28/09/2026
🏆 2026 PRESENTATION NIGHT | THAT’S A WRAP! 🏆
What a night to officially bring the 2026 Singleton Strikers FC season to a close! ❤️🤍
Our Presentation Night at Club Singleton was a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the players, coaches, managers, volunteers, families and supporters who have all played their part in another year of Strikers football.
From our Singleton Strikers Football Club - Community All Age Women, All Age Men and Over 35s, through to our Northern League One Reserve Grade and First Grade, and our Premier Youth League U18s, there were plenty of achievements, milestones and individual performances worth celebrating.
A huge congratulations to all of our 2026 award winners:
🟢 ALL AGE & OVER 35s
Storm Women
🏆 Best & Fairest — Clare Watson
🏆 Players’ Player — Meagan Heuston
🏆 Coaches Award — Matilda Hayward
🏆 Most Improved — Abigail Primmer
🏆 Golden Boot — Meagan Heuston
All Age Men
🏆 Best & Fairest — Kye Wilson
🏆 Players’ Player — Joe Moriarty
🏆 Coaches Award — Sam Halsey
🏆 Most Improved — Callan Hannigan
🏆 Golden Boot — Shane Crow
🏆 Player of the Finals — Brent Cowley
Over 35s D Grade
🏆 Best & Fairest — Will Straw
🏆 Players’ Player — Adam Drew
🏆 Coaches Award — Anthony Hayward
🏆 Golden Boot — Adam Kerry
Over 35s G Grade
🏆 Best & Fairest — Paul O’Loughlin
🏆 Players’ Player — Mitch Kirby
🏆 Coaches Award — Corey Stocks
🔵 PYL - Under 18s
U18s
🏆 Best & Fairest — Samuel Pearce
🏆 Players’ Player — Samuel Pearce
🏆 Coaches Award — Connor Ryan & Samuel Kelly
🏆 Most Improved — Joseph Talbot
🔴 NORTHERN LEAGUE ONE
Reserve Grade
🏆 Best & Fairest — Braedon Messenger
🏆 Players’ Player — Corey Cleaver
🏆 Coaches Award — Braedon Messenger
First Grade
🏆 Best & Fairest — Jackson Skinner
🏆 Margaret and Paul Castledine Memorial Players’ Player — Stuart Plant
🏆 Coaches Award — Stuart Plant & Hayden Nicol
🏆 Best New Talent — Hayden Lambert
🏆 Grafter Award — Brodie Deacon
🏆 Golden Boot — Jagger Wholert & Cal Hungerford
🏅 CLUB AWARDS
🏆 2026 Michael Akrill Club Person of the Year - Warren Gillespie and Graham Sheppard (aka Shep)
We are incredibly lucky to have people like Warren and Shep in our Singleton Strikers family. Their dedication, hard work, and commitment make a real difference, and our club is stronger because of you both. 💙⚽👏
🏆 Youth League Player of the Year — Samuel Pearce
A fantastic recognition for Samuel, who has continued to develop into an outstanding young footballer. A Singleton local, his performances across the PYL program, make this a thoroughly deserved award.
🏆 Royal Hotel Motel Player of the Year — Jackson Skinner
Jackson collected the club’s 2026 Player of the Year award. The ever reliable centre back with over 230 first grade appearances for the Strikers since making his debut in 2015 and played every minute of every game this season.
A huge congratulations to everyone who made the Top 10:
🔟 Atticus Fisher-Stephens
9️⃣ Hayden Lambert
8️⃣ Harry Land
7️⃣ Beau Hetherington
6️⃣ Connor Ryan & Braedon Messenger
5️⃣ Ryan Bercli
4️⃣ Jackson Cox
3️⃣ Samuel Pearce
2️⃣ Stuart Plant
🥇 Jackson Skinner
👏 MORE THAN JUST THE AWARDS
While the trophies are a great way to recognise individual achievements, Presentation Night is really about celebrating everyone who makes Singleton Strikers what it is.
To every player who pulled on the shirt this year — thank you for turning up each week, putting in the work and representing our club.
To our coaches, managers and volunteers — so much of what you do happens behind the scenes and often goes unnoticed. From setting up fields and washing jerseys to organising teams, coaching, refereeing, running the canteen and bar, managing Squadi and everything in between — we simply couldn’t run this club without you.
To our parents, families and supporters — thank you for the lifts to training, the weekends spent at football, the encouragement from the sidelines and for continuing to support your kids and our club.
And to our incredible sponsors and local businesses, whose support helps us provide football opportunities across the Upper Hunter and keep our registration fees among the lowest in our competitions — thank you. Your support helps us maintain our facilities, provide equipment, support our teams and coaches, and keep football accessible to as many people as possible.
The 2026 season certainly had its challenges, but it also gave us plenty to celebrate — from our U18 PYL Div C Grand Final success, to strong performances across our All Age teams, and plenty of individual achievements across the club.
Most importantly, it was another year of people coming together for Singleton Strikers FC.
Congratulations to all of our award winners and thank you to everyone who played a part in making 2026 another year of Strikers football.
🇱🇻 That’s a wrap on 2026. 🇱🇻
See you all back at the football in 2027!
Feel free to post your photos from the night in the comments below ⬇️ 📸
