Peter Conheady is Camperdown’s champion clubman

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Peter Conheady is a long-time volunteer for Camperdown Football Netball Club and the Hampden Football League. Picture: Nicole Cleary

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Peter Conheady has held almost every volunteer role that exists at Camperdown Football Netball Club, from water boy and team manager, to club president.

In the 32 years he has spent volunteering for the Magpies, Peter has cheered the club to two premiership wins and devoted many hours to behind-the-scenes work.

One of the accomplishments he is most proud of was a major building project at Leura Oval. Camperdown’s new function centre, which Peter calls the club’s “social home”, was built about a decade ago, thanks to financial support from the local council and Federal Government, and much work by a volunteer committee.

“Being involved in that was one of the greatest highlights I have had,” said Peter, 50, who is the function centre manager, another volunteer role.

Peter began volunteering for the club in 1989, at age 18.

He said volunteering was his way to connect with the Camperdown community.

“The football netball club is the heartbeat of so many small communities,” Peter said. “At the time I was president, we fielded six football sides each weekend and eight or nine netball sides. For that to happen we had 123 volunteers.

“That involvement with that network of people, and the camaraderie and mateship you create, is certainly why I, and I’m sure a lot of other people, keep turning up week after week after week.”

Peter also contributes to the local pastoral and agricultural society, RSL branch, parents association of his daughters’ school and the wider Hampden Football Netball League.

He said his wife, Donna, and daughters, Sophie and Maggie, were incredibly supportive of his community efforts.

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