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Judi Buhagiar appointed as new Chief Executive Officer, 22 February 2010
Chairman of the Gippsland Sports Academy, Darrell White is very pleased to announce, on behalf of the Board, that Judi Buhagiar from Traralgon has been appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer with the Academy.
Judi brings a wealth of sporting administration experience to the Academy through her previous roles in sporting organisations such as Team Manager of the national netball team Melbourne Kestrels, and prior to this in her role as Manager at the Traralgon Tennis Centre. In addition, Judi has recently had experience as a Director with the North Gippsland Football Netball League, with a particular focus on netball.
Judi is very excited about having the opportunity to take on this role as she has a strong passion for sport in general, but she is especially pleased to have the chance to contribute to developing, maintaining and enhancing pathways in the Academy for young Gippsland athletes to realise their full potential
Judi will commence duties on 1st March next.
The Academy's current Chief Executive Officer, Bryan Heron will be leaving the Academy in mid March to fulfil an ambition to commence a touring holiday around Australia.
The Board is especially grateful to Bryan and acknowledges with appreciation the significant contribution and impact he has made over the period of his tenure as Chief Executive Officer with the Academy.
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Sports gear up for 2010, 30 November 2009
The Gippsland Sports Academy is gearing up to an exciting year with athletes in some sports about to plunge into summer competition and a number of squads due to recommence shortly.
The competitive season for each of the Academy's sport runs to different schedules so there is a continuing cycle of sports phasing in and out during the year. Swimming, volleyball, lawn bowls and athletics have all convened squads about two months ago in preparation for the summer season.
Early season conditioning has been the emphasis of the swimming and athletics programs. For volleyball and lawn bowls, where both squads have a significant number of new recruits this year, skills and team work have taken a higher emphasis.
Volleyball is already in its competitive phase and Victorian trials for some of the age squads commence in December and run on into February. The squad has 39 members, the largest in the Academy and a number of weekend training camps have been held to consolidate the athletes' training progress.
With Academy volleyball representatives regularly making state teams the prospects of more next year are already promising. Some squad members have gone on to Australian teams, with Eliza Smith in the Australian Junior Team this year.
The swimmers competed in the Victorian short course titles in early September, not long after they had resumed their training and after a short break. These championships however, are generally regarded in the sport as an early season benchmark and serious competition begins early January and runs through into April. Some swimmers are already testing themselves in pre-season events.
This year's swimming squad is diminished by some of it's senior members moving on. Two of the better known, Jeremy Saunders and Jeremy Meyer, have taken up Victorian or Australian Institute of Sport scholarships. Nonetheless, departure is a part of the Academy squad cycle and new young talents always emerge to fill the places of those who leave.
Lawn bowls will run a summer schedule similar to swimming, despite the obvious differences in the two sports. There will be a large number of events held in January where the Academy will be represented, but only a handful of the squad will compete in each. But all will be competing regularly in club or regional tournaments throughout the summer.
The Athletics squad members have already had a number of competition opportunities in regional events and Victorian schools titles. They will be attempting to peak around March for the State and national titles, with good form for the country titles at the end of January.
New squads will be starting soon for badminton and our new sport, table tennis. In the new year, at tennis, golf and squash will recommence their new programs.
We look forward to an interesting year as these sports gear up the 2010 year.
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Darrell White, Academy Chairman, wins Tennis Vic Service Award, 16 January 2007
Tennis Victoria recently announced that Darrell White has been honoured with their Highly Commended Service Award. The Award recognises Darrell's involvement for more than 50 years as a player, coach and administrator.
An acknowledgement to Darrell's involvement in tennis is given in the latest Victorian Tennis News.
Darrell was naturally a keen supporter of the establishment of a Tennis Program within the Academy and has worked hard to ensure its commencement and continuing success. He has served as an administrator in many roles - not all of them given in the article - and is currently the president of Tennis Victoria's Central Gippsland Region.
Congratulations Darrell!
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