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Sue Lane |
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Steve Napier |
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| Ken_Williamson |
Gavin Cooper |
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John Palmer |
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 Mike Erceg
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- Currently a Secondary School Teacher at Hamilton Boys High School. Sports Involvement: Master of Tennis and Coaching Senior Boys Football.
- Te Aroha Tennis Club President (2000-2010). Committee member (1992-2010)
- Clevedon Tennis Club President (1985-1988). Committee member (1982-90)
- Principal-Taupiri School (2000-09)
- Principal-Te Aroha West School (1991-99)
- Chairperson Waikato Rural Principals association (2002-08)
- Help establish DESA(Diabetes and Exercise Association of New Zealand) in 2005 and currently still a committee member.
I am still actively playing tennis both in a social and competitive capacity. Also currently a member of the Thames Valley Seniors.
Mobile: 027 733 3988
Email: mikeerceg@yahoo.com
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 Mike McCleery |
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Mike’s work experience has been in Civil Engineering, Sales and Marketing, General and Project Management. More recently a Business Development and Project Management role with Arrow International saw Mike step up to the challenge of developing a world class natural turf under a permanently covered roof at Otago’s Forsyth Barr Stadium, something that is a world first.
A keen sports enthusiast Mike actively participates in Squash, Soccer, Hockey and Touch Rugby. Although tennis is limited to the odd social game Mike believes having no current affiliations within the tennis community allows him to act from an independent governance perspective. This ensures the best interests of all tennis stakeholders are taken into account.
Into his third year on the Board Mike believes that maintaining strong partnerships within the wider community will ensure that Tennis Waikato-Bays Region is positively promoted and developed into the future.
On a personal level, Mike has recently completed a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) at Waikato University. He is married to Cherie and has two children Ellie 17 and Keenan 15.
Mobile: 021 945 168
Email: mike.mccleery@arrowinternational.co.nz
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 Ken Williamson |
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Ken started playing tennis at age eight following encouragement to do so by his parents. He played competitive tennis for his Secondary School and then after leaving school for the Mt Albert Tennis Lawn Tennis Club until moving to Hamilton in 1976 at age 24 after he and Julie married. After a few years of not playing tennis he joined St Peters Tennis Club. “From the first time I went to St Peters I was amazed at how welcoming and friendly it was. The then President Dudley Ayo, Club Captain Keith McFarlane and Club Manager Russell Blewden were all fantastic guys”.
After a few years at St Peters he joined the Club Committee and served as one of the Vice presidents to his dear friend and President Kevin Hurley. It was an exciting time in the Club’s history following their brave decision to take the massive financial risk of laying synthetic grass on all their courts.; the first club in the Waikato to do so and indeed one of the first in New Zealand. The growth in membership was spectacular with rapid growth to over 600 adult members. Junior Tennis was introduced, despite many of the senior players feeling this was an intrusion into their playing times. “I believe it is critical for the wellbeing and survival of all clubs to have a strong junior foundation and coaching program. I see it as a responsibility to the game to encourage the love of tennis amongst young people”.
Ken became Club President at the time the Club underwent a massive re-development including six new courts and state of the art lighting. Effectively, the Club was re-built at the cost of $1.4m. Governor General Dame Catherine Tizard officially re-opened the Club in 1994. “It was a challenging time involving an enormous amount of work and I’m proud that the project was completed on time and without debt”. Ken ‘retired’ as President in 1995 following the birth of their daughter Kate. He was made a ‘Life Member’ in 1997 and continued to play social interclub tennis for St Peters until around 2000. Kate joined St Peters at age 6 and remains a Club member to this day.
Ken joined the board of Waikato-Bays Tennis in 2008 following an invitation from the Association’s then President Paul Honiss. “Tennis, like many other sports, is facing massive financial and membership pressures. I wanted to help a sport that has been so fantastic to me”.
Ken now works for insurance brokers Crombie Lockwood after he and his partners sold their Hamilton based nationally recognised commercial insurance brokerage Law Mooney Williamson four years ago.
Ken believes in Churchill’s statement: “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give”. He says: “My life has been incredibly enriched by the friendships I have made in tennis and the organisations I have been involved in”.
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| Email: ken.williamson@combielockwood.co.nz |
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 Delwyn Guilford |
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Delwyn started playing tennis when her mother was secretary for Waikato Tennis Association and she use to take her to meetings which were held at a house with a tennis court. While the meetings were on she used to hit against an old wooden volley board. After each meeting the owner came out and gave her some coaching. His name was Don Bruce and his Trust continues to support Junior Tennis in the Waikato today.
Delwyn plays for the St Peter’s Tennis Club, Hamilton where she plays interclub Midweek and the Over 35 Elite team. She also plays Ferrier Cup in Auckland for the Karaka Tennis Club. As her son plays interclub, tournaments and trains with the NZTA coaches in the Waikato squads, Delwyn likes to think she has a good understanding of what is happening in all the different levels of tennis which assists her as a Board Member.
Delwyn is married to Len with children Victoria, Jack and Charlotte. They all play tennis at various levels. Delwyn and her husband own an Engineering business which along with her part time job allows her to have an understanding of the current business environment.
At a professional level, Delwyn is an Accountant who has worked for KPMG in Hamilton, Christchurch and England as well as several industries as a Management and a Financial Accountant. She currently prepares the Financial Reports for the Board. She completed a year- long Governance course with the Institute of Directors which has direct relevance to what the Board is currently working on for Tennis Waikato- Bays.
Tennis as a sport has been great to Delwyn. She has had some great games and some fantastic tennis trips. Delwyn loves watching tennis at all different levels. She recently watched the 14s Nationals which her son was playing in and the standard of tennis at this age is incredibly high. Her hope is that all these players are still playing in their 30s/ 40s and older and enjoying it.
But more importantly to Delwyn, she has some great friendships from tennis. She has had plenty of laughs, a few wines after matches and lots of fun mixed in with plenty of hard fought competition. Delwyn and her doubles partner have played doubles together for more than twenty years, that doesn’t mean they are old, they just started playing together when they were young!
Delwyn likes to think that she is putting back using her professional experience to a sport that has given her so much by being a Board member.
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Mobile: 027 554 8554
Email: lendel@xtra.co.nz |
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 Sue Lane |
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Sue describes herself as an average but enthusiastic player of tennis, playing 3 or 4 times a week, and interclub when pressured. She has been a member of St Peters tennis club for 15 years and President for the past 2 years.
In previous lives Sue worked in a wide variety of roles and settings, from industrial chemist through computer programming and analysis to senior management in the dairy industry. Voluntary (=unpaid!) roles include relationship counselling, currently chairperson of the Trust Board for the Hamilton District Community Law Centre, and for 20 years a dairy farmer’s wife; calf feeder extraordinaire, relief milker and full-time spare part.
Now a widow, Sue has reinvented herself as a townie and lives in Hamilton with two extraordinary dogs. Those of you who attended various meetings over the past couple of years will know that she is committed to honesty and fairness. Sue is concerned that the relationships (both ways) between the regional organisation and clubs seem to be less than trusting, and wants to put her energy into achieving a much greater level of equity and open, useful communication. Sue was surprised to be asked to have her name go forward as an appointed member of the TWB Board, but she looks forward to this as an opportunity to gain much greater understanding of how things work at regional level. Sue’s ideal would be to find a way of making the efforts of clubs and the region become far more complementary than they have been in the past, and for each level to be truly supportive of the other.
Sue will be happy to listen to the concerns of clubs at any time, and to report on progress whenever asked.
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| Email: suelane@xtra.co.nz |
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 Steve Napier |
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Steve is a member of the Whakatane Tennis Club and is currently the junior co-coordinator.
Before the merger with TWB he was President of the Bay of Plenty Tennis Association. The Whakatane Tennis Club has ten astrograss courts and for the first time, a coach (Mark Ratana) who is year round at the club, full time. Having a full time coach has made a significant difference to the playing ability of their club members and membership has also risen.
Steve loves this sport as it provides a great combination of technique, fitness and cunning. ‘I’d rate myself better than average on the cunning part, but even still it doesn’t make up for the other two attributes’.
Until recently Steve was a share broker and before that a fund manager in Wellington. He is on the Government Superannuation Fund Authority board in Wellington.
Steve is in his first year as a board member of TWB and is on the Clubs subcommittee. “I think the biggest challenge for the area is for TWB to provide quality services to the tennis community within the financial resources available. Money is tight and we have to be careful custodians of our resources. Grant money is harder to come by at present, so we need to be prudent. Having supportive sponsors like the Perry Group is a real bonus for the region.”
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Mobile: 021 265 4093
Email: steve@bopcharebrokers.co.nz |
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 Gavin Cooper |
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I am a self employed architect, with two boys; Reuben and Jasper and am married to Jane.
I started playing tennis when my son Reuben and I joined the Nelson Park Tennis Club about six years ago. While I have improved marginally over that time, Reuben has become a top junior player in Hawke’s Bay.
Reuben has since become a member of the Hawke’s Bay Lawn Tennis Club, playing for their Premier Interclub team as well as helping out with Simon Winter as an Assistant Junior Coach.
My interest in tennis includes helping Nelson Park develop as a small family orientated club as well as the development of promising junior players in the region. The recent implementation of the Regional Junior Development Programme in Hawke’s Bay by Simon Winter, Trevor Hinton and Tennis Waikato Bays is great.
As wells as these interests, my role on the Tennis Waikato Bays board will be to provide a conduit between the local Hawke’s Bay clubs and the board.
Mobile: 027 656 5330
Email: arch@gavincooper.co.nz |
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 John Palmer |
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Early years were spent on my parents dairy farm about 7K from Kati Kati where I attended school and played my early tennis at Homewood club. In 58/59 while attending Tauranga Boys School I played a number of sports including tennis and joined Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club.
Canterbury University and a civil engineering degree followed with my working career beginning with the Ministry of Works in Paeroa in 1964 and moving to Wellington in 1966.
While at university, working in Paeroa and then Wellington my involvement with competitive tennis interclub etc continued with the Wellington wind a memorable ‘experience’.
I joined the staff of the Port of Tauranga in 1968 becoming Chief Engineer in 1977 and Engineering Manager a few years later when the Harbour Board was restructured as a Company. For the period 1977 to 1996 I was a part of the senior management team at Port of Tauranga.
During this time my tennis was at Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club where particularly in the early days I took an active part in interclub competitions as well as club Championships and was a committee member.
With four children, over the years family life became more important and involvement followed in various school committees, College Board of Governors, Rotary clubs, Secretary and President at various times.
In 1996 I left Port of Tauranga setting up my own practice before moving to Whangarei until 2002. Early during that period an injury forced me out of tennis for about 12 months and my wife and I took up other recreational activities, mainly fishing and ensuring we saw virtually all of Northland.
Returning to Tauranga in 2002 semi retired but still consulting I eventually resumed playing tennis in 2007, becoming involved on the TLTC committee in 2008 and am now in my second year as President.
Email: john.palmer@paradise.net.nz |
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