9th Asian Seniors Championships - Australian Teams

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from the TBA website:

Thursday 16th November 2006 - Tenpin Bowling Australia is now calling for expressions of interest from bowlers interested in representing Australia at the Asian Seniors Championships from Nov 7-14, 2007. There will be 2 teams, male and female, attending, interest permitting, the Championships in Suzuka, Japan. The minimum age of participants is 50 and there is no stipulation of a 60+ team as a stand alone team. The makeup of the teams will be determined after all expressions of interest have been received. All interested bowlers should email their expression of interest to Tenpin Bowling Australia High Performance Program Manager, June Voukolos - [email protected], providing the following details:

Full Name
Date of Birth
Postal Address
Email Contact
Phone Contacts
Name of their Coach, if any.

DATE FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST CLOSES 1ST FEBRUARY 2007.

June Voukolos
High Performance Program Manager

 

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update as per TBA page this morning:

The Japan Bowling Congress rules for the event define, in part:

Eligibility
Participants have to be members of a member federation of Asian Bowling Federation and have to be 50 years or older by the end of the year 2007.

Brackets & Divisions
a) Senior Bracket: Bowlers aged 50-59 as of the end of the year 2007 will bowl in this bracket, mens and womens divisions.
b) Grand Senior Bracket: Bowlers aged 60 or older as of the end of the year 2007 can bowl in this bracket - mens and womens division.

Number of Teams
Each country or region is allowed to send four teams for Men's and Women's division at the maximum. So the maximum number of the bowlers in a contingent is 32 (16 men and 16 women)
Host country can send one more men's team and one more women's team.

All interested bowlers should email their expression of interest to Tenpin Bowling Australia High Performance Manager, June Voukolos , [email protected] providing the following details
Full Name
Date of Birth
Postal Address
Email Contact
Phone Contacts
Name of their coach if any

DATE FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST CLOSES 1ST FEBRUARY 2007.

 

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Having a little play online, I found some wonderful return airfare prices for the majority of the states to Nagoya for November, flying with Singapore Airlines.
Once at Nagoya, it is then a 45 min transfer via train to Suzuka.

Brisbane - Nagoya $1362.94pp inc all taxes etc
Sydney - Nagoya $1376.64pp
Melbourne - Nagoya $1359.46
Adelaide - Nagoya $1377.83
Perth - Nagoya $1663.59

surprisingly, the dearest fare was from the closest Australian port to Asia -
Darwin - Nagoya $2542.69

The website was onlinetravel.com.au.

Not that these prices are any good to anyone right now, but if you had planned to travel to Suzuka as a spectator for the Seniors event these appear to be the right prices, so now's the time to get in quick!

 

[Little Weed]

It would be really nice to see some sort of announcement regarding selection for the seniors teams, or at least an update on progress.
I think it would be fair to say that the seniors know they will be self funded again, and most of us "have our lives on hold" waiting to see how many teams are going to be travelling, and whether we can afford any other sort of expenditure in the meantime.
There are all sorts of trials and roll-offs going on over the next couple of months for state representation at all levels, we really need to know if we dare spend our kids inheritance on these other events, or whether we should be saving our dollars for the one big trip.
Can somebody shed some light on the situation, and can we please have factual information from TBA, not Chinese whispers (or Japanese whispers in this case)?
Josie Adams

 

[Tintam]

HI Josie - Havent you heard of the SKI club??? All senior bowlers who travel round Aussie are member
SKI club stands for ---- Spending Kids Inheritence
Bre

 

[Kevin Blackmore]

Can anyone shed some light on what is going on??
Most of us have a life and are still working so we can go on these self funded trips.
We need some info so we can arrange time off, book airfares and accommodation etc.

 

[i30girl07]

2 senior bowler have already got their holidays booked incase i goes ahead.
Seems as if it takes them that long to figure things out that it will be time to head off to japan.
As yet they have heard nothing, except that they were waiting on formats from Japan to make up teams.

 

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from TBA website this morning:


" Nominations are now being called for coaches (2 positions) to take the Seniors (Over 50 & Over 60) to Japan for Asian Seniors Championships.

Each coach will be responsible for a male and female team in one age division.
Nominations must be emailed to June Voukolos, High performance Program [email protected] by 10th May 2007.

Please note all expenses for the trip to Japan, like the teams, will be at the coaches own expense.

June Voukolos,
High Performance Program Manager "