Our local Perth Women’s team, Kaos, made WA Ultimate history this year as they became the first WA based women’s team to make the grand final of the 2014 Australian Ultimate Championships.

With Head Coach John Damiani back in the lead job again and an amazing support team behind him including fitness guru Casey Meakins and Nicki Colls appointed a supporting role of Assistant Coach, the playing and non-playing leadership group was formed and a strong AUC 2014 campaign was on the cards.

Back in November the Club hosted a women’s league and had over 40 females sign up. A great pool for talent identification purposes as well as a heap of local Perth players to assist them with scratch matches.

Whilst there are currently no other Perth based women’s teams to consistently scrimmage against, as part of their season preparation the Kaos girls entered as a team in the Autumn Swarm tournament for some awesome competition practice testing themselves against some solid mixed gender teams.

Intensive fitness and skills sessions, training up to 3 times a week as a unit

plus their individual league commitments, the Kaos girls’ hard work paid off in their campaign to the national championships.

The previous best result for Kaos was 4th in 2012 and this year they were able to push through to the final round with an amazing semi final performance to secure a place in the 2014 Grand Final.

In an epic game against one our country’s best women’ team Sporting Team Box Athletico United (Victoria) Kaos put on a fantastic display of quality, ferocious, skilled Ultimate in front of a huge crowd.

With the Sublime team supporting vocally on the sideline they fought for every disc. Quality handling on display from Sarah Brereton, Louise Delane and Geri Viros, massive pulls, huge defensive and offensive plays from Rebecca Brereton and tireless long cuts from Rachel Deluca-Cardillo and Casey Meakins were just a few highlights as the girls put on an awesome game right to the very end.

Without a doubt it was a complete team effort, every team member played their best throughout the tournament and it was clear, Kaos deserved to be in this year’s final.

Kaos win Silver at AUC 2014!

Official newsletter for the WA Flying Disc Association

May 2014 Issue 10

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This Issue...• Kaos get Silver at AUC• Rise Up Ultimate• Ultimate Legend Named• Western Regionals Wrap Up• 2013 Award Winners• U18 Boy s Team Announced• Perth Players Bound for Italy

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The Perth Rise Up women’s clinic participants with

guest coach: Alex Snyder

On Saturday February 15th, 33 women attended the WA leg of the RISE UP Australian Tour focusing on women’s development.

Ultimate clinics were run at John XXIII College, which focused on skills such as planning your throw, planning your cut, using fakes to clear the break side, throwing into space, defensive footwork and positioning, cutting into space laterally, dumping and velocity throwing & catching. Afterwards the group cooled down at City Beach.With thanks to Ultimate Australia and Rise Up Ultimate a nationwide series of skills clinics were run in February featuring elite player Alex Snyder (FURY, USA World Games).

Perth was lucky enough to host Alex for the weekend and along with the day clinic also ran a club specific session with Kaos and a Coach Development session with local Perth coaches.

The intense coaching afternoon included coaches discussing coaching techniques such as developing team culture, goal setting, player development, developing drills and drill progressions, game strategies and focused scrimmages.

All who were in attendance across the Rise Up weekend gained a wealth of knowledge in excitement to implement everything they had learnt into their Ultimate pathways.

A special thank you to Sarah Brereton who not only assisted in organisation of the coaching clinic, but also for billeting Alex during her stay and showing her around Perth and preparing the lunches and snacks.

A BIG thank you from the WA Ultimate community to Ultimate Australia and Rise Up Ultimate for coordinating the program and of course to Alex Snyder for not only being an excellent coach but also a wonderful ambassador for women’s Ultimate.

In February the WA Flying Disc Association Executive Committee took time to acknowledge the hard working efforts of one of our key volunteers; Sarah Brereton. Sarah Brereton, locally know a “B” has hugely contributed to the Ultimate community in WA. Sarah volunteers on the WAFDA committee in the role of Director of Development, and is also the captain of the Perth-based women’s team; Kaos.She was a key organiser for the hugely successful women’s League at the end of 2013, as well as hosting our guest coach Alex Snyder and arranging the catering for the “Rise Up Ultimate” project camp in February.Sarah is a pleasure to deal with and her enthusiasm for the sport is contagious among all those who speak with her.

Ultimate Legend

Rise Up Ultimate Weekend

The annual awards presentation evening was held at the Hollywood Subiaco Bowling Club in December last year. On this night not only did we take time recognise our award winners but we also held a lawn bowls tournament to celebrate another amazing year in flying disc sporting acheivements here in WA.

Our awesome Executive Committee (Kendall, Lauren and MJ) and our Events Officer (Glen) arranged a great evening at the bowls club where our members could socialise , bowl and toast to our worthy award winners for 2013.

Our 2013 awards winners were: Club of the Year: UWA Ultimate ClubCoach of the Year: John DamianiTournament of the Year: Autumn SwarmAdministrator of the Year: Lauren HoskinsTeam of the Year: Cabs Are HereOutstanding Service: Steve BakerFemale Rookie: Maxin QuaMale Rookie: Sam DicksonFemale Player: Rebecca BreretonMale Player: Louis Masarei

A big thank you to all who nominated this year and attended our end of year event.

Also acknowledged on the night were our amazing casual coaches who support out employees with school sessions. In 2013 we had a team of 8 support coaches who assisted from time to time to ensure we were able to meet the growing demands of school based clinics.

Our 2013 Coaching team:

Annie JessopTamsin HearneRenae ChickQuinlan OhJaxon BotjeJack MorrisHugh OsbornSam Francoise

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2013 WAFDA Award Winners...

Ou rworthy recipients of the 2013 WAFDA Awards!

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Western Regionals

This is WA’s peak separate gender event and is the recognised qualification tournament for teams wishing to compete at the Australian Ultimate Championships. The 2014 championships was a great day of Ultimate which saw 26 players across 2 teams in the Womens division. and 53 players across 5 teams in the Open division.Women’s Results:Winner: KAOS,Spirit: SOAKMVP: Maxin QuaOpen Results:Winner: Sublime 2.0Spirit: Westernmost Euphoric GruntersMVP: Jeremy Ha

Perth Players off to Italy!

Two world championships are being held in Italy this year. In July the World Junior Ultimate Championships will be held and in August the World Ultimate Club Championships will take place and both events will be hosted in Lecco.

WA has 10 junior members who have been selected for the Under 19 Australian teams competing at the World Junior Ultimate Championships. Australia is sending 2 teams to WUJC2014 - Open (Aussie Thunder) and Women’s (Southern Terra), WA has representatives in both of these teams. This event will take place in Lecco, Italy from 20-26 July, 2014.

Aussie Thunder WA Representatives:Ashley Evans (Bunbury Ultimate Club) ,Sam Francoise (PRIMAL/Murdoch Ultimate Club), Curtis Dickson (UWA Ultimate Club) and Jake Taylor (PRIMAL Ultimate Club)Southern Terra WA Representatives:Maxin Qua (UWA Ultimate Club), Gemma Baker (FEAR Ultimate Club)Emma Terkildsen (Murdoch Ultimate Club), Kirra Webb (ECU Ultimate)Bianca Collins (FEAR Ultimate Club), and Kirsten Chick (Disco Inferno)

Following the Junior event, World Clubs event will take place and this year we have two Perth club’s representing Australia. Sublime will compete in the Open division and PRIMAL will compete in the Women’s Masters Division.

Sublime line up is set to include: Ben Bastion,Brenton McMorran, Matthew Borowski, Ashvin Nair, Jason Carr, Kyal Oh, Michael Chan, Hugh Osborn, James Eley, Hamish Pope, Mark Eley, Robert Prast, Peter Eley, Derek Ramsay, Ashley Evans, Kendall Thorn, Glen Fowles, Paul Whittock, Sam Francoise, Eiji Ito, Ryan Kelly Max Daube and Paul Denyer.

PRIMAL line up includes: Anna Haynes, Lauren Hoskins, Mary-Jane Rigby, Sue Summers, Ellen Murray, Victoria Kueppers and Debbie Staples.

We also have two other WA athletes playing with other teams at WUCC: Lisa Finch will be playing for Hippo (VIC) and Minh Huynh will play with Batmania (VIC) in the Mixed Divsion

WA State U18 Boys Team Announced

WA Ultimate are pleased to announce the selection of the Under 18 Western Australian Boys team who will be attending the 2014 Australian Youth Ultimate Championships.Congratulations to the following members of the U18 WA team. Good luck in your preparation to the 2014 AYUC.

Julian Bocking (UWA), Bennett Carpenter (UWA), , Cameron Chung (UWA), Sean Davis (SA), Matthew Eton (UWA), Josh Higgins (UWA), Owen Hearne (PRIMAL), Seth Lovell (Broome), Alex O’Neil (UWA), Adam Pitt (PRIMAL), Ainesh Ritschny (PRIMAL), Bradley Scott (UWA), Rylie Spence (PRIMAL), Henry Tan (UWA). The team will be coached by Kyal Oh and Assistant Coach will be Ashley Evans.This competition will be a state representative structure for players 18 years of age and younger.To be held at Albert Park in Melbourne, Victoria on June 7th & 8th, 2014.