Proposed Sports Anti-Doping Rules 2009

TBNZ has been advised by Drug Free Sport New Zealand (“DFSNZ”) that significant changes are being made in the way the anti-doping rules are being administered. The attached memo from DFSNZ sets out those changes and welcomes feedback from TBNZ. Should you have any feedback which you would like TBNZ to submit please advise Graham Parkins on graham@tbnz.co.nz as a matter of urgency.

National Tour Final
Bowlers now look forward to the National Tour Final to be held at Superstrike Manukau on December 13, for the first time this tournament will be included in the National Rankings.

Final tour points standings Oil Patterns and the format for the Final are posted here, bowlers who have qualified have been informed by email.

Bowlers are asked to reply by email to Jason Waters to advise whether they intend to bowl or not.

Special General Meeting

The directors of TBNZ have called a Special General Meeting to discuss the attached motions submitted by Craig Nevatt. Craig has prepared a letter detailing how the proposed changes to the Constitution have come about.

The Special General Meeting is to be held Friday 12th December 2008 at 7.30pm, AMF Panmure, Auckland

Further details on the meeting are included in the flyer - downloads are listed below.

Letter to Members
Flyer
Special General Meeting Motion 1
Special General Meeting Motion 2

The 6th and final stop of the National Bowling Tour was held at AMF Panmure from November 21-23. As has come to be expected at Panmure, lane conditions were challenging, but rewarding to those bowlers who made good consistent shots.

In the qualifying stage, Julieanne Mollet showed her experience to set the pace with 1227 (204 average), 81 pins clear of Bianca Tofilau with Belinda Tan coming 3rd. David Davies backed up his excellent form from the Canterbury Open by shooting exactly 1300 (217 average), 31 pins ahead of Bryce Andrews on 1269 with Craig Nevatt 3rd.

Phil Wright topped the Seniors qualifying with 1192, Chan Harris was 2nd with 1169 and Graham Parkins 3rd. Jordan Pinker finished on top of the Youth qualifying with 1170. Kirk Delamore was 2nd only 16 pins back and Mathew Toi 3rd.

On to the finals. The Ladies final proved to be a very close run event, with Julieanne Mollet eventually being run down by a 257 game by Belinda Tan on the last game. Megan Fletcher finished 3rd. Mathew Toi prevailed in the Youth final, ahead of a fast finishing Jordan Pinker and Paul Housham.

In the Seniors Chan Harris pipped Ross Cooper at the post for the win, with Stu Turnbull finishing 3rd. In the Mens, Craig Nevatt jumped out to a massive start and was never challenged, ending his long drought between title wins. Jason Waters finished 2nd with Tony Lum 3rd.

The 2008 CTBC Commonwealth Champs will be held in Belfast, Ireland, from November 23-29, and New Zealand will be there. Our representatives are as follows:

Melonie Lister
Lynnaire Churchill

Russell Young
Gregorio Nicolas

We wish them all the best of luck and high scoring, we are sure they will do us proud.

Media Release

Full results can be found here

2008 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in Hermosillo, Mexico

Congratulations to Adrian Judd, for qualifying for the Top 24 playoff in the 2008 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in Hermosillo, Mexico. AJ made a fantastic start to the 4 day qualifying by shooting 1280 for 6 games (213 avg) on Monday, and improved on that with 1328 (221 avg) on Tuesday to be sitting in 9th place. 1160 (193 avg) on Wednesday dropped AJ to 20th, but 1280 today, topped off with a 240 game to finish when the pressure was on, moved AJ up to 18th. AJ finished with a total pinfall of 5029 (210 avg) and was 40 pins clear of 24th place.

The leader after 24 games is Derek Eoff from USA, with a total pinfall of 5500 for 24 games, an average of 229. Zulmazran Zulkifli from Malaysia is 2nd with 5402 and Martin Larsen from Sweden is 3rd with 5326. 8th place is currently Francois Sacco from France, with a total pinfall of 5260 at an average of 219.

Belinda Tan has missed out on the top 24 in the Ladies division but has finished in a creditable 29th place. She finished with a total pinfall of 4678 for 24 games, an average of 195, 124 pins behind 24th place. The leader is currently Jasmine Yeong Nathan from Singapore, with a total pinfall of 5477 (228 average), ahead of defending champion Ann-Maree Putney in 2nd place and Helen Johnston from Sweden in 3rd place.

AJ has finished in a commendable 20th place, and he was the first male from NZ to make the top 24 since David Davies in 2001 in Thailand.

Full results can be found here.

National Tour Stop 5 – Takapuna

The 5th stop of the 2008 National Tour was held at Tenpin Takapuna on October 31-November 2. Given recent history at Takapuna, the lane conditions were surprisingly tricky and subsequently the scoring pace was unusually low. However this made for some very exciting competition, as the bowlers who made the correct adjustments to constantly changing conditions prevailed.

The scoring pace was set in qualifying by Scott Hooper (210 average) in the men’s division, Belinda Tan (192 average) in the women’s division, Ross Cooper (204 average) in the Seniors division and Stephanie George (195 average) in the Youth division.

In the Masters events, Bianca Tofilau continued her total domination of the Ladies division in the Tour events she has entered, winning her 4th event of the year out of 4 with a 193 average. Bonus points proved to be the difference in a very tight photo finish here as Ivena Heald finished with a higher average, but with 2 less wins finished 2nd by 7 pins. Julieanne Mollet was 3rd, only 5 pins further back.

Stephanie George backed up her topping of the qualifying by winning the Youth division with a 185 average, 24 pins ahead of Matthew Toi and 79 pins ahead of Angela Boswell

Chan Harris won his first event of the year in the Seniors division with a 200 average, using bonus points to pip Graham Parkins at the post by 7 pins. Phil Wright was 3rd, a further 143 pins back.

The mens Masters was a very tight event, with the lead constantly changing on a game by game basis. However Bryce Andrews proved he was the stayer in the field, a 297 game in the penultimate game when he was already in front left everybody else choking on dust, and pulled him up to a 206 average after a very slow start. Adrian Judd finished 2nd, 86 pins back, and David Davies placed 3rd, a further 69 pins back.

Full results can be found here, entry forms and squad listings are now available here for stop 6 at Panmure on November 21-23.

Whilst the finish to Rachuig might have been a bit disappointing (men finished 6th, ladies 4th, overall 5th), the final event – the Australian Masters – was a terrific success for New Zealand. Melonie Lister repeated Dianne Robinson’s fantastic 2nd place in the Women’s Masters in Hobart in 2006, sweeping all opposition before her until the final, where she came up against a red hot Anne-Maree Putney who is the 2007 QubicaAMF Women’s World Cup Champion, and was averaging 240+ in the masters. This is a magnificent effort, congratulations Melonie.

Congratulations also go to Sonny Reguerra who finished 5th= in the Mens Division, and to Belinda Tan for finishing 9th= in the Women’s division.

Full results for the Masters, and all the other events at the Australian Nationals, can be found here.

Great start for NZ at Rachuig

NZ has made a fantastic start to the Walter Rachuig Memorial tournament at AMF Tuggeranong, Canberra. After the first day’s competition the NZ Team sits tied for first place in the Mens, Ladies and Combined divisions. Russell Young is leading the All Stars race with a massive 234 average from 4 games, and Belinda Tan is sitting 2nd with a 215 average, also from 4 games.

In the men’s division, the NZ team got off to a sluggish start, losing to Queenland and Victoria, but in bowling team games of 994 and 997 the team put up a fight in both cases. But then the victories came, over Tasmania (1063-972), ACT (1089-1035), New South Wales (1033-1004) and Northern Territory (998-980). The men’s team have won 25 points out of a possible 42, good enough for 1st equal with Western Australia.

In the ladies division, the NZ team got off to a flyer, beating Queensland 970-862, but then lost to Victoria 995-893. Victories then followed over Tasmania 968-948 and ACT 977-726 before a loss to New South Wales 998-892. But the ladies finished off with a victory over Northern Territory 1054-968 to finish with 28 out of 42 points, again good enough for 1st equal with Western Australia.

The Rachuig competition continues Wednesday and concludes Thursday, live results can be found by clicking here.

Men’s World Championship in Thailand & the Walter Rachuig Tournament in Canberra

Men’s World Championship

The team to represent New Zealand at the Men’s World Championship to be held in Bangkok, Thailand 21-31st August is as follows: Anthony Harris, Brodie Hunt, Tony Lum, Craig Nevatt, Gregorio Nicholas & Jason Waters. Allan Heald is the manager/coach.

Walter Rachuig Team - 21-23rd October

The Mens Team is: Anthony Harris, Adrian Judd, Craig Nevatt, Kyle Oliver, Sonny Reguerra, Pete Richardson and Russell Young.

The Ladies Team is: Tanya Allardyce, Megan Fletcher, Amanda Kebblewhite, Melonie Lister, Julieanne Mollet, Toni-Maree Rogers and Belinda Tan.

Adrian Judd is also the coach. Tony Lum is the manager.

The first morning started out with quite a few surprise results, with the Rotovegas Rebels trouncing Auckland in Game 1, and Counties Manukau taking down Wellington. The Rascals won the battle of the development teams in Game 1 as well. The “upsets” continued in Game 2 with the Rascals beating the Rebels, and Wellington beating Lincoln Road. Game 3 saw Lincoln Rd come back with a vengeance against Auckland, bowling the highest team game of the tournament with 997, the Rascals kept their good form up in beating Counties Manukau, and Wellington beat the Rebels.

At this point the Rotovegas Rascals were leading the team standings with Lincoln Rd, and one could not be blamed for believing that this tournament was going to be a very tight race.

Into the afternoon session, Lincoln Road continued their comeback with a big win over the Rascals in their top of the table match, and were soon into their stride with more big wins over Wellington Strike, Counties Manukau, and the Rebels throughout the day. This run compiled an ominous 29 out of a maximum 32 points in the afternoon, and had everybody else scrambling for 2nd. Conversely the Rascals, who had been one-time leaders, compiled only 4 points from 4 games in the afternoon, this saw them tumble to 7th.

At the end of Day 1 Lincoln Rd was leading from Wellington and the Rotovegas Rebels were in 3rd.

Day 2 largely went to the form guide set on day 1, with the exception of the Rascals winning against the Rebels for the 2nd time in Game 10. The Rebels did get a morale-boosting win against Lincoln Rd in Game 12, Lincoln Rd’s first loss since Game 2. By then they had won 27 from a maximum 32 points from the 4 games in the morning session, and the race for 1st was over.

Lincoln Road finished the tournament with a win over Wellington Strike, and finished on 85 points, ahead of Wellington on 69.5 points and Auckland on 60 points.

In the All Stars, Angela Boswell from Wellington continued her excellent form from the Nationals to win the ladies all stars, ahead of Amanda Kebblewhite from Auckland and Megan Fletcher from Lincoln Rd. Paul Housham held up the flag for Counties Manukau, winning the Mens All Stars ahead of Perry Chan & William Wells, both from Lincoln Rd.

This tournament was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone, and conducted in excellent spirit by all involved. Next year’s event is to be held at Tenpin Rotovegas, October 2-3 2009.

Full results can be found by clicking here.

The Junior Graded section saw a huge contingent of bowlers from Canterbury, as well as a number of bowlers from the new centre in Kapiti. As always, the Junior Graded section was handicapped to give everybody an even chance of winning.

Jarrod Huss set a cracking pace in the Singles, winning ahead of Navarone Hamilton and Harrison Clark. Casey Hodgkinson & Mathew Thomas won the doubles ahead of Harrison Clark & Shayden King, and Allanah Steele & Melissa Revfeim placed 3rd. Jose Billington, Salem Cook, Shinae King & Devlin Cook combined forces to win the teams ahead of Matt Eller, Ben Strang, Jarrod Huss & Jack Howard, with Andrew Noble, Shayden King, Harrison Clark & Casey Hodgkinson placing 3rd.

Jarrod Huss continued the pace, winning the All Events ahead of Navarone Hamilton and Shayden King. Jose Billington came from 4th in the All Events to win the Masters ahead of Salem Cook and Navarone Hamilton. This lead to a photo finish in the National Champion race, with only 14 pins separating 1st from 3rd. Jose Billington just managed to hold off Jarrod Huss by 2 pins, with Navarone Hamilton finishing 3rd, a further 12 pins back.

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves at this tournament, anticipation is already building for next years event, to be held in Tenpin Rotovegas, September 29-October 1, 2009.

Full Results can be found by clicking here.

At last weekends Melbourne Youth Cup, at AMF Moorabbin, Angela Boswell placed 4th out of the 17 girls entered to obtain a priority selection flag, the first for a New Zealand Youth bowler for 2008. Angela bowled a 192 average to place 24= overall (combined with the boys) with a 1921 series for her 10 games, a great achievement.

Jordan Pinker finished in the prize money in 22nd place on a 193 average with a 1935 series, only 9 pins from the cut for the finals. Bianca Tofilau placed 36th with a 185 average and also bowled the highest girl’s game of 266. Stephanie George was 39th with a 183 average, Paul Housham 41st also with a 183 average, Matthew Toi 43rd with a 181 average, Adrian Hoggard 50th 173 average and Corey Johnson 54th with a 169 average.

The tournament was won by young Saudi Arabian youth bowler Yousef Akbar.
Click here for results.

The board regrets to advise that the planned date for Craig’s resignation to take effect has passed and TBNZ still does not have a replacement CEO. To prevent TBNZ being without a CEO, Craig has very generously offered to stand in as a caretaker CEO until the earlier of either the end of the year or when a new CEO is appointed. The Board has gratefully accepted Craig’s offer. In doing so, the Board wishes to make it clear that this is as a caretaker role only and that “normal service” can not be expected. The Board would therefore like the support of all its members by limiting all communications with Craig to only that which is essential to keep the core functions of TBNZ operational. Craig has agreed to extend his contributions despite a very full personal international bowling calendar. With this in mind, the Board has accepted Craig’s offer on the condition that all members adhere to an embargo of any “CEO” contact with Craig during the “bowling” periods of 14 August – 2 September and 16 October – 28 October inclusive.

The situation of not being able to recruit a suitable replacement CEO is a huge threat to the well being of TBNZ in its current form. There is not an easy solution to this problem, or else it would already be in place. During this next period, Craig, the Management Team, and the Board will be considering all alternatives that will enable TBNZ to continue to function in the long term. The Board asks for the continued support of all members as we try to work our way forward in these difficult times. If you have any views which you think may be helpful, please forward them to any member of the Board

On behalf of the Board
Graham Parkins
Director

The TBNZ Board is pleased to announce that Alex Darkin has been appointed Northern Director of TBNZ, contact details to be advised

The highlight of the qualifying was Megan Fletcher & Julieanne Mollet shooting 1382 in the ladies doubles, a combined average of 230, winning by 170 pins beating all the mens doubles combinations, and beating the ladies doubles nationals record by 160 pins.

In other results, Kurt Sturgess & Adrian Judd won the mens doubles with 1342, Rosie Moka & Leanne Delamore won the Graded Doubles with 1287 including handicap.

Phil Wright set the pace in the Mens Singles early with 1299, an average of 216, and stayed on top till the end. Zoe Godfrey also set a cracking pace early in the Ladies Singles with 1223, again staying on top till the end, only matched very late by Ivena Heald. Boyce Wong prevailed in the Graded Singles with a score of 1366 including handicap.

In the Mens Teams, Jason Waters, Brodie Hunt, Gregorio Nicolas, Anthony Harris & Tony Lum prevailed with a score of 2985. This was expected, as all 5 are part of the New Zealand team travelling to the Mens World Champs in Thailand in August. Paula Campbell, Melonie Lister, Amanda Kebblewhite, Jennifer Edwards & Julieanne Mollet won the Ladies teams with 2799, and Ned Perika, Peter Jones, Liezel Luxford, Geoff Kitson & Andrew Valentine took out the Graded Teams with a record score of 3266 including handicap.

In the All Events, Anthony Harris proved himself to be the man to beat in the Mens division, winning with a total of 2519 at an average of 210. Julieanne Mollet bowled an average of 202 in taking out the Ladies All Events by 127 pins, and Ned Perika prevailed in a very tight Graded All Events division, bowling a total of 2600 at an average of 216 including handicap.

In the Senior All Events, Phil Wright took out the Mens division with a total of 2434, and Ivena Heald took out the Ladies division with a total of 2243.

The highest game bowled during qualifying was a 269 game bowled by Matt Williamson, a graded bowler from Whangaparaoa, in the teams event.

For a while, the Mens Masters looked like it was going to be one of the closest in years, with 5 bowlers all within striking distance of the lead at the half way point. But Pete Richardson stole a break on the field in games 11&12 when he bowled 254 and 279, and was never headed from there. Adrian Judd’s perfect 300 game in the last game got him up to 2nd, and top qualifier Anthony Harris finished 3rd.

In the National Champion race which includes All Events and Masters combined, it looked as though the buffer Anthony Harris took into the Masters was going to see him through. However Pete Richardson’s big games proved he had what it took to challenge for the title, and the finishing order was the same as in the Masters. Phil Wright took out the Senior National Champion title, ahead of Fred Housham and Stu Turnbull.

In the Ladies division, Julieanne Mollet continued her domination of the field from the All Events, winning both the Masters and National Champion title comfortably ahead of Ivena Heald. Megan Fletcher finished 3rd in the Masters and Belinda Tan finished 3rd in the National Champion race. Ivena Heald proved she was far and away the best senior lady in attendance, winning the Senior Ladies National Champion title ahead of Rhonda Colyer and Dianne Robinson.

In the Graded division, Melissa Anderson stunned the field in her first tournament to win the Masters ahead of Bo Saetear and Matt Williamson. Bo held out to win the National Champion honours ahead of Matt Williamson and a fast finishing Melissa Anderson, who started in 10th place but finished 3rd.

All in all it was a hugely successful tournament, played in a great spirit by all participants. We look forward to more of the same at next year’s event at Tenpin Lincoln Road, Auckland, on Queens Birthday weekend 2009.

Full results can be found by clicking here.    Nationals Newspaper Article

Tauranga Seniors Winter Tournament
The Inaugural Tauranga Seniors Tournament Series event – the 2008 Tauranga Seniors Winter Tournament – was held at Tenpin 13th Ave in Tauranga, over the weekend of June 28-29, 2008, and attracted a field of 22 bowlers from all over the North Island. The format was a simple one, all bowlers bowl 18 games over 2 days, with the highest overall pinfall winning the title.

On Day 1, Phil Wright from Hamilton set the early pace with a 211 average over the ten games bowled, comfortably ahead of Graham Parkins from Tauranga on a 199 average and Stu Turnbull from Tauranga on a 194 average. Ivena Heald from Wellington was the highest placed female in the field with a 193 average, ahead of Glennis Rolton from Tauranga on a 183 average and Sandy Hoare from Rotorua on a 178 average.

On Day 2, Phil Wright kept the cracking pace going, and proved that winning the Senior Mens National Champion title at the TBNZ Champs a month ago was no fluke. He finished with a total pinfall of 3751, an average of 208 over 18 games, and 203 pins clear of Graham Parkins in 2nd place. Ivena Heald moved up to 3rd with a pinfall of 3456, an average of 192, and remained the highest placed female, also showing why she won the Senior Ladies National Champion title at the TBNZ Champs. Glennis Rolton remained 2nd out of the female competitors, 8th overall, with a 185 average, and Sandy Hoare remained 3rd out of all the ladies, maintaining her 178 average.

All in all it was a very successful tournament, and lots of fun was had by all competitors. The 2008 Tauranga Seniors Spring Tournament is scheduled for November 29-30, we hope to see everybody back for more fun and good times.
For full results, click here.

If you are interested in helping develop bowling in New Zealand please contact Adrian Judd by email hpmanager@tbnz.co.nz before the 20 June 2008.
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Bowland Porirua was the venue for round three of the National Bowling Tour. Bowlers from Auckland to Invercargill were represented at the tournament, providing a competitive, multi- levelled field in each division. Friday and Saturday were devoted to single and multiple qualifying attempts and for those who adapted and played to the lanes conditions, competing in the Masters was their reward.

Jordan Pinker, Belinda Tan, Fred Housham and Kyle Oliver were the top qualifiers in their respective divisions. The Masters on the Sunday proved to be interesting, with positions changing constantly in some divisions. The youth division saw young talented bowler Jordan Pinker from Rotorua finishing on top with Jason Moka and Corey Johnson finishing second and third respectively.

The seniors division proved to be a close finish with recently-returned back-to-bowling Phil Wright winning the seniors division just 11 pins ahead of Fred Housham, with Rob Pollock finishing in third place.

Youth bowler Bianca Tofila backed up her win from the Manakau round and won the ladies division ahead of Megan Fletcher and Julieanne Mollet. Defending champion from the same round last year, James Kelly proved he was the one to beat this year, eventually winning the men's division ahead of Tony Lum with young bowler Paul Housham proving he can match it with the adults finishing in third place.
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Next stop, Tauranga August 8-10

Auckland’s Tenpin Lincoln Road was the second stop-over of the National Bowling Tour. On day one the keys to qualifying for “the Masters” were having multiple attempts and adapting to the ever-changing lane conditions.

Adrian Judd, Julieanne Mollet, Paul Watts, and Jordan Pinker all finished at the top of their respective divisions and, along with 36 other qualifiers, moved through to the Masters on day two, when the first to compete were the women and youth divisions.

Young Brent Brooks from Rotorua took out the youth division with an impressive 190 average, ahead of Shane Chan and top qualifier Jordan Pinker. The women’s division proved to be a very close finish, with it all coming down to the last game between the top three competitors. Belinda Tan held out in the face of strong challenges from Jennifer Edwards and Julieanne Mollet, eventually winning by just a three pin margin.

Then came the seniors’ and the men’s divisions. Bill Hayward won the seniors, ahead of Stu Turnbull and Graham Parkins. Like the women’s division, the men’s winner was not decided until the last game, with Sonny Reguerra and Russell Young fighting it out to the end. Sonny was eventually the victor by 8 pins, while third place went to Charlie Ha.

Next stop, Wellington, on May 16-18.

See full results.

ANTI-DOPING TESTING

TBNZ wishes to remind all athletes that anti-doping testing will be part of the 2008 competitive calendar. Every athlete is responsible to ensure he or she is compliant with the TBNZ Anti-Doping Policy. Ignorance of any rule is not accepted by Drug Free Sport NZ as an excuse. Anti-doping information is available from http://www.drugfreesport.org.nz and will usually be available at TBNZ sanctioned events. If you have any questions related to the TBNZ Anti-Doping Policy or its implementation, please contact graham@tbnz.co.nz who is currently acting as Anti-Doping Manager until someone else is appointed. If you would like to apply for this position please see Volunteers Wanted. Graham will help any successful applicant become familiar with the Anti-Doping Manager responsibilities.

Volunteers are incredibly important at every level. Without grassroots helpers, sport simply wouldn’t happen - and players could never advance to world-class level. SPARC are hosting a series of seminars to help anyone involved in managing volunteers or who is a volunteer. These seminars will feature presentations on; the new volunteer research, Volunteers, the heart of sport the officials learning & development website and Club Kit - tools to run your club. Seminar dates and locations: Auckland 6 May Millennium Stadium, 8 30am 7 May Manurewa Rugby Club, 12pm Hamilton 8 May Genesis Energy Room Waikato Stadium 6pm Wellington 13 May Circa Theatre, 6pm Dunedin 14 May, Otago Museum Barclay Theatre, 7pm Christchurch 15 May, Christchurch Football Club, 5 30pm The sessions will run for approximately 2 hours and refreshments will be served. There will also be information packs to take away. To register please reply to Vicki.mcloughlin@sparc.org.nz indicating which session you would like to attend. SPARC (Sport & Recreation New Zealand) ihi Aotearoa 78 Victoria Street, Wellington (04) 472 8058 www.sparc.org.nz

Volunteers Wanted TBNZ is reliant on the generous contribution of numerous volunteers to deliver to its membership on the objectives set down in the TBNZ constitution. Whilst all TBNZ's volunteers are hard working, they all contribute different amounts of time to different activities depending on their other personal commitments. For TBNZ to continue to build on the achievements and progress made over the past 3.5 years more volunteers are required. Most of the roles which we are seeking volunteers don't require the volunteer to be located in Auckland. In fact we would encourage volunteers located in other areas to assist TBNZ to further develop TBNZ as the National Body. If you are interested in contributing to the development of Tenpin Bowling in New Zealand please consider the job descriptions of the vacant positions. Should you be interested in filling any of the roles listed or believe that you can contribute to TBNZ in some other way please contact Craig Nevatt at craig@tbnz.co.nz TBNZ is seeking volunteers to take on the following roles: NZ Senior Squad Coach Flyer - Application Form Job Description - National Squad Coach Please see the flyers and job descriptions for more information. Interested parties are requested to submit an application form as soon as possible.

Appointments

Finance Manager

TBNZ is pleased to welcome Tony Lum to the position of Finance Manager on the TBNZ Management Team. Tony will be taking over responsibility for all finance related matters for TBNZ effective immediately. All finance matters should now be directed to Tony at finance@tbnz.co.nz. Please note that TBNZ is still seeking a Funding Officer to deal with funding applications. A job description is available here.

Senior Squad Manager

TBNZ is pleased to announce that Michael Raynard has volunteered to act as a player / manager for the National Senior Squad for 2008 to ensure that the Squad has sufficient time to prepare for the Australian Senior Teams Challenge to be held in Canberra in October.

2008 TBNZ National Teams Champs.

Nine regional teams from around New Zealand and one representative team from the Australian Defence Forces converged on Bowland, Porirua over Easter weekend to participate in the 2008 National Team Championships.

Held over 3 days and on two different lane patterns, all bowlers found the lane conditions very challenging. This was reflected in the bowlers averages with only one bowler, Auckland's Craig Nevatt, managing to bowl over a 200 average. Craig was the top male AllStar with Wairua's Sharon Pinker as the top female.

The lead for both the male, female and overall standings changed constantly up until the last day. Last year's defending champions Waitakere proved they were the team to beat, finally taking out all divisions, and were again crowned the 2008 Championship Team. Auckland and hosts Wellington finished second and third respectively.

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2008 QubicaAMF World Cup NZ Finals

Tenpin Lincoln Road was the host for the New Zealand final of the Bowling World Cup to find one man and one women to represent New Zealand at this year's World Cup finals to be held in Mexico.

After a 4-week qualifying period 24 bowlers were found to contest the NZ final over the weekend of March 8,9. The weekend consisted of 16 games on two different lane conditions on the Saturday to find the top 16 bowlers to go through to the masters held on the following day.

Sunday saw 14 men and 2 women go head to head for 15 games on yet another lane condition with carried over pinfall. Manukau National Bowling Tour winner Adrian Judd was the top qualifier from the day before with Anthony Harris and last year's defending champion Jason Waters 2nd and 3rd top qualifiers respectively.

Sunday was an interesting day, scores and averages fluctuated dramatically all day, the highlight being Craig Nevatt's 299 game against last year's winner Jason Water's 257. Newly- appointed New Zealand adult squad coach Adrian Judd took out the title this year with a steady 211 average over the 15 games. Belinda Tan and Jennifer Edwards were the only 2 ladies to contest the women's title which turned into a fight to the end, Belinda eventually winning on the day.

Both Adrian Judd and Belinda Tan will travel to Hermosillo, Mexico in November to represent New Zealand in the 2008 Qubica AMF Bowling World Cup Final.

Full results here.

National Bowling Tour Final - We will rank it.

Late last year, TBNZ received a request from the centre proprietors to include the National Bowling Tour Final on our National Rankings. After considering that a significant majority of the feedback we have received from the members was in favour of the proposal we recently presented, we have decided that the National Bowling Tour Final will be included in the TBNZ National Rankings for 2008.

Please click here to view the proposal.

High Performance Manager & National Squad Coach

It gives us great pleasure to announce that Adrian Judd (AJ) has been appointed as the TBNZ High Performance Manager and National Squad Coach. AJ is one of only four HP1 Coaches we have in New Zealand. The principal role of the High Performance Manager is to oversee the running of the various National Squads including providing assistance and support to the three National Squad Coaches. AJ will also be involved in the implementation of a Regional Development Squad program over the coming months.
Adrian may be contacted via hpcoach@tbnz.co.nz or nzcoach@tbnz.co.nz

2008 TBNZ National Teams Champs.

This Easter, an invitational team from Australia will join teams from all over New Zealand to contest the 2008 National Teams Champs, in a 3 day head to head contest to find the 2008 National Teams Champion. This will be held at Bowland Porirua from Friday March 21 to Sunday March 23.

The teams will represent the following regions: North Harbour, Waitakere, Auckland, Manukau, Kaimai, Wairua, Wellington, Canterbury and Southern, with a team from the Australian Defence Forces filling the vacancy left by the absent Central team. Last year’s Champions Waitakere are sure to be pushed very hard in their efforts to defend their title.

Spectators are welcome to turn up to Bowland Porirua to witness the fantastic bowling and atmosphere for themselves. But if you can't make it, full results will be posted here on a game by game basis, so you can keep track of your favourite teams' progress during the course of the weekend.

National Bowling Tour- Stop 1, Superstrike Manukau

Rotation, Rotation, Rotation, this was the key at Superstrike Manukau over the weekend of Feb 22-24, where maximum-pin-carry resulted in big scores as the National Bowling Tour kicked off its 2008 season.

Corey Johnson, Bill Hayward, Ivena Heald and Greg Nicholas were the top qualifiers in their respective divisions with averages ranging from 195 to 231.

The Masters in all divisions produced a mixed bag, either winners were not decided until the last game, or lead from the first game, and a case of ‘catch me if you can’.
Adrian Hoggard took out the youth division with a 192 average, ahead of Jordon Pinker and Ethan McKay. Bill Hayward defended his Manukau title, averaging 192, just 20 pins ahead of Stu Turnball, with Allan Heald finishing 3rd in the seniors division.

The womens division proved to be a very close finish but in the end youth bowler Bianca Tofilau took out the title with a 203 average, just 3 pins ahead of Belinda Tan. Megan Fletcher finished 3rd.

The mens division, quite frankly, was a spectators dream with some great bowling and high scoring all round. Adrian Judd lead from the very first game and never gave it up, with everybody fighting it out for 2nd and 3rd spots. Judd finished on an impressive 240 average, 235 pins ahead of Russell Young, and Greg Nicolas.

Next Stop Waitakere, April 11-13

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NATIONAL BOWLING TOUR FINAL - We want to rank it.

Late last year, TBNZ received a request from the centre proprietors to include the National Bowling Tour Final on our National Rankings. We have been discussing this issue with the proprietors over the Holiday season as we see the benefits that can be gained by all parties if this happens, and have come up with a proposal on how to rank the final which we think is as fair as possible to all parties involved. Please click here to view this proposal.

However, we do not want to go any further without getting some feedback from you, the bowlers, on this proposal. We do not want to rank the final without a clear mandate from you that this is what you want us to do. Please click here,to submit your comments, suggestions, constructive criticisms or additional ideas. We are especially keen to hear from bowlers residing south of Taupo.

Feedback closes at 10pm on Friday February 22, so if you want your opinions to count please send them in.

6th AUSTRALIAN YOUTH TEAMS CHALLENGE

The 2008 New Zealand Youth Tenpin Bowling Team travels to Werribee, Melbourne on Thursday 10th January to compete in the National Youth Cup on the 12th and 13th followed by the Australian Youth Teams Challenge from 14th to 17th. There have been two changes to the team since it was named in October. Eric Ang has withdrawn from the boys team and been replaced by 2007 New Zealand Junior National Champion, Matthew Toi. Sharon Pinker, the Assistant Coach is unable to travel due to work commitments and Veronica Pinker has replaced her as a Team Official. Paul Housham and Eric Ang will compete in the National Youth Cup together with all members of the New Zealand Youth Team. You can follow the progress of the team at www.tenpin.org.au

The New Zealand Youth Team would like to acknowledge the support of Tenpin Bowling New Zealand, Panmure Superbowl, The Lion Foundation and SKF New Zealand Limited.

The team members are as follows;

RICCO PANAPASSA Head Coach
MIKE SIMMONS Manager
MAIHI PINKER Assistant Manager
VERONICA PINKER Team Official