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| 15-16 June 2012 | 21 November |
| ASBA - School Resources Expo | TGAA Vic- Summer Seminar |
| Exhibition Building, Melbourne Showgrounds | ♦ venue tbc |
| Free lunch to all attendees- please register for catering purposes | ♦ information available soon |
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| IMPORTANT NOTICE The Regional seminar originally booked for March 2012 has been resheduled for March 2013. We do applogise for any inconvenience and will keep you informed regarding all details for this day. | |
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Congratulations to former TGAA Victoria committee member Adrian Black and his team (pictured left) as AAMI Park wins two awards from Professional Footballers Association. AAMI Park won the award for "Best pitch" and the "Best atmosphere" created by Melbourne Victory fans in a stadium. According to PFA Chief Executive Brendan Schwab, “The PFA Stadium Rating System is an important measure of two essential elements for the success of the A-League – the quality of play and the fan experience. Fans should not underestimate the impact they can have on the intensity of an A-League match, especially where it is complemented by an outstanding playing field.” |
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TGAA Victoria continues to support "Turfies of the future" by sponsoring students from TAFE's with an award each year. Pictured (right) is Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) 2010 winner, Brodie Dorgan with his parents. Below is a group photo taken of award all NMIT 2010 winners. Holmesglen TAFE 2010 winner is Tim Glover and Swinburne University of TAFE 2010 winner is Nicholas Skerys. We wish all good luck with their future careers. |
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TGAA Victoria supports pertinent research Click here to download Community wear trial research update(Januray 2012) Click here to download Wicket soil research update
DPI announces Carbendazim restrictions |
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Victoria's finalist, Rebecca Dynon wins the TGAA National Graduate Award  TGAA now has a National Sportsturf Graduate award. State finalists met in Sydney on 7th April for the selection panel interviews and with 2011 being the inaugural year of this prestigious award. This award is sponsored by TORO and all the state representatives receive airfare and accommodation to attend the AGCSA Conference in Adelaide in June 2011 where the winner of the National Award was announced at the AGCSA Conference Dinner. The National Winner will receive a once in a life time opportunity for career development and exposure to industry practices with an overseas educational trip including airfare and accommodation. Congratulations Rebecca (pictured to the right) and all the best for the future. |
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TGAA Victoria's 2011 National Sports Turf 
Graduate Award state finalist is Tim Hunt. All state finalists meet in Sydney on 15th May for the interviews with the selection committee, prior to the National winner being announced at the AGCSA National Turfgrass Conference in Melbourne in June 2012. This award is sponsored by TORO and all the state finalists receive airfare and accommodation to attend the AGCSA Conference where the winner of the National Award will be announced at the Conference Dinner. The National Winner will receive a once in a life time opportunity for career development and exposure to industry practices with an overseas educational trip including airfare and accommodation. Congratulations Tim (pictured above) and TGAA Victoria wishes you good luck with this years award.
Autumn 2012 
Acreditation is now part of membership. To download information 
| Seminar and Trade Day Wesley College 23 November 2011 |
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The rain held off, the sun was shining (most of the time)... it was a great day at Wesley College (Glen Waverley) for our Seminar and Trade Day. On offer were seminar talks in the Coates Pavillion, a bus trip to Mt Scopus Memorial College for an update on the seed trial, an irrigation audit run by Jim Marchbank (Sportsgrass Pty Ltd), trade exhibits on the adjacent sportsgrounds and machinery demonstrations to end the day. TGAA Victoria would like to thank Andrew Allen (StormWater Vic / City of Manningham), Geoff Connellan (StormWater Vic/University of Melbourne), Jon Penberthy (DEEDI), Michael Robinson (Sportsturf Consultants), David Raison (TPA) and Damien D'Aspromonte (StormWater Vic/Storm Consulting) for speaking at the seminar. Thanks also go to Turf Victoria, Irrigation Aust, Australian Seed Federation and StormWater Victoria for supporting this day. Also, congratulations goes to our raffle winners...Enjoy your prizes ! Alex Campbell, Ryan Taylor, Barry Johnson and Chris Furzer.
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Wicket Seminar MCG 20 July 2011 This day was attended by 300 delegates that enjoyed a variety of speakers, good food and a great view of the hallowed grounds at the MCG. This year, as the numbers have grown, the trade displays were spread out to take over the Betty Cuthbert room and feedback surveys were received by the committee with any comments to be "taken on board" and reviewed for next years wicket seminar. A huge thank you goes to all our speakers, Marcus Pamplin, John Shannon, Geoff Miles, Garry Woolard, Gavin Bock, Ernie Gmehling, Ron McCartney, Nathan Tovey, Phil Ridley, Michael Robinson and our guest speaker Rodney Hogg. Victoria's State finalist (2010 TORO Graduate Sportsturf Award) Rebecca Dynon, was presented with her award and was also elected to the committee for the 2011-2012 year. Click here to see the full committee details for 2011-2012.
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Regional Seminar- Queen Elizabeth Oval Bendigo 16 March 2011 This years Regional Seminar was held at the heritage listed Queen Elizabeth Oval and was well attended by over 70 delegates from all over Victoria. TGAA Victoria endeavours to provide a diverse range of speakers for this annual travelling seminar and we wish to thank all delegates for making the journey. Also, TGAA thanks all speakers for an informative day. Peter Fitzgerald spoke about irrigation auditing, Paul Jackson spoke about environmental sustainability and turfgrass nutrition, John Shannon spoke about cricket pitch issues (with free cd of Johns booklet available to all that attended the day), Allan Reid informed everyone about the drumMUSTER program, and Roger Barbetti gave a talk on the Queen Elizabeth Oval renovations and the $14million development of the Epson Huntly reserve. We look forward to March 2012 when we will be in another part of the state for the next Regional day. The following are presentations that can be downloaded in PDF format: John Shannon:(X5 parts) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Roger Barbetti: Epson Huntly Reserve |
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This years Summer Seminar was held at AAMI Park and attended by over 90 delegates. AAMI Park is an excellent venue with great views overlooking the sportsfield. The general consensus was a resounding "thumbs up" for the catering and also, we would like to thank all speakers who gave great talks on current issues.The following are some of the speaker presentations which are all in PDF format: Des Horton - Stage 2 water restrictions Gerry Charlton- Sportsground safety Dean Holden- New grass varieties If you would like a copy of any other presentation for this seminar, as they are too large to be uploaded to this website, please contact the office for a copy to be mailed to you on cd. |
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| A great evening was had by all that attended. It was great to see some "old" faces from past committee members mingling with current members, have a laugh whilst hearing of stories of "old times" and nibble on some gourmet finger food. Bruce Stephens gave an insight into how the Association started 21 years ago and congratulations goes to Ian Kilgour from Active Safety, who won the weekend away for two. Thank you to all past committee and members of the Association as we look forward to the next 21 years. |
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This was a great day as over 300 congregated in the Olympic Rooms at the MCG for our annual wicket seminar. Speakers, Committee and delegates all enjoyed the view of the "hallowed" grounds, mingling and speaking to many of TGAA Victoria's sponsor companies at the trade area. Pictured above left, is Cricket Victoria's Shaun Graf and Bushrangers Coach Greg Shipperd. The following are some of the speaker presentations available to download as PDf files (some are large files).
Michael Robinson- ANTEP 4 trial update PDF Geoff Kimmitt- Synthetic wickets & covers David Goldie- Recent projects at Skilled Stadium Jerry Spencer- Oval water efficiency Keith McIntyre- Ball bounce
Basic guide to turf cricket pitch preparation (PDF 8.25mg)
This book was written By John Shannon (Turf Management teacher NMIT and former Premier cricket player) and is a good basic guide to turf pitch preparation. In 1986, John Shannon was employed by the City of Camberwell (now Boroondara) and prepared pitches at local and sub district level. He also worked on pitches in England, and on golf courses in Melbourne and Scotland.
John played over 200 games of Premier Cricket and was also wicket keeper/opening batsmen/captain coach for North Melbourne. At this time, John was selected for the Essendon team of the century and is a life member of Essendon. For two years, John was a member of the Victorian State Squad and played numerous second eleven games. He has played at club level in Yorkshire, Leicestershire and Scotland.
This playing experience has given John an appreciation and understanding of what makes a good pitch and for the past eleven years, John has been teaching Turf Management at NMIT. This training book was written to assist people with little or no experience in cricket pitch preparation to prepare a suitable playing surface.
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The Regional Seminar at Central Reserve Colac followed the weekend deluge of heavy rain and hail. Biogreen hosted a field trip to the facilities at Swan Marsh and was a very informative and well received day. TGAA Victoria would like to thank the following speakers: Luke Tresize (Turfcare & Hire), Peter Todd (City of Glen Eira), Daryl Stevens (Arris) and Darren Milverton (Barwon Water).
Each year, TGAA plans on attending to Regional area needs and looks forward to going to another part of Victoria in March 2011.
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The Summer Seminar held at Lebanon Reserve Strathmore was a very successful day with over 100 delegates in attendance. The day also included the launch of the new "Village Green" kikuyu variety (shown above at the Lebanon Reserve)
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Many thanks to speakers on the day, including Ted Boltong, John Caust, Scott Whitaker and Paul van der Lugt. It was a beautiful Melbourne day and was attended by TGAA members, TAFE students from NMIT (Preston) and Swinburne (Wantirna South).
Cricket Wicket Seminar June 2009
"Thought I would send a quick email to thank you and the Vic Tgaa on a wonderful day at the MCG.It was a great seminar and I have come away with added knowledge and am looking forward to next years seminar already"
"I just wanted to send a quick note of appreciation to the TGAA from Oasis Turf. I thought yesterday went off really well, it was well organised, the attendance was fantastic, the food was first class and the response we had at our booth was pleasing.I am looking forward to the next TGAA day. Please pass on my thanks to the committee that organised the day, well done"
"E-mailing you to congratulate the committee on Tuesdays seminar. Was informative, entertaining and held at a fantastic venue. There has been a noticeable improvement in all seminars held over the past twelve months and I am looking forward to the next one...."
"Just wanted to thank you and the TGAA for the seminar that was run last Tuesday. What a fantastic day mate and the feedback from the other guys was very positive....."