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BADGE DAY for 2011

This year, Badge day will be held on Friday the 18th November.

Cross Country Competition

Daniel Vuni and Jackson Mackenzie-Paige, both vision impaired students from Charles Campbell Secondary school were chosen to compete in the Cross Counry Championships, held in Queensland from August 20th - 23rd 2010. Daniel and Jackson did themselves proud by finishing 8th and 9th in a field of over 30 vision impaired studens from all over Australia.

Judo

Lisa Pearce competed in the State Judo competition in May, At Hallett Cove, Competing against sighted person. Lisa came first in the women's open division, beating a women 2 belts higher and 20 Kilo's heavier than herself. well done Lisa

Powerlifting

Anthony Clarke and Lisa Pearce competed in the National Powerlifting Competition, in May, held at Mannum. Anthony achieving a 1st in the under 90 kilo division and Lisa also achieving a 1st place in the women's under 75 kilo division. Lisa also won the most outstanding lifter award for the Nationals.

Northern Athletics club

We are currently funding a trainer for the northern Athletics club, to assist 10 -15 blind and vision impaired persons in gym and athletics training, this is an ongoing event and is held at the RSB Gilles Plains gym on Saturday mornings.

Lawn Bowls.

Adelaide hosted the 31st National Blind Bowls Championships this year from the 13th to 23rd April, at Salisbury Bowling Club, Orange Avenue, Salisbury.

Congratulations to the following Medal winners:

Mens Singles: B2 division - Silver winner: B Cameron

Ladies Singles: B4 Division - Silver Winner: R Arbon

Mens Pairs: B2 Division - Gold Winners: N Cundy and B Cameron

Ladies Pairs: B4 Division - Gold winners: M Koch and R Arbon

Winner of the Marlene Ireland Certificate Encouragement Award: Des Warner

Congratulations to all our Blind Lawn Bowlers who competed in the competition.

Cricket

Congratulations to Michael Zannis who was chosen to be part of the Team travelling to Barbados in the West Indies to compete in this international Blind Cricket competition. Cricketers from New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland also made up the team. The Competition went from 1st June until 28th June 2010.

Tenpin Bowling

Des Warner and Susan Earles travelled to Joondalup in Western Australia, to compete in the TBA Australian Disability Championships from the 29th - 4th June. .

Richard Turner, Andrew Bernhardt and Matthew Burrows,travelled to Epping in Victoria to compete in the National Disability Tenpin Bowling Championships in June. Matthew Won a Silver medal in the B Grade Teams, Andrew Won a Bronze Medal in the C Grade Teams and Richard also won a bronze medal in the A Grade Teams. Well done boys.

Swimming

Congratulations to Kieran Murphy who recently competed in the Telstra Australian Swimming Championships, qualifying for seven events and achieving 5 personal best times. Kieran qualified for the 400m freestyle final and he is now ranked 6th in Australia. Well Done Kieran.

Kieran also competed inthe Telstra Short Course Swimming Championships in Sydney in July, in his goal to be chosen for the paralympic swimming squad.

Promotional DVD of Sport for Blind or Vision Impaired

The Office for Recreation and Sport has financed the provision of a unique DVD that has been produced by the Blind Sporting Council. The purpose of the DVD is to promote community awareness of the ability for blind and vision impaired people of all ages to participate in active sports and acheive outstanding results and also to increase the awareness and encourage those persons not currently involved to become actively involved in a sport or recreation activity.

We would like to thank the Office for Recreation and Sport for financing the production of the DVD and helping to making possible.

If you would like a copy of the DVD please contact our office and wewill be happy to forward a copy to you.

If you would like further information on the "be active" program run by the Office for Recreation and Sport please log on to their website www.beactive.com.au


2010 South Australian Blind Lawn Bowls Team


Blind Sporting Council donated the perpetual Shield for the winners of the B4 Men's Pairs. Des Warner, Board Member presented this shield to the winning Men's Pair


2010 Blind Lawn Bowls Nationals, Held at Salisbury Bowls, May. All Bowlers and Directors who attended this event

Funded events for this year to date:

Judo	NSW Special needs Judo Friendship Games	Tweed Heads, NSW	June 2011
Tenpin Bowling	4th Australian Blind Tenpin Bowling Championships	Ingle Farm, SA	May 2011
Lawn Bowls	Australian Open - "Athletes with a disability" Invitational	Melbourne, VIc	Feb 2011
Cricket	Australian National Training Camp	Melbourne, VIC	Jan 2011
Goalball	Australian Female Training Camp	Brisbane, QLD	Dec 2010
Golf	Australian Open & WA Open Blind Golf	Collier Park, WA	November, 2010
Lawn Bowlers	Invitational Competition	Barmera, SA	September 2010
Golf	2010 NSW Open Championships	Barnwell, NSW	September 2010
Judo	Kodokan Nationals	Melbourne, VIC	October 2010
Athletics	State Cross Country Championships	Brisbane, QLD	August 2010
Swimming	2010 Telstra Australian Short Course	Brisbane, QLD	July, 2010
Athletics	Trainer, Northern Blind Sports	Gilles Plains, SA	Ongoing
Cricket	West Indies Tour	Barbados, West Indies	June 2010
Tenpin Bowling	National Disabled Tenpin Bowling Championships	Epping, Vic	June 2010
Tenpin Bowling	TBA Australian Disability Championships	Joondalup, WA	May 2010
Golf	National Stableford Championships	Adelaide Shores, SA	May 2010
Lawn Bowls	31st National blind Bowls Championships	Salisbury.SA	April 2010
Swimming	Telstra Australian Swimming Championships	Olympic Park, NSW	March, 2010
Golf	Vision Australia Victorian Open	Rosebud , Vic	March 2010
Marching	Australian National Marching Championships	Toowong, QLD	April 2010
Cricket	Trans Tasman Series, Aust. v New Zealand	Sydney, NSW	Jan 2010
Cricket	Australian National Championships	Sydney, NSW	Jan 2010
Indoor Bias Bowls	Catchpole Trophy (Vic v's SA)	Gilles Plains, SA	Oct 09
Golf	Australian National Blind Golf Championships	Western Australia	Oct 09
Cricket	Australian National Blind Cricket Training Camp	Brisbane, QLD	Sept 09
Indoor Bias Bowls	Mark Hanlon Trophy (Adelaide V's Pt Pirie)	Gilles Plains, SA	Sept 09
Golf	2009 NSW Open Championships	Sydney, NSW	Sept 09
Golf	Japanese Open	Japan	August 2009
Tenpin Bowling	TBA Australian Disability Championships	Sunshine, Vic	June 2009
Tenpin Bowling	21st Annual Championships for Bowlers with a Disability	Rockhampton, QLD	June 2009
Lawn Bowls	ABBA 30th National Championships	Victoria Park, WA	May 2009
NT Lawn Bowls	ABBA 30th National Championships	Victoria Park, WA	May 2009
Cricket	National Training Camp	Adelaide, SA	April 2009
Lawn Bowls	IBBA World Championships	Glenroy Bowls, VIc	April 2009
Golf	Victorian Blind Golf Championships	Rosebud, Vic	March 2009
Cricket	National Delegates Conference	Sydney	Feb 2009
Cricket	SABCC V Renmark Lions Club	Renmark, SA	Feb 2009
Swimming	Aquatic Centre Training, for World Games	Adelaide	January 2009
Cricket	Blind Ashes Series	Sydney	December 2008
Tandem Cycling	New Tandem Bicycle	Adelaide	Nov 2008
Sailing	2008 Australian Blind Sailing Championships Albury-Wodonga Yacht Club,	Albury - Wodonga, NSW	Oct 2008
Cricket	Training Camp - Ashes Cricket Tour	Brisbane, QLD	Sept 2008
Indoor Bias Bowls	38th AIBBC AUstralian Indoor Bias Bowls Council National Championships	Rockhampton, QLD	Aug 2008
Indoor Bias Bowls	Mark Hanlon Trophy	Port Pirie, SA	Sept 2008
Golf	British Blind Golf Open Championships and World Blind Golf Championships	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Aug 2008
Golf	Australian National Blind Golf Competition	Perth, WA	Oct 2008
Cricket	SABCC v Renmark Lions Club	Renmark, SA	March 2008
Tenpin Bowling	Disabled National Tenpin Bowling Championships	Tuggeranong, ACT	June 2008
Cricket	Training Camp - Ashes Cricket Tour	Sydney, NSW	April 2008
Golf	Victorian Open Championships for Blind and Vision Impaired Golfers	Victoria	March 2008
Lawn Bowls	ABBA 28th National Championships	Mooroolbark, VIC	April 2008
NT Lawn Bowlers	ABBA 28th National Championships	Mooroolbark Vic	April 2008
Tandem Cycling	National Track Championships	Sydney, NSW	Feb 2008

WA NEWS

Badge Day for 2011

This year, Badge day will be held on Friday the 25th November.

An exciting time for Perth, and Blind Sailing this year

Royal Perth Yacht Club has now released the Notice of Race for the IFDS Disabled Sailing International

Championship, 2011, Homerus Blind Match Racing. The event will be held on the Swan River from March

19 to 26 next year.

The IFDS Blind Match Racing Championship will be sailed in Sonar keelboats using the Homerus

Autonomous Sailing system. Three "beeping buoys", each with a unique signal, set out the course and each

boat has its own sound signal that changes when on port or starboard tack.

A crew of three sailors classified as B1, B2 or B3 under the IBSA Classification System will make-up teams

with a collective maximum of 5 IBSA points. The helmsperson must be classification B1 and the gender is

mixed, with a minimum of one female and one male team member. A sighted observer appointed by the

race committee is also aboard.

Teams are expected from Italy, Great Britain, New Zealand, Israel, Spain, the USA and Australia. Kylie

Forth, with Ryan Honschooten (main) and Erin McGlew (headsail) all from Royal Perth Yacht Club, are

hoping to make the most of their home-town advantage.

Sailing

Kylie Forth and Erin McLew will be travelling to the 2010 IFDS World Blind Match Racing Championships in Italy from 20 - 27th June 2010, we wish them the best

Golf

Doug Golding and Darryl Evans will be attending the Blind Golf World Championships and British Open Blind Golf Open at the Whittlebury Park Golf Club in England from 16th until 20th August 2010. Good Luck Boys

Lawn Bowls

Congratulations to the following medal winners from the National Blind Lawn Bowls Championships, held at Salisbury Bowls, April 2010

Mens Singles: B4 Division - Gold - D Goddard

Mens Singles: B1 Division - Silver - J Ryan

Ladies Singles: B2 Division - Gold - D Jarman

Ladies Singles: B2 Division - Silver - S. Ferres

Ladies Singles: B3 Division - Bronze - C McKenzie

Mens Pairs: B3 Division - Gold - P Alexander & C Harvey

Mens Pairs: B4 Division - Gold - G McLean & D Goddard

Ladies Pairs: B2 Division - Silver - S Ferres & D Jarman

Ladies Pairs: B4 Division - Silver - D Dunk & C McKenzie

Mixed Pairs: B1 Division - Gold - M Fenech & J Ryan

Mixed Pairs: B4 Divison - Gold - S Ferres & D Goddard

Mixed Pairs: B3 Division - Silver - C McKenzie & P Alexander

Mixed Pairs: B4 Division - Bronze - D Jarman & G McLean

Ron Humphry Trophy for Best Individual Male Bower: David Goddard

Gwen Lewis Trophy for best Overall Performance: David Goddard

Barry Cable, Ambassador for Blind Sporting Council in Western Australia, at the recent WA Open Blind Golf Championship enjoying a game of golf, using black out glasses. Barry receives some assistance and tips from a student, from the Como High School Golf Academy, and David Blyth, President, of Blind Golf Australia and International Blind Golf.

Funded events for this year to date:

Tandem Cycling	2011 Cycling Nationals	Perth	March 2011
Tandem Cycling	2011 National Cycling Championships	Sydney, NSW	Feb 2011
Golf	Western Australian Blind Golf Open	Collier Pk, Perth	Nov 2010
Goalball	Australian Goalball Nationals	Paddington, QLD	October 2010
Goalball	Victorian Goalball Association Challenge	Hawthorn, VIC	August 2010
Golf	Blind Golf World Championships	England	August 2010
Sailing	IFDS World Blind Match Racing Championships	Bogliaco, Italy	June 2010
Golf	National Stableford Championships	Adelaide Shores, SA	May 2010
Lawn Bowls	31st National Lawn Bowls Championships	Salisbury, SA	April 2010
Golf	Japan Blind Golf Open	Japan	August 2009
Tandem Cycling	New Tandem Bicycle	Perth	June 2009
Tenpin Bowling	TBA Disability Championships	Sunshine Bowl, Qld	June 2009
Lawn Bowls	Hosting of 30th ABBA National Championships	Victoria Park, WA	May 2009
Golf	SA National Stabelford Open	Flagstaff Hill, SA	May 2009
Lawn Bowls	World Bowls Championships	Glenroy, Vic	April 2009
Golf	Victorian Open Golf Championships	Victoria	March 2009
Sailing	2008 Homerus International Match Race	Italy	October 2008
Swish	New Swish Table	Perth
Golf	British Blind Golf Open and WOrld Blind Golf Championships	Northern Ireland	August 2008
Lawn Bowls	29th National ABBA Championships	Mooroolbark, Vic	May 2008

QLD NEWS

Fundraising Commences in Queensland - 1st July 2010

The Blind Sporting Council has commenced fundraising activities in Queensland and encourages eligable people and organisations to enquire about future grant funding.

2010 Australian Goalball National Championships. 8 - 10 October 2010

Brisbane was excited to host the 2010 event, for athletes with a vision impairment, which seen teams from around Australia and New Zealand compete in both Mens and Womens Divisions. Spectators are always welcome to come out and experience this hard-hitting sport. For more information, please go to http://www.sportingwheelies.org.au/doc.php?ID=1412

Funded events for this year to date:

Cricket	Australian National Training Camp	January 2011	Melbourne, VIC

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