Sally Basten and Jim Garvey Junior Scholarships
The NSWFDA (UFNSW) places a large emphasis on the development of Ultimate Frisbee within NSW. The committee believes strongly in helping develop the sport across all levels of play, from juniors through to elite players. One area considered important to develop is NSW juniors representing Australia (and hence NSW within the Australian Team) at World Championships. As a result, the Junior Scholarship Awards were conceived late 2003 to be implemented for 2004, the first year Australia had Junior Teams. A significant amount of money has been budgeted for these awards.
The Awards are named after 2 very important players in NSW Ultimate development history. The junior women's scholarship was named after Sally Basten and the junior men's scholarship was named after Jim Garvey. This is because these two people have provided the most significant development and encouragement across NSW Ultimate.
| Junior women - 2008 | Junior men - 2008 |
| Meagan Carraro | Calan Spielman |
| Ellie Sparke | Tiger Webb |
| Rebecca Villis | Phil White |
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| Junior women - 2006 | Junior men - 2006 |
| Ju Birchall | Peter Blakeley |
| Liz Dodd | Liam Kendrick |
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| Junior women - 2004 | Junior men - 2004 |
| Tara Carraro | Nick Dowle |
| Emily Satchwell | Liam Kendrick |
| Heather Smith | Luke Turner |
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Sally Basten
Sally first started playing Ultimate at Sydney University in 1984, before any leagues were organized and running in Sydney. Since then she has helped grow and develop Ultimate, first within a league level by bringing new players into the sport to help expand the Sydney League. Then her efforts turned to improving the NSW and Australian women's standard of play. She was an integral part of helping to establish a separate Women's division at the Australian National Championships. This involved identifying and introducing a number of new women to the sport of Ultimate. She has sacrificed the short term gains of winning tournaments to help build the level of women participants throughout NSW. This has seen NSW teams regularly dominating the placing positions at the Australian Ultimate Championships.
Sally's selflessness was rewarded in 1994 when she was awarded the highest award within Ultimate - The Rob Hancock Award.
Sally first represented Australia in 1990, captaining the inaugural National Women's Team at the Oslo World Ultimate Championships. Sally has represented Australia at the world level many times since then.
Sally's friendliness and willingness to help all new players exemplifies one of the most important aspects of the sport of Ultimate - Spirit of the Game. In recognition of her contribution, the Junior Women's Scholarship has been named after her.
Jim Garvey
Jim has been an integral part of the development of Ultimate Frisbee within NSW. He has a long and illustrious career within Ultimate. He played 3 US National Championships, which culminated in his captaining the Looney Tunes in 1987 which came 5th. He played in the World Flying Disc Championships in Santa Cruz from 1982 to 1986.
He moved to Australia in 1988 and integrated himself in to the local Sydney Ultimate scene. He was instrumental in moving Sydney Ultimate into a league environment outside of university, starting the first NSW league. From this point he continued to encourage players to strive for their best in competition - both Sydney players and also Australian representatives. He was a member of 7 winning Australian National Championship teams and played for Australia in the World Ultimate Championships 5 times acting as either captain or vice-captain. Jim helped organize the first Australian team to play at the World Ultimate Club Championships in 1991 and played 3 more of these events after this.
During the time he was helping the Australian team, he started the "Surprise Package" award. This was given to the most valuable player from the world event from the men's team. This was not necessarily the highest skilled player but the player that had developed and helped the team most during the championships.
Jim has also helped NSW in obtaining grants from the NSW Department of Sport and Recreation. Through his tireless work we were able to obtain $20,000 over the initial 7 year period.
Jim's persistence to push all players to achieve their best, whilst still maintaining a perfect on-field example of the Spirit of the Game has been one of the main guiding aspects for NSWFDA to look to establish these scholarships. In recognition of his contribution, the Junior Men's Scholarship has been named after him.