Ian Toy - Awarded Life Membership
It is with great pleasure that we announce that Ian Toy has been awarded a Life Membership for Lacrosse Australia.
The award was presented to Ian at the Annual Kuljak Dinner last night held in WA in front of his family, friends and peers.
Ian’s service to lacrosse in Australia and Western Australia is significant. We recognise, and are grateful, for Ian’s dedication and passion to develop and promote the sport of lacrosse at club, state and national levels as a player and administrator.
Ian’s achievements as a player on the field were impressive. After starting over 60 years ago at the Subiaco Lacrosse Club in 1959, Ian represented WA at both Junior and Senior levels gaining numerous player awards and captaining his club South Perth to a Premiership in 1973 before working up to captaining the Australian team at the 1974 World Championships in Melbourne. Subsequently some years after he ceased playing in 1986, in 2000 Ian was named to the WALA Team of the Century. Ian was a skilled and tenacious defenseman and he carried that tenacity through into sports administration where he was as successful off the field as he had been on it. Ian has had a number of coaching roles, mainly at Subiaco across both Junior and Women’s versions of lacrosse and he has held too many administrative roles to count but his involvement in establishing the Wanneroo Club with Malcolm Stokes, his work with the Western Australian Lacrosse Foundation and his Presidency of the WALA are probably stand out roles. In addition to this Ian’s unparalleled knowledge in documenting lacrosse history particularly in WA where he is the author of ‘A History of the Western Australian Lacrosse Association 1896 to 2010’ have been recognised by Lacrosse Western Australia who nominated Ian for a Lacrosse Australia Life Membership.
Thank you to Don Don Rudderham (Fellow) and Terry Ambler for supporting the preparations and delivery of the Life Membership Presentation to Ian.
Ian Toy’s – Achievements
REPRESENTATIVE TEAMS
Australia
1972 Touring Team USA & England
1972 All Australian Team Perth Carnival
1974 World Series Melbourne Australia
1979 All Star Team Australian Melbourne Carnival
State
1961 WALA School Boys 1962 (Captain)
1963 WALA Colts
1965 to 1984 WALA Snr Team (19yrs) Co-Capt.: 1979,1982,1983
Played in every WALA State teams from 1961 to 1984 in every team eligible for selection (23yrs)
LACROSSE AWARDS
1962 WALA School Boys Best Player Award
1972 Best Player Award Australian Carnival and All Australian Team selection named Team Captain
1972& 1973 WALA nomination WA Sports Association Award
Australian Lacrosse Council Certificate of Merit 1984
Life Member Subiaco Lacrosse Club (1988)
Life Member WALA (1991)
Life Member Kuljak Lacrosse Club (2009)
WALA Team of the Century (modern era 2000)
WALA A Grade Premiers South Perth 1973 – team Captain
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
WALA Records Officer 1965
Founding President Wanneroo Sof-crosse Club 1985-1986
Treasurer Nedlands-Subiaco 1986,1979-1981
WALA Finance Director 1987
WALA Vice President 1995-97
WALA President 1998-99
WALA Foundation Chairman 1996 /7
WALA Historian 2015 -2020
Kuljak Lacrosse Club Treasurer 1991 -2022