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Introduction The Upper Great Southern Hockey Association commenced their 2019 fixtures on the 26th of April and completed them on Saturday 21th of September. This year’s season consisted of regular season matches, Southwest Junior Championships, Men State Country Championships, Women State Country Championships, Year 7/8 Club Championships, Year 9/10 Club Championships, Year 11/12 Club Championships, Smarter than Smoking Upper Great Southern Junior Carnival, Upper Primary School Carnival and Lower High School Carnival. The fixtures were played over three days with Middle and Upper School on Thursday, Middle and two senior games on Friday. On Saturday, we played the Lower School competition in the morning and all senior games in the afternoon. On Friday afternoon, we had Hook in2 hockey for an hour. The role of the Development Officer is possible through funding supplied by Healthways, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries and the Upper Great Southern Hockey Association both seniors and juniors. The Smarter than Smoking logo and the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries logo were used regularly during the season in advertising of events, newspaper articles and radio reports.

Acknowledgements The Upper Great Southern Hockey Association would like to acknowledge and thank Healthways, Smarter than Smoking, The Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, Hockey WA, The Shire of Narrogin, The Upper Great Southern Senior Hockey Committee and the Upper Great Southern Junior Hockey Committee for all their continued support, sponsorship and funding. Without their continued support the Development program would not continue. I would also like to thank and acknowledge the contribution from the following media outlets: The Narrogin Observer and Radio Triple M for their continued support throughout the 2019 hockey season. With their assistance I could promote hockey and advertise results and news of the Associations, also future events.

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Organisational Development Meetings This year I reported to the Junior and Senior delegates meetings monthly. These were held on the first Monday of the month, commencing in February. At these meetings we discussed upcoming events, including coaching clinics, umpiring sessions and the school program. We discussed how to conduct these, and I often asked the committee for ideas when organising clinics. We also discussed ways we can improve the standard of hockey within the Association. I report to the committee the work that I was doing at the schools in the region. We discussed ways to improve the sessions to encourage the children to start playing hockey. We discuss ways to provide additional fundraising for the current and future years.

Risk Management The Association continues to expand its risk management policies and procedures by promoting the working with children policies to all coaches, managers and transport drivers that are involved with juniors.

Development plan The Executive of the Upper Great Southern Hockey Association with the Hockey Development Officer held a series of meetings to discuss further adaptations to the development plan of the Associations. We have revised the Development plan for the 2019 to 2022 seasons.

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Participation School program During 2019 I visited twelve Primary Schools through the Upper Great Southern Region. Visiting these schools provided me with an opportunity to promote hockey and the Smarter than Smoking message. It was great to be able to have a uniform promoting hockey and the Smarter than Smoking message. I was able to visit most schools two times and coach school children from years 1 to 6. This year I worked with the Central Great Southern Hockey Associations that are along our Associations boundary to incorporate them into our school’s program. I visited eight schools, each of these schools received 1 visit per school and I followed a similar plan to the UGSHA school activity. The schools I visited this year were: Upper Great Southern Hockey Association Brookton Primary School Dumbleyung Primary School East Narrogin Primary School Darkan Primary School Lake Yealering Primary School Narrogin Primary School Pingelly Primary School Saint Matthews Primary School Wagin District High School Wandering Primary School Wickepin Primary school Williams Primary School Central great Southern Hockey Association Braeside Primary School Broomehill Primary School Katanning Primary School Katanning Senior High School Kojonup District High School Saint Bernard’s Primary School Saint Patricks Primary School Woodanilling Primary School This is a total of 20 Primary Schools visited with a total of 1866 school children experiencing the sport of hockey this year. This also included Lake King which I visited to help conduct a have a go day which involved several primary in their region. They were Lake King, Ravensthorpe, Newdegate, Hopetoun and Jerdacuttup. When constructing a lesson plan for these schools, I had to take into account that some of the students had never played hockey before, whilst others had played some form of hockey. Below is my standard lesson structure

• Introduction-Introduce myself as the Smarter than Smarter Upper Great Southern Hockey Development Officer with a small explanation about myself. I also talk about safety aspects of hockey.

• Introduce new skill (dribbling, pushing or hitting). This was done in the form of a simple game. This was varied to each classes ability and age. In pairs or teams worked together to improve skill.

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To end a session, I would do a game type situation or have competition to see who could do their skill the best. The final session would see me playing a modified version of dog and bone where I would have two teams each with hockey balls. This stops anyone from getting injured by swinging sticks. The students enjoyed this game and it sometimes ran over time. In each lesson I would give out merchandise to students who would complete a task to their best ability. The schools program is a major part of my contract and the school response to my visit were of compliments and enjoyment. It was interesting to have students see me outside of school and say “Hi” to me, even if I didn’t recognize them straight away. To me this is a good indication that the children enjoyed my visits.

Total Numbers for the School Program

PRIMARY SCHOOL NUMBER OF

GIRLS

NUMBER OF

BOYS

INDIGENOUS TOTALS

Brookton District High 43 42 12 97

Darkan Primary 36 33 69

Dumbleyung Primary 13 9 22

East Narrogin Primary 66 65 25 156

Narrogin Primary 102 122 21 245

Pingelly Primary 33 32 12 77

St Mathews primary 54 49 103

Wagin District High 45 65 9 119

Wandering Primary 7 9 16

Wickepin Primary 25 24 49

Williams Primary 45 49 94

Yealering Primary 9 3 12

Braeside Primary 50 75 125

Broomehill Primary 33 12 45

Katanning Senior High 129 163 292

Katanning Primary 69 70 24 163

Kojonup District High 42 38 5 85

St Bernard’s Primary 30 25 55

St Patricks Primary 29 31 60

Woodanilling Primary 3 6 9

Lake King Primary 45 36 81

TOTAL 908 958 1866

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Upper Great Southern Hockey Association School

Dumbleyung Primary School Brookton Primary school

East Narrogin Primary School Lake Yealering Primary School

Narrogin Primary School Saint Matthews Primary School

Pingelly Primary School Wandering Primary School

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Darkan primary School Wagin Disrtict high School

Wickepin primary School Williams Primary School

Central Great Southern Primary Schools

Braeside Primary School Katanning Primary School

Broomehill primary School Woodanilling primary School

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St Patricks primary School ST Bernard’s primary School

Kojonup Senior High School Katanning Senior High School

Lake King Skills and Drills day

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Hooked in2 Hockey Hooked in2 Hockey is a program designed by Hockey Australia to introduce hockey to new players. Hooked in2 hockey was has been in Narrogin for many years with myself organising 10 sessions throughout the season. There were 22 children registered in the Narrogin program. Towns outside of Narrogin held their own Hook in2 Hockey program with Wagin having 14 children, Brookton having 7 children and Pingelly having 21 children. They were taught the basics of hockey with different games to end each session. The groups were made up in different ways; in Narrogin, we have two groups. The development group was for more advanced children and preparing to play in our Primary School competition next year. This group commenced with basic skills each week and finished with a game. The basic group was for the newer children and this was to aid them in their development of skills. This way next year they can go up a level. They were taught the very basic skills. The coaches for both groups came from our junior upper school competition with myself overseeing the sessions.

Hooked in2 Hockey numbers

Centre Girls BOYS Total

Narrogin 6 16 22

Brookton 3 4 7

Wagin 6 8 14

Pingelly 9 12 21

Total 24 40 64

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Junior Competition The Junior structure of our competition is based on School Years. This year we added an extra competition to the Lower School. This year we had a J 7 Lower for school year 2,3 and 4 and we had a J 11 lower School for school years 4,5 and 6. The Middle school competition was for years 7, 8 and 9 and the Upper High School competition was for years 10, 11 and 12. This is a mixed competition for both boys and girls. This year’s winners were Lower School: Brookton Middle School: Pumas Upper School: Vultures

Lower School The J 7 Lower School competition was played on Saturday mornings. We had seven teams this year. The team came from Dumbleyung, Wagin, Wickepin, Williams and 4 Narrogin teams. The J 11 Lower School competition was played on Saturday mornings. We had seven teams this year. The team came from Brookton, Dumbleyung, Wagin, Williams and 4 Narrogin teams.

Players from the Triple M J 7 competition Overall the junior hockey season was very successful. The Primary School competition is a good breeding game for our higher competitions. With the splitting of this competition we saw more children play hockey with the J 7 competition a very good start for these players. The big advantage of this competition was that all players had more use of the ball therefore improving their skills. We had no winners just players. The J 11 competition saw better quality games as more players had hockey experience.

Lower School Premiers Brookton Coaches and Lower School MVP

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Middle School The Middle high school competiton was played either on Thursday or Friday afternoon. We had five teams competing this year. The teams were made up from the Narrogin Residential College and four Narrogin teams.

Middle School Premiers Pumas

Upper High School The Upper High School competition was played on Thursday night to encourage more players to have a go at hockey. The teams were two Narrogin Agricultural College, one Narrogin Residential Teams and three Narrogin teams. The competition was played in Great Spirit with most games been of a close nature.

Upper School Premiers Vultures Junior Fairest and Best, Runner Up Trophy Winners

Junior Teams Total

Grade 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

J 7 Lower 7

J 11 Lower 12 12 11 12 9 9 9 9 7

Middle 4 5 6 5 6 6 6 6 5

Upper 8 5 5 7 7 6 5 5 6

TOTAL 24 22 22 24 22 21 20 20 25

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Senior Competition The 2019 season for the senior competition was a very close contest in all grades with many top four positions not finalized until the last weeks. The Champions for this year were: Sportspower Men A grade All Blacks Edwards Holden Men B grade Warriors Sportspower Women A grade Warriors Edwards Holden Women B grade All Blacks The senior competition is a very strong competition with many players competiting at a higher level.

Total Numbers of Senior Teams Grade 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Men

A Grade 5 5 6 5 4 5 5 4 4

B Grade 9 9 8 9 9 8 8 8 8

Women

A Grade 5 5 6 6 5 5 5 4 4

B Grade 5 6 8 8 8 9 8 8 7

Total 24 25 28 28 26 27 26 24 23

Men A Grade Premiers Men B Grade Premiers

Women A Grade Premiers Women B Grade Premiers

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TOTAL NUMBERS OF PLAYERS IN ASSOCIATION

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 JUNIOR BOYS 218 211 226 238 248 201 180 205 JUNIOR GIRLS 131 120 174 207 205 161 136 125 SENIOR MEN 259 246 224 223 206 190 219 182

SENIOR WOMEN 150 181 215 200 179 206 196 165 TOTAL 758 758 839 868 838 758 731 677

Narrogin Senior High School Hockey Academy The Narrogin Senior High School Academy is an Academy that was set up to provide an opportunity for students from years 7-10 to learn more about hockey and the different aspects of the game. The students can learn different aspects of the game such as umpiring, coaching, game theory and an introduction to sports injury management and fitness. The students train at the Narrogin hockey turf so they are improving their turf skill in a practical lesson. There are 90 students involved in this program between the four-year groups. This year I helped the academy with there umpiring aspect of the game by giving several talks to the students. The High School also conducted a in house hockey carnival which I assisted with on the day with fixturing and umpiring.

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Carnivals This year I attended the following carnivals as the Upper Great Southern Hockey

Development Officer. At the Southwest Championships held in Bunbury which is a three-day event, I attended as the umpire Co Ordinator for the UGSHA. The Association had 7 teams at this carnival. The carnival was a good success for the Upper Great Southern Hockey Association. I also attended the 11/12 Boys Club Championship, 9/10 Girls Club Championships 7/8 Girls Club Championships and 7/8 Boys Club Championships. I also attended CBH Women Countryweek as the master division 1 coach. I also coordinated the UGSHA Junior Carnival and NAB School Carnival.

Senior Countryweek The year we sent two men’s teams and four women’s teams to the State Country Championships. The Men’s division one team finished 2nd and the Division two team finished 1st. The women’s division one team finished 4th, the Division four team finished 3rd, the master’s division one finished 1st.

UGSHA Countryweek Men Division 2 Champions

UGSHA Countryweek Women Masters Division 1 Champions

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Bunbury Junior Carnival On the weekend of the 1,2 and 3 of June the Upper Great Southern Hockey Association sent 7 teams to compete at the Bunbury Junior Carnival. There is a Championship and a Carnival division. The UGSHA had a 5/6 carnival girl team, 2 5/6 carnival boy’s teams, 7/8 girls carnival team, 7/8 boys carnival team, 9/10 girls carnival team and a 9/10 boys carnival team. The carnival was a successful carnival for the UGSHA with 2 premierships and all other teams finishing near the top of the table. Results 5/6 Girls Premiers winning 3-0 over Collie in the Grand Final 7/8 Girls Premiers winning 2-0 over LGS in the Grand Final 9/10 Girls third on goal difference. 5/6 Boys Yellow third in their pool 5/6 Boys Green fifth in their pool 7/8 Boys third overall 9/10 Boys third in their pool. A great effort by all players.

Smarter than Smoking Club Championships The Smarter than Smoking Club Championships are held in Perth every year at the Perth Hockey Stadium. Teams from around Western Australia including the metropolitan area compete in the carnival. The Year 11/12 Club Championships were held in the April school holidays. The boy’s played in the A division and finished 4th. The Year 9/10 Club Championships were held in the July school holidays with the Upper Great Southern Hockey Association sending a girls’ team in B grade. The girls played some very good hockey over the three days and finished 3rd overall in B grade. The Year 7/8 Club Championships were held in the first week of the July school holidays. This year we took a boys’ team in B grade. The girls played in the B Grade division. The B grade boys played good hockey over the three days and finished 5th. The girl’s team played in B grade and finished 3rd.

UGSHA YR 7/8 Girls Club Championship Team

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Smarter than Smoking Upper Great Southern Junior Carnival

The annual Upper Great Southern Junior Hockey carnival was held in July and involved teams from all over the southwest of Western Australia. This year we had 51 teams enter for the carnival. The teams entered came from Esperance, Ravensthorpe, Avon, Lower Great Southern Hockey Association, Central Great Southern Hockey Association, Collie, Peel, Moderians, YMCC, Exies and Upper Great Southern Hockey Association. The played in the following division J5/6 Girls, J 5/6 Boys, J7/8 Girls, J 7/8 Boys and J9/10 Mixed.

It was a great success for the numbers of teams. I was able to increase the visual message of Smarter than Smoking with several more banners supplied by Healthways. These were placed over the grass grounds as well as near the turf and food halls. I was the co-ordinator for the carnival and as last year I based myself at the Bevan George Hockey pavilion which worked extremely well.

Year 5/6 Girls Champions Year 5/6 Boys Champions

Collie YMCC

Year 7/8 Girls Champions Year 7/8 Boys Champions

UGSHA YMCC

Year 9/10 Mixed Champions

YMCC

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NAB School Hockey Cup

This year we held two National Australia Bank School Hockey Cup. We had an Upper Primary School and a Lower High School competition. This was to provide a regional competition for Hockey players in years 4,5,6, 7, 8 and 9 from our local Schools. The Upper Primary School had 4 girls’ teams and 4 Boys team. The came from Saint Mathews Primary, East Narrogin Primary, Narrogin Primary and Lake Grace District High. The Lower High School had 4 Girls teams and 6 Boys teams Narrogin Senior High School had 3 teams, Kojonup District High School had 3 teams, Katanning Senior High School had 2 teams, Narembeen District High School had 1 team and Lake Grace District High School had 1 team. I made it a seven a side competition with separate boys’ and girls’ competition. The winners of the Upper Primary School Girls division were Lake Grace District High School and the Upper Primary School boy’s division was Saint Mathews Primary School. The winners of the Lower High School Girls division were Narrogin Senior High School and the Lower High School boy’s division was Katanning Senior High School. The both days was very successful with many players having a chance to play in different positions throughout the day. National bank supplied giveaways and the major trophies.

NAB Lower High School Hockey Cup Girls NAB Lower High School Hockey Cup Boys

Winners Narrogin Winners Katanning

NAB Upper Primary Hockey Cup Girls NAB Upper Primary Hockey Cup Boys

Winners Lake Grace Winners Saint Mathews

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High Performance Hockey WA Pathways program Hockey WA Pathways program has enabled more junior players access to elite coaching and direction to State teams. The following players have been successful in been included in this program

Girls: Boys:

UGSHA Talent Acceleration Program This year we had our own TAP in Narrogin. We held one at the end of the 2018 season for 10 weeks then again form February 2019 for another 9 weeks. It was held every Tuesday morning at the hockey turf. It consisted of having elite senior players coaching our elite juniors. We had 14 athletes do the program.

Senior State Team Representatives This year the Upper Great Southern Hockey Association had representatives in men and women state teams. WA State Men Country Team: Nicholas Corner, Shaun McKay, Liam Sweeney, Blake Warburton WA State Women Country Team: Emily Ballantyne, State Veteran Ladies Over 35 Cara Borthwick, Brooke Duff. Over 45 Jodie George WA Country Men O/35 Angus Armstrong

O/40 Steven Sexton, Dwight Kellow D1,

0/45 Alan Anthony D2

O/50 Mark Regan D1, Michael Lange, Evan Warburton D2

O/55 Scott Angwin, Kim Hough

Kandra Pense William Purdie

Marcel Corasaniti

Oliver Tinley

Trent Gumprich

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Coaching Clinics

Toni Cronk Goalkeeping Clinic This year we held two goalkeeping clinics during the season. They were held on the 9th of March and 18th August with Toni Cronk (Former Hockeyroos Goalkeeper) taking them. They put the young Goalkeepers through their paces. I had 11 goalkeepers attend. They were taught the basics goalkeeping skill through to advance skills. All goalkeepers have improved their skills during the season and enjoyed the experience..

YMCC annual Women’s Development Pathway Camp On the weekend of October 5-7, YMCC held their 2nd annual Women’s Development Pathway Camp in Narrogin. The camp featured high intensity training, with the program being developed by Kevin Knapp. Girls from YMCC, Collie HA, Eastern Goldfields HA, Esperance HA, Lower Great Southern HA and Upper Great Southern HA took part, and coaches from YMCC, including Kevin Knapp and ex-Kookaburra Jeremy Hiskins, led drills focussing on skill development. The girls had a fantastic time and learnt a lot, going home very tired. A huge thanks to our coaches, without whom the Camp wouldn’t happen.

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Coaches Course This year we held a level one coaching clinic with. On Saturday 6th of July They learnt

correct Dribbling, Hitting and pushing techniques. They also gain experience in doing many different drills. I had 8 keen coaches attend over the clinic. There was plenty of great feedback on the day and following days.

This is the second year of the High-Tech Ag Solutions Green Shirt Coaching Program to encourage and up skill our coaches. This year we had 12 coaches registered with the program.

Upper Great Southern Accredited Coaches

Coach Community Level 1 Level 2 Total

Male 3 8 1 11

Female 3 11 0 14

Total 6 19 1 25

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Umpires Clinic

The Hockey Ed program developed by Hockey Australia provided the Association with the pathway to improve umpiring across the Upper Great Southern Region I continued with the Flexitrans Green Shirt program in the Junior Competition. Through this the Association supplied umpires for every Junior game on the turf. I had 26 junior players and 12 senior players participate this program. A part of this program was they had to attend regular sessions. We advertised these clinics through the radio and flyers. A part of the program was being able to get a Hockey WA qualified umpire in Reece Young to come to Narrogin and run a clinic and assess local umpires. I found this to be a great success. Through the program we could send good quality umpires to all carnival that the UGSHA attended. This year I had a sponsor stay on board to held run the program in Flexitrans. This is a local company whose family has been involved in hockey for many years.

Upper Great Southern Accredited Umpires

Umpires Community Level 1 Total

Male 10 13 23

Female 11 3 14

Total 21 16 37

Flexitrans green Shirt umpires

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Special Features International Friendly Game UGSHA vs Sri Lanka Masters On Sunday 1st of September we had the Sri Lanka Master Women team visit Narrogin. They stay with billets on Saturday and learnt some of you culture and saw some local wildlife and farming activities. On Sunday they played a game against the UGSHA Master team. In a very friendly game which saw UGSHA win 3 – 0. The score was not what it was about but the friendship and comradery that was gain by all. This is hopefully something the Association will do more often in future years. It was interesting in learning what some of the ladies had to go through just to get here.

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President’s Eleven On the Saturday night of the UGSHA Smarter than Smoking Junior Carnival we held an exhibition match between the UGSHA President XI and the WA State Country Men side. In a fantastic game which saw the State side improve through every quarter in an ideal preparation for the National Championships in mid-August. The State side experimented with numerous combinations in their endeavour to improve. 250+ spectators turned out on a cold Narrogin night and were treated to an elite performance of hockey.

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Media The local radio station Triple M and I were involved in a very good working partnership. Every Monday, I would have a hockey segment that would go for five minutes. On these segments, I could talk about the previous week’s results also any news in the Association, from clinics to State representatives or carnivals. It was a good segment for the promotion of hockey for not only hockey players but to the public. Tripe M also did an outside broadcast this year at the Junior carnival. They commenced at 2pm and concluded at 5pm. This was a change of ideas to encourage more people to attend the junior carnival. Anyone who heard the broadcast was very impressed with it. The Narrogin Observer is our local papers, this was also very popular with the hockey players. Every week of the season we could have our results published with an article about the happenings in the Association. On many occasions, we also had a photo accompanying the article. We also could have several advertisements which promoted clinics and special games.