TUA Awards 2009

Volunteer of the Year

Awarded to: Matthew Smith

For establishing the Tasmanian Two-Hat as a 2 day tournament, and making it a huge success of it. Last years Two-Hat was by far the largest local tournament held in Tasmanian, and Matt has definitely set the standard for all future tournaments.

The Black & Blue Award

Awarded to: Masni Bennett

For her work on designing the new TUA logo, her effort put into developing the new webiste, and single-handedly rebranding the association.

The logo has been praised nationally, with comments coming from Simon Wood of the AFDA exclaiming his fondness of the logo, and the numerous people at Regionals asking where they could get on of the new Tassie discs sporting the logo.

Lifetime Membership

Awarded to: Jeff Dunn

Jeff has been involved in the Tasmanian Ultimate community since 1999 [he subscribed to tas-ultimate on December 6 1999]. He began by playing pickup games at the University. In 2002, he was a member of Choice Cuts, the first Tasmanian team to compete at an Australian Ultimate Championships since 1989. Jeff was also one of 20 players who managed to arrive at the fields by 8am on a Sunday to play the first series of TUC and was one of the organisers of TUC from 2003-2005.

Jeff has been playing leagues in Hobart since they began in 2001 and has been League Organiser for six leagues (more than any other LO) and processed the game and spirit scores for leagues from 2002-2009. Jeff also helped with setting up the league fields for many years, typically without being asked and still regularly supplies cold ice packs to league.

Whenever a come and try day is planned Jeff is always there to help out. Jeff has also been a volunteer at just about every school learn to play day we have run over the past 10 years. Jeff has taught numerous new Uni players at pick up and has help to continue their development every week.

Jeff was the inaugural Vice President of the TUA and he continued to attend meetings for several years after steeping down as VP in 2004. Jeff is one of the friendliest and most welcoming players we have in Hobart.

I have had several players come up to me in the past two years of social league to tell me that they really enjoyed learning to play Ultimate with Jeff's help. His teaching skills have been really appreciated.

Jeff has played 9 Two-Hats since 2000, only missing the first Two-Hat in 1999 because he hadn't quite started playing ultimate by then.

The Less Serious Awards of 2009

Injury of the Year

  • Andrew Wong – for dislocating his ankle.
  • Sarah Fayed – for blocking a disc with her nose at Regionals (and losing a lot of blood as a result).
  • Felix's disc – for shattering mid-air at the first hole of a round of golf.
  • Winner: Eliza Bourke-Polden – for being taken out by a bloke on the field, a cyclist while cross the road to the fields, and a bird on the beach at Mixed Nationals.

Fashions on the Fields

  • John Hempel – for the skeleton suit worn at the Two Hat.
  • Gingerbread – for their team outfit coordination days (sock day, backward hat day).
  • Winner: Tim Johnson – for his 80s track suit jackets.

Ultimate Umpire

  • Huddy Fuller – for teaching everyone at the Two-Hat about the travel rule. He was so successful that everyone was calling it by the end of the day (mostly directed towards Huddy).
  • Winner: David Cooke – for a discussion with an opposing player about the stall count rule that lasted for the better part of 2 points. It was only stopped when the rules were presented to both players, which neither looked at before walking off in opposite directions.

Heckle of the Year

  • Winner: “Travel” – generally directed towards Huddy.

Gratuitous Player of the Year

  • Ash Martens – who takes no care in throwing her body around, often resulting in injury.
  • Stew Wilde – gratuitous calls of “gratuitous”.
  • Winner: Michael Dunne – for very gratuitous layouts outdoors and indoors, even with a swollen ankle that was twice the size it should have been at Regionals.

Frequent Flyers

  • David Cooke – who seems to live overseas, but still finds the time to fly in to attend a tournament, and even leagues.
  • Winners: Ash Martens, Michael Dunne & Eliza Burke-Polden – for numerous training camps, interstate tournaments, and worlds campaigns.

Brothas from Anotha Muthas

  • Pat, Michael & Jeff Dunn(e)
  • Pat, Michael & Aaron
  • Jenn & Lilly
  • Winner: Andrew, Jason & Chris

Ultimate Ghettos

  • Quayle St, Sandy Bay – Heidi, Emily & Reed.
  • Winner: Queen St, Sandy Bay - Tim Johnson, Emma Pharo, and Eliza Burke-Polden all live within 5 houses of each other.

Import/Export of the Year

  • Ashley Button – once reaching the pinnacle of his Ultimate career by representing Australia twice at world, he moved to Melbourne and hasn't been heard from since.
  • Alex de Moor – for staying fully clothed at the dinner (we hope).
  • Callan Mclaughlin – decided to move to Launceston so he could film the lovelier parts north of the state.
  • Winner: Jessica Erickson – who stole the heart of one of our juniors, and buggered off home with it.
 
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