Thanks to everyone who was able to help prepare the hall on Saturday despite Junior Development / State Junior and Senior Squad training being convened at Silverwater: Dave and Zach Colman, Damien Edwards, Brad, Beth and Lucy Wade, Rachel and Sam Lobsey, Alainya Zollinger, Dana Brothers, Peter Jennings and Nicky Mogilin (+ Rob K). The preparations are always smooth and reflect our many years of practice.
- Despite low athlete numbers, Sunday also ran perfectly. We had 30 MONS from 6 clubs to whom we are grateful for their support: Budokan (16), Woy Woy (6), Illawarra (3), Sydney Uni (2) and 1 each from Blacktown City, Tiger-Do and Dragon. We made up 14 divisions including 2 with boys and girls enabling 38 matches to be played plus another 15 matches in a spirited team’s competition which went down to the last match. 36 medals were awarded plus 6 special trophies. The whole club stepped up with more than enough volunteers covering the many jobs needing to be done: door entry, weigh-ins, draw, warm-up, match progression, marshaling, coaching, scoring and timing, first aid, refereeing, raffle tickets, kitchen, BBQ and clean-up – there are far too many people to name but we think you are absolute legends for your support - thank you one and all. It was great to see our Juniors willing to learn new skills in running a competition and refereeing. Results for only Budokan athletes follow:
- Girls Novice: 21kg – 1st - Junning Mak; 2nd - Chante Bezuidenhout; 3rd – Emma Cooper; 28kg – 2nd – Olivia Cooper
- Girls Graded: 22kg – 2nd – Ariana Bazan-Koltai; 2nd – Juliet Jennings; 26kg – 1st – Dasha Platonov
- Girls Graded: 29kg – 3rd – Dasha Platonov
- Combined Girls & Novice/Graded: O40kg - 2nd – Zach Watmore
- Boys Novice: 21kg – 2nd – Ethan Zhang; 3rd – Joey Zhao, 24kg – 1st – Isaac Murkins; 2nd Hamish Kennedy
- Boys Novice:27kg – 3rd – William Dong, 32kg – 1st – Milly Jordan; 2nd – Katherine Qi Chen;
- Boys Graded: 27kg - 1st – Jackson Young, O35kg – 2nd – Zach Watmore
- Special Awards (All winners are listed)
- Best Tachi-Waza (Throwing) Technique – Ethan Zhang and Timothy Alchin (Woy Woy)
- Best Ne-Waza (Ground) Technique – Zach Watmore;
- Best Spirit – Pippi Magurren (Woy Woy)
- Player of the Day – Mirei Kikuchi (Sydney Uni)