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Happy 100th Birthday Ms Holly Carew, from Geelong Central Netball Association ~ you are indeed a treasure in our eyes!
TODAY marks a major milestone for Geelong local
Holly Carew as she celebrates her 100th birthday.
Netball has been the centre of her life for decades – including when it was still called basketball – taking up the sport as soon as she could and playing, umpiring and being
part of different committees.
Ms Carew has been an important part of the Geelong Central Netball Association, with a room at Kardina Park now named after her.
“You just take off on a Saturday, straight down here to Kardinia Park and this is where all the action was and that’s where I was,” she said.
“I’d give advice when I could and then I gradually worked my way up.
“You get your teeth into it and you’re there with them, it’s very lovely to be able to give advice to the young ones.”
Ms Carew has a lifetime of stories, many stemming from her days as an umpire and manager of the Under 21 Victoria squad, when she travelled around Australia.
“I loved playing, I really did, and after you played you would umpire, it all fitted in, I enjoyed every minute of it,” she said.
Her love of sport is deep, and she sometimes only showed up to school on sports day.
“I was shocking at going to school, I’d go down the beach or somewhere like that, but it didn’t hurt me anyhow,” she said. “They thought the best way to punish me, because I’d only turn up on sports day, was to keep me out of the netball – well, that broke my heart.”
The threat of not making the team was enough to make Ms Carew start attending school on a more regular basis.
Ms Carew credits making it to 100 to her active lifestyle, as well as the good friends surrounding her, saying she’s lived a very “fortunate” and “beautiful” life.
“When you’d come down here [Kardinia Park], I know it’s all about the netball, but when I’d come down here it was lovely, you would be with friends and you’d sit and have a chat,” she said.
Repost: Geelong Times, 11 October 2024
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