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

Please find attached the championship notice for the 2008 ILHA National
Championships presented by ‘Events SA’, to be held at the Distinctive Homes
Dome in Adelaide from September 26-October 4.

For Sanction Click Here

For 2008 Fixture Click Here

For Complete Team List by Divisions Click Here

A few weeks ago we (Mick Flaherty and I) delivered our first 5 level 1 Badges as part of our new Play Inline Hockey Program.

A new website has been put together with all the information.

www.playinlinehockey.com.au

Hugues Deraps SDO

We have played two practice matches, in the lead up to the World Championships.

We lost a close game to the “Slovak Hammers” 8-7, and on the following day defeated the “Bratislava All Stars” 8-3, our preparation is going along very nicely.

We have our sights firmly set, on bringing home the gold.

Jon Moses. Australian Senior Men’s Coach.

Dear Chronological Disadvantaged,

We did it! We played 30 games over the long weekend without any serious casualty’s. Only some bruised bodies and egos as to be expected in such games of speed only seen in wheelchair rugby! In fact the only two scratches in the tournament were as a result of Harry S. tripping over his own bag on the sides in his league game (separated shoulder) and Ren who twisted his leg whist teeing off at the 18th on the Saturday!

Although both Harry’s team, the Fudpuckers and Ren’s team the Redbacks never recovered from their personnel losses the remaining teams fought out it out to the end. With the Rats OB’s sitting solid in first place the fight was on for the two remaining playoff spots. All the blood and sweat spilled in the round robin games peaked on the 2nd last game of the Sunday night when the Rangers suited up against the Chiefs. A win by the Chiefs puts them in the medal round on Monday; anything else opens the back door for Belic’s Relics to sneak in. The moment came with 3 seconds left on the clock, Chiefs up a goal 2-1, Costa on the Rangers flips a shot from the corner, Dr House in net tries to cut off the pass and the rest is history…time stood still except for the puck into the back of the net at the buzzer! Chiefs pack up their tepees and the pesky Relics advance only to share a similar yet less dramatic fate against the Rangers the next day. Congratulations goes to the Rats OB’s who went on take the Gold medal, the Rangers well deserved Silver medal and those underrated “bronzed” Relics who never said die and cost the bookies with upset after upset!

We would like to thank Cheryl Mcqueen for the convenient schedule and all those that helped us out with the scoring, especially Clint Jacobs.

For those wanting to tryout for the Victoria Masters and Veterans teams please be at the Dandenong rink for a 6.00 pm start this Sunday June the 15th.

We are looking at the possibility of having a Veterans division (40 and Over) in the Silver Cup which runs between July 5th and 13th at Puckhandlers. We have interest from Tassie to put a team in so far. If you are interested please email me at turbachs@yahoo.com.au . We only need 4 teams to make it happen.

Our next Monthly Masters (30 and up) event will be held on Friday July 18th – 8.00pm at the Lilydale Roller Skating Centre, “Lilydale Industrial Park” 155 Beresford Rd, Lilydale (03) 9735 5888. $12.00 per stick.

Canuck

“Keep your stick after they break, they make nice canes”