Wallsend Touch Association in Wallsend, New South Wales | Sport & recreation

Wallsend Touch Association

Locality: Wallsend, New South Wales

Phone: +61 414 896 573

Address: Lewis St 2287 Wallsend, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.wallsendtouch.com.au

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25.01.2022 JUNIOR COMP - Only 7 Weeks away! Get your teams organised this week as our registrations open this weekend! If all goes to plan, Juniors will start week commencing 12 Oct along side our new Senior Spring Comp!... Don’t be late, as we have limited spots available this year due to COVID requirements.

25.01.2022 We proudly present to you our 2 newest Life Members who were nominated and accepted at our Annual General Meeting tonight! Congratulations - Natalie Little and Belinda Caruso ... We thank you for the many years of dedication to our club! You are now permanently part of a very prestigious group of Wallsend Touch Association Life Members!

25.01.2022 Good news story for a Friday! So happy and proud to be able to help this wonderful community!

25.01.2022 The remainder of the junior draw is now available online, including double header games this Sunday.The remainder of the junior draw is now available online, including double header games this Sunday.

24.01.2022 Good luck to our representative cubs in our 8’s and 10’s teams playing in their first tournament of the season #backthepack

24.01.2022 JUNIOR COMP INFO Wow!! We are now at capacity for team registrations for our Junior Comp. We are currently putting together the teams from our record number of junior individual player EOI. ... Further information will be advised regarding those teams and shirt/sock collection for all teams over the next few days. If you would still like to register into our junior comp, we do have a waiting list, so please send us an email to - [email protected] - with all your team details. We are still accepting teams for our Monday and Wednesday Senior Comps.

24.01.2022 Junior Touch starts back at Wallsend in August (watch this space for dates) and we can not wait!! Has your primary school registered for our first Junior event? There are 2 age groups ... Year 3/4 Year 5/6 In each age group there are boys, girls and mixed divisions. Spots are limited so chase them up before end of term tomorrow! Resister now! nswtouch.com.au/primary

22.01.2022 Don’t forget! Use one of your 2020 Active Kids vouchers to pay for your child’s rego into our any of Spring Comps that start in 6 weeks! Did you know that you get 2 vouchers each year!!... So you may still have the 2nd voucher available to use! Download your voucher from - www.service.nsw.nsw.gov.au - and then you can enter it when you register via our online form on our website - www.wallsendtouch.com.au So easy!! So simple!

22.01.2022 MAJOR SPONSOR ALERT!! Montgomery Homes suppporting Wallsend Touch for another year! All of us at the club are so extremely thankful to this amazing company! ... Looking at building? Well you can enjoy $50,000 worth of upgrades for just $5,000* when you build your new home with Montgomery Homes! Make sure you check out these amazing offers!

22.01.2022 Our Director of Referees, Blake Brown, is taking part in Movember this year to raise much needed funds and awareness for men's health, particularly in the mental health space. So if you can, please donate to help a worthy cause.

22.01.2022 So proud!! Good luck the amazing Mel Howard in the Womens State of Origin tonight!! Just shows that the sport of touch footy is a pathway for both rugby league and rugby union! The skills that young touch footy players develop presents so many opportunities! A few other familiar touch footy names showing on the list!... Good luck to Mel and all our touch footy gals!

20.01.2022 All of us at Wallsend Touch Association want to wish everyone a happy new year! 2020 already forgotten... Bring on 2021!

20.01.2022 ANNOUNCEMENT - Mens Open Representative Team We would like to congratulate the following players who have been selected into our Men’s Open Representative Team for 2020.... We want to thank all players who nominated and trialled. To accept your position, please send an email to - [email protected] - by midnight 2 Sept 2020.

19.01.2022 ANNOUNCEMENT - Junior Rep Coaches We are very excited to announce the first of our Junior Rep Coaches!... Introducing your Girls Coaches for the 2020/21 representative season! Want to trial and be coached by these talented Coaches? Then, watch this space for our online player nomination form for a chance to be selected into these teams.

19.01.2022 Yeah the Wolves!! Congrats to all the Wallsend players who have been announced in the Hunter Hornets teams for 2021!

19.01.2022 Your clubhouse is getting a facelift!! We need your help! We are counting down the days to when restrictions ease, hopefully by the start of Autumn Comp (late Feb 2021), so we are giving your facilities a big clean up!... Lots of exciting things happening! We need your help though! If you can spare 30 minutes, an hour or 2 tomorrow morning from 9am, come and join our amazing commitee in a working bee at the fields! See you there!

19.01.2022 JUNIOR REP TRIALS - On 16 boys - Field 6 18 Boys - Field 2... 11am today Please arrive 15 minutes prior to trial. Remain in car, do not congregate anywhere at fields. Head straight to field at allocated trial time below: HAVE YOU COMPETED THE ONLINE NOMINATION FORM? Please do so prior to trial via following link- https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLScTN4g4DrbQqKy9tm/viewform IMPORTANT COVID SAFE RULES- All parents/carers MUST read AND FOLLOW the attached COVID Safe procedures for our rep trials. 1. CHECK IN - A club offical will check your child in at the fields allocated above. Do not go to clubhouse. 1 x parent spectator is permitted at the trial and must check in with the QR Code available around our fields. 2. WHAT PLAYERS ARE TO WEAR - No previous rep clothing is permitted! - Black/dark coloured shorts/bikepants - White/light coloured/Tue night reversible single playing shirt Single use trial singlets will be handed out to players and immediately after trial players are to place straight into plastic bag at field for laundering. If the player is unable to attend or have any questions, please contact our Admin Officer, Kellie - 0414896573 or email [email protected]

18.01.2022 MONDAY 16 Nov - Cancelled lightning We have been monitoring the weather and unfortunately we have had to make the decision to cancel the remaining games tonight due to the lightning. Cameron will contact all teams over the next few days regarding the games that were not able to be played. ... We thank you for your understanding.

18.01.2022 ANNOUNCEMENT - Mens 55s Representative Team We would like to congratulate the following players who have been selected into our Men’s 55s Representative Team for 2020.... We want to thank all players who nominated and trialled. To accept your position, please send an email to - [email protected] - by midnight 28 Aug 2020.

16.01.2022 We would like to thank all our members for their continued support of the club through a tough period with COVID-19. We have hit 3000 followers

16.01.2022 Don’t forget Junior Conp double header next Sunday! Draw will be available soon.

15.01.2022 Junior Semi and Grand Finals tonight!!!! 1. Firstly thank you everyone for your support throughout this competition. 2. All divisions have finals tonight. 3. Teams that don't make it through to GF will need to leave immediately after their semi.... 4. All teams that make the GF, players will need to sign on before the game. 5. Teams that win the GF will need to come to the club house to put in their sizes for the GF prizes after the game. 6. Remember to socially distance and have fun supporting the cubs of our sport. See more

13.01.2022 ANNOUNCEMENT - 25 August 2020 Please find attached important memo from our President, Tony Bradley, in relation to the status of our next competition at Wallsend Touch Association. We have also attached the announcement from Dean Russell, General Manager NSW Touch, regarding community sport.

13.01.2022 We hope all our families and friends have had a wonderful Christmas break and looking forward to few more days to celebrate the start of 2021 (and see the end of 2020!) The first event for 2021 that we need to make sure all our Junior families know about is the Hunter Western Hornets Junior selection camp. Check out the details and register via the link below by 3 Jan. ... A great opportunity for all our Junior players - Under 13 to Under 18

13.01.2022 ANNOUNCEMENT - Junior Rep Coaches We are very excited to announce the last of our Junior Rep Coaches!... Introducing your Boys Coaches for the 2020/21 representative season! Want to trial and be coached by these talented Coaches? Then, watch this space for our online player nomination form for a chance to be selected into these teams.

11.01.2022 Sunday 15 Nov - Junior Double Header COVID Rules MUST be followed!! We have a massive day tomorrow for our junior comp double header and we need all families to continue to follow our COVID safe rules.... No spectators!! 1 parent/Carer per player!! Check in via the QR code. Arrive... play the 2 games... leave Do not mingle. We do not want to exceed the 500 limit! If you are approached by one of our Committee/volunteers, please listen to their instructions and follow them. It’s going to be very hot so please make sure your child has enough water for 2 games.. pack 2 water bottles. We thank you and appreciate your co-operation so we can continue to run our Spring Competition. Hope the kids have lots of fun!! See you tomorrow!

11.01.2022 Wallsend Touch Association would like to send a very special thank you and appreciation post to Tony Bradley, Nicole Bradley and Scott Oliver for the contributions they have made to our club and wish them all the very best on their next adventures. The many long hours they dedicated to the growth of Wallsend Touch for many years is immeasurable! Nicole is a one of our amazing Life Members, she is a long time representative player, selector, and has been part of our executiv...e committee in several roles for many years. She took on our Monday night competition several years ago and it has grown from strength to strength reaching capacity! We can not thank you enough and I’m sure the Monday night teams will miss you as much as we will! We have been extremely fortunately to have Scott involved in our club for many years. He has taken on several roles including the recent Director of Coaching as part of our executive committee. He has implemented many positive changes to the represenative arm of our club starting a process that will only allow our club to grow stronger each year. Scott has developed strong relationships with our major sponsors, finalising deals that ensures our members pay minimal fees for years to come. He is also an amazing coach, mentor, ex-player, and even had a crack at some refereeing! We can not thank you enough for all the long hours you have given to Wallsend Touch. How privileged we have been to have Tony Bradley dedicate many long hours as Referee Director and then President for the past few years, we want to thank you for everything you have done for the club. Not many people see the long hours a President spends behind the scenes taking lead on many projects such as creating budgets, chasing sponsors, building stakeholder relationships, even marking lines and so much more! Tony is one of the clubs few Level 6 referees, which is the highest accreditation anyone can achieve. We are so proud to have watched you reach this amazing acheivement. The knowledge and dedication you have given Wallsend Touch is second to none! We thank you Tony for everything. Wallsend Touch thank all of you and this is not a good bye.... it is a see you later!

10.01.2022 Spring is here!! Touch footy is back!! Juniors & Seniors starts week of 12 Oct We are very close to capacity, register your teams for free now so you you don’t miss out! Players pay afterwards!... Head to our website now for all the details www.wallsendtouch.com.au

10.01.2022 We are so extremely proud to build strong relationships with our local businesses! Hotel Elermore once again supporting our club! Make sure you support the club who supports our club. Check out what’s on and take the whole family! ... Have you used your NSW dine voucher yet? Well make sure do at Hotel Elermore before it expires.

09.01.2022 Have you got your team in? Team registrations close midnight Sunday 4 Oct for both Juniors and Senior Head to our website for all the details -... www.wallsendtouch.com.au

09.01.2022 All teams need to check today's draw as we have had a few last minute forfeits.

09.01.2022 ANNOUNCEMENT - Junior Representative Teams Thank you to everyone who attended our Representative trial day on Sunday 8 Nov for our: - 16 Boys - 18 Boys... Once again the quality of talent that trialled in these age groups was amazing! For those of you that were not selected we hope to see you again next year, however in the meantime keep playing touch and most importantly have fun doing it. Congratulations to all the players that have been selected in one of our Wallsend Junior Representative teams for the 2020/21 season. Please head to our website to view the teams and next steps www.wallsendtouch.com.au See more

08.01.2022 To all the amazing Dads out there, we wish you a wonderful Father’s Day from all of us at Wallsend Touch!!

07.01.2022 We are extremely proud to see so many of our Wallsend Touch Junior rep players representing at higher levels in several fields. We would like to acknowledge those players and also wish them to best of luck in the tournaments they are still to complete. Note- please let us know of any good news stories of our CUBS so we can continue to recognise their achievements!... First of, this week we have 8 of our girls representing Hunter in the NSWCHS touch football tournament this week at Mudgee Left to right - Sunny Mitchell - Kyah Little - Jules Kirkpatrick - Lily McNamara - Zali Chippendale - Chloe Allan - Emma Hopkins - Madelyn Stevens Next-up we show case the great achievements of our under 12 boys player Taj W. Taj has been selected in 3 Hunter Region PSSA representative teams across 3 different codes of football - AFL, Rugby League and Rugby Union. Our last acknowledgement is for a talented young lady from our under 14 girls. Kathryn Leyshon recently taking the gold whilst part of in the under 15 Hunter school girls team at the NSWCHS championships! We are so very proud of all of you! #wolfpack

07.01.2022 Big shout out and thank you to our amazing administrator Kellie-Jean Johnston! Kel has been working tirelessly on all things COVID (on top of everything else)for our club. Kel will be speaking at the NSW Touch State Conference this Saturday as part of the COVID-19 panel. Join Kel from 4:30 to 5:30 as the panel discusses all things COVID. Kellie has also been nominated for Administrator of the Year. Congratulations Kel what a great recognition for all the hard work you do for Wallsend Touch. Xxxx

07.01.2022 Wallsend Touch Association recently held is Annual General Meeting where we had several new appointments to our Executive Committee and General committee. President - Natalie Little Junior President - Rochelle Stevens Director of Referees - Blake Brown... Director of Coaching - Erin Hardes Operations Officer - Mel Allan All of our committee members and their roles will be available on our website - www.wallsendtouch.com.au We thank all of our committee, volunteers, referees, and members for the support to get through some extra-ordinary challenging times during 2019/2020.

06.01.2022 On Monday our fantastic sponsors Hotel Elermore launched brand new restaurant and cocktail menus. As with everything these guys do, they're bound to be amazing, so get down there and try them out.

06.01.2022 Wallsend Touch is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Liz Farrell. Liz was a huge part of Wallsend Touch for many years. Helping out with Managing Rep Teams, being heavily involved in our Junior Committee and just offering to help where ever she could. To Shane, Kim, Megan and David and all of your beautiful family, please accept our heartfelt condolences on the loss of Liz.... Our hearts are with you in this time of sorrow.

04.01.2022 And that’s a wrap Autumn Comp 2021 Last week, on some very cold nights, our Grandfinals concluded for our 2021 Autumn Comp. What a great season it has been for the first full competition back post COVID! Congratulations to all our winners and also every single player who participated throughout our Comp!... We would like to send a massive thanks to our amazing night supervisor - Cameron Maxwell. Cam looks after both the Mon and Wed comp. He is there both nights, from around 4:30pm til close. We thank him for all the late nights, phone calls to team Managers, sorting fixtures, answering emails, making hard decisions regarding playing or not playing due to bad weather conditions... and so much more! We appreciate all the hard work you have put in behind the scenes to make our Autumn Comp such a successful one! We also want to thank our hard working committee and our volunteers who are also at the fields early setting up and still there long after all the teams have gone home. Without such hard working and dedicated volunteers, our competitions would not run! A big shout out also to our Referees, especially Blake Brown and Kurt Grogan (Night Referee Directors) for keeping them all organised. Games can not go ahead if we don’t have referees! And lastly, but definitely not least, we thank YOU our players. Thank you for registering to our Autumn Comp! Without you there is no Wallsend Touch Competition. Enjoy the break, and we will see you back in August. Regos and details will be available soon! Congratulations to the following teams - MON COMP - Mens A/B- Touch the footy Mens C/D - Gorillas Mens E - In financial services Mix A - RSF Mix B - Scorchers Mix C - Nuts in jugs Mix D - They call me magic Mix E - Fresh out of touch Mix F - Outa touch WED COMP - Family comp - All for the kids Wed Mens A - Off in church Wed Mens B - Out of shape Wed Mens C - ATB Wed Ladies A - Ducks Wed Ladies B - Baawaas Wed Ladies C - Young Guns

03.01.2022 And the lights go off at Upper Reserve for the final time in 2020! What a year! We want to thank every team, player, carer, referee, volunteer, and our amazing committee for ensuring touch footy continued to be played at Wallsend Touch in 2020.... From no high fives to QR code sign ins, hand sanitisers at every field, no spectators, no canteen and so on and so on... we made it! We would like make a special mention of our amazing Night Supervisors, Cameron Maxwell and Liberty Little, who spent endless hours tackling the new and frustrating MySideline system ensuring games went ahead and times were correct. Thank you to all of you for supporting our club and we can’t wait to see you all back in 2021! Save the date - 1 March start of Autumn Comp! From the Wolfpack to you all ... we wish you a safe and merry Christmas!!

02.01.2022 What a month for representative honours for the wolfpack! We now want to wish the following players all the best as they take on Queensland in the Touch Football State Of Origin series for 2020. Game 1 for all divisions is played this afternoon, with the remaining 2 games tomorrow to decide the series. ... Wear the blue with pride and fight till the 40 minute mark! Our president - Natalie Little Assistant Coach Ladies 40s Heemi McGarvey - player Mens 60s Geoff Power - player Mens 60s Joseph Caruso - Mgr Mens 20s Zoe Parish - player ladies 40s Kelly Nicholas - player ladies 40s Amanda Hollis - player ladies 40s Nicole Grose - player ladies 40s Michelle Botham - player ladies 40s Kellie-Jean Johnston - player ladies 40s https://m.facebook.com/nswtouch/ #bleedblue

02.01.2022 Peter Wilson Memorial Champs ‘Minis’ The cubs of the Wolfpack travelled down the M1 today and what a great day they all had!! Such great results and improvement every game! ... We are so proud of you all!

02.01.2022 Touch Football is lower risk than some other team sports in terms of COVID transmission the Mater Director of Infectious Diseases who helped developed the spo...rt's Return-to-Play Protocols explains. Go to www.touchfootball.com.au to learn more about the sport's safety protocols and to find somewhere to play this upcoming season. See more

01.01.2022 Congratulations and goodluck to all off our Wallsend Touch footy family who play finals with many other different sporting codes this weekend! A mixed up crazy winter season for many sports but you all made it through! We absolutely love seeing the friendships that are formed on the sporting field and carry across all of the codes!!... That’s what sport is all about! Please send us any photos you have of Wolves players in the finals as we would love to post them and celebrate with you!