Miss Sylvia Smith, of Morrinsville, QSM, for services to netball
Sylvia Smith has been secretary of the Morrinsville Netball Centre and the Thames Valley Cluster, a collective of eight netball centres, for many years. A former netball player, she has coached and managed representative teams. She has held several roles for the Waikato Netball Association. She has been the driving force behind the Emerging Talent Day for schoolchildren to participate in the sport. She reinstated a senior representative team for the region to compete at the Netball New Zealand Open Grade Champs and promoted a men’s netball competition. Miss Smith volunteers with the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic team.