The furthest away from home on the baseball diamond at this year’s Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games, is most certainly the Indigo Baseball team, swinging in all the way from Japan.
This team from the Territory a.k.a. Darwin Geckos, have been attending the Masters Games for almost 10 years. It’s now a tradition among the group of friends who have established a great routine.
Swagat, the indoor netball team from Adelaide, are loving the Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games. The majority of the team is made up of members from Adelaide while there are a couple of members from Melbourne and Queensland. This will be the teams third Masters Games, having won silver in the last two Games and are hoping to place in these Games.
Tina and her close group of netball players have come to the Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games with only one thing in mind and that is to defend their winning record. Veto GC Magic have won at the last four Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games they have competed in, and are looking to keep the tradition going.
The Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games have undoubtedly spawned many joyous memories for all participants so far, none more so however, than tenpin bowling participants Mike Power and Susanne Proser. On Friday 31 October, Mr Power proposed to the love of his life, Ms Prosner, as they prepared to participate in this year’s tenpin bowling competition.
It may be a surprise to some that calisthenics, which incorporates dance, marching, club swinging, and theatrics into one sparkling and highly disciplined sports craft, is as uniquely Australian as Australian Rules Football.
This European beach volleyball union is ‘Still Walking’ and while they can walk, they will play. Alwyn ‘Whitey’ White and Romano ‘Snowman’ Fracassini have come over from Western Australia to give our local guys a run for their medals.
The world of indoor rowing has come to the Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games in 2014 for the fifth time since 2006 with the sport setting the world on fire with new national and international tournaments all over the world.
20 years on and the Adelaide Ace baseball team’s founder, Mal Sporne, is still capturing the competition’s heart with his good spirit and attitude. Sporne founded the Adelaide Ace’s in 1993 and since then the club has grown as they roam the globe, gaining praise and friends internationally.
Behind the glitz and glamour of calisthenics lies Margaret Lewry, designing every costume, selecting every piece of music, choreographing every move and raising thousands of dollars. Lewry has been a lifetime calisthenics enthusiast, beginning at the age of three and coaching for the last 25 years.
