UTS Gridiron

Date: 7pm, Friday 28th August 2009

Calling all UTS Gridiron players, current and previous members, to attend the Annual Awards Night and Season Opener. Friends and family are welcome.

There will be a $10 surcharge per person. Canapés will be served and drinks can be purchased at the bar.

Please RSVP by Monday 24th August 2009 to Tristan Sugden on 0414 674 169 or email vp.

For division one players with further information to supply as part of their registration or medical forms, contact details for Porridge and Anne Maree are as follows:

Treasurer
John Kritikos
Mobile: 0422 586 833
treasurer email

Player Manager Welfare
Anne Maree Trudgett
Mobile: 0415 419 099
welfare email

Congratulations to Matthew Steel, representing our club as #74 on the Australian Outback gridiron team.

The tour game, played on 21 July, resulted in the Outbacks defeating British Lions 20 – 3.

Today several UTS Gridiron players and committee members braved the wet weather headed down to the Iron Cove to run the bbq for 65k 4 64 roses charity event. The walkathon, along with all proceeds from the bbq, helps raise funds and awareness for the Cystic Fibrosis NSW council.

Thank you to all club members who came down to give a hand on the day.

The annual Cystic Fibrosis Walk is being held this Saturday on the ‘Bay Run’, with our club volunteering to run the BBQ for the event. Apart from being for a great cause, this even is also a good opportunity to help raise the profile of both our club and the sport of gridiron through the City of Canada Bay Council area.

So if you’re still interested in lending a hand please let me know. We will be wearing our UTS game day jersey’s on the day as the local paper will be there taking photos on the day.

UTS kicker Stephen Irvine starts for Stockton Lightning in the game against division leaders Rio Grande Valley.

The Lightning shattered numerous team records in this match and went on to win 83 to 56.

Stephen successfully converted all 11 PAT attempts.

UTS Gridiron and a select group of Div 1 Players were fortunate enough to grab a rare photo with Australian NBA star Andrew Bogut.

The lucky club members were part of the live audience for the One HD sports show Thursday Night Live hosted by Bill Woods.

I played my first game last Saturday night. I did pretty well. 2/3 on PAT (our snapper got injured and I was getting absolout rubbish…) and most of my kick offs hit well up the back net on kick off. I stopped them before the 5 yard line a number of times.

We lost the game though- Spokane who are probably the best in the league.

I’m not sure if I’ll play the next game. We have another kicker who I beat out last week but the coach said he would evaluate us on a week to week basis. So I have a 12 hour bus ride to Boise and he will tell me who is kicking just before the game!

Attached are a few photos…

-Steve

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Check out Stephen’s player page as well as the team roster on the Tri-Cities website.

The Fever’s first game is next Friday vs Central Valley Coyotes.