Sep-Oct 2012
All the action from the state finals
4 All Schools Cup Results and pics from this year’s comp
10 Junior Nationals Queensland’s top juniors took on the best from around Australia. See how they fared
12 Bill Cornehls Pick up some tips from the Queensland state coach Bill Cornehls
14 Follow the bowls tweeters We recommend which bowls tweeters you should be hitting the follow button on
Got a story for the Contributions: Are there any juniors going places at your club? Have a big under-18 event coming up that you would like featured? Any other junior related action happening in your area? Send us any junior related news so we can give your club a shout-out. Contact details Email: qldbowler@bowlsqld.org Twitter Account: @bowlsqld Official Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/juniorbowlermag Phone: (07) 3355 9988
Name: Nic Gosley Age:14 Nickname: Putts Place of Birth: Loganholme School: Beenleigh State High Siblings: 1 brother Pets: None Dream job: Sports coach Favourite playing position: Second or third Years playing bowls: Five years First club: Beenleigh Current club: Beenleigh Bowls used: Greenmaster XVI Biggest influence: My dad, Ray Most memorable bowls moment: Winning under-15 state singles title 2012 Most embarrassing bowls moment: Playing with the wrong bias in competition Sporting hero: Billy Slater Favourite singer: Taio Cruz Celebrity crush: Katy Perry Favourite food: A nice roast pork Greatest fear: Heights Dream holiday destination: Island with no contact Favourite thing to do outside of bowls: Chill or spend time with my girlfriend Three things you could take if stranded on a desert island: A footy, my girlfriend and drinks
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The Bay Challenge Tin Can Bay Bowls Club
Tin Can Bay Bowls Club is offering a prize pool of $1000 in its upcoming junior-senior day. For more information, contact Claire adonis on adonisclaire@bigpond.com
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Springwood Junior-Senior Day Springwood Bowls Club
Springwood Bowls Club is hosting a junior-senior pairs competition. Phone Eileen Gough (0434 581 116) or David Pearson (0408 764 657) for more information.
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District Junior Training Mooloolaba Bowls Club
Mooloolaba Bowls Club is hosting one of the Coast’s junior training days on August 19. For more information, contact Pam Diblasi ( 5452 7742) or Ken Armitage (5492 5780).
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Junior Bowls Camp Pelican Water Bowls Club
For more information on the monthly bowls camps, contact Ken Armitage on 5492 5780 or his email, kandsarmitage@hotmail.com.
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Junior-Senior Day Bundaberg Bowls Club
Bundaberg Bowls Club is hosting a junior-senior triples competition next month. For more information, contact the club’s junior co-ordinator Des Kemp on 4153 4240,
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District Junior Training Sunshine Coast District
Kawana Bowls Club is hosting one of the Coast’s junior training days on August 19. For more information, contact Pam Diblasi (5452 7742) or Ken Armitage (5492 5780).
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Bob Foreman Memorial Pairs Tweed Heads Bowls Club
This junior pairs competition brings together plenty talented players to the Tweed club. For more information, check out the entry form on pg 11.
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Junior Bowls Camp Pelican Waters Bowls Club
For more information on the monthly bowls camps, contact Ken Armitage on 5492 5780 or his email, kandsarmitage@hotmail.com.
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Bribie’s star-studded duo Natasha Jones and Lachlan Rowden reigned supreme at the All Schools Cup last month. The pair, representing Bribie Island State High School, took out the trophy with a straight sets win over The Cathedral College’s Curtis Duff and Curtis Matthews, 137, 12-5. Going into the competition as one of the top contenders, the early upset of defending champions Josh and Joel Andersen turned the Bribie team into outright favourites heading into the finals rounds. A thrilling semi-final clash with Bentley Park’s Corey Kershaw and Tyler Pettigrew almost brought their campaign to an end,
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with Jones and Rowden scraping through, 8-8, 9-4. Duff and Matthews had a slightly easier run to the decider, defeating Burnett’s Taleah Putney and Warick Bellert in their semi-final, 9-2, 7-5. In her last year of junior eligibility, Queensland representative Jones said the All Schools Cup was one of the titles she was desperate to add to her resume. “It was really important to get this title because it was one I really wanted to get under my belt for my school and for myself and for Lachie,” she said. Rowden and Jones are both reigning junior state champions, in the singles and
triples, respectively, and were playing in their third All Schools Cup in a row. The pair train and play together frequently, and Jones said it was their cohesion as a duo that gave them the edge in the final. “We’d been playing good bowls and even though the other boys we versed, they were playing well too, we just seemed to be more connected when we played,” she said. “Yeah, we just clicked. If I wasn’t there, he was there. So, we worked as a team.” Jones also praised the tournament, which aims to introduce non-bowlers into the sport at a young
Above: Lachie Rowden and Natasha Jones show off their trophies. Left: All of the All Schools Cup finalists.
age and experience a state-wide competition. “I think it’s a really, really good tournament. You see people who don’t play bowls hardly ever and they get a run in the All Schools Cup, you make new friends and it’s just a lot of fun.” Bowls Queensland state development officer Steven Tong said the competition, in its eighth year, had been a great success. “It has been a fantastic few days and the teams have played and conducted themselves brilliantly,” Tong said. “They are a credit to their schools and coaches and I hope we see a lot of them back again next year. “This event is all about getting school kids enjoying bowls and that’s exactly what we did.” Tong was particularly amazed by the passion that all the players showed for the game, rolling up even after being eliminated from the competition. “We had finals on one green, but we also had a second green full of kids playing bowls socially, just for the love of it, which was great to see.” “Hopefully, we’ll be able to get even more schools involved next year and the competition can continue to grow.”
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gold, gold, gold for maroons
Clockwise from current page: Natasha Jones and Madi Styles celebrate in the pairs; Braidan Leese in action; Sean Ingham receiving one of his medals; Rohan Wilson keeping focused. Pictures courtesy: Bowls Australia
Bribie Island’s Natasha Jones capped off a stellar year, collecting two gold medals in her final national junior championships. Jones picked up gold from both the pairs and singles events, reinforcing her status as a rising star of the game. The national success continues a spectacular run of form for the teenager, who recently finished runner-up in both the Pine Rivers Junior Classic and the Junior Golden Nugget. It has been a breakthrough year for Jones in the singles, who has made her name in team events. After collecting gold in the triples in 2011, Jones was competing in the singles for the first time at national level. Heading into the tournament, Jones had said a singles gold was her ultimate aim, and she was duly rewarded.
Wilson, Rixon and Kemp just missed out on the podium in their competition, eventually finishing sixth after a final 11-15 loss to the ACT. The stellar effort from the young side was good enough to put them in second place in the overall girls' trophy, only two points behind champions Western Australia. Another pair of final-year juniors got a golden farewell to the national championships,with Gold Coast guns Rohan Wilson and Sean Ingham took out the boys' pairs prize. It was Ingham's second pairs gold after he won the title with Jason Carpenter in 2010. Wilson also successfully defended his singles bronze medal, defeating South Australia's Luke Brind 21-15.
But the extra intensity required did not seem to bother her in a come-from-behind victory over South Australian superstar Renee McPharlin.
Bronze was the order of the day in the boys' fours too, with Queenslanders Nic Gosley, Braidan Leese, Joel Leese and Ingham nabbing third in the team event, after beating Western Australia 22-14.
After trailing 12-4 early on, Jones rallied to take a 19-17 lead before McPharlin squared it up again, before Jones finished off the match, winning 21-20.
Despite the strong Queensland showing, it was Western Australia that took out the overall trophies, nabbing the girls', boys' and championship aggregate trophies.
It was a day of tight finishes as Jones and Madi Styles to take pairs gold in a 19-18 win over WA.
The talented Maroons did get some recognition, though, with both Natasha Jones and Braidan Leese named in the 2012 Australian Under-18 squad.
Queensland’s girls fours combination of of April Wilson, Connie-Leigh Rixon, Styles and Rikki-Lee Kemp made it three medals from four disciplines, as they won bronze in 6
a 17-16 win over WA.
Leese and Jones will now be in the mix to represent Australia in the 2013 Trans-Tasman series in March.
The maroon Tally: How Qld fared
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Broadbeach rising star Sean Ingham captured the prestigious Pine Rivers Junior Classic title last month, becoming the first bowler ever to win the title twice. Ingham added to his 2010 title in the open singles, defeating Bribie Island’s Natasha Jones, 25-17 in a historic final. Regardless who won, the competition would have celebrated a milestone, with Jones vying to become the first girl to claim the title. The 17-year-old Bribie bowler qualified for the decider in dominant fashion, blowing Queensland teammate Joel Leese out of the water, in a 21-7 victory. Ingham had a slightly tougher road to the final, defeating James Manthey in his semi-final, 21-15. Not just satisfied with planting an unprecedented stamp on the competition, Ingham collected the open pairs title as well. He and partner Joel Leese defeated Joel Andersen and Braidan Leese in the final, winning 18-8. It was a tough semi-final round for the eventual champions, who defeated Connie-Leigh Rixon and Taleah Putney 12-9, while Andersen and Leese got over Jesse Turnbull and
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Lachie Rowden 20-13. Ipswich United’s Liam Stephan blitzed the under-15 division of the tournament, also taking out both the pairs and singles events. Stephan showed his talents, knocking out reigning state singles champion Nic Gosley in the semi-finals with a 21-5 victory. The win set up a showdown with Cleveland bowler Jacob Nelson, who had a similarly dominant 21-6 win over Mitch Meers in the semis. But it was Stephan who carried on the momentum into the championship decider, with a 25-17 win over Nelson. Nelson competed with younger brother, seven-year-old Kane, in the pairs, where they managed to reach the semifinals. The Nelson brothers fell to Liam Jackson and Nic Gosley, 10-16, in the final four match. Jackson and Gosley fell agonisingly short of a title, losing to Stephan and partner Dale McWhinney-Shillington by only one shot in the deciding match. Taleah Putney was the best-performed girl in the singles, reaching the quarter-finals.
Opposite page: Singles winners Liam Stephan and Sean Ingham. This page, clockwise from above: Liam Stephan and Dale McWhinney-Shillington; Joel Andersen and Joel Leese share a laugh; seven-year-old Kane Nelson in his element; Joel Leese and Sean Ingham in a trophy tug-of-war.
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rixons rule in junior-senior Rebecca and Jason Rixon teamed up last month to take out Buderim’s junior-senior competition. The Rixon duo reigned supreme over the competition, finishing ahead of the combo of Bradley Andrews and Brett Holden. With bowlers coming from as far away as Tin Can Bay Bowls Club , a two hour drive away from Buderim, junior co-ordinator David Adrian said the competition had been a great success. The competition is one of a greater strategy implemented by the club to encourage junior participation. Adrian said Buderim were bucking the trend of holding big-money junior-senior days in favour of smaller tournaments more often. “We have now run several Junior/Senior events on a monthly basis with only small prize money,” Adrian said. “This gives the learners and inexperienced juniors the
opportunity to enjoy a game with seniors. The seniors are all happy to play with the younger ones and it is great to see the seniors support the programme.” Buderim has also played an active role in encouraging the development of junior talent in state-wide competition. Adrian is an enthusiastic supporter of Bowls Queensland’s All Schools Cup, with Connie-Leigh Rixon and Madison Wright qualifying from their district this year.
L-R: Jason Rixon, Rebecca Rixon, Bradley Andrew, Brett Holden
Madison Wright (left)at the All Schools Cup and Connie-Leigh Rixon (above) in action at the junior-senior day.
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Every player has a role to fulfil
Lawn bowls is a sport that centres around participation. It doesn’t matter whether you are playing singles (individual game) or in a team discipline, who your opposition or whom you are representing, you belong to a team and you are a participant. Players in any sporting teams participate as a member of that side. As part of a team, it is important that members stay in communication, are compatible within the side, all contribute, get involved, give input, and are prepared for competition. What is your role as a team? Players in a side have several roles and responsibilities as part of that position. In competition, the final result is the main objective and should be taken into account in regards to these roles and responsibilities. Whether playing Lawn Bowls at the very top of the tree or playing for your club, every player has common experiences. Part of being in a team is that matches should be 12
enjoyable, friendships are made, you are exposed to competition and as a unit, you work towards a successful result. Words like preparation, passion, enthusiasm and desire, are often talked about as the qualities in sport that provide the basis for success. While that might be to true to an extent, team cohesion is key to improving players’ mindsets and team performance. Knowing that your teammates are all developing their skills in training and putting in the effort to improve enhances the mentality of each individual in the team. What are your individual responsibilities? Responsibilities to the side and yourself come down to working with a coach, training, skill development, consistency, goals with the list never ending and areas of preparation, respect, integrity, dedication and excellence will help to reach a successful result. Other responsibilities in the sport, just like in any other sport requires the player to have a good understanding
Bill Cornehls Current Queensland state coach
of the laws of the sport, the rules to be observed and the conditions of play. Part of this involves making sure training practices or procedures in place are maintained and the codes of behavior are understood. You should not simply take these for granted. Rather, each player should take it upon himself or herself to take on that knowledge. What is your individual role? Each player has a unique role to play in a team/side depending on the position (lead, second, third, skip) in which that player has been selected. A side’s overall performance depends on how all players fulfil their role within the structure of the team. If any player is not performing in the structure then pressure is transferred to the next player to take on an extra role in their performance. The more roles that players have to carry, the less likely it is that the structure will perform under pressure. This also diminishes the
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Under normal match conditions if anyone isn’t playing well, the team/side needs to be aware of the roles of each player and maintain faith in the team structure. This enables uncontrollable circumstances to be dealt without negative judgments taking over. Working together as a team can assist in limiting the impact of uncontrollable circumstances during a match. Watching, listening and understanding your opponents during play and evaluating areas of their game play can assist your game plan during the match or future matches. These observations will assist you to pick up on opponents’ strengths and weaknesses and help develop another area in your match play. The most important thing that any player can do is be proactive. Ask yourself what you can do for the team, don’t wait around wondering what the team can do for you.
Follow these bowls tweeters Each issue we recommend some bowling tweeters to add to your tweets for you to follow so you can keep up with the world of bowls and connect with those in the know.
Who: Glasgow 2014
Why follow them:
The Commonwealth Games is the pinnacle of lawn bowls competition. Glasgow is the host city of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Lawn bowls will play a huge part in these games in two years’ time.
The Glasgow Twitter account keeps you updated with progress of all the different sports in the lead-up to the 2014 Games. Make sure you know what’s going on with bowls, by following them.
Who: Club Helensvale
Why follow them:
Club Helensvale is one of the largest bowls clubs in Australia, boasting a number of Queensland and Australia representatives. Young gun Rohan Wilson, who made the 2012 Australia U-18 side, hails from the Gold Coast club.
As well as their high-profile membership, Club Helensvale plays host to some major bowls events, including the National 5-a-side competitions. Their Twitter account provides updates and info about these events and is definitely one to follow to keep on top of major comps.
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Open Junior / Senior Pairs *
Sunday 14th October - 8.30 am
Plus “Mystery Bonus” Prizes
3 Games of 15 ends, or The Bell (2hr 10 min) Wins + Margin - No team can win more than 1 prize.
Springwood Bowls Club www.clubspringwood.com.au
Sponsors :Brian Go u g h
63 MOSS ST SLACKS CREEK
Ph: 3808 9225 PETER C. HAMLEY
Mob: 0421 117 637
$25 per team, inc BBQ Lunch. Enquiries :- David Pearson –0408 764657 –fl flyhiau@yahoo.com Eileen Gough –0434 581116 –eileen.gough@gmail.com
Nomination Form - Springwood Junior/Senior Pairs Day Sunday 14th October 2012 Nomination fee ($25 inc GST) must accompany entry Please make cheques payable to Springwood Bowls Club Inc.
Junior _________________ Club ________________ Email (optional) _____________________ Senior _________________ Club ________________ Email (optional) _____________________ Team Contact Name & Address _____________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Tel. ________________________ Junior* DOB ___ / ___ / _____
* Must be under 18 on the day of play
Springwood Bowls Club - PO Box 1406. Springwood, Qld. 4127 - Ph 3208 3211