2016 ANNUAL REPORT

PREMIERS

UNDER 18

RUNNERS UP

A WOMEN

UNDER 13

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MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

President: Steven Gallasch

Vice President: Marty Gallasch

Secretary: Courtney Nourse

Treasurer: Amanda Schulz

Hook in2 Hockey Coordinator: Gail Kirby

Other Members: Brad Fairey Andrew Pomeroy

April Hoffmann Annie Pomeroy

Matt Lehmann Sharyn Saegenschnitter

Wal Lehmann Craig Schulz

Jai Lowke Greg Schulz

Sarah Lowke

OTHER POSITIONS

Junior Coordinator: Renee Bishop

Canteen Managers: April Hoffmann & Donna Lehmann

Registrar: Amy Schulz

Sponsorship Committee: Steven & Sarah Gallasch, Amy Schulz, Amanda Schulz, Courtney

Nourse, Adrian Hoffmann, Shaun Lovell and Edward Milne

Website: Amy Schulz

Fundraising/Social Events: Sarah & Jai Lowke, Courtney Nourse, Sharyn Saegenschnitter, April

Hoffmann, Amy Schulz and Nikki Rowley

Stockwell Rec Park Committee Rep: Wal Lehmann

BVHA Judiciary Rep: Steven Gallasch

BVHA Reps: Steven Gallasch & Marty Gallasch

Umpire Coordinator: Courtney Nourse

Club Historian: Wal Lehmann

Equipment Manager: Marty Gallasch

Linemarking: Brad Fairey & Craig Schulz

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OUR VISION

The Hockey Club of choice, for our generation and the next

OUR VALUES

Inclusion

Fair play

Our volunteers

Loyalty

Team Care and Mateship

Excellence

2016 Family Fun Day

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SPONSORS

GREEN & GOLD

Stockwell Hotel & Schulz Painters and Decorators

CLUB DEVELOPER

The Co-op, Print Lord, Goers Ceilings, Dimchurch Vineyards & Stephan Knoll

MP

GOAL ASSIST (SUPPORTERS) CLUB

SA Lending Centre & Wayne Marschall Crash Repairs

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TEAMS

GRADE RESULT COACH MANAGER

A Men 3rd Marty Gallasch Wal Lehmann

A Women Runners Up Andy Milne Renee Bishop

B Men Gold 3rd Brian Ivkovic Mark Schutz

B Men Green 6th Tony Simpfendorfer Tony Simpfendorfer

B Women 4th Wal Lehmann Annie Pomeroy

Under 18 Premiers Renee Bishop & Kimmy Blatchford

Craig Burgess

Under 15 5th Ethan Mills Shaun Lovell

Under 13 Runners Up Adrian Hoffmann Matt Lehmann

Hook in2 Hockey U11 Gold Tristan Barratt

Mentor: Tony Simpfendorfer

Hook in2 Hockey U11 Green Henry Sheedy

Mentor: Gail Kirby

Hook in2 Hockey U9 Gold Byron Hoffmann

Hook in2 Hockey U9 Green Hilary Sheedy

Mentor: Sharyn Saegenschnitter

Hook in2 Hockey U9 Orange Kim Doecke

Hook in2 Hockey Joeys Amelia Hoffmann

Mentor: Bec Carter

Under 18 Premiers

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TEAM TROPHY WINNERS

UNDER 13

Best & Fairest – Josh Longo

Most Improved – Brie Burgess

Rising Star – Cole Heslop

UNDER 15

Best & Fairest – Amy Wilsdon

Coach’s Award – Ruby Lehmann

Most Improved – Dominic Tidswell

UNDER 18

Joint Best & Fairest – Wilbur Bishop & James

Heinjus

Most Consistent – Tyler Burgess

Rising Star – Byron Hoffmann

B WOMEN

Best & Fairest – Chantal Cerff

Players’ Player – Chantal Cerff

Coach’s Award – Annie Pomeroy

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B MEN GOLD

Most Valuable Player – Leigh Angel

Best Team Man – Steven Gallasch

Best New Player – Andrew Pomeroy

B MEN GREEN

Best & Fairest – Daniel Lavelle-Williams

Most Consistent – Byron Hoffmann

Rising Star – Henry Sheedy

A WOMEN

Bev Klemm Medal (B&F) – Alice Rainsford

Most Consistent – Amy Wilsdon

Prominent Player – Sheridan Seymour

A MEN

Brad Fairey Medal (B&F) – Dexter Falkenberg

Most Consistent – David McInerney

Best Team Man – Brad Fairey

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CLUB TROPHY RECIPIENTS

Life Membership

Michael Grope

Kellett Family Senior Club Person Award

Courtney Nourse

The “Schutty” Award (Service to

Coaching)

Tony Simpfendorfer

Danny Van Der Biezen Memorial Award

(Junior Club Person)

Byron Hoffmann

Good Sportsperson Award

A Men – Craig Schulz

A Women – Meikaela Milne

BEST ON GROUND FOR THEIR TEAM IN THE GRAND FINAL

A Women – Alice Rainsford

Under 18 – Isaac McElroy

Under 13 – Josh Longo

2016 CLUB MILESTONES

10 Year Players

James Heinjus

Ben Weichert

20 Year Players

Renee Bishop

Sam Griffiths

Nikki Rowley

30 Year Player

Adrian Hoffmann

2016 CLUB MILESTONES - SENIOR GAMES PLAYED

350 games – Marie Waechter, the first woman to reach this milestone

250 games

Michael Grope

Craig Schulz

Greg Schulz

200 games

Sam Griffiths

Jai Lowke

Nikki Rowley

150 games

Simon Camilleri

Gail Kirby

Daniel Lavelle

Adam Pietsch

Kym Schmaal

100 games

Lily Armstrong

Kim Blatchford

Lisa Daniel

Dexter Falkenberg

Kelly Muster

Sharyn Saegenschnitter

50 games

Seb (Rusty) Falkenberg

Byron Hoffmann

Andrew Kath

Amy Krzoska

Courtney Nourse

Andrew (Raj) Pomeroy

Annie Pomeroy

Dion Tate

ASSOCIATION TROPHY RECIPIENTS

Best & Fairest – A Women

Kim Blatchford

Best & Fairest – B Men

Steven Gallasch

Best & Fairest Runner Up – B Women

Chantal Cerff

Best & Fairest – Under 13

Josh Longo

Men’s Team of the Year

Greg Schulz

Dion Tate

Women’s Team of the Year

Kim Blatchford

Alice Rainsford

Sheridan Seymour

Women’s Coach of the Year

Andy Milne

BVHA Umpire of the Year

Andy Kath

BVHA Volunteer of the Year

Gail Kirby & Sue Stephen

HOCKEY SA COACH OF THE YEAR

Andy Milne

The Committee successfully nominated Andy Milne for the Hockey SA Coach of the Year

Award. Andy is the first regional association coach to win this award!

STATE REPRESENTATION

Kim Blatchford – SA Country Women’s Squad

Brie Burgess – SA U13 Girls Squad

Brad Fairey – SA Over 35 Men’s Masters

Marty Gallasch – SA Over 35 Men’s Masters

Brian Ivkovic – SA Over 55 Men’s Masters

Cody Longo – SA Country Men’s Squad

Shaun Lovell – SA Over 45 Men’s Masters

Andy Milne – State Under 13 Girls Coach

Andrew Pomeroy – SA Over 45 Men’s Masters

Dion Tate – SA Country Men’s Squad

PRESIDENT’S REPORT

2016 has been another successful season for the Nuriootpa Hockey Club. As a first time

President, it has been a year of learning and one that I will look back on with great pride.

Having been on the committee for a number of years, I felt that I knew what to expect but

even with this grounding, I have been blown away by the amount of time and effort that our

volunteers put in at all levels to keep this club at the forefront of hockey in the Barossa.

On field, our Under 18’s led the way taking out the Premiership with an impressive

dismantling of Tanunda on Grand Final Day. Our Under 13’s were runners-up in their grade,

while the A Women fell agonisingly short in an epic Grand Final. This was a remarkable

match, 3-1 down with less than 10 minutes to go, our girls could have packed up but instead

ran all over Gawler, to the point where the hot favourites were simply hanging for full time

and the respite of penalty flicks. The hunger to succeed will burn over the pre-season and

few would bet against them going one better in 2017.

Our Men missed out on a Grand Final for the first time since the mid-90’s, with both the A

Men and B Men Gold falling at the Preliminary final stage. The transition from our

legendary “Ten in a row” squad will continue, as we embrace the new challenges, welcome

new faces and build again.

Our Hookin2Hockey program was once again a highlight, successful to the point we had to

breathe life into the old “Nuri Orange” name and enter a third team in the Under 9’s mid-

season. Many thanks to Gail Kirby for her years of service at this level and her vision for

succession planning which will ensure a seamless transition for our co-ordinators and willing

parents in the future.

2016 had many highlights for the club. Michael Grope was inducted as our 17th Life

Member, Marie Waechter played her 350th Senior Match and Adrian Hoffmann became our

first 30 Year Player.

At a State level, Andy Milne was recognised as the Hockey SA Coach of the Year and we

were once again well represented at State Country level by Dion Tate, Cody Longo and Kim

Blatchford, while Brie Burgess was named in the SA Under 13’s Girl’s Squad and had a

number of players represent the state at Masters level.

Locally, we produced BVHA Best and Fairest Winners in Kim Blatchford (A Women), Steven

Gallasch (B Men) and Josh Longo (Under 13’s) while, Gail Kirby and Sue Stephen were

named joint winners of the BVHA Volunteer of the Year and Andy Kath was awarded the

BVHA Umpire of the Year.

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Off field, Nuri again were the driving force behind the Association’s Pink Round, raising

money for Barossa Area Fundraisers of Cancer. The canteen was a vital source of revenue

and thanks goes to our co-ordinators April Hoffmann, Donna Lehmann and their families for

the time and effort they put into making this work and the manner in which it was run.

After much debate, we rolled out our new senior uniforms and it once again showed our

ability as a club to listen to all points of view and then pull together to make it work once a

decision has been made.

Socially, Heritage Round again provided a wonderful stage to celebrate our club history

while the Bingo Night and ever popular, Trivia Night were an enjoyable way to get together

and support the club.

It has been a great privilege to be President of the Nuriootpa Hockey Club for 2016. Holding

a position like this comes with a long list of people to thank. I would like to thank my wife,

Sarah for her support and allowing me the time to fully commit to this role.

I would like to thank my committee; you have been an incredible source of support,

enthusiasm and ideas. The work you have done to keep this club building is to be admired.

I would like to make special mention of Amanda Schulz, who is stepping down as Treasurer

after three years and thank her for the professional and trustworthy manner in which she

has conducted herself in this role.

As an association, it has also been a year which has brought into sharper focus the true cost

and opportunities created for clubs by the development of the turf pitch at Stockwell.

Our club is well placed to thrive in this era of change but we must continue to adapt and

innovate to remain ahead of the curve. To do this we must hold fast to the cornerstones of

our club; hard work, development, community engagement, volunteering, mateship,

celebrating success and most of all enjoyment because moving forward, we are not going to

have it all our own way.

Steven Gallasch

PRESIDENT

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TREASURER’S REPORT

Firstly, I’d like to thank Nuriootpa Hockey Club for having me as their Treasurer for the past

3 years. It has been a pleasure.

I would like to have left seeing the club on a profitable year but unfortunately we are a little

down this year compared to last year.

Please keep in mind that the club has made some “investment buys” such as new goalie

gear and a small stock pile of new senior uniforms.

Hats off to April and Donna for a successful year in the canteen, with a 15% increase in

profit compared to last year.

Unfortunately, our fundraising efforts could not compare to last year’s efforts with a

decrease of almost 60%, whilst our sponsorship was at a 3 year high up $2000 from the

previous year.

With the expenses of Association Fees (Match, Training and Pitch Hire) and our Presentation

Day lunch saw a short fall of $5697.48 from player’s subs. Perhaps a revaluation on the costs

of subs in 2017 should be considered to ensure our clubs financial stability.

Amanda Schulz

TREASURER

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JUNIOR COORDINATOR’S REPORT

This year all of our junior teams needed the younger grades to help with numbers.

Our 13's did an amazing job being runners up.

Most of this team were new to full field hockey after coming up from the 11's. Coached by

Adrian Hoffmann, they learnt a lot and will grow so much more if Hoffy continues to coach

them.

Our 15's struggled to get a coach at the start of the year but Ethan stepped up and took

them on. We weren't as successful as we probably could have been but still had a great

season. We struggled for numbers in this grade but I think our numbers are growing so we

will be better in the future.

Our 18's were Premiers again after a convincing win over Tanunda in the Grand Final. This is

a hard group to coach as they are working or studying and often don't attend training. We

struggled for numbers in this grade as well, with under 15's needed every week and

sometimes even under 13's stepping up to help us field a team. This is a very talented group

of kids and I think they are an asset to our senior teams as well.

It would be good to see more of them in seniors, especially A Grade.

All in all, it was a great season by all our junior teams and with the Development Athlete

Program (DAP) as well as our own coaches, these kids will continue to grow.

Renee Bishop

JUNIOR COORDINATOR

Under 13 Runners Up

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HOOK IN2 HOCKEY COORDINATOR REPORT

It’s been another great year for the Club with our H2H program, as we continue to introduce

and get kids involved in hockey at an early age to be the future players of the Club. There

was a 99% return of players from last year and also an increase in new kids participating and

families that joined the club.

The club again was able to have a presence in the local primary schools with the H2H

program in term 1, before the season started. Visiting Redeemer, Kapunda, Light Pass and

Nuriootpa. This still is one of the best ways to recruit new players to hockey. A big thank you

to Andrew (Raj) Pomeroy for coming out to Redeemer to help me.

We kicked off H2H with a Come n Try on Tuesday 12th April, which was well attended. The

Family Fun Day was held by the Club on Sunday 10th April, where the Senior players came

out to do some skill sessions with our H2H kids. It was a great success and fun for all. Thank

you to the Senior players that came out to help.

We started the season with registration night and the hand out of shirts on Tuesday 3rd

May. This was a busy night with about 45 players turning up. Thank you to Aimee Fairey

who helped out a lot with organising and communicating with parents for the coaches and

myself.

This year there were 26 U9’s registered to play on Saturdays. The start of the season and the

first 7 weeks had NHC field one Joeys team (which is an early entry/U7’s team that the

BVHA introduced) and 2 U9’s team. The second block or term, NHC had a Joey’s team and 3

U9’s teams. A big thank you to Sharyn Saegenschnitter who ran trainings. Thank you and

well done to our juniors; Hilary Sheedy, Amelia Hoffmann and Byron Hoffmann, for helping

at trainings and coaching a team, and to Sharyn Saegenschnitter, Rebecca Carter and Kim

Doecke for their mentoring and time coaching. Thank you also to the many parents who got

them to training and out to Saturday games.

This year we introduced a roster for our senior players to for the Joey and U9 umpiring

commitments, which worked quite well.

We had 21 registered U11’s, which made 2 teams, but not quite enough to comfortably

have 3. Which meant most Saturdays, when we could, we would play 9 a side instead of the

usual 7 a side. Thank you to Tristan Barratt, Henry Sheedy and Tony Simpfendorfer for

helping me with the training and coaching the U11’s.

This year saw the BVHA and our own club organise fun themes and events throughout the

year. With a crazy hair day, Go Pink and an Olympic Round on the Saturdays. The H2H club

Disco was well attended on Heritage Round, thank you to DJ Byron and Amelia who helped

out and Rebecca Carter, Aimee Fairey and Sharyn Saegenschnitter for organising and

sponsors Dimchurch Vineyard and April Hoffmann for drinks and food.

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The H2H presentations were held at the Stockwell Clubrooms on Sunday 28th August, the

Sunday after the last Saturday games. Families were asked to bring a shared plate and the

nice weather made for a good social afternoon. Players received a certificate and a NHC

drink bottle, sponsored by Dimchurch Vineyard.

It has been very rewarding to see the H2H numbers grow in our club over the last 4 years

and hopefully that will continue. We have a good structure and a future plan in place, that

can be followed and continue to develop for H2H at Nuriootpa.

Gail Kirby

H2H COORDINATOR

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A MEN REPORT

2016 was an interesting year for the NHC A grade men who entered the season after a solid

pre-season led once again by Craig and Greg Schulz. The early indications were that the

competition had evened up and that it would be a very competitive year, these indications

proved to be correct as every match was a battle for the majority of the year.

The aims set for the side were basic and broad but none the less important.

Grow and improve as a side over the season;

Improve individual skills;

Develop a game plan and style of play that wins matches;

Maintain the NHC ethos of mateship across the senior grades;

Develop younger player; and,

Win the Premiership.

Some of these goals were achieved while others will need continued work in the future.

The team had an inconsistent season result wise with the gap between our best hockey and

our worst hockey being too large for my liking, but there were some really strong results

and a marked improvement in general over the year. Most pleasing was the way that

several newer members of the side took on key roles with a high level of maturity, this

bodes well for the future.

Late in the season the side let themselves down on a couple of occasions as players slipped

into old habits or strayed from the plan and ultimately those matches cost the side a chance

to finish top two at the end of the minor round. A Semi-final Victory over Tanunda saw the

team play AMU in the Preliminary final in which we were knocked out despite a spirited

effort. A final ranking of 3rd is not what we wanted and I am sure that it will act a catalyst

for improvement next season.

I mentioned in my presentation day speech that Hockey is a game that is in a constant state

of change with new rules and tactics moving the game in different directions over time. The

challenge that comes with this is to move with and embrace these changes, this is

something that NHC has done well in the past but it requires constant work and this season

to me suggests that we need to work hard in this area or risk falling behind the game.

Within the NHC senior mens group there is plenty of talent, plenty of desire and plenty of

grit and determination. These are good things but without a greater understanding of the

team’s structure and what we are trying to achieve within a game plan by the players the

other attributes are diminished and may become ineffective.

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Some may think that this assessment of the 2016 season is overly critical and fair enough, it

wasn’t a bad season, there were many positives and the players fought admirably under

some condition they could not control but we set high standards at this club and we must

respect those standards and be honest when reviewing results. I know personally that I

don’t want to see a day when the NHC A grade men “Used to be a great team”. We have

been challenged, and as a group (players and coaches) we need to respond to that

challenge. I have every faith that playing group will work hard to improve but as the old

saying goes “We need to play smarter, not harder”, this is the thinking I wish to apply to the

side next season if I am reinstated as coach which is something I am hoping will occur.

I would like to thank several people for their hard work and assistance over the season.

The B grade coaches and managers - Tony Simpendorfer, Brian Ivkovic, Michael

Grope, Adrian Hoffmann and Mark Schutz.

The A Grade Leadership Group - Craig Schulz, Greg Schulz, Dexter Falkenberg and

Dave McInerney.

The A grade manager – Wal Lehmann, who is stepping down after 4 seasons in the

role.

Thank you guys so much for your efforts this year.

I will close with a quote. “Winning isn’t everything, but making the effort to win is.”

Legendry NFL coach Vince Lombardi.

Marty Gallasch

A MEN COACH

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A WOMEN REPORT

Season 2016 started a little earlier than usual for our Women’s teams, with Flappy and

Kimmy running a preseason fitness programme. By all counts the programme was very

beneficial to our cause in 2016 and the overall fitness of all players that participated, thanks

to all involved and to the players for their efforts during the preseason! Well done.

Introducing new structures and playing groups and roles was a risk, a risk that I knew the

players could and would adapt to and manage at a high level, diversifying players in

multipole roles in and around the playing groups. This assisted players understanding the

playing roles in their core positions, positioning off ball, movement laterally and stretching

into attack, congesting play to a ball side and stretching our wide backs and attacking mid’s

to the open side to transfer and inject into attack. This structure and our game plans have

changed the dynamic in women’s hockey in the BVHA, a complete credit to our chicks and

moving forward things will only improve.

Trainings need more availability from players and commitment to the cause, I understand

that we have families and work but I feel that we can achieve more from trainings with solid

numbers consistently. This is an improvement area.

There are lots more playing structure drills and set plays that can be introduced if we have

numbers at training, this would allow teams to separate and concentrate on the higher level

trainings available to our senior players. The more we implement, the harder we are to play

against, skill sets, different pressing formations other than our arrow head. Pocket pressing,

relaxed press, half court set up and full attacking press locking in our attacking half. The list

does go on.

Understand we are only 2 years in on a 3-year programme and to have pushed the limits for

a miss at finals in 2015, I feel that the result in 2016 exemplifies the hard work and ability to

absorb information and instruction and to implement that on the hockey field is of a high

level. We were bloody unlucky not to be champs and to lose in sudden death strokes was

disappointing but an absolute credit to our chicks.

It has been a very heavy work load for 2016 coaching wise; NHC A women a great result,

team of the year a good win versus the Riverland, BVHA Senior champs great result finishing

runners up, a grand final for our chicks, NEHC U18 girls finished 4th and a debut U13 girls

State team coaching role again a fantastic result finishing 3rd from 12. I am very proud of all I

have been involved with during 2016 and the rewards were greatly appreciated thank you

and well done on a fantastic season and result.

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As a coach I have so much that I would like to achieve; a Premier League coaching role, State

roles (I have been named head coach for the U13 girls’ team again in 2017). And an

opportunity to take the U15 girls in 2018.

Since the Hockey SA awards night Coach of the Year Award and the recent state coaching

success, I have had numerous clubs and coaches at higher levels open doors for future

development and it is definitely something I am contemplating. I have a drive to be the SA

SUNS head coach within the next 4 years. I have been invited to attend SASI trainings and

programmes to gain an understanding on the requirements from players through to the

commitment and expectation of coaching staff to players. So for the 2017 season I have

some thinking and decisions to make prior.

Thank you again for a fantastic season and your efforts throughout, I am proud to be

affiliated with this fantastic club and our people.

Andy Milne

A WOMEN COACH

The A Women after their nail-biting Grand Final loss