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Choice cut: Lamb is our Community Umpire of the Year in 2021

Ash Lamb is AFL NSW/ACT’s Volunteer of the Year for Community Umpiring Service in 2021. He works tirelessly to support around 40 umpires who officiate matches on the Sapphire Coast. Lamb is AFL Sapphire Coast’s umpiring coach, he develops the

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Primary School Ambassador of the Year Darryl shows Howe it’s done

Darryl Howe has only worked at St Gregory’s College in Campbelltown for two years, but the PDHPE teacher is already having a big impact on the students’ sporting experiences. His work on the AFL program earned him AFL NSW/ACT’s Primary

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Aaron Harvey is Junior Coach of the Year

Aaron Harvey from the Glen Innes Celts is one of two AFL NSW/ACT’s Junior Coaches of the Year for 2021. Harvey moved to the town on the northern tablelands with his family in 2016 and immediately set about bringing AFL

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Bathurst Giant our Disability Inclusion Volunteer of the Year

Liz Symes is AFL NSW/ACT Disability Inclusion Volunteer of the Year for 2021. Liz is the Bathurst Giants’ treasurer and 2021 she developed and ran a Kickability program for the club. Kickability is a program similar to Auskick for people

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Volunteer of the Year recipients announced

AFL NSW/ACT congratulates the nine hardworking volunteers who have been recognised in the AFL NSW/ACT Volunteer of the Year awards for 2021. Award winners have come from across NSW. From Leeton in the Riverina to Glen Innes in the state’s

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Volunteer of the Year Award nominations open

2020, the year unlike no other! It started with volunteer fire fighters risking their lives to protect others. Then amidst the COVID-19 crisis, we saw people volunteering their time to look after the vulnerable in then community by taking on

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Neil Dunn: 2016 State Volunteer of the Year

Instrumental in creating the junior Tamworth AFL competition, Neil Dunn was awarded NSW/ACT state volunteer of the year. In 2015, Neil engaged a number of interested parties to see the formation of a working group to create the junior Tamworth

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St. Ives Trevor Byrne named Volunteer of the Year

St. Ives Junior AFL Club Life Member Trevor Byrne was recently announced as AFL NSW/ACT Volunteer of the Year for 2015. A constant figure around the Saints since his son Ethan began Auskick in 2005, Byrne held various coaching and

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