Image: Antonio Bayer
Image: Antonio Bayer
Image: Antonio Bayer
“The joy is huge,” says Jovica Ristic. The 35-year-old youth coach of the Union Babenberg football club is the Linz district winner of the volunteer award, which the OÖN awarded together with the Sportland Upper Austria on Monday. He is responsible for around 200 children in the club and there are weeks when you meet him at the pitch every day. The award ceremony was anything but routine for him. “I was very excited to speak in front of so many people,” says Ristic. For him, the prize is motivation to keep going and do it even better.
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Daughter took her to sports
Theresia Schenk from the Ottensheim water sports club, the district winner of Urfahr-Raum, was also very happy. She brought her daughter to the club ten years ago and she started paddling herself seven years ago. “From Lenzing to Vienna they voted for me, we’re not that big of a club,” says the 57-year-old. Within the club, Schenk lends a hand “wherever help is needed”. She also regularly organizes the buffet at the regattas in Ottensheim.
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The winner from Linz-Land is Nina Steinhauser. At ASKÖ Wilhering, the 23-year-old is considered a committed trainer with a lot of feeling. She is very happy about the price. “It was very comfortable and I met a lot of new people,” she says. With her commitment, Steinhauser is continuing a tradition, as the club has been a “family affair” for generations. All three award winners confirm that it has become more difficult to find volunteers for the association’s work. In order for the children to be able to keep up with competitions, they should train three to four times a week, says Schenk. Finding trainers for this is not easy. Ristic reports something similar. You have to train twice a week and play on the weekend. “We need football enthusiasts who take their time,” says Ristic. In gymnastics, the crux of the matter is whether you can keep the members in the club after their active gymnastics period so that they can be available as trainers.
For Schenk, her commitment to the club goes even further. She will donate part of the prize money to the club for a new racing boat for the children.
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