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25.01.2022 The Bendigo Sports Star Awards have a long and rich history spanning over 55 years. The awards are the longest-running awards of their kind in Australia. While sport is on hold for the time being we thought it would be a great chance to look back and showcase the yearly winners (in no particular order) from when the awards kicked off in 1965. Let's kick off with the king of the water, Glenn Ashby. Ashby grew up sailing with his brother and sister at Bendigo Yacht Club.... In 1996 at 18, Glenn went overseas for the first time in his life. Competing at the A-Class Worlds in Spain against 86 others, he won. Gelnn was the Bendigo Sports Star of the year twice, in 96-97 and 97-98. He was awarded the monthly winner 7 times!!! Since 1997 and 98 Glenn has continued to compete in the sport of sailing. He went to the Olympics in 2008 and won a sliver medal with team mate Darren Bundock. In November 2018 he won his 10th A class Catamaran World Championship and 17th World Championship in total. in 2019 Gelnn competed in his 4th America’s Cup having won the last event as Skipper for Emirates Team New Zealand on the AC 50 Catamaran in Bermuda. He is currently living and based in Auckland New Zealand with his wife and 2 daughters in preparation for the the defense of the Americas Cup in 2021. What a star!!!
24.01.2022 TOP 10 SPORTS STAR HALL OF FAME Since its inception in 1993 a total of 44 sportsmen and women have been inducted into the Sports Star Hall of Fame. Bendigo Sports Star committee members Morrie Hesse and John Forbes couldn't be prouder of all 44 athletes that have been inducted.... However, out of the inductees Forbes and Hesse have selected their top 10 based on achievements at Olympic, Commonwealth and Empire Games, world championships, Australian titles, state level titles and local achievements, read all about them below .
23.01.2022 Netball Superstar Sharelle McMahon won the Bendigo Sports Star of the Year in 1998-99 and 1999-00. She was the youngest member of the Australian netball team which won the netball gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Can anyone remember watching it live? McMahon captained the Vixens from its inaugural season in 2008 until 2011, she officially retired at the end of the 2013. In October 2016, she was inducted as an Athlete Member of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. What an amazing career on the netball court, and what an inspiration to all the young netballers in Central Victoria.
22.01.2022 Bendigo Sports Star Awards only happen through the generosity of our partners and volunteer committee. One of our key partners is BRB Electrical, a team of local electricians that are committed to ensuring their clients have an experience that is pleasant, rewarding and satisfying. The team at BRB Electrical specialise in providing commercial, domestic, industrial work, maintenance, and on call work specific to their clients needs. We are very grateful to Sam and his team at BRB for their continued support of our awards. We look forward to the awards returning as soon as the sporting arenas are back!!
20.01.2022 Our monthly 2019/20 Peak Bendigo Sports Stars! Jason Lea - Cycling Chris Hamilton - Cycling Peta Mullens - Cycling... Alessia McCaig - Cycling Jenna Strauch - Swimming Emma Berg - Athletics Jaclyn Wilson - BMX Jack Haig - Cycling Tayla Vlaeminck - Cricket Kelly Wilson - Basketball Will Kelly - Water Skiing Brad Rawiller - Horse Racing Lee Schraner - Lawn Bowls James Humphry - Wildwater Canoeing Pat Eddy - Cycling All absolute STARS! Nominate a March sports star here http://bit.ly/bendigosportsstar
20.01.2022 We were delighted to announce the inaugural Bendigo Bank Community Minded Award at Friday nights Peak Bendigo Sports Star gala evening. The award encourages sporting teams and clubs to implement initiatives that have a positive impact on the community and generates outcomes that have a long-term benefit. Congratulations to Bike Bendigo, a not for profit community organisation committed to getting more people on bikes and celebrating Bendigo as the bicycle capital of Regiona...l Australia. Nicole Dunnicilff from Bike Bendigo accepted the award from Bendigo Banks State Manager Regional Victoria & Tasmania, Justine Minne.
15.01.2022 CYRIL MICHELSON TRUST FUND AWARD - PAT EDDY MAXINE CROUCH TRUST FUND AWARD - RUBY CONTI GUN cyclist Patrick Eddy has achieved a first in Peak Bendigo Sports Star of the Year history. A classy competitor on the road and track, Eddy is the first athlete to earn the Cyril Michelsen Trust Fund in consecutive years.... There were many highs for Eddy in the past year. Victory in the under-19s time trial and road race at the national road titles in Ballarat clinched selection for the UCI road titles in England. Eddy’s campaign at the worlds in September was capped by a top-20 finish in the under-19 time trial and 21st in the 144km road. Last December, he was named Cycling Australia’s junior road cyclist of the year. He started this year in superb form. Eddy won the under-19 time trial, was runner-up in the road race and fourth in the criterium at the national road titles in Ballarat. We wish the Eddy brothers, Patrick and Sam all the best in this weekend Bendigo International Madison. Aerodance competitor Ruby Conti has become one of the youngest recipients of the Maxine Crouch Trust Fund at the Peak Bendigo Sports Star of the Year awards. The Trust Fund is a way to encourage emerging stars such as Ruby Conti who has the world championships in Azerbaijan in May as a primary target. Ruby, 13, won gold at last year’s Australian titles in Queensland and competed in the Plovdiv Cup in Bulgaria. Highs of 2019 for Ruby included first place in International Age at National Championships, National Clubs Carnival, Queensland titles, and Aeroschool national titles. Pictured below is Bruce Michelson (son of Cyril) with Pat Eddy and Travis Crouch (son of Maxine) with Ruby Conti.
15.01.2022 We are pleased the announce the Bendigo Sports Star of the March TODD MURPHY for Cricket . The spin bowler was recruited by St Kilda from Sandhurst and represented Australia at this year’s under-19 World Cup in South Africa. Todd played five matches in the Cup campaign and took four wickets at an average of 30. Struck the winning runs off the final ball of the match to beat England. In the past 12 months, Todd has played for Australia in an under-19 series against New... Zealand, captained Victoria Country at the national under-19 titles, captained the Ponting XII against the Gilchrist XII in an under-19 exhibition match on the Gold Coast. Despite missing six matches because of representative duties, Todd took 25 wickets in 11 matches as the Saints progressed to Victoria’s Premier Cricket finals. What a star, well done Todd! Photo sourced from ICC Cricket World Cup Facebook.
12.01.2022 We have some amazing sports stars that have earnt themselves the Peak Bendigo Monthly Sports Star for January and February. Nominate for March here bit.ly/bendigosportsstar Congratulations to Lucas Herbert, Jason Sleep and Tayla Vlaminck. JANUARY... LUCAS HERBERT - Golf: Captured the first professional victory of his career in the Dubai Desert Classic. Lucas won a play-off to join the likes of Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Ernie Els as a Desert Classic champion. He moved to second in the Race to Dubai standings and his world ranking went from 223 to the low 80s. He hit off February by being in the top 30 at the Saudi International and then teed off in the Victorian Open at 13th Beach Golf Links in Barwon Heads. JASON SLEEP - Water skiing: Was in hot form at the 2020 EasyTow Malibu Australian Masters on the Loddon River at Bridgewater. Jason set a new world record score of 11.90 in the disabled men's tricks category and later achieved a higher tally of 13.10. The second record was in the disabled men's slalom category as Jason cleared two buoys at 46km/h on an 18-metre rope, he also cleared six at 40km/h and six at 43km/h during earlier runs. A goal is to compete at the 2021 World Championships at Bridgewater. FEBRUARY TAYLA VLAEMINCK - Cricket: Played a key role with the ball as Australia won the Twenty20 tri-series final against India in the lead-up to the T20 World Cup being played on home turf. Tayla took 2-32 off four overs in the 11-run victory in the final. The win was just two days after Tayla was named the Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year. A foot injury forced Tayla out of the team for the T20 World Cup which was played from February 21.
10.01.2022 Tully brothers mark Hall of Fame history! No matter what sport they contested, Colin and Trevor Tully were exceptional. A highlight of the Peak Bendigo Sports Star of the Year awards for 2019 was the talented brothers being inducted to the Hall of Fame.... Trevor Tully was a brilliant competitor at tennis, badminton, baseball, cricket, squash, table tennis and volleyball, but it was golf where he shone for many years. He first played golf at Quarry Hill Golf Club in the early 1960s and then at Neangar Park. Trevor won 12 club championships and eight foursomes titles at the Eaglehawk-based Neangar Park course and was also a member of Bendigo Golf Club. Among the many highs of his golfing career were a Victorian Sandgreen title, runner-up for the Victoria Country championship, and more than 70 tournament wins. At the time of his induction to the Hall of Fame, Trevor had racked up 56 years as a volunteer for golf, tennis, and also for Kangaroo Flat Bowls Club. Colin Tully first made his mark with South Bendigo Football Club and the Bendigo United Cricket Club. As captain of the Bloods’ under-18s, Colin won the league best and fairest award in 1963 and a year later he was the senior team champion. By 1965, Colin was playing for Collingwood and he earned the Harry Collier Trophy for best first year player. A 92-game stint for the Magpies included being in two of the-then VFL’s greatest grand finals 1966 against St Kilda, and 1970 against Carlton. Colin represented Victoria against South Australia and Western Australia in 1967. He played more than 100 matches batting at three in Collingwood Cricket Club’s first XI. In the early 70s, Colin played for Claremont in the west and represented WA in 1972 against Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. He returned to Bendigo and captained Bendigo United’s first XI in 1974-75 and was club champion in consecutive years. Career highs in the 1975-76 season for BUCCs were a highest score of 106 and best bowling figures of 7-41 and 6-40. Take a bow Trevor and Colin, you are both outstanding sports stars! The Sports Star of the Year Hall of Fame features Olympic representatives Faith Leech, swimming; Des Duguid, boxing; Jack Trickey, Colin Fitzgerald and Robert Burns, cycling; and Kristi Harrower, basketball. All of the Hall of Fame representatives are on display at the Bendigo Stadium.
10.01.2022 PARTNER PROFILE You only have to jump on McCaig Air Conditioning Facebook page to see how much their clients love them. McCaigs was the very first air conditioning specialists in country Victoria and now have more than 50 years’ experience in installing and servicing the most trusted air conditioning brands. ... The McCaig family have been great supporters of the Sports Star Awards and have a long history with the Awards starting off with Frank McCaig being awarded the Sports Star of the year in 1965/66 for cycling. Many years down the track (literally!) the McCaig family are still performing at an elite level with young Alessia McCaig on the track, she is an absolute star! Thank you for all your support and personal investment into the awards.
09.01.2022 YAY THE GIRLS! BMX world champion, Jaclyn Wilson is a familiar face of the Bendigo Sports Star Awards. Jaclyn is currently the Australian BMX Champion, and has felt what's it's like to be the best of her sport in the world (6 times!!!) which earnt her the Bendigo Sport Star of the year in 2011/12. Read more about this incredible women here https://bit.ly/jaclynwesc as written by the students of Eaglehawk Secondary College
08.01.2022 Oh what a night! The 55th Sports Star of the Year was held at the All Seasons Hotel Bendigo last night in front of a room full of over 340 people, our biggest attendance yet in our rich history. A night like this doesn’t come together easily or overnight. Like sporting clubs, these Awards are successful because of the people who are involved. Thank you to our hard working and dedicated committee members, tireless hours have been put in over the last 12 months. Thank you t...o our sponsors, awards such as ours need financial support and every dollar is appreciated. To all the athletes and awards winners, congratulations, you were all humble and grateful in your acceptance of your award. Thank-you to MC Benny Jones, once again Benny did a fabulous job! The team from All Seasons, well done, and to our tech gurus Power AV, it all went smoothly! And to everyone who attended last night, you were brilliant! Congratulations to joint winners Will Kelly (Water Skiing) and Lee Schraner (Lawn Bowls) who are both world champions and now 2019/20 Peak Bendigo Sports Stars of the Year! Get nominating a sports star for the month of March here http://bit.ly/bendigosportsstar PEAK City of Greater Bendigo Bendigo Bank Bendigo Health McKern Steel The Bendigo Advertiser D-Club247 Fitness DCK Bendigo WDEA Works Symes Motors BMW Copy Click, PRIME 7, All Seasons Hotel Bendigo.
07.01.2022 Look out for our Bendigo's cycling super star Alessia McCaig in Bendigo Magazine spring issue, out soom!
06.01.2022 PARTNER PROFILE Alison and Leigh Climas from Fire Alarm Essentials Pty Ltd are both keen sporting enthusiasts and proud sponsors of the Bendigo Sports Star Awards. Fire Alarm Essentials offers servicing, sales and maintenance of smoke alarms, fire extinguishers, fire blankets, hose reels and fire panels for residential homes, rental properties and commercial businesses. Their service protects the lives of your loved ones. Smoke alarms are one of the last things people tend ...to think about, in reality, it should be one of the jobs that are diarised in your calendar to service your smoke alarms at least once a year, and the start of day-light savings is a great time to lock in a service. If you can't remember the last time you had your smoke alarm serviced, contact Fire Alarm Essentials on 0458 342 221. Thanks to Leigh and Alison for your continuous support of the Bendigo Sports Star Awards.
06.01.2022 The monthly 2019/20 scholarship winners . Pat Eddy - Cycling, sponsored by Bendigo Bank and D-Club247 Fitness Jazy Roberts - Golf, sponsored by WDEA Works and D-Club 247 Fitness Lauren Cox - Volleyball, sponsored by Cloud Copy Click and D-Club 247 Fitness ... Emily Kearns - Swimming, sponsored by McKern Steel and D-Club 247 Fitness Jayden Padgham - Altletics, sponsored by DCK Bendigo and D-Club 247 Fitness James Wood - Athletics, sponsored by City of Greater Bendigo and D-Club 247 Fitness Dyson Daniels - Basketball, sponsored by PEAK and D-Club 247 Fitness Alexander Evans - Cycling, sponsored by All Seasons Hotel Bendigo and D-Club 247 Fitness Blake Agnoletto - Cycling, sponsored by Symes Motors BMW and D-Club 247 Fitness Lachlan Archibald - Hockey, sponsored by PEAK and D-Club 247 Fitness Ruby Conti - Aerodance, sponsored by Bendigo Bank and D-Club 247 Fitness Will Fitzpatrick - In Line Hockey, sponsored by WDEA World Bendigo and D-Club 247 Fitness. See more
06.01.2022 Congratulations to joint 2019/20 Peak Sports Star winners Will Kelly and Lee Schraner. Will Kelly; Water Skiing - Will was victorious in the seated trick category at the 2019 International Water Ski and Wakeboard Federation World Waterski Championships for the Disabled. Will also achieved a world record score. Will and his Australian team-mates were second in the teams category in Norway. Lee Schraner; Lawn Bowls - Lee capped off an unbeaten run to claim the World Sin...gles Champions of Champions. Lee was the number one bowler and the third Australian in the past four years to win the men’s title. Lee is playing coach of Bendigo East and key figure in the club’s quest for back-to-back division one premierships in Bendigo Bowls Division pennant. Both athletes have reached greatness on the world stage, what a huge achievement. A big thanks to our committee, sponsors and athletes for making tonight a brilliant event. More photos of the evening to come!
04.01.2022 We are winding the Bendigo Sports Star clock back to 1966-67 when local, Billy Fry was awarded the Sports Star of the year in his chosen sport of Boxing . Fry first competed in senior ranks as a 17-year-old in 1963. In that year he won the Victorian featherweight title and was runner-up at the Australian championships. He achieved the same feat a year later. In 1966, Fry was the Australian and Victorian lightweight titleholder and earned selection for the Commonwealth Game...s. An outstanding record in boxing included 55 wins in 68 bouts. The greatest highlight of his career was competing at the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica. The photo below taken in 2013 by the The Bendigo Advertiser was when Fry was inducted into the Bendigo Sports Star Hall of fame. What a star !
03.01.2022 DCK Bendigo is a valued partner of the Bendigo Sports Star awards. In the 19/20 DCK sponsored April scholarship winner, Jayden Padgham (Athletics). DCK have been in our community over 100 years, and have always played an active role in supporting and improving the Bendigo community. Thanks to partners like DCK, the Sports Stars Awards will be back when sport is back!! For now, we will just look back on our history and feel proud.... The photo below is of some of the DCK team at the Sports Star Gala evening in Feb 2020.
03.01.2022 This bloke seems to know damn-near everything and everyone. He is a people magnet. this is how 1958 Brownlow Medallist Neil Roberts described Bendigo's John Forbes. The Magnet from Mitiamo, John Forbes OAM was joint recipient (along with Dr Wally McGregor) of the Faith Leech Achievement Award on Friday night at 2019 Peak Bendigo Sports Star of the Year awards. A man who has achieved so much in his lifetime, John, better known as Forbesy, has helped many achieve in their spo...rting pursuits. Born and raised in Mitiamo, Forbes moved to Bendigo in 1979 where he worked in radio and then in sports administration. It was through his role as national promotions manager for Puma that Forbes began to strike lasting friendships with so many famous sportspeople. It’s not just in sport that Forbes has had a profound influence. He was chairman of the Blue Ribbon Foundation when it formed in 1988 and spent 22 years in the role. John Forbes played a key role with the Bendigo Bank Loddon Valley Football Netball League for many years, and for his beloved Mitiamo Superoos. A huge influence on his career was running great Herb Elliott who opened the Rochester Sports Museum, which is packed with memorabilia that John Forbes had collected over the years, in late 2019. Forbsey has been a member of the Sports Star committee since November 2006, his enthusiasm for the awards, his wisdom and the significant role he plays is inspirational.
03.01.2022 The Gala evening has kicked off! Who will be crowed the 2019/20 Peak Bendigo Sports Star of the Year?
03.01.2022 THE healing hands and encouraging words of Dr Wally McGregor have helped hundreds of athletes from all sorts of sports across Central Victoria for more than 45 years. Dr McGregor’s skill in general practice, sports medicine, anaesthetics and more has earned recognition as a joint recipient of the Faith Leech Achievement award at the Peak Bendigo Sports Star of the Year awards gala evening on Friday. He could not be there for the awards presentation at the All Seasons Hotel... Bendigo but Dr McGregor’s sons Peter and Darren were. Dr McGregor was a pioneer in sports medicine as many treatment methods were later adopted by metropolitan health care services and sporting clubs. His service to sporting clubs and associations was on an honorary basis. As a member of the Bendigo Jockey Club for more than 45 years he forged many lifelong friendships with those involved at the BJC and the racing community. His generosity was shown when raceday payments made compulsory by the VRC were redirected to various charities. Football, athletics, cycling, cricket, boxing and martial arts were among the sports he was a keen supporter of. Among the highs of his honorary service were Northern United Football Club’s run of four consecutive senior premierships in the Bendigo Football League. A member of the Bendigo Sportsmen’s Association, Dr McGregor has provided sponsorship and trophies to many athletes. Among those to gain support were Paralympic cyclist Noel Sens who was at Friday night’s awards presentation. Dr McGregor was joint recipient of the Bendigo Community Citizen of the Year in 2007. Pictured below is Peter McGregor.
02.01.2022 A big thank you to our Major, Scholarship, Media and 500 Club Sponsors. Without your support, these awards would not be possible. Thanks for supporting an initiative that acknowledges and champions sporting achievements and identities in our community. Our 500 Club Sponsors are;... Griffin Family Geoff McLeod William Farmer Funeral Directors Bendigo Bearings Peter & Kate Hyett Bridge Hotel Bendigo Bells Transport Ashworth Demolitions Custom Coffees Dwyer Racing Paul Byrne & Dennis Barnett BRB Electrical Cartridge World Bendigo URMG Chris Greene CVGT Fire Alarm Essentials Pty Ltd Allan & Bev McCaig Johanson Insurance Brokers Trickey's Diesel Service Ashby Sails Pty Ltd Stephen & Meredith Carter Bart N Print Ruffell Jewellers Travelcentre Bendigo All Seasons Hotel Bendigo Bendigo Ice National Hotel Complex Bendigo WorkforceXS Bendigo DeAraugo & Lea Electrical Contractors Mingle Media
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