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Job Vacancy: Club Coach

Libby Gudmundsson — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:20:00 GMT

Trust Waikato Whangamata SLSC provides a surf sport programme for its members, primarily over the summer months. The current programme focuses on a performance squad of athletes aged 10 years through to senior level. The performance squad competes at local and national surf carnivals over the summer season.

We have recently had some great success at the U14 Nationals and at now Senior Nationals as our athletes move into the older age groups.

We are seeking a suitably qualified coach who can help continue this momentum and further develop our surf sport programme.

The successful applicant will be a surf lifeguard with appropriate surf sport experience in a number of disciplines, and with appropriate coaching qualifications. Good communication and interpersonal skills are essential in providing professional coaching services to our club membership.

The position is full time from October through to March with some involvement prior to the start of this period. We are willing to tailor the role for the right applicant.

Click here for a copy of the position description. (pdf, 188kb)

An attractive salary package with benefits will be discussed with short listed applicants.

Please send expressions of interest along with a current CV to:
Nathan Hight
Director
Trust Waikato Whangamata SLSC

Email: intelligenz.capability@gmail.com

Mittens' Motutapu experience

Libby Gudmundsson — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:53:00 GMT

Earlier in the year applications were sought for the annual northern Region Development Camp - for lifeguards aged 15-18. Clubbie Mitch (Mittens) Coldicutt was selected to attend the camp which ran in the recent school holidays, below is his report...

Mittens (second from left) and other participants at the NR Development Camp

Hi, my name is Mitch Coldicutt and known around the club as Mittens.

At the end of the life guarding season I applied to upskill at a development camp at Motutapu Outdoor Education Centre.

Motutapu Island is located next to Rangitoto Island, it was originally an Army Base protecting Auckland in World War Two.

Surf Life Saving Northern Region have had a Development Camp running for many years at this island and this year opened invitations to the other clubs around the country.

I decided to take the opportunity and loved it. The camp was all about working on skills that relate back to surf life saving such as communication and working as a team.

The camp was a great opportunity to challenge yourself, to achieve higher and push yourself to the limits as a team. Things that I did on the camp were high ropes, rock climbing, orienteering, sea kayaking, archery, walking through streams with an eel trying to crawl into your shoes and loads more.

I met many people from other clubs from as far as Wellington. All up this camp was an amazing opportunity I highly recommend other lifeguards apply for the camp next year.

Prizegiving

Libby Gudmundsson — Tue, 01 May 2012 05:48:00 GMT

Congratulations to all those recognised at our 2011/2012 season prizegiving.

Surf Sport Team of the Year: U16 Relay Team

Most Improved Nipper: Cara Bradding

Most Improved Cadet: Simon Cox

Most Improved Competitor: Oscar Williams

Most Improved Lifeguard of the Year: Sam Barclay

Most Valuable Lifeguard of the Year: Rob McAlister

Rookie Lifeguard of the Year: Mackenzie Adams

Top Rookie: Charlotte Gordon

Most Dedicated Patrol Captain: Andrew Earl-Peacock

Service to Junior Surf: Noel Cox

Service of the Year: Cam Walker

Nipper of the Year: Jess Allen

Cadet of the Year: Braytten Adams

Senior Competitior of the Year: Madison Kidd

Junior Competitor of the Year: Conor Bradding

Surf Sport team of the Year: U16 Relay team - George Sussock, Paul Clout, Jack Snodgrass and Hamish Barclay

Professional Lifeguard of the Year: James Bray

Volunteer Lifeguard of the Year: Mitch Jensen

Mitch and James head to England

Libby Gudmundsson — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:34:00 GMT

While most of us will have to wait until October to hit the beach and patrol, senior guards Mitch Jensen and James Bray will spend the next four an a half months on patrol - working as life guards in England.

James (20) was Head Guard at Whangamata this season, while Mitch (18), also a professional guard, has been a member at Whangamata since he was a nipper.

They will both spend the kiwi winter as professional life guards at Perranporth in Cornwall, South West England. The boys have been told that conditions at Perranporth are similar to those at Piha - so no doubt will be in for an exciting season.

We'll have photos and updates when they start work early next month.

For more information about Perranporth visit their website.

Have a look at the article below that appeared in the local Coastal News...

Easter Weekend - AGM

Libby Gudmundsson — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:27:00 GMT

Another season is done and dusted - and what a season it was! One of our most successful on a competitive front, fantastic new lifeguards have joined our team and once again no drownings at our beach.

Thank you everyone for your contributions during the season.

First of all - a quick rundown on what happened at the AGM for those who were not there.

There have been a few changes on the Board.
We welcome back Bryan Black and Nathan Hight. Both Bryan and Nathan have contributed hugely to the club in the past and their knowledge and expertise will be a great asset to our club going forward, welcome back! Another new addition to the board is Ross Bradding, Ross has been a member of our club for a while as a Junior Surf parent and we look forward to his involvement at board level.

Geoff Hogan and Richard Scelly remain on the board in their positions as President and Patron respectively while Rachelle Bright has been promoted to the role of Club Captain. Rachelle is our first female club captain, a tirelessly hard worker she has a lot of plans and initiatives and will serve our club well in this role.

Long serving board members Mike Tames, Soren Nielson and Haley McMahon have all stepped down. A huge thanks must be given to all three for their efforts over the past decade and no doubt we will see them around the club still!

If you think you would like to become more involved in the club there are positions available on several of the committees. The committees are: Lifesaving, Sport, Juniors Surf and Communications. For more information email Rachelle - rachelle.bright@hotmail.com

Current committee members are:

Lifesaving:
Kenji Takano
Stewart Gibson
Sam Barclay
Cameron Walker
Mitch Jensen

Junior Surf:
Martin Monk

Sport:
Cameron Walker
Andrew Earl-Peacock
Geoff Jensen

Communications:
Jo Bond
Libby Gudmundsson
Jo-Anne Jensen

EASTER WEEKEND CELEBRATIONS

Alex Walker — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:36:00 GMT

Please click this link to view/download this weekends events

/media/65753/end_of_season.pdf

Easter Weekend Programme

Alex Walker — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:23:00 GMT

/media/65428/easter_1_.pdf
click the above file to view the Easter weekend events

Ocean 12's Results

Alex Walker — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:47:00 GMT

U14 team manager Coirle Bradding provides us with an excellent end of season and end of event wrap up.

Hello all,

With our 8 U14's moving to U16 next year and only 2 competitors in U11 at Oceans this year (and only 1 U10 at ERC's) we all need to encourage all of the U10/U11 year olds in the club towards competition so that we have some depth in the team for Oceans 13.

A huge thanks again to Dan for his third year of awesome coaching - the club/athletes have enjoyed great success during his tenure as coach and the athletes continued to learn/improve/benefit from his coaching and expertise each season. Dan, you will be missed next year, good luck with your next coaching venture!

Below find a summary of our results:-

Top 10 Club points:

1st Red Beach 68, 2nd Omanu Beach 46, 3rd Mt Maunganui 40, 3rd Orewa 40, 3rd Papamoa 40, 6th Lyall Bay 27, 7th Paekakariki 24, 8th NPOB 23, 9th Wainui 14, 9th Whangamata 14

Individual Events (6 points)

Oscar - 2nd U12 Board Race - 2 pts

Conor - 3rd U12 Flags - 1 pt

Conor - 3rd U12 R-S-R - 1 pt

Conor - 3rd U12 Surf Race - 1 pt

Conor - 3rd U12 Diamond - 1pt

Team Events (8 points)

Conor/Oscar/Theo - 2nd U12 Board Relay - 3 pts

Conor/Hugo/Maddie/Tayla - 2nd U12 Mixed Beach Relay - 3 pts

George/Tom - 3rd U14 Board Rescue - 1 pt

Conor/Jack - 3rd Tube Rescue - 1 pt

Finalists

Flags - Conor

Sprints - Jack, Conor

RSR - Mayah, Conor, Oscar, Theo, Tom

Surf Race - Maddie, Mayah, Conor, Oscar

Board - Jack, Maddie, Conor, Oscar, Theo, Nic

Diamond - Mayah, Conor, Oscar, Theo, George

Beach Relay - U12 A Conor/Hugo/Maddie/Tayla, U12 B Brooke/Flinn/Mayah/Oscar

Tube Rescue - U12 A Conor/Jack

Board Rescue - U14 A George/Tom

Board Relay - U12 A Conor/Theo/Oscar, U12 B Hugo/Flinn/Jack, U14 George/Tom/Nic

Newsletter February Issue

Alex Walker — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:18:00 GMT

Here is the latest newsletter to download. Enjoy

Click here to open/download /media/60551/newsletter_issue_4.pdf

Any questions please email me at alexandrawalker@hotmail.co.nz

Summer update 2012

Alex Walker — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:20:00 GMT

This has been one of the wettest, windiest summers Trust Waikato Whangamata Surf Life Saving Club has seen in years. But James Bray [Head Lifeguard] has still had an exciting summer, watching all of our new lifeguard's progress and develop their skills within our club. James' highlight of the summer has been having our new 'grubs' learn from our professional lifeguards the skills they need to keep our beach safe. The highest head count our beach has seen this summer has been a low 3,000; which is extremely quiet compared to previous years. James' lowlight has been that they have had to patrol between the flags in the wet windy weather that has hit us. Our head guard wants to let all beach goers know that there are some strong rip currents on our beach, especially at beach access 6, and between beach access 8 and 9. So for a message to everyone 'Learn to recognise rip currents, if in doubt stay out'.

Head Lifeguard James Bray

It has also been a busy season for our Junior Surf Co-ordinator Rachelle Bright who now has four coaches to assist her throughout the summer. This summer the kids have been focusing on the 10 surf sense rules as well as boosting their confidence in the water. Some children come along and are too afraid to enter the water, but by the end of their summer break it is hard to get them out of it. Rachelle's assistant coaches are Josie Lipscombe, Lucy Gill, Oliver Wright, and Sam Barclay. Although there has been a low number of kids this year; with the highest count at 70 in one day; the coaches have been busy keeping the kids safe in the large surf Whangamata has been hit with this summer. The Coromandel Cup was postponed due to the weather and the possibility of Rena debris hitting our beach, but it is looking like it will be run anniversary weekend.
The new coaches highlights have been watching the kids up skill in both beach and water activities, and they have enjoyed working alongside Rachelle Bright.

The club would like to welcome the 20 new lifeguards that have qualified this summer, and we look forward to training up new lifeguards in the near future.
Enjoy the rest of your summer - from the team at WSLSC

Sport Survey

Alex Walker — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:46:00 GMT

Dan Grant is interested to see what you think about surf sports at Whangamata Surf Club.

Follow this link and fill in the quick survey to help surf sports evolve at the club http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HWPMRJ3

Newsletter Issue 3 December 2011

Alex Walker — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:25:00 GMT

Enjoying exploring our new website, and have a read of our latest newsletter.

click on the following link to view/download the latest newsletter /media/27979/newsletter_issue_3_1_.pdf

If you have any issues or queries regarding the website or the newsletter please contact me on alexandrawalker@hotmail.co.nz

welcome to our new website

SLSNZ Admin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:27:00 GMT

Watch this space!