Citizen of the year Susan Inglis
Sue arrived in Coleambally in 2011 and has thrown herself into the Coleambally community. In 2014, as a member of Coleambally Lions Club she has been club president, coordinator of gala night, assisted with working bees, Lions cakes and mints and many Lions activities. Sue is chairperson of Cypress View Lodge Auxiliary and shares the president and secretary position. She initiated the market day.
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For the last two years, she has attended the Licola wilderness village camp for people with various disabilities as the craft activities leader. Sue has taken over the huge task of doing various craft classes coming up with ideas suitable for each person. She has been actively involved in CWA and last October was elected president and representative for Sturt Group. The introduction of work, health and safety was initiated by Sue.
She holds the position of vice chairperson of Coleambally-Darlington Point Country Education Fund. She is involved in fundraising and many activities in the organisation. Most recently, she has taken on being the candidate for the Anglicare Disaster Relief Organisation for the Murrumbidgee Shire. Always willing to help those in need, she is involved in community transport.
Sue is very committed to the organisations of which she is a member and her attributes and leadership inspire respect and admiration for the work she does both within and beyond our community.
Young citizen of the year Timothy Hayes
Tim is involved with the NSW Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme. He is currently undertaking his Gold Level of the Award. Tim is a great role model often helping younger students to access the Award Scheme and get through their skills, service, physical recreation and expeditions. He is willing to assist by sharing his knowledge and skills that he has learnt during the Outward Bound Course.
Tim is also a valued member of the Coleambally Football Netball Club where he plays in the under 17's side and has assisted with Auskick on a weekly basis. Tim helped with the setting up of the stadium and ground, taking warm ups, coaching and packing away gear each Friday night. Tim also assisted on game day. He has also helped out at the Demo Farm in the first half of the year and has recently has taken up mowing the Coleambally Pre-school grounds.
Event of the year Coleambally Golf Club hosting RLGA sandgreen championships
72 ladies from 22 clubs arrived at Coleambally Golf Club on 7th August for the Ladies Sandgreen Championships. Various criteria were required to be met to enable the hosting of the event and this was achieved through the dedication of members over the preceding 2 years. The greens were presented in the best condition, improvements such as a toilet halfway around the course were added and catering was supported by the members and retired members. A Coleambally presentation pack was provided for each golfer. The Coleambally Ladies Golf showcased not only our golf course but our town and demonstrated what a small club can achieve through hard work, co-operation of the members and determination.
Sportsperson of the year Jayden Brain
Jayden has trained continuously since 2003 when he began karate at 6 years old. In 2014, he attended summer grading camp in Sydney to prepare for grading for his senior brown belt. He was successful in this and received many compliments from instructors on his outstanding technique. In June, he travelled to Sydney for the NSW State Championships where he came 2nd. Unfortunately, he was unable to compete in the Australian championships as he was in Scotland competing at the World Pipe Band championships. He won at the Riverina Country Championships. In November, he attended the black belt grading camp in Sydney. This camp is intensive and participants have to complete a fitness test at the end of the day's training. This test is extremely strenuous and demanding. For his black dan, Jayden fought full contact at adult level. Jayden's black belt win sees him as the first person to be presented with a black belt in the Coleambally dojo.
Junior sportsperson of the year Joshua Fattore
Joshua has had an exceptional year in sport. At Coleambally Central School he was both junior boys' swimming and athletics champion, played in the under 16's and Open 7-a-side Rugby League competitions. At state level, he competed in under 16's boys' freestyle relay, 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly, 100m breaststroke, 100m sprint (came 6th in state), 200m sprint (3rd in state) and javelin (2nd in state.) He achieved CCS sporting blues for athletics, swimming and rugby league.
He captained the winning DPC under 16's rugby league team and was player of the year. He represented in the Group 20 under 15's and was picked in the CRL academy squad. In cricket he won the all rounder award. He also referees local junior touch football matches.
Sub-junior sportsperson of the year Oscar Bellato
Oscar has gained momentum this year with his achievements in athletics and rugby league. He has broken 5 records both at school and with Little Athletics.
In CDP Rugby League, he won the Coach's Award for consistent effort and best on field.
With Leeton Little Athletics, he established new records in boys' under 8 long jump and 100m. At the Murray Valley carnival he set new records in the under 8 boys' long jump and 200m sprint. He came 1st in under 8 boys' discus, long jump, 60m hurdles, 200m sprint, 400m sprint, 100m sprint and was age champion.
At CCS he came 1st in 100m (setting a new record), 200m, 2nd in junior relay and 3rd in long jump. At zone and regional, he came 1st in 100m and 14th overall at state.
In swimming, he came 1st in 50m backstroke, 50m freestyle and junior boys' relay. Unfortunately, he could not compete at state due to a burns injury on his foot. He was awarded a 2014 Sporting Blue Award for athletics.
Sporting team of the year CFNC C grade netball team
This team has members between 16-50 years. Some had not played for many years yet they were only defeated by CSU throughout the home and away series. The Coly team defeated Temora and Marrar to gain a spot in the grand final where they met the undefeated CSU team who had won the competition for the last 5 years. Going in to the grand final as the "underdogs" against a confident CSU team, they performed a miracle to take out the Premiership. Commitment and determination throughout the season and pushing themselves beyond their limits to train and play their best led them to victory.
Cultural award Jayden Brain
Jayden started learning to play the snare drums in April 2012 and became a member of the Scots School Albury Pipe Band in 2013. Since then he has played at many events with the band and has competed in several competitions.
During 2014, Jayden competed in 3 solo competitions in Canberra achieving top 3 placings in some of his events. In April, he and other band members joined the Hawkesbury Pipe Band to compete at the Australian championships in Ballarat. They won the Australian championships, beating the New Zealand champions to take out 1st place. Following on from this, Jayden joined the Canberra Burns Pipe Band to compete at the World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland in August and played against the best bands in the world. The band finished 15th in its group.
Since returning from Scotland, Jayden has continued to play with the Scots School Albury Pipe Band which recently took out 1st in grade 4, best drum corps grade 4 and Best Dressed Band at Daylesford Highland Games.