The Star: March 15, 2018

22 Thursday March 15 2018
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The Star
Canty Sports Awards
Endacott, Barwick recognised as legends
Two new sporting
identities were inducted
as Sporting Legends of
Canterbury at the Nexia
New Zealand Canterbury
Sports Awards. Sports
reporter Gordon Findlater
takes a look at the new
inductees
Frank Endacott:
When Endacott arrived at the
awards on Friday, he had no idea
what was about to unfold. He
thought he was there to support
his son Gary who he thought was
up for an award.
Canterbury’s most recognised
rugby league coach became the
first in his code to be inducted.
“It was the biggest shock I’ve
had in years,” said Endacott.
“When they came out for the
induction and started listing the
things this person had done I
thought what’s going on here?”
“Everyone was looking at me
smiling . . . they all knew and
I didn’t . . . my wife told me I
looked like a stunned mullet and
she’s never seen me like that in
50-odd years.”
Endacott has attended a
number of Canterbury sports
awards where he has seen others
inducted as sporting legends of
Canterbury. However, he says
he could never have imagined
himself being inducted.
“To be up there with names
like Sir Richard Hadlee, Ivan
Mauger and Ronnie Moore is
neat, I’m over the moon.”
Endacott was first introduced
to rugby league on the day
Shirley Rugby League Club
opened in 1955. He played for
Addington and Hornby and
made the Junior Kiwis in 1963.
However, after starting a family
he decided to turn his attentions
to coaching.
After leading Addington and
Hornby to club titles, he then
coached the Kiwis from 1995-
2000, the Auckland Warriors
reserves from 1995-1997 and the
LEGENDS: (Left to right) – Julyan Falloon, chief executive Sport Canterbury; Pat Barwick,
inductee; Craig Rhodes, partner, Nexia New Zealand; and Frank Endacott, inductee.
INDUCTEE: Pat Barwick stands next to her sporting legends
banner.
Warriors NRL side from 1997-
1999.
However, Endacott maintains
that his favourite coaching accomplishment
was coaching
Canterbury to a famous trouncing
of a star-studded Auckland
side 36-12 at the Addington
Showgrounds in 1993.
He also coached in England
from 1999-2005 with the Wigan
Warriors and Widnes Vikings.
On stage, Endacott spoke
about the highlights of his
coaching career and has the
crowd in fits of laughter when
he told a story of when he was
suspended by Canterbury Rugby
League for three weeks during
his time coaching Addington.
He explained that someone
had been sent to sit outside the
team’s weeknight training session
to ensure that Endacott did
not attend. The coach figured a
way around this by arriving at
the park an hour early, climbing
a tree at the park and then shouting
instructions to the team
while they stretched and took
rest near the tree.
“I was a bit choked up to be
honest but once I started telling
that story I was good as gold.”
Endacott was so overjoyed he
couldn’t sleep after the event.
“It takes a lot for me to go
somewhere when there’s NRL
games on the television. I taped
the games so it worked out well
because I stayed up late and
watched the two games when
I got home. I didn’t get to bed
until about three o’clock.”
Pat Barwick:
Born at Brunswick, north of
Wanganui, Barwick captained
New Zealand at hockey for nine
years (1971-79) including in the
first year of her selection at the
age of 24.
In her season as national
captain New Zealand placed
third in the 1971 IFWHA
world tournament in Auckland.
Two years later, the side again
finished third, this time in the
Jubilee Top 8 world tourney in
Holland.
There was a further third
placing in 1975 at the World
Cup in Edinburgh. In 1977 Pat
captained NZ to victory over
England at Wembley Stadium.
Barwick’s international hockey
career ended abruptly when
New Zealand did not send an
Olympic contingent to the 1980
Moscow Olympics due to political
reasons.
Barwick has made a tremendous
contribution to the sport
of hockey both at regional and
national level and is hugely
respected throughout the hockey
community in New Zealand. Pat
has been a Hockey New Zealand
life member since 2004.
As a coach, Barwick was in
charge of the NZ team between
1987-1992, finishing ninth in the
Sydney World Cup and eighth
in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic
Games after being assistant
coach in 1985 and 1986 when the
team was fourth in the World
Cup in Holland.
She juggled her teaching
career in Christchurch while she
voluntarily coached the national
women’s team.
​At provincial level she coached
Canterbury to five national and
two champion tournament titles
between 1980 and 1985.
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