{"id":79578,"date":"2014-08-29T20:16:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T10:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=79578"},"modified":"2020-11-27T12:31:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T02:31:38","slug":"qld-cricket-profiles-local-volunteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/08\/29\/qld-cricket-profiles-local-volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"Qld Cricket Profiles Local Volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68637\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140522relay1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-68637\" title=\"20140522 Mayoral Breakfast\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140522relay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140522relay1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140522relay1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Test cricketer Ian Healy, 2014 &#8220;Face of the Relay&#8221; Roger Seccombe, Relay Patron Carl Rackemann and Relay For Life organiser Rowena Dionysius at a launch breakfast earlier this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>August 29, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roger Seccombe, the &#8220;face&#8221; of the 2014 South Burnett Relay For Life, has been profiled this week as one of Cricket Queensland&#8217;s &#8220;Magnificent 7&#8221; volunteers from around the State.<\/p>\n<p>Cricket Queensland decided to profile seven volunteers from grassroots cricket to coincide with the seven Sheffield Shield titles the Queensland Bulls have won.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qldcricket.com.au\/default.asp?PageID=2340&amp;ReleaseID=5711&amp;Display=True&amp;HomeNews=True\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queensland Cricket website<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 1. How long have you been involved in cricket?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Played senior cricket for Wide Bay region for 30 years, including 88 centuries<\/li>\n<li>Made Qld Country Colts for four years, Qld Colts 1961 and Qld Country in 1960<\/li>\n<li>Secretary Kingaroy, South Burnett and Wide Bay for 12 years<\/li>\n<li>President of Biggenden Cricket Association for two years<\/li>\n<li>President of South Burnett Juniors for two years<\/li>\n<li>Groundsman at Kingaroy juniors for 10 years<\/li>\n<li>17 years in junior club and representative coaching<\/li>\n<li>Life member of Wide Bay, Kingaroy and South Burnett Cricket associations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Question 2. What is your favourite cricketing memory?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My first century as a 17-year-old in the Biggenden A-Grade Competition then making another the following week and backing it up with two more at country week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Question 3. What motivates you to volunteer?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I came from a family of five boys and our dad used to coach us how to play the game. Where ever I continued to play there were always volunteers helping me learn the game so when I had the opportunity I thought it only right to give back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Question 4. Any fond memories of past Shield wins?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watching the first Shield win in 1994-95 on the sports highlights and watching Carl throwing the ball into the sky, never forget it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Question 5. Any favourite players these days?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gilchrist and Symonds were great entertainers and fielders and back in my time Doug Walters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Seccombe, the &#8220;face&#8221; of the 2014 South Burnett Relay For Life, has been profiled this week as one of Cricket Queensland&#8217;s &#8220;Magnificent 7&#8221; volunteers from around the State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":68637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,3,6],"tags":[1133],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Qld Cricket Profiles Local Volunteer - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/08\/29\/qld-cricket-profiles-local-volunteer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Qld Cricket Profiles Local Volunteer - 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