Issue 1 : May 2015
KISSO COMMUNITY NEWS
Welcome to the first
edition of the Kisso
Community News.
With member numbers
across our five codes
approaching 2000, it
made good sense for us
to all get to know each
other a little better.
Not many local clubs are
lucky enough to have the
facilities and number of
sports on offer that we
do at Kissing Point so we
thought we’d start a
regular update of
what’s going down
with each of the codes.
KPSC has signed up
with the grassroots
fundraising program,
Quickbeds to raise
money every time our
members book work
or holiday accommodation for Australia or
New Zealand using
our unique KPSC
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With the change from
summer to winter
comes a change of
sports being played.
Baseball and Cricket
have headed into the
sheds while Football,
Netball and Softball
suited up and came out
to play.
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KPSC COMMITTEE
JIC you didn’t get the
memo, current KPSC
Committee members
are:
I may not be
the strongest,
I may not be
the fastest but
I’ll be damned
if I’m not trying
my hardest
Executive
President—
Dave Watson (Football)
Delegates—
Scott Paulson (Baseball)
Anton Reisch (Cricket)
Tineke Millard (Football),
Rosie Dahdah and
Stuart Moore (Netball),
Tim Bridge and
Julie Commins (Softball)
Vice President—
Each code can have two
John Klingberg (Cricket) delegates attend but each
code gets only one vote
Treasurer—
on motions, plus each
Sarah Poulos (Football)
member of the executive
gets a vote.
Secretary—
Marion Fagan (Netball)
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In this issue :
The Committee meets
on the second
Wednesday of each
month at 8.00pm at the
Clubhouse.
The Club’s AGM is
planned for November
this year.
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 Meet the committee
 Hear news from
Baseball, Cricket,
Football, Netball and
Softball
 Find out why
Kissing Point is a
Good Sports club
 Read guidelines for using
the clubhouse
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team did their best and a great
by-product was that the night
games at home drew an
In the 2014/15 summer season
increasing number of spectators
KPBC welcomed more teams than keen to play ball with us.
ever before and achieved some
outstanding results. In the junior
The season saw the introduction
ranks, not only did the players
of the Junior Blue Umpires — a
improve their skills and have fun
team of dedicated and brave
playing a sport they love, they
players standing behind the plate
produced two minor premierships; and running our junior games.
had 4 teams in the finals series; 3
The trial was an overwhelming
teams in the grand final and 2 grand success all round and we look
final champions – the undefeated
forward to introducing more
U10 Red and the U14s winning a
juniors to umpiring in 2015/16.
nail-biter. Simply outstanding!
Ryde Hawks Baseball League run
For the first time in years KPBC
representative level tournaments
entered an U12 Division 1 team in throughout the year and we had
RHBL’s Friday night competition.
four juniors representing Kissing
The standard was high but the
Point — Logan Fielder in the
BASEBALL
It’s hard to
beat a person
who never
gives up
Babe Ruth
CRICKET
place at the end of the home-andaway season to knock over
Another successful KPCC
Normanhurst-Warrawee in the
season has drawn to a close
grand final and win the title. They
with the pride in encouraging
played as a true team with
participation and ensuring a fair everyone contributing when it
go reflected in our results. Our counted most. In the senior ranks
players range from 5 to nearly 4 of our 6 teams made the semi60 years and include many fafinals but sadly, none made it
ther / son playing and coaching through and so passed the rest of
combos. An increasing number March wallowing in self-pity.
of last season’s juniors moved
to senior ranks while a number The junior T20 club games at
Auluba on a Friday night brought
of juniors filled-in for senior
teams each week. It is great to much joy and excitement to the
see KPCC become even more kids as it was their turn to ‘shine’
under lights and play with a bright
family-friendly.
orange ball. It also brought the
Congratulations to our U15
parents together for a sausage
Reds team who came from 4th sandwich and a cold beverage.
Rookie Reps Tournament and
Parker Lovering, Romy Koziol and
Liam Goodrich in the NSW Little
League Minor Championships.
The seniors also had a successful
summer season with two teams
taking out their minor premierships,
4 out of 7 teams making the finals
series; 3 progressing to grand finals
and 2 taking out the title. Winter
season is underway for 5 senior
teams which we wish the same
success enjoyed in summer.
A BIG thank to the dedicated
coaches, managers, parents,
scorers, umpires, volunteers,
ground staff, spectators and members who make Kissing Point
Baseball Club would not be the
success that it is.
This year’s Senior Presentation
was held at the Greengate Hotel.
Over and above team awards is
the Scott Roberts’ Award for the
true all-rounder who can not
only bat and bowl but also catch,
hit sixes and boundaries, claim
run-outs and bowl maidens. In
the fine tradition of our beloved
game, the stats are fed into a
secret formula known only a
select few (and which makes
Duckworth Lewis look like a
cinch!) and the winner is finally
revealed to the masses on the
night. Rasha Watson (C3) won
this year by the slightest of margins with 105.0 points to B2’s
Vishan Wijeyaratne on 103.8.
Rasha had a top score of 166
plus a 10-wicket haul with the
ball in one game … a deserved
winner!
Other major awards included:
Batting Champion: Brendan Dash
(540 runs @ 54.0)
Bowling Champion: Anik
Gnanasekaram (26 wickets @ 11.7)
Wicket Keeping Champion: Toby
Norrish (17 catches, 4 stumpings)
Fielding Champion: Vishan
Wijeyaratne (15 catches, 1 run out)
In fact, KP has a proud record of
playing at all levels of the game.
We compete each Saturday from
April to September at St Ives
Village Green in the North Shore
District Softball Association,
comprised of nine different clubs
fielding about 1000 players. KP
also has a large number of players who also compete at a representative, state, national and
international level. A phenomenal
statistic is that four of our AGrade Red Sox players also play
on the Australian national team
while three other A / A1 players
recently represented Great
Britain at the European Softball
Championships. Several club members play overseas in the off-season
at college or in pro leagues in the
USA, Great Britain, Italy and Japan.
The Trivia Night was another
raging success and seems to be
getting bigger every year! Such
efforts raise funds to keep fees low,
ensure equipment and facilities are
of a high standard and help fund
training and coaching activities for
all our squads. at the Action Indoor
Sports Centre in Mt Ku-ring-gai.
There might be a chill in the air but
summer is just around the corner
… bring on the 2015/2016 cricket
season with regos opening in July!
SOFTBALL
A warm welcome back to our
200 or so KP softballers who
have just hit the diamond for the
start of the 2015 winter season,
bringing us a step closer to our
all-important 50th anniversary to
be celebrated next year.
With players ranging from 5 to
60 years, we cater for all ages
and this year are fielding 10 senior teams and 6 junior teams.
We’ll be out there until early
spring with our eyes on the prize
of grand finals on 5 September.
There’s a high standard to uphold as last year, five KP teams
played on the big day with four
coming away with their title.
And we’re just as busy off the
pitch. Coming up on Saturday 23
May we have our first social fundraiser for the year at the clubhouse
(details to come, followed by a
second social event on Saturday
18 July. We also look beyond our
own ranks and have been instrumental in setting up a number of
softball-related charity activities
such as Strike Out Breast Cancer and
the Softball President's Ice Bucket
Challenge for MND.
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FOOTBALL
KPFC’s 2015 season is already
underway with about 850 players
spread across nearly 70 teams.
This sees KPFC as one of the
largest clubs out of the 30 that
play in the Ku-ring-gai District &
it augurs well for our club to see
an increase in the number of
junior teams this year.
Most of our teams play in KDSA’s
north division but with a stellar
performance last year, one of our
U9 boys’ teams was regraded into
the combined north-south cross
division – a performance they
hope to repeat this year! In the
U16 boys, Tom McKnight’s team
continues to play in the top grade
this season and, always keen for
more, Tom is also back with last
year’s U12 girls who have moved
to the top division in U14 girls.
To support our precious
volunteer coaches we are
exploring more development
options with certificate courses
for different age groups from
grassroots skills through to game
strategy for more experienced
players.
The Premier League team is
KPFC’s top competitive squad
which has enjoyed a long and
successful history in the district’s
elite league – last year, the team
won the NSFA cup for a record
7th time! The squad of 32 players
can be found playing their
football every Saturday at 1.00pm
for reserve grade followed by a
3.00pm kick-off for 1st grade. The
competition consists of 10 teams
from around the district who
play a home-and-away season of
18 games. Our KP team takes
pride in being competitive while
also sourcing its players from our
junior ranks – this year’s team
consists of a large majority of
proud local juniors who have
played for KP since they could
run! The guys currently in the
squad aspired to be in this team
from a very young age and are
always eager to inspire younger
players to reach the same high
level of football and club pride.
Supporting all these players and
teams is a large dose of club
spirit and an army of volunteers.
While we are continuing our
regular Friday night events at the
clubhouse (details and opening
hours on the back page), this
year we are also opening the
clubhouse canteen on a Saturday
morning to see if it draws
enough support. When playing
at Auluba, do drop by and visit us
and help make the trial a success
so it can long continue!
On the social scene, the everpopular kids’ disco ran early in
May as part of that week’s
regular club night. And
continuing the disco theme, the
dance party for adults is in the
calendar for Saturday 30 May
– it’s a great chance to have
some fun with fellow members,
welcome some new faces and
catch up with familiar ones.
More details to follow.
Behind the scenes the KPFC
committee is working hard to
streamline our processes. More
volunteers are always welcome
and we are trying to make it
easier for everyone to
understand how they can help
out and what’s involved in each
role. We’re also upping the
club’s online profile via an
improved website and more
activity on our revamped
Facebook page. PLEASE visit
and give us the thumbs up as we
build this page into the most
convenient way to gather the
latest club news and info.
NETBALL
Ku-Ring-Gai's 2015 netball
season is off to a flyer with over
250 players wearing KP's red,
white and blue across 29 teams.
Our season is a little disjointed
this year due to the Netball
World Cup coming to Sydney in
August. All local play is suspended for those two weeks so our
season has started early, will
finish late and there'll be an extra
few weeks off in the middle! Let's
hope the Diamonds can repeat
the fine performances of the
Aussie cricketers in winning the
World One Day Cup and the
Socceroos taking out the Asia
Cup. With the Diamonds' team
just announced, it's great to see
four players from the NSW
Swifts make the national squad.
In early May, 104 KPNC players,
friends and family headed off to
see the Swifts trounce 2014
premiers, the Melbourne Vixens,
at Homebush. The Swifts play in
the same colours as KP so it was
easy to suit up and look the part
while witnessing their biggest win
of the season.
On the rep front, 14 KP players
are representing Ku-Ring-Gai
Netball Association in State Age
and Development competitions.
We're also very proud to report
that two home-grown locals from Maxwell Street, no less! have been selected for the state
and international stage and
what's even more impressive is
that they are sisters. Emily
Moore was selected for the
NSW State U19 team which won
the national championships at
Homebush in April; younger sister
Sophie will represent Australia at
July’s Junior World Series in Perth,
a tri-nations’ competition against
New Zealand and South Africa.
Both young women can still be
found at Canoon Road courts each
Saturday, playing and coaching for
their foundation club.
That's it from netball. Our winter
season will finish in mid-September
and then spring comp starts in
early October. Spring comp
features mixed teams so if any
hubbies or bros want to give
netball a go, that's the time to
come and find out just how
"gentle" a non-contact sport can
be! See you courtside soon!
You miss 100%
of the shots
you never
take
Wayne Gretzky
KPSC is a Good Sports club!
Good Sports is an initiative of the Australian Drug
Foundation to try and build stronger, healthier
and more family-friendly clubs for the local
community.
A club for
good sports
KPSC became a member this year, joining more
than 6500 other sports clubs around the country.
Good Sports helps clubs set standards around key
health issues of alcohol, smoking, obesity and
mental health. It’s a progressive three level
accreditation program which each KPSC code will
undertake. We’ve already been awarded the
Level 1 accreditation and are working towards
Level 2.
Failing to prepare
is preparing to fail
Mark Spitz
Using the KPSC Clubhouse
Thought it might be helpful
for our members to know
some of the rules and
guidelines associated with
using the Clubhouse.
Bookings : If you’d like to
book the clubhouse for a
meeting or event, contact the
KPSC Secretary via the email
below. You’ll be sent a brief
questionnaire to make sure
we have all the details we
need. Please be aware the
Clubhouse is NOT available
for 18th or 21st birthdays and
cannot be used without
knowledge and approval of
the Executive Committee.
Hire charges : Using the hall
for KPSC code committee
meetings and activities is free.
There’s a $50 hire charge for
related organisations and
associations to use the clubhouse for meetings while external social events pay a
$100 hire charge, a $100
cleaning fee plus $50 for using
the barbeques.
Usage guidelines : We are
genuinely lucky to have our
own clubhouse—and a
licensed one at that—but the
license also brings serious
responsibilities and potentially
hefty penalties for breaching
its terms and conditions.
Members and their guests
need to be aware of the
following:
 Alcohol can only be
provided through the
official bar and can only be
served by a certified RSA.
 Absolutely NO BYO
under any circumstance.
 Cleaning the clubhouse
costs quite a bit of dough
over the whole year. The
tidier and cleaner we all
leave it after using it, the
lower club overheads will
be and that can mean
lower fees for our
members.
 Guidelines are provided
in the canteen on how to
operate the bar, how to
close down, how to do a
stock-take and how to restock. Again, the better
we all do at these tasks,
the cheaper it will be to
operate the club.
 Keys to the clubhouse are
to be treated like gold!
They are all numbered and
written in a register.
Please be sure to return a
borrowed key promptly.
Opening hours
Football will be operating the
bar and canteen from
5.00pm every Friday night
from May through until the
end of August.
Members from all codes are
warmly invited to drop by
with family and friends and
share in a sense of community
at the end of the working
week. See you there!
Contacts
Postal address :
PO Box 5402
Email :
South Turramurra NSW 2074
[email protected]
Clubhouse :
Auluba Road
South Turramurra NSW 2074
president@kpsc,com.au
[email protected]
Love is playing
every game as
if it’s your last
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