History

Life Members

Jock Williamson - 1975 (deceased)

Jock McCullough - 1978 (deceased)

Brian Olney - 1982

Dr David Haultain - 1987 (deceased)

Arthur Hill - 1989

Barry O'Keefe - 1989

Lyle Arbuckle - 1989 (deceased)

Greg Davis - 1992 (deceased)

Dr Russell Perry - 1994 (deceased)

Ric Roberts - 1996 (deceased)

Maurie Day - 1997 (deceased)

Sam James - 1998

Anthony Carroll - 2003 (deceased)

Kim Short - 2005

David Procopis - 2007

Julie Skiba - 2010

Ian Hailes - 2015

Brendan Fitzgerald - 2015

Anthony O'Shea - 2018

Brent Mews - 2019

Peter Hilgendorf - 2020

Brian Eckhart - 2024

Procopis Day Award

The Procopis Day Award is named after David Procopis and Maurie Day, two influential life members of WARURA, and is awarded to the referee of the Premier Grade Grand Final.

Recent recipients of this award include:

2023 - Jordan Kaminski

2022 - Graham Cooper

2021 - Sam Jones

2020 - Kyle Burnett

2019 - Kyle Burnett

2018 - Kyle Burnett

2017 - Alexander Ninkov

More coming soon

We'll be sure to update this section shortly, where we'll recognise:

our life members;
centurions;
Procopis Day Award recipients; and
other award winners.