Treasurer, HRCAV member Cheryl Colson lives in Taradale and works in finance. Warmblood horses are Cheryl’s passion and she has a youngster that she hopes to be out competing on soon.
Cheryl, is a long-time member of SCRC. She is active in her role as treasurer and keeps the club’s small committee up to date with the financial business of HRCAV.
Secretary, HRCAV member Judy Shinners is retired from working at Australia Post and is an original member of SCRC. Judy lives at Freshwater Creek with her husband, two horses and two dogs.
Judy is an active secretary for SCRC and she keeps all the members up to date with all club business and everything from HRCAV.
President, HRCAV member Christine Reeve took over the presidency from Tess Richardson. Christine is a former jockey who now works nightshift for Australia Post in Dandenong and lives in Cranbourne.
Christine, Cheryl and Judy have regular meetings about the Surf Coast Riding Club to discuss any HRCAV business and talk about how they can make the club an attractive option for members. They are all involved with setting up the website and Facebook page and it is easy for anyone who would like to contact them through these sites. Members are always welcome to come to the annual AGM.
Surf Coast Riding Club was born in 1999.
Judy Shinners and Jenny Adamson were the founding members of our club as we know it now.
Jenny did the initial heavy lifting. She found out how to get the club joined up with HRCAV. She learnt what was required from their new club and it’s members regarding rules and regulations and she sourced uniforms. Judy said she did alot to be proud of. They started with only a handful of members at first, but their membership grew once word got around the Geelong and Surf Coast area.
Bree Schammer was the driving force behind the club as it grew in popularity, she was extremely efficient and enthusiastic and would have been just as competent running a large corporation or small country, is how Judy remembers their 2nd SCRC secretary.
Although Surf Coast is ‘by membership only’ club, back in the beginning when there were alot of members, the three women would put together four clinics a year at the local indoor riding arena, Amber Lodge. It was popular with their large membership group, who were still mostly local riders. This was the time when they would have the AGM and a meet and greet with the members.
As the member base started to decline and alot of the members where on the other side of the West Gate Bridge, the annual quarterly clinics died off. And so a new era of SCRC began after discussions on whether or not to keep the club going. So here we are – Secretary Judy Shinners, Treasurer Cheryl Colson and myself, President Christine Reeve.