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Each year I post this so the Angels will not be forgotten for their role in starting Women In League.
Thank you Eagles Angels!
Nov 2001 the Sea Eagles were in dire straits with the Northern Eagles debacle. Wendy Harmer and Sarah Murdoch got together other high profile female supporters on the northern beaches and organised a fundraiser at the Manly Leagues Club raising $80k but more importantly attracting the eye of Max Delmege who came on board as the major sponsor. Ian Tho...mpson was then the CEO. He along with this group of girls saved the Manly club. The next day the late Daily Telegraph Sport Journo Peter Frilingos referred to these girls as the ‘Eagles Angels’ and the name stuck.
2002 -The Manly club were the first to realise the importance of marketing to women. They developed a female only lounge. They were the first to create a female jersey designed then by Collette Dinnigan. They attracted their own sponsor Adecco, adding financial success to the clubs growing fortunes and on field success. Each year new Angels were inducted into this amazing group of women. They organised fundraisers for charities and for the club.
In 2005 Domayne came on board as their major sponsor and decorated the lounge with a chandelier and Florence Broadhurst wallpaper. One evening Katie Page Domayne’s CEO came to the lounge along with David Gallop the then NRL boss. Katie's comment to David ‘The NRL has to do something for women. This is fantastic!’ Wendy shared ideas with the NRL as to what sort of activities the Angels did for the club and how it could work for other clubs. From this the NRL Women in League was born in 2006 and is still going strong to this day. The Angels stopped existing after Dec 2014.
I just thought it was important people recognised the importance of these women to the Women in League round. They are the most amazing inspiring group of women you could ever meet. They all love Manly passionately and worked (unpaid) helping to promote the club and Women in League and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Manly Sea Warringah Sea Eagles.
Below are the names of the Eagles Angels.
Wendy Harmer
Sarah Murdoch
Kerri Pottharst
Layne Beachley
Nici Andronicus
Shelley Taylor Smith
Louise Sauvage
Shelley Oates Wilding
Debbie Watson
Zali Steggall
Annie Sargeant
Naomi Flood
Melinda Gainsford Taylor
Melissa Femia
Brooke Hanson
Amy O’Mara
Laura Enever
Sarah Peattie
Tracey Spicer
Tracy Bevan
Jenny Owens
Jean Hay
Maryanne Fogarty
Krystal Barter
Thank you Eagles Angels to your contribution for Women In League. Thank you to their sponsors – Adecco, Domayne, Westfield Warringah Mall and Lavazza.
Each year I post this so the Angels will not be forgotten for their role in starting Women In League.
Thank you Eagles Angels!
Nov 2001 the Sea Eagles were in dire straits with the Northern Eagles debacle. Wendy Harmer and Sarah Murdoch got together other high profile female supporters on the northern beaches and organised a fundraiser at the Manly Leagues Club raising $80k but more importantly attracting the eye of Max Delmege who came on board as the major sponsor. Ian Tho...mpson was then the CEO. He along with this group of girls saved the Manly club. The next day the late Daily Telegraph Sport Journo Peter Frilingos referred to these girls as the ‘Eagles Angels’ and the name stuck.
2002 -The Manly club were the first to realise the importance of marketing to women. They developed a female only lounge. They were the first to create a female jersey designed then by Collette Dinnigan. They attracted their own sponsor Adecco, adding financial success to the clubs growing fortunes and on field success. Each year new Angels were inducted into this amazing group of women. They organised fundraisers for charities and for the club.
In 2005 Domayne came on board as their major sponsor and decorated the lounge with a chandelier and Florence Broadhurst wallpaper. One evening Katie Page Domayne’s CEO came to the lounge along with David Gallop the then NRL boss. Katie's comment to David ‘The NRL has to do something for women. This is fantastic!’ Wendy shared ideas with the NRL as to what sort of activities the Angels did for the club and how it could work for other clubs. From this the NRL Women in League was born in 2006 and is still going strong to this day. The Angels stopped existing after Dec 2014.
I just thought it was important people recognised the importance of these women to the Women in League round. They are the most amazing inspiring group of women you could ever meet. They all love Manly passionately and worked (unpaid) helping to promote the club and Women in League and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Manly Sea Warringah Sea Eagles.
Below are the names of the Eagles Angels.
Wendy Harmer
Sarah Murdoch
Kerri Pottharst
Layne Beachley
Nici Andronicus
Shelley Taylor Smith
Louise Sauvage
Shelley Oates Wilding
Debbie Watson
Zali Steggall
Annie Sargeant
Naomi Flood
Melinda Gainsford Taylor
Melissa Femia
Brooke Hanson
Amy O’Mara
Laura Enever
Sarah Peattie
Tracey Spicer
Tracy Bevan
Jenny Owens
Jean Hay
Maryanne Fogarty
Krystal Barter
Thank you Eagles Angels to your contribution for Women In League. Thank you to their sponsors – Adecco, Domayne, Westfield Warringah Mall and Lavazza.
