Batties – the Picnic is off due to weather but we’ll be at the Golden Barley from 12 tomorrow, so head down for some beers and a bite to eat if you’re so inclined. Escape the rain, better than sulking at home!
If you grabbed a card or googled us after our stall on King Street today, welcome! To help you get acquainted with the club, here are a few things you need to know right now:
Other than that, explore the site and if you have any questions, email us!
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The Bats is officially open for business for 2012 and we are taking registrations for what promises to be a bumper winter season. We’ll be kicking off training on February 8 at Tempe Reserve ahead of grading matches on February 26 and March 11, so you best dust off the boots and shinpads and get stretching!
New players shouldn’t feel pressured to register right now. If you’re unsure, we encourage you to come along to some of the pre-season training sessions and social events. We’ll be holding an information stall on King Street, Newtown, on January 21 and a Club picnic in Marrickville on January 26 if you want to come and meet some of us and find out more. We’ll also be at Fair Day on February 12.
For all these and other events, check out our calendar!
Ready to play with The Flying Bats? Register now!
It is my pleasure to announce that the Golden Barley are officially on board as Flying Bats sponsor for the 2012 season.
Long-time supporters of our club, Penny and Andrew from the Barley have created a safe and welcoming space with a real local vibe that we just love. They are wonderful supporters of local sport and women, also sponsoring the Sydney Women’s Baseball League.
The Barley provides us with a cash sponsorship, as well as prizes for our trivia night and other events, and ‘happy hour’ prices on Sunday afternoons for our post-match gatherings.
The Bats are proud to be associated with the Golden Barley and thrilled to have such a fantastic pub to call home, with its friendly staff, great atmosphere, brand new menu and, of course, great selection of beer!
We’ll see you there very soon!
The Golden Barley
167 Edgeware Road, Enmore NSW 2042
www.goldenbarleyhotel.com.au
-Alicia
President, Flying Bats
When Team Sydney, home of GLBTQI sport in this fine city of ours, put out the call for board volunteers we knew there was only ONE WOMAN for the job.
Meet Tex – dedicated Bat and Team Sydney’s new Secretary.
As far as Irishwomen go, Tex seems to have finessed ‘Australian’ to a fine art – she enjoys a Cooper’s Pale Ale, fancies herself an ironwoman in waiting and has embraced enough sports to do her newfound homeland proud.
She’s a mad dragon-boater with Sydney’s queer-friendly Different Strokes, avid cyclist and runner who says she’s “vaguely considering” entering an iron-man contest in 2013 (rawr) but some of Tex’s fondest memories are of the Bats. “The Bats, at its very best, means a community. It’s a pretty amazing and diverse group of women, and as someone who grew up without a single lesbian role model – except those on TV – the Bats have given me role models and friends, changed my view on a lot of things and given me a better sense of myself,” she says.
Preparing to celebrate her “30th plus GST” in 2012, Tex has been a Bat for four years and devoted two of them to the Committee as Registrar, wading through scores of applications and photos. Quite literally, she knows where you live. Her passion is evident – she has a Bat tattoo as a souvenir of the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne – so we couldn’t be prouder when she put her hand up to represent the club on the board of Team Sydney, the city’s GLBTQI sports association.
Our favourite bit: Tex is among, if not THE first woman to join Team Sydney’s upper echelons and we know she’ll do great things.
“We need more women’s representation – from the grassroots to the top, whether it’s sport or community or company boards - and if we don’t get out there and do it, then honestly I don’t believe we can complain that our views aren’t taken into consideration,” she says.
Love brought Tex (named after a t-shirt, if you can believe) to Australia via China and New Zealand and she wound up at her first Bats training thanks to Google (‘lesbian soccer Sydney’) and a bit of good old-fashioned courage.
“I’ve never looked back. The Bats has totally made my world a more interesting place,” she says.
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