Season 2023 / 2024 President's report.

As another rewarding season for our small but passionate tennis club draws to a close, I would once again like to thank our dedicated committee for all their efforts throughout the season in running the club as well as ensuring the club progresses forward for the next season.

Welcome to our new treasurer Denice Mildenhall for taking over this important position left vacant when our long serving committee member Bev Pead retired at the end of last season.

Special mention needs to be made of the fund raising efforts of our secretary Simone Wallace, who over the past two years has worked tirelesssly organising numerous Bunnings bbqs, Easter and Christmas raffles, hot cross bun drives, the cooking of Saturday morning food, as well as drink and snack sales. The funds raised, well in excess of $1000 per season, helps cover the ever increasing costs of running the club. Well done Simone.

Our club was represented in the Latrobe Valley Tennis Associations junior competition this season with a total of eight teams in six of the nine junior sections. By the seasons end three of our teams made the semi finals, with sections four red team and section nine red team progressing through to the grand finals, which is a great result for our club. Well done to Danielle, Will and Zeerus section four premiers and Ambrose, Rachel, Isabelle, Phoebe and Mehreen section nine runners up from this years LVTA season.

A big thank you to Scotty Mildenhall for once again looking after the Saturday morning junior competition for the home teams playing at the club, ensuring things ran as smoothly as possible, especially in the chaotic opening few rounds of the season, with new players and teams playing competition for the first time.

Our seniors were divided into two sections with one group playing in the Riverside TA Section two singles competition, while the other group played in the LVTA doubles competition. The Riverside team had a great competitive season finishing second from six teams to earn the double chance, but disappointingly failed to make the grand final. The LVTA team found the going a lot tougher finishing the season sixth from six teams.

As always a big thank you to Sally & Glen Kirstine Tennis Academy, Scotty Mildenhall and assistant coaches for their ongoing dedication to our junior players through weekly clinics, as these players progress through the ranks in representing our club in the LVTA and hopefully onto playing in the senior comps. Also thanks Sally for all your work in organising the LVTA junior competition and various tournaments throughout the season.

The club is looking forward to a successful 2024/2025 season both on and off the court and will certainly be relieved that after eight years, to have finally paid off the $20,000 council loan for the top and bottom court resurfacing. Now with the bottom courts needing to be resurfaced again, the club has successfully been allocated a LCC major capital works grant, so we eagerly await to work with council on the commencement of this vital court maintenance.

Ross Game

President

Pax Hill Tennis Club.

Season 2022 / 2023 President's report.

As another highly successful season for our small but passionate tennis club draws to a close, I would once again like to thank our dedicated committee for all their efforts throughout the season in ensuring the club progresses forward for the next season.

Our current and past committees would like to pay tribute and express our appreciation to our current treasurer Beverly Pead for her significant contribution to the club over a long period of service. Over a period of almost ten years Bev has served the club starting with the role of secretary then moving on to registrations, uniforms and treasurer. With her family no longer playing tennis, Bev will retire from all committee duties at the end of the season and plans a move to Queensland in the near future. We wish Bev all the best on her retirement from tennis.

The committee would also like to acknowledge Tanya Graham for her fund raising efforts and contribution to the club over the past six months.

Our club was strongly represented in the Latrobe Valley Tennis Associations junior competition this season with a total of eleven teams in all of the nine junior sections. In an amazing effort ten of our teams made the semi finals, with sections four, five, six, eight & nine progressing through to the grand final, which is a great result for our club. Well done to Danielle, Will and Jack of section six and Annika, Grace, Paygen -Lily and Spencer of section eight on becoming LVTA junior premiers this season.

A big thank you to Scotty Mildenhall for once again looking after the Saturday morning junior competition for the home teams playing at the club. Scotty did his best to ensure things ran as smoothly as possible during the day, especially in the chaotic opening few rounds of the season, with new teams, players and parents finding their way.

Also a big thank you to Sally & Glen Kirstine Tennis Academy and assistant coaches for their ongoing dedication to our junior players through weekly clinics, as these players progress through the ranks in representing our club in the LVTA.

With our senior players, our singles combination of Scotty Mildenhall and Matt Stringer playing in team Rosewall are to be congratulated for winning a tightly fought LVTA senior grand final by one set.

The club is looking forward to a successful 2023/2024 season both on and off the court and will certainly be relieved that after eight years, to have finally paid off the council loan for the court resurfacing by the end of 2024.

Ross Game

President

Pax Hill Tennis Club.