Life Members
WNSW has decided to honour the following people for their outstanding contribution to the sport of Windsurfing by making them Life Members of WNSW.
Nominations are sought for people considered to exemplify, either high achievement in the sport or outstanding long term service to the running or administration of Windsurfing. We feel the following people truly encapsulate the attributes required of life membership
New candidates can be nominated to the committee and if accepted be ratified at the next AGM
Honoured in 2021
Glenny Grunfelder
As a non-sailing member of the NSW Boardsailing Association and later Windsurfing NSW, Glenny Grunfelder acted as Secretary during the 1990s and 2000s.
Glenny would continually prompt the executive to ensure that meetings were conducted on time, regularly organising venues to host meetings, whether they be monthly meetings or AGMs.
Glenny’s record keeping and minutes of meetings were always on time and accurate, with reminders to the appropriate person when follow up was required.
Glenny has also been heavily involved in the Dobroyd Aquatic Club as a valued Starter and Club Official for many years, and continues to give selflessly of her time and energy to allow others to enjoy the sport of sailing and windsurfing in particular.
Bill Joselin
Bill Joselin was the driving force behind the NSW Boardsailing Association in the 1980s, the 1990s and the early 2000s.
Bill was the NSW Representative to the AWA for most of this time, as well as being the driving force behind the Stormriders Sailboard Club, producing a monthly magazine called On the Wind which was highly sought after.
He was responsible for organising all types of Sailboard racing in NSW, whether it was for course racing on Windsurfers, Production (Raceboards), Formula 42 or Olympic boards and Slalom events, as well as running workshops in event and race management and training.
His professionalism in running events, whether it was a NSW series event, a State or National Championship or an Olympic selection, was appreciated by all involved.
Greg Johns
Greg Johns has been involved in our sport ever since it arrived in Australia, holding the inaugural Windsurfer Class meeting at this home in 1977.
He authored and implemented the TL7 Boardsailing training scheme in 1979 for Australian Sailing.
Through his business and his actions Greg has supported and promoted the sport over the years, especially the Windsurfer One Design and now the LT, which has seen a huge resurgence in our sport.
He was Australian Boardsailing Coach from 1983 to 1996 which included coaching at the 1984 to 1996 Olympics.
Greg continues to encourage sailors to compete at special events by supplying charter gear and transporting boards and gear to events to make it possible for anyone to compete, no matter whether they be from the other side of the country or from overseas.
Without the support of Greg our sport would not have been able to continue and grow and definitely would not be in the position it is in today.
Honoured in 2020
Jessica Crisp
Born in Sydney, Jessica Crisp has represented Australia in five Olympics, in Los Angeles in 1984, when windsurfing was a demonstration sport, then in Sydney 2000 (Mistral 5th place), Athens 2004 (Mistral 6th place) Beijing 2008 (RS:X 5th place) and London 2012 (RS:X 11th), where she was the Australian sailing team’s most experienced Olympian.
She began sailing at the age of 10, and by 15 years old was the Youth World Champion by 15 and the ISAF Women’s World Champion by 16. By 17 she was competing on the professional windsurfing circuit, winning the PWA World Cup in 1993 and 1994. Apart from racing, she has competed in freestyle and indoor events. In 2014 she joined the PWA Wavesailing World Tour.
Jessica continues to support windsurfing in NSW through mentoring and coaching.
Lars Kleppich
Lars spent his formative windsurfing years at Dobroyd Aquatic Club, which to this day boasts the highest active windsurfing membership of any club in NSW.
Lars competed in three Olympics, the first being Barcelona in 1992, where he gained an Olympic Bronze medal in the Men’s Lechner Sailboard Class – Australia’s only Olympic windsurfing medal to date. He also competed in Sydney in 2000, where he placed fourth in Men’s Mistral, and Athens 2004 (Mistral 8th place)
In 1999 he won the Men’s Mistral World Championships held in Noumea. He continues to work in the windsurfing industry in Sydney.
Keith Single
Keith Single has volunteered huge amounts of time to promote the sport of windsurfing in NSW, and has acted as an advocate and a guiding light.
His long association with our sport has been as a competitor, as class captain for his home club, and for almost 40 years, as a volunteer on the committee of Windsurfing NSW, including as President, and most recently as Treasurer, a position he has held for over 15 years.
Keith continues to compete in Raceboard events, and is currently the Australian Champion in the Veteran age group.
Glen Morrell
Glen has been an innovator and a driving force in windsurfing in NSW for more than a decade. He has initiated or revitalised events across many disciplines. Initially competing in and helping run Formula and Slalom events, he then was deeply involved in reviving and organising the Oceanic and Australian Raceboard Championships in 2009, and the highly successful resurrection of the NSW Raceboard series which he drove from 2011 to 2017.
In 2011 also Glen entered a local team in the GPS Team Challenge, and has organised trips by the Illawarra Speedsters to Speed Weeks in Victoria and South Australia.
In 2016-17 Glen became interested in foiling windsurfers. He has established the first NSW Windfoiling club on the shores of Lake Illawarra, and has been involved in organising the fledgling NSW WindFoiling Series, as well as Foiling National events. As WindFoiling and indeed windsurfing continues to develop in NSW, we expect to find Glen Morrell right in the middle of it.
Nick Nelson
Nick has been involved in Windsurfing activities in NSW for 30 years, selflessly giving of his time to allow others to enjoy the sport.
As well as mentoring, tutoring and organising, Nick most recognisably has been the go-to Principal Race Officer for Formula, Slalom, Windsurfer One Design, Mistral, RS:X and Raceboard for decades.
Nick has often said that he loves racing his various Windsurfers, but that it gives him a greater thrill to facilitate and be involved in making Windsurfing racing happen. We thank him for this.
Chas Powell Memorial Award
This is an award for a member who has given outstanding contribution to windsurfing. It remembers our past member Chas Powell.
2002 Bill Joselin, Inaugural recipient.
2003 Stewie Long.
2004 Nick Nelson.
2005 Keith Single.
2006 Glenny Grunfelder.
2007 Ben Fawkes.
2008 Brett Morris.
2016 Greg MacInnes
2024 Lissa McMillan and Richie Reynolds.
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