It was a glorious Spring day in Sydney today. I have the pleasure every Sunday morning in the 6 months or so of spring/summer in Australia to take my four kids down to Clovelly Beach where they all participate in ‘Nippers’, which is in effect junior surf livesaving (although, they learn a lot more about having (safe) fun in the sun and an awareness of the (ocean) water than they do about saving lives at this age).
Here are a few pics of Taylor trying her hardest in the Tug of War.
We’re happy to say that now there’s an easier way to raise funds for your club. Cash for a Cause is an initiative from PharmaOnline, one of Australia’s leading online pharmacies. They’ll even get you started by matching the first $20 you raise!
Register your club now and your club will receive 10% of all purchases made by your members and supporters on the site. That’s right – your club can raise funds just by your members and supporters shopping online.
What could be more simple? Click here to find out more and register your club today – it’s quick and easy.
Register your club before October 30 and they will match the first $20 raised for your club!
It’s spring in Sydney so we’re spring cleaning our desktops, dusting off our keyboards (especially after the big dust storm!), and adding some passion to our desktops!
Feel free to add this to your desktop to kick start the season!
Update: We’ll be offline from 3pm-5pm Friday 25 September. Apologies for the short notice!
Sorry to say that we have to make some rather urgent changes to our servers, so you might experience a little down-time on SportsPassion from time to time over the next few days.
We sincerily regret any inconvenience this may cause and hope to get SportsPassion back in ship-shape shortly!
I’ll keep you updated of our progress via this blog, so if you have any questions, feel free to post them in the comments and be sure to bookmark our blog so you can find us easily.
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If you live in Sydney, you will have woken up to what looked like a scene out of a bad horror film – an eerie Mars like red glow shrouded the city!
Sydney Dust Storm - 8am, 23 Sept
Thankfully it’s lifting a little now, but asthma sufferers or anyone with lung or respiratory conditions, have been advised to stay indoors until the dust clears.
So, if you have an outdoor match scheduled for today, you might want to think about postponing (or moving it indoors!), as according to trusty news sources, the dust is expected to stay around until early afternoon.
For the latest weather updates that might impact your game today, check out Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) or if you’re on twitter follow the chatter via #sydneyduststorm
If your game/training session been postponed due to the severe weather conditions, what are you going to do instead?
When the Lightning Girls (under 12) won the Reebok Top Regional Team Competition back in July 2009, we thought ‘Give-aways are a great! Let’s do another one soon!’….. so we did!
In conjunction with ACNT SportsPerform, we ran the ‘Match Day Massage’ competition.
The winners were pampered in between plays and all in all, it was a great day for everyone.
Since then, we have been busily brainstorming our next competition, but we would really love your input!
Pssst! Interested in sponsoring a competition?Click here.
Are you keeping up with the latest mobile trends or are you (happily) lagging behind?
There’s so many ’smart phones’ to choose from – iPhone’s, Blackberry’s, Palms, Google’s Android – all with amazing features, but when it comes to making a phone call, are you more of a traditionalist?
If you’re a ’smart phone’ owner, do you miss the days when you could just hand someone your phone and they would know how to make a call? (A friend recently asked if he could use my phone to make a call, and was dumbfounded by the features on my iPhone – LOL and he works in IT).
Did you know that you can change the background on your team page?
To change your background, simply do the following:
As a team administrator, go to your team and click ‘edit’
Next to ‘background image’ click ‘browse’ and select the image you’d like to use as your background (click ’tile’ if you’d like you’re image to repeat so it fills the entire background)
Set the main colour, main text colour, link colour and title colour
Click ‘update’
Tip: If you don’t like the results, you can start again! Just click ‘edit team’, select ‘remove background image’ and ‘restore defaults’ then click ‘update’.
It’s just that easy!
We’ve also created some football backgrounds which you can easily add to your team.
(click on the image to enlarge, then save it to your computer, or you can download them all here.)
So, Saturday was a busy sports day in the Antulov household – not for participation on the field, but for collecting the end-of-season awards and trophies.
All four of my little guys play weekend community sport – the two boys play Auskick, which is a kids version of Autstralian Rules Football (Aussie Rules) and the two girls play football (soccer). It was a logistical challenge moving across different suburbs on different parts of the day to make sure we could get them all to their team presentations on time, and with at least one parent in attendance. And, to top it off, we had two birthday parties to attend, too!
None of the four won or even played in a Grand Final. All four learnt many sports and life skills during the season, and they had fun just kicking the ball around the park – priceless!
This year was my first year as a football dad and coach with my first son’s foray into the grassroots world of football!
It has been an experience to live and breath the football journey as both a junior small sided game (SSG) football coach and parent. I really felt the heavy dependence on volunteers at a local level and think it must change for the long term sustainability of sports across the board.
On a personal note, it was great to be able to be part of the boy’s sporting lives and seeing them adapt and grow. I was proud to be part of that journey.
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