2012 Rod Davidson (Port Douglas)
2011 Colin Emery (Centrals)
2010 Renae Kunda (Centrals)
2009 Winner was Shirley Martin (North Cairns)
2008 Winner was Danny Hanly (North Cairns)
2006 Winner was Debbie Podolczak (Centrals)
Debbie has been involved for the past 8 years in various voluntary capacities for the Centrals club, senior league, junior league and the Umpires Association.
* Junior club committee person
* Club delegate to Junior League meetings
* Fundraising events for her local junior club
* Fundraising events for the Junior League
* Team Manager and trainer for her local junior club at training and game days
* Trainer for her local senior club at training and game days
* Travelled with our 2 Representative Teams to State Championships in Bundaberg and Rockhampton this year
* Travelled to Brisbane during 2006 with the U18 Development Team that played against AFL Queensland State League teams
* Assists any visiting Senior or Junior AFL team that travels to Cairns in any way that she can
* Official Sports Trainer at Cairns for the U16 Qld Country Championships in 2006
* Official Sports Trainer or timekeeper every Sunday at our local junior competition
* Assists with operating the canteen at her junior club game days
* Assists with operating the canteen at the Junior League final series
* AFL Cairns Umpires Association involvement as a goal umpire, assists with fundraising and a committee person for the past 4 years
All the volunteering work that Debbie does is about developing junior football and giving kids the opportunity to play sport. Just recently we had a visiting team from Geelong in Victoria that toured the Cape York region and Debbie volunteered her services as a trainer for when they played a game against our Cairns team. If we were able to obtain more volunteers like Debbie to our code things would run smoothly.
Past Winners
2005 Kim Devey (Centrals)
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