Results from 2014 New Zealand Deaf Games

Southern Zone won the coveted Aotearoa Turi Shield with 34 points to Central Zone’s 29 points and Northern Zone’s 12 points.

Just over 150 athletes took part over three days of Labour weekend, competing in 12 different sports for the Aotearoa Turi Shield. The 12 sports included were: Lawn Bowls, Ten Pin Bowling, Basketball, Netball, Indoor Netball, Touch, Badminton, Squash, Darts, Indoor Football, Indoor Bowls and 8 Ball Pool.

• Triples Mixed Lawn Bowls: The triples mixed Lawn Bowls title went to Southern with 4 points to Central’s 2.
• Darts: Central toppled Southern in both Mens and Womens darts to win with a points margin of 10-2. Both Cushla Crosby and Stephen Jourdain claimed Gold for Central Zone. Simon Holt, representing Central Zone won the Most Outstanding Player.
• Badminton: The Southern Zone team of Gillian Ramsay and Josje Lelyveld  held off Central to win by 1 point.
• Netball: Southern comfortably toppled Central to take out top spot.
• Basketball:
  • Round robin play:
    • Central A 31 (Clive Morgan 9, Ben Webb 8) Southern 27 (Ashley Bensley 12)
    • Central A 51 (Ross Freemantle 13, Clive Morgan 12, Ben Webb 10) Central B 26 (Fetuao Ualesi 9)
    • Southern 49 (Dan Williams 12, Ashley Bensley 10) Central B 28 (Terence Chase 14, Fetuao Ualesi 12).
  • Semi-Final:
    • Southern 38 (Ashley Bensley 10) Central B 19 (Fetuao Ualesi 8, Terence Chase 8).
  • Grand Final:
    • Southern 41 (Bensley 15, Daniel Williams 11, Jake leBerge 10) Central A 32 (Theo Waterhouse 11, Ross Freemantle 11).
  • MVP: Ashley Bensley (Southern)
• 8 Ball Pool: Northern Zone took maximum honours with 9 points from their Men and Women with Central second with 3 points.
• Ten Pin Bowling: Southern took out the top two spots against Northern to win the Ten Pin Bowling 5 points to 1. The most outstanding player was Michael Baston from Northern Zone.
• Indoor Netball: Southern A beat Southern B in the final.
  • Round robin play:
    • Southern A 39 – Central 5
    • Southern B 19 – Central 3
    • Southern A 16 – Southern B 13
    • Central 8 – Southern B 13
  • Final:
    • Southern A 14 – Southern B 12
• Indoor Bowls: Central just managed to beat Southern with a victory of 3 points to 2.
• Squash: Southern took out maximum points in Squash. with Ben Robertson on top, followed by Daniel Williams and Josje Lelyveld.
• Touch: Southern held off Central to win Touch.
  • Southern Zone 8 – Central Zone 2
  • Southern Zone 10 – Northern Zone 2
  • Northern Zone 4 – Central Zone 10
• Indoor Football: Southern comfortably toppled both Northern and Central to take out the Indoor Football at Howzat.

Technical Delegate meetings

Technical Delegate (TD) meetings will be held at the Woolston Club Inc. These meetings are for all the Team Managers to get together for a meeting, and to meet the Technical Delegates.

It is important that your Team Managers attend this meeting to make sure everyone understands the rules for the New Zealand Deaf Games.

• Lawn Bowls – 8pm Thursday 23rd Oct
• Ten Pin Bowling – 7pm Friday 24th Oct
• Basketball – 7pm Thursday 23rd Oct
• Netball – 9pm Thursday 23rd Oct
• Indoor Netball – 6pm Friday 24th Oct
• Touch – 5pm Friday 24th Oct
• Badminton – 8pm Friday 24th Oct
• Squash – 7pm Thursday 23rd Oct
• Darts – 9pm Thursday 23rd Oct
• Indoor Football – 8pm Friday 24th Oct
• Indoor Bowls – 9pm Friday 24th Oct
• 8 Ball Pool – 6pm Thursday 23rd Oct

2014 Biennial General Meeting Agenda

Thursday 23 October 2014 – Woolston Club Inc

10am – Workshop: Regional Zones or Deaf Societies/Clubs? – Video

11:30am – Report Presentations

• DSNZ Reports

1. Biennial Report
2. Remits to clarify before approval.

• NZ Deaf Games Reports

1. NZDG Administrator Report
   1. Previous Host and Financial Report
2. Upcoming Host Report – Christchurch
• ICSD Report – Future Deaflypmics
• Asia/Pacific Report – Asia Pacific Deaf Games – October 2015

• Sport Association Reports

12.30pm – Lunch

1pm – Biennial General Meeting

1. An address by the President
2. Roll Call of Delegates
3. Apologies
4. Welcome
5. Confirmation of Minutes of 48th AGM – Read the minutes
6. Business Arising from the Minutes
7. President’s Report
8. Financial Statement & Annual Balance Sheet
   
   • 1 January 2012 – 31 December 2012
   • 1 January 2013 – 31 December 2013
   • 1 January 2013 – 30 June 2014
9. Business Arising from the Financial Report
10. Subscriptions and/or resignation of Societies/Club/Sports Assn
11. Proposed Constitution Remits – Video
    • Remit for 6.11 BGM Agenda – Video – Read the proposal
    • Remit 7.1.3 Executive Board structure – Video –  Read the proposal
    • Remit 11.2 Auditor – Video – Read the proposal
    • Remit to add 7.0 Special General Meeting – Video – Read the proposal
      • Remit to change Biennial General Meeting to General Meeting – Video – Read the proposal
    • Remit 14.7 DSNZ Membership before International Competition – Video – Read the proposal
12. Proposed By-law Remits – Video
    
    • Ten Pin Bowling – Hearing Aids – Video
    • Remit 2.10 Change Registration to Membership – Video – Read the proposal
    • Remit 2.11 and 2.12 Preliminary Entry Forms for the NZDG – Video – Read the proposal
    • Remit 2.11.6 and 2.12.4 Late registrations for the NZDG – Video – Read the proposal
13. Election of DSNZ Executive Officers – Nomination Form
    
    • Office Bearers
    • Election of FOUR Executive members.
14. General Business – by letter only

New Zealand Deaf Games Awards Dinner 2014

To purchase a ticket, please deposit $50 into the Southern Zone Deaf Sports Bank Account: 38-9006-0726831-00 with your name as a reference/code, and email southerndeafsports@gmail.com to let them know.

Update about the New Zealand Deaf Games – Timetable

New Zealand Deaf Games Timetable (Updated 2nd October 2014)

The New Zealand Deaf Games poster has been updated 2nd October 2014. Please note that the timetable that has been printed in the Deaf Club newsletter is incorrect.