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ABF Youth Committee
David Stern (Chairman)
David is is a very active member of the Australian bridge scene. He learnt to play over forty years ago and has retained a passionate interest in bridge ever since.
David is perhaps most well known for his ownership of the Double Bay Bridge Centre, which, together with his late wife Linda, he ran for almost twenty years.
David is also an extremely accomplished bridge player with his crowning achievement coming in 2007 when he won the National Open Teams.
While he plays less now than in the past, David stays very much involved in the bridge world through his work as a journalist, VuGraph commentator and tournament organiser. David previously served as the Chairperson of the ABF Youth Committee from 2000 to 2006, a member of the ABF Tournament Committee, and co-convenor of the 2005 World Youth Championships.
Away from the bridge table, David has been self-employed as a corporate and financial adviser to public companies and private investors. He has two children and lives in Sydney.
Mark Abraham
Mark is very well-known in youth bridge circles as both a player and a long-standing member of the ABF Youth Committee. Mark's interest in bridge was kindled at age 10 with family kitchen-table games, but took off when he reached university in Hobart.
Mark has been a very successful bridge player at both the Junior and Open divisions. He represented Australia as a Junior in 2002 and 2003 and he was part of the ACT team that won the 2007 ANC.
Mark's presence seems to create a bourgeoning youth bridge scene, first in Hobart in the late-1990s and then in Canberra up to the present day.
Mark's professional background is as a scientist and academic. He currently resides in Canberra.
Leigh Gold
Leigh grew up in Melbourne, and was taught the game at 11 years old playing with his mother and and both grandparents. He won his first tournament playing with a school friend in 1992 in the Restricted Kew Pairs.
During year 11 and 12 Leigh and his friend Toby and set up the first bridge club in his school, the Melbourne Grammar School. They produced the nucleus of the Victorian bridge team for the next 8 years.
Through the next 12 years, Leigh devoted his life to playing and competing at the highest level, turning down big jobs, in order to compete in all the events.
In the last few years, Leigh has married and had children and cut back on the number of events that he plays. Leigh plays almost all of his top level bridge with Jamie Ebery.
Paul Gosney
Paul burst onto the youth bridge scene from Queensland almost ten years ago and has since gone onto become one of Australia's best bridge players in his own right. Over the past few years, Paul has represented Australia in the Junior and Open level, including being part of the Australian Team which won a silver medal at the 2007 Pacific-Asia Bridge Federation championships.
Paul's main responsibility on the Committee is the management of the national database of youth players. Together with Nye Griffiths, he is also active in promoting bridge to new youth players in Sydney, where he now lives.
Nye Griffiths
Nye learnt to play bridge almost ten years ago while studying in Canberra. Since then, Nye has become devoted to the game on an intellectual level and as a personal pursuit. Nye represented Australia in the Junior division in 2008 and, alongside Mark Abraham, was a member of the ACT team that won the 2007 ANC.
Away from the table, Nye has degrees in Classics and Law but these days he closely follows sports and, like Daniel Krochmalik, is a passionate Liverpool FC supporter.
Nye lives in Sydney with his partner, Ally Morris, and their son, Auryn.
Daniel Krochmalik
Daniel learnt bridge at the tender age of 9 having accompanied his father on
the annual pilgrimage to the Summer Festival in Canberra each January.
Daniel went onto become a very well-known youth bridge player, having represented Australia as a Junior in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008. While he no longer plays competitively, Daniel remains committed to the promotion of bridge as a game for young people.
Daniel has served on the ABF Youth Committee since January 2007. He lives in Sydney where he works as a lawyer.
David Lusk
David's name is synonymous with youth bridge in South Australia. A professional
bridge teacher for the South Australian Bridge Association since 1987, David
has also spent a decade as the SABA's Youth Coordinator and has been
instrumental in maintaining South Australia's steady flow of quality junior
players.
David took up competitive bridge at the age of 18 and went onto represent South Australia at the Youth, Open and Senior level many times.
David has served on the Committee for many years and was previously the ABF's National Youth Coordinator.
Justin Mill
Justin has been a fixture in youth bridge circles for the past ten years. He picked up the game at a very young age and has gone onto represent Australia in 2009 and 2010.
Justin is almost single-handedly responsible for the promotion and maintenance of youth bridge in Melbourne, where he lives. Justin's involvement in bridge continues on a professional basis, both as a player and a teacher.