RICH RECOGNITION FOR LIFESAVERS WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR ALL
Brisbane, with Mermaid Beach SLSC’s Monica Wilkie the runner-up.
It has been a long year for the pair who have raised more than $100,000 between them while juggling their own demanding jobs.
Ms Roberts, a nutrition research fellow at Griffith University, spent all of her spare time in the past year organising trivia nights, meat trays, sausage sizzles and rattling tins, as did many of her fellow entrants.
“I’m so stoked we were all able to see the year through,” Ms Roberts said after winning the award.
“I am stunned and thrilled, shocked and beyond excited.”
Ms Wilkie, a lawyer with Thomson Geer in Brisbane, said she felt like she had “got half her life back”.
“Now I can get back into work, my boss has been really understanding,” she said.
In all the entrants raised a total of $410,419 for Surf Life Saving Queensland.
Their efforts tipped the total money raised by the program, which has run since 1964, to $16 million.
Surf Life Saving Queensland chief operating officer George Hill praised the pair’s lifesaving skills.