Mandy has helped put club in top position

BEHIND every good club is a good committee.

On the Gold Coast, finding a good tennis club with a good committee is not very hard.

They start right at the very top – literally at the top of the Coast – in Woongoolba.

Woongoolba Tennis Club have been who they are for almost 32 years now and someone who has been a part of the club for 26 of those years is Mandy Blackmur.

Mandy first stepped foot into the club as a teenager to get coaching lessons.

Two years later, Mandy and her mum started running the Monday night fixtures program and, all these years later, they still are.

Over the course of Mandy’s time at the club, she has spent more than 10 years on the committee – writing grants, driving facility upgrades, managing the website, posting on social media and, along with her fellow committee members, ensuring tennis remains a fun and friendly outlet for their community.

Mandy’s most recent adventure was writing, applying and successfully being awarded an $18,595 grant for the club through the Gambling Community Benefit Fund.

It’s a lot of money and it will go a long way. The club is due to install solar panels, buy new seating for the clubhouse, replace the nets, mount a new floodlight overseeing the car park, clean and repair cracks on all four courts and purchase new scoreboards.

For Mandy, it’s all about the community and keeping the club on the local map.

“We work to ensure that our members and our local community know that our quaint little community club is a clean, tidy and welcoming facility that they can enjoy with friends, family and other members of our community,” she said.