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July 2005 Newsletter

IT'S A BOY!

Congratulations to Jane Hall and her husband Brad who are the proud parents of Patrick James, born Wednesday 13 July 2005, weighing in at 6½ lbs (2.915kg). Both parents and baby are home and well.

AAWD FUNDING GRANTS

Applications are now open for AAWD's first round of funding for 2005-06. Applications close Friday 23 September 2005. Please note funding applications must be endorsed by Wheelchair Sports Australia, Australian Sports Organisation for the Disabled or Cerebral Palsy - Australian Sport Recreation Federation. For more detailed information and the Application Form, visit http://www.sports.org.au/docs/FundingGuidelines.pdf. If you have further questions, please email info@sports.org.au or phone 02 - 9763 5819.

WORLD CEREBRAL PALSY GAMES CONNECTICUT USA

The Australian team has returned from the World Cerebral Palsy Games in Connecticut where they represented their country well. As always there were some terrific results and also some who were a little disappointed with their results. Overall, despite some logistical dramas, the team enjoyed their trip and the competition and all sports brought home medals. A big thanks must go to Corny Van Eldik for all his hard work organising the team before, during and after the games. Thanks also to all the team staff for a great effort.

Full results from the competition can be found on the games website. http://nationalsportsfestival.org/2005_CPISRA.htm

WEBSITE FORUM

AAWD has recently added a forum page to our website. There are a number of forums - 1 General and several Sport Specific Forums. We encourage you and your members to use these forums as a great way to generate discussion or swap ideas relating to Disability Sports, or to let people know about upcoming occasions. To access the forum use this link http://www.sports.org.au/forum/ or click on the "Forum" tab at the top of our homepage.

SPORTS NEWS

Basketbal

NRMA Insurance National League
The NRMA Insurance WNWBL has now concluded its preliminary rounds. At the conclusion of the rounds North's Bears and Hills Hornets both finished on 28 points, with the Bear's taking top spot on points differential. They are followed by Knox Ford Raiders and Queensland Storm.

The girls now head to Melbourne for the Finals on 20-21 August. We wish you all the very best for that weekend.

IWBF U22 World Championships
The Australian Team to contest the U22 World Championships is as follows:
Bill Latham (NSW)
Tristan Knowles (NSW)
Darren Skuse (NSW)
Kylie Gauci (NSW)
Katie Hill (NSW)
Anthea Castelli (NSW)
Jason Brant (VIC)
Brant Garvey (WA)
Jace Clare (QLD)
Shaun Norris (WA)
Brett Nicholson (WA)
Andrew Jamieson (WA)
Alan Cox (Coach) (NSW)
Jen Hird (Team Manager) (VIC)
Ben Ettridge (Assistant Coach) (WA)
Kate Senini (Physiotherapist) (based in England)

Matthew Wells (NSW) has also been appointed as one of the tournament referees.
The team will depart for Birmingham, UK on 3 August and return on 15 August. We wish you all the very best of luck and trust you will do yourselves, your families, your supporters and Australia proud.
You can keep up to date with their progress at the tournament via the official website http://www.2005wjc.com/
NWBL finals
The NWBL finals were hosted by the Wollongong Rollerhawks at Shellharbour 29 to 31 July. Congratulations to the West Sydney Razorbacks who took out the 2005 title. The 2005 season was one of the most evenly contested since the competition began. Congratulations to all teams on a great season and we look forward to an even closer one in 2006.
A big thank you must also go to all of the various organising committees, game hosts, referees, venues, games commissioners, announcers, table officials, statisticians, volunteers and anyone else who made the season what it was - the competition could not go ahead without you.
For all of the season's results, statistics and information visit the NWBL page http://nwbl.sports.org.au/

Boccia
2005 National Championships
The Boccia Nationals were held 7 - 10 July 2005 at Warriewood in Sydney. Congratulations to the following winners:

Open Singles: Michael Yeatman
BC2 Singles: Scott Elsworth
BC1 Singles: John Richardson
BC3 Singles: Lyn Coleman
BC3 Pairs: Lyn Coleman/Laura Solomon
BC1/BC2 Teams: Scott Elsworth/Magdalene Paschali/Barry Fear
Open Pairs: Michael Yeatman/Leanne Hardaker

Champion State BC1/BC2/BC3: Queensland
Champion State Open: Western Australia

Referees' Award for Sportsmanship: Ben Daley

President's Award for Most Improved: Lachlan Kavanagh

Congratulations to Joan Stevens and the Organising Committee on another successful event.
Asia & South Pacific Boccia Championships
Boccia Australia will be sending a team to the Asia & South Pacific Boccia Championships to take place in Kuala Lumpur between 15th -22nd September 2005. The team for these championships has been selected and can be found at http://www.sports.org.au/newsletters/docs/asiapac.pdf


Cue Sports
The 2005 Australian 8 & 9 Ball Championships will be hosted by Wheelchair Sports Victoria 12-14 August 2005. For more information on this event (including entry details), please contact WSV on PH: (03) 9473-0133.

Road Racing

Gold Coast Marathon
Congratulations to all who took part in this year's Gold Coast Marathon and Half Marathon. There were some pretty quick times and competition was fierce. Full results can be found at
http://www.goldcoastmarathon.com.au/results2004/Index.html

Rugby

National Wheelchair Rugby League
The second preliminary round of the 2005 National Wheelchair Rugby League was played in Brisbane 23-25 July. League leaders, Queensland Crocs experienced a form slump, winning only one match over the weekend. This now sees them fall into second place behind South Australia Sharks, who had an undefeated round. Full results can be found at http://rugby.sports.org.au/

The Grand Final of the League will be played as part of the Australian Open to be held at Narrabeen 19-21 August, where the 3 League teams will be joined by teams from Victoria, Canterbury and Auckland for what should prove to be a great weekend of Rugby action.

Shooting
Congratulations to Ashley Adams, who having returned from a successful European Disabled Shooting Championships campaign, has recently been selected in the Australian able-bodied team to contest the Oceania Championships to be held in Brisbane later this year. The Oceania Championships are an Olympic Qualifier and Ashley has been selected as the number one shooter in the English match.

Table Tennis

National Championships
The 2005 Table Tennis Nationals will be held at Sydney Olympic Park Homebush from Friday 5 August - Sunday 7 August. For further information contact info@sports.org.au


Volleyball

Asia Oceania Men's Standing Volleyball Championships
 The Australian team returned recently from Cambodia where they contested the Asia Oceania Men's Standing Volleyball Championships. All report an amazing and well run tournament (the first international sporting event conducted in Cambodia in over 40years). The host country came out on top, thus winning the right to contest the 2006 World Championships in the Netherlands. Australia maintained their Number 2 Asia Oceania ranking. In addition to the players, Australia also had several officials involved in the event. Congratulations to all involved.

2006 Asia Oceania Women's Sitting Volleyball Qualifying Tournament

Australia will play host to the Asia Oceania Women's Sitting Volleyball Qualifying Tournament in Newcastle in March 2006. Initial plans are underway and funding support has so far been received from the Newcastle City Council and the NSW Department of Recreation and Sport.

2005 National Championships
The 2005 Sitting Volleyball National Championships will be held in Melbourne in December 2005. Details on the Standing Nationals are still to be finalised.

August Calendar of Events
5-7 Table Tennis National Championships Homebush, NSW
8-13 Basketball IWBF Junior World Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom
12-14 Cue Sports Australian 8 & 9 Ball Championships Melbourne, VIC
19-21 Rugby Telstra Wheelchair Rugby Open Sydney, NSW
20-21 Basketball NRMA Insurance National League Melbourne, VIC
28 Road Racing City to Surf Perth, WA

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