2024 Coaches Award – Cliff Ball
Cliff Ball (Left) collecting his award from Dave Reece (Chair)
For many years of club coaching and for guiding the U15 Boys to winning the Inter-Regional Championships this year, for the first time in over a decade.
2024 Bert Williams Referees Award – Jayne Jones
Jayne Jones
Jayne has been a leading referee in Cardiff for many years (decades) and still active in refereeing seminars and VE’s “Her Call” initiative to name a few, showing her continued enthusiasm for refereeing.
2024 Commitment to SW Volleyball – Louise Luckraft
Louise Luckraft (centre in Blue)
Lou has been an integral part of the volleyball landscape in Plymouth and the South West for the last 29 years. Having started playing at the tender age of 36 she has gone from being a beginner to establishing herself as an NVL player and has held various roles over the years to contribute towards the sport and the community she loves.
2024 Doreen Dingle Award for administration – Lindsay and Greg Hole
Greg (Back Left)
Both Lindsay and Greg have given over 20 years’ service to volleyball in the Poole-Bournemouth area. Rather than decreasing with time, it seems to be increasing.
Lindsay and Greg founded Poole Panthers VC over 20 years ago and have run, coached and subsidised it since. Lindsay is Vice-Chair, Association Secretary and Safeguarding Officer of Volleyball Dorset.
2024 Contribution to SW Volleyball – Camille Kok
Camille has been an instrumental part of the University of Bath volleyball club for the past 3 years, particularly over the past two years where she has both been the club’s treasurer and then secretary. She is the first point of contact for anyone in the club to make things happen, from court bookings to helping with invoicing, to even helping in the organisation of numerous club events that have proved vital to the club’s growth and development – always with a smile on her face and a warm tone which brightens everyone’s day.
