2022 Beach Sports Party Wrap Up

November 15, 2022 - 2 years ago

Urban Rec Canberra’s Annual Beach Sports Party.

It was a Friday Night in the early weeks of November. Last years’ event was cancelled with La Nina working overtime, but thankfully this year she had taken the night off and we had nothing but blue skies and beautiful sunsets, the main ingredients for an epic Urban Rec event.

As the teams started to roll in, the smell of freshly mowed grass, sausages sizzling and beer cans frothing to be opened, hit everyone hard. We knew it was going to be a good night.

Your host for the evening, lets call her Ba-na-na, welcomed everyone in at the beginning of the night. This one was special, this one was to raise funds for Access Social Sport Association, raising money to put straight back into the community, the ones who really need it.

Beach Volleyball, Beach Soccer, Beach Dodgeball & Beach Fijian Touch, the sports that filled the night with laughter.

Untouched by The Veronicas, The Nutbush & The Macarena, the sounds that made teams, from all different leagues, dance together.

Sausage Sangas (Vegetarian too of course), Beer, Cider & some of the most top shelf Pepsi Max, the essentials of an Urban Rec Event and with it all being donation based, a successful night for Access Social Sport Association.

The Beach Sports Party, our annual event to celebrate an amazing year of Social Sport, but also a chance for teams who wouldn’t normally see each other, to mingle and become friends.

‘We are signing up a team to Sunday Multisport because I want to play with Sports for Dummies now’ – The Bread Getters, Nov 11th, 9:18pm.

The night slowly came to a close with a public, and very intense, game of Rock Paper Scissors to secure finals spots, a nail biting Semi Final & Grand Final and a hilarious, but fully athletic, Staff vs Winners Beach Volleyball game.

The chants of ‘ba-na-na’, the look of pure enjoyment, the dope AF playlists, the vegetarian sausages (we still can’t tell when they are cooked or not), the vibe of 12 of Urban Rec’s funnest teams, and an all- star staff line up, saw us raise a total of $700 to put back into the community.

Don’t want to brag, but Urban Rec sure know how to throw a party 😎