Minson, Dave

BORN SEPTEMBER 11TH 1963, he was a winger with the Flyers when Western Australian ice hockey first graduated to an Olympic size rink at Mirrabooka in Perth's northern suburbs, the state's inaugural international standard ice hockey.

In mid-June 1983, he was on the state team that defeated the favoured New South Wales to win Western Australia's second Brown Trophy at the new competition-size Ice World Mirrabooka. The Sandgropers dazzled everyone with their brilliant play and he was selected to the Under-21 Australian All Star Team with David Soldan, Chris Operchal and Mike Cramer. He represented his state in the Goodall Cup in Sydney the same year.

He became an accredited referee, then state referee-in-chief in 1996. He helped build numerous ice rinks in Australia and was a director of Perth Ice Arena in Malaga Perth. Team Leader of the National Junior Team when Xtreme Ice Arena operator John Bruske was General Manager (2009, 2010, 2011), he was made a Life Member of the national association in 2005 for services to the development of the game nationally.

His son Liam was a National Junior Team player and son Casey, a former national league player for the Newcastle North Stars and a player on the national junior and senior teams. David's association with ice hockey at local, state and national level has spanned over three decades.