Club Girl recipient 1997

Runner up Fairest and Best for KNA B grade 1999

Fairest and Best for DNC Team Gold, 1999 (joint with Melissa McDougall)

Club Girl recipient along with the whole club 2000

Umpiring award 2007 for DNC

Runner up Fairest and Best for team 1, DNC 2008

Umpiring award for KNA 2009

Dare has held numerous positions within the Dumbleyung Netball Club.

As well as coaching she has held the position of reporter in 1997, president in 1998, 1999, and 2001, and vice president in 2000 and 2002.

She has also put in a lot of time and effort into netball at association level.

In fact she is the only Dumbleyung Netball Club member to have held an executive position at the Katanning Netball Association, taking on the position of media in 2003 and secretary in 2004.

As KNA secretary in 2004 she approached the position in her usual fully committed way and overhauled the association’s methods of record keeping and single handedly incorporated the association.

Not long after joining the club, Dare suggested formalising the club’s trophy presentations and the introduction of the perpetual Fairest and Best trophy shields and she also introduced the most prestigious award the club presents each year being the Club Girl Award.

Dare had the vision and passion to find a home for the Dumbleyung Netball Club at Stubbs Park.

Prior to 2001 the netball club borrowed the court at the Primary School (which is now a carpark). It was full of pot holes, and the team never had a permanent home or netty shed.

The equipment bag lived in the boot of the coach’s or captain’s car.

Then Dare proposed the netball club have its own court and home at Stubbs Park.

This was a mammoth task, involving hundreds of hours of research, planning, grant applications, presentations, marketing, fundraising, working bees, time and effort.

Dare was helped in achieving this goal by a fantastic effort by the whole club and the executive in particular at the time (namely Melissa Joy and Julie Ramm), however no-one can be in doubt that she was the driving force behind this.

In September 2001 in honour of all that she had contributed towards the project Dare officially opened the new court.

The DNC will always be grateful for her contribution to the club in this matter.

A club’s success depends not only on its sporting efforts and achievements but probably more so on the atmosphere and social vibe.

Dare is a champion in the social development and health of the club. She has a passion and exuberance that is infectious - as well as highly developed powers of persuasion and perseverance.

She has convinced many women to have a go at netball over the years, and has convinced many more to enjoy the more social aspects after training and games.

Dare has also nobly loaned the Dumbleyung Netball Club the tune to the Richmond Football Club’s theme song and tailored it with lyrics to make the club’s theme song.

Dare has also proved to be invaluable as the team’s first aider.

She is a fully trained St John’s ambulance officer, and prior to that had completed first aid and basic sport’s training courses.

She is even recognised by the other teams in the association for her skills in this area and has been asked many times to attend to an injury or incident.

Dare has in recent years taken on a role in umpiring netball - and taken it on with a vengeance. This is ironic as in earlier years she refused point blank to umpire.

She devised ways and means where club members funded an umpiring levy to pay people to umpire, or she babysat other people’s children while they umpired, ensuring she didn’t have to take a turn.

However a few years ago, she had a change of heart, and decided she would take up the umpiring challenge.

In typical fashion, it wasn’t good enough simply to sit an umpiring written test and umpire the odd game or two; she has been on the KNA Umpiring Panel for the past three years, receiving an umpiring award from the DNC in 2007.

This year she has been travelling all over the countryside, training and successfully achieving her National C Level Umpiring Badge and at the awards night, Dare received the KNA umpiring award as well as her life membership.