It is with great sadness that Netball Australia acknowledges the passing of former Netball WA President Fay Bevan (nee Hardie).
Fay passed away last Monday and had a long association with Netball WA, Netball Australia and Perth Netball Association.
She was a Netball Australia Service Award winner from 1981.
Fay first represented Western Australia in 1951 and was predominately a goal attack, goal shooter and wing attack. Her career spanned six years.
When she was just 20 Fay was awarded an All-Australian Umpires Badge becoming the youngest person to achieve the honour.
Netball Australia Service Award winner Fay Bevan has sadly passed.Her umpire career continued to progress and in 1971 and 1975, she was an official Australian Umpire at the World Championships. She also umpired the Golden Jubilee Test Series between Australia and Trinidad & Tobago in 1978.
While Fay retired from umpiring prior to start of WA State Netball League, she became an advisor and mentor to many of WA’s high achieving umpires over many years.
In honour of her contribution to umpiring, Netball WA dedicated an Umpiring Scholarship in her name which continues to be awarded annually to provide opportunities for an umpire to undertake further development and training to progress to a higher national accreditation.
Off the court, Fay was President of Netball WA between 1976 and 1985 and she also held the positions of Secretary and Treasurer many times over several decades.
In recognition of her contribution to Netball in this State, she was awarded Life Membership of Netball WA in 1970 and received the Netball Australia Service Award in 1981.
Netball Australia's thoughts are with Fay's family at this difficult time.
