Life membership is offered as recognition and acknowledgement of an individual’s significant contribution to our organisation or the sector.
Since the ParaVics Sports Club was formed in 1962, there have been a number of individuals whose outstanding leadership, passion, dedication and generosity has shaped our organisation’s transition to Wheelchair Sports Victoria and, in 2010, Disability Sport & Recreation.
Countless athletes with disability, and the wider disability sport and recreation sector, have been transformed through the work of our life members.
We first awarded life membership in 1970. Our first four recipients were Bob Boyles, Wal Gladwyn, Elaine Schrieber and Mike Wilson.

Bob Boyles*
Inducted in 1970

Wal Gladwyn*
Inducted in 1970

Elaine Schrieber*
Inducted in 1970

Mike Wilson*
Inducted in 1970

Herb Sanderson*
Inducted in 1974

Bryan Tudor*
Inducted in 1974

Ivan Risojevic*
Inducted in 1983

Graeme Walters
Inducted in 1989

Linda Coombs
Inducted in 1994

Geoff Luke*
Inducted in 1994

Allan Robertson*
Inducted in 1994

Alan W Ward
Inducted in 1994

David Stevens
Inducted in 2004

Sandy Blythe*
Inducted in 2006

John Bourke
Inducted in 2006

Eva Zselenyi
Inducted in 1994

Michael De Santo
Inducted in 1996

Phillip Tracey
Inducted in 1999

Michael McFawn*
Inducted in 2007

David King
Inducted in 2008

Marg Angel*
Inducted in 2010
* deceased