The Boorowa Touch and Netball Carnival on Friday, 24th October at the Boorowa Showgrounds was yet another smashing success. The kids playing were blessed with perfect weather, green fields, and an undeniable community spirit, which made it one to remember.
There were 489 games of touch and 396 games of netball played over the day, made possible by the tireless work of volunteers, referees, umpires, staff, students, and parents. The canteen and coffee stands were flat out all day, raising money for the P and Cs to support the students.
Event organiser, Andrew Corcoran, said it was a roaring success.
“We had 45 schools come. We had 240 odd with 45 touch teams. We had 22 courts of netball and 27 fields for touch from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. We went back to back.
“All the kids got four games over the day, and it was great, cool weather, so they didn’t have as many issues with heat-related incidences.
“It was a great day. Everyone had a great day, and we had good feedback. We managed the large amount of traffic, and we estimated about 7,000 people were there, so getting the cars and buses in went quite smoothly.
“There were lots of volunteers from the Boorowa community coming and helping, and we’re very thankful for those people.
“From those efforts, both schools have raised a nice little bit of money to put back into our schools for our kids for resources and subsidising excursions and things like that to help out the local kids.
“It’s a lot of effort and a lot of people help, but it really gives back to the kids, and it’s great to put that effort in for that cause.
“Both schools put hours of work into preparing the canteens. We are very thankful for the work that the Hilltops Council do for preparing the grounds, the grounds looked immaculate, the whipper snipping and weeds all pulled and no long grass anywhere. The ground seemed very tidy, so it was a good advertisement for our town. The shops were bustling. The coffee shops and service stations were getting used, so it was a good little injection of money into our town with that number of people. Basically, the population increased sixfold on the day, with the number of people in the town compared to normal.
“We had great feedback and the kids had a good time. There was no negative feedback, which is good. It was a great day.”
– Jack Murray
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