During the school holidays, Maragon Private Schools teacher, Marelise Lombard, attended the KFC Mini Cricket National Seminar at the Oubaai Hotel in George.
At the seminar, Marelise received the KFC Mini Cricket SA Coach of the Year Award.
In May, she received the Gauteng Mini Cricket Coordinator of the Year Award at the Gauteng Lions Awards evening.
Coaches, players and clubs were invited to this prestigious evening to acknowledge their contributions to the sport.
Marelise has been coaching Mini Cricket since 2007 and has been involved in the coordinating of the Johannesburg West Mini Cricket since 2009.
Marelise and Christa van Gerve, who is also a teacher at Maragon, started their journeys as Johannesburg West Mini Cricket Coordinators together in 2009, the same year that KFC came on board with the sponsorship of the Mini Cricket.
The Coach of the Year has also been involved in empowering the coaches in Jhb West with the skills they need to coach Mini Cricket, and her passion truly shines through on the sports field.
