Cricket Victoria wishes to advise of the passing of Victorian Women’s Cricket Association (VWCA) and CV Life Member Ms Robyn Calder.
Cricket Victoria wishes to advise of the passing of Victorian Women’s Cricket Association (VWCA) and CV Life Member Ms Robyn Calder.
Robyn dedicated a lot of her life to the sport that she loved and gave her time in various roles and positions across her decades of service, including:
Player at Doncaster CC, Fitzroy Doncaster CC & Box Hill CC
1st XI Scorer – Box Hill CC
Committee Member & Vice President – Box Hill CC
Committee Member – Fitzroy Doncaster CC
Life Member – Box Hill CC (2003), Victorian Women’s Cricket Association (2007) & Cricket Victoria (2014)
Umpire – Victorian Women’s Cricket Umpires Association (VWCUA)
Vice President – Victorian Women’s Cricket Association
Fixture Manager – Victorian Women’s Cricket Association
Member & Volunteer – Pioneers Victorian Women’s Cricket Association
Robyn was inducted as a CV Life Member at the 2014 CV AGM as part of the integration of the VWCA into CV. Around the same time, Robyn released a book on the history of Women’s Cricket within Victoria titled ‘Through the years: a brief history of the VLCA & VWCA 1874 – 2014’, outlining some of the research that she had accumulated over her journey.
Prior to her passing, Robyn joined as an inaugural member of the Cricket Victoria Historical Society (alongside former Australian players Paul Sheahan & Anne Gordon and long-serving Cricket Administrators Ken Jacobs & Peter Binns) and along with VWCA and CV Life Member Jill Crowther assisted Cricket Victoria with the identification of dozens of Women’s Cricketers from the VWCA era for induction within the CV 200 Club.
Cricket Victoria pass on their condolences to Robyn’s family and friends, the Box Hill Cricket Club and members of the Pioneers Victorian Women’s Cricket Association and Victorian Women’s Cricket Umpires Association.
