Welcome to the Lachlan Tigers Sporting team for people with disabilities.

The Lachlan Tigers is a sporting organisation that supports people with intellectual disabilities to actively participate in sporting opportunities.

The main sports were are undertaking in 2009 are:

* Ten Pin Bowling


* Futsal


* Indoor Cricket


* Softball

Michael on his way to another strike

Ten Pin Bowling - this year we participated in the 2009 National Championships at Sunshine Victoria from May 28th - June 5th.

We were successful in winning 7 medals (4 Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze). We also spent an amazing week seeing the sights of Melbourne - an AFL game, the State of Origin Rugby League game, the musical 'Wicked', Fifteen restaurant, travelled on the trams, lost money at the Casino, and saw Chapel St, St.Kilda, Richmond, Lygon St and the MCG.

We are now building up to the next years National tittles which are in Perth, Western Australia in late May 2010. Places are gained by the results from our weekly competition and entry in the regional and State comps.

Futsal: What a year this has been! With the help of Football NSW, The Department of Sport and Recreation and The Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care a competition has been established (Futsal4all Cup) that provides the opportunity for people with disabilities to compete on the same stage as the mainstream futsal competitions. Indeed a pathway has been created that enables athletes with disabilities to be recognised in State representation and compete on a National Stage. We have a team competing in the State Championships at the Hawkesbury Indoor Stadium the weekend of October 31 and November 1. Up for grabs is places in the NSW team to compete at the National Championships in Canberra in January 2010.
What an exciting development.

Indoor Cricket: This years competition was fiercely contested and from our competition we had 6 people selected to represent NSW in the 2009 National Indoor Cricket Championship in Queensland. Unfortunately, we were not as successful as we hoped finishing last in the competition but all competitors gave it their all.

Softball: What a year it was for the Softball competition this year. We reached some amazing milestones. Firstly we launched the re branding of people with disabilities playing softball to 'Softball4all".

We also had an amazing 80 people participate in the 'Stanhope Cup' which is a competition run over 12 weeks for athletes with disabilities. The competition then selected a representative team that will challenge a representative team from Orange in early December at Blacktown Olympic Park.

To top of the year we had an amazing Black Tie dinner to recognise 20 years of involvement in sport for people with disabilities. The night was an amazing success and a credit to the dedication of Softball NSW general manager, Cathy Kerr who has given unrivalled support and commitment to ensuring athletes with disabilities get their time in the softball sun.