Going Down Memory Lane

I was once a netball player in my high school, and this EWRF National Netball Tournament 2015 gave me chance to look back at my glorious past of being a netball player in school, and now I am a volunteer for this grand event. On the 25th, 26th and 27th September 2015 this energetic event was conducted in SK La Salle, Brickfields with almost 400 students from all over the country.

I was a volunteer for this event, and not only the volunteer but I was also the coach in charge for the Gopeng school players under Tanjung Malim EWRF Branch. This whole event was conducted with the collaboration of SEDIC (Socio Economic Development for Indian Community) and it was indeed a successful event. Almost 28 students from Tanjung Malim took part in this Tournament and 3 volunteers from Tanjung Malim went to the spot to assist the organisers in conducting this big and grand event.

We were all excited for this event as his was the first tournament that I took part as a volunteer. In addition, I was assigned to take care of Tanjung Malim participants and I felt that as a privilege to be given such a big responsibility which many would never get when one is being as a volunteer. Well, yes, as everyone expect and think I was totally excited to do my tasks for this whole event and I was extremely tired when the day ended after the tournament.

Though it was really tiring, I had the chance to meet the Best National Netball Player who came to visit the Tournament and also the chance to meet with many new people. Furthermore, while watching the students playing the netball during the tournament, it was reminiscing my memory of being a Netball player back in high school, as I shared my experience and some tips with the students so that it could might help them in playing the game.

The incident that was totally unforgettable for me during this event was a participant from Tanjung Malim branch, Keshiviny injured her arm and we rushed her to the hospital and the situation was really heating up. We were really worried about her as we thought the injury might be very serious but Thank God, it was just a twisted arm that needed to be held in a cast, otherwise she was utter fine. Sungai Petani Branch was announced as the Champion of the tournament and Tanjung Malim branch managed to win the 2nd Runner Up place in the Tournament. I felt like WOW....!!! because being as a volunteer from Tanjung Malim branch I felt really proud to be in that place. All those sleepless nights and tiring works for the past 3 days was worth it.

We finally took lots and lots of pictures and not forgetting that the President of EWRF thanked the volunteers, us for being such a big help for the success of the event, but I felt like that’s why we were there as volunteers for the first place.