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 BourkeÂ
Inducted in 2006
Eva Zselenyi
Inducted in 1994
Michael De Santo
Inducted in 1996
Phillip Tracey
Inducted in 1999
Michael McFawn*Â
Inducted in 2007
David King
Inducted in 2008
Marg Angel*
Inducted in 2010
* deceased