About the "club president"
As a kid, George Huitker played representative baseball and tennis without having a parent on either junior sport’s governing boards. He also attempted little athletics, cricket, indoor soccer, judo, jujitsu, netball, soccer, softball and touch football - but an impetuous nature meant a failure in most of these sporting experiments. He has coached soccer - the sport that he has persisted with - for over fifteen years. In 2002 he began his representative coaching career for ACT Futsal and he is now won over by the beauty of this terrific indoor game except for those rare instances when brawn wins over brain.
Huitker is often seen in attendance at Presentation Nights for soccer, theatre and poetry - three hobbies which also happen to be intrinsically linked to his job as a school teacher at Radford College, Canberra, where he has taught Drama (and even English) and quite dramatically coached indoor and outdoor football (and even softball) at various times since 1989.
He has formed various theatre companies over the years, finally settling with his own independent theatre company, Huitker Movement Theatre (HMT) in 2002. HMT received funding from artsACT for its inaugural season and has since gone on to win many local industry awards for its productions which regularly attract quality directors, actors and discerning audiences. His 2001 memoir Not Just Footy, published by Ginninderra Press, was adapted for the stage in 2004 by HMT under the watchful eye of Canadian director Walter Learning and played to packed houses.He has also published a collected work of poetry entitled An Unfamiliar Actor (2002) also with Ginninderra Press.
In 2004 he taught far too many classes, coached far too many teams and involved himself in far too many theatrical ventures and as a result had really cranky days. He can often be found listening to ambient CDs, flipping through The Art of Living, sipping jasmine teas and enthusiastically singing “If You’re Happy and You Know It” with Radford’s Middle Schoolers. In 2004 he resurrected his touch football playing days by joining The Power, an all-ages sporting collective which aims to entertain.
Recent Coaching CV
Futsal
* Futsal ACT Board, 2005 to 2007
* Futsal ACT EPDI, 2005 to 2006
* Futsal ACT, 2001 to present (Colts U11, U12, U14 & U16, Cobras U12)
* BJISA, 2000 to present (BELeast, Buccaneerz, Black Thunder, Gunners, Lotus & Vipers)
* Radford College, 2003 to present (U12)
Soccer
* Radford College Juniors, 1989 to present (Boys: U13-U17, Girls U14)
* Master-In-Charge of Soccer, intermittent from 1989-2003, 2004 to 2005
* Director of Football 2006 to present
Distinctions
Futsal
* Premiers, BELeast Buccaneerz (2006 BJISC), Lotus (2001 BJISA U15, 2002 BJISA U16)
* Semifinalists, Gunners/Vipers (2004 BJISC U12)
* National Schools (School) Champions, Radford College (2003 & 2004 U/12)
* National Schools (State) Champions, ACT Cobras (2005 U12)
* National (State) Champions, Runner's Up, ACT Cobras (2006 U/12)
* National Schools (State) Semi-Finalists, ACT Colts (2003 U14, 2004 U/11)
* Youth Licence, Advance Pass (2006)
Soccer
* Soccer Canberra Premiers, Radford College (1996 U13/2, 1998 U15/1, 2000 U17/1)
* Soccer Canberra Runner's Up, Radford Collge (1999 U17/1, 2003 U17/1)
* Finalist, Radford College (1999 Bill Turner Plate, 2004 Bill Turner Cup)
* Semi-finalist, Radford College (2001, 2003 & 2005 Bill Turner Cup, 2003 U17/Kanga Cup)
* Radford Soccer UK Tour (2000 U17, 2003 U16, 2007 U16)
