Frank Sedgman Cup

This year’s Frank Sedgman Cup for 11 and unders was held in Traralgon on Saturday 12 August and Sunday 13 August, 2023.

Our team was Max O’Reilly, Jenson Holm, Melissa Fitzgerald & Lulu Philp. Later start of 10.30 am on Saturday because of local Saturday junior competition.

With 12 teams from across the State - some teams travelling 5 hours to get to Traralgon - our Waverley team were keen to play.

Semi-final playoff - 3 section winners plus the best No 2 team.

On Saturday we were drawn to play NEJTA in our first match but unfortunately were beaten by a stronger NEJTA team. We then went on to win our two other matches and was the best No 2 team and progressed to the semi-final.

On the Saturday night the team all went out together for dinner. We also kept a close watch on the Matilda’s Soccer match whilst eating dinner - what an exciting time to be together!!!!

In the semis we were drawn to play NEJTA AGAIN but the sets were much closer this time around. Waverley ended up in 4th position out of 12 teams.  A great effort on the part of Max, Jenson, Melissa & Lulu.

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Team photo from left to right: Melissa, Lulu, Lyn Gillen, Max and Jenson.

This year’s Frank Sedgman Cup which was held in Bairnsdale on Saturday 30 July and Sunday 31 July, 2022.

Our Waverley team of 11 and under players was Bryn Baik, Samantha Morales, Will Brooks-Gay and Victoria Shi.

Twelve teams from metropolitan and country regions travelled to Bairnsdale to play a round robin against teams from across Victoria. After winning our 3 matches in Group B on Day One (16 sets-104 games) we progressed to the semi finals defeating Bayside Regional 5-34 to 1-15. We then went on to win the final against Eastern Region 5-34 to 1-21. A very exciting weekend for our team. Stephen Kaldawi (our Waverley Team coach) came along to support our team. He was a member of the Inaugural Frank Sedgman Cup Event which was played in Bendigo in 2006. Waverley won the event in 2008 and 2009 - so 13 years since our last win.

Team photo, from left to right - Stephen Kaldawi, Victoria Shi, Will Brooks-Gay, Samantha Morales, Bryn Baik, Lyn Gillen

This year the event was held on 27 & 28 July 2019. Congratulations to our team who finished in 4th position out of 17 teams, losing to Moorabbin & District by 3 games in the ¾ playoff.  Team played extremely well over the weekend. 140 visiting team members (including family members) joined together for a meal at La Porchetta on Saturday night. Our team was represented by:

• Liam Kindler
• Cooper Pearson
• Sophia Brooks-Gay
• Alice Irvine

Special thanks to Lyn Gillen for managing the team and all the parents for their support over the week-end.

Our team of Aedan Nelson, Steven Klasan, Christiana Masvosva and Kayla Yip travelled to Bairnsdale to play the 11 and under Tennis Victoria event.

We won our way into the semi final and drew North Eastern Juniors to play in the semis.  At the end of the match we were both even on sets and games so both pairs of mixed had to play another mixed set to decide who would proceed to the Final.  Waverley came up trumps winning by one game.  We then met Eastern Region at the end of match we were even on sets but ERT were up by 6 games.

Team played extremely well and were a credit to the Association and were asking when the next event was on!!!

We won through to semi-finals on Sunday and got beaten by 2 games by Bayside Moorabbin.  In playoff 3 to 4 we defeated Eastern Region by 3 games.

Our team was Ryosuke Shibuya, Theo Edwards, Nithesa Selvaraj & Jasmine Lay.

Players in the winning 2009 team, with Karen Butler (Team Manager) were:  
(At Back)  Melanie Woodward and Klemens Haberberger  
(Front)      Kelly Martin and Daniel Nguyen

Players in the winning 2008 team, with Pat Wright (Team Manager) were:
Noelleda Ah San,  Caleb Boland,  Daniel Nickels,  Stephanie Raux