OUR HISTORY - YEAR BY YEAR
2010 - 2019
2017
Premier Section
President: Gil van der Venne
Secretary: Frans Van Schilt
Treasurer: Frans Van Schilt
Firsts coach: Adam Andrews/Brendan Iezzi and Luke Pacconi (Adam and the Club parted company with 6 rounds to go. Brendan & Luke filled in).
Reserves coach: Heath Pohl
U19s coach (Section 3): Tom Purcell
3rds coach (Premier B 3rds): Steve Woodward
Women’s coach: Liam Tobin
TEAM LEADERS
Firsts Captain: Brendan Iezzi
Firsts vice-captain: Luke Pacconi
Reserves captain: Chris Riggs
Reserves vice-captains: Kris Spassopoulous & Ed Beasley
Reserves deputy vice-captains: Duncan Moore & Simon Murphy.
U19s captains: Seb Contos and Sam Harden
U19s vice-captains: James Robertson and Sam Jordan.
3rds captain: Matt Crone
3rds vice-captain: not recorded
Women’s captain: Stephanie Bull
Women’s vice-captain: Lucy Aitken
For the first time, Old Trinty entered a Women’s team. They not only became a Premier Section team, but went through to the finals, finishing 4th on the ladder, produced four Big V nominees plus the captain of the winning inaugural Women’s Big V team.
The introduction of the women’s team meant that we required a title for the best & fairest award. The club announced with much pleasure that the award be named the “Joan Martin Trophy”.
Anthony Scott, Brendan Iezzi and Jack Osborn were selected in the Men’s State team, and Claire Messent captained the Women’s State team.
The Firsts couldn’t reproduce their stellar form of the previous two years, and after 9 rounds were 7th with 3 wins and 6 losses. The Reserves were also 7th (3-6), the U19s 5th (3-6) and the Thirds also 5th (3-5). The Women were 3rd at 6-2.
At the end of the season, the Firsts had finished 7th with 6 wins and 12 losses. Relegation was staring them in the face when they lost nine straight games between rounds 7 & 15. But they regrouped to win the last three games to be safe in Premier Section for another year. The Reserves also finished 7th on 6-12, the U19s 6th (6-12), and the Thirds 6th (5-10). In their first year, the Women’s team finished 4th with 9 wins and 5 losses.
However, the Women’s team was denied a fairytale first season, when Marcellin beat them in the first semi-final.
WOMEN’S FIRST SEMI-FINAL:
Marcellin: 1.3 3.6 5.9 6.9.45
Old Trinity: 1.1 2.1 2.2 3.6.24
Goals: S. Bull 2, I. Barnett
Best: A. Kavanagh, L. Caruana, I. Barnett, S. Bull, R. Anderson, L. Lachal
AWARD WINNERS 2017
Firsts best & fairest (E.J. Weatherson Trophy): Brendan Iezzi
Runner-up (George Dwyer Trophy): Harry Tinney
Firsts coach’s award (Trevor Norman Trophy): Alex Polidoros
Firsts goalkicking: Seb Nicolosi (26)
Reserves best & fairest: Callum Rae
Runner-up: Ed Beasley
Reserves coach’s award (Michael Frost Trophy): Lloyd Robertson
U19s best & fairest: Sam Jordan
Runner-up: Seb Contos
U19s coach’s award: Sam Harden
U19s award for endeavour & commitment (John & Peter Quarterman Trophy): Alex Contos
3rds best & fairest (Mike Cade Trophy): Henry Moore
Runner-up: Nick Evans
3rds coach’s award: Tom Moore
Women’s best & fairest (Joan Martin Trophy): Claire Messent
Runner-up: Imogen Barnett
Women’s coach’s award: Phoebe Maus
Best first year player Myles Scott
Best Club person (Tony Lyons Trophy) Tess Young
Life member: Gil van der Venne
200 games (Life Membership): Luke Pacconi
150 games: Callum Pohl
100 games: Andrew Kyriacopoulos
100 games: Steven Lawrence
100 games: Callum Rae
100 games: Jakob Steinhart
100 games: Harry Tinney
100 games: Ed Weatherson