Round 1 Netball Update

Well our teams have had a great start to the grading weeks in at Kardinia, this will take place for the first 3 games usually. Friday we had 4 of the 5 teams on court in our Under 13s, 15s & 17s and last night we had our 3 under 11s teams, play their first games. 

Well Done everyone, it was fabulous to see you all having a great time. 

Nicole & I have been working hard to get everything sorted and I am so excited about the season ahead and can’t thank our coaches & team managers enough. Your contribution is so important to the club and our community. 

Under 17s – Bells - Coach Kylie Roe

Under 15s – Zeally - Coach Lisa Hill

Under 15s – Winki - Coach Georgia McAndrew

Under 13s – Whites - Coach Mel Maycock

Under 13s – Danger – Coach TBA

Under 11s – Addis - Coach Miki Barry

Under 11s – Roadknight – Coach Megan Atkinson

Under 11s – Bancoora - Coach Mel Bragge

As you can appreciate it’s a hard job getting all this happening with such a minimal turn around between the summer competition. 

If you have any feedback or issues, please do not hesitate to shoot us an email or give us a call. Mike our President is also happy to chat at any time and has been extremely supportive of netball at The Surf Coast Suns.

We are still short one coach for our Under 13’s girls, Mel Maycock our other under 13 coach is all over the training and I am sure would appreciate your assistance and support on Tuesday’s and we are all available to help you with games plans for Friday games if you needed this. 

Two of our Under 11 teams really need a couple of extra kids, if you know any boys or girls keen to play, please ask them to give us a call.

Our main aim is to get girls & boys having fun, making new friends & staying active. 

Mike has spent lots of time working on the website, it’s a great tool and has lots of info including club codes of conduct.

https://www.surfcoastsuns.com/

We would love some photos to share on our social media pages, please send them through if you any of yours teams.

Go Suns

Suns Successful in Torquay Community Enterprise Grant

On Thursday 6th December the Surf Coast Suns were awarded a grant through the Torquay Community Enterprise (TCE) to support their Indigenous Awareness Program.

The grant was to fund a set of Indigenous jumpers for our under 13’s football team to wear through 2019, and future years.

‘This project solidifies who we are as a club’, said Mike Thomas, club president. ‘We believe by doing this, it will show the Torquay and greater regional area that we are community minded and accepting of cultural diversity. It will encourage discussion of local indigenous sensitivities, and recognize the important history of Aboriginal Australia.’

The jumper design was done by local Indigenous artist Nathan Patterson, who was also created indigenous jumper designs for AFL teams Geelong and Essendon.

The design is titled “Together under one sun”. The feather and gum leaves represent Bunjils county, the cross hatching through the middle represents Wathaurong Land, the blue strip is the Ocean and the Sun is a meeting place also symbolizing the Club/Community young and old.

Mr Thomas added, ‘We would like to thank Torquay Community Enterprise for their support in this project and invite everyone to our first game of the year where we will launch the jumper and the season.’

Suns News Update

The season keeps moving along nicely for all of our Suns families. Auskick and NetSetGo are going really well. We now have 96 kids registered in Auskick which is by far our biggest year yet. Well done to all our volunteers from Auskick and NetSetGo who make each Friday night fun for the kids in our community.

Wanted - Second Hand Footy Boots

One of our awesome NetSetGo families (The Moreton's) are organising a footy boot drive for indigenous kids in the remote community of Nhulunbuy, which is in Arnhem Land Northern Territory. This is a fantastic initiative and would ask all families if they have any footy boots that your kids have outgrown to drop them off to the club after training or games in the next two weeks, so that they can be taken up to Nhulunbuy in late June. Thanks for getting behind this great cause,

Netball

The netball girls continue to improve each week which is great to see. They are becoming more and more competitive and goal scoring has increased each game as well. Great job girls, keep it up.

Rd 6 Results

Suns U13 Red (3 goals) Lost Torquay Black (22 goals)

Suns U13 Yellow (9 goals) Lost Eagles Town (21 goals)

Suns U15 (5 goals) Lost St Mary's Royal (11 goals)

Football

It was another great round for footy with all teams getting a win in rd 8. Congratulations to all our players on their continuing improvement.

U9 Suns Polworth 5-9-39 Def Portarlington Blue 5-3-33

U9 Suns Grenville 9-9-63 Def Modewarre Russell 0-3-3

U10 Suns 8-3-51 Def Anakie 6-4-40

U11 Suns 8-11-59 Def Corio 1-0-6

A reminder for all football club team manager's, coaches and umpires that we will be undertaking an AFL Barwon umpiring session this coming Tuesday 5th June at The Sand Torquay from 630pm. Thanks again in advance for your attendance.

Under 9 Polworth shake hands with Portarlington after the game

Netball Fixture Rounds 5-15

The grading games have finished and it's time to get into the season proper. AFL Barwon has released the fixture for the remainder of the year, which is fantastic.

Under 13's Red landed in Division 4, while under 13's yellow and under 15's are both in Division 6.

Congratulations to all of our girls who have done extremely well so far. Good luck for the rest of the season.

To be eligible to play finals, you will need to finish in the top 5 teams in your division at the end of round 15. The first week of the finals will be held the Friday after Round 15 on the 17th August. All the best girls, go Suns!

Round 5 - 25/05/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Leopold Lions, Court 2, 520pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's South Barwon 6, Court 4, 610pm (Home)

U15 Suns v's South Barwon 5, Court 8, 520pm (Away)

Round 6 - 01/06/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Torquay Black, Court 2, 520pm (Home)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Eagles Town, Court 3, 700pm (Home)

U15 Suns v's St Mary's Royal, Court 8, 520pm (Away)

Round 7 - 08/06/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Geelong Amateurs, Court 3, 430pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Barwon Heads, Court 3, 700pm (Home)

U15 Suns v's St Mary's White, Court 9, 520pm (Home)

Round 8 - 15/06/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Eagles White, Court 3, 430pm (Home)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Ocean Grove 5, Court 4, 610pm (Home)

U15 Suns v's Eagles White, Court 9, 520pm (Away)

Round 9 - 22/06/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Grovedale Yellow, Court 1, 700pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Winchelsea Bluebirds, Court 3, 700pm (Away)

U15 Suns v's Torquay Blue, Court 8, 520pm (Home)

Round 10 - 29/06/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Bannockburn, Court 2, 520pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Drysdale 4, Court 4, 610pm (Home)

U15 Suns v's South Barwon 5, Court 8, 520pm (Home)

Round 11 - 13/07/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Ocean Grove 4, Court 2, 520pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Torquay Blue, Court 4, 700pm (Away)

U15 Suns v's St Mary's royal, Court 8, 520pm (Home)

Round 12 - 20/07/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Leopold Lions, Court 1, 700pm (Home)

U13 Suns Yellow v's South Barwon 6, Court 3, 700pm (Away)

U15 Suns v's St Mary's White, Court 8, 520pm (Away)

Round 13 - 27/07/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Torquay Black, Court 1, 700pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Eagles Town, Court 4, 700pm (Home)

U15 Suns v's Eagles White, Court 8, 520pm (Home)

Round 14 - 03/08/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Geelong Amateurs, Court 2, 610pm (Home)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Barwon Heads, Court 4, 520pm (Away)

U15 Suns v's Torquay Blue, Court 9, 520pm (Away)

Round 15 - 10/08/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Eagles White, Court 3, 430pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Ocean Grove 5, Court 4, 520pm (Away)

U15 Suns v's South Barwon 5, Court 8, 520pm (Away)

Round 4 Netball

After last weeks washout, the girls will be playing their final grading games this week.

Friday 18 May

U13 Suns Red v's St Mary's Navy (Away)

700pm, Court 1

U13 Suns Yellow v's Eagles Town

430pm, Court 3

U15 Suns v's St Joseph's Red

430pm, Court 8

Good luck to all the girls in your final grading games!