Porirua Sports Bulletin

This page has news and items of interest to sports clubs and groups in Porirua City and outside of Porirua City. News items will be prepared by the Sports Development Officer and by the local sports clubs and groups.

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Sports News

Local Ngatitoa Tennis Club Volunteer wins Tennis NZ Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award

6 February 2013

Janice Laurenson from Ngatitoa Tennis Club has been named Tennis New Zealand Outstanding Volunteer of the Year.

Janice Laurenson with her 'Tennis New Zealand Outstanding Volunteer of the Year' Award.

Janice Laurenson has committed six years to creating the Ngatitoa Tennis Club Junior Club from scratch.  Since then she has almost single-handedly created what the club has now:

  • over 70 junior members
  • 6 interclub teams
  • club championships
  • club days
  • professional coaching

She has done all this, despite having no tennis-playing children, so she’s doing it solely for the club, without any personal advantage.

Janice has linked the club with the surrounding schools, so that kids who encounter tennis at school, have Ngatitoa as the club to come to if they want to continue.  She does this via Grasshopper tournaments at the schools, information in school newsletters, and schools holiday programmes hosted at the club.

Janice is the primary finance generator in the club and her fund-raising endeavours helped complete the re-surfacing of all 4 of our courts.

Janice organises all the junior club coaching and has been on the NTC committee since she joined the club.  She has held a variety of positions on the committee, including Club Captain, Secretary and Junior Club Captain as well as the liaison role with the Paremata-Plimmerton Netball Club whom we share the courst with.

All of this has made our club the most-improved in the region, and the best in our area.  This is evidenced by the fact that we now have both a Men’s and a Women’s Premier 1 team (the Women won the Katrina Mihaere cup last season), as well as other teams at all levels of the competition structure.

We also have a committee that club members want to be on (currently 14 members), facilities that continue to improve year after year, and more varied and accessible ways to play tennis at our club.

These improvements are all directly attributable to the work Janice has put into the club over the last 10 years.

 

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If you would like to submit a news article and photograph for this page, or an item for our Events Calendar or Sport Calendar, please contact Faalogo Vaai, Sports Development Officer at Porirua City Council, ph (04) 237 3833 or email fvaai@pcc.govt.nz.