Stephen put himself up for the role of club president at the end of 2018. He’s been associated with the club since early 2016. His Football crazy son, Charley 8, has been mastering his ball and team skills in the beautiful game since U6. During this time, Stephen has helped out the club as an assistant coach, team manager and more recently, assisting with tasks at Committee level. He saw the Club Presidency role as a great opportunity to further develop his leadership skills and also work with an awesome team of people steering a local, community football club.
By day, Stephen is an IT Professional and works as a Senior Project Manager at Financial Services company in Melbourne CBD. He has 25 years of experience in project and software delivery. He’s worked with a multitude of banks and financial services companies from London, England to Melbourne, Australia. He has a passion for delivering value, quality and positive outcomes to business partners and stakeholders. Stephen has a firm belief that teamwork is a key to success.
In his spare time, Stephen likes to keep himself active and busy. You might find him anywhere from AAMI Park watching Melbourne City FC, at the gym trying to stave off the mid life Ibs, at home playing his acoustic guitars or off somewhere exploring the Great Outdoors in the Caravan with wife Melinda, Charley and daughter Molly.
Scott and his family have been members of Mt Eliza Soccer club since 2011. When his son Sam decided to play u7s, as a soccer novice, Scott took on an assistant coaching role and hasn’t looked back.
During this time he has been an assistant coach, coach and team manager for his son’s team and more recently assisted the committee in setting up and maintaining our Team App presence and supporting the Mt Eliza Cup in 2018.
Scott has seen our club grow from two small junior pitches at Howard Parker with eight teams in 2011 into one of the fastest growing clubs in the region that now has approximately 40 teams in 2019 ranging from U6 to seniors. It was the opportunity to help the Mt Eliza establish itself as an inclusive, family oriented club that can provide pathways for our junior players that prompted him to join the Mt Eliza Soccer Club committee in 2019.
When not tyring balancing the work, family and club you’ll find Scott looking for the next big game to watch or learning more from other members and friends about soccer.
Feel free to stop him for a chat when you see him wandering around at Emil Madsen or Mt Eliza Secondary during the season!
Signed from Alloa Athletic in 1984, he went on to spend 6 seasons with Rangers before playing for Blackburn Rovers.
His coaching career has included appointments at Gippsland Falcons, Dandenong Thunder and Perth Glory.
Since 2017 Stuart has been committed to shaping the community football program at Mount Eliza Soccer Club as Director of Football.
In that time he has run numerous skills development programs and mentored the clubs coaches.
By day Richelle is in medical administration, by night a Mum and late night our Registrar.
Richelle has her eye set on increasing our girls teams from 2 to 4 in the 2019 season. (One of many goals!)
She has built a good relationship with our coaches, team managers and members over the last year and is looking forward to another season of community spirit and great soccer.
Her Husband Jim, an ex-goalkeeper, is also part of the club and is in his 3rd year of coaching for the miniroos.
Melanie has a 9 year old son who is a keen soccer player. He joined the club in 2016 and it was soon obvious that soccer was going to be his sport! It was then that Melanie decided to get involved in the club.
With over 20 years in bookkeeping, Melanie didn’t think twice about taking on the position of Bookkeeper when it became available at the end of 2017. Now Melanie is proudly the Treasurer of the Mount Eliza Soccer Club.
Melanie works part time as a Bookkeeper/Trust Accountant at a local real estate agency. She loves the lifestyle of living and working in Mount Eliza and being able to walk to everything.
Having stood on the sidelines watching football as a parent, he soon caught the coaching bug and became an advocate of the FFA's Skills Aquisition Program.
He's since seen his team make 5 finals in 3 years including the 2018 Shepperton Cup. He has 2 sons playing football, the eldest currently playing in the National Premier League.
Neil has been committed to teaching players of all levels basic technical skills from an early age.
He's on the soccer committee representing the miniroos and is always happy to have a chat about the world game.
Club culture was another big factor in the move where both committee and coaching staff were not only welcoming and friendly but incredibly hard-working, all to ensure that the players and their families had a wonderful matchday experience.
After hanging up the boots 6 years ago Justin decided to focus solely on his coaching signing up for numerous coaching courses and spending hours on the training pitch with different teams to find a style and system of training that he believes his players would respond to. "I find the game is constantly changing and being flexible and adaptable plus ensuring everyone is having plenty of fun is the key to success".
Justin is currently coaching the u/12s Kangas where his son Jaiden is playing and ls looking forward to an exciting year ahead.
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