Inline Hockey Victoria NEWS

In June we farewelled Hugues Deraps, Sports Development Officer who has returned to his homeland of Canada for a couple of years. Hugues will still be responsible for the maintenance of both the Skate Victoria and Inline Hockey websites and carrying out
various projects for us including the design and development of material for the Good Sports Project and promotional material.

Pauline Byne will be carrying out development activities on a contractual basis. For those who may not know Pauline she was the Rink Operator at Lilydale for 8 years which gives her experience in all aspects of skating. She has also held the position of Inline Hockey Branch Chairperson, Club President at different times and plays inline hockey.

At present a 4 week On Skates program is being conducted at St Xavier College Berwick with skating clinics and presentations at schools being carried out on a weekly basis.

Pauline will also be heading up the Deaf Children’s Program team of Leanne Mills (mum of deaf brothers William & David who play ILH) Jenny French and myself.

Skate Victoria has been successful in securing funding through Sport & Recreation Victoria for the following programs

Good Sports Program $20,000 for 2 years

What are we going to do
In the next few months I will be talking to clubs to gather information on how Skate Victoria/Inline Hockey Victoria can assist clubs in establishing a ‘Good Sports Club’ environment for skaters, players, parents, spectators and administrators.

We are in the process of developing a Parent pocket sized Handbook which will be distributed to 2009 members to give parents a better understanding of their child’s sport

Deaf Children’s Program $20,000 for 2 years

What are we going to do

In September we have our first joint school holiday clinic with Deaf Children Australia at The Zone Rink in Bendigo which will be followed up with a clinic a fortnight later. Further school holiday programs will be conducted over Christmas at Geelong, Moe and metropolitan Melbourne. We are also looking at working with the Villa Maria Respite program to give children the opportunity to experience skating.

We are all very excited about our first 4 week school’s program being conducted at the Victorian College for the Deaf in October. We hope to run the program at 3 – 4 schools over the next few months.

Roller Derby continues to grow with the great work of the Victorian Roller Derby League with leagues now being set up in Geelong, Ballarat and Castlemaine.

Next week-end Bernie Walden (Artisic Chairperson and Coach) Jeannie Polson (VRDL Development Officer) and myself are heading down to Geelong for a Coaching session with girls from the regional areas mentioned above.

Finally goodluck to all skaters going to Nationals and I’ll be back to report on development updates when they happen.

Gloria Hawken
Skate Victoria Administrator

Hi All,

Attached is the details of the Bayswater cup being held at the Bayswater Rink.
If you are interested in playing this comp please contact June Ison or Nathan Russo as per the attached flyer.

Bayswaters CUP Flyer (PDF)
Bayswaters CUP Rego Form (PDF)

Cheryl McQueen
ILHV Co ordinator

If anyone is interested in competing in this mini comp then please contact
John Brogan at Dandenong.
Please see attached PDF document

Cheryl McQueen
ILHV Coordinator

The play Inline Hockey Program is now been used in Lilydale during the Rats development class run by Pauline Bynes.

The program is designed to help coaches teach basic Inline Hockey skills to the standard and players can keep track of their achievements with their skills check list.

For More Info click here

To find out how to get this program at your rink,
Please Contact:

Sport Development Officer

Hugues Deraps
Inline Hockey Development
Skate Victoria

Mobile:0409 299 718
sdo@skatevictoria.com.au

Tonight was the inaugural Leadership meeting at the VIS.

Les Bee from Sport Ed (VIS) had put together a seminar to help become better leaders and establish a leadership structure which will enable our sport to flourish.

Jamie Sketchley, Chris Brophy, Jacob Collins, Jake Aparicio, Jeremy Muir, Mick Flaherty, Nathan Ross, Travis Woods and myself were present at tonight’s brainstorm. It was really constructive and was the first step to another meeting early in the new year to set a plan of action. All the details and results on this program will be available soon.

If you are interested is coming along, get in contact with me.

Cheers

Hugues Deraps SDO
0409 299 718
sdo@skatevictoria.com.au