CELEBRATING OUR Amazing Sporting Volunteers

Wests Group Macarthur was thrilled to present the inaugural Wests Sports Volunteer of the Year Awards on Saturday 21st May 2022, honouring the contribution of volunteers amongst Wests Sports Council Members and a broad network of sporting clubs and associations to the Macarthur sporting community.

The event, held at Wests League Club was timed during National Volunteer Week – Australia’s largest annual celebration of volunteering came off the back of a very disruptive period to grassroots sport with both Covid-19 and inclement weather challenging community sport like never before.

As a long-time supporter and sponsor of sport in the region, Wests Group developed the awards program to acknowledge and celebrate the enormous contribution of time and effort that sporting volunteers give to sport within Macarthur – a volunteer sector that represents around $4 billion dollars of labour input nationally.

The program accepted both long service submissions as well as one overall Youth (under 21yrs) and Adult (21+yrs) of the Year nominations and was open to all member clubs and associations of the Wests Sports Council who deliver local sport to Macarthur via a network representing upwards of 35,000 athletes, administrators, and volunteers.

Throughout the nomination period from February to April over 100 nominations were received from various codes including swimming, hockey, rugby league, AFL, Cricket, BMX, and more. Every nomination in the categories of 15, 20, 25, 30 years or more of service was recognised with a service pin, certificate, and gift from Wests with the total list of recipients cumulatively representing over 150 decades of service to sport in the region.

We congratulate all of the Volunteers for their commitment of service and once again congratulate our winners of the Youth and Adult categories respectively, Paige Morel of Ingleburn Softball Club and Glenn Schwarzel of Macarthur Triathlon.

We look forward to celebrating more stories from our sporting volunteers at our next awards night in May 2023.