representative crew that won the Interbranch challenge. Part of the boat relay team that finished 4th in the Australian Championships final. U/23 MEN: Armada (Jake Cassell, Matthew Murray, Noah Park, Jono Brown, sweep Garry Allman). A very hard working crew with high aspirations. This crew would improve greatly from week to week, making finals alongside the best U/23 crews in the country. With two brand new rowers, making finals in the U/23s was a great achievement. RESERVE MEN: Party Mix (Jake Dalley, Ryan Van Zyl, Nick Halliday, Tom Halliday, Craig Sims, sweep Craig Hawkings). A good mix of experienced and developing rowers in this crew. A hard working crew that with a bit more experience, will find success. As the name would suggest, this crew maintained a healthy balance of hard work and having a good time. Some potential long-term rowers have been crafted in this crew this season. Top result of the season was progressing further through the rounds than the “Riots” crew at the State Championships. RESERVE WOMEN: Catastrophe (Bastien Wallace, Kylee Colman, Madison Vitnell, Tess Cooper, sweep Craig Hawkings). A mix of experienced and developing rowers in this crew, showed great courage racing in testing conditions throughout the season but especially at the State Championships. This crew showed a great attitude towards helping out with fundraising BBQs and other events that would require volunteers. U/23 MEN: Crab City (Luke Hawkings, Hayden Ward, Aden Simmons, Jarrad McLachlan, sweep Craig Hawkings). Injury saw not a lot of race time for this developing crew, but they showed plenty of commitment and potential for upcoming seasons. They also showed a good attitude towards helping out the section with fundraising BBQs and other events. Looking forward to building on these results in upcoming seasons.

Ryan Wood - Boat Captain


MASTERS REPORT How fast did the last 12 months go?! Now the Club is going through major re-building works, we are unsure how long this will take. However, Cronulla Masters will continue to have training sessions throughout the building process, both Winter and Summer. We will also have monthly dinners to catch up and maintain our comradery. Our Friday training sessions will commence again the first Friday after the October long Weekend. Here before we know it!

Last season kicked off with a host of surf carnivals contested by Cronulla Masters. Our very own Cronulla carnival, the North Cronulla Christmas Carnival and the Wanda Carnival to name a few. Our Masters contested these, as well as other carnivals elsewhere in the State, wearing the Sky Blue, Black and White Cronulla cap proudly. Individual results can be found in the Club’s Annual Report.

Our very own Masters Twilight Carnival was arguably the best and most successful to date. This fantastic carnival started by Col Elliott over 20 years ago continues to provide a competitive and fun evening. This was certainly evident by the smiles on all the faces. With 20 teams competing, the racing was fast, frantic and great fun to watch. North Bondi proved too strong taking out the A division for the carnival. It was great to have them back competing after missing a few years. Our Club Captain Chris Barbers’ team won the B division, finalising an awesome carnival. Once again thank you so much to everyone who helped make this carnival a great success.

Branch at Coogee was held in very trying conditions with a nasty shore dump, winds and drizzling rain. Cronulla Masters competed in both beach and water events, bringing home several medals. I must say it is nice competing in a surf carnival with our younger club members and boat crews. This certainly makes it feel like a true carnival. Personally I would like to compete at carnivals with all competitive sections - boat crews, beachies & wateries all on the one beach.

State back at Swansea was the next major carnival Cronulla Masters attended. With our athletes bringing home a bunch of medals. Nina Tetzlaff was one of our stand out competitors, winning a Silver and 3 Bronze medals. Nicole Jones was another stand out, returning to competition after having a baby. Nicole easily won Gold in the Beach Sprint & Beach Flags. An awesome

effort she repeated at Aussies in April. OUTSTANDING!!

Other noted performances were Hoppy winning Gold in the Ski Race. His best performances however were later in the day at the bar, then even later again in the evening, where he fell off his chair without spilling a drop! It was really great to have Daniel Nielsen competing again at Masters, easily winning Gold in the Tube Race. All in all, good times had by everyone. Special thanks to all Club members who assisted in Water Safety, First Aid etc.

A small team of 10 went over to Perth for this year’s Aussies - 4 wateries, 4 beachies & 2 surfers. From this 10 we ended up with 3 Gold, 4 Silver & 1 Bronze medals (actual results elsewhere in the report), a few other points from results and a lot who just missed the cut. Overall for a small team we went well, the comradery with the team was high with people jumping in where needed and racing well. It was a long way to go but a fruitful event no doubt. One comment that came from the commentators during the 70+ ironman was “these old guys still have the skill but it’s like watching a race in slow motion”, they were talking about Allan Metti (we believe the oldest water competitor) paddling past someone on the ski leg.

Next year it’s back up in QLD, so I hope to see a few more people having a go at racing for the Club. When in Master’s no one really cares how good you go as long as you have a go and complete the course, with some of the biggest cheers for those down the back of the pack.

Thanks to Daryn Metti for the Aussies report.

In closing I would like to thank Daryn for his assistance throughout the year as VC as well as everyone who made the effort to compete, train or just be involved. Your efforts make it all worthwhile.

Cheers,

Dave Brukmann - Masters Captain

Masters Section Front: Maj Sabai, Chris Barber, Phill Hamilton, Emma LarssenBack: Mark Redrup, Nina Tetzlaff, David Brukmann, David Came, Stuart Braine, John Pleasance


RACE SECRETARIES’ REPORT Both Darryl and I once again this season have had a great time with all race competitors each Sunday. We are both inspired by all the friendship and enthusiasm in each and every one of you.

There is a lot of spirit in our Club as each Sunday brings new challenges and different circumstances.

We have appreciated very much the wonderful balcony attendance on a Sunday to be a part of our raffles and receive the much sought after Sunday Surf Race Winner T-shirt.

These prizes have been very much appreciated and we thank our sponsors for allowing this to happen. They are:Frank Doran Financial Services - Sunday Surf Race Winner t-shirts (We’ve now had white, black and blue shirts so big surprise next season to see the new shirts!).Tefal (Shane Wilks) - Tefal frypans once again have been gratefully appreciated especially by all our budding chefs in the Club.Zimzala - for their $30 vouchers each week for many nice lunches or dinners.Lucy’s $25 & Archies $20 coffee & burger vouchers - for excellent meal prizes.And thanks to our new sponsors this season:Darte Group (Scott Williams) - for our race start/finish flags. We are really being noticed on the beach now!JD’s - we had a few of these vouchers this season and hoping to secure more next season.Notaras Seafood $50 vouchers - Damien Notaras has been very supportive this season wanting us all to eat healthy seafood - gotta love that!Blackwood Pantry $60 Dazzling award vouchers - Daniel Sorridimi has provided this very special award to our most outstanding competitors

this season. This award started out as a fun silly payout but with this wonderful sponsor on board it has now become an achievement to aspire to.Every competitor received a free raffle ticket and we managed to raise just over $3000 from our non-competitive members or maybe they were competitive members who were just determined to win a prize!

Most members would have come away with something throughout the season if not one of the fabulous sponsored prizes maybe a bottle of wine or free drink, but it was definitely with a smile on their face and a sense of achievement at the end of a great Club day!

Thank you to all those members who brought a smile to everyone’s faces on the balcony each Sunday!

Darryl and I enthusiastically look forward to seeing everyone young and old next season either on the beach or on the balcony with much more sun and great surf conditions!

Darryl and Wendy Ward - Race Secretaries

SUNDAY RACE RESULTS for the season are:-

Annual Point Score Winners:-

SWIMOPENS 1st Dave Brukmann 43.5 pts2nd Malaika Walker 36.5 pts3rd Marcus Kennedy 34 ptsMASTERS1st Nathan Schutt 42.5 pts2nd Nina Tetzlaff 40.5 pts3rd Maj Sibai 35 ptsVETS 1st Shane Wilks 55.5 pts2nd Greg Cooper 50.5 pts3rd Clare Walker 49 pts

SKIALL AGES1st John Pleasance 63.5 pts2nd Phill Hamilton 53.5 pts3rd Murray Cole 40.5 pt

BOARD ALL AGES1st Maj Sibai 46.5 pts2nd John Pleasance 54.5 pts 3rd Dave Brukmann 47 pts

LADIES AUXILLIARY TROPHY (December)OPENS Harry Came 14 pts MASTERS Andrew Bowring 11.5 ptsVETS John Mackenzie-Hicks 11.5 pts

PRESIDENT’S TROPHY (January)OPENS Rob Walker 10 ptsMASTERS Bronessa Smith 13 ptsVETS Greg Cooper 19 pts

CAPTAIN’S TROPHY (February)OPENS Tim Ford 8 ptsMASTERS Nathan Schutt 10.5 pts

VETS Greg Cooper 11 pts Congratulations to all winners who have competed consistently and courageously throughout this Season. Points were combined for November and December due to the fact that there were only 2 weeks of races in each of those months. Unfortunately some carnivals are clashing with our Sunday races as well as holidays, bad weather and surf conditions but with the amount of enthusiasm everyone shows up with each week, Darryl and I always try to make our Sundays possible. For your information these were the other monthly winners for the Season:

SWIM OPENS MASTERS VETSOctober Malaika Walker Marcus Kennedy Lex MacphersonMarch Paul Cox Mark Teuma Col ElliottApril Max Cooper Kelly Mountier Tania Cooper

Only annual pointscore winners for Ski and Board awarded but monthly winners were:

SKI BOARDOctober Brian Hollman & Maj Sibai Murray ColeNovember & December Daryn Metti John PleasanceJanuary John Pleasance Paul Cox February Chris Barber Neale JohnstoneMarch Phill Hamilton Dave Brukmann April John Pleasance Nina Tetzlaff

Darryl and Wendy Ward


RWC REPORT Rescue Water Craft (RWC), sometimes referred to as the Jet Ski, is operated by club members additional to their rostered patrol roster and hours. This year 6 Cronulla SLSC members were newly trained to operate the RWC to primarily patrol the Bate Bay beaches.

Cronulla RWC operators dominated the operation of the RWC for Bate Bay, which is a major achievement. Some members did up to 99 hours which is an amazing contribution to surf lifesaving and keeping our beaches safe. As a group, over 400 hours were recorded which is an amazing fete.

The RWC’s are controlled by Sydney Branch and not assigned to any specific club. The RWC is a very maneuverable watercraft and extremely fast, which aids rescues very much. They can be assigned to assist between Botany Bay and as far south as Burning Palm. Some of the rescues included several beach rescues (including a person rescuing their dog that were caught in a rip), assisting overturned & distressed boats off Cape Solander, and evacuations during bush fires at Garie. While in quieter times the RWC may be escorted by the dolphins that regularly visit Bate Bay.

Club First Name Surname Total HoursCronulla Chris Barber 26.5

Cronulla Graham Burt 91.75

Cronulla Luis Catalan 48.5

Cronulla Chris Chambers 73.25

Cronulla Nathan Schutt 99.5

Cronulla John Tangohau 61.75

Chris Barber – Club Captain


SLSNSW POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS Ryde Aquatic & Leisure Centre, Ryde 8th-9th July 2017 5th Overall (Open)

GOLDMen 17-18YRS 100M U19 Manikin TowBradley Dawson

SILVERMen Open Line ThrowPhil Cole & Angelo PalamidisMen 17-18YRS 200M U19 Obstacle RaceBradley DawsonMen 17-18YRS 200M U19 Super LifesaverBradley DawsonMen 17-18YRS 50M U19 Manikin CarryBradley DawsonMen 15-18YRS 100M U19 Manikin Carry RelayHarry Came, Bradley Dawson, Nathan Ford, Tim FordMen 17-18YRS 100M U19 Manikin CarryBradley DawsonMen 15-18YRS 200M U19 Medley RelayHarry Came, Bradley Dawson, Nathan Ford, Tim Ford

BRONZEWomen Open 200M Open Super LifesaverPhilippa EmeryWomen Open 100M Open Manikin TowPhilippa EmeryWomen Open 100M Open Manikin Carry Philippa EmeryWomen Open 100M Open Rescue MedleyPhilippa EmeryMen Open Line ThrowNathan Ford & Tim FordMen 17-18YRS 50M U19 Free w/fins Bradley DawsonMen U17 Line ThrowNathan Ford & Harry Came

FOURTHWomen Open 200M Obstacle RacePhilippa EmeryMen Open 50M Free w/o finsHarry CameMen 15-18YRS 200M U19 Obstacle Race RelayHarry Came, Bradley Dawson, Nathan Ford, Tim FordWomen 17-18YRS 50M U19 Manikin CarryPhilippa EmeryWomen 17-18YRS 50M U19 Free w/finsPhilippa EmeryMen U17 Line ThrowTim Ford & Darcy Macpherson

SIXTHWomen Open 50M Open Manikin CarryPhilippa EmeryMen 15-16YRS 200M U17 Obstacle RaceHarry CameMen 15-16YRS 100M U17 Manikin TowTim FordMen 15-16YRS 100M U17 Rescue MedleyNathan Ford

SLSNSW MASTERS POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS Ryde Aquatic & Leisure Centre, Ryde 8th-9th July 2017 8th Overall (Masters)

SILVERMen 50-59YRS 100M Manikin TowDavid CameMen 50-59YRS Line ThrowDavid Came & Phil Cole Men 50-59YRS 100M Manikin CarryDavid Came

BRONZEMen 50-59YRS 50M Manikin CarryDavid Came

FIFTHMen 50-59YRS 200M Obstacle RaceDavid Came

AUSTRALIAN POOL CHAMPIONSHIPSSouth Australia Aquatic Centre, Adelaide SA, 4th-6th August 2017 44th Overall

SIXTHMen Open Line ThrowPhil Cole & Stephen Street

AUSTRALIAN MASTERS POOL CHAMPIONSHIPSSouth Australia Aquatic Centre, Adelaide SA, 4th-6th August 2017 21st Overall

FOURTHMen 50-59YRS Line ThrowPhil Cole & Stephen Street

SLSNSW SURF BOARD RIDING CHAMPIONSHIPS One Mile Beach, Newcastle 8th September 2017

SILVER30-39 Female Long BoardEmma Larssen30-39 Female Short BoardEmma Larssen

BRONZEOpen Female Long BoardEmma Larssen

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS18TH FEBRUARY 2018

SWIM SECTIONU/15 MEN’S SURFHolder: Noah Steiner1. Noah Steiner2. Finlay Browning3. Will BanisterU/15 Women’S SURFHolder: Malaika Walker1. Isabellah Turner2. Georgia Turner3. Malaika WalkerU/17 MEN’S SURFHolder: Tim Ford1. Harry Came2. Callum Redrup3. Nathan FordU/17 Women’S SURFHolder: Rachel Gaddes1. Breanna Shipley2. Bridget Cole3. -U/19 MEN’S SURFHolder: Brad Dawson1. Tim Ford2. Brad Dawson3. Hoani TangohauU/19 Women’S SURFHolder: Emma Southwell1. Chanel Pocklington2. Cate Hochwallner3. -OPEN MEN’S SURFHolder: Tim Ford1. Brad Dawson2. Lachlan Vitnell3. Nathan FordOPEN Women’S SURFHolder: Alana Street1. Carla Papac2. -3. -Over-30 SURFHolder: Adam Murphy1. Ryan Hartup2. -3. -Over-40 SURFHolder: Stuart Braine1. Stuart Braine2. Nathan Steiner3. Daryn Metti

Over-50 SURFHolder: David Came1. David Came2. Paul Cox3. Ken AdamsU/17 BELTHolder: Callum Redrup1. Callum Redrup2. Harry Came3. Nathan FordU/19 BELTHolder: Cody Gaddes1. Brad Dawson2. Tim Ford3. Lachlan VitnellOPEN BELTHolder: Lachlan Vitnell1. Lachlan Vitnell2. Jack Robertson3. Jack FordOPEN Women’S BELTHolder: Emma Southwell1. Carla Papac2. Chanel Pocklington3. Diaan Vitnell

BOARD SECTIONU/15 MEN’S BOARDHolder: Noah Steiner1. Noah Steiner2. Finlay Browning3. Will BanisterU/15 Women’S BOARDHolder: Diaan Vitnell1. Naomi Gaddes2. Ella Lythall3. Georgia TurnerU/17 MEN’S BOARDHolder: Tim Ford1. Callum Redrup2. Harry Came3. Rhys TelferU/17 Women’S BOARDHolder: Chanel Pocklington1. Diaan Vitnell2. Bridget Cole3. Breanna ShipleyU/19 MEN’S BOARDHolder: Cody Gaddes1. Cody Gaddes2. Lachlan Vitnell3. Hoani TangohauU/19 Women’S BOARDHolder: Carla Papac1. Chanel Pocklington2. Phoebe La Coste3. Cate Hochwallner

Multi-discipline Section Front: Finlay Browning, Nathan Ford, Noah Steiner, Will Banister, Darcy MacphersonBack: Carla Papac, Phoebe La Coste, Tim Ford, Cody Gaddes, Jack Robertson, Harry Came


OPEN MEN’S BOARDHolder: Jack Robertson1. Cody Gaddes2. Jack Robertson3. Callum RedrupOPEN Women’S BOARDHolder: Alex Fleming1. Carla Papac2. Chanel Pocklington3. Nina TetzlaffMULTI-DISCIPLINE SECTIONU/15 IRON MANHolder: Noah Steiner1. Noah Steiner2. Finlay Browning3. Will BanisterU/15 IRON WOMANHolder: Malaika Walker1. Naomi Gaddes2. Isabella Turner3. -U/17 IRON MANHolder: Callum Redrup1. Callum Redrup2. Harry Came3. Nathan FordU/17 IRON WOMANHolder: Chanel Pocklington1. Bridget Cole2. Diaan Vitnell3. Breanna ShipleyU/19 IRON MANHolder: Cody Gaddes1. Cody Gaddes 2. -3. -U/19 IRON WOMANHolder: Carla Papac1. Not Contested2. -3. -OPEN IRON MANHolder: Jack Robertson1. Jack Robertson2. Cody Gaddes3. Brad DawsonOPEN IRON WOMANHolder: Alex Fleming1. Carla Papac2. -3. -

BEACH SECTIONU/15 MEN’S BEACH SPRINTHolder: Sam Stonestreet1. Sasha Popovic2. -3. -U/15 Women’S BEACH SPRINTHolder: Isabellah Walker1. Genevieve Reiprich2. Elliana Pracy3. Indie FelipeU/17 MEN’S BEACH SPRINTHolder: Lachlan Rigg1. Tom Maile2. Sam Stonestreet3. Zane ChesterfieldU/17 Women’S BEACH SPRINTHolder: Chloe Mannix-Power1. Chloe Mannix-Power2. Isabellah Walker3. Tia La CosteU/19 MEN’S BEACH SPRINTHolder: Daniel Karagiannis1. Lachlan Rigg2. Daniel Karagiannis3. Joshua Maile

U/19 Women’S BEACH SPRINTHolder: Ngaire Hadfield1. Ngaire Hadfield2. Elizabeth Rigg3. Phoebe La CosteOPEN MEN’S BEACH SPRINTHolder: Jeremy Knott1. Lachlan Rigg2. Jeremy Knott3. Sam StonestreetOPEN Women’S BEACH SPRINTHolder: Chloe Mannix-Power1. Chloe Mannix-Power2. Ngaire Hadfield3. Nicole JonesU/15 MEN’S FLAGSHolder: Sam Stonestreet1. Sasha Popovic2. -3. -U/15 Women’S FLAGSHolder: Tia La Coste1. Genevieve Reiprich2. Elliana Pracy3. Isabella TurnerU/17 MEN’S FLAGSHolder: Callum Redrup1. Sam Stonestreet2. Tom Maile3. Zane ChesterfieldU/17 Women’S FLAGSHolder: Phoebe La Coste1. Chloe Mannix-Power2. Tia La Coste3. Danielle KatzosU/19 MEN’S FLAGSHolder: Joshua Maile1. Daniel Karagiannis2. Joshua Maile3. Cody GaddesU/19 Women’S FLAGSHolder: Sunny Lucien1. Ngaire Hadfield2. Tara Stortenbeker 3. Nicole Banning OPEN MEN’S FLAGSHolder: Wayan Eka Diana1. Wayan Eka Diana2. Joshua Maile3. Tim TardentOPEN Women’S FLAGSHolder: Tara Stortenbeker1. Ngaire Hadfield2. Renee Stortenbeker3. Nicole Banning

SKI SECTIONU/17 MEN’S SKIHolder: Tim Ford1. Nathan Ford2. -3. -U/17 Women’S SKIHolder: Rachel Gaddes1. Bridget Cole2. Diaan Vitnell3. -U/19 MEN’S SKIHolder: Cody Gaddes1. Cody Gaddes2. Tim Ford3. Darcy MacphersonU/19 Women’S SKIHolder: Carla Papac1. Phoebe La Coste2. -3. -

OPEN MEN’S SKIHolder: Sasa Vujanic1. Jack Robertson2. Cody Gaddes3. Daryn MettiOPEN Women’S SKIHolder: Alex Fleming1. Carla Papac2. Phoebe La Coste3. -OPEN RESUSCITATION CHAMPIONHolder: David Brukmann/Alanna Street1. Emma Larssen2. Alanna Street3. David Brukmann

BRANCH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPSMaroubra Beach - 10th February 2018(Champion Lifesaver-Coogee Beach 3rd February) - 5th Overall

GOLDOpen Womens Beach Sprint RelayChloe Mannix-Power, Ngaire Hadfield, Nicole Jones, Renee StortenbekerU19 Mens BoatMatthew Blinkhorn, Lewis Hannah, Lachlan Jones, Matthew Watson, Craig HawkingsU19 Mens Beach SprintLachlan RiggU19 Womens Beach FlagsNgaire HadfieldU17 Mens Surf RaceHarry CameU17 Mens Board RescueHarry Came, Callum RedrupU17 Womens Beach Sprint RelayTia La Coste, Danielle Katzos, Kate Hawkings, Chloe Mannix-PowerU17 Womens Belt RaceBridget Cole U15 Womens Beach Sprint RelayGenevieve Reiprich, Ellie Pracy, Jacinta Davidson-Bunch, Indie Filipe

SILVERBoat RelayMatthew Blinkhorn, Lewis Hannah, Lachlan Jones, Matthew Watson, Laura Fagan, Ashley Wright, Elyse Wright, Rikki Orford, Jake Cassell, Matt Murray, Noah Park, Jono Brown, Gary Allman, Craig HawkingsOpen Mens Board RescueTim Ford, Jack RobertsonOpen Womens Beach SprintRenee StortenbekerOpen Womens Beach Sprint RelayTara Stortenbeker, Nicole Banning, Elizabeth Rigg, Phoebe La CosteOpen Womens Reserve BoatsLaura Fagan, Ashley Wright, Elyse Wright, Rikki Orford, Garry AllmanOpen Womens Beach FlagsNgaire HadfieldOpen Mens Belt RaceBrad DawsonU19 Womens Beach SprintNgaire HadfieldU19 Mens Belt Race

Brad DawsonU17 Mens Board RelayHarry Came, Nathan Ford, Callum RedrupU17 Mens Beach SprintTom MaileU17 Mens Surf TeamsHarry Came, Nathan Ford, Mackenzie Gavin, Callum Redrup U15 Womens Surf TeamsMalaika Walker, Isabella Turner, Georgia Turner, Ella LythallU15 Mens Beach FlagsSasha Popovic

BRONZEOpen Mens Surf RaceHarry CameOpen Womens Beach SprintNgaire HadfieldOpen Mens Surf TeamHarry Came, Brad Dawson, Tim Ford, Jack RobertsonU19 Mens Surf RaceBrad DawsonU19 Mens Board RaceCody GaddesU19 IronmanCody GaddesU19 Womens Beach SprintPhoebe La CosteU19 Womens Beach FlagsTara StortenbekerU17 Mens Board RaceCallum RedrupU17 IronmanCallum RedrupU17 Womens Board RelayBridget Cole, Chanel Pocklington, Breanna ShipleyU17 Mens TaplinHarry Came, Nathan Ford, Callum RedrupU17 Womens Beacn SprintTia La CosteU15 Mens Board RaceNoah SteinerU15 IronmanNoah SteinerU15 Mens Board RescueNoah Steiner, Will BanisterU15 Womens Surf RaceIsabella TurnerU15 Womens Beach SprintGenevieve ReiprichU15 Mens Beach Sprint RelayNicholas Atkinson, Will Banister, Bodhi Ewings, Sasha Popovic U15 Mens Beach FlagsNicholas Atkinson U15 Mens Cameron RelayFinn Browning, Bodhi Ewings, Sasha Popovic, Noah Steiner

FOURTHOpen Mens Board RelayCody Gaddes, Jack Roberston, Lachlan VitnellOpen IronmanJack RobertsonOpen Mens Rescue Tube RescueHarry Came, Brad Dawson, Open Womens Beach SprintNicole Jones


Open Womens Beach FlagsNicole BanningOpen Mens Belt RaceJack RobertsonU19 Mens Ski RaceCody GaddesU19 Womens Beach SprintTara StortenbekerU19 Womens Beach FlagsNicole BanningU17 IronmanHarry CameU17 Mens Ski RelayNathan Ford, Tom Maile, Callum RedrupU17 Womens TaplinBridget Cole, Chanel Pocklington, Diaan VitnellU17 Womens Beacn SprintKate HawkingsU17 Womens Beacn FlagsDanielle KatzosU15 Womens Board RescueNaomi Gaddes, Malaika WalkerU15 Mens Surf TeamsWill Banister, Finn Browning, Bodhi Ewings, Noah Steiner

FIFTHOpen Mens Rescue Tube RescueTim Ford, Jack Robertson, Open Womens Beach SprintTara StrotenbekerOpen Womens Beach Sprint RelayCronulla BU19 Womens Surf RaceChanel PocklingtonU19 Womens Board RaceChanel PocklingtonU19 Womens Beach SprintNicole BanningU19 Mens Beach FlagsBrad DawsonU15 Mens Board RaceNoah SteinerU15 Womens Board RaceNaomi GaddesU15 Mens Bach SprintSasha PopovicU15 Mens Beach FlagsBodhi EwingsU15 Womens Beach FlagsTamara PopovicU15 Womens Cameron RelayNaomi Gaddes, Ellie Pracy, Genevieve Reiprich, Isabella Turner

SIXTHOpen Womens Ski RaceJade BagnallOpen Mens TaplinHarry Came, Tim Ford, Cody Gaddes, Callum Redrup, Jack Robertson, Lachlan VitnellOpen Womens Beach SprintNicole BanningOpen Womens Beach FlagsRenee Stortenbeker

U19 Mens Surf RaceTim FordU19 Mens Board RaceLachlan VitnellU17 Mens Board RelayMackenzie Gavin, Mitch Pountnay, Rhys Telfer U15 Womens Cameron RelayIndie Filipe, Tamara Popovic, Georgia Turner, Malaika Walker

BRANCH MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPSCoogee Beach 3rd February 2018 - 8th Overall

GOLD130yrs Male Board RelayStuart Braine, David Came, Paul Littlejohn

SILVER40-44 Male Beach FlagsTim Tardent50-59 Male Board RaceDavid Came130yrs Male Ski RelayDaryn Metti, John Pleasance, Mark Redrup170yrs Male Beach RelayDavid Brukmann, David Haggart, Mark Redrup, Tim Tardent

BRONZE40-44yrs Male Beach FlagsDave Haggart

FOURTH150yrs Male TaplinStuart Braine, David Came, John Pleasance50-59yrs Male Tube RaceDavid Came

FIFTH50-59yrs Male Surf RaceDavid Came45-49yrs Male Surf SkiDaryn Metti50-59yrs Male Surf SkiJohn Pleasance

BRANCH AGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Maroubra Beach, 11th February 2018

GOLDU8 Male WadeLachlan TurnerU9 Female Beach SprintSabina DeBattistaU9 Female FlagsTalea MillerU9 Male Surf SwimBeau GriggsU9 Male Surf TeamCronulla ‘A’U10 Female BoardEliza DalglieshU10 Female Beach RelayCronulla ‘A’U10 Female FlagsEden TaciakU10 Male Surf SwimJackson TurnerU11 Female BoardElyssa RedrupU11 Female Board RelayCronulla ‘A’U11 Female Cameron RelayCronulla ‘A’U11 Male Board RelayCronulla ‘A’U11 Male Beach RelayCronulla ‘A’

U11 Male Beach SprintAddison RamirezU11 Male FlagsAddison RamirezU12 Female FlagsRheanna LeontsinisU12 Female 1KmHannah DalgleishU13 Male Surf Board RidingTate BrowningU14 Male FlagsSasha Popovic

SILVERU8 Male FlagsNathan SuttorU9 Female Beach SprintTalea MillerU9 Female FlagsZahli BlattmanU10 Female Surf TeamCronulla ‘A’U10 Male Beach SprintDaniel GreenU10 Male Beach RelayCronulla’A’U11 Female Surf SwimMikayla BirdU11 Female IronpersonWaverly MartinusU11 Female Surf TeamCronulla ‘A’U11 Female Board RescueCronulla’A’U11 Female FlagsCaydelan Mitchell-Bruce U12 Female Beach RelayCronulla’A’U12 Male Beach SprintJoel SteinerU12 Male FlagsJoel SteinerU13 Female Beach RelayCronulla ‘A’

Swim Section Front: Noah Steiner, Harry Came, Malaika Walker, Isabella Turner, Laura Came Middle: David Brukmann, Jack Robertson, Cody Gaddes, Tim Ford, Finlay Browning, John PleasanceBack: Nina Tetzlaff, Nathan Ford, Will Banister, Darcy Macpherson, David Came, Phill Hamilton, Richard Ford


U13 Female FlagsGeorgia EarlU13 Male FlagsChristopher Antoniou

BRONZEU8 Female WadeKara BirdU9 Female Surf SwimTia HaleU9 Female Beach SprintZahli BlattmanU9 Male Surf SwimAustin MartinusU9 Male Beach SprintAustin CrumpU10 Female Beach SprintRuby PowerU10 Male Surf TeamCronulla’A’U11 Female Surf SwimWaverly MartinusU11 Female BoardMikayla BirdU11 Female Beach RelayCronulla’A’U11 Female 1KmIsabella IngramU11 Male BoardHarry BraineU12 Male Surf SwimGus GyllenhamierU12 Male Cameron RelayCronulla’A’U12 Male Beach RelayCronulla’A’U12 Male Beach RelayCronulla’A’U12 Male 1kmNoah Duchet-CatherineU13 Female Beach relayCronulla’A’U13 Female Surf Board RidingElly HollingsworthU13 Male BoardTate BrowningU14 Female Board RelayCronulla’A’U14 Female Cameron RelayCronulla’A’

FOURTHU8 Female FlagsJasmine EatonU9 Female BoardJade SeidelU9 Male BoardBeau GriggsU10 Female Beach SprintEden TaciakU10 Male BoardJackson TurnerU11 Female Surf SwimElyssa RedrupU11 Female IronpersonElyssa RedrupU12 Female Beach SprintNicola BargeU13 Female Surf TeamCronulla ‘A’U13 Male IronmanTate Browning

U14 Female Beach RelayCronulla’A’U14 Male Surf Board RidingMathew Pontey

FIFTHU8 Male Wade RelayCronulla ‘B’U9 Female BoardTia HaleU9 Male Surf SwimJake BoyleU10 Male FlagsLevi StatevskiU11 Female IronpersonMikayla BirdU12 Female Surf TeamCronulla ‘A’U12 Female Board RelayCronulla’A’U12 Female Beach SprintMackenzie PorterU13 Female Beach SprintKendra BlattmanU13 Female FlagsKendra BlattmanU14 Female Surf TeamCronulla’A’U14 Male Beach SprintSasha Popovic

SIXTHU8 Female Beach RelayCronulla ‘A’U9 Male Austin MartinusU9 Male FlagsAustin CrumpU11 Female Beach SprintSavarna MillerU11 Female Beach RelayCronulla ‘B’U11 Female FlagsIsabella IngramU11 Male Board RescueCronulla’A’

U12 Female Cameron RelayCronulla’A’U12 Female FlagsAnnie KotisU13 Male FlagsDylan IngramU13 Male 1KmDylan Ingram

SLSNSW AGE CHAMPIONSHIPSBlacksmiths Beach, Swansea2nd-4th March 2018 - 4th Overall

GOLDAll Age Beach RelayCronulla AU9 Male Surf RaceBeau GriggsU9 Male Surf Team Beau Griggs, Austin Martinus, Jake Boyle, Henry SchneiderU10 Male Beach RelayDaniel Green, Liam Michell-Bruce, Levi Statevski, Jack StonestreetU11 Female Board RelayElyssa Redrup, Waverly Martinus, Mikayla BirdU9 Female Beach SprintSabina DeBattistaU10 Female Beach Relay Ruby Power, Isabella McDonald, Chloe Rogers, Eden TaciakU9 Female Beach RelayZahlia Blattman, Sabina DeBattista, Talea Miller, Ella Minchew U10 Female Beach FlagsEden TaciakU12 Female 1km Beach RunHanah DalgleishU11 Mixed Beach RelayDJ Kulitapa, Addison Ramerez, Elyssa Redrup, Savarna Miller

SILVERU9 Male Board RaceBeau GriggsU14 Male Beach FlagsSasha PopovicU11 Female Surf TeamMikayla Bird, Waverly Martinus, Elyssa Redrup, Jessca StonestreetU9 Female Beach FlagsZahlia BlattmanU12 Mixed Beach RelayNicola Barge, Jamie Porter, Bailey Sims, Joel Steiner

BRONZEU9 Male Board RelayHenry Schneider, Austin Martinus, Beau GriggsU10 Male Beach FlagsDaniel GreenU11 Female Board Rescue Mikayla Bird, Waverly MartinusU9 Female Board RaceJade SeidelU10 Female Beach SprintEden TaciakU13 Female Beach FlagsGeorgia EarlU11 Female 1km Beach RunElyssa Redrup

FOURTHU11 Female Surf RaceMikayla BirdU10 Female Board RaceEliza DalgleishU9 Female Board RelayTia Hale, Jade Seidel, Annabelle HowisonU9 Female Beach SprintTalea Miller

FIFTHU9 Male Surf RaceAustin MartinusU11 Male Beach FlagsDJ Kulitapa


U11 Female IronpersonMikayla BirdU9 Female Beach SprintZahlia BlattmanU13 Mixed Beach RelayChristopher Antoniou, Kendra Blattman, Zoe Taciak, Toby Tam

SIXTHU10 Male Surf RaceJackson TurnerU12 Male Beach RelayNoah Duchet-Catherine, Marko Popovic, Bailey Sims, Joel SteinerU10 Female Surf TeamTiffany Crompton, Eliza Dalgleish, Adreylle Dsouza, Emily GreenU10 Female Beach SprintRuby PowerU12 Female Beach FlagsRheanna Leontsinis

SLSNSW MASTERS RESULTSBlacksmiths Beach, Swansea 7th-8th March 2018 - 4th Overall

GOLD30-34 Female Beach SprintNicole Jones30-34 Female Beach FlagsNicole Jones30-34 Male Rescue Tube RaceDaniel Neilson 55-59 Male Single SkiMark Hopkins

SILVER30-34 Female Surf RaceNina Tetzlaff

BRONZE30-39 Female Champion LifesaverEmma Larssen30-34 Female Beach SprintNina Tetzlaff30-34 Female Rescue Tube RaceNina Tetzlaff30-34 Female Board RaceNina Tetzlaff30-34 Male Board RaceDaniel Neilson 55-59 Male 2KM Beach RunDavid Brukmann70 yrs n Over IronmanAllan Metti

FOURTH30-34 Male Surf RaceDaniel Neilson55-59 Male Iron ManJohn Pleasance

FIFTH40-44 Male Beach FlagsDave Haggart

SIXTH50-54 Male Rescue Tube RaceDavid Came

SLSNSW OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPSBlacksmiths Beach, Swansea 9th-11th March 2018 - 6th Overall

GOLDOpen Female Beach SprintChloe Mannix PowerU/19 Male Surf Belt RaceLachlan VitnellU/17 Male Surf Belt RaceCallum RedrupU/17 Female Beach SprintChloe Mannix-Power

SILVEROpen Male 2km Beach Run Nathan BreenU/19 Female Beach SprintNgaire Hadfield

BRONZEOpen Male Surf Belt Jack RobertsonOpen Female Beach SprintNgaire Hadfield U/19 Male Surf Belt RaceTim FordU/19 Male Beach SprintDaniel KaragiannisU/19 Female Beach SprintNicole BanningU/17 Male Surf Belt RaceHarry CameU/17 Male Beach SprintTom Maile

FOURTHU/19 Female 2km Beach RunCate HochwallnerU/19 Female Beach SprintTara StortenbekerU/19 Male Champion LifesaverBrad DawsonU/17 Male Surf Belt RaceNathan FordU/15 Male Board RelayWill Banister, Fin Browning, Noah SteinerU/15 Female Surf TeamLaura Came, Ella Lythall, Georgia Turner, Isabella Turner

FIFTHOpen Male 2km Beach Run Jack Robertson

SIXTHOpen Female 2km Beach RunAlanna StreetOpen Female Champion LifesaverAlanna StreetOpen Male Beach SprintJeremy KnottU/19 Male Surf Belt RaceBrad DawsonU/19 Male Beach SprintLachlan RiggU/19 Female Beach SprintPhoebe LacosteU/17 Female Surf Belt RaceBridget Cole

AUSTRALIAN YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPSScarborough Beach, Perth Western Australia 14th-15th April 2018

GOLDU14 Male Beach FlagsSasha Popovic

SILVERU15 Female Beach FlagsJacinta Davidson-Bunch

BRONZEU15 Female Beach RelayGenevieve Reiprich, Jacinta Davidson-Bunch, Elliana Pracy, Indie Felipe

FOURTHU15 Male Surf BoardNoah Steiner

AUSTRALIAN MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPSScarborough Beach, Board Riding at Trigg Island, Perth, Western Australia 16th-17th April 2018

GOLD30-34 Female Beach FlagsNicole Jones30-34 Female Beach SprintNicole Jones40-44 Male Beach FlagsDave Haggart

SILVER30-39 Female Malibu Long BoardEmma Larssen30-39 Female Short BoardEmma Larssen40-44 Male Beach FlagsTimothy Tardent60-69 Male Malibu Long BoardPaul Larssen70 Yrs & Over Male IronmanAllan Metti

BRONZE30-39 Female Champion LifesaverEmma Larssen

FOURTH70 Yrs & Over Male Single SkiAllan Metti

AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPSScarborough Beach, Board Riding at Trigg Island, Perth, Western Australia18th -22nd April 2018

GOLDU17 Female Beach SprintChloe Mannix-Power

SILVERU19 Male Surf BeltLachlan VitnellU19 Female Beach FlagsNgaire HadfieldU17 Male 2km Ocean SwimHarry Came

BRONZEU17 Male Surf RaceHarry CameU19 Female Beach SprintNgaire HadfieldU19 Male Surf BeltTim Ford

FOURTHOpen Mixed Surf Boat RelayRyan Wood, Brent Trotter, Adam Orford, Nicholas Musico, Lewis Hannah, Matthew Blinkhorn, Matthew Watson, Lachlan Jones, Rikki Van Zyl, Laura Fagan, Alyse Wright, Gary Allman, Craig HawkingsOpen Female Beach RelayRenee Stortenbeker, Ngaire Hadfield, Chloe Mannix-Power, Nicole JonesU19 Male Surf TeamBradley Dawson, Lachlan Vitnell, Tim Ford, Harry CameU19 Female Beach FlagsTara StrotenbekerU19 Male Rescue Tube RescueBradley Dawson, Lachlan Vitnell, Cody Gaddes, Harry CameU19 Female Beach RelayNgaire Hadfield, Phoebe La Coste, Tara Stortenbeker, Nicole BanningU17 Male Board RescueHarry Came & Callum Redrup

FIFTHOpen Female Malibu Long BoardEmma LarssenOpen Female Surf BeltCarla PapacU19 Female Beach SprintTara StortenbekerU19 Male 2km Beach RunHoani TangohauU17 Male Surf BeltNathan Ford

SIXTHU17 Male Surf BeltHarry Came U17 Female Beach RelayKate Hawkings, Bridget Cole, Chloe Mannix-Power, Isabellah Walker


BILL MARSHALL OAM INTERCLUB TROPHY Donor: Cronulla-Sutherland District Clubs, 1992-93

PREMIERSHIP POINTSCORE TROPHY Holder: North Cronulla Winner: Wanda2nd - North Cronulla3rd - Cronulla4th - Elouera

SECTIONAL POINTSCORE TROPHIES ‘HARRY GIBBONS SHIELD’ - SURF BOAT & IRB EVENTS Donor: Wanda SLSC 1997-98 (Based on result Wanda Carnival 3rd April 2016) Holder: North CronullaWinner: North Cronulla2nd - Cronulla3rd - Wanda4th - Elouera

‘BILL GRAY SHIELD’ - BEACH EVENTS Donor: Elouera SLSC 1997-98 Holder: North Cronulla Winner: Cronulla2nd - Elouera 3rd - North Cronulla4th - Wanda‘CRONULLA SLSC SHIELD’ - BOARD & SKI EVENTS Donor: Cronulla SLSC 1997-98 Holder: North CronullaWinner: Wanda2nd - North Cronulla3rd - Elouera4th - Cronulla

‘R. H. (BOB) JOHNSON SHIELD’ - SWIMMING EVENTS Donor: North Cronulla SLSC 1997-98 Holder: North CronullaWinner: Wanda 2nd - Cronulla3rd - North Cronulla4th - Elouera‘HARRY BROWN OAM SHIELD’ - Rescue Holder: North CronullaWinner: Wanda 2nd - North Cronulla3rd - Cronulla4th - Elouera

92ND CRONULLA-SUTHERLAND DISTRICT INTERCLUB COMPETITIONSEASON 2017-2018 ELOUERA BEACH - SUNDAY 3RD DECEMBER 2017

Beach SectionFront: Genevieve Reiprich, Eliana Pracy, Phoebe La Coste, Tara Stortenbeker, Matt Lisser, Nathan FordMiddle: Jack Robertson, David Brukmann, Mark Redrup, Elizabeth Rigg, Danielle Katzos, Tia La Coste, ???Back: Nina Tetzlaff, Daniel Karagiannis, Tom Maile, Ngaire Hadfield, Harry Came

BILL MARSHALL POINTSCORE TROPHY

Cronulla North Cronulla

Elouera Wanda

Harry Gibbons Shield Boats 3 4 1 2

Cronulla SLSC Shield Craft 1 3 2 3

Harry Brown Shield Rescue 2 3 1 4

Bill Gray Shield Beach 4 2 3 1

R H Johnson Shield Swim 3 2 1 4

TOTAL 13 14 8 15

PLACING 3rd 2nd 4th 1st


THANKS AND APPRECIATION The President, Management Committee and the Members of Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club wish to extend sincere thanks to the many individuals and organisations that have rendered material and financial assistance during the past season. We are indebted and most appreciative for the support we have received from the following, for without their assistance it would be more difficult to effectively carry out our responsibilities on the beach.

• The Board of Surf Sports (Sydney Branch), the Board of Lifesaving (Sydney Branch) and the District Supervisors for conducting Patrol inspections and examinations of our Members for their Association Awards.

• Scott Phillips, General Manager, Sutherland Shire Council, his Directors and staff.

• Sutherland Shire Councillors, particularly Mayor Cr Carmelo Pesce, his Deputy, Cr Peter Scaysbrook, Cr Michael Forshaw, Cr Carol Provan

• Scott Morrison, Federal Member for Cook, Mark Speakman SC, State Member for Cronulla, Eleni Petinos, State Member for Miranda.

• Hon. Legal Advisers, Matt Howlin and Reg Gibson, for their advice on legal matters.

• Chris Giles, Club Treasurer and Richard Pinker LM for preparing our financial records for audit and for their advice on our accounts and taxation matters.

• Baden Green of Baden J Green & Co for the work done in auditing the Cronulla SLSC accounts.

• Cronulla RSL for there assistance in accomodating the Club for various meetings whilst undergoing renovation.

• Ian Reiprich and Lee-Anne McCormack for the compilation and printing of this report.

• Vice President Bryce Christian of Christina Lodge, and Life Member Ian Goode OAM and the Directors of Cronulla Lodge, for making their ski lodges available to our Winning Patrol and 100% Patrol Attendees.

• Cliff Wallace and his staff at the ‘Sundeck’ for their generous support and hospitality shown to Club members on their snow trip weekend.

• Cronulla Polar Bears Winter Swimming Club.

• Those Members who contributed reports and content for this Annual Report.

• North Cronulla, Elouera and Wanda Surf Life Saving Clubs for their support and co-operation throughout the season.

• Cronulla Police for their assistance and advice when required.

• Harvie Allison, John Veage (The Leader), Benson Aryana from Fly Candy (cover photo), SLSNSW, Bob Johnson, Paul, Carole & Emma Larssen, Michele Cole, Jamie Power, Hayley Steiner, Neil Swane for their photography.

• The wonderful Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club Auxiliary.

• Scott Williams of D’Arte Group - for assistance with prints and stickers.

• Dr Guia Findlay as Honorary Medical Officer.

• Jenny, Kathy and Robyn in the Office for all their assistance day-to-day around the Club.

• Richard and Jenny Pinker, and Paul and Carole Larssen for their assistance and proofing of information and reports tendered. E & O E.

• And finally to all the Members and their families who travelled to the various carnivals, competing, assisting and supporting the show that is the Cronulla SLSC on tour.

Many thanks.

Aussies Touring TeamFront: Genevieve Reiprich, Elliana Pracy, Phoebe La Coste, Noah Steiner, Will Banister, Matt Lisser, Richard FordMiddle: Craig Hawkinsg, Carla Papac, Daniel Karagiannis, Cody Gaddes, Tim Ford, Jack Robertson, Harry Came, Darcy Macpherson, Ryan WoodBack: Mark Redrup, Nick Musico, Tom Maile, Ngaire Hadfield, Nathan Ford, David Came, Laura Came, Chanel Pocklington, Emma Larssen


DONATIONSWe gratefully acknowledge and thank the following Donors who have assisted us this year, including those who have contributed to our Redevelopment Capital Appeal – Building Tomorrow’s Future: Anonymous $250Roger Bamber $5,240Chris Barber $100Paul Cavanagh $150Don Chandler $500Mark Chapman $50Andrew Davis $10,000Graham Elliott $200Robert Emery $50Frank & Rhonda Elmer $260Geoff Foreshaw $1,000

Chris Giles $1,500Ian Goode $340Sarah Hall $200Greg Hewett $50John Hollingdale $200Catherine Howes $250Kurranualla Swimming Club $1,000Michele Lindsay $50Lex Macpherson $100Rodney Mason $50Faye Marshall $1,000L & H McDougall $40Michael Meehan $300Jan Moseley $10,000Dave Moss $50Leonard Murray $20

Jim Pavlic $250Francis Pengelly OAM $500R.A. Pratt $75Kevin Qualey $100Phillip Rayment $100Wayne Reilly $140Leonard Saville $250Simpson Family $5,000Michael Sinclair $500John Suann $100Neil Swane $20Robert Syme $100Trinity Grammar School $600Brent Trotter $350Ross Williams $60

SPONSORSHIPWe gratefully acknowledge all of the Sponsors who have assisted Sections of the Club during the year: Converged Communication Network - Craig Sims 200 Club Sharks Leagues Club Golf DayAllan Metti 200 Club Signarama Miranda Golf DayBrian Holman 200 Club Southern Cross Protection – Pat Bourke Golf DayDarryl Ward 200 Club Southern Star Inspections Golf DayJD’S Bar and Grill 200 Club Souvlaki Bar Cronulla Golf DayJDA Hotels 200 Club The Prince Hotel Kirrawee Golf DayJeremy Macpherson 200 Club Total Tool Taren Point Golf DayMiranda Hotel 200 Club Trainer Connections Golf DayNorthies Hotel 200 Club X Golf Taren Point Golf DayRydges Cronulla 200 Club Wilson Shoes Jannali Golf DayScott Rofe 200 Club 7NEWS JAGFrank Doran Financial Services Cronulla Carnival Aussie Home Loans Cronulla JAGFreight Power Cronulla Carnival Century 21 JAG7 NEWS General Support Cronulla Physio Focus JAGAce Gutters General Support Cronulla Surf School JAGAustralian Government General Support Doran Financials Services JAGCaltex General Support FreightPower JAGCaringbah Rotary General Support Gelatissimo - Cronulla JAGChristina Lodge Perisher General Support Infront JAGCronulla Lodge Perisher General Support Kosta Engineering JAGCronulla RSL General Support Letizza Pizza - Joseph Gilvarry JAGD’Arte Group General Support Mains Group JAGGibson Howlin Lawyers General Support Neil Swane JAGGrind Espresso General Support Niemeyers JAGIGA Lilli Pilli - A & J Khoury General Support Perfect Pipes JAGNSW State Government General Support Point Graphics JAGSundeck Hotel Perisher General Support Premier Northpac JAGSutherland Shire Council General Support Roden Security JAGThe Gymea Tradies General Support Spirit Constructions JAGArcher - Daniel James Golf Day Strata Management Services JAGAyers Management - Colin Cuthbert Golf Day Tradies JAGBianchini’s Golf Day Zeus Shark Island SwimBlooms the Chemist Golf Day Ace Gutters Shark Island SwimConverged Communication Network - Craig Sims Golf Day Caltex Shark Island SwimDrummond Golf Taren Point Golf Day D’Arte Group Shark Island SwimEasy Payroll Golf Day Doran Financial Services Shark Island SwimEmery’s Oysters & Prawns Kirrawee Golf Day Eyeline Shark Island SwimEventhouse Cronulla Golf Day PAYCE Shark Island SwimFiores Italian Restaurant Jannali Golf Day Sutherland Shire Council Shark Island SwimFreight Power Golf Day The Timing Guys Sunday Surf Race Infront Surfcraft Golf Day Archies Flame Grille Sunday Surf Race Jaycee Building - John Cigandra Golf Day Blackwood Pantry Sunday Surf Race JD’s Bar & Grill Cronulla Golf Day D’Arte Group Sunday Surf Race Jensen’s Restaurant Kareela Golf Day Doran Financial Services Sunday Surf Race John Halpin Optometrist Golf Day Fruitland Cronulla Sunday Surf Race Notaras Seafood Cronulla Golf Day Letizza Pizza - Joseph Gilvarry Sunday Surf Race OAKLEY - Justin Andrews Golf Day Lucy’s Espresso Bar Sunday Surf Race Quest Apartments Golf Day Notaras Sunday Surf Race Rinnai Golf Day Tefal – Shane Wilks Sunday Surf Race Rocksalt Italian Restaurant Jannali Golf Day Zimzala Sunday Surf Race


We gratefully acknowledge all of the Sponsors who have assisted Sections of the Club during the year: Converged Communication Network - Craig Sims 200 Club Sharks Leagues Club Golf DayAllan Metti 200 Club Signarama Miranda Golf DayBrian Holman 200 Club Southern Cross Protection – Pat Bourke Golf DayDarryl Ward 200 Club Southern Star Inspections Golf DayJD’S Bar and Grill 200 Club Souvlaki Bar Cronulla Golf DayJDA Hotels 200 Club The Prince Hotel Kirrawee Golf DayJeremy Macpherson 200 Club Total Tool Taren Point Golf DayMiranda Hotel 200 Club Trainer Connections Golf DayNorthies Hotel 200 Club X Golf Taren Point Golf DayRydges Cronulla 200 Club Wilson Shoes Jannali Golf DayScott Rofe 200 Club 7NEWS JAGFrank Doran Financial Services Cronulla Carnival Aussie Home Loans Cronulla JAGFreight Power Cronulla Carnival Century 21 JAG7 NEWS General Support Cronulla Physio Focus JAGAce Gutters General Support Cronulla Surf School JAGAustralian Government General Support Doran Financials Services JAGCaltex General Support FreightPower JAGCaringbah Rotary General Support Gelatissimo - Cronulla JAGChristina Lodge Perisher General Support Infront JAGCronulla Lodge Perisher General Support Kosta Engineering JAGCronulla RSL General Support Letizza Pizza - Joseph Gilvarry JAGD’Arte Group General Support Mains Group JAGGibson Howlin Lawyers General Support Neil Swane JAGGrind Espresso General Support Niemeyers JAGIGA Lilli Pilli - A & J Khoury General Support Perfect Pipes JAGNSW State Government General Support Point Graphics JAGSundeck Hotel Perisher General Support Premier Northpac JAGSutherland Shire Council General Support Roden Security JAGThe Gymea Tradies General Support Spirit Constructions JAGArcher - Daniel James Golf Day Strata Management Services JAGAyers Management - Colin Cuthbert Golf Day Tradies JAGBianchini’s Golf Day Zeus Shark Island SwimBlooms the Chemist Golf Day Ace Gutters Shark Island SwimConverged Communication Network - Craig Sims Golf Day Caltex Shark Island SwimDrummond Golf Taren Point Golf Day D’Arte Group Shark Island SwimEasy Payroll Golf Day Doran Financial Services Shark Island SwimEmery’s Oysters & Prawns Kirrawee Golf Day Eyeline Shark Island SwimEventhouse Cronulla Golf Day PAYCE Shark Island SwimFiores Italian Restaurant Jannali Golf Day Sutherland Shire Council Shark Island SwimFreight Power Golf Day The Timing Guys Sunday Surf Race Infront Surfcraft Golf Day Archies Flame Grille Sunday Surf Race Jaycee Building - John Cigandra Golf Day Blackwood Pantry Sunday Surf Race JD’s Bar & Grill Cronulla Golf Day D’Arte Group Sunday Surf Race Jensen’s Restaurant Kareela Golf Day Doran Financial Services Sunday Surf Race John Halpin Optometrist Golf Day Fruitland Cronulla Sunday Surf Race Notaras Seafood Cronulla Golf Day Letizza Pizza - Joseph Gilvarry Sunday Surf Race OAKLEY - Justin Andrews Golf Day Lucy’s Espresso Bar Sunday Surf Race Quest Apartments Golf Day Notaras Sunday Surf Race Rinnai Golf Day Tefal – Shane Wilks Sunday Surf Race Rocksalt Italian Restaurant Jannali Golf Day Zimzala Sunday Surf Race

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TREASURERS REPORTIt is with great pleasure that I report to you the financial results for Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club for the financial year ending 30 April 2018. This year, the club recorded a consolidated operating surplus after depreciation of $309,778, a 103% increase from 2016/17. Revenues were strong, increasing to $1,127,045 and expenditure fell to $817,267.

This result is a $40,000 improvement on our budget and is testament the diligence of the clubs management committee and all sections of the club. The focus of our committees on revenue generation – Operations, Food & Beverage, Finance & Sponsorship, Golf Day, 200 Club and Shark Island Swim is to be commended. The increased returns from these activities were outstanding. Of equal importance however, has been the responsible spending practices adopted by all areas of the club, but particularly the Coaching and Competition Committee, Lifesaving Committee and the Crays. The spending restraint shown throughout the year has shown what can be achieved when required. Such restraint places us in a good position moving into the building redevelopment period ahead.

Total cash and deposits declined by $47,664 throughout the year, to end the year at $1,185,952. We achieved a positive Operating Cash Flow of $403,490 which allowed for net expenditure on Property, Plant and Equipment of $451,154, including $376,000 of preparatory expenditure to allow the commencement of construction for the redevelopment work.

Once again, Cronulla SLSC were greatly supported through the generosity of our sponsors and donors who assisted all aspects of the clubs operations, including our very successfully run fundraising events. This year, we welcomed two new major sponsors to our club, with Grind Espresso supporting our Boat section and Aussie Home Loans with assistance to

the Crays. All of our donors and sponsors are listed elsewhere in this report, and we thank you all for your contribution.

Throughout the year, we have continued to work on securing our funding for the building redevelopment. Through the generous support from all levels of government and in particular, the assistance provided by our elected representatives, we have secured sufficient funding to complete the project. Part of this funding plan is a $1.5 Million Bank Loan which the club has secured. To reduce our reliance on this loan and reduce the long term debt burden, we have also launched a fundraising appeal, calling on members and the community to support this significant project. To those that have supported our appeal to date, thankyou for your generosity. Without the support of members such as yourself, the financial burden on the club both now and into the future would be so much greater. Donors who have given to the appeal to 30 April 2018 are listed with other club donors elsewhere in this report. Yet, since this time, we have continued to receive donations. At the time of writing, 19 people have contributed to the fundraising effort, with total donations sitting at $39,400. This is an amazing achievement, however with a total membership in excess of 1,000 I would hope that there are some more donors ready to give. No matter how large or small, all donations are appreciated – the more we can receive the less we will need to borrow.

Finally, I would like to thank the support and assistance I have been provided in my first year as Treasurer. To the office staff – Jenny, Robyn and Kathy, the support you provide to the members and that you have particularly provided to me as Treasurer is stellar. Thankyou for this support. To the executive, I have appreciated your assistance and have enjoyed working with you all. I believe the way we have approached collective decision making has been exemplary and positions us well to face the challenging period ahead. Next year, with significant expenditure due on the building and a loan to be repaid, our cash flow and budget management will be stretched. However this year has shown what we can achieve when focussed and sets us up well for the challenging year ahead.

Chris Giles - Treasurer

Chris Giles

Chris Giles


MEMBERSHIP 2017/2018 SEASONLIFE MEMBERS J W Bentley Richard B Bignold Malcolm F Butterfield Paul W Day Peter M Day Frank P Doran Colin J Elliott Frank J Elmer Kenneth E English Barry M Ezzy Geoffrey C Forshaw Richard C Garnsey Ian A Goode OAM Christopher R Gough Phillip W Hamilton Allan J Hanson Brian S Henderson Raymond F Hitchenson Gregory G Holland John H Hollingdale John R Holt OAM John E Johnson Neale T Johnstone Robert J Leix Alexander Macpherson Allan P Metti Kenneth S Morton Douglas P Murray Kevin J Neilson Sandra J Neilson Brian L O’Donnell Kenneth R O’Donnell Richard C Pinker John E Salmon OAM Robert P Short Keith R Suann John F Wilson AUXILIARY LIFE MEMBERS Robyn E Ellis Rhonda M Elmer Kim D English Denise A Gough Faye O Marshall Margaret A McFarlane

Diana M Provan Ann D Wood 75 YEAR MEMBER Gordon A Hogarth 50 YEAR MEMBER Richard B Bignold Kenneth A Bowers David E Braine Arthur J Buchan OAM John M Butterfield John P Cassidy Don D Chandler Mark W Chapman Charles W Cleary Kevin J Cox Robert P Craig Frank R Daniel Brian F Davis Paul W Day Peter M Day Graham A Elliott Frank J Elmer Rhonda M Elmer Kenneth E English Barry M Ezzy Kenneth A Fleming Ian C Formby Geoffrey C Forshaw Robert J Fraser Ian A Goode OAM Baden J Green Allan J Hanson Bruce J Hardy Brian S Henderson Raymond F Hitchenson John H Hollingdale John R Holt OAM Malcolm G Irving AM John E Johnson James K Kennedy Bernard J Key Ronald S Latta Richard T Leckner Robert J Leix Alexander Macpherson John F Maguire Kenneth J Manton Faye O Marshall Allan P Metti

Leonard J Minty Kenneth S Morton Elston H Murphy Douglas P Murray Leonard D Murray Kevin J Neilson Brian A Norwood Brian L O’Donnell Kenneth R O’Donnell Francis W Pengelly OAM Robert A Pratt Kevin P Quealy Philip J Rayment J Barry Regan Wayne W Reilly John E Salmon OAM Warren F Sawyer James Sherratt James B Silva Michael F Souter Gus B Staunton MBE John A Suann Keith R Suann William A Swingler Robert S Syme Robert G Telfer Noel R Vinson Kerry R Williams Ross A Williams John F Wilson HONORARY MEMBERS John P Cassidy Julia L Catt Bryce A Christian Robyn M Cole Troy W Eady Ruth M Enderby Guia Findlay Katherine A Ford John A Fredericks Matthew T Free Reg E Gibson Matt G Howlin Andrew J Hunter Jodie Jamieson Malcolm J Kerr OAM Sandra-Jane Marshall Vanessa F Marshall Scott J Morrison

Garry W Neilson Scott T O’Donnell Francis W Pengelly OAM Eleni M Petinos MP John W Rayner PSM Leonard F Saville Mark Speakman SC MP Gus B Staunton MBE Chris J Stephenson June M Stephenson Elizabeth B Suann LONG SERVICE MEMBERS John A Adamson Garry J Allman Christopher Allum Gregory A Allum OAM Hayden G Allum Tony B Appleyard Roger I Bamber Michael P Banister Chris A Barber Kenneth A Bowers Raymond F Bradley David E Braine Stuart D Braine Glenn D Brown Belinda R Bruce Douglas Bruce Graham Bruce Matthew G Bruce Jackie M Bryant Arthur J Buchan OAM John M Butterfield David M Came Glenn A Carter Janet C Casaceli Peter A Casaceli Paul E Cavanagh Don D Chandler Mark W Chapman Darryl G Chappelow Gary S Christie Charles W Cleary Anthony F Coffey Brandi F Cole Colin F Coles James Connolly Russell W Cooper John C Cox Kevin J Cox Paul J Cox Robert P Craig Mark P Cuddihy Brian N Dalgarno Frank R Daniel Kenneth Davidson Brian F Davis David J Day Kieran D Day Trina J de Lisa C Diver-Tuck Ross A Diver-Tuck Sarah J Dixon Kenneth E Eldridge Fern M Elliott Graham A Elliott Anthony G Everett Ryan D Ferguson Kenneth A Fleming Colin D Fletcher Richard I Ford Ian C Formby Mark Franklin Robert J Fraser Scott Frater Christopher D Giles Justian B Goode Michele M Goode Baden J Green Dave Haggart Melissa G Halpin Trevor J Halyard

Paul J Hammond James M Hanson Lucas W Hanson Bruce J Hardy Robin R Hatfield Craig A Hawkings Colin J Haywood Kym Haywood Gregory C Hewett Stewart J Hick David A Hill Gordon A Hogarth Ann L Holland Brian L Hollman Mark T Hopkins Bradley J Hughes Malcolm G Irving AM David Isaacs Stanley J Izzard Mark J Jackson Robert W Johnson William S Jury George A Kendrick James K Kennedy Bernard J Key Robert B Lancaster Brian T Lapham Carl Larssen Carole A Larssen Emma Larssen Kari Z Larssen Paul R Larssen Ronald S Latta Stephen J LeBreton Richard T Leckner Elizabeth J Lodge Roger D Lord Elizabeth M Lyon Stephen J Mackay Scott G Mackey Bruce H Maclachlan Jennifer J Maclachlan John F Maguire Christine F Mallett Raymond Mallett John P Mamacan Steven T Mannion Kenneth J Manton Andrew J Mayfield Daniel J McLellan Daryn S Metti Glenn C Milton Leonard J Minty Paul M Moran Brian R Morgan Richard R Morgan Garry J Morris OAM Nicholas P Morynko John W Moseley Elston H Murphy Leonard D Murray Michael P Murray Daniel J Neilson Brian A Norwood David O’Brien Simon J O’Donnell Adam J Orford Matthew J Payne Jennifer A Pinker John R Pleasance Stephen J Pocklington Bronwyn E Porter Robert A Pratt Heiko H Preen Richard C Procter Kevin P Quealy Philip J Rayment Denise Rayner J Barry Regan Wayne W Reilly William D Robertson Scott A Rofe

Philip C Rowe Michael J Roye Don G Saunders Warren F Sawyer Lee M Schmalfeldt Alan T Schofield Leonard B Setco Ivan Sherratt James Sherratt Kimberley A Short Philip H Short James B Silva John W Simpson Mark W Simpson Craig A Sims Michael F Souter Deacon Spicer Dean W Stafford Nathan J Steiner Gregory J Stewart John A Suann Neil R Swane David A Swingler Michelle L Swingler William A Swingler Robert S Syme Warwick D Syphers Timothy M Tardent Colin Tatham Guy J Telfer Robert G Telfer Peter D Tibbitts Wayne G Tibbitts Brent C Trotter Rikki Van Gabrielle R Vassallo Noel R Vinson Clare Walker Robert E Walker Bastien L Wallace David B Wallbank Kenneth G Warburton Darryl R Ward Wendy L Ward Mark Warzuger Graham R Watson Ken J Watson Adam C Weir Bryan G Wild Shane M Wilks Kerry R Williams Ross A Williams Robert S Wilmington Craig S Wood Daniel J Wood Eric J Wood Ryan A Wood Tom L Wood Michael J Woodruff Alyse P Wright Joanne Wynn Joanne T Zagame John V Zagame RESERVE ACTIVE MEMBERS Kathryn C Bignold Maddison M Elliott Phillip J English Matthew Henderson Nicole E Jones Jeremy L Macpherson Michael J Maughan Sean J McFarlane-Bentley Murray J Schofield Lorissa Smith Bradley D Turner Luke A Wood Nicola M Zagame ACTIVE 18 YEARS & OVER MEMBERS Ken C AdamsJudy Alexander

MEMBERSHIPMEMBERSHIP AS AT 30 APRIL 2018 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16*Patron, Vice Patrons, President, Deputy President and Senior Vice Presidents

12 12 12

Life Members 37 37 37 *Auxiliary Life Members 8 9 9 *50 Year Members 74 76 78 *75 Year Members 1 0 0Honorary Members 36 40 41Long Service Members 215 221 227Reserve Active Members 13 16 13Active 18 years & over Members 177 174 200Active 15-18 years Members 59 50 39Cadet 13-15 years Members 84 83 81Award Members 52 48 45Associate Members 100 109 116General Members 73 57 30Junior Activity Members Ages 5 -13 years 597 565 550SUB TOTAL 1538 1497 1478 *Less those members in more than one category

-95 -97 -99

TOTAL 1443 1400 1379


Kenneth N AndersonJayde BagnallJordan A BaileyNicole BanningMichael J BarberMitchell C BarberZoe A BarberJamyka BlattmanHelen J BoshellDavid C BowlingOlivia C BrooksJonathan BrownDavid E BrukmannJo BuchananSean G BunchGraham L BurtPeter ButcherMark CameronDamien CarltonGeorgia E CarterJake T CassellLuis A CatalanJake P CavanaghTiarne R CavanaghChris ChambersJonathan M ClarkDianne M ClearyScott D ClearySue E CohenDaniel P ColePhil A ColeDarren ColquhounJessica ColquhounGregory R CooperJubal J CooperTania J CooperTess E CooperAnna T CoxAnnalyse CraneJames W CromptonIlana CroweRory P CurranDavid Dalla-CaminaJake G DalleyWayan E DianaPaul Dickins

Renee A DrueryWayne J DrueryRodney J DunnDarryl J EastonMichael EisbacherJessi ElliottLaura K FaganAlexandra L FlemingJack R FordPeter FynnDarryl GaddesCharles GluskieTony GreenwoodNgaire HadfieldNicholas HallidayThomas HallidayKerrie E HammellPeter HampsonLewis HannahMark J HardickRyan B HartupDaniel HawesLuke A HawkingsRichard W HedleyKylee HeslopChristopher N HodgeTristan W HowisonMark R HuntleyMelissa L IrwinScott D JacksonRyan J JohnsonKatrina L JonesLachlan J JonesCraig J JordanKerry KempLauryn D KennedyMarcus F KennedyDaniel N KerrJames G KerrJeremy A KnottCraig J LambertonEmma E LisserPaul D LittlejohnWilliam L LloydSunny R LucienJoshua D Maile

Cassandra J MannionRachel J MannionNicole M Mannix-PowerRebecca MayfieldGlenn R McLachlanJared McLachlanJason L MortimerKelly MountierBradley J MulcahyMathew MurrayJoanna MuscatNicholas MusicoMark NeweyKerry A O’NeillCarlo OpreniAngelo PalamidisGeorgina PalamidisCarla I PapacGeorge PapasNoah T ParkJanine T PatonPaul J PetersScott F PhillipsJessica A PinkerRachel M PinkerHarris J PocklingtonChonteau L PootJamie PowerGeorgina C RedrupMark A RedrupJack A RobertsonEric RoeLauren A RofeWojciech K RogulskiKenneth V RoseberyCatherine M RubbiNick A RubbiBrendan J RussellBob J SagarRodd SanchezHayden T SawyerNathan SchuttBrigitta SchynsRobert J ShortMaj SibaiAden R Simmons

Mark J J SimpsonBronessa E SmithCraig K SmithEmma SouthwellStuart M SpencerRobert Stanley-JonesRenee C StortenbekerTara E StortenbekerAlanna V StreetKeegan D StreetShivaun K StreetJohn M TangohauAnnette L TaskerNina S TetzlaffMark A TeumaAshleigh J TimbrellJennifer J TrevillionRyan Van ZylCarlo VillantiChiara VillantiTahlia VillantiMaddison N VitnellSasa VujanicDavid A WalkerHayden WardAdam D WatsonMatthew WatsonRichard WendenWalter WeteringsNathan J WildDane S WilliamsScott J WilliamsBen WolskiAshley WrightPeter D WyerJames E YoungLuke V Zagame ACTIVE 15-18 YEARS MEMBERS Cory Adamson Sumaya Akkawy Joshua K Auld Emma L Barber Matthew Blinkhorn Christopher G Breen

Zac A Brooks Harry D Came Bianca M Candiago Zane Chesterfield Bridget V Cole Samara J Cooper Henry J Cunningham Bradley J Dawson Tayla A de Stewart F Dunn Philippa J Emery Guillaume Ferrer Nathan T Ford Tim I Ford Quentin Fracheboug Cody A Gaddes Rachel K Gaddes Mackenzie R Gavin Nathan Hartley Courtney A Hildebrandt Cate T Hochwallner Bridget Hollingsworth Connor Johnson Daniel C Karagiannis Phoebe J La Madison A Larsen Matthew A Lisser Darcy L Macpherson Sleiman Mahmoud Thomas J Maile Chloe Mannix Lachlan Mayfield George Palamidis Samuel C Payne Alec Pittet Chanel C Pocklington Mitchell M Pountney Ryan Power Callum J Redrup Elizabeth C Rigg Lachlan G Rigg Georgia E Robinson Malte Schott Christopher L Soravia Samuel P Stonestreet Tyeson D Street

Hoani Tangohau Karina P Tangohau Ruby M Thomas Jai A Villanti Lachlan L Vitnell Logan P Walker Maximillian G Walker CADET MEMBERS 13-15 YEARS Sarah-Bronte Andrikis Tegan Anthony Nicholas B Atkinson William G Banister Jessica M Barber Brett Bothma Samuel Braine Finlay M Browning Riley Burden Laura Came Allegra J Candiago Andrew T Carlton Aaliyah Chami Hamzah Chami Harry J Cook Max G Cooper Angus S Cunningham Lara Da Palma Rosa Amelia G Dalgleish Jacinta A Davidson-Bunch Lara De Battista Zoe L Duchet Amie L Dunlop Bradley J Dunn Bodhi E Ewings Indie Felipe Henry W Fisher Naomi S Gaddes Kayla Garcia Trista R Gibson William Gyllenhammer Tom Hallett Ryan Hartley Rhys J Hausler Demie Hawkes


Grace L Hawkes Kate L Hawkes Omnie N Hawkes Kate M Hawkings Hannorah D Hay Caityn F Johnson Mikaila Kadlec Annabella Kalabric Danielle A Katzos Jess Knight Isabella R Kotis Tia M La Jarod Lackey Zafira Leontsinis Ella G Lythall Yehya Mahmoud Hayley M Mayfield Taliyah L McCarthy Lara P McCauley Emily R Metti Ethan P Miller Declan J Mulcahy Bryson Peters Matthew Pontey Zack Pontey Sasha A Popovic Tamara Popovic Ashleigh Porter Crystal J Pountney Elliana R Pracy Genevieve Reiprich Tayla J Robinson Breanna M Shipley Ethan S Shipley Lucy A Stanley-Jones Noah J Steiner Nicholas Stonestreet Rhys J Telfer Liam R Thomas Billy L Thoroughgood Navrin W Tumeth Georgia G Turner Isabella R Turner Diaan E Vitnell Isabellah F Walker Jasper T Walker Malaika C Walker Charlotte R Williams Lili-Rose S Windle AWARD MEMBERS Patricia M Allum Gene C Austin Sean Blattman Nathan A Breen Jayleen Bruce Helena Candiago Paul F F Cavanagh Darren Chin Jason R Crowe Stephen Cunningham Rohan de Carle Jamie A Dowling Michelle A Druery Matthew Earl Jenny Easton Mark C Elmer Kelly Ford Adam Gee Renae L Geronimo Gary M Hawkes Grant Howell Rebecca Ingram Cheryl Kay David C LeCornu Andrew Lisser Carolyn A Macauley Bodie McCarroll Garth McCullough Kylee McDonald Jonathan McKenzie-Hicks Adam M Murphy

Andrew M Murray Erin L Murray Georgia A Murray Kate A Murray Montannah J Murray Ian Reiprich Natashia P Reiprich Danny Robinson Nathan Robinson Benjamin Schneider Sue Scott Judy M Shakeshaft Martin Shipley Stephen J Street Barry D Stumbles Blair D Tumeth Gabrielle Turner Kellie Walker Richard P Whipp Paul Whitmore Ai Wood ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Kim Alexander Louie Antoniou Ken Auld Sue G Banister Rachael Barton Scott Belcher William P Birdsall Maria Bradbury Brendan Braid Col M Bramley Matthew Burns Ian C Buxton Paul Byrnes Cathie M Cashmere Leigh Chandler Leanne Clark Ian J Colaco Michele R Cole Murray R Cole David B Cunningham Roslyn M Dalgarno Andrew Davis Bronwyn P Davis Catherine M Davis Rachael Dawson Jack de Ian J de Montfort Lynn P Diblasi Lindsay E Dodds Mark Dreves Maureen Edwards Maree Emery Nicole K Everett Lyn K Farmer Michael G Forshaw Rick Foster Di Garland Rodney H Garland Kristie C Garnsey Rick Garnsey Warren L Gee Luke P Geelan Cheryl A Giles Barry D Gove Garry Greenhalgh Chris J Gregory Michael D Hanrahan Stephen Harper Grant B Hartley Ian F Hartup Elizabeth A Hassall Michelle M Hawkings Rodney Heidenreich Janice L Iredale Yolanta Janic Ellena Johnstone Greg J Kendrick Nicole L Kennedy-Browning Michael P Kenny

Stuart P Lazell Eleni H Leontsini Graham D Lythall Margaret J McKeon Dean E McLennan Murray McLeod Gaille N McPhee Ingrid Moon Leonie F Murray Wendi A Murray Caron M Nakkan Wolly Negroh Vicki Nettle Helen E Norman Matthew K O’Connor Peter O’Driscoll Sandra V Papac Robert Peile Mark S Pescud Cheryl Poppett Peter R Poppett Gaye M Porter Stephen J Ritchie Zel Salmon Deborah A Short Sherie V Skaines Callum J Smith Stephen D Strawbridge Zoran Tadic Kevin Tiller Angela Vanderlouw Adrianne M Vassallo Michael D Vitnell Gregory J Wall Jennifer Wild Megan L Williams Wendy L Williams Denis R Woodland Lesley A Woodland Mathew R Wylie Roger Young GENERAL MEMBERS Matthew A Aitken Terri Barge Jason E Borg Andrew W Bowring Russell W Brinckley Cameron A Byrne Jamie D Carbery Constantine Christofaris Jarrod Crump Anthony G Dalgleish Jason G Dalgleish Kelly Dalgleish Jason J De Battista Danielle Devereux Peter J Dick Ben Dillon-Smith Bruce Dixon Brent Eaton Lisa Eisbacher Lisa Ellis Scott Fava Danielle M Field Quentin J Field Peter J Fitzpatrick Josephine Giaouris Michael R Griffiths Brad J Grimson Rebecca K Hayes William R Hetherington Bill S Holden Elizabeth Huntley Justin M Ingram Neil Irvine Michelle Jacobs Teneale Kinnas Jeffrey Kotis Luisa Kulitapa Darryl La Yvette M Larkin Hayley Leek

Harry Leontsinis Wayne H Lewis Nicholas D Maggio Kris F Martinick Treaven G Martinus John Maunder Jen M McLean Briana McNeil Ella J Milton Trent J Milton Glenn A Muddle George Ordenes Miranda Palmer Konstantin A Petrichev Don S Robertson Natasha C Seidel Monika H Sherratt Scott R Shimada Trent N Smith Damian Stonestreet Tamara Summers Matthew Suttor Helen Taiaroa Shane Treloar Caroline M Tumeth Nick Vaitsas Daniel Waller Danielle M Williams Scott D D Williams Mark Wilson Gerard M Winston Isabel R Workman Nicholas J Young JUNIOR ACTIVITY MEMBERS 5 – 13 YEARS Kye Adams Chloe B Addison Oscar Addison Harriet G Aitken Lucy A Aitken Paris Alcorn Hannah Alford Grace A Allcroft Thomas J Allcroft Talitha Altundag Thomas Altundag Domenic Amalfi Baladeva C Anderson Bonnie N Anderson Ted E Anderson Abby Andrikis Laura Andrikis Bonnie Angus-Paterson Christopher Antoniou Leroy V Aquino Koa Arnold Thomas J Ashton Luca Atzeri

Leonardo Azurdia Pablo Azurdia Charlee E Baden Roman Badorrek Dryson Bagnall Ashton M Bahls Brody Baldwin Kupa Baldwin Bobby Barczak Kayla M Barge Nicola Barge Joshua Barsoom Marcus Barsoom Zoe Barsoom Calani Bates Marcus Bazan Thomas Bazan Marcus Bernard Samuel N Bernard Xavier Bernard Kara Bird Mikayla Bird Joel A Bishop Imogen Bissaker Kendra Blattman Zahli A Blattman Sian E Borg Willem Botha Ryan Bothma Alexander Bowring Archer R Bowring Matilda Bowyer Scarlett Boyanton Jake L Boyle Leilah Bradbury Frankie R Bradley Harrison Braine Hayden Brinckley Lachlan R Brinckley Ava Brogniez Tate J Browning Danielle Brus Lilia B Buhagiar Piper E Buhagiar Chloe Bunt Keira Bunt Tyson N Burden Callum Byrne Rocco Candiago Lyla J Carbery Roxie M Carbery Isabel Carroll Samuel J Carter Ben R Cash Grace M Cash Myra Castillo Angela Catalan Jacob Chami

Zachariah Chami Isabella Chin Kirrilly Chin Alessia C Christofaris Michael C Christofaris Harrison Clarke Billy Cliff Jeremy Cliff Denzel Cole Ava Collins Georgia Comroe Archie M Cook Archie Copeland Oscar T Copeland John W Coventry Cash Crawley Liliana Cribb Ricky J Crompton Tiffany L Crompton Novak Crossley Eden Crowe Shana Crowe Austin Crump Zander Crump Gabriel Cunha Marina Cunha James G Cushway Lee J Cushway Eliza J Dalgleish Hanah Dalgleish Olivia A Dalgleish Sabina De Battista Saskia M De Battista Jude de Carle Ava Degnan James Degnan Jett De-Jong-Dowse kye Dejong Rosaria Di Cesare Lucas Diamond Hayden Dick Joshua Dick Chelsea Dietrich-Cullen Isabella Dietrich-Cullen Jethro D Dillon-Smith Billy J Dixon Elizabeth A Dixon Jack M Dixon Luke R Dixon Ryan T Dixon James Domazetovski Sophie Domazetovski Estella A Donelly Amalee G Doyle Charlie E Doyle Adryelle K Dsouza Arlen E Dsouza Noah Duchet


Charlotte Dunimagloski Katherine L Dunimagloski Max A Dzarasov Charlize Earl Georgia K Earl Angus J Easton Samuel K Easton Jasmine L Eaton Lachlan B Edhuse Samuel Eisbacher Zachary E Eisbacher Trent Elias James Ellis Rhett Ellis Allira M Elson Wyatt C Elson Kaspar Emmanouilidis Rubyrose Emmanouilidis Nicholas D Everett Kosta Falas Peter Falas Tori M Falas Samuel R Fale Gianna Faraca Lola C Faughey Olive W Fava Poppy C Fava Rocco Fava Baradyne Fernando Djurali Fernando Indiana Field Talia Field Charlotte B Flanagan Joshua Ford Kira Ford Sarah Ford Hannah Franklin Scarlett Franklin Mackenzie Franks Tommy A Franks Zac Frater Reid A Frazier Max D Furlong Brent E Gaddes Jai Garcia Jarvis Gear Lloyd A George Phoebe Giaouris Ethan S Gibbs Ellexa B Gibson Thomas G Giles Noah Gilsenan Saulei Gilsenan Eloise Godlewski Eva Goode Marlee J Goode Harry Goold Aimee L Gougeon Sarah Gould-Rahman Emily Grant Aleah M Green Coco Green Daniel R Green Emily Green Kanesha Green Mitchell T Green Zara Green Angus C Griffin Tobias M Griffiths Harrison Grigg Beau R Griggs Lulu Grimson Stella Grimson Luca Guiotto Victoria Guseva Gus A Gyllenhammer Mani A Hale Tia Hale Charlize Hall

Kiara J Hall Lucy Hallam Mitchell C Hampson Toby S Hampson Joshua Hannah Dylan Harris Jayde Hartup Lachlan J Hawton Mia Healey Francesca C Hedley Scout E Hedley Jax Herman Oliver Hetherington Eyerus Hillman Jebari D Hillman-Mawson Josiah A Hillman-Mawson James Hodge Marcus E Hodge Chance Hodgson Elly L Hollingsworth Lola Hopcroft Trinity J Hope Harry Horn Piper Hough Kai M Howell Annabelle Howison Ellie Howison Angus J Hughes Poppy J Hughes Charli J Hunter Benjamin Huntley Koby Hyde Erin Hyland Mya Ibanez Dylan H Ingram Isabella Ingram Dylan Irvine Mitchell F Irvine Madeleine Jacobs Ella-Jae A James Mia Jamieson Emilio Jara Kian Jayaseelan Anabelle L Jimenez Jack Johnson Jee Jones Ava Julian Bede Julian Bianca M Julian Brielle Julian Ruby-Rose I Kak Angelina Kalabric Antonio Kalabric Adam J Karim Samuel A Karim Victor Karpenkov Amelia H Katon Isaac Katon Andrew Katsanis Cooper F Kelly Jake Kelly Noah Kelly Max Kennedy Tahlia Kennedy Taya Kennedy Sullivan Keogh Alyssa R King Lucas Kinnas Sienna Koehler Ava Kome Van D Kome Annalize Kotis Alegra Krcmar Eva Krcmar Olivia M Krcmar Byron F Krivohlavy David J Kulitapa Jol Lambiris Sinead Laney Tiffany Larsen

Guy Lashwood Sophie S Leek Rheanna Leontsinis Emily Lewis Rory C Lewis Zak H Little Taine O Littlejohn Taj P Littlejohn Kye Lloyd Ava Longinidis Renee Longinidis Benjamin Lowe Charlotte Lowe Sophie B Lythall Jackson L Mackay Jolina G Mackay Ethan R Maclachlan Harry Maclachlan Isabella M Maggio Sophia Maggio Scarlett Maguire Hala Mahmoud Hannah Mahmoud Charlotte Mahoney Claudia Malouf Charlotte Mariano Chase Mariano Bronte-Rose Marks Capri Maroney Paris S Maroney River Maroney Annie Martinick Austin J Martinus Jarrah Martinus Waverly Martinus Riley Maskiell Zoe Matthiesen Noah Mattiuzzo Sienna Mattiuzzo Alisha M Maunder Liam R Maunder Harry S McAfee Jake McAfee Jack McCann William H McCann Jaidyn McCarroll Saige McCarroll Billy McDonald Brodi J McDonald Hamish McDonald Isabella McDonald William McFayden Kingston E McHugh Ava McLean Grace McLean Lucy McLean Brody McLellan Ty McLellan Harry C McNeil Hunter McRae Scarlett McRobbie Savarna Miller Talea R Miller Raffaella Mills Tyler Milton Ella Minchew Jacob W Minchew Caydelan Mitchell-Bruce Liam Mitchell-Bruce Kian Moreno Costa Shadon Moreno Costa Haydan D Mortimer Tristan E Mortimer Sophie E Mountier Thomas J Mountier Summer Muddle- William Munro Finn Murphy Grace Murray Joseph Murray Joshua Murray

Sophia Murray Ava Nelson Charlotte Nicholls William Nickerson Matilda C Noon Saoirse C O’Brien Hannah O’Brien-Brennan Lukas V O’Farrell Hayden Oliver Christopher Ordenes Diego Ordenes Mary J Ordenes Sophie O’Sullivan Archer Ousey Justin (Yuta) Oyagi Lara E Ozay Harry C Palmer Jack Palmer Chloe F Papachristoforou Michael A Papadakis Addison A Pass Darcy Paszyn Pyper A Paszyn Jordan Paterson Wade F Patterson Alexander Petri Dion Petri Phillip Petri Maxim Petrichev Tenzer Petterson Bronte K Phillips Zara J Phillips Alannah Pike Giorgia E Pike Thomas Pike Sasha Platthy Marcus Plowman Mila Plowman Lachlan Pontey Zoe Pontey Benjamin J Poole Ryan Poole Eva Popovic Marko Popovic Jaime Porter Mackenzie Porter Cooper Poulter Billie Powell Ruby Power Cooper Pride Lachlan Pride Louise Priestley Ella Proudfoot Mairi Pumarol Charlize J Quan Gisele J Quan Lani Raco Leya Rafferty Mehthiini Ragaven Addison Ramirez Yvette Ramirez Giorgia E Ratcliffe Martina L Ratcliffe Bethany Reader Caitlin Reader Jayden Redfern Elyssa Redrup Mia L Reeves Elijah Reid William Reid Kubera Reilly Baxter Roach Fraser Roach Dene B Robinson Isaac Robinson Chloe M Rogers Beau Rogerson Niclas Rogulski Claudia M Rosandic Cruz Rose

Kyuss Rose Tynan Rose Marcus Rosier Leonardo R Russo Olympia Russo Samuel F Saeemadarae Amelie W Sanchez Olivier W Sanchez Cooper J Sanders Jackson Sanders Sophia Santillana Joshua T Sarich Annabelle H Schneider Caitlin Schneider Henry Schneider Abigail Schutt Oliver Schutt Ashton Scott Cameron Scott William Scott Noah Scully Jade Seidel James Seidel Sebastian Severino Jack Shearer Kobe Sheridan Beatrice Shimada Gilbert Shimada Alexander G Shipley Aaron Siklosi Emma Siklosi Hugo R Simmons Abbie Simms Holly Simpson William Simpson Bailey C Sims Holly T Sims Jai T Sivamogga Vishnu T Sivamogga Mia Sloman Austin Smith Bailey J Smith Bridie W Smith Jayden J Smith Malachi Smith River Smith Sebastian Sondak Jaxon Sowter Gabriella Spink Elimia Stambolija Isabella Stambolija Jacob Stanceski Sarah J Stanley-Jones Archie Stanton Maddie Stanton Levi Statevski Kiara Steed Joel Steiner Will Steiner Lachlan Stevens Serena Stevens Aiesha R Stevil Elias Stevill Bronson Stewart Sascha Stewart Jack O Stonestreet Jessica Stonestreet Kai Street Miley Stuart Liam Sullivan Paige Sullivan Olivia Z Summers Tomas M Summers Poppy Surridge Benjamin Suttor Nathan Suttor Jackson Swingler Eden L Taciak Zoe Taciak Isaac J Taiaroa Henry Tam

Piper Tam Toby Tam Amiirah D Targett Lachlan J Targett Sofia Taylor Konan Taylor Kayne R Telfer Chloe A Teuma Xavian M Thorne Lauren Toffoli Brady Tomkins Jake Tomkins Lola Tomkins Riley Tomkins Yifei Tong Bryson Townsend Chenay Townsend Denan Townsend Kade Townsend Eliana Trajkovic Andrei Trokovski Oscar G Tuffin Aden W Tumeth Caleb Tumeth Jamie Tune Harrison Turner Jackson D Turner Lachlan Turner Felix B Tyquin Oliver Unwin Erin Vaitsas Ryan D Van Der Kristina Vergos Oliver B Voisey Tarnie V Walker Summer Waller Adam Wannous Chloe Washington Aachie Wassens Archie L Wassens Jacinta Watson Zane K Watson Angus Weir Kiara Wheele Stirling Williams Marley F Wilson Andy Winston Anna-Kay Winston Kylie Wood Maximilian Workman Aydan A Wright Hunter Young Jonathon Young Aiden J Zandt Will Zandt Louis Zanetti

EST. 1907

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