The Weekly Times - TWT - 9th May, 2018

8 THE WEEKLY TIMES Wednesday 9 May, 2018
RYDE Sports Foundation stalwart Neita Matthews was bestowed with
life membership at the TWT Club Six Ryde Sports Foundation Sports Star
of the Year Gala Dinner at Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club last Friday. The
Netball NSW Hall of Famer and ERNA legend, who has chalked up 38
years service with the Foundation, is pictured with sons Peter and former
Test cricketer Greg Matthews and RSF chairman Jim Hull.
Husband and wife team of Graham and Robyn Churchill were the recipients of the Ryde Sports
Foundation Contribution to Sport Award. Robyn, the long serving Gladesville RSL Gymnastics Club
president was honoured for her sterling service as a mentor and administrator and Graham for his
yeoman service with North Ryde RSL Baseball Club. They are pictured with Bennelong MP John
Alexander and RSF Vice Chairman Rob Wilkinson. TWT on-the-spot PHOTOS.
Hockey ace Lachlan is 2017-18 Sports Star of Year
The 20 year old Ryde-
Hunters Hill product
capped an incredible five
month period on the international
hockey scene
by helping the Kookaburras
clinch the gold medal
at the Gold Coast Commonwealth
Games last
month.
BY CHRIS KARAS
KOOKABURRAS hockey sensation Lachlan Sharp was crowned
2017-18 TWT Club Six/Ryde Sports Foundation Sports Star of the
Year at a Gala Presentation Dinner last Friday night at Ryde Eastwood
Leagues Club.
Since making his senior
international debut last
December, the attacking
midfielder has proved a
real find by helping Australia
win the Hockey
World League championship
in India; the Sultan
Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia
and Commonwealth
Games title to reaffirm
our world number one
status.
It has been a meteoric
rise for the pocket dynamo
who guided the Ryde
Panthers to a Sydney
Hockey Premier League
first grade premiership in
2015 at the ripe age of 16.
Lachlan - now based in
Perth with the Kookaburras
- was unable to attend
the Gala Sports Star
dinner.
His father Richard
Sharp, the Panthers’
premiership winning top
grade coach and a leading
mentor in NSW hockey,
accepted the award
on Lachlan’s behalf.
Richard is pictured
holding the Ross Horner
Mayoral Trophy alongside
Ryde City Mayor
Clr Jerome Laxale, RSF
chairman Jim Hull, Ryde
Eastwood Leagues Club
president Jim McClymont,
RSF secretary Kim
Clayton and Bennelong
MP John Alexander.
They are pictured with
Grand Finalists Alex
Seyfarth (rugby league),
Robert Supala (lawn
bowling), Sam Thompson
(BMX Bike Riding), Emily
Keenan (netball), Michael
Galanos (gridiron), Tarah
Ogilvie (swimming), Zara
Nicholas (touch football),
Alyssa Lowe (athletics),
Shehana Vithana
(squash), Alanna Fisher
(FUTSAL Soccer), Kate
Barry, Eloise Dwyer and
Milly Puckeridge (Acrobatic
Gymnastics).
Also pictured are RSF
representatives Rob
Wilkinson, Jim Towers,
TWT Sports Editor Chris
Karas, Terry Wilson and
Paul Moujalli; Royal Rehab
Community Relations
Manager Martina
Fox, former leading rugby
league referees Sean
Hampstead and Graeme
West, North Ryde RSL
Vice President Dave Baker,
Gladesville RSL directors
Gary Winslow and
Lindsay Cornwell, North
Ryde Golf Club director
Ben Brown, Gladesville
Sporties director Tracey
Mitchell, long time sponsor
Reg Cain and RSF
Contribution to Sport recipients
Robyn and Graham
Churchill.
Seated is Paralympic
wheelchair racing great
Louise Sauvage with
ERNA netball stalwart
Neita Matthews, who
was bestowed with Life
Membership of Ryde
Sports Foundation on the
night.
Talented Australian
FUTSAL soccer representative
Alanna Fisher
and Ryde Athletics’ national
U/16 long jump
champion Alyssa Lowe
shared the Club Six Encouragement
Award
for their outstanding
achievements.
Husband and wife team
of Graham and Robyn
Churchill were the recipients
of the Ryde Sports
Foundation Contribution
to Sport Award.
Robyn, the long serving
Gladesville RSL Gymnastics
Club president was
honoured for her sterling
service as a mentor and
administrator and Graham
for his yeoman service
with North Ryde RSL
Baseball Club.
Accomplished sailors
Maria and Lindsay
Dalmon and versatile Lee
Ferrier received Royal
Rehab Return2Sport
Achievement Awards on
the night from Louise
Sauvage and Martina
Fox, representing Royal
Rehab CEO Stephen
Lowndes.
“My heartiest congratulations
to Lee and to Maria
and Lindsay for their
respective award,” said
Mr Lowndes.
“Royal Rehab is proud
to partner with the Ryde
Sports Foundation to acknowledge
the tremendous
contribution and
achievement that these
recipients have made to
sport, and in particular
to the motivation and inspiration
they provide to
people with a disability
to achieve in sport” he
added.
TWT on-the-spot PHOTO.
Royal R,
ROYAL Rehab Return2Sport Achievement award recipients Maria and Lindsay Dalmon and Lee
Ferrier were recognised at last Friday’s TWT Club Six/Ryde Sports Foundation Sports Star of the
Year Award Gala Dinner. The trio are pictured with MC Steve Robilliard, Royal Rehab’s Community
Relations Manager Martina Fox and Paralympic wheelchair racing legend Louise Sauvage. Maria
and Lindsay were honoured for their contribution to sailing for people with a disability.
“My heartiest congratulations to Lee and Maria and Lindsay for their awards,” said Royal Rehab
CEO Stephen Lowndes.
“Royal Rehab is proud to partner with the Ryde Sports Foundation to acknowledge the tremendous
contribution and achievement that these recipients have made to sport, and in particular to the
motivation and inspiration they provide to people with a disability to achieve in sport”, he added.