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Hibiscus Hockey Trust (HHT) Trustees recently awarded its first Community Award.
HHT chair Merv Huxford says the Trust decided to present an award, whenever it is warranted, to someone who makes a valuable voluntary contribution to the Millwater hockey facilities purpose – youth sport in general and hockey in particular. The inaugural plaque was presented to Ian and Michelle Greenwood of Ōrewa recently.
An engineer by profession, Ian has been instrumental in overseeing the installation of some of the final stages of the hockey’s Millwater facility development, such as the electronic security cameras and swipe cards – he’s also been doing irrigation ‘troubleshooting’.
Meanwhile, Michelle been voluntarily administering the booking and use of HHT facilities since 2018, and the family, including son Ethan, have also been involved in the voluntary construction of dugouts and sheds at the site, as well as irrigation and lighting maintenance.
Ethan is at Ōrewa College and, for the past five years, Ian and Michelle have been managers for the college’s First XI boys hockey team. This season when one of the North Harbour Representative U18 sides was suddenly without a manager at a tournament due to Covid-19, Ian and Michelle promptly answered the call.
Earlier in the year, Ian was appointed a Trustee of Harbour Hockey Trust by the North Harbour Hockey Association (NHHA) and Michelle was a finalist in this year’s NHHA Administrator of the Year Award.
