Senior Men's & Women's Football and Netball, Junior Boys & Girls Football, Auskick and over 35's Veterans and Masters Football. Affiliated with EFNL. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the land in Boronia.
Harvey Chinn from Boronia Hawks has recently been selected for Port Melbourne Football Club’s VFL List for the 2019 season. This is a great reward for Harvey as it recognises the amount of hard work and dedication that he has put in to his football over the past seven years since he joined Boronia as a junior player. It also demonstrates the ability of Boronia Hawks to nurture and develop young talent in a high performance environment with a great club culture.
Harvey was identified early in his career as a standout player and the Hawks worked with Harvey, and father Stu, to fast track his growth as a footballer through the under age ranks.
Harvey moved up to the Club’s Hawk Squad Development Program in 2016, under the guidance of leading youth coach Craig McKenzie. Harvey played Under 19’s as a 16 year old that year, and quickly showed his talent, strength and maturity. Selection in the Hawk’s senior side soon followed in 2017 although he spent most of 2017 and 2018 with Eastern Ranges in the TAC Cup.
Together with current Eastern Ranges Best and Fairest winner, Mitch Mellis, Harvey is a great example of how Boronia can develop young talent and give them a great opportunity to go through to elite football. Our outstanding coaching panel and fantastic facilities at Tormore Reserve, will bring out the best in young footballers.
Read Toby Prime’s article about Harvey, featuring interviews with Matt Clark and Gary Ayres, by following this link to Leader Local Footy.
All enquiries from players interested in joining our football program are very welcome.
Senior Coach: Matt Clark 0402 147 518?
Football Manager: Ash Johnston 0433 365 286?
Hawk Squad Coach for Under 17’s & Under 19’s: Craig McKenzie 0413 329 790
Firstly, I’d like to officially welcome Wayne Preston onto the Senior Committee of the Club. Wayne has supported the club over a number of years and has a wealth of experience, being involved in community based organisations such as athletics, tennis and netball clubs. Wayne will assist in a number of areas but developing relationships and managing our ever expanding sponsorship portfolio will be the area in which he will be prominently involved.
Wayne Preston
Secondly, I am also very pleased to welcome Kathleen McMahon who has joined us as Senior Secretary. Kathleen was previously a member of our gun Premier Division netball team, winning the premiership in 2017. Now she is turning her mind to our successful Women’s football team and we look forward to Kath combining with sister Bec in 2019.
Kathleen McMahon
Local football / netball clubs survive due to the dedication of our volunteers. Our Club is most fortunate to have so many people that are prepared to do their bit. Already committed for 2019 are:
EllenJohnson as our Canteen Manager and Thursday nights meals boss.
David Murrihy once again facilitating the running of our Finals Hosting program and Past Players & Supporters Group.
Robert Kimmitt, Leanne & Dillio Rech, Steve Green, Dean Collins, Michael Holding and a host of others supporting our most successful Hawks Nest Coterie Group.
Mick and KayKimmitt continuing to clean the Tormore clubrooms every Monday and Friday.
SandraBell looking after our Social Memberships and Knox Club memberships.
SamDunkinson attracting new community partners and sponsors to the Club.
BillyNotley and Jason Davis taking care of our bar, with Simon West running the outside bar on match days.
Graeme Storr looking after all merchandise needs, both on and off the field.
Tim Currie taking care of all things that have to be done on match days.
A host of Coaches and Assistant Coaches all heavily involved in the football and netball side of things.
Without forgetting to mention the dedicated Board, Senior Committee and Junior Committee members who meet regularly to ensure our club can continue to improve; as we strive to give our players the best of every possible resource so that they can be the best player possible!
Ellen Johnson
All of these volunteer roles enable us to run in an effective manner. Gratitude goes a long way, so never be shy to thank one of our volunteers when you see them plying their trade at the Club!
If everyone involved does their little bit, we avoid the too few getting burnt out which has occurred in the past.
Our Club is in a great position: we have an exciting playing list and our off field affairs are solid. My role as Senior President is to ensure we don’t take our eyes off the ball and look for every available opportunity to promote our Club in a positive manner and to build relationships with key stakeholders to continually improve the facility of the Boronia Hawks Football Netball Club.
This year will see the installation of state of the art lighting. We are doing our best to fast track the installation, but we are very much in the hands of the Knox City Council and their contractors. I hope to announce with our Chairman, Scott Nicholas, other exciting new initiatives in the year ahead.
This season we have to build on the success of 2018. Some may argue we are on a hiding to nothing as how could we possibly top 2018? The answer is really simple. Too often I’ve seen clubs reach great heights and then fall apart very quickly. My job is to keep us focused, keep us stable, work harder then ever before and strive to make our Club the most respected Club in the EFL!
Our community partners are integral to the successful running of the Boronia Hawks Football Netball Club and we thank each and every sponsor for their generous contributions and ongoing support of our club. We ask all members of the Hawka community to support our partners, whether it is through appreciation, awareness or better yet engaging in the services provided by them.
Any enquiries in respect of partnership opportunities with Boronia Hawks may be directed to our Senior President, Greg Hannon, on 0438 616 130.
Boronia Hawks Football Netball Club has been in a great partnership with the Knox Club over many years. We are absolutely delighted to announce that this partnership will continue in 2020 with Knox Club as our Platinum Sponsor. A valued and loyal supporter, they have welcomed us for post game day award ceremonies and hosted dozens of fantastic events from balls to presentation nights.
All BHFNC players are members of the Knox Club and enjoy the great benefits that come with it. If you’d like learn to learn more about a membership or any of their offerings, please visit the Knox Club website.
BORONIA AUSKICK registrations are now open for season 2019. You can register at the AFL’s Auskick webpage: http://www.aflauskick.com.au
We are hoping to build on the great Auskick season we had in 2018 and make it even bigger and better in 2019!
Please feel free to share this post with other families who would love to join our Auskick program on Friday nights at Tormore Reserve.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our Auskick Co-ordinator Samantha Dunkinson on 0419 502 633 or check out the Auskick page on the Boronia Hawks website.
Boronia Hawks will kick off preseason training for the Senior Men’s Squad, Development Squad and Hawk Squad at Tormore Reserve on Wednesday 23 January at 6:00pm sharp.
New players, particularly for Under 17’s and Under 19’s, are very welcome to join us for training to see what the Hawks have to offer.
Enquiries: Ash Johnston, Football Operations Manager, on 0433 365 286 or Craig McKenzie, Hawk Squad Coach, on 0413 329 790
Boronia Hawks would like to thank Kerryn Westcott, mum of Chris, for her terrific work in submitting the formal application for the funding of the new lights at Tormore Reserve.
The funding was recently announced by our Federal Member for Aston, Alan Tudge MPand we are now pushing forward to have the lights up and shining during the 2019 season. Thanks again to Kerryn and Alan!
