The 2023 Boccia NSW State Titles were a great success! 37 players from across NSW, Victoria, ACT, Queensland and South Australia competed over four days for 18 medals, and the standard of play was very strong.
Here are the results:
Individual
BC1: Gold - Chris Allerdice (Northern Beaches Waves), Silver - Neil Dalton (Hunter), Bronze - Joseph Jenkins (Hunter).
BC2: Gold - Aaryan Shah (Northern Beaches Waves), Silver - Scott Elsworth (Northern Beaches Waves), Bronze - Corena Harrison (ACT)
BC3: Gold - Jamieson Leeson (Hunter), Silver - Dan Michel (Cronulla Sutherland), Bronze - Spencer Cotie (Northern Beaches Waves)
BC4/5: Gold - Connor Hamlin (Penrith), Silver - Adam Alcorn (Hunter), Bronze - Matt Van Hoek (Northern Beaches Waves)
Open: Gold - Fiona Porch (Penrith), Silver - Ben Fairlie (Cronulla Sutherland), Bronze - David Lunn (Hunter)
Teams and Pairs
BC1/2 Teams: Gold - Northern Beaches Waves/South Australia, Silver - Northern Beaches Waves/Cronulla Sutherland/Penrith
Bronze - Queensland/Hunter
BC3 Pairs: Gold - Hunter, Silver - Northern Beaches Waves, Bronze - Penrith
BC4/5/OPEN Pairs: Gold - Queensland/Northern Beaches Waves,
Silver - Penrith 2, Bronze - Hunter 2.
Well done to all athletes who played, you helped to keep the competition strong!
The Tu Huynh Award went to Jamieson Leeson from the Hunter Boccia Club, the Coaches' Award went to Ben Fairlie from the Cronulla Sutherland Club and Fiona Porch from the Penrith Boccia Club was inducted in to the Boccia NSW Athletes' Hall of Fame.
A huge vote of thanks must go to all those volunteers who made this competition such a success: the highly trained referees, timekeepers and scorers, the call room boss Jack Wilkinson, the secretariat and the people who did the myriad of other jobs that needed to be done.
And, finally, a huge thank you to the athletes who competed at this year's Boccia NSW State Titles. Your love of Boccia drives us on to make each competition better than the last.
