Association of the Year

BRISBANE WOMEN

- received an election commitment from the Brisbane City Council for the installation of two synthetic pitches over carparks at Downey Park
- ran Coach Level 1 and Level 2 courses, a Level O Technical Course and development programs for our U13, U15, U18 and Masters players
- implemented COVID Plans, utilising information from Hockey Queensland and Queensland Health
- stayed in contact with all our clubs and assisted them with producing their own COVID plans
- active on social media
- provided partial refunds to all clubs
- reworked our budgets and applied for grants to relieve the financial pressured faced from COVID
- provided 26 divisions plus U9 and U7 hockey fixtures for over 3000 returning members
- ran a 10 to 12 week season with a Grand Final and place finals for all teams
- provided additional Summer Social hockey for Masters, Open aged, Juniors and U9 players from October to December with 60 teams playing in a combination of Mixed and Masters full field and 6-a- side half field hockey.

CAIRNS

- strong financial practices implemented leading a post Covid19 recovery.
- CHA secured a 2year sponsorship with Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) to increase awareness of the social and mental health challenges in Cairns.
- a whole hockey review by the CHA Board and senior managers. The result was a New Strategic Plan "Owning our Future" - a comprehensive governance program to be implemented supporting all strategic priorities.
- a commitment to raising sustained non-member, based revenue to reduce financial pressure. Increased sponsorship, partners.
- new website - broader information sharing, strong digital platforms - meet future needs including digital volunteering.
- new delivery of volunteer-based committees designed for a post Covid19 volunteer workforce.
- CHA - recognized by Play by the Rules in 2020 as a best practice program through Cairns Hockey Association Live Well - Play by the Rules - Making Sport inclusive, safe and fair
- accepted into 'Inclusion Alliance', School networks - curriculum aligned resources linking to junior participation pathways.
- cross cultural awareness, at-risk children strategy and Oceania Hockey Federation partnership support inclusion and diversity.

SUNSHINE COAST

- secured funding to replace artificial turf
- post COVID19 was able to run a successful competition and play almost a full season in the space of 12weeks to allow members to participate post covid stoppage
- hired a RCD with the focus of grow hockey with juniors
-COVID19 safe plan was implemented, supported and executed by all members allowing for a successful season with Finals series played
- provided members/clubs with free training for first month back to attract players back to hockey

TOOWOOMBA
- ran an A-Grade Covid Cup, Senior Social Hockey, Junior Development Clinics and Advanced Skills training sessions
- took the lead and developed the Under 15 Invitational Tournament inviting teams (Association and Club) from all around Qld to give U15 rep players a chance to get on the field for a tournament during covid. The event was the largest hockey tournament in Australia in 2020 and promoted hockey to the wider Qld community.
- employed the services of qualified Umpire and Tech Official Mentors for the U15 Tournament to provide support, education and training opportunities for our volunteer match officials, contributing to their development and enhancing their hockey experience.
- major policy review began in 2020 with the intention of renewing and updating THA policies to ensure they are current and align with todays changing environment.
- a review of THA fees is underway to ensure our members are getting the best value and to protect the financial viability of the Association.

Volunteer

PETER SMITH - BRISBANE WOMEN

BWHA has for over 10 years provided Division 1 match footage, through HockeyZone and now briZHockey. The plan in 2020 was no different. When we resumed sport in July 2020, our producer Paul Mills was in NSW and unable to come to Brisbane to set-up and organise weekly broadcasting, thankfully volunteer commentator Peter Smith stepped into the breach.
Peter was instrumental in keeping hockey on live stream, at a time when people needed a diversion and live sport, and when numbers at venues where limited. Peter helped with the planning, set-up and commentating for our shortened 12 week season, with no fanfare or fuss. It is volunteers like Peter who simply get on with the job when faced with adversity and we believe he is worthy of this recognition.

JULES SAMUELS - SUNSHINE COAST (BUDERIM REBELS)

Jules was the secretary of Buderim Rebels Hockey Club. Jules managed the Div 2 men's team, assisted as needed to manage numerous other club teams. She organised club duty, canteen duty and numerous other requirements beyond what is necessary for a club secretary. Jules was a contact person for new enquiries and has referred new players to other clubs when Rebels have been at capacity to ensure everyone gets to play the game they love. Jules has been a representative on the SCHA competitions committee, and a valid member of the SCHA Technical Panel. She also volunteers for Tech duties at representative level on behalf of SCHA. Jules assisted SCHA with various aspects of facility maintenance and support in other areas.

EMMA ZIVIANI - TOOWOOMBA

Some of Emma's roles at THA are opening the fields, match directing and upskilling new Match Directors, attending Committee and HQ Meetings, organises Representative trials, coaches, managers and players, ensures the THA is financial and can improve facilities, conduct educational programs and continue to operate sustainably.
Emma drives all fundraising efforts and organises sponsors, and volunteers.
Emma also encourages new people to join clubs who are short in a particular division/age group to ensure that the association has sufficient numbers to play a competition across all age groups.
Emma is on the Toowoomba Hockey Committee and holds the Finance and Representative portfolios. Emma helps with the management of the association's members, ensuring all are registered, playing the required number of games and the development of all players.
Emma organised a number of clinics for all junior age groups in 2020, which included special guests including Matt Wells and Karen Robertson. Also included in this was umpire education.
Emma embodies the #TEAMQLD values and behaviours and could not be a more supportive role model for all THA members and volunteers. Emma promotes and represents these values for Toowoomba and Queensland at all events.

ADAM TRONSON - TOWNSVILLE

Adam is very passionate about the growth of Hockey in Townsville. Adam assists in every exposure event that Townsville Hockey participates in and is a major advocate for building a family culture in hockey. Adam assists Townsville Hockey to run programs including Goalkeeper Development, Officiating and Umpiring, as well as Junior Development training. Adam also spends most of every Saturday during the season at the fields assisting with turf watering, technical officiating, coaching, and umpiring when required. Adam is a key volunteer for our association and his continuous efforts are very much appreciated.

ANGELA GROVES - WARWICK

During 2020 when COVID shut down so much in our community, Angela resiliently continued to keep the WHA community engaged and ensured the Association was able to provide a COVID safe competition for players and supporters once the green light was given to play. Without Ang, the 2020 season would have been a non-event. Players from Toowoomba Hockey Association (THA) opted to bring their junior players to Warwick to play.

At the height of COVID Ang introduced a 31-day social media interactive event to maintain engagement with players both young and old. She also arranged 2 invitational carnivals, one for U11 players and an U13 boys' event, which received such a positive response from all the associations and clubs which attended.

This is all on top of her volunteer role which includes, hours of planning for the season, organising coaches, the annual Condy Vet's 9s comp, the annual Primary School Comp, pre-season training, training for players trialing for school-based comps and the summer social comp for juniors and seniors.

JUNE NICHOLLS - IPSWICH

Without June Nicholls, Ipswich Hockey would not have returned in 2020. With a return possible, June did not hesitate, taking on the role of COVID Coordinator. Utilising her medical background, June approached the massive task of getting us back up and running professionally. It would be impossible to calculate the hours June spent keeping up to date as new directives etc. were released. As well as formulating and regularly updating our COVID Plan, June attended almost every training session throughout the week and games at the weekend to ensure our plan was adhered to while being the friendly face welcoming and reassuring everyone.

Thanks to June's tireless efforts, Ipswich Hockey was able to retain club memberships in 2020. June provided invaluable education and training and our volunteer base increased as team COVID coordinators were recruited. Being able to return also ensured the sustainability of Ipswich Hockey and her leadership and guidance as we developed our Safety Plan contributed greatly to the management and administration of our association. June's leadership was clearly on display and being able to return enabled us to promote our sport, not only locally but state-wide when we were able to successfully host the Qld School Sports 10-12 years State Championships; one of the very few championships conducted through 2020.

Initiative

CAIRNS HOCKEY - ASPIRE TO BE DEADLY INDIGENOUS HOCKEY PROGRAM

Supporting Activate Queensland, 'Closing the Gap' uses hockey to drive positive social outcomes COVID increased partnerships.
Value added to CHA - Delivered program to 35 plus schools across remote/regional. Introduced to over 800 young people across Torres Strait Islands, Gulf Savannah, Cairns Regional communities. More indigenous young women and girls, families and boys play hockey than ever before in Cairns.
- New role models and ambassador program.
- ATBD Team front line workers during 2020 COVID 19 Pandemic, lock-down and recovery.
- Special permission granted to deliver into schools - 31 at risk indigenous young women and girls graduated.
- Breaking down barriers Piloting Education Queensland curriculum aligned programs.
- Deadly 5 - school, culture, hockey, 4 team building workshops, 8week modified remote programs.
- 1 in 3 indigenous girls introduced ATBD primary school retained in high school.
- Aces Academy supporting performance pathways.
- PLAY BY THE RULES Cairns Hockey Association Live well - Play by the Rules - Making Sport inclusive, safe, and fair
- Member HA RAP - Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group.

TOOWOOMBA U15 TOURNAMENT

During 2020 junior fixtures in Toowoomba were cancelled. Toowoomba Hockey Committee continued to run a training program for their junior athletes but with no fixtures and the cancelation of all State tittle's the Toowoomba junior players had nothing to aspire to. Taking this into consideration, THC developed the concept of the Toowoomba Invitational Under 15 tournament. The THC invited all Queensland associations as well as many club teams to participate in this event. We were overwhelmed by this response, with 38 teams, 90 games and two divisions in both boys and girls this event was the largest hockey tournament in Australia in 2020. THC also made sure we had qualified umpire and technical official mentors to provide leadership and education to in all aspects of the tournament. This was a huge task that was undertaken by the THC but the positive feedback from those that participated made it worth all the efforts involved.

TOWNSVILLE UMPIRE ACADEMY

The Townsville Hockey Umpire Academy was formed in the 2020 season to deliver a development pathway for all local aspiring umpires in Townsville. The Academy is run by head coordinators and utilises mentors and small groups for feedback. In 2020 the Academy consisted of over 65 umpires from Juniors to Seniors with a further growth again to 70+ registered Umpires and Officials in 2021.

Association Coach

AMY RYAN - BRISBANE WOMEN

In a year with no Representative Teams, it is difficult to recognise a volunteer association coach, so would like HQ to consider employee Amy Ryan our Member Development Manager.
While this is a paid position, Amy went above and beyond during the COVID shutdown to keep our Coaches engaged and learning. Using social media to share information and tips to players, coaches and umpires, in a dark time, it was a light for some people.
Amy's desire for excellent is evidenced by her participation in hockey at all levels with invitations to be involved in FIH, HA and HQ coaching/mentoring opportunities.
Amy had organised and completed Level 1 and 2 Coachings Courses, U13, U15, U18 and Masters development programs and Hookin2Hockey and Sport Sports before COVID hit, and upon the restart of fixtures organised the development for many players in October. This was all done on reduced hours and working under JobKeeper. Her dedication and excellence never waivered and BWHA is very luck to have her.

MICHAEL ASMUSSEN - SUNSHINE COAST

Michael Holds a HA Level 2 Coach accreditation. He embodies the #TeamQld values and SCHA culture we wish for all our members. Michael came to the call for help to Coach the SCHA Barbarians U18 Boys team for the local season, this team was made up of boys from various clubs who formed a SCHA team to allow the boys to play u18s. Michael did not hesitate to take this coaching role on when asked by SCHA. He is always a positive influence on the players he coaches and puts the game and the juniors as his priority. His dedication to the game and to this team earned them a spot in the Grand final and mutual respect from the players and SCHA Members.

AMANDA ROSS - TOOWOOMBA

Amanda is a level 2 coach and has been a long term coach and volunteer within Toowoomba Hockey. During 2020 junior fixtures in Toowoomba were cancelled, therefore we needed to somehow continue the development of hockey during these unprecedented times. Amanda Ross took the lead on this with our junior women's program. Amanda Ross ran several sessions with the junior female cohort every week, also taking on the role of Under 15 Team 1 girls coach, training and preparing these girls for the Under 15 Toowoomba Invitational Tournament. She was a huge part of our junior representative program and continued to coach and prepare our athletes for the State selection. It was an extremely difficult year in Toowoomba without junior fixtures or an RCD. It was in this period that Amanda Ross dedicated a huge amount of time to the junior women's program without her contribution we would not have been able to continue the growth of our junior female players.

COURTNEY DOHERTY - TOWNSVILLE

Currently holds a Level 2 Coach accreditation
In 2020, Courtney was coach of:
- J League team (U19 Association run, non-club aligned competition)
- Wests Division 1 Ladies
- U18 Ladies Townsville representative team

Community Coach

MIESH ELMES - BRISBANE WOMEN

Miesh has a great love of hockey, she pours her heart and soul into player development.
In 2020 Miesh undertook the following roles:
- QLD U15 Trials Coach (pre-covid)
- BWHA U15 & U18 Trials Coach
- BWHA Junior Grass Clinic Coach
- Arana Ascot Development Officer - organised numerous community Come & Try events, club clinics, gala days etc.

Miesh encourages participation at all levels and her infectious love of the game is obvious.
Miesh is a committed user of social media and kept her club members engaged in hockey with drills, home skills and activities during lockdown.
Miesh is a great asset for her club and hockey in Brisbane and a worthy nominee for this award.

PHIL GRAHAM - SUNSHINE COAST

Phil Graham, a senior player who is involved in education, actively involved in promoting junior hockey in the community to encourage juniors to start playing hockey. Phil is the catalyst for many Nambour juniors playing and has been significantly involved in coaching many of them, once they come into hockey. Phil's constant positive attitude, relaxed approach and love for hockey is transferred to these juniors, and they are returning to our sport every year. Since 2015, Phil has coached every year, stepping up from Hookin2Hockey into J3s and now J2s/U15 boys. In 2020, Phil has also been an on-field mentor developing Nambour U18 boys into the senior division 2 and encouraging them to develop a greater love for the sport.

ERIN McCURLEY AULT
During 2020 junior fixtures in Toowoomba were cancelled. To continue the development of Junior Boys hockey during these unprecedented times, Toowoomba Hockey needed volunteer coaches. Erin McCurley- Ault was one of these coaches. Erin was one of our junior boy's development coaches, she also coached the under 15 team 1 boys who competed the under 15 Toowoomba Invitational Tournament. This team was undefeated at this tournament and won the championship. Erin was new to the Toowoomba representative coaching program in 2020 and in a year when Toowoomba needed coaches to step up and participate, she did an outstanding job.

JOSH WEST - TOWNSVILLE

Josh is an energetic and motivated coach of juniors. Josh has been a Head Coordinator of our Mini Sticks U10 development program for the last 3 years and is a major contributor to his club within Townsville Hockey. Josh has a seat on the Townsville Hockey Board of Management as the Participation Director and has coached and managed at a representative level in Juniors.

ROSS NEWTON

Ross Newton is one of WHA's favourite coaches. When he's not busy catching babies as a midwife, he's training our up-and-coming hockey stars, encouraging all players to do their best. Ross brings out the nice side in everyone.
He has been involved with coaching and developing juniors for approximately 15years and at all playing levels (Minkeys, U11, U13, U15, J2) and in 2020 was integral in organizing, training and taking a group of Warwick boys to take part in the Toowoomba J2 comp with Newtown. He was also actively involved in training the WHA U13 boys rep team prior to the COVID shutdown.
He has been a permanent fixture alongside Ang Groves at Tuesday afternoon training sessions for our junior players throughout 2020, as he has done in the years before. Despite his crazy hour, demanding on-call type of job, he still fronts up to train the kids with a smile and great enthusiasm.
Ross sets a good example as a player himself, and has helped many juniors build the confidence to move into seniors. He umpires at all levels, volunteers without asking and without his involvement at WHA, there would be a huge gap.

Association Umpire

ALYSON ALEKSIC - BRISBANE WOMEN

Alyson Aleksic is a valuable volunteer for hockey, like many she wears many hats, but is a great advocate for umpiring at club and association level.
For the past 10 years or more Alyson has been heavily involved in our Junior section which has over 1500 players. She recognises and has actively worked to develop umpires to meet the needs of our association.
In 2020 Alyson ran a club based umpire development program for Juniors, both coaching and mentoring umpires, and then assessing Junior umpires on association fixtures.
Alyson teaches through workshops, club mentors on how to perform this role for the best results and engages with beginner umpires to encourage and support them.
She is also a Level 3 Umpire, umpiring regularly on Division 1 games, but it is the work she does in developing the next generation of umpires that will be her lasting legacy."

JAMIE BROWN - SUNSHINE COAST

Jamie Brown - holds a HA Level 1 Umpire Accreditation. Jamie was an umpire coach/mentor at Club & SCHA level. Jamie is often seen umpiring junior and/or senior games each week, as well as coaching Maroochydore junior umpires to develop their umpiring skillset to a standard not only for club level but potential representative umpiring level for these individuals. Jamie has professional and positive attitude towards teams and the game.

INDIANNA FRAZIER - SUNSHINE COAST

Indianna Frazier - holds a community advanced accreditation. has developed substantially as an umpire over the past few years. Her first season as an umpire was 2016 and since then, she has actively pursued her umpiring goals. Her on-field development has been amazing, getting to confidently umpire Div 2 Womens for the first time in 2020. Indi has for the past 3 years managed all junior umpire allocations for NBDHC, ensuring the right umpiring standard for the right level of game. She is actively involved in mentoring new umpires and developing them every week of the season and gives 100% all the time.

PAULA GROVER JOHNSON - TOWNSVILLE

Paula came to Townsville and jumped straight in to assisting with umpire development. Paula leads by example with her umpiring of D1 men and ladies. She tirelessly mentors a group of local junior umpires who are making the transition to umpiring senior matches. Paula is also one of the coordinators of our Umpire Academy.

NATALIE WALKER - IPSWICH

Natalie has Level 1 Advanced outdoor umpire and Level 2 Indoor umpire accreditations. She was appointed HQ umpire coach to the HQ U15 boys indoor state championship in November.
Natalie, as an Ipswich umpire, has provided mentoring and support to other umpires both at outdoor but mainly at indoor during 2020. She umpired with other umpires to help them develop and watched many games specifically to provide feedback to umpires throughout the indoor season. She assisted with allocation of umpires to matches for indoor. In the reduced 10-week outdoor season she umpired 45 matches. During the indoor season she umpired 22 local Ipswich indoor matches and attended both Hockey Queensland U18 men's and women's state championships as the Ipswich umpire.
She was appointed to the National Indoor U18 panel where she was selected to umpire the Gold medal match. She was also appointed to the National Outdoor U15 Championships which were subsequently cancelled due to COVID. As a Queensland U21 Indoor player, the #TeamQLD values are very strong. Having had the pleasure of attending National Indoor tournaments for four years, (as umpire and player), where the concept was developed and strengthened, it has become second nature.

Association Technical Official

SONYA FISHER - BRISBANE WOMEN

Sonya undertook training and became qualified to run Level O Technical Courses, and she ran two for BWHA in 2020 with 11 people accredited.
Sonya also made herself available to act as the Tournament Director for the U13 Boys Indoor in Mackay and the U18 Girls Indoor at South Brisbane Indoor Centre and the Technical Manager at the U13 Girls Indoor at Mackay.
Sonya was selected to attend the Tokyo Olympics as a volunteer.
Sonya is also the chair of the BWHA Umpire and Technical Committee which looks after the planning and development of Umpires and Technical Officials in BWHA.
Sonya is a valuable volunteer asset to BWHA and hockey in Queensland.

KERRY LIEBENBERG - SUNSHINE COAST

Kerry holds a HA Level 2 Tech Accreditation. Kerry is an active technical official at HQ and HA tournaments. Kerry was appointed as Technical Director for the U21 Aus vs Japan test series in Feb 2020 in Canberra. Kerry carried out technical officiating duties on local Division 1 fixtures throughout the 2020 season as well as finals series matches. Kerry mentors and develops SCHA Members technical skillsets. Kerry was appointed to HQ U18 Indoor Tournament Director role in 2020. Kerry was awarded the 2020 HQ Technical Achievement Award for her technical achievements in 2019 season.

ALISA PANZRAM - TOOWOOMBA

Alisa Panzram has been a long-standing sole co-ordinator of our Technical Official program in Toowoomba. Alisa co-ordinates, trains and supervises our Technical Officials. Toowoomba hockey have endeavored to fill 40-50 time slots for trained Technical official each weekend. In 2020, due to the cancellation of junior fixtures, Alisa did not need to fill as many slots but she did need to educate our officials, regards covid requirements and the restructure of our tournament. She provided education for our tech officials and continued to make sure qualified Tech Officials were allocated to each game, filling huge amounts of time slots herself with the volunteer pool significantly reducing in 2020. Alisa also co-ordinated the Tech Officials for our Invitational Under 15 Tournament. Alisa worked extremely hard to train and supply a qualified Tech official on over 90 games over three days. Alisa is an extremely hardworking member of the Toowoomba Hockey Community who volunteers huge amounts of her time to make sure we have qualified and efficient Tech officials to control our sidelines each week.

SANDY HAYES - GLADSTONE

Sandy has been involved in the Technical with Gladstone Hockey for the past 6 years. She has dedicated her time in training and coaching our technical officers willing to learn and improve in this areas. She regularly holds sessions to educate and improve the standard within Gladstone Association.

Some of Sandy's achievements are as follows:
- Sandy has HA Level 2 Technical Official and HQ Level 2 Umpire qualifications.
- 2020 was a tough year with Covid putting a stop to Representative Hockey but Sandy still ensured the Techical side ran without hiccup at local level.
- October 2019 Judge Hockey One games
- January 2020 Judge on Great Britain v Hockey QLD Women game. Lead up to the start of Pro-League
- Completed HQ Tournament Directors Course
- Appointed Competition & Pathway Director to GHA August 2019
- Co-Ordinated GHA Annual Lightning 9s Carnival - Revising Draw after Grass was washed out.
- Complete the CQHL Draw between Rockhampton & Gladstone Teams before Covid Stop
- Put together 10 week competition for GHA when Covid started back up. Lost a lot of players due to COVID.
- Bring more tech onto Junior Games encourage parents to help out

#TeamQLD Individual

KARIN WALDUCK - BRISBANE WOMEN

Karin is a past President of Hockey Queensland and the current President of BWHA and Hockey Brisbane Inc (HBI).
She is a highly respected and knowledgeable volunteer within the sport of hockey. She upholds the TEAMQLD# values and strives for excellence in all that she does.
In 2020 with all that COVID brought, she lead by example, ensuring we all worked together to achieve the best results for our sport during this difficult time. Hockey in Brisbane is played across 7 venues, so coordination, communication and leadership was needed to ensure a united return to sport could occur.
Karin continues to be involved with HQ, especially in the Masters area.
Karin at all times acts as an ambassador for our sport, and would be a worthy recipient of this award.

SCOTT BRENNAN - SUNSHINE COAST

Scott was SCHA president for a couple of years, coming into the role to bring a fresh approach and vision of cultural change and professionalism to the SCHA. Scott devoted many days/nights to ensuring the 2020 season was able to come to fruition post covid. Scott took on the role of Covid Coordinator for SCHA and effectively communicated with clubs and members the requirements. Scott lead the SCHA to another successful season and played an integral part in securing the Qld Government funding for the new turf. Scott continues to be lead on another major project on behalf of the SCHA with the new LED turf lights project. Scott's professionalism, dedication and continued work load for SCHA is beyond words. Scott's resilience and leadership ensured our association and members were the forefront of any decisions.

CRAIG SMITH - TOOWOOMBA

Craig represented QLD from U13 through U21's and the Blades.
Craig has gained a full understanding of the necessity for clear and honest communication with team staff, team mates and administrators. Craig is trusted and respected by members of the QLD hockey community at all levels, from brand new parents, through to State coaches and managers.
His commitment to training, coaching and staying ahead of the newest ideas and thinking in the game remains at the highest level. His personal fitness is remarkable, an inspiration to all. Will make the tough call when necessary, however his integrity and personal fortitude is never in question. Always willing to let another person take the reins if they have new or innovative solutions and will follow the team plan at all times. Ready to offer guidance to younger players and can also speak to parents with honesty and clarity.
Craig is the perfect candidate for the Award. Not everything has gone right over those years. But everything Craig has done, has been done with thought of improvement and positive outcomes.

#TeamQLD – Club

SUNSHINE COAST HA

SCHA made the effort to changing the culture and processes within our association over the past few years. 2020 saw SCHA continue to implement better communication with our clubs and members, positive and safe environment for our members by putting the whole association before any one individual or club. Clubs/members supported our vision and helped assist us with change and progressing our association for the future. SCHA professional standard had lifted and and our tireless efforts to ensure we were doing everything possible for the game and our association throughout covid and when the season returned came to fruition.

WARWICK HA

We believe WHA encompasses the #TEAMQLD ideals, especially during the difficult year that was 2020.

As the smallest Association in Queensland, WHA was ready to play once restrictions lifted. We managed to play a full season in both the junior, mixed and senior competitions. We opened our Association up to everyone - people whose sports didn't restart post restrictions and players from Toowoomba Hockey Association. We warmly welcomed everyone - knowing that their time at WHA may have only been short before returning to their usual sports and we're excited to see that some of these players are returning to WHA in 2021.

The feedback from so many of these families throughout and at the end of the season was the icing on the cake for our efforts. We heard that WHA was a warm and welcoming environment where everyone pitched in to volunteer for their Association. We heard their kids loved the opportunity to play in our competition where they were accepted and welcomed with many friendships forged. We heard they were surprised that no-one was paid to do their job, that we were all volunteers who loved what we did. And we do. We created opportunities for players to play.

HQ INDOOR COMMIITTEE

After the cancellation of all the field hockey State Championships the opportunity to host Indoor State Championships was keenly met by the Indoor Committee. Not to be detered by the COVID restrictions the Committee set to work to ensure they delivered for the Indoor Community. They demonstrated the Team Queensland values by maintaining communicaiton with each other, the Office, the Indoor Associations and players. They worked for the best interests of hockey in Queensland by also creating a new Indoor Hockey Camp for those Athletes that would have travelled for Nationals. They put in an incredible amount of work to not only get the Championships up but also the camp and were diciplined to meet deadlines. Everyone on the Committee showed Leadership by bringing organisation, leadership and ambition to the season. And showed true resilience to adapt and change plans in the COVID environment, especially when the Brisbane Lockdown was announced just before the U18 camp was due to get underway.