Vipers would like to announce that the club will be hosting our VT League trials for both Men’s and Women’s teams on Sunday 19th September and Sunday 3rd October 2010 @ 10am.
The venue is yet to be confirmed but will be announced in the coming week. (more…)
Vipers are extremely excited to announce the re-appointment of Stewart Dracup and Shauna Hammond as the club’s VT League coaches in 2010/11.
Stewart will once again lead the current Men’s VT Premiers for his 4th consecutive season and for the first time as a non playing coach. Stewart brings a wealth of coaching experience and success to the club with appointments with Victorian State teams during his coaching career with the Women’s Open team as well as a major contributor to the State’s senior representative programs over the years. Stu has also been a integral part of team titles with Triton and Vipers more recently.
Shauna also brings a wealth of success and experience to the club and will lead the 2008 premiers back into battle for her 3rd season as Head Coach of the Vipers Women’s team. Shauna recently coached the State W27′s team to the semi’s of the 2010 NTL’s in March and was Head Coach of the State’s first National title winning team the 2007 W27′s. She has lead the team to 2 consecutive VT Finals over the last 2 season and captured the title in 2008.
Vipers wishes both coaches the best for the upcoming season.
Vipers is pleased to announce Multiple Property Services as a new sponsor for the upcoming Summer seasons of touch and official shirt sponsor for the 2010 VT League.
Multiple Property Services
Vipers are calling for expressions of interest (EOI) from Men’s and Women’s players who wish to compete for the club in the 2010 VT League competition set to commence in Oct/Nov.
The VT League competition is the Premier competition in the State and attracts the best players and officials. More details regarding VT can be found in the VT section of this site.
So if you are interested in playing in 2010 for Vipers then send us a email so we can alert you directly of when the clubs trials will be conducted.
Vipers took home 2 of the 3 major awards on Saturday at Victorian Touch League finals held in Port Melbourne, with the club being crowned License/Permit Champions and Men’s Champions and with the Women’s team falling just short of back to back titles and a clean sweep of the major awards.
The day start with both teams enjoying each others company at team lunches before arrival at the fields to watch their opponents in the opening elimination finals and enjoying the luxury of a opening round bye before the semi’s, earned from finishing in the top two.
The women’s team would need to beat the youthful Uni team to advance to the final and a chance at back to back titles, which they did as the weather began to turn. They would face the benchmark women’s team in the final the Melb Lions whom only suffered there first defeat just one week earlier to Vipers leading into the finals. Once again the weather was not kind to the girls and the rain we had been waiting for over the last three months decided to turn up in during the game. The slippery conditions didn’t help the girls who struggled to hold the ball and convert opportunities and trailed into the half down 2-0. Still in with a shot the girls needed to control the ball and defend hard as this was never going to be an attacking match in the conditions, it was going to be about field position. Another TD to the Lions and the game all but looked gone until a 5 minute patch that resulted in two quick TD’s but time beat the ladies and they went down 3-2.
The men’s team having been the team to beat from the opening round would not settle for second although gave their opponents plenty of chances to do just that, the semi against Lions was a game of two contrasting halves of touch with pure brilliance in the 1st to lead 8-2 and pure rubbish in the second to win the match 9-8 and allow Lions a sniff of a major upset. Although having made it through to the final to play last years Premiers Western was the next task at hand and the main focus with the semi performance to be forgotten. The final was run at a quick pace for the first 5 minutes and was quicker then most had expected but entertaining and saw Western put on some quick TD’s to lead into the break 4-2 and in a handy position with 20 minutes to play. The half time peep talk seemed to inspire the boys with commitment and intensity the key to a victory. Western found themselves down to 4 players due to dissent which opened the door and allowed 3 quick TD’s to put Vipers ahead with time running out. Once again another Western player found themselves watching the match from the in-goal and Vipers eventually put on a couple more TD’s to skip away to a 8-5 buffer and eventually claim the match and title.
Brooke James also won the Best and Fairest Female player for 2009.
The celebrations continued well into the night through song and the communal Malibu jugs doing the rounds with all enjoying themselves. Full photo’s of the day and those which can be published from the celebrations will be posted shortly.
Vipers Sports Club are in the early planning stages of our 2010 International tour to the European Champs and USA Portland Touch Tournament.
The club will look to compete in the European Champs and a Tournament in Portland Oregan which are to be held in July 2010 as well as conduct some coaching and social matches along the way in stop over cities.
Now is the time to show your interest as Nominations are about to close on 30th November. So you have approximately 7 days to make your final decision as this has been advertised for over 6months. Confirmed interest is required by Friday 27th November.
Singapore and Hawaii will most likely get to experience the Vipers players during the scheduled stop overs. (more…)
Vipers have kicked off the 2009 VT League season in style with both their Men’s and Women’s teams recording strong wins over the weekend. During the off season many of the players rested for what would be a hard long season of touch as the VT League format requires the teams to play 2 games and in one case 3 games over the course of the day, something which the Vipers teams train for and look to use to their advantage. (more…)
