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HV to honour longstanding officials

Published Thu 05 Jun 2025

Hockey Victora (HV) are excited to share and announce that over the course of the back half of 2025, we will begin to recognise and award various appointed officials within the Community with a lapel pin for their longstanding service to Hockey in Victoria.

 

What started as an idea from HV’s Recognition and Awards Committee has flowered into an official lapel pin award that will celebrate and recognise officials who have regularly been appointed as an Umpire or Technical Officials for an extended period of time.

The idea led to an extensive list being created and history survey’s being shared with longstanding officials in late 2024. The aim of this survey was to determine the level of service across each respective appointed official’s career.

After significant assessment, an extensive list has been created to recognise Officials who have been consistently appointed to HV competitions, events, programs etc. over 10+ years, 15+ years and 20+ years. These officials are required to be appointed to various events, competitions and programs from the previous year to be recognised.

 

HV will look to recognise and award these Officials with a Lapel Pin and certificate across various competitions and events in 2025. We will look to share and capture content where possible to celebrate these longstanding appointed Officials within our Community.

 

As this is a new initiative, there will be some early gaps of Officials not listed. We hope by sharing this Lapel Pin award out further and embarking on this path, that any missed Officials can be recognised in the future.

 

Furthermore, given this will be an ongoing recognition award, we hope to inspire Officials to continue their service from 10+ and 15+ years of service to the highest level recognised at 20+ years.

 

We cannot wait to recognise and celebrate our longstanding appointed officials within the Community!


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