Food will be available at 6.30pm for those who will be coming straight from work

Committee positions are available and we welcome people to join the committee.

Please consider being part of the decision making of our future.

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The WHC has had yet another successful year on and off the field throughout the 2010 period – Especially with the double header wins of our elite SL1 Men and Women teams, so let’s see season 2010 out with a bang.

Seats and reserved tables are filling up fast so gather your teammates and get involved.

Where: Manningham Hotel (Bullen)
When: 29th October, 7:00pm-12:00am
Dress: After 5 (cocktail)

Payments are due in no later than Friday 22 October 2010, so please get in early and confirm your attendance by purchasing your ticket(s). Please see the attached flyer for payment details. For any queries, or to confirm table arrangements, please phone Rachel Sheppard 0439 360 922.

Click on link below to download form:

WHC 2010 Presentation Night Flyer Order Form

WHEN – Saturday 31st July from 11PM.

TICKETS – $30 ticket for entry into the $1000 draw, two drinks of your choice and a sausage.

TARGET 1000 – Let’s aim for 1000 people to come through those gates on Saturday to show the proud and dominant force that Waverley HC is.

The day kicks off strongly with our two impressive under 9’s teams taking the field against Doncaster’s best under 9’s. The Under 9 Panthers will be looking to cement their 1st and 2nd places on the ladder – The next generation look strong! The club encourages parents and their kids to stay on for the day – We are supplying two jumping castles and have a Cub Card available for purchase on the day.

Cub Cards – $5 will get the kids one soft drink, a sausage and unlimited time on our two jumping castles.

Following will be an 120 strong minkey brigade taking the field to showcase the future of the club. Club members from State League 1, Pennant A and B will be down to help out coaching the minkeys program from 10:30am. Doncaster minkeys are also making the trek to Waverley HC to join in the fun. Again the club encourages the minkeys to stick around and to make use of the Cub Card!

WHC will welcome sponsors, supporters and council members at 12:00 noon to the club for a great day of socialising, food and hockey!

The third placed Pennant A Men will be looking for a win against the fourth placed Doncaster at 12:30pm – A win could potentially boost the team to first place!

2:00pm will showcase the clubs best Men’s talent with the State League 1 taking the field against Doncaster. The boy’s are coming off a strong win against Greensborough at home. They will ensure a fast paced, skillful and exciting game for the the home crowd to enjoy.

3:00pm Will see the $1000 draw begin, make sure you have tickets (ONLY $30!).

3:30pm the third placed Women’s Pennant A team will take on second placed Doncaster in what should be a well fought match to cement a finals spot!

5:00pm will showcase the final match of the day with the Pennant D Women looking to knock off a lowly PEGS to ensure a finals berth coming into the business end of the season.

Remember to show your support by getting down for the day to ensure we reach TARGET 1000.

Look forward to seeing you there

Trivia Night, Sat night two tables left. If your table is letter W come as Workers, Wives, in White, Wombles, Wild, Whistleblowers, Witches, Wenches, Waiters, Wallabies, the Wedding Party, with Weapons, Waxed, Wasted, Warriers, as Women, Wrestlers

BYO Nibbles for your table, drinks over the bar.

$10 entry if you pay before Friday.

Bring skills, brains and your loose coins.

We are also looking for donations of prizes, bottles of wine in particular, boxes of chocolates, or any other suitable gifts. Any work places who would like to donate goods or services are more than welcome.

Saturday 29th May- Trivia Night . Tables list are on the window at the club. Pennant D- Rudi’s mob have already reserved table “C” …will they be Clowns, Comedians, Cowboys or will they come wearing Clogs? Facebook your friends and reserve a table now!

Saturday 26th June 7.30pm at WHC, after home matches all day. These guys played the Comedy Festival in Melb check them out at funny guys.com. There are 120 tickets available so be quick. They will be on sale down the club this week bring your $20.

WHAT: Working Bee

WHY: To get the club in tip top shape for the coming season. It’s going to be a big year for the club and we want to have the clubhouse ready to go.

WHEN: Sunday 14th March at 10am.

WHAT TO DO NOW: Please stick this date in your calendar and come along on the day. Bring a shovel, some gloves, gear for cleaning the rooms (scrubbing brushes, brooms, mops, dusters, etc) and the out doors (shovels, wheel barrow, hammer, nails, screws, screw drivers, etc).

Thanks

Waverley House Committee

The house committee is responsible for the facilities around the club, from the ground to the clubhouse and is always looking for members to chip in and give a hand. It’s not a big time committment and the effort is rewarding to see go around the club. Things like the projector and speakers installed as well as the framing of our club legends shirts are just a couple of things we have got going.  Want to get involved? Please email Beth Merkus(bethmerkus@bigpond.com) or Travis Brooks (tnbrooks@gmail.com) for more details.

Date: Thursday, 11 March 2010

Time: 6.00pm  to  9.00pm

Cost: $130  Cash payment on the night

Private Health Cover: Claims can be made against Private Extras Dental

Choice of Mouthguard: Laminated with name and 1-3 different colours

Please direct enquiries to Beth Merkus 0419 841 138 or bethmerkus@bigpond.com

All current and new players in age groups from under 6 to under 17 are invited to the club to register for the coming winter season. Registering on this day is important as it allows the club to enter the correct amount of teams and make sure all players get a playing spot.

Junior Registration Form 2010

The 2010 Winter Season will commence on April 16 & 17. Any enquiries can be made via the website contact form.

Registration is $40 which includes the choice of an equipment pack (stick, shin guards and ball) OR apparel pack (t-shirt and bucket hat); opportunity to meet and be coached by previous and current hockey champions; show bag; and a fully catered BBQ to follow from 10:30-11:30am.

To register, go to www.hockey.org.au/hookin2hockey. Click on ‘Register Online’, then search by ‘Centre Name’ and type ‘Champions Super Clinic’. Registrations close on Friday 20th of November, and numbers are strictly limited, so make sure you get in quick! Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity!

More information about the clinic can be found in the brochure, and any questions can be directed to Bec Waley at Hockey Australia on (03) 9555 1500 or email: bec.waley@hockey.org.au

There is no dress code this year but there will be a lucky door prizes. Cost is $7 per person to cover a pizza dinner, while drinks will be at bar prices.

Registration for this year close on October 9th. Get in quick as response as been very strong.

Summer Stix is for current Juniors to play hockey during the “off” season and a chance for less experienced players or children who would like to try hockey “to have a go”.

There is also the opportunity for schools or clubs to enter teams

This competition is an opportunity to have fun, improve skills and for new players to try hockey. So if you have a family member, friend, school mate or neighbour wanting to try hockey, please tell them about Waverley Summer Stix.

More info, including registration details, is available on the http://www.waverleyhc.org.au/summer-stix.

Big weekend of GRAND FINALS  coming up, so get out and support your club.

Start off on Friday 18th  at S2 to see the U13 Shield team take on TEM at 6.15 pm

or alternatively go down to Monash  watch two games, the U13 North play Doncaster at 7.00pm followed at 8.30 pm when the U15 East take on Knox.

On Saturday 19th  you can start the day by popping into

H2 at 8.30 am to see the U11 North take on Box Hill for the flag.

So that may be a bit early for some of you. If so then make your way to Monash where at

12 noon Men’s PE take on Doncaster

followed at

2.00 pm when the Mens Metro 3 East take on MCC.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL WHO ARE PLAYING

The team finished 2nd on the ladder overall at the end of the normal season and are taking on Maccabi in the preliminary final. They must win to head to the Grand Final so all support will be greatly appreciated.

Game starts at 12 noon

Please head down where possible

Saturday 12.15pm Mens Metro 2 East  V  Hawthorn at Hawthorn 1

Saturday 2.00pm   Mens PE  V Doncaster at Waverley

Saturday 3.45 pm Mens Metro 3 East V MCC at MHS

Saturday 5.30pm Mens PA V Doncaster at S1

Sunday 2.30pm Mens State League 1 V Greensborough at S1

The top Waverley teams will be taking on TEMs so come down to Hawthorn on Saturday to support your club and a great cause. Games times are:

• 2pm Women’s Pennant A TEM vs Waverley
• 15:30 Men’s State League 1 TEM vs Waverley
• 17:00 Men’s Pennant A TEM vs Waverley

Our Story

I started playing hockey when I was 10. First, it was Minkey. We played on grass, at Lords Reserve opposite the Caulfield swimming pool. After I graduated from Minkey I joined the big kids in under 11 mixed, and then it was on to U13 girls. Somewhere around U15s the club left the grass fields and funny shaped clubroom at Lords Reserve and moved to its current home in Hawthorn. At about the same time I started playing senior hockey as well as junior hockey. Then, I was too old for juniors all together. The years had somehow flown past and playing Minkey on grass, in footy boots, on a Saturday morning felt like a million years ago.

Now, I am in my early thirties and still playing hockey at the same club. I am lucky. The club is like home to me. The people are my family. Of course over the years many people have come and gone, moved in and out of this large extended circle, but there are some who have quite simply always been there. They are part of my hockey memories. When I think back to those early years they are there – teaching us how to hold a stick, how to hit, how to trap. It was them who made us line up to collect our sunnyboys and iceypoles after a hard hour of minkey. They are all through my memories. They are on the sidelines reminding us to run, to keep trying, telling us we were doing well. I can see them standing on the field next to me when I played my first game of senior hockey as a teeny, tiny, terrified junior. I can see them at presentation nights, barbeques, social functions, club meetings and carnivals. They are everywhere.

My experience is not unique. If you could somehow look into the hockey memories of most people who have come into contact with TEM over the years you would no doubt see many different hockey experiences. But you would also see this core group of people. You couldn’t not. They are integral to our club – to its past, to its present and to its future.

This year two of the people who figure so prominently in my hockey memories were diagnosed with breast cancer. The first time the news ripped through the club – it was quite literally shocking. This sort of thing just doesn’t happen to us. We are fit. We are healthy – sport and being active is a way of life for us. This can’t be happening, and it certainly can’t be happening to her. She is a life member, a club stalwart. But it was happening. To her, to her family and therefore, to us.

Then, a few weeks ago it happened again. Another diagnosis. Another life member who is part of the very fabric of our club was told that she had breast cancer. Surgery was scheduled immediately. The thoughts and reactions were similar – disbelief, shock, confusion, and mostly, just wishing that it simply wasn’t true.

In both cases our initial reactions of shock and disbelief gave way to the desire to help and support. To do something practical. Send flowers, visit, cook meals, talk, distract, and just generally be there to help. Then, a player in one of our men’s top sides made a suggestion to a player in one of our women’s top sides – why don’t we all buy and use the Gray’s pink stick grips that have been made to raise money for breast cancer research? It was suggested at training two Thursdays ago. Support was unanimous. All felt that the suggestion was brilliant. Not only would we be raising money, but with two men’s teams and two women’s teams all playing with pink stick grips, we would be making a clear statement for all to see. We would be making people stop and think about breast cancer.

Then, two of our women’s players were talking after training that Thursday. Wouldn’t it be great if we also made pink gingerbread women and sold them, along with wrist bands from the McGrath foundation? Proceeds, would again go to the same cause; Breast cancer research and awareness. A third player got in on the conversation – how about t-shirts? In fact, how about we dedicate the round, the final round of the home and away season to breast cancer awareness?

And so it grew. The energy that began to generate was infectious. Everyone had a suggestion, wanted to donate something, wanted to be involved, men and women alike. In just over two weeks the TEM Hockey Club Breast Cancer Awareness Round has been organised. There have been donations of all forms – time, money, effort, products, food, decorations. It has been a phenomenal process. Other clubs have pledged their support of the event and have circulated information about it to all their players. The hockey community has united to support this important and worthy cause.

Our gourmet barbeque this weekend won’t make breast cancer disappear. The fact that there will be pink stick grips, custom made t-shirts, pink hockey merchandise for sale, pink ribbons and wrist bands sold and worn won’t make breast cancer or any other cancer any less painful to those who have suffered or who continue to struggle against it. What our Breast Cancer Awareness Round will do is help raise much needed funds for Breast Cancer research. In addition, it will also raise awareness in our sporting community. It will help send the message that although we are fit, although we are active, although we live generally healthy lives, we need to be aware. We need to perform those health checks regularly and thoroughly because these things can happen to any and all of us. Especially to those who we can’t imagine our lives without, because they have quite simply, always been there.

So please support Breast Cancer Awareness and the McGrath Foundation on Saturday 29th August.

Location: Waverley club rooms

Cost:

• $5 per child includes party food (chips & chezels), sausage in bread, drink and jumping castle
• $5 per adult for a Hot Roast Beef roll and a drink

Time:

12 noon – Sausage sizzle for the kids & Hot Roast Beef rolls for the grownups

Jumping castle and free time on the hockey ground

Special ‘Australian hockey celebrity’ guest/s will present a medal to each child

12.45pm Minkey presentation of medal to each child

1.15pm – Under 9 presentation of medal to each child

Following the presentations – Jumping castle and free time on the hockey ground

Grandparents or other guests welcome!

RSVP number of children and adults who will be eating (for catering planning) to Nikki Gerling by Saturday 29 August; nikki.gerling@shell.com