Earlier this year, the Yass Valley Council decided to award its annual Club Person of the Year Award jointly to Mike Poulton and Ben Wylie.
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Poulton has been involved with the Yass Little Athletics since it began in 2006, while Wylie has played with the Yass Touch Association for the last 15 years at a local and representative level, and been a dedicated member of the board for the last six years.
Before he was involved with Little Athletics, Poulton explained that he had worked with Athletics Australia and Athletics Canberra as an official.
"When I got involved [with Little Athletics], I was mostly involved with just long jump," he said.
"Because of my experience with Athletics Australia, and Athletics Canberra, I was pretty much more qualified than anyone else there to officiate at various events.
"It was my task to wander around and make sure they were measuring correctly."
A program such as Little Athletics is great for the kids, Poulton explained, because it introduces them to the sport in a cordial environment.
"It's great exercise for the kids," he said.
"It's competition, but the competitive part of it is not stressed," he said.
"I enjoyed it because with Little Athletics, its really friendly.
"It's competitive, but never seemed to matter or come up very often."
The council praised Poulton's continued involvement with the club and his sheer love of the sport in a statement.
"Mike has no children or grandchildren participating in the club," the council said.
"His passion is for his sport and for the learning, enjoyment and development of the local children participating in athletics."
Meanwhile, Wylie's involvement with the Touch Football Association has seen a greater push to increase the numbers of junior participants.
He, along with the other members of the committee, have seen enrolment numbers for junior touch footballers jump from 70 in 2016 to 230 in 2018.
"One of Ben's passions has been building the involvement of juniors in the local touch competition, and the results have been astounding," the council said.
Wylie was very honoured to receive the award.
"[Yass Touch] have a very small committee and although I was recognised it was a symbol of all our hard work," Wylie said.
"We had an incredible season."
Wylie said the best thing about touch was that literally anyone was welcome and encouraged to get involved.
"Touch is a game for everyone," he said.
Kaitlin Kemp accepted the award on Wylie's behalf.