2011-12 Annual Report - Australian Water Polo Inc

Annual Report 

2011/12

WINNING 

PARTNERSHIP 

The Australian Sports Commission 

proudly supports Australian Water Polo 

The Australian Sports Commission is 

the Australian Government agency that 

develops, supports and invests in sport 

at all levels in Australia. Australian 

Water Polo has worked closely with the 

Australian Sports Commission to develop 

water polo from community participation 

to high-level performance. 

Australian Water Polo is one 

of many national sporting 

organisations that has formed a 

winning partnership with the 

Australian Sports Commission to 

develop its sport in Australia. 

AUSTRALIAN SPORTS COMMISSION 

www.ausport.gov.au

WATER POLO AUSTRALIA 2011/12 ANNUAL REPORT 

CONTENTS 

4 

Office Bearers 2011/12 

15 - 16 

Senior Men’s Report 

31 

Referees’ Commission Report 

5 

Honour Roll 

17 

Born ‘91 Junior Men’s Report 

32 

National Capitation 2012 

6 

Message from the Australian Sports Commission 

18 - 19 

Born ‘93 Junior Men’s Report 

33 - 40 

National Championship Results 2011/12 

7 

President’s Report 

20 

Born ‘94 Youth Men’s Report 

41 

Statement by the Board of Directors 

8 

Chief Executive Officer’s Report 

21 - 23 

Senior Women’s Report 

42 - 43 

Independent Auditor’s Report 

9 

High Performance Report 

24 

Born ‘91 Junior Women’s Report 

44 

Statement of Comprehensive Income 

10 

Australian Government Direct Athlete Support 

25 

Born ‘93 Junior Women’s Report 

45 

Statement of Financial Position 

11 

Operations Report 

26 

Born ‘94 Youth Women’s Report 

46 

Statement of Changes in Equity 

12 

National Development Report 

27 

Born ‘96 Youth Women’s Report 

46 

Statement of Cash Flows 

3 

13 

National Media Report 

28 - 29 

Hall of Fame Dinner 2012 

47 - 48 

Notes to and forming part of the accounts 

14 

National League Report 

30 

Athletes’ Commission Report 

49 - 54 

Notes to the financial statements 

Water Polo Australia LIMITED Members 

Water Polo Queensland, New South Wales Water Polo Inc, Australian Capital Territory Water Polo Inc, Victorian Water Polo Inc, 

Tasmanian Water Polo Inc, South Water Polo Australia Inc, Western Australia Water Polo Inc, Northern Territory Water Polo Inc. 

OUR Mission 

Water Polo Australia will be recognised and accepted as a successful major sporting organisation both in Australia and internationally through its 

astute and planned management, the performance of international teams and the delivery of water polo at all levels. 

Affiliation 

Water Polo Australia Limited is affiliated to Swimming Australia Ltd. 

Front cover photo credit: Anthony Pearse, Pearse Photography


Office Bearers 

2011/12 

Honorary Officers 

National Coaches 

National League Commission 

Patron 

Peter Montgomery AM 

Senior Men 

John Fox 

Chairman 

Warren Hawtin 

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Board 

President 

Peter Kerr AM 

Directors 

Kay Copeland 

Trent Franklin 

Suzannah Fraser 

Warren Hawtin 

Amy Hetzel 

David Martin 

Phillip Scales 

State Delegates 

Queensland 

Jack Lusic 

New South Wales 

Peter Waterman 

Australian Capital Territory 

Noel Harrod 

Victoria 

John Perrott 

Senior Women 

Greg McFadden 

Junior Boys ‘91 

Adam Richardson 

Junior Girls ‘91 

Peter Szilagyi 

Junior Boys ’93 

Duncan Greenbank 


Ryan Moar 

Junior Boys ‘94 

Chris Wybrow 


Aleks Osadchuk 

Junior Girls ’96 

Jack Lusic 

Referees’ Commission 

Chairman 

Michael McNeill 

Commissioners 

Suzannah Fraser 

Mark Grooby 

Noel Harrod 

Danielle Woodhouse 

Personnel 

Chief Executive Officer 

Christopher Harrison 

High Performance Manager 

Tom Hill 

Operations Manager/ 

NWPL General Manager 

Peter Hobday 

Finance 

Peter Jackson 

National Media Manager 

David Lyall 

Administration Officer & Board Secretariat 

Cheryl Ritchie 

Tasmania 

David Salter 

South Australia 

Jon Harmer 

Commissioners 

Michael Hart 

Phillip Scales 

Mike DeFina 

Western Australia 

Dale Ballantyne 

Northern Territory 

John Cossons 

Athletes’ Commission 

Chairman 


Commissioners 

Nikita Cuffe 

Toby Jenkins 

Bronwen Knox 

Thomas Whalan


Honour 

ROLL 

Life Members 

1993 Peter Montgomery AM 

Harry Quittner Medal Recipients 

1986 Charles Turner 

2010 Award Winners 

Male Player 

Sam McGregor 

2009 Tom Hoad AM 

1987 Debbie Cummins 

Female Player 

Victoria Brown 

2009 Pat Jones 

1988 Peter Montgomery 

Junior Male Player 

Aaron Younger 

2009 Harry Quittner 

1989 Tom Hoad AM 

Junior Female Player 

Nicola Zagame 

2009 David Woods 

1990 Andrew Kerr 

Coach 

Les Kay 

Honorary Life President 

Harry Quittner 

Hall Of Fame 

2009 Wendy Arancini 

(nee Meloncelli, WA) 

2009 Debbie Cummins 

(nee Handley, QLD) 

2009 Tom Hoad AM (WA) 

2009 Andrew Kerr (NSW) 

2009 Peter Montgomery AM (NSW) 

2009 Cathy Parkes (NSW) 

2009 Charles Turner (SA & NSW) 

2009 Debbie Watson (NSW) 

2009 John Whitehouse (TAS) 

1991 John Whitehouse 

1992 Chris Wybrow & 

Debbie Watson 

1993 Not awarded 

1994 Ray Mayers 

1995 Pat Jones 

1996 Don Cameron 

1997-06 Not awarded 

2007 Nathan Thomas 

2008 Tracy Rockwell 

2009 Leanne Barnes 

2010 Jeanette Gunn 

Volunteer 

Karen Armstrong 

Referee 

Danny Flahive 

2011 Award Winners 

Club of the year Melville Water Polo Club 

Male Player 

Joel Dennerley 

Female Player Rowena Webster 

Junior Male Player Aaron Younger 

Junior Female Player Hannah Buckling 

Coach 


Volunteer 

Joel Sangster 

Referee 

Danny Flahive 

Player with a Disability Jamie-Lee Lewis 

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2010 Bill Berge-Phillips (NSW) 

2010 Bridgette Gusterson (WA) 

2010 David Neesham (WA) 

2010 John O’Brien (VIC) 

2010 Harry Quittner (VIC) 

2010 Ray Smee (NSW) 

2010 David Woods (NSW) 

2011 Leanne Barnes (VIC) 

2011 Peter Kerr (NSW) 

2011 Ian Mills (VIC) 

2011 Les Nunn (WA) 

2011 Michael Withers (VIC, NSW) 

2011 Chris Wybrow (NSW) 

2012 Leon Wiegard OAM (VIC) 

2012 Peter Bennett (VIC) 

2012 Alan Charleston (WA) 

Photo Credit: Anthony Pearse, Pearse Photography


Message from the 

AUSTRALIAN SPORTS COMMISSION 

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The Australian 

Government is 

committed to getting 

more Australians 

participating and 

excelling in sport. 

Sport not only 

inspires and unites 

us as a nation, it also 

motivates us to get 

involved and active. 

The staging of the Olympic and Paralympic 

Games is an exciting time for all Australians, 

and highlights the substantial contribution 

of sport to our community, from athletes 

competing at the Games to those involved in 

weekend club competition and social play, 

as well as parents and volunteers. 

Australia’s performance at the London 

Olympic and Paralympic Games is the 

culmination of extensive long-term efforts 

across the Australian high performance 

system. Following the Games, there will be 

opportunities to celebrate the successes 

and critically review our next steps to ensure 

we focus and align our efforts to deliver the 

best possible results in the next Olympic and 

Paralympic cycle. 

It is two years since the Australian 

Government delivered its new vision for 

sport in ‘Australian Sport: The Pathway 

to Success’ and substantially increased 

ongoing funding to the Australian Sports 

Commission. Since then, we have 

focused on implementing our new plans, 

delivering key programs, supporting 

national sporting organisations (NSOs) to 

deliver participation and high performance 

outcomes (as well as building their 

capacity), and building collaboration, 

alignment and effectiveness within the 

Australian sport sector. 

The announcement in the May 2012 Budget 

of the continuation of the Active After-school 

Communities program will ensure we carry 

on providing primary school-aged children 

with a positive introduction to sport. We will 

continue working with sporting organisations 

at all levels to ensure the program provides 

maximum value to sports and supports the 

transition of program participants into 

local clubs. 

Linked to the London Olympic and 

Paralympic Games, the Prime Minister’s 

Olympic and Paralympic Challenges 

will encourage and inspire children to 

participate in sport and to get active, have 

fun and earn rewards. This initiative, as 

well as participation funding programs 

delivered by NSOs, continues the Australian 

Government’s commitment to ensuring more 

people can access sport and all the benefits 

it provides. 

The support received from the Australian 

Government for Australian sport is essential 

and plays an integral role in connecting our 

young sporting participants with their dreams 

of podium success in the future. 

This is an exciting and challenging time 

for Australian sport. The Australian Sports 

Commission looks forward to working with 

sporting organisations, state and territory 

institutes and academies of sport, and 

state and territory departments of sport 

and recreation, to promote access to, and 

participation in, sport across the community, 

and supporting Australia’s continued 

sporting success. 

Mr David Gallop 

Acting Chairman 

Board of the Australian Sports Commission 

30 June 2012


President’s 

Report 

On behalf of the 

Board of Water Polo 

Australia Limited 

(WPAL) I am pleased to 

report on the work 

that has been done 

as we continue to 

refine and grow our 

organisation, and 

assist all of you, 

our members and 

stakeholders, to 

develop the sport 

of water polo within 

Australia. 

Following the governance review and skill audit 

from last year the Board has continued to work in 

the best interest of the organisation and the sport 

on a broad range of challenging issues. While 

often making important yet difficult decisions 

about the future of the organisation we as a 

Board are proud that we have approached 

this task with vigour and a clear purpose. 

The Board believes our players, coaches, 

officials and administrators have all had a 

large measure of success during 2011-2012. 

Whilst these successes are articulated 

throughout this report, it is appropriate to 

acknowledge the tremendous effort and 

commitment all the coaches and support staff 

put in prior to the 2012 London Olympics. 

While we acknowledge the people that have 

direct access to the athletes I think it is also 

very important that we recognise the work 

of the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) 

and its CEO Simon Hollingsworth and the 

Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and 

continued support from their President John 

Coates. Special mention to the states and 

territory institutes and academies, particularly 

Charles Turner and New South Wales 

Institute of Sport (NSWIS). 

From a national perspective the Board 

would like to congratulate the Fremantle 

Mariners for their consecutive Men’s National 

League Title and to the Cronulla Sharks for 

taking out the Women’s Title. This season 

also saw the women introduced into the 

All Stars competition, which coincided with 

the 18s Championships held in Canberra. 

The women’s game opened the night with 

an extremely close finish encouraging the 

crowd to get involved in the men’s game that 

displayed the high standards of international 

water polo. 

The Hall of Fame Dinner that is held in 

conjunction with the National League 

Finals was once again very successful with 

Allan Charlston, Peter Bennett and Leon 

Wiegard being introduced into the Hall 

of Fame. Special mention must go to our 

Administrative Assistant Cheryl Ritchie for 

coordinating and facilitating the event. 

It is also important to pay tribute to our Member 

States and their volunteers, our Operations 

Manager Peter Hobday and the parents who 

made our National Junior competitions run 

successfully for yet another year. 

Acknowledgements 

The success of our athletes would not be 

possible without the continued support of 

The Australian Government through the 

ASC’s Direct Athlete Support program. 

I would like to show gratitude to the staff 

of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), 

the State Institutes and Academies for the 

continuing and effective relationships that 

we share. 

I would also like to sincerely thank the WPAL 

Board, CEO Chris Harrison and his staff for 

their ongoing contribution to the success of 

water polo in Australia 

Peter Kerr 

President 

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Chief Executive Officer’s 

REPORT 

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This 2011-12 period 

marks our second 

year residing in 

Sydney, where we 

have made further 

investments 

to deliver high 

performance services 

to our athletes. 

To achieve this we 

welcomed Tom Hill 

as High Performance 

Manager. 

Tom has spent his first six months 

establishing necessary foundations for a 

successful high performance program. We 

look forward to working with Tom as he leads 

the high performance program into the next 

Olympic quadrennial. 

As always it has been another active and 

productive year for our sport and I extend 

my sincere gratitude and congratulations to 

all those who have participated, worked in, 

administered and supported our game over 

this period. 

In discussing the past year there have 

been significant milestones achieved in the 

infrastructure of the sport. 

At the 2011 Annual General Meeting the 

resolution to change our name from Water 

Polo Australia Incorporated (AWPI) to Water 

Polo Australia Limited (WPAL) was passed. I 

am excited to announce that with the process 

of changing our name we have identified the 

need to re-brand and therefore in the near 

future you will see our corporate colours, logo 

and uniform change to reflect this. 

The other significant achievement has been 

the formation of the National Competitions 

Committee (NCC). Developed following 

the National Water Polo League (NWPL) 

review this committee is charged with the 

responsibility of reviewing the entire National 

Competition Structure to determine how 

all elements of the national competition 

pathway can be aligned. 

As we celebrate what has been a successful 

year, we remain very aware that this 

continues to be just another step in attaining 

our mission to be recognised and accepted 

as a successful major sporting organisation 

both in Australia and internationally, through 

astute and planned management, the 

performance of international teams and the 

delivery of water polo at all levels. 


We continue to receive remarkable support 

through our partnerships with the Australian 

Sports Commission (ASC), Australian Institute 

of Sport (AIS) and each of the State and 

Territory Institute and Academies of Sport. 

Without the additional funding and shared 

expertise our sport would not enjoy the 

success that it achieves. 

I would also like to recognise John Coates 

and the Australian Sports Commission for 

their continued support and wish them a 

successful 2012 Olympic campaign. 

Finally I would like to show my appreciation 

to the Water Polo Australia Board led by 

President, Mr. Peter Kerr of whom I am 

indebted to, for the support and strategic 

advice you have provided on so many 

matters during the year. 

Chris Harrison 

Chief Executive Officer


High Performance 


High Performance 

Vision 

A world class high 

performance program 

executed through 

a collaborative 

partner approach 

demonstrated by 

national teams 

achieving sustained 

success. 

2011/12 was a year for transition and 

establishing the necessary foundations for 

a successful high performance program. 

I was appointed as the High Performance 

Manager in January 2012 under the 

recommendation of a High Performance 

Committee comprising of representatives 

from the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), 

Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), Water 

Polo Australia, and the respective national 

coaches, and charged with the responsibility 

of leading the high performance program 

into the next Olympic quadrennial. 

Leadership of the high performance area 

encompassed many activities in the lead up 

to the London 2012 Olympic Games. Some 

of the key objectives were to; 

• Lead the review of the high performance 

program and senior national teams 

• Establish a revised high performance plan 

and vision through until 2020 

• Build partnerships with key stakeholders 

that fund, support and deliver programs that 

support our athlete pathway 

• Manage the high performance budget and 

financial planning for the next 4-8 years in 

line with the high performance plan 

• In conjunction with the national coaches 

plan, establish and facilitate participation 

in international and national training and 

competition in preparation for the 

Olympic Games 

• Establish policies and procedures that 

enhance the effectiveness of the high 

performance programs 

• Facilitate the preparation and organisation 

of junior tours 

Many of these activities are ongoing and will 

continue to form an important part of the high 

performance plan which aims to build depth 

in the National Team Program, strengthen 

the high performance delivery network, and 

result in sustainable podium performances at 

major international competitions culminating 

at the Olympic Games. 

The high performance plan outlines seven 

priority areas - coaching and officiating, 

athletes, daily training environment/athletes 

services, performance science and innovation, 

program management, competition and 

partnerships. Development in these areas will 

play an integral role in ensuring Australia’s 

future water polo success. 

In partnership with the ASC, AIS and relevant 

State Institute and Academies of Sport 

(SIS/SAS), the high performance program 

encompassing; men, women, senior, junior 

and youth national squad athletes, is 

delivered through a decentralised model. 

This approach enables athletes to remain 

in their home state or territory for their daily 

training environment. 

The SIS/SAS, through identified national 

training centres (NTC), provide the daily 

training environment for current and 

targeted national squad athletes. In 

addition, selected players gain valuable 

international experience by playing for 

overseas clubs in professional leagues and 

the USA NCAA competition. 

Water Polo Australia Limited (WPAL) 

continued to provide leadership and 

direction to the NTC programs responsible 

for delivering daily training environments, as 

well as providing athletes with training and 

competition opportunities via the national 

team programs which prepare athletes for 

major international competitions. 

The SIS/SAS/SSO network plays a key role in 

supporting the national athlete pathway and 

throughout the year ahead WPAL will look 

to renew partnerships with the SIS/SAS to 

continue developing athletes in line with our 

high performance plan and vision. 

The AIS continued to support our women’s 

national team program via a camps based 

approach which intensified leading up to 

the London Games. The AIS support for our 

women’s team is invaluable and the additional 

time, resources and financial support provided 

over the past 12 months in the pursuit of 

Olympic success is greatly appreciated. 

Our high performance programs also enjoy 

comprehensive international opportunities 

and we are indebted to the many national 

federations that host our teams on what is 

seemingly an annual basis. The majority of 

the international calendar is established at the 

LEN conference where Water Polo Australia 

was represented by Tom Hoad. On behalf 

of WPAL I would like to extend our sincere 

appreciation for his efforts in negotiating our 

entry into tournaments, competitions and 

training camps, we are very grateful for the 

work he continues to provide in this area. 

Performance highlights 

• The senior women’s team, the Aussie 

Stingers, winning the Canada Cup in 

December, Pan Pac’s in January, the 

London Test Event in early May, and 

finishing 2nd at the World League Finals in 

late May. 

• The senior men’s team, the Aussie Sharks, 

finishing 2nd at the Pan Pac’s in January. 

• The junior women’s team finishing 3rd at 

the Junior World Championships. 

• The junior men’s team finishing 4th at the 

Junior World Championships. 


It is appropriate to acknowledge the support 

of all funding and support agencies that 

contribute to the high performance program, 

namely the ASC who provide the majority of 

our high performance program funding. The 

ASC have been outstanding in their support 

of WPAL throughout the transition over the 

past 12 months and their guidance, advice 

and support is invaluable. 

To the AIS, who have supported the women’s 

national team program for many years, your 

dedication to the program and, in particular, 

your support leading into London Games 

was wonderful. To the SIS/SAS, in particular 

the NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS) and the 

Australian Olympic Committee who have 

financially and otherwise contributed to 

the preparation our Olympic teams, we are 

grateful for your ongoing support. To the 

national senior, junior and youth coaches, 

assistant coaches, managers, support staff 

and referees, AIS coaches, managers, 

support staff and the NTC coaches - thank 

you for your dedication and support given to 

our athletes. 

I look forward to working with the water polo 

community and our many supporters as we 

embark on the next phase of our journey in 

the pursuit for world-class success. 

Tom Hill 

High Performance Manager 

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Australian Government 

DIRECT ATHLETE SUPPORT 

Water Polo Australia Limited acknowledges 

and thanks the Australian Government 

through the Australian Sports Commission for 

the funding under the Australian Government 

Direct Athlete Support program for the year 

ended 30 June 2012 where the amount of 

$260,000 was made available to our female 

athletes and $130,000 to our male athletes. 

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Operations 


Insurance 

Insurance cover 

available for its 

members, clubs and 

associations includes: 

• Sports Injury 

• Public Liability 

• Professional Indemnity 

• Workers Compensation 

• Directors and Officers Liability 

• Travel Insurance 

• Club Property 

• Club Travel 

Water Polo Australia Limited (WPAL) 

continues to review its risk management 

policies, unfortunately with significant claims 

lodged in past years which have exceeded 

our premium paid, our current premiums 

continue to be under some pressure. 

Championship Date Host 

2012 20 & Under 

17 - 22 January, 

2012 

2012 18 & Under 10 - 15 April, 2012 ACT 

National Championships 

National Championships were conducted 

over four age groups through the 

cooperation of State Associations who 

continue to show a willingness to host these 

championships on behalf of WPAL. It is 

acknowledged that pool space is becoming 

a critical factor in the conduct of these events 

as pool operators endeavour to recover lost 

revenue from their regular users. As a result 

it was agreed by the WPAL Board to split the 

club based championships across genders, 

and a new roster was devised for the next 

seven years with each championship rotating 

through each State Association. The difficulty 

in hosting such club based championships 

is evident with 52 teams registered to play 

in the 2012 16 & Under Championships in 

Brisbane in October. 

In 2012 the 18 & Under Championships 

reverted to being club based and we were 

delighted to have 29 teams respond 

and participate. 

The following hosts and teams are to be 

congratulated on their performances in the 

various championships. 

These championships are made possible 

though the cooperation of many staff and 

volunteers. Thank you to those people who 

make their time so freely available. 

South 

Australia 

2011 16 & Under 4 - 9 October, 2011 Victoria 

Boys Gold 

Medal 

NSW Blues 

UWA 

Torpedoes 

Melville 

Sharks 

Girls Gold 

Medal 

NSW Blues 

Drummoyne 

Devils 

Sunshine 

Coast 

Awards and Hall of Fame 

Presentations 

The annual Hall of Fame and Awards Dinner 

at Sydney Olympic Park was attended by 

more than 100 people. 

Three inductees joined the existing 21 

members in the WPAL Hall of Fame — 

• Allan Charleston (WA) 

• Peter Bennett (VIC) 

• Leon Wiegard (VIC) 

Presentations were made for the following 

WPAL 2011 awards. 

Male Athlete of the Year 


Female Athlete of the Year 

Rowie Webster 

Male Junior Athlete of the Year 

Aaron Younger 

Female Junior Athlete of the Year 

Hannah Buckling 

Coach of the Year 


Player with a Disability 

Jamie-Lee Lewis 

Volunteer of the Year 

Joel Sangster 

Referee of the Year 

Danny Flahive 

Club of the Year 

Melville 


I would like to thank Chris Harrison for his 

support, the Referees Commission - Michael 

McNeill, Phil Scales, Michael DeFina and 

Michael Hart, the Executive Officers of the 

State Associations and the many volunteers 

in the sport. 

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2011 14 & Under 6 - 10 April, 2011 

Western 

Australia 

Hunter 

Hurricanes 

Ovens & 

Murray 

Peter Hobday 

Operations Manager


National Development 


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2011-12 has been a 

research year into 

what development 

currently occurs 

across the country 

including how each 

state implements 

their development 

programs and what 

resources they have 

and might need in the 

future. 

Grass route levels of our sport will provide 

the base for our high performance programs 

in years to come and is something not to be 

neglected. The aim of the past 12 months 

has been to identify target areas for each 

state and draw on their resources as a whole 

allowing a national plan to be put together 

to ensure better use of recourses, time 

and money. The next 12 months will see 

these various aspects rolled out including 

a new national development plan including 

accreditation framework. 

Some of the highlights for the year include: 

Flippa BallTM 

The development of Flippa BallTM has been 

ongoing across the country and will continue 

as the entry level program within Australia. A 

Special mention must go to Tasmanian Water 

Polo for inroads to an ongoing Flippa Ball 

competition in their program, the program 

has seen over 100 participants in and weekin-week 

out competition. The next 12 months 

will see new recourses and programs be 

available for each state to roll out including 

lesson plans, video demonstrations, posters 

and introduction packs for regional and 

remote school to facilitate the knowledge of 

Flippa BallTM. 

Facilities 

Across the country the hardest issue for 

water polo is access to facilities. In the past 

twelve months there has been significant 

increase of water polo specific facilities 

across Queensland, New South Wales 

and South Australia. These include the 

Stuartholme School in Brisbane, University 

of Southern Cross in Lismore and South 

Australian Aquatic Centre in Adelaide. 

With the continued growth of the sport 

it is important for us to continue to work 

with local councils as well as state and 

national governments to ensure any new or 

renovations on aquatic complexes cater for 

our growing sport. 

National Coach and Referee 

Accreditation 

The introduction of the new framework in 

2009 is currently under review, and will see 

the introduction of new levels and course 

material in February 2013. Overall the 

past twelve months has seen the highest 

retention rate of both coach and referees 

with only five percent discontinuing their 

accreditation compared with fourteen the 

previous year. The number of coach and 

referees commencing their accreditation and 

achieving competencies in 2011/12 has also 

been record breaking, with 16 percent of the 

total number of accredited personal started 

the process in the past 12 months. 

State 

Table 2 and figure 1 (below) provides an 

overview into the numbers of accredited 

personal at each level across Australia. 

In 2009 a re-vamp of the accreditation 

framework saw many coaches and referees 

complete the formal qualification, however 

in the years preceding the retention of 

personal has been poor. 2012 however has 

shown a change in pattern and something 

which the sport will be working towards to 

care for the participants by ensuring there 

are correctly accredited coaches and officials 

on pool deck. Along with the retention and 

ongoing new accreditations, 2013 will see 

the a new framework which will encourage 

level 1 accredited personal to progress their 

formal water polo knowledge to level 2 and 

3, currently only 9 percent have progressed 

to level two or three. 

Jodie Watson 

ACT NSW QLD SA TAS VIC WA Total 

Coach 2 219 119 5 0 28 21 394 

Official 19 140 115 24 5 11 66 380 

Total 21 359 234 29 5 39 87 774 

Table 1 - breakdown of current accredited 

coaches and referees across the country 

for the past 12 months. 

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 

Level 1 909 1159 921 587 646 

Level 2 31 93 88 71 60 

Level 3 1 4 4 4 3 

Total 941 1256 1013 662 709 

Table 2 – 2011/12 Current accreditation 

breakdown by levels 

1400 

1200 

1000 

800 

Level 1 

600 

Level 2 

Level 3 

400 

200 

Photo Credit: Anthony Pearse, Pearse Photography 

0 

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 

Figure 1 – 2011/12 Current accreditation breakdown by levels


National Media 


During the past year 

Sports Communication 

Australia (SCA) ended 

its initial 12-month 

term as Water Polo 

Australia Limited’s 

(WPAL) Media and 

PR consultant and 

began a new two-year 

contract. 

The main roles of SCA, on behalf of WPAL, 

during this period, are to report on WPAL 

organised and contested events, promote 

the sport via traditional and social media 

channels, and plan a future communications 

direction for WPAL. 

Over the last 12 months SCA has been able 

to provide all of these key roles as well 

as providing WPAL and its stakeholders 

on media strategy and activating ‘crisis 

management plans’ on several occasions 

including the Olympic women’s team’s 

‘whooping cough outbreak’ and the Olympic 

men’s team’s ‘selection appeal’. 

SCA also provided the Media Management 

of the inaugural Pan Pac Water Polo 

Championships in Melbourne that resulted 

in national print, radio, online and television 

coverage. 

SCA has and will continue to actively engage 

local and regional ‘grass roots’ media outlets 

as our core target areas to ensure long-term 

relationships build into sustained media 

coverage of our sport. 

SCA Managing Director Dave Lyall also 

attended the 2012 London Olympic Games 

as a member of the Australian Olympic 

Committee’s Media Team where he 

provided some media liaison assistance 

for both Australian teams and reported on 

Australian matches. 

Other areas that SCA has focussed on in the 

last 12 months include: 

• Implementation of the Federal 

Government’s Women in Sport Media Grant 

to promote women in water polo through 

the media 

• Improvement of our social media plan and 

implementation including engagement of 

external digital media experts for training 

and content 

• Continued growth of WPAL’s biographical 

database of elite players by profiling 

members of the Youth national squads 

• Producing 40 tailor made media releases 

profiling individuals in the senior national 

team squads in the ‘Road to London’ 

• Continued increase of content and 

updating of the WPA website and social 

media platforms 

• Continued regular blogs by CEO Chris 

Harrison, National Women’s Head Coach 

Greg McFadden and National Men’s Head 

Coach John Fox 

• Production of daily newsletter ‘On the Ball’ 

during the 2012 London Olympic Games 

and daily Olympic social media plan 

• Olympic Games tailored media and social 

media training of the 2012 Olympic Teams 

• Continued media education and 

relationship building about the sport of 

water polo, including activating a robust 

pre-Olympic media plan 

• Provided FINA with regular copy for their 

Aquatic World Magazine 

The outcomes of these areas of concentration 

by SCA have resulted in greater media 

coverage for the sport of water polo and its 

players with mainstream news coverage in 

print, radio, online and television. 

SCA has and will continue to report on all 

WPAL events and competitions as well as the 

national teams 

SCA will also act as the Media Managers of 

the 2012 FINA World Youth Championships in 

Perth and has been liaising with the Western 

Australia Government to meet expectations 

in terms of communications. 

SCA would like to acknowledge the support 

of the CEO, Board and staff of WPAL, the 

national coaching and management staff and 

the players on the senior national teams. 

David Lyall 

Media Manager 

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National League 


14 

The very successful 

2012 season 

concluded with 

Fremantle Mariners 

as the men’s premiers, 

with Cronulla 

Sharks taking out 

the women’s event. 

Fremantle defeated 

their long time rivals, 

Victorian Tigers, while 

Cronulla defeated 

triple crown winners, 

Brisbane Barracudas. 

The season was managed by the National 

Water Polo League (NWPL) Commission 

chaired by Warren Hawtin and supported by 

Danielle Woodhouse and Noel Harrod as 

the Elected Commissioners while the Water 

Polo Australia Limited (WPAL) nominated 

Commissioners were Suzie Fraser and 

Mark Grooby. 

Our thanks go to Doc Wulf who continues to 

provide comprehensive statistics from every 

aspect of the NWPL season. 

Season Highlights 

• Cronulla Sharks won their second women’s 

title after a six year break. 

• The Fremantle Mariners defeated the 

Victorian Tigers for the second year in 

succession making it six trophies for the 

Fremantle Mariners. 

• Alastair Visch clocked up a record 400 

games for the Sydney University Lions 

becoming the first player in NWPL history to 

reach that milestone. 

• Sharan Wheelock (Fremantle Marlins) 

finished the season on 233 games and her 

team mate, Gemma Beadsworth closed in 

on the magical 500 goal mark with a career 

total of 489 goals. 

Award 

Champion 

Men’s Club 

Champion 

Women’s club 

Southern Cross 

Trophy Men 

Southern Cross 

Trophy Women 

Recipients 

Fremantle Mariners 

Cronulla Sharks 

UNSW Wests 

Magpies 

Brisbane 

Barracudas 

Charles Turner 

Medal - MVP Men 

Debbie Watson 

Medal - MVP Women 

Tom Hoad Medal 

- MVP Men, finals 

series 

MVP women 

- finals series 

John Whitehouse 

Medal 

- final series 

referees 

All Star team 

- Men 

All Star team 

- Women 

Highest goal scorer 

- Men 

Highest goal scorer 

- Women 

NWPL Management 

Johnno Cotterill 

(UNSW Wests) 

Nicola Zagame 

(Cronulla Sharks) 

Tim Cleland 

(Fremantle 

Mariners) 

Alicia McCormack 

(Cronulla Sharks) 

Daniel Bartels, 

Gabor Boros, 

Andrew Carney, 

Danny Flahive, 

Nick Hodgers, 

Nicola Johnson, 

Adam Richardson, 

Mark Ridgwell, 

Megan Varlow, 

Rowan Woodburn 


(UNSW Wests), 

Richie Campbell 

(UNSW Wests), 

Tim Cleland 

(Fremantle Mariners), 


(UNSW Wests), 

Rhys Howden 

(Brisbane 

Barracudas), 

Gavin Woods, 

(Balmain Tigers), 

Dan Young 

(Brisbane Barracudas) 


(Victorian Tigers), 

Gemma 

Beadsworth 

(Fremantle Marlins), 

Kate Gynther, 

(Brisbane 

Barracudas), 

Bronwen Knox 

(Victorian Tigers), 

Glencora Ralph 

(Fremantle Marlins), 

Melissa Rippon, 

(Brisbane Barracudas), 

Rowena Webster 

(Victorian Tigers) 


(UNSW Wests) 69 

Nicola Zagame 

(Cronulla Sharks) 82 

Referees 

Michael McNeill and Michael DeFina are 

deserving of our thanks for their contribution in 

looking after the appointment and nurturing of 

the referees. I would also like to congratulate 

and thank the referees who had duties during 

2012, many make sacrifices to travel interstate 

to assist with refereeing whilst at the same time 

helping to develop young referees. 

Sponsors and Supporters 

The NWPL benefits from the sponsorship 

of Moves Travel who this year took on a 

different role in coordinating flights etc, with 

over 900 sectors being flown by players 

and coaching staff. Corporate Vehicle 

Management through Mike and Chris 

Webster continue to support the league with 

rental vehicles for teams and referees, from 

which we receive a substantial sponsorship. 

WPAL continued its support through the High 

Performance program and we acknowledge 

the role played by the Australian Sports 

Commission (ASC) in its support of the sport 

as a whole and in particular, the NWPL. 

NWPL Judiciary 

Andrew Ryan and his judiciary committee 

provide valuable backup to me in my role as 

General Manager, their professional contribution 

is acknowledged and much appreciated. 


The following are acknowledged for their 

contribution. 

• All NWPL players, coaches, team 

management and club officials. 

• Andrew Ryan and his Judiciary committee. 

• Doc Wulf for his amazing statistical analysis 

of the NWPL 

• Warren Hawtin, Chairman NWPL 

Commission, Danielle Woodhouse, Noel 

Harrod, Suzie Fraser and Mark Grooby as 

NWPL Commissioners. 

• Michael DeFina, referee appointments 

officer and NWPL referees 

• Tom Hill, High Performance Manager, 

John Fox, National Men’s Coach and Greg 

McFadden, National Women’s Coach. 

National Competitions 

Committee 

Upon the recommendations accepted by Water 

Polo Australia from the NWPL review conducted 

by the Australian Sports Commission, the NWPL 

Commission is to be disbanded and replaced 

by the National Competitions Committee, 

which will have a broader function to provide 

a coordinated competition pathway where 

the NWPL will play an important role in the 

development of elite players for the future. 

Peter Hobday 

General Manager NWPL


Senior Men’s 


Year 2011-12 was all 

about preparing for 

the Olympic Games in 

London held from the 

27 July to 12 August. 

The Olympic Shadow 

Squad was selected in 

October and revised 

at key milestones 

throughout the 

year following 

training camps 

and tournaments 

culminating in the 

final selection in 

late June. 

Training Camps 

A number of training camps were held 

throughout the 12 month period leading up 

to London. The aim of the camps was to 

provide cohesive team training for the squad 

heading into international competitions and 

also as a means to assess and select players 

for the final Olympic team. 

The following training camps took place: 

• November 2011 – Sydney 

• December 2011 – Sydney with Japan 

• January 2012 – Sydney with USA 

• February 2012 – Sydney 

• March 2012 – Perth 

• April 2012 – Sydney 

• May 2012 – Gold Coast 

• July 2012 – Sydney 

Two training camps were also held abroad to 

coincide with international competitions. The 

first was held in Bangkok, Thailand for 4 days 

ahead of the World League Finals in Almaty, 

Kazakhstan. The second was held in Greece 

ahead of the eight nation tournament in Italy. 

Both camps gave the squad the opportunity 

to bond and increase game time together, 

working on the game plan and tactics. 

Additionally a number of small 2 day camps 

took place during the National League 

season whereby certain selected squad 

players would stay longer than their NL team 

and train with SIS/SAS squads as well as 

focussing on particular positions with expert 

coaches specialising in centre forward play. 

Throughout the year some key competitions 

were used as milestone events to reflect on 

the progress of the team and assess players 

vying for Olympic selection. 

FINA World Championships, 

Shanghai, China, 

The Australian team finished 9th after a 

strong finish to the competition against 

Canada defeating them 8-6. Australia had 

some serious competitors but had good 

matches against Romania, winning 9-8, China 

winning 12-7, Serbia being defeated 12-9 and 

Spain going down 8-9. 

FISU World University Games, 

Shenzhen, China 

Unfortunately the team did not walk away with 

the performance anticipated, finishing in 12th 

position. However, with a number of strong 

nations present, the young team performed well. 

The stand out match was against Macedonia 

who we went down to by only one goal. 

NTC Institute Challenge, 

Newcastle 

An impressive seven teams competed in the 

annual NTC Challenge held in Newcastle. 

Each of the states NSW, QLD, WA and VIC 

had solid representation from their SIS/ 

SAS programs while a Barbarian team was 

also present and included a mix of players 

from SA, NSW and VIC. We also had two 

invitational teams join us from New Zealand 

and Japan. 

In a thrilling end to the 2011 Men’s NTC Challenge, 

host’s NSW came from 5-2 down at the main 

break to defeat QLD 10-8 in an extra time. 

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16 

Pan Pacific Championships, 

Melbourne 

After a hard fought finals match, Australia 

went down to USA in an unfortunate loss 

in a very successful competition held in 

Melbourne. In a down to the line match USA 

defeated Australia 10- 11. 

Australia had two teams compete – Australia 

A and the Barbarians. Both showed 

exceptional form and were a credit to the 

talent we have in Australia. 

Australia 



Aaron Younger 

Sam McGregor 

Rhys Howden 

Thomas Whalan 

Anthony Martin 

James Clark 

Gavin Woods 

Billy Miller 

Samuele Avallone 

Tim Cleland 

Jamie Beadsworth 

All Stars Game 

The All Stars tradition continued in 2012 with 

the second Andrew Kerr Cup being played 

in front of a huge crowd at the u18 National 

Club Championships with the victory going to 

the Northern team. 

The two teams were: 

Barbarians 

John Hahn 

Rob Maitland 


James Howden 

Mitch Baird 

Aidan Roach 

Joel Swift 

Daniel Lawrence 

Blake Edwards 

Dan Young 

Jarrod Gilchrist 

Luke Quinlivan 

Matt Martin 

Scott Carpenter 

Thomas Bruder 

in Shanghai, China and Chiba, Japan. Once 

again it is testament to the depth of our 

program that we were able to go through the 

tournament undefeated. 

World League Super Finals, 

Almaty, Kazakhstan 

Australia finished in 7th place at the World 

League Super Finals after a defiant win 

against Brazil in the final match defeating 

them 13-2. In the knock-out phase Australia 

suffered two narrow defeats to the USA and 

Kazakhstan. Had things been different, the 

team probably would have been in medal 

contention but in the final match the team 

showed they were strong mentality, playing 

with maximum concentration and at full 

speed resulting in the win over Brazil. 

Eight Nations “Cosenza Trophy”, 

Cosenza, Italy 

In a five day tournament against a strong 

group of Olympic class competitors, Australia 

finished fifth. Australia defeated Kazakhstan 

and Canada, drew with Greece and went 

down to Italy and Montenegro. 

Olympic Games, London 

Following the training camps and 

tournaments attended throughout the year 

the final selection for the 2012 London 

Olympic Games was decided at the end 

of June. 

Goal Keepers 


James Clark 

Field Players 



Tim Cleland 


Rhys Howden 

Sam McGregor 

These players provided weekly updates and 

reports of matches played which made for 

great reading on the AWPI website. 


The list is long and there are many people 

who work tirelessly behind the scenes to 

ensure success of the men’s program. Below 

are the key people who have worked closely 

with the program in the preparation for the 

Olympic Games. 

Coaches 

Head Coach John Fox who led the program 

and squad towards the Olympic Games. 

The work done by John in this past year 

has been very detailed to ensure a good 

preparation for the Aussie Sharks in London. 

Assistant Coaches Paul Oberman and Frank 

Otto who have worked alongside John in 

preparing the athletes for London. 

State Institute and Academy Coaches 

Paul Oberman, Chris Wybrow, Simon Daley, 

Dalibor Maslan and Eddie Denis, who have 

supported the national program and athletes 

in the daily training environments. 

Support Staff 

Team Managers Jon Harmer and Garry 

Rydberg, Sports Medicine Coordinator and 

Physio Ian Gard, Doctor Grace Bryant, Sport 

Science Coordinator and Video Analysis 

Andrew Yanitsas and Sport Psychologies 

Jonah Oliver. All of whom have provide their 

expertise to the program over the past 

12 months. 

Southern 


Thomas Bruder 

Scott Carpenter 

Tim Cleland 

Northern 

Samuele Avallone 

Mitch Baird 


James Clark 

Billy Miller 

Aidan Roach 

Thomas Whalan 

Gavin Woods 

Aaron Younger 

Blake Edwards 


Daniel Lawrence 

Matt Martin 

Sam McGregor 

Luke Quinlivan 

Joel Swift 

Thomas Whalan 

Carl Zvekan 



James Howden 

Rhys Howden 

Anthony Martin 

Tyler Martin 

Billy Miller 

Gavin Woods 

Dan Young 

Overseas Development 

The opportunity for players to play 

professionally overseas was again a highlight 

of the men’s program. 15 players from various 

levels of the men’s program gained contracts 

with various clubs in Europe and colleges 

in USA. 

These included: 

Aaron Younger - Szeged Hungary 

Anthony Martin - Sabadell Spain 

World League 

Preliminary Rounds 

The Australian Sharks men’s water polo team 

finished with a perfect six wins from as many 

games in the two preliminary rounds held 

Rob Maitland - Mediterrani Spain; 

Johnno Cotterill - Panionios Greece 

Aidan Roach - Vojvodina Serbia 

Joel Dennerley, Jeremy Davies and Mace 

Rapsey - USC USA; NCAA champions 



Born ‘91 Junior Men’s 


European and World 

Championships Tour 

The national junior 

boys contested a 

European tournament 

in Italy and the FINA 

Junior Men’s World 

Championships in 

Volos, Greece in 

August 2011, finishing 

a creditable fourth 

place, although I 

believe the touring 

party were very 

disappointed with the 

result, as we should 

have won the semifinal 

against Spain. 

caught them by surprise with our strong 

counter-attack game, setting up some big 

attacking score lines. 

Montenegro Training 

The other activity undertaken on the tour 

was a training camp conducted in Istanbul, 

Turkey. We had 7 days training and preparing 

for the World Championships. We played 

a practice game against the USA u20 and 

Montenegro u20 National Teams. 

This leg of the tour was hard for the boys as 

we combined hard physical training while 

working on game tactics that we would use 

in the World Championships. We were lucky 

to see USA as we eventually played them 

in the cross over. These trainings gave us 

valuable insights into the way they played 

and tactics we could use to beat them at the 

World Championships. 

FINA Junior World 

Championships Volos, Greece 

The result proved that we were one of the 

best teams in the world and the way the 

team played during the week gained us 

tremendous respect on the world stage. 

Many of the players played to their ability 

and the performances of the so-called 

“lesser” renowned “bench players” was 

extremely promising and gratifying. 


On a final note, I would like to thank Assistant 

Coach, David Swift, Team Manager, Garry 

Ryberg and Referee, Noel Harrod for their 

contributions to the National Junior Team 

program. David and Garry volunteered a 

considerable amount of their time organising 

the camps and international tour. Noel 

and David were also heavily involved in all 

training sessions with opponents and the 

tournaments. Their support throughout the 

tour was invaluable. 

Adam Richardson 

Head Coach B91 Men 

The squad of 15 players included 10 of last 

year’s European touring squad, with 3 new 

players, Aaron Younger, who only toured with 

the senior team the previous year, George 

Ford and Matthew Giles. 

Croatia Training 

We started the tour with a training 

camp against Croatia’s National u20 

Team that were preparing for the World 

Championships. This was a true baptism of 

fire for some boys who struggled at times. 

Morning trainings consisted of tactical and 

technical preparation, extra-man attack 

and defence, zone defence, and counterattacking 

skills, followed by strength and 

conditioning training in the pool or weights 

room and swimming sessions. Evening 

trainings consisted of the games versus the 

Croatian National u20 Team, gaining solid 

match practice. 

Italy Training and Competition 

This training camp consisted of morning 

sessions on our own doing swimming fitness 

and skills trainings. The afternoons saw joint 

training sessions with the Canadian and 

Italian u20 National Teams. 

The first tournament was a three-nation 

event in Italy. We played both the Italian and 

Canadian team. During these games we had 

the chance to apply some tactics, which we 

would later use at the World Championships. 

There were many positives to arise from 

the tournament, notably the team playing 

together in official games for the first time. 

Our tactics in the first quarter against Italy 

Team 

James Clark 

Jeremy Davie 

Paul Sindone 

BJ Howden 

Adam Polivca 

Sam Quinn 

Aaron Younger 

Edward Slade 

James Fannon 

George Ford 

Nick Redbond 

Blake Edwards (C) 

Matthew Giles 

Reserves 

Clayton Whittaker 

Connor Martin 

Our best match for the tournament was our 

quarter final against Italy. We played to our 

game plan and pulled them apart eventually 

winning by 2 goals. Italy would have been 

favoured to win the tournament after beating 

Croatia earlier in tournament. 

Our whole campaign and planning during 

the last two years came down to a crunch 

game against Spain in the semi-final when 

we gave up a 2 goal lead during the second 

quarter, eventually losing the game by 1 goal 

due to some individual mistakes. This result 

meant that we had to contest the play off for 

the bronze and we would not progress to the 

gold medal game. The sad statistic to come 

out of the championships was that we walked 

away without a medal losing to Greece in the 

bronze medal game by 3 goals. 


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Born ‘93 Junior Men’s 


European Tour 

18 

The national junior 

boys contested 

three European 

tournaments in 

Acireale, Sicily, 

Hamburg, Germany 

and Syros, Greece. The 

squad of 14 players 

included 8 players 

who had toured 2 

years previously 

with the Australian 

B93 Team, with 6 new 

players – William 

Dayman, SA, Fraser 

Smith, WA, Lachlan 

Edwards, VIC, Anthony 

Hryanthos, NSW and 

Connor Arnold and 

Callum Smith, QLD 

joining the squad. 

The 2012 touring squad had to contend with 

a number of players who were originally 

selected in the squad being unavailable 

due to scholastic priorities, injury and one 

player who accepted a “GAP” year invitation. 

On the eve of the tour a further player, 

Luca Altieri, had to pull out of the tour due 

to family reasons. Due to the late nature of 

this occurring it was impossible to replace 

Luca and as such we toured with 14 players 

instead of the original 15 selected. 

Overall, there were 7 players who were 

unavailable to tour this year, which obviously 

threatened to expose any weakness in 

depth that this squad may have. Although 

some players were thrown into the deep 

end, they continually worked hard to improve 

their play and ultimately returned to Australia 

significantly better water polo players. 

Sicily Training 

We started the tour with common training 

against the United States of America’s B93 

team. We played 3 training games against 

the USA winning two and losing one. Whilst 

these results themselves were pleasing it 

was obvious at times that the style of play the 

USA was playing suited our less experienced 

players as it was more accustomed to what 

they are used to in Australia. The baptism 

of fire for these less experienced players 

began when we played our final training 

game against Hungary going down by four 

goals. In this game, a much heavier style of 

defence, was encountered by our young 

team and whilst we definitely improved 

throughout the game at handling this it was 

obvious that much work would be required 

to get us to the point where we were 

consistently competitive across four quarters 

with this group. 

Throughout this training phase the group 

worked hard on specific aspects of our 

defence both in 6 on 6 situations and man 

down situations. Structurally we made 

significant progress in our 6 on 6 defence. 

The group also worked hard on our attack, 

specifically, our extra-man focus. 

Sicily Tournament 

For six of our players this tournament would 

be their first official games for Australia in 

this age group, and this lack of experience 

was obvious. Whilst we had encountered it 

against the Hungarians, the heavy pressing 

style of play incorporated by most European 

nations proved to be the biggest stumbling 

block for most of the inexperienced players. 

This contributed greatly to large scores 

against us in particular the games against 

Serbia and Italy. However, we were often 


competitive in the first half and generally 

within a couple of goals but the physical 

nature wore the young players down 

significantly and led to a number of counterattack 

goals against us. Often this was due 

to a number of our players struggling with 

the physicality in transition, losing their 

body position and being countered off 

individually. We did finish with a good win in 

a very physical last game with Montenegro 

demonstrating our improvement as we had 

previously lost to them in the tournament. 

The positives of this tournament though 

were just as significant. Firstly, it allowed 

us to gauge where we were at as a group, 

which was vital, as this group had not played 

internationally for 2 years. Secondly, it 

allowed us to see the areas we were weak 

in and finally it allowed our younger players 

to experience water polo at its highest level 

for this age group. Consistency and adhering 

to our game plan for a full four quarters were 

the biggest areas that needed attention. 

Daniel Egan played particularly well 

throughout this tournament with a number of 

the European coaches very interested in his 

ability and performances that is testament to 

Daniel’s hard work.


group as they became accustomed to the 

style of play that we wish to incorporate 

in our game over the next twelve months. 

This tournament was an excellent finish to 

our tour as it was obvious that the players 

were now much more comfortable with 

the defensive structure we employed and 

were learning more about ways in which to 

create goals. This was an area of concern 

for our squad as the majority of the players 

who were unavailable were the consistent 

contributors on the score card on the 

previous tour. Fraser Smith played well at this 

tournament for a young centre-forward as 

did Anthony Hryanthos, once again winning 

goalkeeper of the tournament. All players 

should be commended for displaying such a 

high work ethic and commitment to the team 

throughout this tournament. 

Germany Training 

After Acireale, Sicily we travelled to the 

German city of Hamburg to spend four days 

training with the Germans and then play in 

a tournament against Slovakia, Turkey and 

Germany. After our experiences in Acireale 

we went to Germany with the expectation 

that we wanted to be competitive in every 

match. The training with the Germans was 

beneficial in the sense that it allowed us to 

experience a very different style of play to 

that of the style experienced in Sicily. The 

players worked hard to once again adapt to 

a different type of refereeing and playing. 

Throughout the training matches against 

the Germans we focused on our extra-man 

defence, which is something that let us down 

in Acireale due to our lack of physicality, 

and our 6 v 6 attack. We gained positive 

outcomes in both of these areas and began 

to look forward to the tournament at the end 

of the week. In the training matches Lachlan 

Edwards started to stand up as a young 

player and play well earning numerous 

exclusions and George Ford was excellent 

at centre-back, allowing us to press for large 

periods of our defences. 

Germany Tournament 

The tournament in Germany proved to be 

another learning curve for the team. We 

achieved our goal of being competitive in 

each match however, we really let ourselves 

down in executing our opportunities and 

as such we lost two games, to Slovakia 

and Germany, in which we really were the 

better team for the large majority of the 

match. In these matches we created plenty 


of opportunities to score goals however, 

our inability to shoot both consistently and 

effectively from the perimeter cost us dearly. 

In both games we hit the bar on numerous 

occasions and all players left the tournament 

knowing that our shooting in all situations is 

something that we must focus on over the 

coming year in order to ensure we secure 

the victories we deserve at international 

level. Throughout the tournament both our 

Goalkeepers played particularly well with 

Anthony Hryanthos earning Goalkeeper of 

the tournament. The players had a day off 

after the tournament and Garry organized 

a tour of Hamburg, with our guide Gunter, 

which was thoroughly enjoyed by all. A 

highlight was an elevator for cars to transport 

them down into a tunnel to go under the river 

that flows through the city. 

Greece Tournament 

We arrived in Greece two days before our 

first game of the tournament and spent 

the time refining our defensive structures 

and working on our shooting options that 

hindered us in our last tournament. We also 

continued to focus on the physicality that the 

players now expected to face against the 

teams we would meet in this tournament. 

This was important as in Germany we did 

not encounter the same type of physicality 

and as such was important that the players 

re-adjusted. Our goal for this tournament was 

to be competitive in all games against these 

nations, who are stronger than those we 

faced in Germany. We achieved this goal and 

then some, beating Serbia in the process. 

The results we achieved in this tournament 

highlighted the improvements made by this 

Whilst results are what everyone will pass 

comment on, it is crucial to the success 

of this group to look at the improvements 

they have made in such a small amount 

of time. The victory against Serbia in the 

final tournament in Greece is testament 

to this and to then back up the same day 

and almost defeat Hungary, again displays 

the potential this group has. Consistency 

and execution are two key ingredients for 

this group moving forward and this will be 

gained over the next 9 months to World 

Championships through further exposure 

to a high level of competition on a regular 

basis, National League, NTC and training 

camps which are set out for immediately post 

National u20’s Championships. 

The squad, which currently sits at 22 athletes 

strong, has great potential and with a number 

competing at the B94 World Championships 

in Perth there is potential to have a great mix 

of talent and experience in this group for the 

2013 B93 World Championships. 


On a final note, I would like to thank Team 

Manager, Garry Ryberg and Referee, Gabor 

Boros for their contributions to the national 

junior team program. A considerable 

amount of time was volunteered by Garry 

in organising camps and the international 

tour, whilst Gabor was heavily involved in all 

training sessions with opponents and the 

tournaments. Their support throughout the 

tour was invaluable. 

I would also like to thank High Performance 

Manager, Tom Hill for all of his time and 

effort with this group leading up to the 

tour and moving forward towards World 

Championships in 2013. 

Duncan Greenbank 

Head Coach B93 Men 

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Born ‘94 Youth Men’s 


20 

European Tour 

In July 2011, the B94 

Team toured Europe. 

The dates of the tour 

were from July 15 to 

August 9 2011. 

Serbia 

Our first stop was in Serbia, where the team 

had a training camp against their squad of 

30 players. 

This included five hours in the water a day, 

with the Serbians playing a very physical 

game, constantly grabbing our players which 

took many of our boys by surprise. As our 

boys responded in a physical manner the 

grabbing from the Serbians was eased. 

However, some of our players went in their 

shells & did not come out again, tending to 

shy away from confrontations. 

Each morning session consisted of 1 hour 

training by ourselves and an hour and a half 

of extra man practice in 2 groups against the 

Serbian squad. At night we played a 2 hour 

training game. 

Injuries became a problem with some players 

due to lack of preparation prior to tour, where 

they did not handle the increase in workloads. 

Hungary 

Our next stop was Hungary where we 

travelled by bus from Serbia for a 6 day 

training camp with Hungary. The Hungarians 

also had a squad of 30 players so the 

request to play 2 games a day, every day, 

which on a long tour, we found it difficult to 

meet their expectations. 

Slovakia 

Another bus trip saw us at our next destination, 

Novaky, Slovakia, for a 4 Nation Tournament. 

We beat Slovakia in the first game 10–7, where 

we started slowly but finished strong with 5-1 

in the last half. We had a disappointing loss to 

Serbia in the next game losing 9–3, with poor 

reaction time allowing their counter attack 

to be a dominant part of their game. The last 

game against Hungary was also disappointing 

where we lost 14-8. We only scored an 

abysmal 2 from 13 extra man, with Hungary 

scoring 3 from 3. The extra man conversion 

was the difference between the 2 teams. 

Croatia 

Our next stop was in Rijeka, Croatia, where 

we had our last training camp, which once 

again saw us play 2 training matches a day 

against their squad of 30. Croatia ended up 

winning the European Championships so as 

you can imagine fielded a very strong team. 

Australia played a semi official match against 

this team and lost 9-6. This was played in 

the Adriatic Sea in a pool not dissimilar to 

Gunnamatta Bay. A crowd of 250 watched 

this match, with fireworks set off for half time 

celebrations. Our second half was the best 

water polo we had played on tour and certainly 

showed promise for the boys, and a good way 

to finish a tough 3 and a half weeks in Europe. 

Unfortunately the born 1994 team did 

not tour Europe in 2012 due to limited 

tournaments in Europe during the Olympic 

Year, combined with most of the players 

completing their final year of school and the 

European tournaments timing coinciding with 

the players mid-term exams. 

Adelaide Training Camp 

The next best option was to arrange 4 training 

camps for 2012 in Australia during the school 

holidays to keep the costs down & also to 

make sure that the education of the players 

in preparation for their final year of school 

was not interrupted. The first training camp 

was in Adelaide directly after the National 

u20 Championships. All bar 4 of the boys 

competed in this tournament so a squad of 

27 players attended this camp. A few players 

struggled with the physicality of the game, 

and I was mindful of this aspect of the game, 

as this was an issue with the Australian 

team that toured to Europe in 2011. The 

training camp was over 5 days, where we 

concentrated on skills sessions in the morning 

and games against each other at night. 

I have been fortunate with Paul Oberman 

offering his services to assist me with the born 

1994 at the Youth World Championships and 

Paul was instrumental in helping make this 

camp in Adelaide a success. Thanks also go to 

Eddie Dennis whose expertise in goal keeping 

gave valuable information for these players. 

I am blessed to have some very talented 

centre forwards in this age group, but it is 

another crucial position that Australian teams 

must concentrate on developing. The above 

areas were crucial with my selection criteria. 

Sydney Training Camp 

The second training camp was in April in 

Sydney directly after the U18’s tournament in 

Canberra. Initially I planned to have 18 players 

at this camp but the performance of some 

individuals in Canberra at the U18’s meant that I 

needed to include 4 more players to attend the 

training camp in Sydney. All athletes stayed in 

dorms at St Joseph’s College. Once more the 

format was similar to the January training camp 

with skills sessions in the morning and games 

between ourselves at night. 

I was extremely happy with the performance of 

the born 1994 squad and was happy with the 

progression of the team. After the April training 

camp I believed we were on track to achieve 

a respectable result at the Youth World 

Championships. However, the physicality of some 

players was not up to the standard I had set, to 

be able to compete with the top European sides. 

Based on this and the fact that some players 

out performed others in their set position, I 

had to cut some of the players to reduce the 

numbers to 15 for the next training camp. 

The current squad has changed 

considerable from the 2011 tour and now 

includes the following players:- 

Goal Keepers 

Anthony Hrysanthos 

Sam Cocokios 

Field Players 

Gordon Marshall (CF) Vice Captain 

Lachlan Edwards (CF) 

Justin Trabinger (CB) 

Matthew Skinner (CB) 

Reed Cotterill (Utility) 

Matthew Perrot (LH) Captain 

Luke Pavillard (LH)l 

William McKay (LHD) 

Davis Verboon (LHD) 

Callum Smith (R/LHD) 

Blake Buckley (RHD) 

Ciaran Wolohan (RHD) 

Staff 

Coach 

Chris Wybrow 

Assistant Coach Paul Oberman 

Manager 

Michael Smith 

Youth World Championship 

Preparation 

Another two training camps will be planned 

in Sydney for the July and September school 

holidays, in preparation leading up to the 

Youth World Championships in Perth from 

December 1-9, 2012. 

A big concern to me is the timing of the 

Youth World Championships, with most of the 

boys finishing their last year of school and 

their exams only being completed a couple 

of days prior to departing for Perth. 

I must send a huge thank you to Michael 

Smith, the manager of the team, who is 

extremely organised and has done a huge 

amount of work behind the scenes. 

Chris Wybrow 

Head Coach B94 Boys


Senior Women’s 


After winning the 

Bronze medal in the 

2011 Women’s World 

League in Tianjin, this 

looked to have laid 

the foundation for a 

good campaign at the 

2011 Shanghai World 

Championships. 

We continued our preparation on return to 

Australia with a training camp & international 

tournament in Perth. In the tournament we 

played and beat New Zealand 18-5, Hungary 

14-9 and drew 9-all with Greece. 

FINA World Championships, 

Shanghai 

Our 1st game of the competition against 

Canada was virtually going to determine 

the winner of our group. Canada came out 

strongly opening with a 2-0 first quarter, 

this was followed by a 3-2 second and third 

quarters to lead 8-4 going into the last. An 

early goal from Canada made it 9-4 before 

we responded with some nice water polo 

to narrow the margin to 7-9. However, a 

costly mistake in extra man defence allowed 

Canada to score and hold on for a 10-8 win. 

Our next 2 games we won comfortably 

against Uzbekistan 27-2 and New Zealand 

12-4 to set us up with a quarterfinal 

qualification match against Hungary. 

After a very close first half where we lead 

5-4, we took control of the match in the third 


quarter to lead 8-5. We scored in the first 

attack in the fourth to go 9-5 and then with 

3:06 left we were comfortably ahead 10-7. 

Hungary scored two late goals to make the 

score respectable at 10-9, leaving us to play 

Italy in the quarterfinal. 

We started very well in general play against 

Italy and should have been well in control 

of the game by the end of the first quarter, 

but due to very poor shooting options we 

only lead 1-0. By half time Italy had gained 

momentum and confidence to have a 1-4 lead. 

We knuckled down in the third quarter to 

go into the last quarter 7-8. The last quarter 

was extremely tight and neither team could 

break through until we scored with 1.50 to 

go to level the game at 8-8 and force it into 

extra time. 

We lead 9-8 at the end of the first period of 

extra time. In the second period of extra time 

we could not do anything due to the heavy 

defence. The Italians scored an extra man 

to force the game into a penalty shootout 

where unfortunately we were defeated 14-12. 

The loss meant that we would now play in 

the 5th to 8th bracket. First up we would 

meet the Netherlands. The girls played 

extremely well and controlled the game 

from the 1st quarter were we led 4-1. We 

maintained this dominance and were 

comfortable winners 12-7. 

The 5th place playoff with the USA was what 

many people where predicting would be 

the gold medal match. As always the game 

was very tight in the 1st quarter with the USA 

leading 2-1. A fantastic 4-0 second quarter 

was followed by another commanding 4-2 

third quarter by us. This set us up for a 

comfortable 10-5 victory. 

Olympic Squad and Preparation 

We selected an Olympic squad of 19 players 

at the end of September 2011 following the 

Junior World Championships. The squad 

trained at the Australian Institute of Sport 

(AIS) in Canberra for two weeks at the start 

of October, then went back to their State 

Institutes and Academies of Sport (SIS/SAS) 

for two weeks before repeating this process. 

The following activities were all scheduled in 

as part of our 2012 Olympic preparation. 

Altitude Training 

The team used altitude training on three 

occasions in the lead up to the London 

Olympics. 

In October 2011, 12 field players spent 

two weeks living in the AIS altitude house 

(3000m) and training at sea level. The 

purpose of this stint was to accelerate the 

base phase of fitness development and 

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enhance aerobic capacity. In February and 

March 2012, the field players spent 2 x 11 

day blocks at (2500-3000m) again in the AIS 

altitude house. This was designed to prepare 

the team for the overseas competition block. 

On return form World League finals in June 

2012, selected players who had shown 

positive adaptations spent a final ten-day 

block in the altitude house before departing 

to Europe for the final Olympic preparation. 

Field-testing and Hb mass measurement 

were used to assess how each player was 

adapting to the altitude stimulus. Heart rate 

monitors were used to monitor training load 

and performance during each training block. 

Institute Challenge 

Once again the Institute Challenge was 

held at the AIS from 27th November to 

2nd December. We limited it to four teams 

QAS, NSWIS, WAIS & VIS, drafting the SASI 

athletes to increase the depth of the other 

teams, making it a stronger competition. 

Everyone played each other twice, with the 

top two playing off for the gold & the bottom 

two for the bronze. QAS went through the 

rounds undefeated and once again was 

meeting NSWIS who had accounted for WAIS 

& VIS in their round games. 

The finals were very entertaining and 

competitive affairs with QAS holding on to win 

their 3rd successive Institute Challenge victory 

10-8. The VIS turned the tables on WAIS who 

had defeated them twice during the round 

games to win 12-10 to win the bronze. 

Canada Cup 

This tour started with a 5-day training camp. 

Following this we contested the Canada Cup. 

We went through the rounds undefeated by 

beating Hungary 12-8, Spain 12-11, Canada 

7-6 and drawing with Netherlands 6-6 and 

China 8-8. 

This meant we would meet China in the final. 

After an outstanding first quarter, where we 

jumped out to a 4-0 lead, we maintained our 

dominance for the remaining three quarters 

to run out comfortable 11-8 victors. It was a 

very impressive performance throughout the 

whole tournament, which culminated in the 

final and all players contributing throughout 

the competition. 

Pan Pacific Championships, 

Melbourne 

After a well-earned break for Christmas 

the girls were back in camp at the start of 

January with some common training with 

Canada prior to the Inaugural Pan Pacific 

Championships in Melbourne. 

Again we went through the rounds 

undefeated, after some very tough games. 

We opened up our account with an easy 

18-2 win over Brazil, backed this up with 

defeats over Canada 9-7, USA 8-7, Australian 

Barbarians 8-3 and China 8-7. 

This meant that we were to play the USA in 

the gold medal match. After a very tough first 

half, we grinded out an extremely satisfying 7-4 

victory to become the Pan Pacific Champions. 

USA Test Series, Sydney 

The USA & Australia teams both flew to 

Sydney the next day after the Pan Pacific 

Championships for a three test series, 

which was run by Cronulla Water Polo Club. 

The first game was held at Homebush and 

unfortunately we could not produce the 

same standard of performance that we 

displayed in Melbourne and went 

down 12-13. 

The next two games were critical, as we 

wanted to win the series to try and gain a 

psychological advantage over the USA. After 

some soul searching the girls responded 

brilliantly and dominated the second test 

match from start to finish winning comfortably 

11-6. This set up the third test as the decider 

and we expected the USA to come out firing. 

Once again the girls started strongly and 

opened up a 5-2 first quarter lead. From 

there we were always in control and went on 

to win 12-7. 

On completion of the Test series we 

trimmed our Olympic Squad from nineteen 

to seventeen players. Unfortunately for 

Rebecca Rippon & Lea Barta they had 

been left out. Rebecca then announced her 

retirement after 258 games for Australia 

and representing at two Olympic Games in 

2004 & 2008 plus numerous other major 

competitions. 

Rebecca was an outstanding player and role 

model who played a major role in helping 

Australia achieve some of their best results. 



Great Britain Test Series, 

Canberra 

Great Britain arrived on the 20th February for 

some common training and a five match test 

series until 29th February. This was the first 

time we had played Great Britain since 2006 

Commonwealth Championships, so we were 

very unsure of what to expect. We won all 

five test matches comfortably 13-5, 14-4, 15-6, 

14-8 and 14-3. 

Training Camps and All Star 

Game 

During the National League season we 

scheduled in two more training camps prior 

to the National League Finals. The first was 

an 11-day camp in Canberra and the second 

was a 4-day camp in Sydney. We also used 

this camp as part of preparation for the 

Women’s Inaugural All Star game that was 

held in Canberra 14th April. 

The All Star game was a resounding 

success with the game being played in 

front of a packed house at the AIS as all the 

players competing in the u18 National Club 

Championships attended. The Southern 

team defeated the Northern team 7-6 in a 

very high quality and tight match. 

National League Finals, Sydney 

The finals were contested by, three year 

reigning champions Brisbane Barracudas, 

Victorian Tigers, Fremantle Mariners, 

Cronulla Sharks, Balmain Tigers & the 

Adelaide Jets who were competing in their 

first ever finals series. 

The top four teams from the home & away 

competition won, continuing through to the 

semis with Balmain 11 defeating Adelaide 

10 in extra time for the 5th place playoff. All 

National squad players except for one were 

competing in the semi finals. 

Cronulla caused the first boil over by 

defeating Fremantle 6-3 in one semi while 

Barracudas 9 defeated Victorian Tigers 7 

in the other semi to give them a chance to 

defend their title. 

Fremantle caused an upset by defeating 

Victoria 13-10 in a penalty shootout to 

take out the bronze medal, while the 

young Cronulla team led by their veteran 

Goalkeeper, Alicia McCormack beat Brisbane 

6-3 to win the gold medal. 

experience by playing against China but 

went down 4-14. 

The water polo venue for the Olympics was 

outstanding and after losing to the USA 9-10 

in our second game we qualified for the 

final with victories over Great Britain 10-4 

and Hungary 17-12. In another very tough 

encounter we held on to the 6-5 lead we had 

established at the end of the third quarter to 

keep them scoreless in the last quarter. This 

meant in our last eight games against the 

USA we had won six off them. 

As soon as the game was over we headed 

straight to the airport so that we could fly 

to Chiba, Japan to play the second round 

of the World League. We needed to win 

one game to qualify and we did this in our 

first game against China when we defeated 

them 11-10. We finished the rounds off with a 

comprehensive 18-2 victory over Japan. 

Due to the World League Finals being held 

in Changshu, China it was pointless and 

financially not viable for us to travel back 

to Australia for a training camp. So we 

organised to have a 12 day training camp at 

the Shanghai Institute of Sport. 

From there we went to Changshu for the 

World League Finals. We went through our 

rounds undefeated after beating Canada and 

Italy 20-4 & 12-2 respectively. We then had 

a very tough game to win our group against 

Russia 9-7 in a penalty shootout. This was 

significant as it was the first penalty shootout 

we had won since our Olympic bronze medal 

in 2008. 

Our quarterfinal match up was with Germany 

defeating them 18-0 to set up a semi final 

against China. Once again they jumped to a 

4-0 lead midway through the second quarter 

but another gutsy comeback saw us win 8-7. 

In the final we once again would come up 

against our rivals the USA. In another tight 

encounter we held a 4-3 half time lead 

before poor execution and some costly 

defensive errors allowed the USA to win 6-4. 

On arriving home we announced our 2012 

Olympic team; 

Goal Keepers 

Alicia McCormack 


Field Players 

Gemma Beadsworth 

Sophie Smith 

Holly Lincoln-Smith 

Jane Moran 

Bronwen Knox 

Rowie Webster 

Kate Gynther 

Glencora Ralph 

Ash Southern 

Melissa Rippon 

Nicola Zagame 


A huge thank you must go to the following 

because without your support, co-operation 

and dedication we would not be one of the 

best teams in the world. 

All of the athletes who were part of the 

Senior National Team program. 

My 2 managers Lynne Morrison & Jenny 

Liessmann. 

Our medical staff, Andrea Mosler, Liz Steet & 

James Trotter, and Grace Bryant. 

To my assistant coaches Ryan Moar, Dalibor 

Maslan, Greig Richardson, Aleks Osadchuk, 

Peter Szilagyi and Eddie Denis. 

The AIS and SIS/SAS programs support staff 

Ted Polglaze, Laura Garvican, Julian Jones, 

Kirsten Peterson, Tamara Kerford, Adam 

Gorman, Greg Cox & Christine Dziedzic. 

Debra Waser (AIS), Iain Brambell (ASC) & 

John Coates (AOC). You continually look after 

the Women’s Water Polo program beyond 

our expectations. 

National League clubs and coaches. 

The Board and staff at Water Polo Australia. 

Reg Hatch for very much appreciated 

personal advice and guidance while helping 

me become a better coach. 

Second last and certainly not least, Karen 

Buffier. She is the backbone of the program, 

making sure all our plans fall in place. 

Finally, to the best wife in the world, Sonia 

and my beautiful children, Rebel and Cooper. 

Without your support and love I would not be 

able to devote the time to try to achieve the 

dreams of our team, in becoming the best in 

the world. 

Greg McFadden 

Head Coach Senior Women 

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London Test Event and World 

League 

Due to the scheduling of the London Test 

event and the 1st round of the World League 

being held at the same time we decided to 

send our strongest team to the London test 

event. We did this so that our players could 

experience playing in the Olympic pool 

and what London would be like so that we 

would not have too many distractions during 

the Olympics. 

Our second team went to Shanghai to help 

us qualify for the World League Finals. They 

achieved this by beating Japan 12-6 and 

China “B” 11-4 plus they also gained valuable 

Our final training camp in Australia was a 

12-day training camp at the AIS before we 

headed to Montenegro on the 30th June.


Born ‘91 Junior Women’s 


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The Australian junior 

women’s water polo 

program had a 

successful campaign, 

which started with a 

training camp in Perth 

playing against senior 

international teams 

Greece, Australia, New 

Zealand and Hungary 

in the Pre Senior 

World Championships 

Tournament, 

followed by a test 

series against the 

Australian University 

Game’s Team. 

Australian Training Camp and 

Competition 

The preparation for the FINA Junior Women’s 

World Championships started with a training 

camp in Perth, 1-23 July. The camp started 

with testing and team building activities for 

3 days followed by the senior international 

tournament. The squad selected for this 

tournament consisted the following 14 players; 

Goal Keepers 

Kelsey Wakefield (1991, QLD) 

Eloise Pierce (1993, WA) 

Field Players: 

Centre Forwards/Centre Backs: 

Jayde Appel (1994, NSW) 

Hannah Buckling (1992, NSW) 

Emily Scott (1991, NSW) 

Ashleigh Southern (1992, QLD) 

Olivia King (1992, QLD) 

Genevieve Venosta (1992, VIC) 

Drivers: 

Madison Schmid (1994, NSW) 

Emma Jo Graham (1991, VIC) 

Zoe Arancini (1991, WA) 

Eliesha Browne (1992, WA) 

Isobel Bishop (1991, SA) 

Claire Pierce (1991,WA) 

European and World 

Championships Tour 

After the training camp 13 players were 

selected to travel to Europe for Junior World 

Championships preparation. Unfortunately 

goalkeeper, Eloise Pierce, had to withdraw 

which saw Michaela Davies selected due her 

performance from previous camps. 

The final preparation started with a 3-day 

tournament in Hungary where we finished 

2nd followed by a friendly against the 

Hungarian u20 National Team, claiming a 

win 11-9. 

We then had a training camp and test series 

in Holland, against the Nederland and 

Canadian u20 National Teams, winning two 

from three games. 

FINA Junior World 

Championships Trieste, Italy 

Once we arrived in Trieste for the World 

Championships our main problem was 

facing several injuries. Luckily we arranged 

physiotherapist, Fiona Millar, to meet us in 

Italy and become part of the team as almost 

everyone had a minor or major injury. Having 

a physiotherapist on tour for u18 and u20 

World Championships, in my opinion, is 

highly recommended. 

Our first game was thrilling 9-all draw with 

Hungary on the opening day. We had great 

start with an early lead and remained in front 

on the scoreboard until midway through the 

third period before Hungary took control, 

forcing us to win the last quarter to snatch 

the draw. It was a very physical game as we 

expected. I was pleased with our defence 

but we needed to improve our offense as 

many of their goals came from our missed 

opportunities. 

We beat Mexico 32-3 in the second round 

robin match. The game presented an 

opportunity to practice some skills ahead 

of the clash with China. We respected the 

Mexicans, so we played our best. At some 

stages we made mistakes, but most of the 

time we played impressive, skilful water polo. 

Despite an impressive 18-7 win over China, 

we finished second in the group after the 

round robin stage. We went into the game 

needing to win by at least 14 goals to be top 

of our group and earn an automatic seeding 

into the quarterfinals. The second placing in 

Group A meant we had to play Uzbekistan in 

the next qualifying round. 

We moved into the quarterfinals after 

accounting for Uzbekistan 17-5 in the 

qualifying round. Our start was not as good 

I expected, but within few minutes the girls 

switched on. The game against Uzbekistan 

allowed the team to prepare for the do or 

die clash with the Greeks. It was a good win 

despite the slow start but it allowed us to 

practice tactics for the crucial game ahead. 

In our most important game we totally 

dominated Greece to score a 10-5 victory 

and set up a semi final showdown with 

Spain. All 13 players contributed in the 

comprehensive quarterfinal triumph. The 

end of the first period saw the scores tied 

at 1-1 but we overpowered our opponents in 

the second term scoring five goals to one, 

effectively putting the game beyond the 

Greeks. Greece tried in vain to get back into 

the match in the third, getting within three 

goals at 4-7 but my players reasserted their 

superiority in the last period to close out the 

game. I was very proud of the performance 

of my team as we really dominated from the 

very first second to the last whistle. 

We went down 7-8 in a nerve-racking semi 

final against Spain. Just a day earlier we had 

demolished Greece 10-5 and carried that 

form into our clash with Spain, getting off to 

a flying start and leading 4-2 at quarter time. 

We held the lead at half time, 5-4, before the 

Spaniards piled on three unanswered goals 

in the third period to set up what proved to 

be a match winning lead. 

Australia finished third at the FINA Women’s 

Junior World Championships in Trieste, Italy 

after dominating Russia 10-2 in the bronze 

medal playoff. We led from start to finish 3-1 at 

quarter time, 7-1 at the half and 9-1 at the last 

break, to completely outplay a bewildered 

Russian team. The victory was well deserved 

for us as the team that lost the semi final to 

eventual gold medallists, Spain, by a solitary 

goal and stretched silver medallists Hungary 

to a draw in the opening group stage match 

on the first day of the tournament. 

I wish to say thank you to all coaches, 

athletes, officials, volunteers and parents for 

supporting the program. I am really proud to 

have five members of our team in contention 

for selection in the Senior Women’s Team for 

the 2012 London Olympic Games. 

Lajos Peter Szilagyi 

Head Coach B91 Women


Born ‘93 Junior Women’s 


There were no 

activities for the 

born 1993 squad 

during the later 

part of 2011 however 

2012 has started out 

a busy year with 

more of the major 

activities falling in 

the later half of 2012. 

2012 began with the Born 1992 National 

Junior Championships in Perth from 17th till 

22nd January, where the following squad 

was selected: 

Goal Keepers 

Michaela Davies (1993, NSW) 

Stephanie Calaizis (1994, NSW) 

Lillian Hedges (1994, WA) 

Emma Williams (1994, QLD) 

Field Players: 

Maddison Schmid (1994, NSW) 

Bronte Colenso (1993, QLD) 

Amber Grahame (1993, VIC) 

Maggie Morrison (1993, QLD) 

Morgan Baxter (1993, NSW) 

Emily Carr (1993, NSW) 


Shannan Martin (1994, NSW) 

Chloe Barr (1994, SA) 

Emily Benson (1993, QLD) 

Jessica Zimmerman (1995, WA) 

Cathryn Earl (1993, WA) 

Laura Malcom (1993, QLD). 

The following 7 players were added to this 

squad for a test series and training camp with 

the Born 1993 New Zealand Team that was 

held in Sydney in April: 

Claire Negus (1993, NSW) 

Taylor Leonard (1993, NSW) 

Emily Boland (1993, NSW) 

Tara Pitman (1993, QLD) 

Tilly Connor (1993, WA) 

Tayla Walsh (1993, NSW) 

Jess Brooks (1993, NSW) 

Due to a clash of activities with the Born 

1994 National Club Championships and 

subsequent training camp, only players born 

in 1993 were used for the camp and test 

series against the Born 1994 New Zealand 

Team. The squad won the 3 game test series 

after 1 win and 2 draws with the NZ side. 


A huge thank you must go to Peter Szylagyi, 

who took over the coaching duties for the 

training camp and test series in Sydney due to 

my unavailability as I was required to travel to 

Trieste, Italy to observe and film the FINA 2012 

Women’s Olympic Qualification Tournament. 

Looking to the future, the National Born 

1993 squad will be reselected at the 

National Junior Championships in Sydney 

in January 2013. After a number of training 

camps during 2013 a team will be selected 

to travel to the 2013 FINA Junior World 

Championships in Volos, Greece. 

Ryan Moar 

Head Coach B93 Women 


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Born ‘94 Youth Women’s 


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The following 15 

players were selected 

to for the born 1994 

European tour and 

to attend the Olympic 

Hopes International 

Tournament as the 

Australian Born 1994 

Youth Team; 

Goal Keepers 

Stephanie Calaizis (1994, NSW) 

Lillian Hedges (1994, WA) 

Field Players 

Shannan Martin (1994, NSW) 

Georgia Farrell (1994, NSW) 

Tiana Andersen (1995, QLD) 

Belinda Symons (1994, SA) 

Montana Perkins (1995, NSW) 

Fiona Walsh (1995, NSW) 

Ainsley Masek (1994, QLD) 

Kassia Ralston (1994, WA) 

Megan du Toit (1994, QLD) 

Rebecca Curtis (1994, NSW) 

Stephanie El Safty (1995, NSW) 


Pascalle Casey (1995, NSW) 

Staff 

Aleks Osadchuk (Coach) 

Jenny MacGregor (Manager) 

Nicola Johnson (Referee) 

the most part very solid in defence and 

the game was evenly matched up until 

half time when the score was 3-2 in favour 

of the USA. In the third period the USA 

scored four unanswered goals whereas 

the Australian team missed many potential 

scoring opportunities. The 1 from 6 in extra 

man situations reflected the problem the 

Australian girls had in getting the ball across 

the goal line 

In the second game we lost 8-6 to the 

Netherlands. It was a much stronger 

performance by the Aussie girls particularly 

in the second half. The girls struggled early, 

failing to fire a shot past the strong Dutch 

keeper. The game was more balanced in the 

final three periods with Australia scoring six 

goals to five. 

Our third game was against Hungary. It was a 

very strong performance by the Hungarians 

who outplayed and outscored us. The girls 

struggled at both ends of the pool going 

down 20-4. 

We recorded our first victory in our fourth 

game defeating the Czech Republic 13-4. 

The girls started slowly giving a goal lead 

to the Czech’s before producing some 

dominant attack to score eight goals to one. 

The girls piled on the pressure in the last 

quarter to extend their lead and seal the nine 

goal win. 

In our final game of the tournament we 

recorded a 9-all draw with Canada. 

We started strongly jumping out to a 5-3 lead 

at quarter time before the Canadians applied 

a heavy press to reduce the margin to 7-6 at 

half time. 

Both teams converted extra-man 

opportunities early in the fourth term with 

the Aussies leading by one with 1 minute 

20 seconds left on the clock. However the 

Canadians gained possession in the final 20 

seconds and were able to equalise in extraman. 

Despite the heartbreak I was pleased 

with the team’s performance as it was a 

strong finish to the tour. 

From the five official games, we won one, 

drew one and lost three games. This meant 

we finished fourth with the final standings 

being the Netherlands, Hungary, USA, 

Australia, Canada and the Czech Republic. 

I am looking forward to the latter half of 2012 

where we will have a World Championship 

preparation camp at the Australian Institute of 

Sport (AIS) in October followed by the Youth 

World Championships in Perth in December. 


Finally I would like to thank Team Manager, 

Jenny MacGregor and Referee, Nicola 

Johnson for their support on the tour. 

Aleksandr Osadchuk 

Head Coach B94 Girls 

Hungary Training 

The Australian Born 1994 Youth Girls Team started 

their international tour with a 4 day training camp 

in Hungary playing training games with national 

teams from Hungary, USA and Canada. This 

was good preparation for the upcoming 

Olympic Hopes International Tournament. 

Olympic Hopes International 

Tournament, Dunajvaros, 

Hungary, 10-25 July, 2012 

We were one of 6 teams competing in 

this tournament along with the USA, the 

Netherlands, Czech Republic, Canada, and 

host nation Hungary. 

The girl’s fell 8-2 to the USA in their first 

game. The young Australian team was for 



Born ‘96 Youth Women’s 


New Zealand Pan Pac 

Tournament 

At the U16s National 

Championships in 

Melbourne in October 

2011, I selected a 

squad of 26 players 

with the immediate 

interest of competing 

at the Pan Pacs in NZ 

from 29th June to 

12th July 2012. This was 

followed by a 3 game 

series against the NZ 

u16s, where 14 of the 

original 26 players 

remained to compete 

in this series. 

Prior to Pan Pacs, I held mini camps in 

Sydney and Perth. In Brisbane, I attended 

Queensland’s Elite Athlete Program (EAP) 

sessions to keep costs to a minimum. 

On the 28th June 2012 the squads departed 

their respective cities and met in Auckland. 

Once there, the 26 players were divided 

into 2 equal teams aptly named Aus Green 

and Aus Gold. Aus Green’s pool was much 

harder as they had to play North Harbour, the 

eventual gold medalists and New Zealand’s 

u18s. By loosing to these two teams it meant 

that Aus Green could not make the top four. 

it wasn’t until the last quarter that Aus Gold 

managed to break away and win by 2. 

In the playoff for 3rd and 4th Aus Green played 

NSW Waratahs u18s. They displayed amazing 

character and ability. NSW u18s raced to a 2 

goal lead only to find Aus Green u16s come 

back and take the lead 4-3. The lead changed 

a few more times but the game ended in 9-all 

draw. In extra time the ten hard days and 

playing much bigger and more physical girls 

finely took its toll and we lost 11-10. 

Aus Gold once again played North Harbour, this 

time for gold or silver. We started well by taking 

the lead and matching them in every aspect, 

in fact, our skills were even better so at the 

final break we were still in it only 5-6 behind. 

In the last quarter one player destroyed us, 

Rebecca Parks, 185cm tall, strong, mobile 

and can throw the ball. She managed 4 goals 

and the game finished 9-6 for North Harbour. 

We fare welled 12 of our girls and started 

our 3 tests against the NZ u16s. We all know 

the Kiwis lift when they play the Aussies this 

was no exception. We raced to a 3-goal lead 

and only allowed the Kiwis to score with 

4 seconds on the clock in the first quarter. 

From there the game deteriorated into a 

wrestling match with the referees allowing 

extremely heavy play. Whilst we were never 

troubled and we won 5-4, we could see what 

we were in for over the next two days. 

By the second game, three of our girls came 

down with the flu and we had two injuries. 

The girls knew we needed to win the second 

game, so as not to rely on winning the third 

to win the series. Once again they lifted and 

showed just how much pride they had when 

they put on the green and gold. Again never 

in trouble but we only won by 1 goal. For the 

third game, Maddy Steere needed a rest and 

Lena Mihailovic had a sore elbow so they 

were rested. 

Chelsea Allen and Bronte Halligan both with a 

good dose of flu could only play in short bursts. 

The rest of the team responded by working 

even harder and we won the game by 2. 

I would like to thank all 26 girls for their 

commitment to the sport, forming a team 

bond and for the respect shown to Helen, 

Georgina and myself and for the pride at 

wearing the Green and Gold. Also, a huge 

thank-you to all the parents, who have 

supported the girls, and to those who were 

able to join us in NZ. 

This tour would not have run as smoothly as 

it did if it wasn’t for our Manager, Helen Park. 

Helen organised flights, accommodation, 

transport, meals, outings and even visits 

to the doctors. She was my right hand, 

invaluable and I thank her very much. 

I would also like to thank Georgina Kovacs 

for her help with coaching. It would not 

have been possible to coach two teams, 

sometimes playing two games a day without 

an assistant. 

Thanks must also go to High Performance 

Manager, Tom Hill for his help liaising with NZ 

Water Polo, organising uniforms and ensuring 

our trip ran smoothly. 

Jack Lusic 

Head Coach B96 Girls 

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Meanwhile, Aus Gold won two and drew 

one, however, this meant that Aus Gold 

would play North Harbour in the semifinal. 

Unfortunately, the bigger, stronger and 4 

years older North Harbour girls were too 

powerful and we lost 9-6. Our girls fought 

well, and with 3 min left it was only 7-6. 

However, in the bronze medal game, Aus 

Gold reversed the favour and defeated NZ 

u18s 6-5. 

Next came the u18s tournament. I decided to 

make a few changes within the two teams, 

this was to ensure the girls got to know each 

other better. This time Aus Gold won all their 

games with Aus Green only losing to North 

Harbour. This meant both teams made the 

semifinals but would have to play each other. 

The camaraderie between the girls 

was simply amazing. Before the game 

commenced both teams formed one big 

circle in the middle and gave three cheers 

as one. The lead changed a few times but 



Hall of Fame Dinner 


The 4th Annual Hall of Fame Dinner was held at Novotel Sydney Olympic Park on Saturday 28th April 2012 


2011 Coach of the Year 

Joel Sangster 

2011 Volunteer of the Year 

Jamie-Lee Lewis 

2011 Player with a Disability of the Year 

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2011 Male Player of the Year 

Rowena Webster 

2011 Female Player of the Year 

Rebecca Rippon 

In recognition of her representation on the Australian Women’s Water Polo Team from 2002-2012


Leon Wiegard OAM, Allan Charleston & Peter Bennett 

Hall of Fame 2011 Inductees 

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Danny Flahive 

2011 Referee of the Year 

Hannah Buckling 

2011 Junior Female Player of the Year 

Melville Water Polo accepted by David Neesham 

2011 Club of the Year


Athletes’ Commission 


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Firstly, I would like 

to congratulate 

the Olympians for 

their tremendous 

results in London this 

year. After several 

nail-biting penalty 

shootouts, the 

Stingers were able 

to come away with 

the Bronze, and the 

Sharks seventh place 

was their best result 

since Barcelona 

in 1992. 

The Athletes Commission over the past 

12 months has provided an active voice of 

the athletes in our sport to the Water Polo 

Australia Limited’s (WPAL) Board and its 

executive staff. The commissioner’s roles as 

outlined in the charter are to: 

• Advise the board of WPAL on any matters 

relating to water polo which impact on 

water polo athletes; 

• Represent the athletes on WPAL’s Board 

through the Athletes Commission Chairman 

who is a voting member of the Board; 

• Nominate representatives from among their 

members to represent Water Polo Australia 

athletes on WPAL Board as requested from 

time to time; 

• Nominate athletes for election by ballot to 

the Australian Olympic Committee Athletes’ 

Commission; 

• Provide leadership and direction on matters 

that directly relate to water polo athletes. 

This year marks the end of term for the 

current Athletes Commission, which 

comprised of Nikita Cuffe (2004 & 2008 

Olympian), Bronwyn Knox (2008 & 2012 

Olympian), Toby Jenkins (2004 Olympian), 

Thomas Whalan (2000, 2004, 2008 & 2012 

Olympian) and myself, Trent Franklin (2004 

& 2008 Olympian). As chairman, I would like 

to thank them all for their support during the 

past four years. I believe this Commission 

has made progress in improving the 

wellbeing and experience of our athletes. 

This year saw the finalisation of the 

National Competition Committee (NCC), of 

which the Athletes Commission provided 

input and recommendations, including 

the recommendation to have an athlete 

that has played at the national level 

on that committee. With this becoming 

the overarching body for our domestic 

elite pathway, we saw it as an important 

component for the athletes to provide input. 

With the first appeal to an Olympic Team 

selection, input was taken from a selection 

of athletes as to the positive and negative 

aspects of the process. The Athlete 

Commission provided input on these 

processes for future selections, in hope to 

achieve absolute best practice for both the 

endeavours of the team and wellbeing of 

all athletes. Whilst selection will always be a 

difficult and often challenging process, we 

want to ensure the athletes are fairly treated 

and are close to their support networks at 

the time of team selections. 

The committee and I would like to thank the 

President, Board Members and CEO of WPAL 

for their support during our term. 

The Athletes’ Commission would like to 

encourage any Athletes who have any 

issues, concerns or idea’s they may have 

relating to the sport, to approach the WPAL 

Athletes’ Commission. We would like to wish 

the incoming Athletes’ Commission all the 

best. A formal handover of prior and current 

issues will occur once the new Commission 

has been finalised. 


Chairman 

Water Polo Australia Athletes’ Commission 



Referees’ Commission 


The Commission has 

continued to provide 

recommendations to 

the Water Polo 

Australia Limited (WPAL) 

Board on referees to 

be included on the FINA 

list and in relation to 

appointments to 

International 

Tournaments. This 

year has also seen the 

Commission liaise with 

National Senior 

Coaches to provide 

Referees for National 

Training Centre 

(NTC) tournaments 

and National 

training camps. 

2012 Current Commission 

Members 

Michael McNeill, Michael Hart, Mike DeFina 

and Phil Scales. 

The 2012 FINA Referees were: Daniel 

Flahive, Andrew Carney, Nicola Johnson, 

Nick Hodgers, Daniel Bartels, Megan Varlow 

and Gabor Boris. 

In 2013 the Commission will continue a 

rotation policy to provide opportunities for 

a senior National League referee to gain 

experience at International competition. 

National Water Polo League 

(NWPL) 

The Commission’s aim in 2013 is to refine 

the NWPL referee roster to encourage 

consistency in interpretation and quality of 

refereeing. The difficulty lies in the large 

number of games and locations; however 

the aim is to continue to improve the 

quality of refereeing provided. During 2013 

we will increase our efforts in identifying 

younger referees who have the playing and 

refereeing background to officiate at the elite 

level. If you have an elite junior player who is 

interested in refereeing to contact your State 

referees’ commission. 

The Commission continues to develop 

the number and role of NWPL delegates. 

If you have someone in your club that has 

international experience as a player or 

referee and is interested in developing 

referees and acting as a delegate for NL 

games please contact the Commission. 

If the budget allows we will endeavour to 

have the FINA List referees travel more 

frequently to provide teams with elite 

referees more frequently. 

National Grading system for 

referees 

Mike DeFina with a little help from the 

balance of the Commission established 

a National Grading system that will allow 

us to identify our most competent and 

experienced referees before National 

Competitions. The grading system will also 

allow us to provide a documented pathway 

for all referees. 

An important component is the collaboration 

between State Referee Commissions and the 

Commission. The States will provide initial 

grades and those grades will be monitored 

during all National Competitions. Naturally 

referees can advance in their grading and 

decline if their standard warrants it. 

We have established a database for this 

system, thanks to Jodie Watson, and will 

continue to improve its functions as we 

develop our communication reporting to 

referees and WPAL. 

Our aims for 2012/13 

Our focus during 2012 has been on referee 

development and pathways. At the 2012 

16 & under National Club Championships, 

to be held in Brisbane, a new system for 

referee selection will be adopted. Previously 

teams have been asked to bring a referee 

to the tournament and this has created 

multiple problems, the worst of which was 

inconsistency of standard and decisions. 

For Brisbane we have selected 24 referees 

from our FINA List, NWPL list and our highest 

graded referees. With this we hope to 

increase the overall quality of refereeing. We 

will also run a FINA Referees School before 

the championships to help further develop our 

referees. Our hope is that we will be able to 

maintain a high level of competency into 2013. 

The Commission and those attending would 

like to thank John Whitehouse for agreeing 

to run the FINA School. 

We would like to thank Chris Harrison, Tom 

Hill, Peter Hobday and Jodie Watson for their 

assistance in 2012 and look forward to 2013. 

Michael McNeill 

Chairman 

Water Polo Australia Referees’ Commission 

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National Capitation 


senior junior school flippa affiliate total 

Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female TOTAL 

QLD 210 179 250 1077 44 156 65 94 20 17 589 1523 2112 

NSW 945 640 745 786 94 78 165 108 49 50 1998 1662 3660 

ACT 82 59 153 133 2 2 237 194 431 

VIC 355 173 332 149 27 8 714 330 1044 

TAS 25 16 99 72 235 264 359 352 711 

SA 53 20 71 41 3 2 3 129 64 193 

WA 543 368 270 272 335 261 5 3 1153 904 2057 

NT 

TOTALS 2213 1455 1920 2530 373 498 568 463 105 83 5179 5029 10208 

3668 4450 871 1031 188 10208 

% of Total Gender 

43% 29% 37% 50% 7% 10% 11% 9% 2% 2% 

32 

% of Total 

22% 14% 19% 25% 4% 5% 6% 5% 1% 1% 51% 49% 

2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 

No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % 

QLD 2424 20.0 2492 21.7 2730 21.7 2806 25.0 2088 19.0 2112 20.7 

NSW 5349 44.1 5100 44.4 5048 40.1 3925 35.0 4155 37.8 3660 35.9 

ACT 334 2.8 160 1.4 248 2.0 326 2.9 384 3.5 431 4.2 

VIC 1145 9.4 1253 10.9 1347 10.7 1338 11.9 1395 12.7 1044 10.2 

TAS 533 4.4 525 4.6 704 5.6 683 6.1 601 5.5 711 7.0 

SA 238 2.0 219 1.9 273 2.2 234 2.1 225 2.0 193 1.9 

WA 2049 16.9 1742 15.2 2253 17.9 1896 16.9 2157 19.6 2057 20.2 

NT 61 0.5 Nil 

TOTAL 12133 11491 12603 11208 11005 10208 

QLD 

NSW 

ACT 

VIC 

TAS 

SA 

WA 

NT


National Championship Results 


Men’s National League 

January - May 2012, Finals Sydney 

16 YEARS & Under BOYS 

Melbourne, October 2011 


Perth, April 2012 

1 Fremantle Mariners 

1 Melville Sharks 

1 Hunter Hurricanes Blue 

2 Victorian Tigers 

3 UNSW Wests Magpies 

4 Sydney Uni Lions 

5 Brisbane Barracudas 

6 Drummoyne Devils 

7 UWA Torpedoes 

8 Hunter Hurricanes 

9 Balmain Tigers 

10 Cronulla Sharks 


3 Melbourne Collegians 

4 Central Coast 

5 Cronulla Blue 

6 Drummoyne 

7 UWA Blue 

8 KFC Breakers Red 

9 South Australia 

10 UNSW Wests Black 

11 Sydney University 


3 SEQ Bees 

4 Drummoyne 

5 City Beach Bears 

6 UNSW Wests 

7 Cronulla 

8 Triton 

9 Dolphins Blue 

11 KFC Queensland Breakers 

12 Dolphins 

10 Sunshine Coast 

12 Fyfe Adelaide Jets 

13 Barracudas 


20 Years & Under Junior MEN 

Adelaide, January 2012 

1 NSW Blues 

2 Western Australia 

14 Tasmania 

15 Richmond 


17 ACT Fins 

12 Richmond 

13 Melville Snappers 

14 Tasmania 

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3 Victoria 

18 KFC Breakers White 

15 City Beach Red 

4 Queensland 

19 Melville Saints 

16 Hunter Hurricanes Grey 

5 NSW Waratahs 

20 UWA Green 

17 Sydney Northern Beaches 



Canberra, April 2012 


2 Cronulla 

21 Ovens & Murray 

22 Cronulla Black 

23 UNSW Wests White 

24 NWP Dragons 

18 Dolphins White 

19 City Beach Black 

20 Melville Stingrays 


4 Melville Saints 






10 ACT Fins 

11 UNSW Wests 

12 KFC Breakers 

13 Drummoyne 






Women’s National League 

January - May 2012, Finals Sydney 

16 YEARS & Under GIRLS 

Melbourne, October 2011 

14 YEARS & Under Girls 

Perth, April 2012 

1 Cronulla Sharks 




2 Drummoyne Red 

2 Melville Marlins 

3 Longmont Fremantle Marlins 


5 Balmain Tigers 

6 Fyfe Adelaide Jets 

3 Sydney Nthn Beaches 


5 Cronulla Blue 

6 UNSW Yellow 


4 All Hallows 

5 Cronulla 

7 Sydney Uni Lions 



8 UNSW Killer Whales 

8 Essendon 


9 KFC Queensland Breakers 

9 Melville 

8 Sydney Northern Beaches 


10 All Hallows 

9 Drummoyne 

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12 Drummoyne Devils 

20 Years & Under Junior Women 

Adelaide, January 2012 

1 NSW Blues 

2 Queensland 

3 Western Australia 

4 NSW Waratahs 


6 Victoria 

7 New Zealand 

18 YEARS & Under GIRLS 

Canberra, April 2012 

1 Drummoyne 

2 Sydney Nthn Beaches Blue 

11 Drummoyne Black 

12 Tasmania 

13 Stuartholme 

14 Barracudas 


16 Cronulla Black 



19 River City 

20 City Beach 


22 ACT Fins 


24 UNSW Black 

10 City Beach Bears 

11 KFC Breakers 

12 Balmain 


14 City Beach Red 

15 Stuartholme 

16 Tasmania 


18 Essendon 

19 City Beach Black 

20 Triton 


3 Melville 


5 Cronulla 



8 All Hallows 



11 Sydney Uni/Balmain 

12 Brisbane Barracudas 


14 ACT Fins 

15 Sydney Nthn Beaches White 





Senior Men 

FINA World Championships, Shanghai, 

China, July 2011 

Team 

Team: Mitchell Baird, 

Richie Campbell, Tim Cleland, 

Joel Dennerley, Rhys Howden, 

Sam McGregor, Rob Maitland, 

Anthony Martin, Billy Miller, 

Luke Quinlivan, Aidan Roach, 

Gavin Woods, Aaron Younger. 

Head Coach: John Fox. 

Assistant Coaches: Frank Otto, 

Paul Oberman. 

Manager: Jon Harmer. 

Doctor: Grace Bryant. 

Referee: Daniel Flahive. 

Senior Men 

Exhibition Series with USA, Sydney, 

Australia, January 2012 

Team 

Samuele Avallone, Mitch Baird, 

Jamie Beadsworth, 

Richie Campbell, James Clark, 

Tim Cleland, Johnno Cotterill, 

Joel Dennerley, John Hahn, 

Rhys Howden, Sam McGregor, 

Rob Maitland, Anthony Martin, 

Billy Miller, Aidan Roach, 

Thomas Whalan, Gavin Woods, 

Aaron Younger. 


Assistant Coaches: Paul 

Oberman, Frank Otto. 

Manager: Garry Rydberg. 

Physiotherapist: Ian Gard. 

Referee: Danny Flahive. 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Day 6 

Australia 14 (S McGregor 4, 

J Beadsworth 3, T Cleland 2, 

S Avallone, A Martin, 

R Campbell, T Whalan, 

A Younger), Barbarians 5. 

Australia 6 (R Howden 2, 

S Avallone, S McGregor, 

A Younger, R Campbell), USA 6. 

Australia 13 (S McGregor, 

R Campbell 3, A Martin, 

R Howden 2, T Whalan, B Miller, 

S Avallone), China 3. 

Australia 20 (A Younger 4, 

S Avallone, G Woods, B Miller, 

S McGregor, T Whalan, A Martin, 

T Cleland 2, R Howden, 

J Beadsworth), New Zealand 3. 

Day 2 

Day 4 

Day 6 

Day 8 

Day 10 

Day 12 

Final 

Placings 

Australia 9 (B Miller 3, A Roach, 

R Campbell 2, R Howden, 

A Younger), Romania 8. 

Australia 12 (A Younger, 

R Campbell 3, B Miller, A Martin 2, 

G Woods, S McGregor), China 7. 

Serbia 12, Australia 9 (R Maitland, 

B Miller, R Campbell 2, G Woods, 

A Younger, R Howden). 

Group points: Serbia 6, 

Australia 4, Romania 2, China 0. 

Second round: Spain 9, 

Australia 8 (A Roach, R Howden, 

A Younger 2, R Campbell, 

A Martin). 

Round 9-12: Australia 15 

(R Howden, S McGregor, 

A Martin 3, R Campbell 2, 

G Woods, M Baird, T Cleland, 

R Maitland), Japan 9. 

Classification 9th-10th: 

Australia 8 (A Younger 2, B Miller, 

T Cleland, A Roach, R Campbell, 

S McGregor, R Maitland), 

Canada 6. 

Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, 

Spain, USA, Montenegro, 

Germany, Australia, Canada, 

Japan, Romania, Kazakhstan, 

Brazil, China, South Africa. 

Match 

1 

Match 

2 

Match 

3 

Senior Men 

Pan Pacific Championships, Melbourne, 


Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Australia 10 (S McGregor 2, 

M Baird, J Cotterill, T Whalan, 

B Miller, R Howden, R Maitland, 

R Campbell), USA 7. 

Australia 8 (A Younger 2, 

R Campbell, S Avallone, 

J Cotterill, T Cleland, R Howden, 

B Miller), USA 5. 

Australia 11 (R Campbell 3, 

S McGregor, R Maitland 2, 

AJ Roach, G Woods, A Younger, 

J Beadsworth), USA 8. 

Australia wins series 3-0. 

Samuele Avallone, Jamie 

Beadsworth, Richie Campbell, 

James Clark, Tim Cleland, 


Sam McGregor, Anthony Martin, 

Billy Miller, Thomas Whalan, 







Referee: Danny Flahive. 

Australia 8 (S McGregor, 

R Howden, B Miller 2, 

J Beadsworth, A Martin), Japan 4. 

Australia 17 (G Woods 3, 

R Howden, S McGregor, B Miller, 

R Campbell, T Cleland 2, 

T Whalan, A Martin, A Younger, 

J Beadsworth), Brazil 5. 

Day 7 

Final 

Placings 

Senior Men 

FINA World League, Asia/Oceania 

Preliminary Round 1, Shanghai, China, May 2012 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Gold medal: USA 11, Australia 10 

(R Campbell, T Whalan, 

A Younger 2, S McGregor, 

T Cleland, R Howden, 

J Beadsworth) in extra time 

(FT: 9-9). 

USA, Australia, China, Brazil, 

Japan, New Zealand. 







Thomas Whalan, Gavin Woods. 


Assistant Coach: Paul Oberman. 


Physiotherapist: Adam Smith. 


A Martin 3, J Cotterill, T Whalan, 

R Howden 2, S McGregor), China 1. 

Australia 14 (J Cotterill 3, 

S McGregor, T Cleland, B Miller 2, 

R Campbell, J Beadsworth, 

A Martin, R Howden, T Whalan), 

Japan 7. 

Australia 10 (R Howden, 

J Beadsworth, J Cotterill 2, 

S McGregor, M Baird, T Cleland, 

R Campbell), Kazakhstan 5. 

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Senior Men 

FINA World League, Asia/Oceania 

Preliminary Round 2, China, Japan, May 2012 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Final 

points 



Richie Campbell, Tim Cleland, 

Johnno Cotterill, Joel Dennerley, 



Thomas Whalan, Gavin Woods. 





Australia 10 (A Martin 4, 

R Howden, S McGregor 2, 

J Cotterill, T Whalan), Japan 4. 


R Howden 3, A Martin, J Cotterill 

2, S McGregor, J Beadsworth, 

S Avallone), Kazakhstan 3. 

Australia 17 (B Miller 4, T Whalan 

3, R Campbell, S McGregor 2, 

J Beadsworth, S Avallone, 

T Cleland, M Baird, G Woods, 

J Cotterill), China 5. 

Australia 18, China 9, Japan 9, 

Kazakhstan 6. 

Senior Men 

FINA World League Super Final, Almaty, 

Kazakhstan, June 2012 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Day 6 

Final 

Placings 





Sam McGregor, Robert Maitland, 


Aaidan Roach, Thomas Whalan, 






Croatia 11, Australia 10 (B Miller 3, 

R Campbell, J Beadsworth 2, 

T Cleland, S McGregor, 

J Cotterill, T Whalan). 

Australia 13 (AJ Roach, A Martin 3, 

T Whalan 2, J Cotterill, 

R Maitland, T Cleland, 

S McGregor, A Younger), Brazil 6. 

Spain 8, Australia 7 (T Whalan 3, 

A Roach, S McGregor, 

J Beadsworth, R Campbell). 

Quarterfinal: USA 7, Australia 5 

(R Campbell 2, J Beadsworth, 

AJ Roach, T Cleland). 

5-8 semifinal: Kazakhstan 7, 

Australia 6 (J Cotterill, T Whalan 

2, R Campbell, W Miller). 

7-8 place: Australia 13 (J Cotterill 3, 

A Martin, T Whalan, W Miller 2, 

R Campbell, T Cleland, 

G Woods, A Younger), Brazil 2. 

Croatia, Spain, Italy, USA, 

Kazakhstan, China, Australia, Brazil. 

Senior Men 

Cosenza Trophy, Cosenza, Italy, 

June 2012 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Final 

Placings 





Sam McGregor, Robert Maitland, 

Billy Miller, Aidan Roach, 

Thomas Whalan, Gavin Woods, 





Manager: Jon Harmer. 


Italy 8, Australia 3 (R Campbell, 

J Beadsworth, T Whalan). 

Australia 4 (J Beadsworth, 

S McGregor, R Campbell, 

T Whalan), Greece 4. 

Montenegro 14, Australia 9 

(T Cleland 2, B Miller, R Howden, 

S McGregor, A Roach, T Whalan, 

G Woods). 

Australia 10 (R Howden 3, 

A Younger 2, R Campbell, 

T Cleland, S McGregor, A Roach, 

G Woods), Kazakhstan 6. 

Australia 7 (R Campbell, 

J Cotterill 2, T Cleland, 

S McGregor, B Miller), Canada 5. 

Montenegro, Hungary, Italy, 

Serbia, Australia, Canada, 

Greece, Kazakhstan. 

STUDENTS 

FISU World University Games, Shenzhen, 

China, August 2011 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 3 

Day 7 

Day 8 


Johnno Cotterill, Chris Dyson, 

John Hahn, Lachlan Hollis, 

Tyler Martin, Scott Nicholson, 

Nick O’Halloran, Luke Quinlivan, 

Aidan Roach, Joel Swift, 

James Woods, Daniel Young. 

Head Coach: Paul Oberman. 

Assistant Coach/Manager: 

Andrew Yanitsas. 

Referee: Nick Hodgers. 

Australia 11 (L Hollis, AJ Roach, 

D Young, J Beadsworth 2, 

J Cotterill, C Dyson, J Swift), 

Brazil 6. 

Russia 8, Australia 5 (J Woods, 

AJ Roach, D Young, J Cotterill, 

S Nicholson). 

Macedonia 13, Australia 12 

(J Cotterill 4, J Woods, D Young 2, 

L Hollis, N O’Halloran, 

J Beadsworth, J Swift) in penalty 

shootout (FT: 7-7. ET: 9-9. 

Pens: 4-3). 

France 12, Australia 10 

(J Cotterill 3, A Roach, D Young 2, 

L Hollis, J Beadsworth, J Swift). 

Day 10 

Day 11 

Final 

Placings 

JUNIOR MEN - BORN ‘91 

European Tour, 

August-September 2011 

Team 

James Clark, Jeremy Davie, 

Blake Edwards, James Fannon, 

George Ford, Matthew Giles, 

James Howden, Connor Martin, 

Sam Quinn, Adam Polivka, 

Nick Redbond, Paul Sindone, 

Edward Slade, Clayton Whittaker, 


Head Coach: Adam Richardson. 

Assistant Coach: David Swift. 


Referee: Noel Harrod 


FINA World Championships, Volos, Greece, 


Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Australia 12 (J Woods, A Roach, 

J Beadsworth, J Swift 2, 

C Dyson, N O’Halloran, L Hollis, 

D Young), Brazil 6. 

Classification for 12th: Australia 25 

(J Woods 4, A Roach, 

C Dyson, L Hollis, J Swift 3, 

S Nicholson, D Young, 

J Beadsworth, J Cotterill 2, 

N O’Halloran), Singapore 2. 

Serbia, Russia, Macedonia, 

USA, Japan, Spain, China, 

Italy, Hungary, France, Turkey, 

Australia, Brazil, Singapore. 


Tri Series, Pescara, Italy, 

August 2011 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Australia 19 (B Edwards 5, 

P Sindone 4, N Redbond, C Whittaker, 

J Fannon 2, G Ford, M Giles, 

A Polivka, J Davie), Canada 3. 

Italy 8, Australia 4 (A Younger 3, 

J Davie). 

Final placings: Italy, Australia, 

Canada. 

James Clark, Jeremy Davie, 

Blake Edwards, James Fannon, 

George Ford, Matthew Giles, 

James Howden, Sam Quinn, 

Adam Polivka, Nick Redbond, 

Paul Sindone, Edward Slade, 


Head Coach: Adam Richardson. 

Assistant Coach: David Swift. 


Referee: Noel Harrod. 

Australia 6 (A Younger, P Sindone 

2, A Polivka, J Howden), Greece 6. 

Australia 12 (P Sindone, J Howden 3, 

A Younger, J Davie 2, A Polivka, 

B Edwards), Canada 1. 

Australia 10 (B Edwards, A Younger 3, 

J Davie, S Quinn, J Howden, 

M Giles), France 5. 

Australia 13 (A Polivka, P Sindone 3, 

J Fannon 2, S Quinn, 

A Younger, B Edwards, J Davie, 

N Redbond), Puerto Rico 4.


Day 5 

Day 6 

Day 7 

Day 8 

Day 9 

Final 

Placings 




Team 

Luca Albano, Josh Barrington, 

James Broadley, Blake Buckley, 

Reed Cotterill, Will Dayman, 

Anthony Hrysanthos, 

Gordon Marshall, Matt Perrott, 

Matt Skinner, Lloyd Tarrant, 

Justin Trabinger, Davis Verboon, 

Alex Webb, Ciaran Wolohan. 

Head Coach: Chris Wybrow. 

Manager: Michael Smith. 

WOMEN 

International Tournament, 

Perth, July 2011 

Team 

Bye. 

Final points: Greece 7, Australia 7, 

France 4, Canada 2, Puerto Rico 0. 

Second round: Australia 5 

(P Sindone, G Ford, B Edwards, 

N Redbond, J Howden), USA 4. 

Quarterfinal: Australia 8 

(P Sindone 2, A Polivka, G Ford, 

A Younger, B Edwards, S Quinn, 

J Howden), Italy 6. 

Semifinal: Spain 7, Australia 6 

(A Younger, B Edwards 2, 

A Polivka, G Ford). 

Bronze medal: Greece 7, 

Australia 5 (A Younger, A Polivka, 

J Davie, P Sindone, J Howden). 

Serbia, Spain, Greece, Australia, 

Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, 

Hungary, USA, Iran, France, 

Brazil, Puerto Rico, Canada, 

Egypt, Uzbekistan, Mexico, South 

Africa, Kazakhstan, Kuwait. 


International Tournament, Novaky, 

Slovakia, August 2011 

Australia 10 (G Marshall, 

Day 1 M Perrott 3, M Skinner 2, 

J Broadley, J Trabinger), Slovakia 7. 

Serbia 9, Australia 3 (G Marshall, 

Day 2 

M Perrott, R Cotterill). 

Hungary 14, Australia 8 

Day 3 (M Perrott 3, W Dayman 2, B Buckley, 

J Trabinger, L Tarrant). 

Final 

Placings 

Hungary, Serbia, Australia, 

Slovakia. 

Gemma Beadsworth, 

Victoria Brown, Alicia McCormack, 

Bronwen Knox, Keesja Gofers, 

Kate Gynther, Holly Lincoln-Smith, 

Jane Moran, Glencora Ralph, 

Melissa Rippon, Rebecca Rippon, 

Sophie Smith, Rowena Webster, 

Nicola Zagame. 

Head Coach: Greg McFadden. 

Assistant Coaches: Greig 

Richardson, Ryan Moar, Dalibor 

Maslan. Manager: Lynne Morrison. 

Physiotherapist: Liz Steet. 

Psychologist: Kirsten Peterson. 

Referee: Megan Varlow. 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Day 6 

WOMEN 

FINA World Championships, Shanghai, 

China, July 2011 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 3 

Day 5 

Australian u20 7 (G Venosta, 

H Buckling, A Southern 2, 

E Browne), New Zealand 7. 

Australia 12 (R Webster 3, B Knox 2, 

G Beadsworth, S Smith, 

J Moran, K Gynther, K Gofers, 

M Rippon, N Zagame), Australian 

u20 3 (G Venosta, EJ Graham, 

Z Arancini). 

Australia 18 (R Webster, 

G Ralph 4, J Moran 3, K Gynther, 

N Zagame 2, G Beadsworth, 

S Smith, H Lincoln-Smith), 

New Zealand 5. 

Greece 15, Australia u20 8 

(M Schmidt, A Southern 2, 

E Scott, H Buckling, J Appel, 

O King), Australia 14 (N Zagame 4, 

H Lincoln-Smith 3, K Gynther 2, 

S Smith, R Webster, 

G Beadsworth, R Rippon, 

J Moran), Hungary 9. 

Hungary 17, Australia u20 6 

(EJ Graham 2, M Schmid, 

A Southern, H Buckling, J Appel). 

Australia u20 9 (M Schmid, 

E Brown 2, Z Arancini, O King, 

C Pierce, E Scott, EJ Graham), 

New Zealand 7, Australia 9 

(R Webster, K Gynther 3, S Smith, 

R Rippon, G Ralph), Greece 9. 


Victoria Brown, Alicia McCormack, 

Bronwen Knox, Kate Gynther, 

Holly Lincoln-Smith, Jane Moran, 

Glencora Ralph, Melissa Rippon, 

Rebecca Rippon, Sophie Smith, 

Rowena Webster, Nicola Zagame. 


Assistant Coaches: Greig 

Richardson, Ryan Moar, 

Dalibor Maslan. 

Manager: Lynne Morrison. 


Doctor: Grace Bryant. 


Referee: Daniel Flahive. 

Canada 10, Australia 7 (R Webster 2, 

G Beadsworth, M Rippon, 

B Knox, K Gynther, G Ralph). 

Australia 12 (G Ralph 3, 

H Lincoln-Smith 2, N Zagame, 

J Moran, K Gynther, 

G Beadsworth, R Webster, 

B Knox, M Rippon), New Zealand 4. 

Australia 27 (G Beadsworth, 

R Webster 4, K Gynther, B Knox, 

R Rippon 3, N Zagame, 

M Rippon, S Smith, H Lincoln- 

Smith 2, J Moran, G Ralph), 

Uzbekistan 2. 

Group points: Canada 6, 

Australia 4, New Zealand 2, 

Uzbekistan 0. 

Day 7 

Day 9 

Day 11 

Day 13 

Final 

Placings 

WOMEN 

Canada Cup, Montreal, Canada, 

December 2011 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Final 

points 

Day 6 

Final 

Placings 

Second round: Australia 10 (R 

Webster 4, K Gynther, G Beadsworth 

2, G Ralph, N Zagame), Hungary 9. 

Quarterfinals: Italy 14, Australia 12 

(R Webster, B Knox, G Beadsworth, 

G Ralph 2, M Rippon, N Zagame, 

R Rippon, K Gynther) in penalty 

shootout. (FT: 8-8. ET: 9-9. Pens: 5-3). 

Round 5-8 semifinal: Australia 12 

(B Knox 4, M Rippon, N Zagame 2, 

K Gynther, G Ralph, G Beadsworth, 

R Webster), Netherlands 7. 

Classification 5th-6th: Australia 

10 (B Knox 4, G Ralph 2, 

G Beadsworth, K Gynther, 

R Webster, N Zagame), USA 5. 

Greece, China, Russia, Italy, 

Australia, USA, Netherlands, 

Canada, Hungary, Cuba, Spain, 

New Zealand, Kazakhstan, Brazil, 

South Africa, Uzbekistan. 

Zoe Arancini, Lea Barta, 


Isobel Bishop, Hannah Buckling, 


Jane Moran, Glencora Ralph, 

Sophie Smith, Ashleigh Southern, 

Kelsey Wakefield, 



Assistant Coaches: Grieg 

Richardson, Aleks Osadchuk, 

Eddie Denis. 




Referee: Nicola Johnson. 

Australia 12 (H Lincoln-Smith, 

K Gynther, G Ralph 3, N Zagame 

2, R Webster), Hungary 8. 

Australia 12 (N Zagame 3, 

J Moran, G Ralph, R Webster 2, 

G Beadsworth, H Lincoln-Smith, 

K Gynther), Spain 11. 

Australia 9 (G Beadsworth, S Smith, 

K Gynther 2, H Lincoln-Smith, 

R Webster, N Zagame), Canada 8. 

Australia 6 (R Webster 3, G Ralph 

2, K Gynther), Netherlands 6. 

Australia 9 (J Moran, R Webster, 

Z Arancini 2, N Zagame, 

K Gynther, I Bishop), China 9. 

Australia 8, China 7, Hungary 6, 

Canada 4, Netherlands 3, Spain 2. 

Australia 11 (R Webster 4, 

I Bishop, H Lincoln-Smith, 

Z Arancini, K Gynther, J Moran, 

G Ralph, H Buckling), China 8. 

Australia, China, Canada, 

Hungary, Netherlands, Spain. 

Most Valuable Goalie: Kelsey 

Wakefield (AUS). 

Tournament Team: G Ralph (AUS). 

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WOMEN 

International Series, Melbourne, 

January 2012 

WOMEN 

International Series, Sydney, 

January 2012 

WOMEN 

Visa International Olympic Test Event, 

London, England, May 2012 

38 

Team 

Match 

1 

Match 

2 

Gemma Beadsworth, Isobel 

Bishop, Hannah Buckling, 

Bronwen Knox, Rowena Webster, 

Kate Gynther, Alicia McCormack, 



Ashleigh Southern, 

Kelsey Wakefield, Nicola Zagame. 


Assistant Coaches: Ryan Moar, 



Referees: Andrew Carney, 

Megan Varlow. 

Australia 15 (K Gynther 4, 

G Ralph, R Rippon 3, R Webster 2, 

I Bishop, N Zagame, S Smith), 

Canada 9. 

Australia 10 (G Ralph, K Gynther, 

A Southern 2, R Webster, 

B Knox, I Bishop, G Beadsworth), 

Canada 7. 


WOMEN 

Pan Pacific Championships, Melbourne, 


Team 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Day 6 

Day 7 

Final 

Placings 

Lea Barta, Gemma Beadsworth, 

Isobel Bishop, Hannah Buckling, 



Alicia McCormack, 




Kelsey Wakefield, Nicola Zagame. 


Assistant Coaches: Dalibor 

Maslan, Ryan Moar. 


Referees: Gabor Boros, 

Megan Varlow. 

Australia 18 (M Rippon, 

R Webster 4, N Zagame 3, 

B Knox, H Buckling 2, G Ralph, 

R Rippon, A Southern), Brazil 2. 

Australia 9 (K Gynther, 

G Ralph, N Zagame 2, I Bishop, 

R Webster, H Buckling), Canada 7. 

Australia 8 (G Beadsworth 3, 

R Webster 2, H Buckling, 

A Southern, K Gynther), USA 7. 

Australia 8 (A Southern, 

G Beadsworth 2, R Rippon, 

G Ralph, K Gynther, H Buckling), 

Barbarians 3. 


N Zagame, G Ralph 2, I Bishop, 

K Gynther), China 7. 

Gold Medal: Australia 7 

(R Webster 2, G Beadsworth, 

I Bishop, K Gynther, N Zagame, 

M Rippon), USA 4. 

Australia, USA, Canada, China, 

Brazil. 

Team 

Match 

1 

Match 

2 

Match 

3 

Lea Barta, Gemma Beadsworth, 



Alicia McCormack, Jane Moran, 







Manager: Jenny Liessmann. 

USA 13, Australia 12 (R Webster 4, 

K Gynther 3, N Zagame 2, 

J Moran, A Southern, 

H Lincoln-Smith). 

Australia 11 (K Gynther 3, 

N Zagame, A Southern 2, 

M Rippon, S Smith, R Webster, 

B Knox), USA 6. 

Australia 12 (S Southern 4, 

N Zagame, H Lincoln-Smith 2, 

J Moran, R Webster, B Knox, 

K Gynther), USA 7. 


WOMEN 

International Series, Canberra, 

February 2012 

Team 

Game 

1 

Game 

2 

Game 

3 

Zoe Arancini, Gemma 

Beadsworth, Victoria Brown, 

Hannah Buckling, Kate Gynther, 

Bronwen Knox, Holly-Lincoln Smith, 




Kelsey Wakefield, Rowena Webster, 





Managers: Lynne Morrison, 

Jenny Liessmann. 

Australia 13 (A Southern 4, 

R Webster, B Knox 3, 

G Beadsworth, M Rippon, 

H Lincoln-Smith), Great Britain 5. 

Australia 14 (H Buckling, M Rippon 

3, B Knox, G Beadsworth 2, 

K Gynther, Z Arancini, G Ralph), 

Great Britain 4. 

Australia 15 (J Moran, R Webster, 

N Zagame 3, H Lincoln-Smith 2, 

G Beadsworth, H Buckling, 

M Rippon, S Smith), Great Britain 6. 


Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Final 

Placings 

Gemma Beadsworth, Victoria 

Brown, Kate Gynther, Bronwen 

Knox, Holly Lincoln-Smith, 










Australia 10 (R Webster 4, 

K Gynther 3, N Zagame 2, 

S Smith), Great Britain 4. 

USA 10, Australia 9 (A Southern 5, 

R Webster 2, B Knox, M Rippon). 

Australia 17 (A Southern, K Gynther 

4, S Smith 3, H Lincoln-Smith, 

R Webster 2, J Moran, M Rippon), 

Hungary 12. 

Final: Australia 6 (N Zagame 2, 

A Southern, B Knox, K Gynther, 

H Lincoln-Smith), USA 5. 

Australia, USA, Hungary, 

Great Britain. 

WOMEN 

FINA World League, Asia-Oceania 

Round 1, Shanghai, China, May 2012 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Zoe Arancini, Chloe Barr, Emily 

Benson, Isobel Bishop, Hannah 

Buckling, Georgia Clarke, Maddie 

Coburn, Bronte Colenso, Olivia 

King, Jess Martin, Maddie Schmidt, 

Kelsey Wakefield, Gaby Wikman. 

Head Coach: Peter Szilagyi. 


China 14, Australia 4 (I Bishop, 

G Wikman, M Coburn, E Benson). 

Australia 11 (I Bishop, J Martin, 

Z Arancini 2, H Buckling, 

G Wikman, E Benson, O King, 

G Clarke), China B 4. 

Australia 12 (J Martin 4, I Bishop 

2, B Colenso, G Clarke, 

Z Arancini, O King, E Benson), 

Japan 6. 

WOMEN 

FINA World League, Asia-Oceania 

Round 2, China, Japan, May 2012 

Team 


Victoria Brown, Kate Gynther, 

Bronwen Knox, Holly Lincoln-Smith, 









Physiotherapist: Liz Steet.


Day 1 

Day 2 

Final 

points 


R Webster, A Southern, 

N Zagame 2, S Smith, H Lincoln- 

Smith, M Rippon), China 10. 


N Zagame, B Knox 3, H Lincoln- 

Smith, S Smith 2, G Beadsworth, 

J Moran, G Ralph, M Rippon), 

Japan 2. 

China 9, Australia 9, Japan 0. 

STUDENTS 

World University Games Tour, 


Team 

Lea Barta, Alicia Brightwell, 

Georgia Clarke, Keesja Gofers, 

Jana Liessmann, Jess Martin, 

Maddie Morrison, 

Ebony Neesham, Patrice O’Neill 

(Perth only), Sophie Ricketts, 

Victoria Risby, Nanda Stoltz, 

Joanne Whitehorn, Gabby Wikman. 

Head Coach: Eddie Denis. 


Referee: Daniel Bartels. 

Junior Women - BORN ‘91’ 



Team 

Jayde Appel, Zoe Arancini, 

Isobel Bishop, Eliesha Browne, 

Hannah Buckling, Michaela Davies, 

Emma Jo Grahame, Olivia King, 

Madison Schmid, Emily Scott, 


Genevieve Venosta, 

Kelsey Wakefield. 


Assistant Coach: Tibor Seress. 

Manager: Charlene Sommerville. 

WOMEN 

FINA World League Super Finals, 

Changshu, China, May-June 2012 

Team 

Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Day 6 

Final 

Placings 

Zoe Arancini, 


Victoria Brown, Kate Gynther, 

Bronwen Knox, Holly Lincoln-Smith, 











S Smith, R Webster, K Gynther, 

N Zagame 3, Z Arancini, 

J Moran, B Knox, G Ralph, 

A Southern), Canada 4. 

Australia 12 (S Smith, K Gynther 

3, G Beadsworth, B Knox, 

R Webster, A Southern, 

Z Arancini, N Zagame), Italy 2. 

Australia 9 (R Webster, G Ralph, 

N Zagame 2, G Beadsworth, 

J Moran, K Gynther), Russia 7. 


(N Zagame, M Rippon 3, 

G Beadsworth, H Lincoln-Smith, 

R Webster, K Gynther, G Ralph 2, 

S Smith, J Moran), Germany 0. 

Semifinal: Australia 8 (K Gynther 

4, Z Arancini, B Knox, G Ralph, 

H Lincoln-Smith), China 7. 

Final: USA 6, Australia 4 (B Knox, 

G Ralph, G Beadsworth, S Smith). 

USA, Australia, Greece, China, 

Russia, Germany, Canada, Italy. 

STUDENTS 

Friendly Tournament, Perth, 

July 2011 

Game 

1 

Game 

2 

Game 

3 

Game 

4 

Game 

5 

Game 

6 

Australian u20 10, Australian 

Universities 4 (J Whitehorn, 

M Morrison, G Clarke, S Ricketts).  


Universities 10 (P O’Neill 3, 

A Brightwell, J Martin 2, N Stoltz, 

G Wikman, E Neesham).  

Australian u20 12, Australian 

Universities 11 (A Brightwell, 

G Clarke 3, N Stoltz 2, P O’Neill, 

J Whitehorn, J Martin).  


Universities 8 (G Wikman, 

J Liessmann 2, A Brightwell, 

N Stoltz, K Gofers, G Clarke).  


Universities 8 (A Brightwell, 

K Gofers, N Stoltz, J Whitehorn, 

G Wikman). 

Australian Universities 7 

(A Brightwell 2, K Gofers 2, N Stoltz 

2, J Whitehorn), Australian u20 4. 

STUDENTS 

FISU World University Games, Shenzhen, 

China, August 2011 

USA 8, Australia 6 (A Brightwell 4, 

Day 2 

G Clarke).  

Russia 9, Australia 4 

Day 3 

(G Wikman 3, A Brightwell). 

Australia 15 (A Brightwell 5, 

J Whitehorn, K Gofers 3, 

Day 5 

G Clarke 2, J Liessmann, 

G Wikman), France 6. 

Australia 9 (G Wikman 3, 

J Whitehorn 2, A Brightwell, 

Day 6 

K Gofers, G Clarke, J Liessmann), 

Mexico 9. 

Day 8 

Day 9 

Day 10 

Final 

Placings 

Quarterfinal: Italy 4, Australia 3 

(K Gofers 2, G Wikman). 

Australia 11 (K Gofers 4, 

J Whitehorn 3, G Clarke 2, 

G Wikman, N Stoltz), Great Britain 6. 

Classification 5th & 6th: Australia 

11 (J Whitehorn 3, A Brightwell, 

J Martin 2, G Wikman, N Stoltz, 

E Neesham, S Ricketts), Canada 6. 

China, USA, Russia, Italy, 

Australia, Canada, Great Britain, 

Mexico, France. 

Junior Women - BORN ‘91 

Eger Cup, Eger, Hungary, 


Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Final 

points 

Hungary 10, Australia 9 

(H Buckling, A Southern, M Schmid 

2, G Venosta, Z Arancini, O King). 


J Appel 4, I Bishop, E Grahame, 

Z Arancini 3, O King 2, 

M Schmid, G Venosta, E Browne, 

E Scott), University Szeged 9. 

Australia 17 (Z Arancini, 

G Venosta 4, A Southern, 

H Buckling, J Appel 2, 

E Grahame, O King, M Schmid), 

Budapesti Vasutas Sport Club 9. 

Hungary 6, Australia 4, BVSC 2, 

University Szeged 0. 


International Friendly, Eger, Hungary, 



G Venosta 2, H Buckling, J Appel, 

M Schmid, E Browne, E Scott), 

Hungary 9. 


International Friendly, Zeist, Netherlands, 



Z Arancini 4, I Bishop 3, G Venosta, 

H Buckling, E Scott, E Browne, 

EJ Graham), Netherlands 10. 


International Friendly, Nieuwegein, 

Netherlands, September 2011 


G Venosta, J Appel 3, E Browne, 

EJ Grahame 2), Canada 14. 


International Friendly, Ede, Netherlands, 

September 2011 

Netherlands 12, Australia 10 

(Z Arancini 3, A Southern 2, 

G Venosta, H Buckling, 

EJ Grahame, J Appel, M Schmid). 

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40 


FINA World Championships, Trieste, Italy, 


Day 1 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Day 6 

Day 7 

Final 

Placings 


Z Arancini 2, G Venosta, M Schmid, 

EJ Grahame, J Appel), Hungary 9. 

Australia 32 (EJ Grahame 8, 

I Bishop 6, Z Arancini 4, 

A Southern, J Appel, E Scott 3, 

E Browne, M Schmidt 2, 

H Buckling), Mexico 3. 

Australia 18 (Z Arancini, 

A Southern 3, E Grahame, 

E Scott, H Buckling, G Venosta 2, 

O King, I Bishop, J Appel, 

E Browne), China 7. 

Final points: Group A: Hungary 

5, Australia 5, China 2, Mexico 0. 

Second round: Australia 17 

(Z Arancini 5, G Venosta 3, 

I Bishop, EJ Grahame, E Browne 

2, E Scott, H Buckling, O King), 

Uzbekistan 5. 


(J Appel 3, Z Arancini, M Schmidt 

2, A Southern, E Scott, I Bishop), 

Greece 5. 

Semifinal: Spain 8, Australia 7 

(Z Arancini 3, A Southern 2, 

G Venosta, I Bishop). 

Bronze medal: Australia 10 

(E Scott 3, J Appel, M Schmid 2, 

Z Arancini, A Southern, 

H Buckling), Russia 2. 

Spain, Hungary, Australia, Russia, 

Italy, Greece, Netherlands, USA, 

Canada, Uzbekistan, China, 

Germany, Brazil, South Africa, 

Mexico, Indonesia. 


International Series with New Zealand, 

Sydney, Australia, April 2012 

Team 

Match 

1 

Match 

2 

Match 

3 

Morgan Baxter, Emily Benson, 

Emily Boland, Jess Brooks, 

Bronte Colenso, Matilda Connor, 

Michaela Davies, Cathryn Earl, 

Jess Brooks, Taylor Leonard, 

Laura Izzy Malcolm, 

Maggie Morrison, Claire Negus, 

Tara Pitman, Tayla Walsh. 


Australia 15 (T Walsh 4, 

B Colenso 3, E Boland, M Connor 2, 

M Morrison, C Earl, M Baxter, 

C Negus), New Zealand 9. 

Australia 10 (B Colenso 4, 

M Connor 2, C Earl, T Walsh, 

M Baxter, E Benson), 

New Zealand 10. 

Australia 9 (E Benson 4, 

M Baxter 2, C Earl, T Walsh, 

E Boland), New Zealand 9. 





Team 


Pythia Cup, Itea, Greece, 


Hungary 12, Australia 2 (S Forth, 

Day 1 

M Martino). 

Greece 15, Australia 9 (B Symons 2, 

J Zimmerman, E Swete Kelly, 

Day 2 

L Swan, M du Toit, C Barr, 

S El Safty, M Perkins). 

Italy 11, Australia 9 (C Barr 3, 

Day 3 M du Toit, K Ralston 2, 

J Zimmerman, S El Safty). 

Australia 7 (S Forth, M du Toit 2, 

Day 4 J Zimmerman, C Barr, M Perkins), 

Netherlands 6. 

Final 

points 

Greece 10, Hungary 8, Spain 6, 

Italy 4, Australia 2, Netherlands 0. 


International Series, Dunjauvaros, 

Hungary, August 2011 

Hungary 8, Australia 7 (C Barr 3, 

Day 1 B Symons, M Quinn, M Ralph, 

M Perkins). 

Australia 11 (M Ralph 4, C Barr 2, 

S Forth, E Swete Kelly, 

Day 2 

M du Toit, S El Safty, L Swan), 

Great Britain 8. 


Pan Pacific Youth Festival, 

Auckland, New Zealand, June 2012 

Teams 

Day 1 

Chloe Barr, Stephanie Calaizis, 

Megan du Toit, Stephanie El-Safty, 

Savannah Forth, Millie Martino, 

Ainsley Masek, Montana Perkins, 

Madeline Quinn, Mercedes Ralph, 

Kassia Ralston, Emma Swete Kelly, 

Belinda Symons, Lucinda Swan, 

Jessica Zimmerman. 

Head Coach: Aleks Osadchuk. 

Manager: Jenny MacGregor. 

Referee: Andrew Carney. 

Australia Green: Emma Whaling, 

Amy Ridge, Sally Coburn, 

Olivia Mackell, Christobel Hill Smith, 

Chloe Parer, Chelsea Allen, 

Caitlyn Roye, Pia Rodgers, 

Kristy Donkin, Samantha Stanton, 

Katie Laycock, Elise Gaskell. 

Head coach: Georgina Kovacs. 

Australia Gold: Emily Grellman, 

Kate Abbey-Wardale, Bronte Halligan, 

Monique Rebelo, Ellodie Ruffin, 

Julia Barton, Aoife Scales, Tori Morrissey, 

Georgia Hole, Lena Mihailovic, 

Paige Wiseman, Madeleine Steere, 

Octavia Bellekens. 

Head coach: Jack Lusic. 

Australia Green 21 (C Allen, 

S Stanton, C Parer 4, C Hill Smith 3, 

O Mackell, C Roye 2, 

P Rodgers, K Donkin), Ukiah 

(USA) 1, Australia Gold 10 

(L Mihailovic 5, E Ruffin 2, M Steere 

2, M Rebelo), New Zealand 6. 

Day 2 

Day 3 

Day 4 

Day 5 

Australia Green 16 (S Stanton 3, 

C Allen, S Coburn 2) Marist (NZL) 

4, Australia Gold 8 (M Steere 3, 

L Mihailovic 2, E Ruffin, 

M Rebelo, T Morrissey), 

Queensland u18 5, Australia 

Green 16 (C Parer 5, 

C Hill Smith, S Stanton, C Allen, 

K Laycock 2, S Coburn, C Roye, 

P Rodgers) Mountford Park (NZL) 

0, Australia Gold 31 (G Hole 7, 

K Abbey-Wardale 5, L Mihailovic, 

T Morrissey 4, M Steere, 

A Scales 3, B Halligan, E Ruffin, 

M Rebelo, J Barton, P Wiseman), 

Southern Districts (NZL) 1. 

Quarterfinals: Australia Green 7 

(C Allen, S Coburn 2, 

A Ridge, C Hill Smith, S Stanton) 

Waitakere (NZL) 3, Australia Gold 

9 (L Mihailovic 4, M Steere 3, 

M Rebelo, T Morrissey), 

NSW Waratahs 5. 

Semifinal: Australia Gold 14 

(L Mihailovic 6, M Steere 3, 

T Morrissey 2, A Scales, G Hole, 

B Halligan), Australia Green 12 

(K Donkin, C Parer 3, C Allen, 

S Coburn 2, A Ridge, K Laycock). 

Gold medal: North Harbour 9, 

Australia Gold 6 (M Steere 3, 

B Halligan, L Mihailovic, G Hole). 

Bronze medal: NSW Blues u18 11, 

Australia Green 10 (K Donkin 4, 

C Parer 3, C Allen, S Coburn, 

K Laycock) in extra time (FT: 8-8). 



Statement by the 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

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Independent Auditor’s 

REPORT 

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Independent Auditor’s 

REPORT 

43 

Auditor’s Independence 

DECLARATION


Statement of 

comprehensive income 

For the Year Ended 30 June 2012 

Note 2012 2011 

$ $ 

Revenue from Continuing Operations 2 

High Performance 2,742,470 2,653,369 

Sport Development 68,713 68,287 

National Water Polo League 469,824 428,084 

National Championships 159,488 175,314 

Management and Governance 633,557 786,866 

Total Revenue from Continuing Operations 4,074,052 4,111,920 

Expenditure from Continuing Operations 3 

High Performance 3,092,895 2,182,834 

Sport Development 27,461 72,247 

National Water Polo League 470,324 428,987 

National Championships 155,555 230,938 

Management and Governance 889,914 1,071,113 

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Total Expenditure from Continuing Operations 4,636,149 3,986,119 

Surplus/(Deficit) from Continuing Operations (562,097) 125,801 

Other Comprehensive Income 

Gain/(Loss) on Disposal of Assets (2,703) - 

Inventory write-off (169,025) - 

Other Comprehensive income for period (171,728) - 

Total Comprehensive Income for the Year (733,825) 125,801 

The accompanying notes form part of these statements.


Statement of 

financial position 



$ $ 

ASSETS 

Current Assets 

Cash & Cash Equivalents 4 206,902 715,953 

Trade Receivables and Other Debtors 5 506,005 552,076 

Inventory on Hand 6 - 170,720 

Other Current Assets 7 309,489 159,477 

Total Current Assets 1,022,396 1,598,226 

Non-Current Assets 

Plant & Equipment 8 20,125 14,486 

Total Non-Current Assets 20,125 14,486 

Total Assets 1,042,521 1,612,712 

LIABILITIES 

Current Liabilities 

Trade Payables and Other Payables 9 366,157 167,299 

Provisions 11 87,449 154,030 

Income Received in Advance 10 420,675 360,750 

Total Current Liabilities 874,281 682,079 

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Non-Current Liabilities 

Provisions 11 13,643 42,211 

Total Non-Current Liabilities 13,643 42,211 

Total Liabilities 887,924 724,290 

Net Assets 154,597 888,422 

Equity 

Accumulated Funds 154,597 888,422 

Total Equity 154,597 888,422 



Statement of 

changes in equity 


Note 

Accumulated 

Funds 

Balance at 1 July 2011 762,621 762,621 

Surplus/(Deficit) attributable to the entity 125,801 125,801 

Balance as 30 June 2011 888,422 888,422 

Surplus/(Deficit) attributable to the entity (733,825) (733,825) 

Balance as 30 June 2012 154,597 154,597 

Total 

Equity 

Statement of 

cash flows 

46 



$ $ 

Cash Flows from Operating Activities 

Receipts from Grants 2,338,500 2,524,250 

Receipts from Other 1,767,741 1,620,993 

Payments to Suppliers and Employees (4,618,808) (3,969,411) 

Interest Received 23,807 28,019 

Net Cash inflows/(outflows) from Operating Activities 12b (488,760) 203,851 

Cash Flows from Investing Activities 

Payments for Plant and Equipment 8 (20,291) (1,600) 

Net Cash inflows/(outflows) from Investing Activities (20,291) (1,600) 

Net Increase/(Decrease) in Cash held (509,051) 202,251 

Cash at the Beginning of the Financial Year 715,953 513,702 

Cash at the End of the Financial Year 12a 206,902 715,953 



Notes to and forming 

part of the accounts 

Note 1: Statement of Accounting 

Policies 

These financial statements are special 

purpose reports which have been prepared 

specifically for distribution to members 

in accordance with the Associations 

Incorporation Act 1991 (ACT) and for the 

purpose of acquitting grants received from 

the Australian Sports Commission and the 

Australian Olympic Committee. 

The Association is of the type identified 

in Statement of Accounting Concepts 1 

as a non-reporting entity. The statements 

have been prepared in accordance with 

applicable accounting standards. 

a) Basis of Preparation 

The statements have been prepared on 

an accruals basis from the records of the 

Association. They are based on historic costs 

and do not take into account the changing 

values of money. 

b) Revenue and Other Income 

Government grants are recognised 

as revenue in accordance with the 

requirements and conditions of the 

Australian Sports Commission Funding & 

Service Level Agreement and the Australian 

Olympic Committee grant. 

Revenue from the sale of goods is recognised 

on delivery of the goods to the customer. 

Interest revenue is recognised over the 

period for which the funds are invested. 

All revenue is stated net of the amount of 

goods and services tax. 

c) Cash and Cash Equivalents 

Cash and cash equivalents include cash on 

hand, foreign currency account, deposits 

held at call with banks and other short term 

liquid investments with original maturities of 

three months or less. 

d) Goods and Services Tax (GST) 

Revenues, expenses and assets are 

recognised net of the amount of GST, except 

where the amount of GST incurred is not 

recoverable from the Australian Taxation 

Office. In these circumstances the GST 

is recognised as part of the cost of the 

acquisition or as part of an item of expense. 

Receivables and payables in the statement of 

financial position are shown inclusive of GST. 

Cash Flows are presented in the statement 

of cash flows on a gross basis, except for the 

GST component of investing and financing 

activities which are disclosed as operating 

cash flows. 

e) Property, Plant and Equipment 

Each class of property, plant and equipment 

is carried at cost or fair value as indicated, 

less where applicable, any accumulated 

depreciation and impairment losses. 

Plant and Equipment 

Items of plant and equipment are measured 

on the cost basis less depreciation and 

impairment losses. 

The carrying amount of plant and equipment 

is reviewed annually by management to 

ensure it is not in excess of the recoverable 

amount from these assets. The recoverable 

amount is assessed on the basis of the 

expected net cash flows that will be 

received from the asset’s employment and 

subsequent disposal. The expected net cash 

flows have been discounted to their present 

values in determining recoverable amounts. 

Depreciation 

The depreciable amount of all fixed assets, 

is depreciated on a diminishing value basis 

over the asset’s useful life commencing 

from the time the asset is held ready for use. 

Leasehold improvements are depreciated 

over the shorter of either the unexpired 

period of the lease or the estimated useful 

lives of the improvements. 

The depreciation rates used for each class of 

depreciable assets are 

Computer Equipment 33-40% 

Furniture, Fixtures and Fittings 20-25% 

The assets’ residual values and useful lives are 

reviewed and adjusted if appropriate, at each 

statement of financial performance dates. 

An asset’s carrying amount is written down 

immediately to its recoverable amount if the 

asset’s carrying amount is greater than its 

estimated recoverable amount. 

Gains and losses on disposals are 

determined by comparing proceeds with the 

carrying amount. These gains and losses are 

included in the statement of comprehensive 

income. When revalued assets are sold 

amounts included in the revaluation reserve 

relating to that asset are transferred to 

retained earnings. 

f) Impairment 

At each reporting date, the Association 

reviews the carrying values of its tangible 

and intangible assets to determine whether 

there is any indication that those assets have 

been impaired. If such an indication exists, 

the recoverable amount of the asset being 

the higher of the asset’s fair value less costs 

to sell and value in use is use is compared to 

the asset’s carrying value. Any excess of the 

asset’s carrying value over its recoverable 

amount is expensed to the statement of 

comprehensive income. 

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Notes to and forming 

part of the accounts 

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g) Employee Entitlements 

Annual Leave 

Employee Entitlements are measured as the 

amount unpaid at the reporting at the pay 

rates expected to be paid in respect of the 

employee’s service up to that date. Accrued 

annual leave is treated as a current liability. 

Sick Leave 

Unused sick leave does not give rise to a 

liability as it is not considered probable that 

sick leave taken in the future will be greater 

than the benefits accrued in the future. 

Long Service Leave 

Long Service Leave is recognised and 

measured as the present value of expected 

future payments to be made in respect of 

services provided by employees to the 

reporting date. The entitlement for long 

service leave is measured in accordance 

with applicable state and federal industrial 

relations laws. 

Superannuation 

The employer’s obligation for employee 

entitlements is recognised as an expense in 

the period it relates. Expense is determined 

based on 9% of employee salaries. 

h) Trade Payables & Other Payables 

Trade and other payables are stated at cost 

which approximates fair value to the short 

term nature of these liabilities. 

i) Inventories on Hand 

Inventories are measured at the lower of cost 

and net realisable value. 

j) Income Tax 

The Association is an exempt body for 

income tax purposes under Division 50 of 

the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. 

k) Provisions 

Provisions are recognised when the entity 

has a legal or constructive obligation, as a 

result of past events, for which it is probable 

that an outflow of economic benefits will 

result and that outflow can be reliably 

measured. Provisions recognised represent 

the best estimate of the amounts required 

to settle the obligation at the end of the 

reporting period. 

l) Comparative Figures 

Where required by Accounting Standards 

comparative figures have been adjusted to 

conform to changes in the presentation of 

the current financial year. 

m) New Australian Accounting Standards 

Issued but not Effective 

At reporting date a number of Australian 

Accounting Standards have been issued 

by the Australian Accounting Standards 

but are not yet operative. These have not 

been adopted early by Water Polo Australia 

Incorporated as they have been assessed 

to be not materially affecting the financial 

statements. 

n) Economic Dependence 

The ongoing viability of the Association is 

dependent upon the continuing support of 

the funding bodies and the Member of the 

Association. 



Notes to the 

financial statements 

2012 2011 

Note 2: REVENUE $ $ 

(a) High Performance 

Australian Sports Commission Grants 2,086,250 2,035,000 

Australian Olympic Committee Grants 90,000 90,000 

Athlete Contributions 449,141 502,175 

Sponsorship 68,000 24,949 

Sundry 49,079 1,245 

2,742,470 2,653,369 

(b) Sporting Development 

Australian Sports Commission Grants 68,500 63,000 

Accreditation & Courses 213 5,287 

68,713 68,287 

(c ) National Water Polo League 

Australian Sports Commission Grants 40,000 40,000 

NWPL Participation Fees 416,099 374,016 

Sponsorship 12,500 13,977 

Sundry 1,225 91 

469,824 428,084 

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(d) National Championships 

Australian Sports Commission Grants 45,000 - 

National Championship Fees 60,175 52,104 

National Championship Travel - 123,210 

Sundry 54,313 - 

159,488 175,314 

(e) Management and Governance 

Australian Sports Commission Grants 100,000 - 

WA State Government Funding 20,000 - 

Capitation Fees 351,941 382,840 

Insurance 65,367 90,392 

Merchandise Sales 51,923 180,164 

Sponsorship 2,697 66,762 

Bank Interest 23,807 28,019 

Hall Of Fame 6,023 9,080 

Affiliation Fees 600 800 

Sundry 11,199 8,695 

Member Travel Contributions - 114 

Donations - 20,000 

Total 633,557 786,866 

Total Revenue 4,074,052 4,111,920


Notes to the 



Note 3: EXPENDITURE $ $ 

(a) High Performance 

Employee Expenses 201,974 182,070 

National Team Travel & Competition Costs 2,021,229 1,421,647 

Grants - High Performance Programs 639,758 516,512 

Fees for Service 117,499 27,732 

Provision for Impairment -Debtors 50,000 - 

Other 62,435 34,873 

3,092,895 2,182,834 

(b) Sporting Development 

Fees for Service 16,042 55,000 

Coaching and Officiating Courses and Material 1,668 10,378 

Grants - State Associations 7,500 - 

Travel & General Office Costs 2,251 6,869 

27,461 72,247 

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(c ) National Water Polo League 


Travel Costs 341,881 307,906 

Competition Costs 113,443 106,081 

470,324 428,987 

(d) National Championships 

Employee Expenses 32,700 - 

Competition & Travel Costs 122,855 107,728 

National Championship Team Travel - 123,210 

155,555 230,938


Notes to the 



Note 3: EXPENDITURE $ $ 

(e) Management and Governance 


Provision for Annual Leave and Long Service leave 10,334 57,732 

Audit Fees 12,000 12,000 

Fee for Service-Legal 38,454 20,210 

Fee for Service -Accounting 64,775 68,459 

Fee for Service -Human Resources 29,387 32,760 

Fee for Service -Media & Website 49,315 35,882 

Fee for Service -Secretary & Administration 63,092 - 

Telephone and Internet Costs 14,448 20,586 

Computer & Equipment Costs 2,500 10,218 

National Data Base Costs - 7,200 

General Office Costs 13,870 20,995 

Insurance 71,482 68,987 

Athlete Payments-Fred Mayer Foundation 20,000 - 

Travel Costs 39,699 46,437 

Staff Training & Development - 3,056 

Occupancy Costs 28,915 22,232 

Merchandise -Cost of Sales 28,151 117,317 

Publicity, Promotions and Website 37,732 30,910 

Corporate Functions & Entertainment 12,377 10,316 

Hall of Fame 23,981 26,131 

Bank Charges 3,336 4,183 

Provision for Impairment- Debtors 20,873 20,223 

Exchange Loss -US Dollar Bank Account - 30,339 

Board Meeting & Member Travel Costs 25,484 35,140 

Annual General Meeting & Half Yearly Conference Costs 23,363 14,681 

Depreciation 11,951 16,094 

Other 2,810 20,009 

889,914 1,071,113 

Total Expenditure 4,636,149 3,986,119 

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Notes to the 



Note 4: CASH & CASH EQUIVALENTS $ $ 

Cash at Bank 104,775 614,264 

US Dollar Foreign Currency Account 102,127 101,689 

206,902 715,953 

The Association operates a US Dollar Foreign Currency account to hold competition prize money paid by FINA and to pay expenses incurred 

in FINA international competitions. The operation of the account removes the uncertainty of fluctuations between the US dollar and Australian 

dollar. The amount $102,127 appearing in the statement of financial position is the accumulated value of the transactions at the currency rate 

applying at the time of each transaction. At balance date the amount held in the foreign currency account was $USD 104,078 and as at 30 June 

2012 its value was $AUD 102,127 at the conversion rate of 1.0191. 

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Note 5: ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AND OTHER DEBTORS 

Current: 

Accounts Receivables 432,762 411,595 

Provision for bad and doubtful debts (75,000) (31,622) 

Other Debtors-FINA 49,063 55,000 

Other Debtors -Sponsorship 22,000 48,886 

Other Debtors - Staff Advance - 31,935 

Other Debtors-Sundry 77,180 36,282 

506,005 552,076 

(a) Accounts Receivables - Aged Analysis 

0-30 days 240,948 298,213 

31-60 days 41,354 3,126 

61-90 days 27,126 31,970 

91+ days 123,334 78,286 

432,762 411,595 

Note 6: INVENTORIES 

Current: 

At Cost - 170,720 

- 170,720 

It was determined that the inventory on hand at 30 June 2012 had little or no realisable value and was fully written off at balance date.


Notes to the 



Note 7: CURRENT ASSETS $ $ 

Current: 

Prepayments 309,489 159,477 

309,489 159,477 

Note 8: PROPERTY PLANT AND EQUIPMENT 

Plant & Equipment at Cost 

Gross Carrying Amount 42,193 56,147 

Less: Accumulated Depreciation (22,068) (41,661) 

Net Carrying Amount 20,125 14,486 

Note 9: TRADE PAYABLES AND OTHER PAYABLES 

Current: 

Accounts Payable 340,035 129,256 

Accruals 26,122 38,043 

366,157 167,299 

Note 10: INCOME RECEIVED IN ADVANCE 

Current: 

Australian Sports Commission 132,500 296,250 

Australian Olympic Committee 52,500 - 

Other 235,675 64,500 

420,675 360,750 

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Note 11: PROVISIONS 

Current: 

Employee Entitlements 

Annual Leave 87,449 121,173 

Long Service Leave - 32,857 

87,449 154,030 

Non Current: 

Employee Entitlements 

Annual Leave 34,394 

Long Service Leave 13,643 7,817 

13,643 42,211


Notes to the 


Note 12: STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS 

(a) Reconciliation of Cash 

For the purpose of the Statement of Cash Flows cash includes cash at bank and cash on hand. Cash at 30 June 2012 as shown in the 

Statement of Cash Flows is reconciled to the related items in the Balance Sheet as follows. 


Notes $ $ 

Cash at Bank 206,902 715,903 

(b) Reconciliation of Net Cash provided by Operating Activities to Surplus/(Deficit) from ordinary activities 


Notes $ $ 

Surplus/(Deficit) (733,827) 125,801 

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Plus/(Less): Non Cash Items 

Depreciation and Amortisation 11,951 16,094 

(Gain)/Loss on Disposal 2,703 - 

Changes in Assets and Liabilities 

(increase)/Decrease in Receivables 46,071 (180,072) 

(increase)/Decrease in Inventory 170,720 11,500 

(increase)/Decrease in Other Assets (150,012) (28) 

Increase/(Decrease) in Payables 198,858 (116,473) 

Increase/(Decrease) in Other Liabilities 59,925 289,297 

Increase/(Decrease) in Provisions (95,149) 57,732 

(488,760) 203,851 

Note 13: RELATED PARTIES 

For the reporting period the Board of Water Polo Australia Inc comprised Peter Kerr (Chairman) John Birch (resigned 03/07/2011), Susannah Fraser 

(appointed 9/10/2011), David Martin, Phillip Scales, Trent Franklin, Kay Copeland, Warren Hawtin and Amy Hetzel (appointed 03/07/2011). In their capacity 

as Board Members they received no remuneration and any transactions between related parties are on normal commercial terms and conditions. 

Note 14: EVENTS OCCURING AFTER BALANCE DATE 

There are no events after the statement of financial position affecting these financial statements to be disclosed.

Water Polo Australia LIMITED would like to thank the following partners: 

Principal sponsor 

Sponsors 

Queensland 

Academy of Sport


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Water Polo Australia Limited 

ACN 159 573 403 

PO Box 580, Sydney Markets, NSW 2129 

NSWIS Building B, Level 1, 6 Figtree Drive 

Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127 

Telephone: 02 9763 0600 

Facsimile: 02 9763 0382 

Email: alicia.mccormack@waterpoloaustralia.com.au 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/WaterPoloAus 

www.australianwaterpolo.com.au

2011-12 Annual Report - Australian Water Polo Inc

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