Michael Skinner

Garry Walker

Ralph Shaw

Brett Hutton

Gary Logan

March 1993

Peter was one of our first selectors at Zone level and for 3-4 years helped in the selection and development of Under 12 players trailing for the Zone 6 Teams. Zone 6 (Sandgate/Redcliffe), Zone 1 (Toombul) and Zone 2 (Valley) combine to select the Brisbane North Junior Championship and Development Teams for Junior players aged under 12 to under 16.

Peter was Secretary of the Albany Creek Junior Cricket Club  from 1988 to 1992 and from 1995 to 1996 he was Club Statistician.

April 2000

Taking over as Statistician and Registrar in 1997, Lorix computerised both positions. Over the next 3 years he researched the history of the club and produced the booklet "Albany Creek Cricket Club - 10th Anniversary". This document includes a variety of Batting and Bowling statistics from 1990 to 2000 plus interviews with past members. Also included is a précis of the Annual General reports and each year's highlights.

Lorix is now Statistician for the Warehouse teams and enjoys playing Winter Warehouse Cricket at Albany Creek.

March 2001

Early in the 1990’s, Hugh thought it was unfair that Albany Creek had so many boys aged 7 or 8 playing in Under 10 teams. Almost single-handed, but through the Brisbane North delegates he pressured for an Under 9 division. In the cricket year of 1993/1994 Albany Creek entered their first Under 9 team. The competition has now been extended to include an Under 8 division.

When Hugh first started taking his boys to cricket, Saturday mornings could start as at 6.00AM as games could be played as far as Wamuran, Kilcoy or Bribie Island. As President of the club for the last 2 years, he met with Valleys District Cricket Club (Zone 2) and after a unanimous vote by the parents, was successful in gaining acceptance of the Albany Creek Junior Cricket Club into the 1995/96 Valleys/Norths competition.

March 2002

Graeme has been involved with Albany Creek for over 10 years. During that time he has been a team coach, Director of Coaching (Level 1 Coach), Vice President, Delegate to Brisbane North, Brisbane North Championship Coach (12,13,&14's), instigator of the Albany Creek Warehouse teams, Warehouse player, and organiser of the Under 16 Tour to England scheduled for July 2002.

It is his tireless dedication to cricket and his willingness to give a hand that makes Graeme the 4th Life Member of Albany Creek Cricket Club.

April 2003

Bruce has been involved in the club since 1995. The club was in its infancy and was beginning to struggle in 1998 when Bruce stepped in and became Secretary in 1998/99. He was also coach for his son Ben's team. The club was just about to move to Brendale ovals and he put in some strong administrative guidelines for the club to follow.

Bruce joined the executive committee with enthusiasm taking on Secretary,SPSA Delegate, Newsletter editor, Webmaster and anything else that needed to be done. As the club grew most people realised that his capacity for work was enormous. Bruce's management skills were exceptional and the club ran smoothly during his four years as Secretary. He and his family produced a quality, fortnightly newsletter packed with club information, tips, results and anything the members wanted. Bruce has spent hundreds of hours building one of the first Club web sites in Australia and also assisted Brisbane North Cricket Association to install a web site and have all junior clubs on email. An avid collector of cricket memorabilia, Bruce has provided the club with an endless supply of quaint and interesting articles about cricket. How many know or have seen his cricket tie collection?

He obtained a number of grants which enabled the club to set itself up as a strong club for the future. He remained 4 years as Secretary up until 2001/2002 when he became Vice President in 2002/2003. The club grew from 11 teams to 24 teams over this time. He was the manager of the first ACCC U16 team to tour England in 2002.

Bruce represented the Club at Warehouse Cricket (once) but his Life Membership story is a far superior effort as the innings just keeps going on and on and on...

April 2003

Life membership was awarded for his efforts over and beyond the call of duty

April 2005

John was always there to assist and volunteered for anything to assist the club to benefit it and its members.

April 2005

The Grummitt family was responsible for naming the Albany Creek Cricket Club "Hawk Talk" newsletter.
 

April 2006

He assisted in the construction of both sets of nets on the ovals, lending his concreting ability to ensure the final product was a first rate asset.

This award was awarded posthumously and accepted by his wife Janelle at the Annual Trophy Day.

June 06

Steve was presented his life membership at the AGM in June 2006.

Steve has been coaching at our club since 1999 when his oldest son, Scott started playing cricket in the U9 Black Hawks. Scott will be in the U16 Eagle Hawks in the upcoming season and Steve will still be at the helm, coaching many of the same boys now since they were 8 or 9. The last two 'off' seasons, Steve has been coaching the U16 Winter Warehouse side. Many strong bonds have been formed with players and family over the years and the back-bone of the winter side is made up of players from the normal club side as well as sprinkling of players who got to know the boys and Steve through Brisbane North representative sides.

In 2002/2003, Steve took on the Property Officer's position and also volunteered as one of the club's Brisbane North Delegates. In 2004/2005, Steve added the Vice-President's hat to his many roles and in 2005/2006 that hat changed to President. Steve has also been the Manager of the Brisbane North Development teams from 2002/2003 through to 2005/2006.

With the support of a fine committee, Steve has always taken the attitude of 'If it's needs doing, just get in and do it!'.

June 06

In 2001/2002, Kathy volunteered to look after the Junior statistics for the club and was asked would she mind taking on the Registrars job as well. She's still holding both of these positions today and in 2002/2003 took on the Senior statistics as well. For several seasons, Kathy has also been the editor of the famous Hawk Talk (one of the wonderful legacies from the Boland era!)

She scores every week for her youngest son, Ben's team and loves maintaining the club's Honour Board (a living history of our club and players' achievements that was created by Lorix Bertling).

Kathy was presented with the Clubman Award in 2003/2004 for her willingness to roll up her sleeves and get things done.

June 08

Michael first became involved in the club in 1998 and began coaching 2000.  He was an active member of our committee from 2003 to 2007 performing a number of roles including Vice President, President and Secretary.

For the last few years, Michael has been the convenor of the U16 Championship carnival at the Brisbane Grammar School grounds. He was also instrumental in organising and managing the team that toured England in the winter of 2007.  Michael's son is now past the junior grades but Michael is still involved in cricket.  He is currently treasurer for Brisbane North but still takes a keen interest in the comings and goings at the Albany Creek Cricket Club. 

In 2005/2006, we awarded Michael the treasured Clubman Award for his tireless activities involving not only our club but the Brisbane North district.  

June 08

Garry has supported his son all the way through junior grades here at Albany Creek and continued up into the warehouse competition.  He has been involved in the Warehouse side of club since its inception back in 1999 and he has single handedly organised that side of our club for the last 8 years.  He looks after their club statistics, their trophies and generally makes sure they're all prepared for the weekend ahead. 

Under his stewardship, we have seen the number of teams representing Albany Creek increase at an enormous rate.  We have gone from 1 summer and 1 or 2 winter teams, to this season where we have 3 summer teams and 8 winter teams (6 senior and 2 junior).  We have no doubt the increased enthusiasm for warehouse cricket has been sparked by Garry.

While he works tirelessly for the warehouse 'boys', he still finds time to look in and help out at any of our junior cricket events such as sign on, Cap Day and Trophy Day.

Garry was awarded the coveted Clubman Award in 2004/2005 for his tireless activities involving the Albany Creek warehouse teams.

Ralph Shaw

 June 09

Ralph has been a strong committee man for the club, having been Secretary for 3 years and Treasurer for 3 years. He continues to attend the monthly meetings to have an input into the running of the club even though he has passed the baton on to new committee members.

At all of our big team days (Cap Day and Trophy Presentation), you could always find Ralph not too far away from the Barbeque. For the past year or so, he has begun tutoring the committee new-comers in the fine art of barbequing for a crowd.

Ralph has 3 boys who have all played with Albany Creek sides over the last 10 years and his youngest son still has a couple of years remaining.

June 11

He has been our President's right-hand man for 6 years and is most likely going to be Vice-President again for the 2011/12 season. He was instrumental in implementing our first year of in2Cricket which was run on a Friday evening towards the end of last year. This is a program offered to children aged 5 to 10 and gives them the opportunity to learn lots of new cricket skills as well as making friends and having fund.

Brett has coached his son Sean's team for 8 years and also makes sure that the 'little pitches' on the AFL grounds

Last year, Brett successfully completed his Level 2 Coaching certificate and we as a club can only benefit from his future input into our coaching program.

June 12

During that time, he has coached one or both of his sons, Nathan and Brendan. Even coaching a side when neither or his boys were actually playing in the team. And for the last 5 years, Gary has been registrar and doing a great job dealing with the many complex issues involved with trying to place so many players, keeping in mind their special requests and requirements. It has been a challenge but Gary has excelled at the role.

Gary was also the driving force behind the club's successful grant application that has seen the lights over the far nets totally refurbished. He has worked tirelessly for the club and 'will hopefully still be involved if his youngest son takes to the paddock in the near future.

Introducing the 'Big Bird'

This wonderful trophy was donated by Bruce Boland.  It contains the names of all the life members of our club. Every time a new life member is awarded, the highly coveted 'Big Bird' takes up residence at the recipient's home until it needs to be passed on to the next worthy winner. 

Thanks Bruce!