ActewAGL ACT Sports Hall of Fame 2009

 Associate Members

Sian Mulholland - Cycling

Siân Mulholland has made a significant contribution to women’s cycling through coaching development, administration, organisation and being a mentor for many young and not-so-young cyclists since she moved to the ACT 30 years ago. Siân commenced cycling in Gilgandra, NSW in 1971 and was the only female in a club of 30 members. Siân competed in country areas with considerable success in an era where championships were not conducted for females, as they were not permitted to compete in State and National Championships and became the first woman to represent Australia in the World Track Cycling Championships. Her time for the 200m sprint was in the top 10 fastest in the world and history was made, as since that year Australian women have competed in every World Championships.
Siân has remained an active cyclist and was named ACT Masters Track Cyclist of the Year for 2003.

Alison Ide OAM - Tennis and Veteran Athletics

Over the 47 years that Alison lived in Canberra she was honoured with Life Membership of the Turner and Reid Tennis Clubs and a  Honorary Life Member of Tennis ACT.  
Tennis Seniors Australia awarded Alison Life Membership for her tireless work as an administrator and promoter of the Sport of Seniors Tennis in the ACT, Nationally and Internationally.    She was secretary of the Tennis Seniors Australia from 1998 to 2003, and  was involved in the running of National Championships either as a player or administrator and was a role model of the sport with her being dubbed  the “Head Mistress”.
 In 2000 Alison was presented with the Australian Seniors Administrative Award of the Year, for organising and running of the 2000 Australian Seniors Championship Tasmania.
From 1984 to 2006 Alison represented Australia at the International Tennis Federation world Senior Championships seven times and continued to play and represent the ACT until 2008.  In her later years Alison also took up athletics and excelled in this sport as well.

 Full Members

Peter Ryan - Rugby Union

Peter Ryan was a trail blazer for ACT Rugby Union with a distinguished playing career in the late 50’s and 60’s. 
Peter captained the Queensland Tour in 1966 and his overall career saw him play in 150+games for the Queanbeyan Whites, 40 ACTRU representative games, 12 NSW County and 14 NSW Waratahs games.  Peter played 27 games for the Wallabies including 2 overseas tours to South Africa in 1963 and Tour of the British Isles, France and Canada in 1966/67, 4 full internationals 3 home and one overseas test where he scored 9 points on debut in the famous 18-9 victory at Sydney in 1963, the first home test win in 29 years for Australia.  Peter was the top point scorer in the 1963 tour of South Africa scoring 79 points in 14  games. For his performance in the opening match of the tour Peter was awarded the “The Springfield Tyre Co” award.
Over the years he has continued to contribute through various coaching roles with Marist College and earlier the ACT

David Furner - Rugby League

David Furner, born 6 February, 1970 is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach of the Canberra Raiders. David left the Canberra Raiders as the greatest point-scoring forward in Australian Rugby League history before enjoying a successful career in England. David switched to rugby league in 1991 when he joined the Canberra Raiders making his first-grade debut in round 2 of the 1992 season against Manly-Warringah.
As part of the 1994 Canberra Raiders premiership team, winning the Clive Churchill Medal for Man of the Match, David's strong performance led to his selection for the 1994 Kangaroo squad. Furner's father, Don, chairman of selectors, abstained from voting.
When David left Canberra at the end of the 2000 season, he had surpassed Bernie Purcell's record as the highest point-scoring forward in the game with 1218 points. Also in 2000 he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his contribution to Australia's international standing in rugby legaue.
Whilst in England David became the third member of an elite group of players to win three grands Grand finals in different competitions in Australia and England.  The 1994 Australian Grand final for the Raiders, 2002 English Grand Final for Wigan Warriors and the 2004 English Super League for Leeds Rhinos.

Ante Juric - Football

Born in Canberra, Ante Juric was arguably one of Australia’s most cultured defenders.  A product of local club, Canberra Deakin (now Canberra FC) he played professionally for 13 years in Australia, Europe and Asia.  He learnt his football skills as a junior alongside other quality international players like Ned Zelic, Josip Simunic and George Kulscar.
Ante first represented Australia in every game at the World Youth Championships in 1993 where Australia come fourth after losing to eventual world champions, Brazil in the semi-final.  He started his senior representative career quite late after he produced a heroic performance by playing with a dislocated elbow in the 2002 National Soccer League Grand Final win with Sydney Olympic over Perth Glory at Subiaco Oval.  He was in his late 20’s and it was during an era of football where talent was often overlooked for brawn and fitness.   He went on to play for the Socceroos (cap 471) four times including against New Caledonia in the 2002 Oceania nations Cup final in Auckland.   It was surprising to many that Ante did not play more times for the national team.
Ante had a very successful National Soccer League career playing in over 200 games and scoring over 20 goals for Melbourne Knights, Sydney Olympic and the Canberra Cosmos.  Technically, Ante was second to none, his vision and composure often stopped opposition raids and inevitably started raids. 

Katrina Powell OAM - Hockey

Katrina was born in Canberra on the 8 April 1972 and started playing Hockey at the age of 8 for St Pat’s Hockey Club. She played for the Canberra Strikers in the Australian Hockey League since its inception in 1993.  Katrina commenced her International representative career in 1993 when she was selected to represent Australia at the Junior World Cup in Barcelona.  Katrina joined her sister Lisa Carruthers in the senior national team when she was selected in 1994. Since then she has represent Australia at three Olympic Games, two Commonwealth games, two world Cups and six Champions Trophy with a career total of 252 games at international level scoring 141 goals.  In January 1997 Katrina was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in recognition of the Gold medal win at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. 

Katrina added captaining her country to a major tournament success to an already brilliant career at the Champions Trophy in 2003.  She is a speedy striker with an uncanny goal sense and was the top goal scorer at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.   The dual Olympic Gold medalist sits second on the all-time Hockeyroos goal scorer’s list with more than 120 goals, played her 100th international at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and scored her 100th international goal in New Zealand during the 2001 season, becoming only the third Australian woman to do so.  Katrina was also the Australian Hockey League’s leading goal scorer in 2003.