Award winners thanked by club

Cambridge FC have recognised the off-field contributions of some of their many volunteers at this year’s annual prizegiving event at the Cambridge Town Hall.

The Club Person of the Year, selected by the club’s committee, was awarded to stalwart Harry Bomans.

Still playing at the age of 61 (he won the D1 Player of the Year earlier in the evening), Bomans has been responsible for maintaining our grounds for many years and plays a key role on the club’s committee.

He coaches the D1 team, plays in the summer 5-a-side league and passionately supports all our club’s teams.

The Club Personality of the Year, selected by membership vote, went to men’s first team player Jason Szabo.

The award capped an outstanding year for the player who entered his fifth decade this year but played like a man half his age, winning his team’s Most Improved Player trophy this year.

Szabo’s goals played a big part in Cambridge winning the WaiBOP Premiership but player-coach Robbie Greenhalgh told guests at the prizewinning function that Szabo was a strong and positive influence on his team mates.

“He’s already talking about how he’s going to play next year,” Greenhalgh told the audience.

The Club Supporter of the Year, decided by the committee, was Geoff Wheeler.

Though he has contributed much as a member of the committee and as the project manager for the construction of the club’s new changing rooms, Wheeler deserved his award as much for his passionate backing of the club’s senior teams.

His company Jet Creative was the apparel sponsor for the club’s top performance teams and had also provided financial support to help pay for travel costs, including subsidising a team and supporters’ bus to Auckland for the recent Northern League play-off against Waitemata.

Club president Peter Martens also awarded engraved tankards, recognising the contributions of three other supporters who had been outstanding.

Steve Barrott had provided a huge amount of his labour as a plumber to help make the new changing rooms possible, spending days on the project while he installed showers, toilets and re-routed existing pipes.

Brett Halliday, with equipment from Cambridge Hire, had provided many hours of his labour, digging trenches and helping prepare the foundations for the new $200,000 changing room block.

Richard Crafts was recognised for his constant support at club events where he often provided sound systems, as well as his DJ skills, and provided mobile EFTPOS services at critical events such as last summer’s WaiBOP United games.

The engraved tankards are to be awarded to Supporters of the Year as a permanent reminder of the club’s gratitude and tankards were awarded retrospectively to past winners Russell Foster (2014) and Louis Roberts (2013).

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Date Added: Sunday, 18th October 2015
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