Dilley and Donahoo Awarded Life Membership

The Association honoured long-serving members David Dilley and Tim Donahoo, as the pair were elected Life members ahead of the Annual General Meeting held this week.

Dilley and Donahoo become NSWCUSA’s 56^th and 57^th Life members respectively as they were upgraded unanimously by members in attendance.

David Dilley has been a member of the Association since 1999, umpiring 193 SCA matches during his time as an active official.

During his career, he progressed to the representative level where he was appointed to women’s List A matches and men’s Second XI.

Dilley made an exceptional contribution to NSWCUSA as a volunteer office-bearer over a period of 15 years.

First volunteering as a member of the Training Committee in 2001, he also assisted the Executive Committee and Technical Committee before being elected to the Board of Directors in 2004.

He served on the Board for a period of 12 years, including two years as Board Chair from 2008.

Whilst on the Board, he was the Association’s Delegate to Cricket NSW and the Sydney Cricket Association from 2006 to 2016.

His contribution to cricket extended beyond NSWCUSA, spending time as a Director on the board of both Cricket NSW and Cricket Australia.

Tim Donahoo joined the Association in 1985 and continues as an active umpire in NSW Men’s Premier Cricket, with 389 matches to his name as of the end of the 2022-23 season.

215 of those have been in First Grade, the ninth highest total for an umpire in the Association’s history.

Donahoo umpired a women’s ODI between Australia and England in January 2000 and 15 domestic men’s and women’s interstate matches up until 2007.

He has also made a significant contribution to the Association off-field as well, volunteering on both the Training and Executive Committees, becoming a Board Director in 2004.

He remained on the Board for six years, with two of those years in the role of Board Chair.

For two seasons he was an off-field umpire observer for Premier Cricket and from 2017, he spent three seasons as a Match Referee with Cricket Australia.

Chair of the Board Mark Hughes spoke to the nomination of each, whilst Life member Darren Goodger and Principal member Bill Hendricks respectively seconding the motions for Life membership.

Photo: Tim Donahoo and Dr. David Dilley with Life membership blazers and certificates // Troy Penman