PERTH LADIES DARTS ASSOCIATION
Promoting the game of darts for Ladies & Junior Girls & Boys in the district of Perth WA
A couple of our teams are requiring more players to fill absentees for the remainder of season 2022. No experience required & full training provided.
Please contact us immediately if you can play on a Wednesday evening from 7pm – 10:30pm
On the weekend of 26 & 27 March 2022, we had two teams compete in the WA Metropolitan Ladies Team Championships with Team #1 successfully taking 2nd place in Division 1.
All our Ladies played like champions and did our Association proud in their skills at the oche and their social skills. A special mention to our member Jodi Saunders who took out the 2nd top average of 60.17 for the weekend – well done Jodi!
Team #2 played in Division 2 but alas only won a couple of games. We’re still proud of them!
We are pleased to announce that our teams are now fully supported with the influx of new members this season.
However, if you know of more Ladies or Junior Boys & Girls who are still interested in playing the game of darts, we welcome your interest in joining us for season 2023.
Next season we will have the capacity to support another four (4) teams or up to 32 players (pending COVID restrictions) so please register your interest by contacting us now.
It was a great turnout for our registration night on Wednesday 9/2/22 with 21 Ladies nominating to play a Drawn Triples event to greet & meet our past members and new members.
It will be so good to have 6 teams competing this season and we welcome our new members and look forward to a very competitive competition.
Congratulations to our Drawn Triples Finalists:
Well done to those players who were hot on the board hitting some high scores & brilliant pegging (many more were not recorded) with:
An evening of memories and tribulations on the past 50 years of darts for the Perth Ladies Darts Association. Many thanks to everyone who attended to help us celebrate this milestone at the Pagoda Resort & Spa on 16 October 2021. Thank you to the following:
The evening began with an introduction from MC Richard Offen including an Acknowledgement of Country. Richard then invited the Association’s President – Deb Powell to address the guests.
Deb Powell welcomed the special guests – Darts WA President – David Platt & wife Esther, DWA Junior Coach/Co-ordinator – Betty Hislop & daughter Jeanette and Pat Pidhirnyj who was the Association’s caterer for many years. Deb also welcomed the Life Members – Anne Heijboer, Veronica McGuirk , June Gourlay and Kim Kelly and thanked everyone else for attending to help celebrate the occasion. After a brief moment of silence to reflect on those members who have since passed and not able to attend the evening, she asked, “50 years ago – remember the times?”.
But unlike “Hey Hey Is Saturday” which last showed in 1990, The Perth Ladies Darts Association is still going strong! Strong in Friendship! Strong in a great night out with the girls!
Sadly, the members who first founded the Association, have since passed on and the only guest with the knowledge to share about the founding of the Association was special guest – Betty Hislop. Deb invited Betty as the Guest Speaker to say a few words.
Betty spoke about how female dart players were not welcomed by the male dart players back in late 1960’s. So it was decided by a few to select a team to travel to Canberra to play an unofficial Australasian Ladies Darts Championships. It was such a success for the Ladies that in 1971 the first WA State Ladies Dart Team competed in Sydney in 1972. After returning from Canberra in 1971, the late Mrs Isabel James assisted in forming the Perth Ladies Darts Association.
Deb thanked Betty for her kind words and mentioned that all their members are proud of where they’ve came from, what they’ve achieved along the way, and look forward to where they are going next. Deb stated how several years ago she had interviewed their past Life Member – June Turner (Gurr) who was the Association’s Secretary from 1971 till her retirement in 2008:
Following the serving of the entree, Deb described how the Association operates now and thanked their dedicated members who travel vast distances to play every Wednesday evening. Like many sporting Associations, they also struggle to retain members. With such a small club, they introduced the Handicap Format. This format enables a weaker player to attempt to peg a game and a challenge for the stronger players to score high to get down to peg their game.
Deb invited Vice-President – Leonie McKeating to begin the presentation of awards for Champion Teams.
All existing Life Members were then invited to present the following Club awards on behalf of a past Life Member:
The main course was then served before the presentation of the Individual Awards. Deb explained that during the season their members were kept interested by providing them with an opportunity to win some cash & incentive prizes. Each week the Highest Peg is awarded and presented as a token award, this year a magnetic disc & last year a clothes peg to proudly attach to their fridge for visitors to see. Also, each week all the pegs hit are placed in a barrel and one drawn out to win $10 and shared if more than one player hit that number.
Deb invited the Association’s Registrar – June Gourlay to assist with the presentation of the following awards:
Deb & June took great pleasure in selecting the recipients of the following awards:
Deb went on to thank all the members who nominated to represent the Association at the WA Metro, State & Lower Grade & Inter-AssociationTeam Championships throughout the season. Congratulations to Perth Team #2 for winning 2nd Place in Division 4 at the State Team Championships.
With only 5 teams competing during the season, Deb developed a BYE Challenge for those members to attend to meet up with their team mates, have a game of darts with a chance to win some cash prizes. At the beginning of each Round, games such as “Card Darts”, “Marathon”, “Shanghai with a Twist” and “Tic-Tak-Toe” were presented. Well done to Beryl Stribley who was the top Cash winner taking $25 on one night! While the rules are provided for each game, it is played on an honour system and the rules are up to interpretation by the players – mmmmm!
Club Person 2021 – a player who never hesitates to help setup each week and always the first to start packing & cleaning up at the end of the night. This member is their eldest member and has had her stint on the Committee from time to time. Well done and congratulations to Beryl Stribley
Life Member – this lady has been a member of our Association since her early 20’s and represented the Association in U25’s, Metro, State, Lower Grade & Inter-Association Championships. She is also Captain – not only for her own team but also during the Championships. She’s been a Committee Member for many years – many thanks and congratulations to Trish Marzi.
Dessert was then served and the announcement that final tickets for the major raffle were being sold.
Auction – Damon “The Heat” Heta Framed Shirt – unfortunately, the auction was unsuccessful in raising funds to reach the reserve price and the item was handed in.
Door Prizes were drawn and awarded by Association Secretary – Mazz Motu & Committee Member – Anne Heijboer.
Mazz continued with a presentation to Pat Pidhirnyj – thanking him for catering for their past functions and helping out in the kitchen when the Association hosted the Metro Inter-Association event early in the season.
Deb’s final message was to thank each of the Committee Members for all their hard work during the year and in preparation for this auspicious event:
As a final message – Deb thanked everyone for attending, thanked Richard, Charlie & Mitchell for their services and wished everyone a fantastic evening.
The music played and the dance floor filled while everyone celebrated until late into the evening.
The Committee take this opportunity to apologise for the error of having no hors d’oeuvres on arrival.
Photographs of the evening available for purchase upon request – please contact us.
A great turnout with 16 nominations for the Handicaps Doubles on 2/6/21. Congratulations to the Winner - Sue Merivale who defeated Cheril Sutton in a close finish. Thank you to everyone for the friendly challenge and for packing up at the end of the night.