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Boronia Hawks Major Raffle Results

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Boronia Hawks are very pleased to announce the results of the 2019 Major Raffle, drawn at the Boronia Hawks Ladies Lunch on Saturday 1 June by Jackson Taylor MP.

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L-R: Greg Hannon (Senior President), Samantha Dunkinson (Raffle Co-ordinator), Jackson Taylor MP. Photo by courtesy of Kieran Griffin.

1st Prize: Two Return Tickets to Europe courtesy of Greg Krenn and GK Travel + Cruise was won by Kim Panting one of the players from our Under 16 Girls Team!

2nd Prize: a Weber Family Q BBQ courtesy of Brendan Lee at John Alan Betta Home Living at Knox was won by Bec Moore, not only the parent of Sam from our Under 13 Team, also a major sponsor through GJ Gardner Wantirna South.

3rd Prize: a Rug from Choices Flooring FTG courtesy of Roxanne Moroney was won by Amanda Cellante, captain of our Senior Women’s Football Team!

4th Prize: a $500 Rebel Sports Voucher courtesy of Rebel Sport Knox was won by Caitlin “Cotch” Fay from our Senior Women’s Football Team!

5th Prize: an Ozito Ultimate 18v Garden Care Kit courtesy of Grant Bartram was won by Rachel Odgers, our Junior Treasurer and parent of junior players Danae and Connor Moon!

6th Prize: a Fitbit Versa courtesy of Rebel Knox was won by Rebecca Anderson from Boronia Dentist one of our valued major sponsors.

7th Prize: Rebel Mega Boom was won by Tyler Dower from our Senior Men’s Football Team!

8th Prize: a dozen mixed bottles of Wine donated by the Club was won by Jack R!

The Club wishes to thank all our generous sponsors and donors for support of our Major Raffle, which is essential for the successful operation and growth of the Club.

We also thank Greg Hannon, Wayne Preston and especially Samantha Dunkinson for the time and effort they put in to the successful conduct of the 2019 raffle.

Prize winners may contact Samantha Dunkinson or Greg Hannon if they have any queries regarding the collection of their prizes.

 

Boronia Hawks support Mental Health Awareness

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Boronia Hawks Football Netball Club is very conscious of our role as an important community hub, with a large number of players, members, families and friends.  The diversity of any community group invariably means that mental health is something that touches us all in some way.

The AFL has recently announced that it will be creating a new role of head of mental health to oversee the rising number of elite footballers experiencing difficulty with anxiety, stress and depression and to promote a greater awareness of wellbeing amongst the Clubs.  This article from The Guardian Australia provides an insight to the nature of this issue in AFL ranks.  Click here.  Alternately, you can click here to read the about the AFL’s approach to Mental Health.

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Love Me Love You – our focus of support for this weekend

Boronia Hawks will contribute to the conversation about Mental Health Awareness within the Club by supporting “Love Me Love You“, a non-profit charity designed to help young people navigate the challenges of mental health. This organisation was founded by former Hawthorn player Lance Picioane, as a result of his own struggles during and after his football career.

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Lance Picioane, founder of “Love Me Love You

This year alone the group has presented to 4000 young people through schools, football clubs and professional organisations. Picioane’s team include people with first hand experience on drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders and depression.

The Club has chosen to support this particular cause because of the enormous support provided by “Love Me Love You” to one of our own at a time of tragic loss.

As a result, we ask you all to take the time to think about Mental Health Awareness over the weekend of the 10th to 12th of May.  The AFL is recognising the issue with the Beyond Blue Round, and Boronia Hawks has also registered to support that cause, along with the Fight Motor Neurone Disease round in early June.

“Love Me Love You Cup” Match this Saturday Night

Boronia Hawks Senior Women’s Team will play Ferntree Gully this coming Saturday night at 6:00pm for the “Love Me Love You” Cup.  Both Clubs have been touched by  tragedy in recent years and we come together now, and in the future, to help young people to know that they are never alone.

Our senior teams will be wearing the light blue arm bands as a demonstration of the Club’s commitment to creating awareness of mental health problems in our community.

We will also welcome your gold coin donations to the cause at our home games over the next few weeks.

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If you have any questions or suggestions on how Boronia Hawks is approaching the awareness of Mental Health, please speak to Karen Little ( our Director of Community & Inclusion) or Scott Nicholas (Chairman, Boronia Hawks FNC).

SUPPORT SERVICES

Boronia Hawks Club Chaplain: Rick Castricum on 0418 375 377

Lifeline Phone 13 11 14 Visit www.lifeline.org.au

Kids Help Line Phone 1800 55 1800 Visit www.kidshelp.com.au

Beyond Blue Phone 1300 22 4636 Visit www.beyondblue.org.au

 

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Rick Castricum with Craig McKenzie.

A MASSIVE Weekend for Boronia Hawks!

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This weekend sees lots happening for our Club down at Tormore Reserve.  A little run down of the weekend courtesy of Leanne Rech, our fantastic Secretary of the HAWKS NEST COTERIE GROUP!

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Friday 5pm-6:30pm sees 100 little Hawka champions in the making at Boronia Auskick whilst the two Netball teams will be in action a little later in the evening at various venues.  Good luck to Boronia Hawks and Boronia Brown!

Saturday sees the game day start with the Senior Women’s Team v Rowville at 8:40am followed by our Under 19’s (10:30am) v East Burwood, Development (12:35pm) and Seniors (2:40pm), both against Ringwood. As we have four teams playing, start times are a little altered for the day!

President’s Luncheon hosted by Greg Hannon – if you are attending please be there at 11:30am for an 11:45am prompt start!  Alan Tudge MP will be our special guest, along with young AFL stars Josh Begley and Dylan Clarke from Essendon Football Club!

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Coterie BBQ and Drinks in the Coterie Marquee 1:30pm-4pm (huge thanks from Dean, Josh and Jayden at Malvern Continental Butchers for our burgers and snags). Coterie will also have a little raffle happening so pop a fiver in your pocket to be in it to win it!

Sunday sees 5 junior games at Tormore Reserve with the fantastic news that our Under 16 Girls Teams has merged with Knox Football Club with their first game together at 12:55pm.  Awards night for the Juniors at Tormore to round out a big weekend at the home of the Hawka.

Vets whilst not playing this weekend will be in big numbers around the Club supporting those that are playing as well as managing lots of the very big and some of the little jobs around the Club on game day – thank you gentleman.

A friendly, gentle reminder to head online to pay your Coterie Membership (or see us tomorrow at Tormore please). If you need to get your polo top, membership card or membership pack don’t hesitate to ask any of your Coterie Executive being Bomma, Dillio, Panda, Plugger or myself.

Looking forward to an awesome weekend at Tormore Reserve – the home of the Hawka.

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Season Launch Message from our Senior President

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Dear Players, Members and Supporters,

Well, the 2019 season is now upon us! The behind the scenes planning from our committees and coaching staff will now get tested and as far as we are all concerned, let’s bring it on!

The atmosphere around our club at the moment is just terrific, and so it should be after the success of 2018. We have strategically recruited, having faith in the youthful list of 2018, to ensure we can continue to approach each game with confidence. I welcome all new players to the ‘Hawka!

Our women’s team has gone from strength to strength under the coaching of Ray and “The “Chairman”!  Fletch and Cat’s have been incredible in getting really solid lists in our 17’s and 19’s and to have Clarky and his team steering our senior ship just puts us in good stead to have another real crack at finals glory once again. I’m not allowed to mention ‘back to back’ so I won’t!

Since I took on this role I’ve been staggered by the commitment of our band of dedicated volunteers. These people are the backbone of our club and we just can’t function without them. We have too many to mention for the fear of leaving someone out would be grossly unfair, but to all our volunteers, I sincerely thank you!!

This Thursday evening we have our ‘Season Opener’ event which is an opportunity to thank and acknowledge our sponsors and volunteers. We then have our first selection evening following this event. I look forward to welcoming everyone into the ‘Hawka’ this Thursday night. It will be pumping!

Our major raffle tickets will go out this week and I really wish to thank our sponsors for supporting our raffle and particularly, club great, Greg “Hollywood” Krenn for donating the $5,000 return tickets to Europe once again!

I will also begin advertising our first Chairman’s Luncheon for this year on May 4.  David “Murra” Murrihy will be interviewing Senior Federal Government Minister, and our number one ticket holder, Alan Tudge MP, a couple of weeks before a Federal Election and I’ll have a crack at interviewing two up and coming local Essendon stars in Josh Begley and Dylan Clarke. We have incredible new caterers for this event and for $70 a seat, they will sell out quickly! Check out our facebook page later on in the week to book tickets. I wish to take this opportunity to wish all our players and coaches good luck for season 2019. The entire Boronia Hawks Football Netball Club is behind you and even though Clarky won’t let me mention ‘back to back’, I don’t think our club has ever done this before so let’s make the big dance again and bring home the bacon!

See you all Thursday night!

Greg Hannon
SENIOR PRESIDENT
BORONIA HAWKS

Club Update from our Senior President

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Dear members and supporters,

I write to update you all on a numbers of items.
Firstly, I’d like to officially welcome Wayne Preston onto the Senior Committee of the Club.  Wayne has supported the club over a number of years and has a wealth of experience, being involved in community based organisations such as athletics, tennis and netball clubs.  Wayne will assist in a number of areas but developing relationships and managing our ever expanding sponsorship portfolio will be the area in which he will be prominently involved.
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Wayne Preston
Secondly, I am also very pleased to welcome Kathleen McMahon who has joined us as Senior Secretary.  Kathleen was previously a member of our gun Premier Division netball team, winning the premiership in 2017.  Now she is turning her mind to our successful Women’s football team and we look forward to Kath combining with sister Bec in 2019.
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Kathleen McMahon
Local football / netball  clubs survive due to the dedication of our volunteers.  Our Club is most fortunate to have so many people that are prepared to do their bit.  Already committed for 2019 are:
  • Ellen Johnson as our Canteen Manager and Thursday nights meals boss.
  • David Murrihy once again facilitating the running of our Finals Hosting program and Past Players & Supporters Group.
  • Robert Kimmitt, Leanne & Dillio Rech, Steve Green, Dean Collins, Michael Holding and a host of others supporting our most successful Hawks Nest Coterie Group.
  • Mick and Kay Kimmitt continuing to clean the Tormore clubrooms every Monday and Friday.
  • Sandra Bell looking after our Social Memberships and Knox Club memberships.
  • Sam Dunkinson attracting new community partners and sponsors to the Club.
  • Billy Notley and Jason Davis taking care of our bar, with Simon West running the outside bar on match days.
  • Graeme Storr looking after all merchandise needs, both on and off the field.
  • Tim Currie taking care of all things that have to be done on match days.
  • A host of Coaches and Assistant Coaches all heavily involved in the football and netball side of things.
  • Without forgetting to mention the dedicated Board, Senior Committee and Junior Committee members who meet regularly to ensure our club can continue to improve; as we strive to give our players the best of every possible resource so that they can be the best player possible!
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All of these volunteer roles enable us to run in an effective manner.  Gratitude goes a long way, so never be shy to thank one of our volunteers when you see them plying their trade at the Club!
If everyone involved does their little bit, we avoid the too few getting burnt out which has occurred in the past.
Our Club is in a great position: we have an exciting playing list and our off field affairs are solid.  My role as Senior President is to ensure we don’t take our eyes off the ball and look for every available opportunity to promote our Club in a positive manner and to build relationships with key stakeholders to continually improve the facility of the Boronia Hawks Football Netball Club.
This year will see the installation of state of the art lighting.  We are doing our best to fast track the installation, but we are very much in the hands of the Knox City Council and their contractors.  I hope to announce with our Chairman, Scott Nicholas, other exciting new initiatives in the year ahead.
This season we have to build on the success of 2018.  Some may argue we are on a hiding to nothing as how could we possibly top 2018?  The answer is really simple.  Too often I’ve seen clubs reach great heights and then fall apart very quickly.  My job is to keep us focused, keep us stable,  work harder then ever before and strive to make our Club the most respected Club in the EFL!
Go Hawka!
Greg “Flash” Hannon
Senior President
Boronia Hawks
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Greg Hannon

New Lights at Tormore!

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Boronia Hawks would like to thank Kerryn Westcott, mum of Chris, for her terrific work in submitting the formal application for the funding of the new lights at Tormore Reserve.

The funding was recently announced by our Federal Member for Aston, Alan Tudge MP and we are now pushing forward to have the lights up and shining during the 2019 season. Thanks again to Kerryn and Alan!

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2019 Junior Coaching Appointments

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Boronia Hawks would like to announce the appointment of our Junior Coaches for 2019. We are very pleased to have such a great line up to take us in to the next season. Many thanks to our Junior Coaching Coordinator, Andrew Catley who has done a fantastic job, assisted by our Senior Coaching Coordinator, Greg Hannon, in getting our coaches ready to go!

We hope to announce the Coach of Under 12 Girls in the very near future. In the meantime, please help us to congratulate and thank these coaches for taking an active role in our juniors’ football development.

Ellisa Schmidtke
Junior President

2019 Junior Coaches

Opportunities to Help the Hawks in Key Roles

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The Club’s AGM is coming up very soon and we already have nominees willing to stand for many roles. But we also have vacancies where we are looking for Club members to take us forward in to 2019. We seek expressions of interest from all sections of our Club: seniors or juniors, football or netball, men’s or women’s teams. All our volunteers work together to support and guide newbies!

If you would like to become more involved in our great Club please have a word with Kristan Wood, Ellisa Schmidtke or any of our current Board or senior and junior committee members. (Scott Nicholas is off in Nepal right now, so you can contact Dave Nicholas instead).

Roles without any nominees at the moment are:

  • Director, Inclusion / Community;
  • Senior Secretary;
  • Junior Treasurer;
  • Sponsorship Manager;
  • Merchandise Manager;
  • General Committee members for both Juniors and Seniors.

Some of these roles used to be big and scary, but we have managed to share the load and set up processes to make our administrative jobs much easier than they once were.  It is all about TEAMWORK.  We would love to hear from you!

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Annual General Meeting

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All financial members of the Club, including senior players and junior parents, are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting of Boronia Hawks Football Netball Club Inc.

Tuesday 30 October 2018 at the Knox Club.  Light refreshments from 7:00pm; AGM commences at 8:00pm.

Presentation of Annual Reports and election of Board, Senior Committee and Junior Committee for 2019.  All positions have been been declared vacant.

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS – please direct all enquiries to Kristan Wood

  • Chairman
  • Director, Administration
  • Director, Finance
  • Director, Inclusion / Community
  • Senior President
  • Junior President

SENIOR COMMITTEE – please direct all enquiries to Kristan Wood

  • Senior President
  • Senior Vice-President
  • Senior Secretary
  • Senior Treasurer
  • Football Manager
  • Netball Manager
  • Match Day Manager
  • General Committee – two roles

JUNIOR COMMITTEE – please direct all enquiries to Ellisa Schmidtke

  • Junior President
  • Junior Vice-President
  • Junior Secretary
  • Junior Treasurer
  • Junior Registrar
  • Junior Team Manager Co-ordinator
Some of the attendees at our Volunteers Information Day.