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2025 Trainers and Assessors Service Awards

2025 Trainers and Assessors Service Awards

Surf Life Saving SA would like to congratulate and thank the following trainers and assessors who received Service Awards at the 2025 Lifesaving and Education Conference.

Member education plays a critical role in the surf life saving movement, ensuring our surf life savers are qualified and supported throughout their development journey. Thanks to our trainers and assessors across the state, current club members can continue to upskill and gain new qualifications in a variety of lifesaving pathways, while also enabling new members to join the surf life saving ranks and increase our lifesaving capabilities.

TRAINERS SERVICE AWARDS

5 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Kirstin Tocker - Glenelg SLSC

  • Robert Warne - Glenelg SLSC

  • David Forrest - Grange SLSC

  • Samuel Ralph - Grange SLSC

  • Derek Bawden - Seacliff SLSC

  • Michael Jarvis - Semaphore SLSC

10 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Julie Moran - Beachport SLSC

  • Sarah Schenscher - Glenelg SLSC

  • Andrew Kelly - Henley SLSC

  • Tim Cavanagh - Henley SLSC

  • Verity Remilton - Port Elliot SLSC

  • Craig Van Tenac - Brighton SLSC

  • Caitlin Stone - Port Noarlunga SLSC

15 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Neil Wilson - Port Noarlunga SLSC

  • Anthony Francis - Moana SLSC

20 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Lyndon Mills - South Port SLSC

25 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Jeffery Collins - Port Elliot SLSC

35 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Andrew Bedford - Aldinga Bay SLSC

  • Sven Molenaar - Aldinga Bay SLSC

  • Christine Michelmore - Port Elliot SLSC

ASSESSORS SERVICE AWARDS

10 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Graeme Cunningham - West Beach SLSC

  • Shayan Gunawardena - West Beach SLSC

15 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Suzanne Macauley - Glenelg SLSC

  • Angela Farrier - Moana SLSC

  • Kate Perry - Port Noarlunga SLSC

20 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • David Lucas - Brighton SLSC

  • Andrew Henry - Henley SLSC

  • Jeffery Collins - Port Elliot SLSC

  • Lyndon Mills - South Port SLSC

25 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Raymond Nussio - Somerton SLSC

30 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • David Candy - Chiton Rocks SLSC

Ingrid Cobiac re-appointed as SLSA National Deputy Chair of Education

Surf Life Saving SA would like to congratulate Ingrid Cobiac (Brighton SLSC) for her re-appointment as the SLSA National Deputy Chair of Education for a two-year term.

This important role provides support to the Chair of Education, Tracey Hare-Boyd - SLSNSW, in the leadership of the national education committee to promote effective decision making. The Deputy Chair will take responsibility for projects which assist and inform the overall strategic development and growth of the SLSA education area to meet SLSA strategic priorities.

This appointment is a credit to Ingrid’s commitment and broad understanding of member education in South Australia, and her dedication to quality and improvement across education and surf life saving at a national level.

In addition to this position, Ingrid is also a Chief Instructor, and Club and State Trainer and Assessor.

 

2024 Trainers and Assessors Service Awards

2024 Trainers and Assessors Service Awards

Surf Life Saving SA would like to congratulate and thank the following trainers and assessors who received Service Awards at the 2024 Trainers and Assessors Professional Development event.

Member education plays a critical role in the surf life saving movement, ensuring our surf life savers are qualified and supported throughout their development journey. Thanks to our trainers and assessors across the state, current club members can continue to upskill and gain new qualifications in a variety of lifesaving pathways, while also enabling new members to join the surf life saving ranks and increase our lifesaving capabilities.

TRAINERS SERVICE AWARDS

5 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Robert ‘Bobby’ Tanner - Brighton SLSC

15 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Reagan Moon - Port Elliot SLSC

  • Angela Farrier - Moana SLSC

20 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Leo O’Callaghan - Chiton Rocks SLSC

  • Kirk Dixon - Port Elliot SLSC

  • Christine Michelmore - Port Elliot SLSC

  • Andrew Henry - Henley SLSC

35 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Matt Burrage - Goolwa SLSC

  • Graeme Cunningham - West Beach SLSC

40 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Ralph Bock - Grange SLSC

ASSESSORS SERVICE AWARDS

5 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Amanda De Ieso - Glenelg SLSC

  • Iain Mitchell - Glenelg SLSC

10 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Michael Grant - Port Elliot SLSC

  • Karen Wilmot - Goolwa SLSC

15 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Andrew Henry - Henley SLSC

25 YEAR SERVICE AWARD

  • Mandi Bedford - Aldinga Bay SLSC

Andrew Henry, Karen Wilmot, Amanda De Ieso, Mandi Bedford, Graeme Cunningham, Bobby Tanner