End of Season Windup, Winners & Grinners!

What a Season - With 4 teams celebrating Grand Final Wins!

The 2024 season has been such an exciting one for Margaret River Hockey Club in many ways. The enthusiasm of players at busy training sessions and extended time on our turf, the buzz of watching hockey from the Paris Olympics, (supporting Aran Zalewski and the Kookaburras in August), our membership registrations have remained at 169 (That’s not including our life members and social club members).

We continued to make some major improvements for players and supporters developing our facilities. We improved our “hockey HQ” shelter with sturdy cafe blinds, connected the power enabling lights and for us to improve our catering capabilities after training, with an impressive 3-door catering fridge, which has really helped to improve our BBQ sessions on training nights.

From our 8 teams, 6 made it to the semi finals, and the Year 6-8 Boys, Year 6-8 Girls, Senior Women and Masters were crowned premiers! Congratulations!

Well done to all our players, for the effort and teamwork displayed by you all, both on and off the pitch.

This year our end of season club wind-up and awards event was at the Margaret River Mens Shed and the turf.  Thanks to our committee and additional volunteers who made the event a great way to celebrate our team wins, our awards and fit in a little bit of club business with our Annual General Meeting too!

Read more - season review/ presidents report.

Read more - Huge year for hockey club - Augusta Margaret River Mail

Thanks everyone who attended and supported, you have made our season and our hockey club what it is today.

Here are the 2024 season winners…

Year 3-5 Team “Magic”

• Coach’s Award – Polly Sieber

• Encouragement Awards – Nate Conder, Freyja Stavrevski

• Fairest & Best - Charlotte Bowness

Year 3-5 Team “Lightning”

• Coach’s Award – Arlo Reid

• Encouragement Awards – Finn Wallace, Eva Langlois

• Fairest & Best - Hugo Ensor

  • Awarded the Rotary Cup - for good Sportsmanship on the field

Year 6-8 Girls Team

• Coach’s Award – Summer Kruger

• Rising Star – Abigail Sieber

• Encouragement Awards – Lily Bowler, Sophie Patterson

• Fairest & Best – Imelda Ensor

  • Assoc - Grand Final - Fairest & Best - Lily Bowler

  • Grand Final - Premiers

Year 6-8 Boys Team

• Coach’s Award – Geordie Dempsey

• Rising Star – Andrew McCann

• Encouragement Awards – Max Doyle, Lucas Church

• Fairest & Best – Hugo Underwood

  • Assoc - Year 6-8 Boys - Fairest & Best - Hugo Underwood

  • Assoc - Year 6-8 Boys - Grand Final Fairest & Best - Hugo Underwood

  • Assoc - Year 6-8 Boys - Highest Goal Scorer - Andrew McCann

  • Assoc Grand Final - Premiers

Year 9-12 Girls Team

• Coach’s Award – Sascha Oates

• Rising Star – Emily Sanderson

• Encouragement Awards – Asha Jenkins, Abby Ralston

• Fairest & Best – Jade Butcher

  • Awarded the Rotary Cup - for good Sportsmanship on the field

  • Assoc - Year 9 - 12 Girls - Runner Up - Fairest & Best - Abby Ralston

Year 9-12 Boys Team (Teal)

• Coaches Award – Jake Pawelski

• Rising Star – Jordan Beere

• Encouragement Awards – Seb Urquhart, Kai Melville

• Fairest & Best – Lincoln Rourke

Year 9-12 Boys Team (Yellow)

• Coaches Award – Seth Weadley

• Rising Star – Dylan Szandtner

• Encouragement Awards – Caspian Ensor, Jed Bucat

• Fairest & Best – Rupert Ensor

  • Assoc Grand Final - Runners Up

Women’s Team

• Players Player – Briony Hearn

• Fairest & Best – Briony Hearn & Josefina Herrera

  • WSWL - Fairest & Best - Briony Hearn

  • Country Week - Fairest & Best - Briony Hearn

  • Assoc Grand Final - Premiers

Men’s Team

• Players Player – Toby Anderson

• Fairest & Best – Toby Anderson

  • Country Week - Fairest & Best - Colin Fox

Masters Team

• Players Player – Tim Jones

• Fairest & Best – Dan Stocker

  • Assoc - Grand Final - Fairest & Best - Botond Erdosi

  • Assoc - Highest Goal Scorer - Tim Jones

  • Assoc Grand Final - Premiers

Margaret River Hockey Club - Perpetual Awards

• Mark Harrison – Most Promising Junior – Caspian Ensor

• Club Volunteer of the Year - Alicia Pawelski

Thanks you to all the fantastic volunteers who organised this event, cooked and served food, served at the bar, sold raffle tickets and everyone else who has leant a helping hand.

Thank you to the hockey club committee Alicia, TJ, Vicki, Liz, Errol, Stu and board Maxine, Wally, Ross, Aaron and Jenni who work tirelessly behind the scenes to run the club.

Thanks to all of our coaches and managers, thank you for your unmatched dedication, skills and enthusiasm. Your are all much appreciated.

Thanks to our club supporters, including the businesses that donated towards our food and beverages during the season at training and club events, fundraising raffle and our club sponsors, we look forward to working with you all again next year.

Thanks to all of our players, parents and supporters, thanks for making 2024 another fantastic season for the MRHC. You are the backbone of our club.

Enjoy the break folks (unless you are playing summer hockey!)

To learn more about the club wind up event click here