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Novelty Awards

UTS Hockey Club 2002
Novelty Awards

First Aid Award - for the best or most numerous injuries during the season (hotly contested this year!)
- Shelley Andrews - hurt and locked her shoulder/neck while drying her hair, missing game
- Barry Telfer, broken thumb at training (thanks Scotty)
- Wingnut - smashed collarbone vs Glebe (thanks Ken Wark)
- Matt Carson, split head and 6 stitches at training (thanks Hugh)
- Greg Doolan - broken teeth filling-in for final 5 mins in 3rd grade
- Cath Hamilton - total ankle reconstruction
- Milo - broken knee cap
- Zorba - snapped fibula whilst at home with Chicken Pox
- Dan Jarosch - broke wrist in final pre-season game, but still managed to score a Tomahawk goal with what turned being his last hit of the season.
- Lisa McGrath -ankle
- Toonie - broken collarbone playing silly-buggers at Aus-East Games.
- Rachael Cox - Ankle
- Mike Heppel broken Knee cap,after returning from 6 weeks out injured
- Em Phippard - broken thumb
- Nick Greenhalgh - back muscles, out for season
- Dave Rowe - knee reconstruction, out for season
- Badger - obvious mental illness - moved to Victoria
- DC - leg at Aus-East Games
- Abbey Burgess - torn ankle ligaments, but still played Grand Final
- Matt Needham - broken ankle
- Sam Marshall - shin splints in pre-season, didn't play a game
- Brett Fletcher - broken bone in foot
- Flapper - ankle ligaments
- Dave Gilbert - 1st grade fullback, torn hammy, his team conceded about 67 goals whilst he was out injured (so he claims)
- Karina Mason - spectacular tumble on the Kuring-gai Death Trap.

Winner: Shelley Andrews

Woosy Milk Skull Award - for lamest performance or worst excuses during the season
- 1st grade women's umpires for sending off Shelley for offering constructive advice
- Raz for his backstick shot at goal (he will suffer the rest of his life for this)
- Ollie - the boys had to wait for him at the Gong whilst he got his manicure.
- Sarah Archbold - letting an ear infection get in the way of a Grand Final.
- Joe Serrao- coaching 5th grade all year and then flying overseas the day before the Grand Final.
- The small girls - for letting the banner get stolen at Aus-East Games
- Cath Hamilton and Turtle - AUGs - forgot to bring the balls
- Jose Cofre - Missing 2 days of Aus-East Games and a competition round, after writing himself off on the first night
- Garbe - for not fronting to a 3rd grade game, missing most of the AUGs by arriving late.
- Matt Micallef - Red Card incident - "I wasn't choking him I was just holding him down!" (by the throat)

Winner: Oliver Bongardt

Dummy Spit Award - for the best or most numerous dummy spits during the season
- Merrilee Sandeman - complaining whenever Pissy was benched during 2nd grade games.
- Maggsy - when his goalie gear was left out in the rain
- Maggsy - after Wingnut's injury
- Maggsy - Yellow card for laughing at the umpire
- Maggsy - made the captain of Mackellar womens team cry, by questioning eligibility of her players.
- Matt "The Mouth " Micallef for actively abusing a team mate for his complete lack of commitment. It was so intense that Badger told him off at half time. The victim was so scared of Matt he didn't play for 2 weeks. Matt put it down to character development.
- Sonny Chadha - claimed he was being victimised when not selected in 2nd grade - he went on to play in the 5th grade Grand Final.

Winner: Maggsy

Golden Spade Award - for consistency and hard work in attempted sleazing during the year
- Cato (consistent effort all year)
- Tish (small person challenge at Aus-East Games) - confusion of instruction to get details written on a coaster, actually got details written on breast
- Garbe - naked barrel dancing in AUGs
- Turtle - seems determined to win this award at least once

Winner: Turtle

Bush Pig Award - for consistency and hard work in sleazing during the year
- Nathan $2 Gilbert
- Tory Delaney- Aus-East Games - a good Aussie kid, enjoys her Milo.
- Turtle - or so he wants us to think
- The Goat - found his very own "Nanny Goat" in Adelaide
- Garbe - caused him to miss a game of hockey for the first time in his life - hope she was worth the forfeit she cost us.

Winner: Nathan $2 Gilbert

Beer Fish Award - for the consistent and/or excessive consumption of alcohol during the year.
- Mens AUG team - out of the 10 people in the team in Adelaide, 11 people threw up during tribunal. The Goat still hasn't learnt about Toony mixes!
- Raz - 1st grade men's night out, and the long, drive (almost made it!) home.
- Matt Pine - Aus-East Games
- Jose Cofre- Aus-East Games - was bedridden after Wednesday morning and so badly affected that he had to miss the following round game
- Jacki Stitt - Aus-East Games
- Maggsy and Karen - "10 shots on the bar". How have they not lost that camera yet?
- Tish (Camp Huggies)
- Bruiser (Camp Huggies)

Winner: Stuart Carruthers

 

 
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