SAKSA 2013 AGM and State Wave Titles Presentations

This year SAKSA has decided to combine its 2013 AGM with the State Wave Titles presentations. On Friday the 23rd of August the SAKSA Committee will be at Grange Sailing Club to elect a new committee for the coming 12 months as well as celebrate all the winners and participants in this years Waves Titles.

SAKSA will provide pizzas on the night from 7pm, prior to kicking off the AGM and getting down to official business around 7:30pm, with the Waves titles presentations not long after.

SAKSA is the state body that fights to keep beach access open throughout the state. SAKSA are constantly liaising with Councils to ensure our beaches remain open while also running events throughout the year for the local kiting community. The SAKSA committee is a dedicated bunch of people who give up their own time to progress kiting in SA and we are constantly looking for new blood, with fresh ideas, to better our sport for the wider SA kiting community. If you?re interested in participating, have some fresh new ideas or just like a social drink with some enthusiastic, like-minded kiters, then we would love to have you onboard. After all without the dedication of these volunteers, our beaches would be in jeopardy, and events such as the State Titles would not be possible. The more the merrier, as many hands make light work.

So please come on down and share your thoughts, nominate for the committee or just come for some pizza, a few bevies and a chat. It would be great to see some new faces down at the club and have some fresh faces on the committee. This is a friend and family friendly venue so bring along your posse for what should be a great night.

And with $200 worth of prizes up for grabs as a door raffle courtesy of SAKSA why wouldn?t you come along and try and walk away with the gold!

Cheers
SAKSA Committee

SAKSA would just like to thank everyone who made it on Friday night to the 2013 SAKSA Annual AGM and State Wave Titles Presentation night. SAKSA was overwhelmed with the support we had and it was fantastic to see so many new and old faces. It truly is a reflection of the amazing kiting community we have here in SA, its definitely the best in the country! Your continual support is what drives the guys at SAKSA so thanks again for all your support.

Speaking of support we would also like to take the opportunity to thank all of our amazing local sponsors who support us year in and year out. Without their support SAKSA would not be able to run comps and events and supply so many amazing prizes to you the kiting community. So a huge thank you goes to Bastian at Stance, Pete, Tommy, Sagan and Stewie at Onboard, Jordo at FSR and Jarrad and Josh from Boarding HQ. Get behind these local guys people, support the guys who support your local association.

Friday night officially got underway with pizza and the 2013 AGM. SAKSA kept the AGM formalities short and sweet, with a run down on the year that was, going through the current SAKSA financials and by electing the new committee to drive SAKSA over the coming 12 months. The official meeting minutes and SAKSA Financial report will be posted on the SAKSA website in due course, but the lads at SAKSA are please to announce that Croc, Jordo, Troy and myself (Rhys) have all be re elected to the SAKSA committee as El Presidente, Vice Pres, Secretary and Treasurer respectively. We would also like to thank last years committee members (Ev, Gards, Bart, Toby, Richard, Matt Mc, Danny and Peter) who have reelected to drive SAKSA again this coming season and welcome Bretto, Jorden Fens and Jarrad Morgan to the committee who all put their hands up to help out and instill some new blood to the committee. We look forward to working with you all this year and cant wait to grow the sport in SA and make the coming 12 months even bigger and better for our members.

A big shout out also goes to Doolz who has been a committee member for the last few years but has decided to stepped down from the committee this season due to other commitments. Your help and assistance over the last few years has been great mate and we wish you all the best with your exciting times ahead.

Then we got down to the official business, presenting the winners of the 2013 SAKSA State Waves Titles. While the weather was cold and miserable it was great to see such a good turn out for the event again this year. It was a hard fought competition and competitors made it a tough job for the judges. So a big congratulations goes out to all the winners below:

Open Men

1st Rhys Gardner
2nd Shaun Crocker
3rd Jacqueline Hockaday
4th Evan Higham

Open Women

1st Jacqueline Hockaday

Juniors

1st Corey Capaldo

Masters

1st Jim Redgate
2nd Martyn Bone
3rd Darran Wise
4th Marcus Leach

Legends

1st Paul Bradley
2nd Bart Mascolo
3rd Steve Wickham
4th Alan Morgan

Amateurs

1st Brant Oxlade
2nd Marcus Leach
3rd David Arland
4th Thomas Ryan


Again a huge thanks goes out to everyone who came down Friday night. It was great to see you all again, have a few laughs and a few bevies. Watch this space for all the exciting events SAKSA has planned for the 2014 season and we will see you all on the water soon.

Cheers

SAKSA Crew