Cobar’s top sportsmen and women honoured
Wednesday January 27, 2010
Australia Day sports award winners Tilly Power and Wade Potter (front) pictured with ambassador Gary Dawson, Cobar tourism manager John Martin and deputy mayor Greg Martin.
A number of Cobar’s top sportsmen and women were honoured yesterday at the 2010 Australia Day awards.
Twelve year old St John’s School athlete Tilly Power, has represented her school in a number of sports at state, regional and diocesan levels.
She has excelled in a number of areas including cricket, swimming, cross country running and athletics.
Tilly was a member of the NSW Primary School Cricket team which won the National competition earlier this month in Toowoomba.
She claimed five wickets and two catches to help her NSW team to win the series over Queensland.
Tilly was also named the 2009 Wilcannia-Forbes Diocesan Athlete of The Year.
She is very modest about her achievements, always gives her best in whatever sport she plays and shows exemplary sportsmanship.
Sixteen year old Wade Potter collected
this year’s Sports Person Award for his outstanding achievements and contributions to senior, junior and representative cricket.
Wade has represented Cobar in the Macquarie Valley, Country Plate and Brewery Shield competitions.
Just 16, Wade acquitted himself well against more senior and experienced representative players taking a number of key wickets in vital games for the Cobar Cowboys senior representative team.
Well known local cricket umpire, Tony Moore, received the 2010 Australia Day Services to Sport Award.
He has been a driving force in local cricket for approximately 10 years and a player for 20 years before that.
Mr Moore has been the secretary/treasurer
of the senior cricket association for almost seven years, acts as team manager for the
representative side, writes up weekly
match reports for the newspapers and also
umpires senior, representative and junior games.
As the only cricket umpire in Cobar, Mr Moore regularly stands all day umpiring games at both ends (100 overs) in local cricket and in representative matches, often in very hot weather.
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