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December 2018 Inside this issue

From the Committee page 1 Club Website 2

Events Wrap Up 2

Calendar of Events 4 From the Coach 4

If anyone has any news items and/or photos, etc, please email to the club at sorrentotennis@westnet.com.au .

Website: www.sorrentotennisclub.com.au

From the Committee Seasons Greetings to you all! As 2018 draws to an end, the committee would like

to sincerely thank all the staff members, coaches and volunteers for their efforts in making it a very

successful year. We would also like to thank all of our sponsors for their valuable contributions to the club

during 2018.

Club Renovations The club renovations are now completed and the

clubrooms are looking amazing. Many thanks to the City of Joondalup for funding the capital works which included a redesign of the bar and storage areas, upgrading the players area and foyer, sprucing up the bathrooms and fixing the outside paths, drainage and patio pavers. A special thank you to Anna Thrumble ,

Cath Fitzgerald and Kate Dawson for their work in refurnishing the renovated rooms with style and flair,

and to Carol Darby for her generous fundraising to contribute towards the cost of the new furniture.

Thanks again to all members, staff and visitors for your patience and cooperation during the

renovations.

2018-19 Committee

We now have a full Committee as follows:

President Barbara Troncone Vice President John Genovese

Secretary Pamela Bardetta Treasurer David Le

Club Captain Ben Cribb Ladies Captain Suzanne Lucas

Social Directors Cath Fitzpatrick and Kate Dawson

IT Media & Comms Daniel Triantopolous

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Please note that the Club will need to update its Constitution before the 30 June 2019 so an

Extraordinary General Meeting will be called to approve the new Constitution and there might be changes at that time. Members will be kept fully informed during the process, so watch this space.

Club Website Please note that we have a new club website: sorrentotennisclub.com.au Thank you to Daniel Triantopolous for all of his work in setting this up.

Events Wrap Up Open Day Open day was held on October 13th to welcome in the new summer tennis season. The weather was kind to us this year and it was a great day. The

Mayor of the City of Joondalup the Hon Albert Jacob, and the member for Carine Tony Krsticevic MLA,

came along to help in the celebrations, together with our own Club Patron Mel O’Neil. The day was a wonderful success with many members, visitors and children enjoying some fun tennis and yummy food in the newly renovated facilities. Crowd favourites included the face-painting, balloon twisting, crèche, sausage sizzle and pulled pork buns. Thank you to all of the helpers who contributed to the success of this wonderful event.

Volunteer Achievement Award Finalist We congratulate Dianne Broome who was a finalist

for a Volunteer Achievement Award at the Tennis Industry Awards held on 12 October 2018. Dianne has been running the LAB program on Tuesday mornings for 9 years. The program allows young parents to get involved with tennis on Tuesday mornings during school term while their kids are being cared for in the crèche on site.

Dianne has done a fantastic job and shown a huge

level of commitment to the club over the past 19 years through her volunteering on committee positions as well as the LAB program– Congratulations Dianne!

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Club Member of the Year 2017/18

Suzanne Lucas was awarded the Club Member of the Year Award 2017/18 at the Open Day presentations.

This award is usually announced at the Club Dinner which was held in May, but it was held in abeyance

because Suzanne was on the other side of the world at that time on her amazing holiday.

Suzanne has been volunteering at the club for several

years now and is always the first to put her hand up to help out with any events, tournaments, functions or busy bees. She has also been a member of the committee for 3 years now as our Ladies Captain- Congratulations to Suzanne!

OBEs OBE awards are presented to club members when they become octogenarians (Over Blooming Eighty!) Congratulations to our latest recipients:

• Margaret Martin

• Noreen Askey

• Bill Hawthorn

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2018 Mixed Doubles Spring Tournament

The Mixed Doubles Open Spring Tournament was held on Sunday 7 October this year. Once again it

was a great day with 48 participants vying for the win in 4 graded round robin divisions. The weather was

amazing and great fun was had by all, with winners and runners up walking away with tennis vouchers.

wine & chocolates after toughing it out on the courts over 5 sets. It was a fantastic day with great sporting spirit and scrumptious food- if you missed out, start thinking about organising a partner for next year’s event. Thank you to all the committee members and volunteers who helped run the event.

Calendar of Events

Upcoming events: 15 Dec 2018 Christmas Party- from 3.30pm

6-10 Jan 2019 CoJ Junior Hardcourt Tournament

From the Coach

On Friday 7 Dec Instyle Tennis ran the City of Joondalup Primary School Tennis Competition. This

year there were 8 schools competing with 192 players! Davallia Primary School, Poynter Primary, Hillarys Primary, Sorrento Primary, Marmion Primary, Landsdale Primary, Craigie Heights Primary and Duncraig Primary all competed hard with big crowds of parents and supporters watching on. It was a fantastic event with Duncraig winning overall, Sorrento Primary won year 2 & under, Duncraig Primary won the year 4 & under and HIllarys Primary

won the year 6 & under- Congratulations!

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Summer Pennants Update The first half of summer pennant season is over! Great job by all teams and parents, fantastic learning and progress by players through the rounds. Ladder Positions after round 6 Jr State League boys 3rd Girls 16 div 2 4th Boys 16 div 2 6th Boys 16 div 4 5th Girls 14 div 6 4th Boys 14 div 5 6th Boys 14 div 9 1st Boys 14 div 10 5th Boys 12 div 1 1st Boys 12 div 2 1st Green ball d 1 6th Green ball d 2 2nd Green ball d 3 2nd Green ball d 5 2nd

Green ball d 8 6th Green ball d 11 6th Orange div 1 4th Orange div 5 4th

Good luck to all players embarking on the

tournament scene this Dec/Jan, and don’t forget that we have the big gold state tournament here at Sorrento from Jan 6-10 straight off the back of the Hopman Cup. Here is the link for the event https://tournaments.tennis.com.au/sport/tournament.aspx?id=047E5485-83D7-4880-8845-D3D0280F0916 Development Squad Holiday Training It’s time to get planning on summer activities. Online

enrolments are open for our Yellow Ball holiday training program:

Development Holiday Training Week 1: Dec 18 - 21 (Tue-Fri)

Development Holiday Training Week 2: Jan 22 - 25 (Tue-Fri) Development Holiday Training Week 3:

Jan 29- Feb 1 (Tue-Fri)

Thank you to all players, parents and coaches for not just an amazing term, but year! We love this club

and coaching here and having such a fantastic group of both junior and adult players contributes big time

to this! We look forward to 2019 with you all and our coaching team will have the exciting return of

Ashleigh! Enjoy the break and please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any queries :)

Richard Sampson

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Some of our junior MVPs from last season