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What an eventful week for our club!

The most exciting news is that one of our members, Donna Manning, travelled to Melbourne as a reserve player in the Queensland Association Croquet Team playing in the Eire Cup. Donna played two matches, both of which she won. This is a marvellous achievement and we extend a heary congratulations to Donna.

In other news, we welcomed two sets of visitors to our lawns to enjoy games of Golf Croquet. On Friday morning 17th March we welcomed our regular visitors from Caloundra Gardens Over 50’s Village, Mark Rd West. This group is pictured enjoying their reviving morning tea after play on what was a very hot morning. In the afternoon, we enjoyed the company of the Down Under Caravan Club who have been staying at the showgrounds and popped in tp play croquet as part of enjoying our lovely town.

During our regular play day on 16th, two games of Association croquet were played in a manner that was more focussed on practice than serious play. Lynette Evans played Carole Atkinson with Carole winning 6:3. Meanwhile Dianne Horsman and Sally Adams played Helen Uhlmann, with Helen winning 6:3. This latter result must be taken in context, though, as Helen benefitted greatly from extra bisques and some “try again” do-overs of some of her more disheartening inaccurate shots! We all enjoyed the chance to improve our games.

Sunday 19th was busy on the lawns with the following match-ups and results – In a brutal marital defeat, Val Carbery won against Vince Carbery 11:2; Dianne Horsman and Lynette Evans played a cracking match with Lynette winning 21:19; Carol Payne was defeated by Wallace Roy 10:2 while Nick Cram went down to Ken Barker 6:20. It was great to see so many players our enjoying the slightly cooler weather.

For details contact Sarah Widin 0417 640 704 (President ) was going to appear at the Olympics.

It was thought the A Grade premiership winning side, the Maroochydore Swans were struggling for players this season, however after some delay, they have confirmed their spot in the competition.

All three of the senior Doggies’ teams will be playing their respective Caloundra Sharks sides, with the reserve grade facing them at Tinonee Oval on March 25 at 4:30pm, with the A Grade men will play same day and venue at 6pm.

The Open Women’s Bulldogs will play the Sharks at the Nambour Rugby League Club the following day at 12pm.

Both the reserve and A Grade Beerwah sides have held their spots in their competitions, however the Maroochydore Swans aren’t in this season’s reserve grade, and the Coolum Colts have replaced the Gympie Devils in the A Grade line-up.

The women’s teams remain unchanged this year.

Now he has been selected to travel to Berlin to represent Australia in the 200m, 400m and relay events.

He is also the only Sunshine Coast representative on the national team.

“A couple of years ago when he first started training, he said I’m going to represent Australia in the special Olympics and it came around two years later,” Jack’s mother, Tessa Craig, said.

“I can’t believe that it’s come around so quickly, I didn’t expect it to come around at all, but it did and I’m so proud of him.”

Jack joined the Special Olympics club based at the University of Sunshine Coast in 2020 and from there his Olympics endeavour began.

A couple of years ago when he first started training, he said I’m going to represent Australia in the special Olympics

Tessa Craig

The Beerwah Bulldog’s club unveiled their new playing jerseys ahead of the season, which features a white V on their traditionally blue jerseys and are taking name suggestions for their new mascot.

“He went to the Queensland Special Olympics Games, and he qualified for the national games in Tasmania last year,” Tessa said.

“He won a gold in the 400m track in Tasmania, and from there we got a letter with the athletics, so he has mostly been focusing on that.”

Jack is training three days a week plus an extra day training with Tessa to complement his competition events every two weeks.

“The events get him race ready rather than just training, he’s participating in races quite often,” she said.

Tessa said Jack is extremely proud of his efforts so far in track but has always