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NSW Success at a home AGCs!

Published Mon 06 Oct 2025

Team NSW's fantastic AGC's results!

Team NSW’s had outstanding results at the 2025 AGCs held in Sydney from 2nd to 5th October!

This year Team NSW sending the highest number of players, coaches and supporters than any other State (again), with a total of 31 NSW players competing, either for Team NSW or as pool players for other States. We had:

  • 6 teams across 4x divisions
  • 10 coaches across 6x teams
  • 4 referees participating in the comp
  • 58 volunteers - including 30 ACPE students, 17 player commentators and 11 other volunteers

Team NSW won gold in the Mens, Womens and Junior divisions and our Youth 1 team won bronze! We also had 5 newcomer players competing in their very first AGCs! We are so proud to see more and more excited athletes competing proudly in the blue for Team NSW!

Several of our players were also recognised for their performances throughout the tournament, including:

Most Valuable Player Awards

Juniors – Pavi Thevar
Womens – Jess Clark

Highest Goal Scorers

Juniors – Noah Christie
Womens – Jess Clark

Best Defensive Players

Juniors – Pavi Thevar
Mens – Matt Bowry

All Stars Players

Juniors – Pavi Thevar and Anneliese Xerri

Youth – Sophie Weaver, Aiden Jang and Clayton Pereira

Womens – Molly Smith and Jess Clark

Mens – Robbie Dunia and Matt Bowry

   

1. National Women's Player, Jess, throwing the ball wearing Aus jersey.
2. National Men's Player, Robbie, blocking the ball with his hands in defence. 

National Achievements of NSW players:

Further to our State and National achievements, NSW players and coaches were selected to represent Australia, or invited to be part of Australian Goalball national squads, including: 

  • Mens – Robbie Dunia, Matt Bowry and Steffan Nero
  • Womens – Molly Smith, Zara Perry and Jess Clark
  • Youth – Aryan Narayan, Aiden Jang, Sophie Weaver, Monique Newman, Sora Wong, Clayton Pereira, Cooper Campbell
  • Coaches – Andrew Ridley (Head Mens Coach), Andrew Perry (Head Youth Coach), Anthony Newman (Support Staff - Youth Squad), Alan Campbell (Support Staff – Youth Squad)

 

Congratulations to all players and staff for a fantastic 2025 competition season!!

 

Check out more info on our AGCs here:

Australian Goalball Champs 2025  


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