Special guest of the club, Bunny Abbot, again was called upon to announce the clubs top award, the Junior Club Player, with this year’s winner being Josh Howarth who was selected from a very strong pool of contenders.

Howarth had a huge year and to take out the top award over an army of talented young rugby league players is indeed an honour.

The presentation saw a number of significant service awards, with the first of these being the presentation of Life Membership to Chris Murdoch a founding committee member of the Storm club for recognition of his dedication and long involvement in local junior game and in particular as part of the Storm club.

Josh Hanrahan from the under 16s received an award from the club recognising his 10 seasons with the Storm as the first player to have played from under 7s to 16s.

All clubs are reliant on the hard work of their volunteers and the club extends it thanks to coaches, managers, trainers, referees and linesmen, volunteers who set up and manage the fields and running the canteen.

This year in recognition of the great work in supporting a number of functions of the club, Kim Swift was presented an award for Volunteer of the Year.

Other awards were:

Coach of the year Award: Joint winners, Shannon Howell and Shane Densely (under 11s Thunder, Group 10 premiers).

Senior pointscore: Corey Oldfield.

Junior pointscore: Wade Gean.

Top tackler: Tait Bresac.

Junior representative Players Group 10 were Wade Gean, Mitchell Case (under 12s); Nick Kenniff, Matt Swift, Liam Wilson (under 13s), Luke Morris, Jaid Godden, Sam Mostyn (under 14s); Western Division Luke Morris (under 14s)

As part of the club’s player development program in recognition of their efforts this season, the following boys will be attending the NSWRL Academy Player Development Camp during the Easter break next year where they will be exposed to high level coaching from Academy and NRL staff: Grant Rhodes, Ben Glasson, Hayden Crowder, Daniel Rodgers, Joel Cama and Jack Smith.

Congratulations also go to Storm players Brad Morris and Tait Bresac who were invited to join the Western Rugby League Academy.

The club also thanks all the local businesses who have provided support and sponsorship during the 2009 season.