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About Us
The Cats Claim Double in 2010 and 2013
In 2010, at Clare, Blyth Snowtown A Grade defeated Min-Man by 6 points to claim the A grade Football Premiership. Blyth Snowtown A1 team had a convincing 61-33 victory over South Clare to claim their A1 Netball back-to-back Premiership in 2010 at Clare.
The Cats claimed double again in 2013 at Mintaro with A grade defeating Min-Man by 34 points and the A1 netballers defeating South Clare 42-32.
The history of our club began with a trial of Snowtown Football Club players playing with the Blyth Football Club in 1987. In 1988 the Blyth Snowtown Football team was formed. At the end of 1988, a historic vote was held to form the Blyth Snowtown Football Club. The first game was played in 1989 as the new club under the colours of red and white and the name of the roosters. In 1993 with the introduction of a new club to the association who were also the roosters, a vote was held and the colours changed to blue and white and to be known as the Cats.
Some of the Club highlights since 1988 have been;
Premierships
A Grade - 2006, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2019
B Grade - 2007 , 2014, 2022
Senior Colts (now under 17s) - 1997 & 2002
Junior Colts (now under 14s) - 1989 & 1992
Blyth Snowtown Football Club
Blyth Snowtown Netball Club
The Blyth and Snowtown Netball Clubs officially amalgamated in 1995. Although the football clubs officially amalgamated in 1989 the two netball clubs were still strong on their own and had a large number of players and decided to continue as separate clubs.
In 1994 numbers for both clubs were declining and after discussion it was agreed to elect a steering committee to arrange the terms of amalgamation in readiness for 1995. This committee consisted of Ros Zweck, Sue Pratt, Julie McEwin & Vicki Hutchens from Blyth Netball Club and Heather Griffin, Jenni Hewett, Maureen Coffey, Ellen Kelly & Glenys Nolan (Proxy) from Snowtown Netball Club. The committee met on a regular basis and prepared a constitution and terms of amalgamation for adoption at the first Annual General Meeting. They also discussed options for the new uniforms.
The first Annual General Meeting was held on 7 February 1995 with 37 members of Blyth & Snowtown Netball Clubs attending. Phil Barry, (CEO of District Council of Blyth/Snowtown at that time) chaired the commencement of the meeting. It was agreed that the two clubs amalgamate and the constitution and terms and conditions of amalgamation were accepted.
The first President of the Blyth Snowtown Netball Club, Maureen Coffey was elected from the meeting. Each club then nominated 5 delegates from each club. They were:
·Blyth – Sue Pratt, Tracey Andriske, Janet Zweck, Jane Matthews, Jennie Kennett; and
·Snowtown – Heather Griffin, Glenys Nolan, Jenni Hewett, Ellen Kelly and Lynette Welke.
From this committee the following positions were elected:
Vice President – Janet Zweck, Secretary – Sue Pratt, Assistant Secretary – Jenni Hewett, Treasurer – Jane Matthews.
The senior netball uniform adopted was a navy parasilk double pleated skirt, white polo top with blue/purple patterned parasilk insert across the shoulders. The netball uniform included plain white polo top and navy pleated skirt. Socks were white with double navy band and letters BSNC.
Each club nominated 3 senior and 2 junior coaches at the Annual General Meeting and these coaches met to arrange the coaches of each grade. Coaches for 1995 were:- A1 – Tracey Andriske, A2 – Heather Griffin; B1 – Cathy Agnew; B2 – Lynette Welke; C1 – Sonia Talbot; U17 – Jane Matthews; J1 – Janet Zweck; J2 – Ellen Kelly; J3 – Denby Wandel; J4 – Pat Keech.
In our first year our club won three premierships – A2, B1 & B2.
NENA Best & Fairest Winners & Runners Up from our Club were:
A2 – Janet Zweck – Winner
B1 – Heather Williams – Runner Up
B2 – Lisa Stirling – Runner Up
J1 – Emma Coffey – Runner Up
In 2000 our club introduced the Club Volunteer of the Year Award which was donated by Heather Griffin. The first winner was Janet Zweck.
A committee was formed in 2002 to design a new netball uniform (body suit). This committee consisted of Amanda Nolan, Simone Bigg, Cherie Stirling, Tristen Turner, Hannah Wandel, Rebecca Hanrahan (Jamieson). The new bodysuit was adopted as our uniform in 2003. This was a navy blue body suit with a teal and white design around the edges. Bibs were teal blue with navy blue writing.
10 years later another committee was formed to design our current netball uniform which was implemented in 2013. The committee consisted of Hayley Zweck, Mardi Pratt and Tanya Warner. Due to the RSMU uniforms being quite navy we decided to differentiate by using majority aqua as the base of the uniform whilst still honouring the Cats scratch and the trade mark paw prints on the shorts under skirt. Our Juniors followed suit with a matching top and skort.
In 2016, the Blyth Snowtown Netball Club celebrated their 21st Birthday at the Blyth Town Hall. 21st History Booklet
Cheer, cheer, the blue and the white;
Honour the Cats by day and by night;
Lift that royal banner high;
Shake down the thunder from the sky;
Whether the odds be great or be small;
We’ll come out and win over all;
On and on we’ll keep on Fighting;
Onwards to victory!