NUAFC 1968-2018

1999
Our Sporting Best Honoured
Waikato Times
Sandy MacDonald (Service to Sport), Trish Sanson (Administrator of the Year), Jeff Coulshed (Coach of the Year) and Matt
Williams (Team of the Year - Ngaruawahia United Premier Soccer Team) - proud sporting winners in district awards.
Last week’s Waikato
District Sports Awards honoured
the best that sport produces in our
region.
The seventh annual
awards, staged at the Kimiora hall,
Turangawaewae Marae, saw eight
district winners named. They will
go on to the Waikato Regional
Awards at Hamilton Gardens next
Wednesday.
Fifty-one nominations
were received for the eight awards.
Judges were ex-NZ netball
administrator Monica Leggart,
former All Black Brent Anderson
and ex-NZ Women’s hockey
representative Sue McLeish.
Guest speaker was World
Single Sculls rowing champion
Rod Waddell, who shared some of
his experiences leading up to his
1998 World Championship
competition.
Apart from the more usual
sporting codes, the awards also
promote less prominent sporting
interests.
This year, for the first
time, rowing (Mercer Club),
shearing (Raglan Western Shears),
touch rugby ((Touch Waikato) and
basketball (Huntly Association)
were represented by nominations.
Huntly, Ngaruawahia, Raglan and
Te Kauwhata were all represented
by entries.
Those selected to go to the
regional awards were:
Sandy MacDonald
(Service to Sport);
Turangawaewae Rugby League
and Cultural Club (Club of the
Year); Trish Sanson - Ruawaro
Tennis Club (Administrator of the
Year); Ngaruawahia United AFC
Premier Soccer team (Team of the
Year); Jeff Coulshed -
Ngaruawahia Premier Soccer team
(Coach of the Year); Isaac Rakena
- Disabled Athletes (Fairplay
Individual); Wairangi Koopu -
rugby league (Junior
Sportsperson); Royce Willis -
Taupiri Rugby Club (Sportsperson
of the Year).
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