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April 2009 |
Athletics
• QAS athlete Matt Davies placed third (12.08) in the 2009 Stawell Gift, after starting from the 2.25m backmark
Canoe/Kayak
• Ken Wallace, Jacob Clear, Matthew Urquhart, Lyndsie Fogarty, Andrea Wood and Bernadette Wallace will compete at the World Cup 1 in Racice (CZE) on May 4, then prepare for World Cup 3 in Hungary from June 5, before heading to Canada in August for the World Championships.
Cricket
2008/2009 BMD XXXX Gold Bulls Awards Dinner
• Former QAS player Lee Carseldine was awarded the Ian Healey Trophy, recognised as the BMD Players' Player and the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash Player of the Year.
• Nineteen year old left-arm paceman Scott Walter was named the QAS Player of the Year after making his debut for the QAS second XI squad in Hobart in early January.
• Member of the 2008/2009 Female QAS squad, Jess Jonassen, was announced as the winner of the girls Konica Minolta Youth Player of the Year Award.
Cycling
2009 National BMX Championships - Perth
• QAS athletes Rachel Bracken will compete in the Probikx Junior Women division, while Melissa Mankowski will contest the Probikx Elite Women division.
• Fellow athletes Steven Janssen and Todd Pascoe will compete in the Probikx Elite Men's division and the Pre Elite division.
Hockey
Australian Hockey League
• The Queensland Blades were defeated in the grand final in an upset by the Smokefree WA Thundersticks 2-1.
• The Queensland Scorchers were defeated in the grand final by the NSW Arrows, 5-3. The Queensland team went into the final as underdogs but had fought hard to make it to the final match after losing the first four games of their AHL season.
• QAS athletes Madonna Blyth, Teneal Attard have been renamed in the squad, while fellow QAS athlete Jane Bennett will be making her debut for the Hockeyroos in 2009.
• QAS athletes Stephen Lambert, Mark Knowles, Liam De Young, Jamie Dwyer and Robert Hammond have been named on the 2009 Kookaburras squad. While Jason Wilson will join the squad for a tour of Europe in May.
• QAS athletes Teneal Attard and Madonna Blyth will join the rest of the Hockeyroos squad in a 4 Nations Tournament from 2nd June. The invitational will feature Argentina, South Africa, India and Australia and will take place in Durban, South Africa.
Rowing
2009 Rowing Selection Event
• QAS athletes Jared Bidwell (men's quad scull), Darryn Purcell (men's lightweight coxless four), Emma McCarthy (women's coxless four), Pippa Savage and Sally Kehoe (women's sculling squad) will compete in the 2009 World Championships in Poland
• QAS Head Coach Tim Conrad has also been selected to travel with the team as coach of the men's coxless four and the women's sculling squad.
• Alison Scobbie will compete in the Under 23 World Championships in Racice, Czech Republic in July as part of the women's lightweight quad scull.
• Madeleine Edmunds will represent Australia at the Junior World Rowing Championships in Brive La Gaillarde, France in August as part of the junior women's quad scull.
Regatta results
• Women's junior single scull - Madeleine Edmunds 1st (8:03.51)
• Women's single scull - Pippa Savage 1st (7:48.11)
• Women's single scull - Sarah Eke 2nd (8:06.34)
• Men's lightweight coxless pair - Darryn Purcell 2nd (7:00.92)
Swimming
• Daniel Smith, Luke Kerswell, Katie Goldman, Jade Neilsen and Leiston Pickett will compete in the Tucson Ford Dealers Southwest Classic on June 5-7, before heading to California for the 42nd Santa Clara International Grand Prix on June 11-14, competing as part of the Telstra Dolphins
Australian Age Championships
• QAS athletes won over 100 medals between them at the 2009 Championships, breaking as many as eight Age and Australian Allcomers records
• Mikkayla Maselli-Sheridan claimed nine medals at the Championships, becoming the most successful individual female in the history of the event.
• Thirteen year old Yolane Kukla also had an outstanding meet winning five gold medals and breaking four records.
Duel in the Pool
• Yolane Kukla, Leiston Pickett, Jade Neilsen, Tessa Wallace, Daniel Smith, Katie Goldman and Kelly Marquenie have been selected as part of the youth team that will compete in the Duel in the Pool event in Canberra against the Japan team.
Triathlon
• QAS athlete Courtney Atkinson has continued his dominance of the course in Japan following his fifth win at the Ishigaki ITU Triathlon World Cup in six years (1:48.24). Since 2000, Atkinson has won the elite men's division of the Ishigaki race every year except for 2008.
Water Polo
National Water Polo League
• QAS athletes on the KFC Breakers team include Daniel Streets, David Will, Jordan Votan, Lyndon Cranley, Mitchell McCann, Rafeal Sterk and Sam Roberston.
• The KFC Breakers are on 62 points equal with the Victorian Tigers following the final preliminary round games. They will go into the finals series placed second according to the tie break rules.
• In the women's competition the Brisbane Barracudas are placed third on the ladder on 60 points, equal with second placed Longmont Fremantl Marlins.
• QAS athletes on the women's Brisbane Barracudas team include Jane Moran, Kate Gynther, Kelsey Wakefield, Hannah Robinson, Melissa Rippon, Nanda Stoltz, Sophie Smtith and Stephanie Thomas
• QAS athletes on the KFC Breakers team include Bronwen Knox, Emily Young and Sarah Mills
Junior Water Polo teams
• Matt Giles (centre-back), James Howden (centre forward) and Blake Edwards (driver) have been announced as part of the junior men's squad that will travel to Sibenik, Croatia in August to contest the FINA World Championships.
• Kelsey Wakefield (goalkeeper), Ashley Southern (centre forward) and Stephanie Thomas (centre back) will compete in the junior women's FINA World Championship event in Khanty-Mansyisk, Russia, also in August.