Dennis Trenery voted North Brisbane’s Best Sports Coach 2021

A “tireless club volunteer” and “fantastic” junior rugby league coach has been voted Brisbane north’s best for 2021.

A tireless club volunteer and junior rugby league coach has been named this year’s best sports coach for the Pine Rivers and North Brisbane regions.

Pine Rivers Press, North Lakes Time and Bayside Star put the call out for readers to nominate their top coaches. Readers then voted for their favourite and Denis Trenery was named the winner.

Mr Trenery has been an avid member of the Brighton Roosters community since 1985 and is in his fifth year of coaching.

The 45-year-old even played his junior footy at the family-orientated club.

Club president Dylan Slater says Mr Trenery is incredibly deserving of the title.

“He is a tireless volunteer to our club and very valued member of our rugby league community,” he said.

“As far as his coaching goes Dennis has taken on a couple of our junior sides over the past few years.

“He and the boys were very fortunate to have gone through and played a couple of seasons undefeated and won a couple of grand finals in the Division 3 competition for the northside.

Mr Trenery said he was humbled by the honour.

“I’m over the moon, it’s a great honour to be recognised as a great coach,” he said.

“I’m in a field of so many wonderful people from all different sports.

“At the end of the day we’re all about the kids and giving them the best education and make it fun for the kids.

“I’m very very proud of that achievement.”

Mr Trenery said the club environment is what keeps him coming back.

“I love the family-friendly atmosphere that our club promotes,” he said.

“It’s about taking kids from the local area and giving them a physical activity to do.

“For our club it works wonders.”

The Roosters has been part of the local community for more than 50 years, established 1968.

The not-for-profit community club operating within the Brisbane Rugby League competition.

Both girls and boys play in mixed teams from under 6s to under 12s, with separate sides filtered up to under 20s.

The open men’s teams also compete in the Senior Brisbane Rugby League competition across three divisions.

Last year, the club established and fielded inaugural A Grade and Reserve teams in partnership and as a feeder to the Redcliffe Dolphins Intrust Super Cup squad with Mr Trenery a large part of the club’s successes.

Mr Trenery said he uses “old school coaching methods” at the club.

“In 2018 and 2019, I coached a side that won 35 games straight,” he said.

“They were undefeated over two years and then I took on a new team this year and they went through undefeated as well.

“I use those old-school methods and the kids seem to love it, they thrive on it.”

Mr Slater said Mr Trenery always had the club and the community at heart.

“Dennis has been a fantastic junior coach down at the club and a tireless volunteer and in my humble opinion he’s worth his weight in gold,” he said.

“I have asked him if he would be interested in taking on the presidency, I’m stepping down as of the end of this year.

“I couldn’t think of anyone else more appropriate to take the club on.

“He’s a wonderful man … he basically has treated all of the kids he’s ever been associated with at the club like they’re his own nieces and nephews.

“He’s a really kind, giving and warm man, with the harshness of competitive sport and sometimes the harshness of the world we live in he is a great beacon for good people and sport.”