The Leeming Sports Association is the body responsible for the financial management of the Leeming Spartan Cricket Club’s home ground on the John Connell Reserve, which is seasonally shared with two other sporting clubs.

The Leeming Spartan Cricket Club is housed at the multi-million dollar facilities on the John Connell Reserve, where we have full twelve month access, with six of those months serving as priority access (with bar, kitchen and other facilities) as part of our regular season.

We can utilise the structure during the other six months when agreeable with the winter tenants, the Leeming Strikers Soccer Club, with whom we share the west side facilities.

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The other side is operated by the Leeming Bowling Club, who are present five days a week for twelve months of the year, and together, these three clubs form the Leeming Sports Association (the LSA).

Members from each Club nominate to be part of the LSA to help oversee the financial and structural management of this excellent facility.

Therefore, the purpose of the Leeming Sports Association is


LSA Office Bearers:

The LSA executive is made up of three representatives from each member Club, as well as the President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary.

The Leeming Sports Association is headed by Colin McCavana of the Leeming Bowling Club, and is aided by Vice President Amy Ashton (Leeming Strikers Soccer Club), Treasurer Noel Wood (Leeming Spartan), and Secretary Graeme Ashley (Leeming Spartan), as well as several representatives from each of the three clubs.

LSA President: Colin McCavana (LBC)
LSA Vice President: Amy Ashton (LSSC)
LSA Secretary: Graeme Ashley (LSCC)
LSA Treasurer: Noel Wood (LSCC)

The positions of the LSA executive have no relation to the executive members of the individual clubs, however many of the members listed above do in fact have some association with their respective clubs organising committees.

Our Leeming Spartan representatives/delegates (in addition to Secretary Graeme Ashley and Treasurer Noel Wood) are as follows;

Peter Coombs Second Year Leeming Spartan Cricket Club
Daniel Coombs Second Year Leeming Spartan Cricket Club
Geoff Burgess Second Year Leeming Spartan Cricket Club

The west side of the clubrooms house the Spartans and Leeming Strikers Soccer Clubs.


Location Of The LSA:

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The location of the Leeming Sports Association, housed on the John Connell Reserve.


History Of The LSA:

Until 1986, the Leeming Spartan Cricket Club had been known as the Bullcreek Spartan Cricket Club, due to our location at Trevor Gribble Reserve in the nearby suburb of Bull Creek.

An approach was made by the Spartans to the Melville City Council in October 1985 for a loan to enable the Club to add a function room to the northern end of the change rooms.

Surprisingly, the Council responded by offering the complex at John Connell Reserve in Leeming, provided the club form an association with a winter sport so that the complex was occupied all year round.

After much negotiation between the cricket club, the council, and some five or six other clubs, an association was formed with the Melville Allemania Soccer Club (now known as the Leeming Strikers Soccer Club).

The Leeming Sports Association (Inc.) was thus founded as an incorporated body on the first of March 1986.

Subsequently, the Bullcreek Spartan Cricket Club became known as the Leeming Spartan Cricket Club and the Melville Allemania became the Leeming Strikers Soccer Club.

The clubs were housed in the old building on John Connell Reserve for a number of years, when, in June 1998, the Leeming Sports Association approached the Melville City Council for a loan to extend the function room at John Connell.

Once again the Council made a counter offer – if the LSA could persuade the Leeming Bowling Club to become a full member of the LSA, then the Council would consider funding to construct a $1.8 million multi-purpose building to service sport in the John Connell area.

After much discussion, the Leeming Bowling Club became a full member of the LSA and then followed nearly four years of meetings and negotiations between the LSA and the Council to finalise the management policies for the new complex. A building license was issued on 6th May 2002.


The ‘New’ LSA:

The new John Connell Reserve complex was opened in 2003,

 

 

 


LSA Minutes:

Below are minutes from meetings of the Leeming Sports Association. Please click a link to download each item.

2017 LSA AGM Minutes

October 2016 LSA Minutes

2016 LSA AGM Minutes

March 2016 LSA Minutes

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