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Welcome!                                                                                                                                                                

Thank you for visiting the official website of the Donnica Clarke Foundation.

To view our Invitation for our fund raiser please click here.

Donnica's site will grow as the Foundation in her name blossoms and will provide information on
fundraising events,scholarships and how to apply.

Nica was a dual Australian Surf Life Saving beach sprint and flags champion who died in a tragic
cliff fall at North Avoca Beach, on the Central Coast of NSW, on April 10, 2007 aged 16.  TheDonnica Clarke Foundation has been established to keep the memory of the bubbly and multi                              
talented teenager at the forefront of the community's minds.                                                                                                                                                                                

The aim of the Donnica Clarke Foundation is to offer financial and moral support to young athletes,
male, and female, across all sports from the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.  

The surfboards pictured on the right are used by Ami Nurthern in honour of her good friend Donnica.
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                            

 3rd Annual Dinner

The Third Annual Donnica Clarke
Foundation Fund Raising Dinner
will be held at Mingara Recreation Club
Show Room
on Saturday 7th August 2010.

Full details, and how to book you tickets,
are shown below.

 

2GO and SeaFM Support Foundation

 

The two leading Central Coast Radio Stations, 107.7FM 2GO and SeaFM 101.3, are the latest organisations to give their support to the Donnica Clarke foundation.

The 2010 Scholarship 
Holders Announced 

The Donnica Clarke Foundation received thirty one (31)
nominations for the 2010 Foundation Scholarships including eleven (11) from current Scholarship Holders.

The following 15 athletes were named
Scholarship Holdersfor 2010;

Keelan Bridge (Swimming. Surf Sports).
Chloe Costello (Tennis).
Matthew Dawson (Hockey).
Wade Eames (Water Polo).
Tomas Elliot (Swimming).
Grace Felsch (Speed Skating).
Gemma Ferrington (Netball).
Matthew Graham (Mogul Snow Skiing)./
Rachelle King (Swimming/Surf Sports).
Robert McIntyre (Widwater Racing/Surf Sports).
Sam McKeown-Paterson (Swimming).
Amy Nurthen (Surf Sports).
Bree Parsons (Basketball).
Lachlan Staples (Swimming).
Mitchell Tysoe (Atheltics).

For more information on our Scholarship Holders
please click on Scholarships/Current Scholarships
on the left hand menu of this page.

  SCHOLARSHIP DECISION:

The decision was made by the foundation selection
committee. The committee comprises 3 members
of the DCF Board and the DCF Patrons.
 The selection committee decision is final.

 

 

 Manly Sea Eagles
Support DC Foundation.

The Donnica Clarke Foundation was recently
named as one of the selected charities of the
Manly SeaEagles Foundation which was formed
by the Football club this season to coordinate
their charity work. As part of this partnership we
were given the Manly v Newcastle match at
Bluetongue as our nominated home game to raise awareness andfunds for our foundation.
 
We arranged a raffle which had a  number of
prizes, including a couple of framed and
signed 2010 team jerseys and the main prize
of a “ Sea Eagle for a Day” which provided
the lucky winner with an opportunity to attend
training and a training kit as well as tickets
to a future Manly home game.The Manly U20
Toyota cup team were also involved with the
fundraising and they mingled with the crowd
at half time in the main game collecting gold
coin donations.
 
We raised just under $5000 and are extremely
grateful to Manly for allowing us the opportunity
to partner their Foundation and conduct the
fundraising last Saturdaynight.

 

 2009 Scholarship Athletes with Kerrie and Anthony Clarke  

 Latest Scholarship News

 Grace Felsch

There have not been any competitions this year
that Grace Felsch has competed in yet due to a
knee injury.Grace has started training twice a
week to see how her knee would hold out. 

Matt Graham

The latest news update is that Matt
Graham has again been selected
into the NSW Institute of Sport/Ski
and Snowboard Australia(NSWIS/SSA) Freestyle
Mogul Development Team. He returned home
on the 23rd of May from a 3 week training camp
(just in time for the half yearly exams) with the
Australian Team at Whistler, Canada.

He is now preparing for the Australian
domestic ski season with “on snow”
training due to start on Monday the 28th of June

 

Late news on Matt is that he has been awarded a prestigious scholarship with the  Olympic Winter Institute of Australia and is now effectively a member of the National squad.

Amy Nurthen

Amy has completed her HSC and is now
working part time as a Life Guard. She
recently qualified for the Nutri-Grain
Ironwoman series and finished in the top ten.
Amy was recently selected as a member
of the NSW 2010 Open Representative Team.

 

Ami's surfboards.

   Rachelle King

Rachelle King is one of two Central
Coast surf lifesavers who have been
selected to wear the green and gold
at the upcoming pool rescue
championships in New Zealand.

Tim Schofield and Rachelle King have
already broken six Australian records
between them this year, and hope to
continue their fine form against the Kiwis.

To view an interview with Rachelle and
Tim please click on the folowing link:

 http://www.nbntv.com.au/index.php/
category/central-coast-sport/

 

Lachlan Staples

Lachlan has just competed in the
Australian Open Short Course
Swimming championships where he won
the bronze medal in the Open Butterfly event.
He then entered the NSW Open Short
Course competition and won gold in the
200 Fly event and silver in the 100 Fly.
 

He has been selected in the Australian A
Swimming team and will travel to Canada
in August to swim in the Canadian Open
against the Canadian and French National 
Teams.

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