Julianne Clancy's reign as Hume Netball president came to an end last year, but the changes she helped see come into effect live on.
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The life member held the top job for 14 years after serving a three year stint as league vice-president.
Coming from a basketball and touch football background, Clancy first took up netball after marrying her husband, Rick, and picked up the game fast.
She attended her first netball meeting at Walbundrie in 1987 where she then found herself taking on the role of secretary.
Her work didn't go unnoticed with the league offering her a position as insurance secretary in 1988, seeing her stay on the committee for 30 years.
Clancy pinpoints working alongside former league president Merv Wegener to achieve unity between football and netball as one of her finest accomplishments, with the league voting as one as of 2017.
"I was pretty proud of that because that was one thing I wanted to do before I left," Clancy said.
"Liza Gooden and I went onto the board as netball representatives.
"It was a bit of an eye-opener for me when I went to the board meetings because they spoke a lot more about football with the point system, player payments and permit system and they'd have a big thick book full of all of the rules.
"I remember thinking, 'I don't have to know all of this do I?'
"I could really talk about netball, but when it came to making decisions on football, which we voted on, I found that fairly daunting.
"Rick and I used to go to the football together with our kids (Rachael, Steph and Tom) and I'd go to the netball courts and he'd go to the football shed.
"He'd be at the football all day and do the boundary and I'd be at the netball all day.
"Then we'd hop in the car and all we would really talk about was if there was any blues or something funny that happened that day.
"I never really asked him about the rules of football or the permit system or anything like that.
"That was a really big learning curve for me."
The league's grand finals have also been a highlight for Clancy.
"One of the most enjoyable things about being a part of Hume was having the final at Walbundrie and just seeing the crowds there," she said.
"I had such great support from the Walbundrie boys Kevin Wardius, Al Collins and Brett Lieschke.
"They would open the shed up and put the jug on for me and set up the marquees outside.
"They were on the phone on tap because often the rings would move and I'd have to call them to say 'can you come and fix them?' Or I'd ring them about some blocked toilets.
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"I was really lucky that we were doing it at Walbundrie because I got so much support for the running of finals.
"That's what I'll miss, but being a life member I'll probably still help when I need to and sit and watch the games. Not this year, but next year and the years after hopefully."
Having netballers and footballers unite on the field for the Australian anthem before the game is something Clancy is also proud of for the league.
She also saw the league introduce netball best and fairest voting in 2003.
That was followed in 2015 by the rising star award.
"We'd never done a best and fairest before," Clancy said.
"That's been a really great thing and we've had around 300 people at vote counts in the last few years."
Clancy has witnessed the introduction of Culcairn, Holbrook, Billabong Crows and CDHBU into the league, the short stay of Rennie and Coleambally and the fold of East Lavington.
Several mergers have also occurred in that time, with Brocklesby uniting with Burrumbuttock and Clancy's home club joining forces with Rand and later Walla to become the Giants.
Clancy had just stepped aside as netball coordinator for the Tigers before the three clubs came together.
The flow on effect caused by teams uniting was an excess amount of netballers at clubs for the grades provided.
"I suggested we could add another grade," Clancy said.
"We ended up going for C-reserve.
"There was a bit of opposition to it but they voted for it to go ahead.
"That first year I think there was about five clubs that did it. The next year it went to 10 or 11 and the next year it was all filled and we haven't looked back."
Junior grades were also changed to 12 and under, 14 and under and 16 and under.
Junior development became a priority for the league as representative netball was introduced, allowing under-15's and under-17's to represent the league at carnivals before being selected for interleague.
Clancy added she was also pleased to see the recognition of Jill Kohlhagen and Noreen Norman into the league's Hall of Fame in 2018 after years of serving the netball community in the Hume and Coreen leagues.
She said the time felt right to step aside in her role as president last season and hand the reigns on to new president Carla Fletcher, with the joke thrown around that she left just in time to miss the chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Clancy credits the help of the Hume committee in seeing her through her years of involvement.
"I've made a lot of friends along the way," Clancy said.
"Not only with the committee, but with netball delegates that would come to the meetings.
"You have your own club, but it's nice being able to talk to other people outside the club.
"I think that's why I stayed so long.
"It's easy sitting up the top when people are doing the jobs around you. It was a great committee."