Suns Successful in Torquay Community Enterprise Grant

On Thursday 6th December the Surf Coast Suns were awarded a grant through the Torquay Community Enterprise (TCE) to support their Indigenous Awareness Program.

The grant was to fund a set of Indigenous jumpers for our under 13’s football team to wear through 2019, and future years.

‘This project solidifies who we are as a club’, said Mike Thomas, club president. ‘We believe by doing this, it will show the Torquay and greater regional area that we are community minded and accepting of cultural diversity. It will encourage discussion of local indigenous sensitivities, and recognize the important history of Aboriginal Australia.’

The jumper design was done by local Indigenous artist Nathan Patterson, who was also created indigenous jumper designs for AFL teams Geelong and Essendon.

The design is titled “Together under one sun”. The feather and gum leaves represent Bunjils county, the cross hatching through the middle represents Wathaurong Land, the blue strip is the Ocean and the Sun is a meeting place also symbolizing the Club/Community young and old.

Mr Thomas added, ‘We would like to thank Torquay Community Enterprise for their support in this project and invite everyone to our first game of the year where we will launch the jumper and the season.’

Suns News Update

The season keeps moving along nicely for all of our Suns families. Auskick and NetSetGo are going really well. We now have 96 kids registered in Auskick which is by far our biggest year yet. Well done to all our volunteers from Auskick and NetSetGo who make each Friday night fun for the kids in our community.

Wanted - Second Hand Footy Boots

One of our awesome NetSetGo families (The Moreton's) are organising a footy boot drive for indigenous kids in the remote community of Nhulunbuy, which is in Arnhem Land Northern Territory. This is a fantastic initiative and would ask all families if they have any footy boots that your kids have outgrown to drop them off to the club after training or games in the next two weeks, so that they can be taken up to Nhulunbuy in late June. Thanks for getting behind this great cause,

Netball

The netball girls continue to improve each week which is great to see. They are becoming more and more competitive and goal scoring has increased each game as well. Great job girls, keep it up.

Rd 6 Results

Suns U13 Red (3 goals) Lost Torquay Black (22 goals)

Suns U13 Yellow (9 goals) Lost Eagles Town (21 goals)

Suns U15 (5 goals) Lost St Mary's Royal (11 goals)

Football

It was another great round for footy with all teams getting a win in rd 8. Congratulations to all our players on their continuing improvement.

U9 Suns Polworth 5-9-39 Def Portarlington Blue 5-3-33

U9 Suns Grenville 9-9-63 Def Modewarre Russell 0-3-3

U10 Suns 8-3-51 Def Anakie 6-4-40

U11 Suns 8-11-59 Def Corio 1-0-6

A reminder for all football club team manager's, coaches and umpires that we will be undertaking an AFL Barwon umpiring session this coming Tuesday 5th June at The Sand Torquay from 630pm. Thanks again in advance for your attendance.

Under 9 Polworth shake hands with Portarlington after the game

Netball Fixture Rounds 5-15

The grading games have finished and it's time to get into the season proper. AFL Barwon has released the fixture for the remainder of the year, which is fantastic.

Under 13's Red landed in Division 4, while under 13's yellow and under 15's are both in Division 6.

Congratulations to all of our girls who have done extremely well so far. Good luck for the rest of the season.

To be eligible to play finals, you will need to finish in the top 5 teams in your division at the end of round 15. The first week of the finals will be held the Friday after Round 15 on the 17th August. All the best girls, go Suns!

Round 5 - 25/05/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Leopold Lions, Court 2, 520pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's South Barwon 6, Court 4, 610pm (Home)

U15 Suns v's South Barwon 5, Court 8, 520pm (Away)

Round 6 - 01/06/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Torquay Black, Court 2, 520pm (Home)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Eagles Town, Court 3, 700pm (Home)

U15 Suns v's St Mary's Royal, Court 8, 520pm (Away)

Round 7 - 08/06/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Geelong Amateurs, Court 3, 430pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Barwon Heads, Court 3, 700pm (Home)

U15 Suns v's St Mary's White, Court 9, 520pm (Home)

Round 8 - 15/06/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Eagles White, Court 3, 430pm (Home)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Ocean Grove 5, Court 4, 610pm (Home)

U15 Suns v's Eagles White, Court 9, 520pm (Away)

Round 9 - 22/06/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Grovedale Yellow, Court 1, 700pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Winchelsea Bluebirds, Court 3, 700pm (Away)

U15 Suns v's Torquay Blue, Court 8, 520pm (Home)

Round 10 - 29/06/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Bannockburn, Court 2, 520pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Drysdale 4, Court 4, 610pm (Home)

U15 Suns v's South Barwon 5, Court 8, 520pm (Home)

Round 11 - 13/07/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Ocean Grove 4, Court 2, 520pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Torquay Blue, Court 4, 700pm (Away)

U15 Suns v's St Mary's royal, Court 8, 520pm (Home)

Round 12 - 20/07/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Leopold Lions, Court 1, 700pm (Home)

U13 Suns Yellow v's South Barwon 6, Court 3, 700pm (Away)

U15 Suns v's St Mary's White, Court 8, 520pm (Away)

Round 13 - 27/07/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Torquay Black, Court 1, 700pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Eagles Town, Court 4, 700pm (Home)

U15 Suns v's Eagles White, Court 8, 520pm (Home)

Round 14 - 03/08/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Geelong Amateurs, Court 2, 610pm (Home)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Barwon Heads, Court 4, 520pm (Away)

U15 Suns v's Torquay Blue, Court 9, 520pm (Away)

Round 15 - 10/08/2018

U13 Suns Red v's Eagles White, Court 3, 430pm (Away)

U13 Suns Yellow v's Ocean Grove 5, Court 4, 520pm (Away)

U15 Suns v's South Barwon 5, Court 8, 520pm (Away)

Round 4 Netball

After last weeks washout, the girls will be playing their final grading games this week.

Friday 18 May

U13 Suns Red v's St Mary's Navy (Away)

700pm, Court 1

U13 Suns Yellow v's Eagles Town

430pm, Court 3

U15 Suns v's St Joseph's Red

430pm, Court 8

Good luck to all the girls in your final grading games!

Round 10 Footy Fixture

This week we have three teams playing at home and one away. Please note that the under 11's game is actually an away game, even though it is being played on Polworth Oval. It will also be the first game of 2018 when one of our teams plays against cross town club the Torquay Tigers.

Saturday 16 June

U9 Suns Grenville v's South Barwon Swans Red

830am, Grenville Oval (Home)

U9 Suns Polworth v's Bannockburn Tigers Gold

830am, Grenville Oval (Home)

U10 Suns v's Newcomb Power

830am, Newcomb Sand and Soil Oval, Coppards and Townsend Rd, Moolap

U11 Suns v's Torquay Coles

1000am, Polworth Oval (Home ground, away game)

Round 9 Footy Fixture

This week we have two teams at home and two playing away.

Friday 8 June

U9 Suns Grenville v's Bannockburn Tigers Gold

600pm, Grenville Oval (Home)

U10 Suns v's Lethbridge Rosellas

600pm, Grenville Oval (Home)

Saturday 9 June

U11 Suns v's St Albans Allthorpe

The Gordon TAFE Oval (St Albans Reserve), St Albans and Boundary Road, Thomson

U9 Suns Polworth v's South Barwon Swans White

950am, McDonald Reserve, Reynolds Rd, Belmont

GOOOOOOOOOOO SUNS!

Round 8 Footy Fixture

This week the under 11's will be at home on Friday night with the other teams all playing away. Our under 9's Grenville team will face up against the Modda Warriors Russell team as Polworth did last week.

Friday 1 June

U11 Suns v's Corio

600pm, Grenville Oval (Home)

Saturday 2 June

U9 Suns Grenville v's Modewarre Russell

830am, Mt Moriac Recreational Reserve No 2, Reservoir Rd, Mt Moriac

U9 Suns Polworth v's Portarlington Blue

1020am, Portarlington Recreational Reserve No 2, Boat Rd, Portarlington

U10 Suns v's Anakie Roos

1030am, Anakie Reserve, Demotts Rd, Anakie

Good luck little legends!

Round 7 Footy Fixture

The week will see three of our four teams playing under lights at home on Friday night. Good luck to all.

Friday 25 May

U9 Suns Grenville v's South Barwon White

600pm, Grenville Oval (Home)

U10 Suns v's St Alban's King

600pm, Grenville Oval (Home)

U11 Suns v's Modewarre

630pm, Polworth Oval (Home)

Saturday 26 May

U9 Suns Polworth v's Modewarre Russell

830am, Mt Moriac Recreational Reserve No 2, Reservoir Rd, Mt Moriac

Round 6 Footy Fixture

Friday 18 May

U9 Suns Polworth v's Joey's Jets

600pm, Grenville Oval (Home)

Saturday 19 May

U9 Suns Grenville v's Portarlington Red

900am, Portarlington Recreational Reserve No 2, Boat Rd, Portarlington (Please allow 50 minutes to get there from Torquay)

U10 Suns v's Portarlington

1020 am, Portarlington Recreational Reserve No 2, Boat Rd, Portarlington (Please allow 50 minutes to get there from Torquay)

Under 11's have the bye this week

Good luck to all our teams playing this weekend.

Round 5 Footy Fixture

Round 5 will be a huge round with all four footy teams playing at home on Friday night.

Our two under 9's teams will battle it out for bragging rights in a club first "mate verse mate" Suns derby. I'm sure all our boys and girls will be just as excited as their mums and dads to see this spectacle. Both teams are really evenly matched, so hopefully it will be a close game.

U9 Suns Grenville v's U9 Suns Polworth 

Friday 11 May, 600pm, Grenville Oval (Grenville Home game)

U10 Suns v's Anakie Roos

Friday 11 May, 600pm, Grenville Oval

U11 Suns v's Portarlington Demons

Friday 11 May, 630pm, Polworth Oval

At this stage the weather isn't looking great for Friday night, so please make sure your kids have warm clothes prior to and after their games. The club change rooms will also be open for them to shelter in before and after their games as well.

I would also like to take the opportunity to wish all of our wonderful Suns mums, step-mums and carers all the best for Mother's day on Sunday. Thanks from all of our kids for putting up with us and getting us to and from training and games each week. We don't always show it, but we certainly appreciate all you do. Happy Mother's day for Sunday!

Good luck to all but most importantly, have fun.

Go Suns!

Surf Coast Suns News Update

It has been a fantastic week at the Surf Coast Suns Football Netball Club! We are all so proud of how all of our kids continue to improve week in week out.

Under 11's celebrate their third win in a row

Football News

All of our players this year have already exceeded our expectations. The new kids and those that have transitioned from Auskick have settled in really well and made lots of new friends. The kids that have been around for a year or two have shown an enormous amount of improvement and we are really excited about the direction we are heading as a club.

This week, all four of our teams came away with wins, so well done to you all of our players, coaches and supporters. A big shout out to our under 10's who had their first win with only 12 players on the field after a couple of late withdrawals due to illness.

U9 Suns Polworth 6-5-41 Defeated Portarlington Red 2-4-16

U9 Suns Grenville 9-14-68 Defeated East Geelong 1-0-6

U10 Suns 21-9-135 Defeated Lethbridge 0-0-0

U11 Suns 12-12-84 Defeated Inverleigh 0-1-1

A great effort by all, well done.

Under 9's Polworth celebrate their third win in a row

Next weeks games are as follows

U9 Suns Grenville v's Leopold Brown   Friday 4th May, 600pm, Grenville Oval (Home)

U10 Suns v's Newcomb                          Friday 4th May, 600pm, Grenville Oval (Home)

U9 Suns Polworth v's Grovedale Cameron       Saturday 5th May, 950am, Grovedale Secondary College

Under 10's got their first win of the season in their second game

U11 Suns v's Little River                                    Saturday 5th May, 1000am, Little River Reserve

Training will be back to normal this week with 9's on Tuesday 5-600pm and 10's and 11's Wednesday 5-600pm.

Good luck to all next week, keep on listening to your coaches and working hard on the things you are concentrating on improving. 

 

 

 

Netball News

Coach Taylah with U13 girls on Friday night

The girls have improved again this week and had some much closer games in their second grading matches. We are all really proud of how you are going so far and the direction you are heading. Keep working hard at training and most importantly, keep smiling and having fun. Your efforts so far have been fantastic!

Results from Friday night

U13 Suns 1 (10 goals) Lost to St Joseph's Black (12 goals)

Under 13 girls are all smiles at Kardinia Park

U13 Suns 2 (1 goal) Lost to Eagles Red (48 goals)

U15 Suns (9 goals) Lost to Torquay Black (21 goals)

Next Friday there will be no netball games on due to the clash with the Geelong Cats home game. Netball games will resume the following week on the 11th May.

If any girls would like to wear their training shirts or netball dresses and help out for an hour with NetSetGo on Friday night please let Nicole or Amber know. It runs from 5-600pm. Our future netball stars would love to see you there.

Auskick

We've had some great numbers rocking up the last two weeks, with almost 100 kids involved. Joel has done a fantastic job getting the new format up and running, ably assisted by Tom. We are thrilled with the amount of parent helpers that are getting involved as well, so thank you all very much. 

A big shout out to Penny, Sophie and Paula for running the bbq and to Mark who has been helping out week in week out for over a year now.

Each week we are going to need to rotate a few different families through the bbq and canteen so that it isn't always the same people doing it. If you can help out with this, please let Joel know.

There were heaps of families out enjoying themselves at Auskick on Friday night

 

NetSetGo

Some of the NetSetGo girls enjoying the activities

From what I saw of NetSetGo on Friday, there was lots of kids smiling, laughing and having fun which is absolutely awesome! I also saw plenty of parents getting involved and helping with the activities and they looked to me like they were having just as much, if not more fun than the kids. Well done to you all, it was really great to see.

A big thank you to Mark's mum (I'm really sorry, I've forgotten your name) who did an amazing job getting things on track. You're a superstar!

Keep up the good work and keep having fun!

Other News

In 2017 we held the clubs inaugural Surf Coast Suns Golf Classic. This was a great fundraiser for the club and a really fun day. This year we will be doing it again on Friday 14th September. It will be held at one of our Gold Sponsors venues, The Sands Torquay. 

Last year we had around 50 people participate on the day and everyone had a ball. This year we are aiming to have between 80-100 people involved, however tickets will be capped at 100.

The day includes 18 holes of golf with a motorised cart, BBQ lunch, entry into the end of year raffle and prizes.

It is open to everyone, even if you've never played before. It is Ambrose rules, meaning you will go around in teams of four and the player that has the best shot, is where everyone hits the next shot from.

It's an awesome day and I encourage you to sign up before June 30 to receive the discounted price of $100 per person. After this date, the price will go up to $120 per person.

If you can grab a team of four people, that makes it even easier to organise, so ring your family and friends and get them involved in our great club too.

Sporting Wrap

What a crazy weekend of sport at the Surf Coast Suns! Friday night could aptly be described as hectic with two games of footy, three games of netball, almost 100 kids at Auskick and roughly 30 at NetSetGo.

Thank you to everyone that volunteered in one way or another on the night or over the weekend. I want to give a special shout out to a few people who were absolutely awesome. Jess, who again put a huge effort into ensuring things went well on the night, Rachael, Penny, Emily, Jane, Dave, Mike, Gav, Lucy, Kristin, Scott and the many others that offered to or did help out. I apologise to those I have missed, you are all fantastic!

Congratulations to Joel for getting Auskick off to a great start to the year. This is by far the biggest group we have ever had and are really excited about the future of the club as we continue to expand, particularly with the big jump in the number of girls giving footy a crack.

A big thank you to Mark who did a great job with NetSetGo on Friday as well. We had a couple of people pull out because of illness and we really appreciate Mark stepping in to run the session. Mark has offered to help most weeks with NetSetGo which is awesome, however he will be away next week, so we will need a couple more parent helpers to assist.

All of us are volunteers at the Suns, we are a grass roots community club and the more people that help out, the better it is for the kids. Kids love seeing their parents getting involved and helping out, so please offer a hand wherever you can to help share the load.

Our footy teams played their second grading games with the exception of under 10's who had a bye this week. It was great to see the improvement continue and everyone  getting touches and sharing the footy around. Congratulations to Adrian for notching up his first win as a coach.

Our netball teams did a great job in their first grading game of the year, given the limited preparation due to the recent school holidays. Thanks so much to Nicole who has been doing a great job in the lead up to the season starting and also to our coaches Taylah and Amber. 

 

Footy Results

U9 Suns Polworth 15-4-94 defeated Belmont Lions 1-2-8

U9 Suns Grenville 26-12-168 defeated Bell Post Hill 0-1-1

U11 Suns 7-3-45 defeated North Shore 3-0-18

Netball Results

U13 Suns 1 (1 goal) lost Torquay Gold (26 goals)

U13 Suns 2 (4 goals) lost Grovedale 4 (35 goals)

U15 Suns (2 goals) lost St Mary's Blue (47 goals)

Congratulations to all of our teams and players for their great efforts this week. We hope you all have a great week and are ready to go again next weekend.

Don't forget if anyone wants a hoodie ordered, you need to send details by tomorrow (Sunday 22/04/18) to: president@surfcoastsuns.com

Round 4 Footy Fixture

Friday 4 May

U9 - Surf Coast Suns Grenville v's Leopold Lions Brown

600pm, Grenville Oval (Home)

U10 - Surf Coast Suns v's Newcomb Power

600pm, Grenville Oval (Home)

Saturday 5 May

U9 - Surf Coast Suns Polworth v's Grovedale Tigers Cameron

950am, Grovedale Secondary College

U11 - Surf Coast Suns v's Little River

1000am, Little River Reserve, You Yangs Road, Little River

Good luck all, Go Suns!

Round 3 Footy Fixture

Saturday 28 April

Round 3 will see all of our teams battle it out with away games. We wish all of our players and families the best this week.

U9 - Surf Coast Suns Grenville v's East Geelong Eagles

830am, Richmond Oval, Richmond Crescent, East Geelong

U9 - Surf Coast Suns Polworth v's Portarlington Demons Red

900am, Portarlington Recreational Reserve, Boat Road & Sproat Road, Portarlington

U10 - Surf Coast Suns v's Lethbridge Rosellas

900am, Lethbridge Recreational Reserve, Stephenson Street, Lethbridge

U11 - Surf Coast Suns v's Inverleigh Hawks

1020am, Inverleigh Reserve, Railway Parade, Inverleigh

Go Suns, all the best!

2018 Hoodie Order

G'day Suns,

I've had a couple of enquiries about purchasing hoodies this year. If you want to purchase a hoodie for yourself, kids, extended family etc, please send an email to president@surfcoastsuns.com by no later than Sunday 22nd April 2018. They should only take a couple of weeks to get printed from then.

The following sizes are available.

Kids: 4-16

Mens: XS - 3XL

Womens: 8-16

The cost of all hoodies is

$55.00 - No name printed

$60.00 - With name printed on the back

On your email, please indicate the type (kids, mens or womens), the size, the quantity of each size and if you would like a name printed on the back.

Thanks for getting back to me as soon as you can. We were hoping to have an online store set up by an external supplier, unfortunately we have been let down completely by them and as such will be doing a once off order for the year.

Payment can be made into the Suns bank account.

Surf Coast Suns FNC

BSB: 633 000

ACC: 156 898 371

Thanks,

Mark