Croquetwest

Would you like to volunteer some of your time to help administer Croquet in WA? Croquetwest is looking for volunteers for a few roles, but most urgently for someone to take on the role of Events Secretary (Association Croquet).

The Events Secretary (AC) is a member of the Match Sub-Committee and is responsible for managing Croquetwest calendar events (Association Croquet) effectively and consistently according to processes documented in the Sub-Committee Guidelines, including:

• advertising coming events, 
• collecting entries, 
• creating draws, 
• liaising with host Club managers and 
• publishing detailed results.

If you’re interested please email Michael Murphy, call him on 0419 926 650 or contact the Croquetwest Secretary for more details. 

Croquetwest is hosting this year’s ACA Gold Medal, National Men’s Singles, National Women’s Singles and Interstate (Eire) Cup Association Croquet events between 14 and 25 March 2012.  More than sixty of the top players in Australia will be here to compete and you can see them performing amazing feats at a metropolitan club near you.  See the Nationals/Eire Cup page on this website for up-to-the-minute details.

The Association Croquet World Championships are being held in Adelaide from 28 April to 6 May 2012 and Moorabinda Club has organised a lead-up event.  They have invited many players from overseas and interstate and it will be a great chance to see some more fantastic (association) croquet.  In addition, there will be masterclass sessions in both golf and association croquet held by visiting top players.  Here’s a flyer and we’ll be publishing more details as they come to hand.

It’s time to shake the tinsel out of your hair and get back to important things like croquet (yeah, I know I’m running a bit late)!  There’s not many events during the day during the summer but you need to get your entries in soon for the Association Croquet One Day Singles and Open Doubles and for the Open Ricochet Singles event.  Check the Events tab here on this website for details of these Croquetwest events as well as loads of Club events coming up.

Congratulations to Michael Murphy and Craig Merrey who have now both qualified as Golf Croquet Coaches.  It’s great to add to our fast growing coaching pool.  

Congratulations also to Eric Ayling who has just become Western Australia’s only accredited Level 2 Coach.  This a quite a big deal and we thank Eric for the many hours of work he had to do to qualify. 

Croquetwest congratulates the following players selected to represent Western Australia in the Eire Cup Interstate competition to be held here in Perth in March 2012:

Men:  Alan Sands (captain), Ian Dumergue, Martin Clarke, Jeff Newcombe

Women: Merryl Garrod, Jannine Hawker, Megan Reynolds, Sandra Stevenson, Helen Collins

Eric Ayling has also been selected as a non-travelling reserve.

Cheers, Susan

Hi All,

We have six new golf croquet coaches as of last weekend.  Congratulations to Michael Trefusis-Paynter, Kim Reynolds, Allan Bradley, Dorothy Bull and Liz and Alan Wood.  This means that Cambridge, Como, Forrest Park, Narogin, Nedlands, Moorabinda, Sorrento and York all have accredited golf croquet coaches.  That’s great progress when we had none only a few months ago. We’ll hold another accreditation session in a few months and ask for nominations but in the meantime please contact Eric Ayling (State Director of Coaching) if you have any question on coaching matters.

Cheers, Susan

• Victoria Park Club has started its summer program of night play on Friday nights.  There’s more information on their Club page on this website
• York Club has changed the date of their Over 70 Golf Croquet event which clashed with the State Open Doubles.  The York event is now on 9-10 June 2012 so you can enter both.
• The Australian Croquet Association has updated the Member Protection Policy.  You can check it out on this website by clicking the General Governance docs  link on the Governance page.

Cheers, Susan  

Hi there,

We’ve had lots of positive feedback on the new website and appreciate your praise.   We’d also like to hear though if you have any problems with anything or have any suggestions for improving usability or content.  Please don’t hold back!

For instance, the website uses google documents behind the scenes to store and present files.  If you have a google or gmail account, you might strike a problem accessing those documents because google expects you to sign in.  Just enter your google or gmail details and you should be able to see the documents.  Otherwise, in your browser (assuming it’s Internet Explorer) go to Tools and then General and delete your browser history and cookies.

Please let us know if you have any problems.  We want you to be happy!

Cheers, Susan

Hi there,

If you’re in the market for new mallet you’ll be interested to know that Alan Wood can help with one of the very popular and reasonably priced RPM mallets.  Alan can be contacted on Home : (08) 93078203 or Email : alw@bigpond.com.  Click here for more information.

Also, Nedlands Club is resuming its Pizza nights on Friday 25 November.  Kick-off at 4:30pm and cost $15 includes green fees and, of course, pizza.

Cheers, Susan

Hi All,

As you can see from the Events Calendar we don’t schedule many Croquetwest events over the hottest Summer months as, although some of us are English, most of us aren’t mad dogs. However, you can still get your croquet fix. Many clubs are floodlit and play in the evenings. This now includes Gosnells Club, who has just announced that it will be starting night play on Dec 1st starting from 5:00 with a BBQ (bring your own meat) afterwards.  Why not drop out there for a hit?

Cheers, Susan

Hi All, 

There’s loads happening. Here’s some highlights:

• We’ve added another calendar list view to this website under the Events menu option. You can now print a list of events coming up for the next few months on one page for your reference or for your Club noticeboard. Hope this is helpful.
• Great news from south of the river – a two year trial has been approved for croquet to be played at Leeming Bowling Club.  We’ve formed a Working Group (Merryl Garrod, Ross Bedford and Alan Sands (coordinating)). If you’d like to be involved or could help out in any way please Contact Us.
• We’ve had some issues lately with players not doing quite the right thing at Croquetwest events.  Mostly it’s just not knowing what to do and we’ll try to make sure that expectations are clearer from here on in. We’ve also improved our reporting processes so that we can deal with problems promptly and effectively.  We can then discourage any behaviour which reduces the enjoyment of players, officials and spectactors.
• The Department of Sport and Recreation has approved our annual funding for 2011-2012 ($13,000) as well as our request for $5,000 to run the Association Croquet National events in March 2012.  The Department supports Croquetwest in loads of ways but this financial assistance is particularly appreciated in enabling us to run the breadth of activities we do in Western Australia.

Please don’t forget we’re recruiting both referees and coaches. Apart from likely improving your own game it’s a great way to contribute to our sport at State or Club level.

Susan Sands

ps drop us a line any time about the web or for anything croquet via the Contact Us form.