Western News: November 06, 2018

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Tuesday November 6 2018 11
Riccarton league stalwarts awarded
• By Jacob Page
TWO OF the Riccarton
Knights’ most influential people
got their moment of recognition
at the Canterbury Rugby League
awards.
Veteran senior player Shane
Tamatea was named sportsman
of the year, while Tony Grenfell
was named volunteer of the year.
Grenfell, who is a life member
of the club, was described at the
awards night as someone who
lives and breathes rugby league
from the pre-season until the
very end of the national season,
offering assistance every step of
the way.
Grenfell said he came to
the club in 2002 when his son
Dwayne wanted to play premiers
and has never left.
“I love the club [and] the
people and for me it’s become a
big part of my life.”
Grenfell is on the club
committee and has been the
premier team’s manager since
2005.
However, you’re just as likely
to see him sweeping the floors
or marking the field for a day’s
play.
“There are heaps of jobs and
they all have to get done,” he
said.
“If you want something done
right, you have to do it yourself.
It’s quite humbling to receive
an honour like that, it’s not
really what I do it for, but to
RECOGNITION: Riccarton Knights stalwarts Tony Grenfell and Shane Tamatea with their
Canterbury Rugby League awards
be recognised, that was a great
feeling.
Tamatea has been a premier
player since 2000, when he
debuted at 18. The 37-year-old
second-rower has also coached
the under-18 Knights team and
has been a player-coach, pulling
double-duty for the premier
reserves side. If Tamatea plays
a full season next year, he will
bring up 300 games for the
club’s premier team.
“Looking at all the names
on the cup made it really sink
in how special this award is,”
Tamatea said.
He said he would keep playing
premier rugby league for as long
as his body holds up.
“We won it all in 2002 and
2004, so I got a taste of that
success early, but I’d really like
to get the team back to another
one before I give it away.”
•Halswell Hornets, page 12
SPORTS
Violette to
throw discus,
javelin in Aussie
• By Jacob Page
ST MARGARET’S College
student Violette Perry is used
to splitting her talents between
various sports.
The 15-year-old from
Papanui will compete for New
Zealand in Cairns next month
in both the discus and javelin
at the Australian All Schools
Games. Violette is one of three
South Islanders to be selected in
the team of 18 athletes.
The Canterbury representative
is also a New Zealand age-group
star in the pool and is currently
in the 2003 water polo team
preparing for the age-group
world championships in 2020.
She broke the under-15
Canterbury secondary schools
record in the discus in March
and was part of the St Margaret’s
College under-15 freestyle
swimming team.
Violette has won the New
Zealand secondary schools
junior discus title and the South
Island secondary schools javelin
and discus titles as well. She is
grateful to Ngāti Kahungunuand
the Papanui-Innes community
youth sports development fund
for providing financial support.
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