2023 side. Back: Luke Irvine, Thomas Miller, Hudson Cameron, Cameron Stanley, Matt Berkrey and Brad Jones. Front: Laura Miller, Keegan Manwaring, Elisha Berkrey and Emily Levett.
The Adina Care Coota Beach Volleyball competition is back for 2025 and will take flight on Friday with up to 600 school aged students taking part.
It’s the second year that Adina Care has been involved in the Volleyball competition and they have a very active and community minded committee who have been working very hard to pull it all together.
Graeme Sloane CEO of Adina Care told the Times, “In a sense it is very much a cookie cutter model where we took what we had before and we have enhanced it. We are now at a point where we have approximately 25 additional teams to what we had before, which means 25 extra teams of people are coming to town and we have increased the number of games and the schedule, to make sure that everyone gets a game and has a great day on the day.”
“We have people from other organisations assisting us as well and together we are putting together what we think is a pretty good show.”
“The Vintage Car Club is having a display Show and Shine at the same time that we are and that particular area in Cootamundra is going to be full of people. The pool, the volleyball courts and also the grounds across the road from the pool where people will be congregating all around the long weekend.
“The long weekend will start on the Friday with the schools participating and they have their own competition and a lot of the teachers and school related people are providing the support for that particular event. The way that they help us is we provide the volleyball courts and they help to provide a community-wide function using lots of volunteers and people who are able to help us.”
“Over the three days there will be a few schools in all three days, but typically we get lots of people from out of town coming back to Coota for the beach volleyball. I can’t say why, they just do. Lots of people come back and make it a weekend and stay at family homes, at friends, and wherever they can because all of the accommodation is booked out.
“The Central Hotel is one of the sponsors, but I think it would be fair to say that every watering hole in town is visited by someone from the volley-ball on that particular weekend.
“There’s the camp grounds, all of the takeaway places, all places where you eat, the RSL Club will have something on and lots of people are coming from everywhere to partake in this event and I would easily say there is a couple of hundred thousand dollars coming into town on that weekend and we are just a part of that.
“Like a lot of things after Covid it became difficult to do and we were offered to participate in this and it sat well with the things that we were trying to do and we thought we would take it on.
“Last year was our first year and this year we are working with an independent committee. We have taken over the reins and are very optimistic about the amount of money it brings into town to spend on food and various other things. The supermarkets do well, the pubs do well, everybody seems to do well.”
The temperature will be in the high 20s on Friday but it looks like it may cool to the low 20s on the weekend.
“As for the temperature, last week it was a thousand degrees, and this weekend it feels much less, I think it’s just going to be hot and I think they may be a chance of a storm here and there. I will be encouraging everyone to slip, slop, slap and drink plenty of fluids.
“Depending on the humidity and what isolated storms are around, last year was blistering hot and it was hot early, and the middle of the day it was just hot and there’s a lot of heat come out of the sand. We are constantly hosing it down and keeping it cool, but there is a lot going into this and we are looking forward to lots of people coming from far and wide to enjoy our hospitality.”
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