Trophy to goalie
For the first time, the Canterbury water polo “player of the year” is a woman, Gillian Smeith, the Beckenham and New Zealand goalie, who became the ninth recipient of the Southern Cross Trophy at a dinner at the Clarendon Hotel on Tuesday evening.
Smeith is the second goalie to receive the trophy. She succeeded the other, Murray Davie, who was for some seasons her coach as well.
The citation mentioned Smeith’s continued high standard of play, work as an ad-
ministrator — she serves both on the Canterbury board and the Canterbury amateur swimming centre — and as a B graded referee. Other players mentioned by the panel of Messrs Warwick Williamson, the senior coach, Jaap de Haan, the senior referee, and Ray Cairns, water polo reporter of “The Press,” were two prominent senior players, Dennis Reid and Russell McConnochie; and four members of the national under-19 team, John Davie, John Koens, Martin Forbes and Steven Wakefield.
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Press, 26 April 1979, Page 44
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158Trophy to goalie Press, 26 April 1979, Page 44
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