Our events
and awards

In addition to hosting well-attended events every year, the Primary Club acknowledges and honours the commitment of disabled sports people with a major awards night, the Sir Roden Cutler Awards Dinner.

Recognition for inspiring others

The Primary Club hosts a number of events throughout the year for our Members and their guests to raise funds so we can continue to support people with disabilities to pursue their sporting and recreational endeavours.

These include our must-attend Test Breakfast events across the country, golf days, the Sir Roden Cutler Awards dinner and our very own Marathon Cricket.

To nominate a worthy candidate for our Sir Roden Cutler Award, please email: administrator@primaryclub.com

First Ball Newsletter 2026

In this edition, we review our cricket festival held at North Sydney Oval, our Test Breakfast, and stories from EIGHT of our charity partners.

About the Sir Roden Cutler Award

Sir Roden Cutler was our first patron and a great supporter of the PCA. In 1999, the PCA launched the inaugural Sir Roden Cutler (SRC) Award in recognition of his efforts in improving the lot of people with disabilities. The SRC Award program is aimed at acknowledging, highlighting and rewarding disabled individuals who have excelled in their chosen field of sport or endeavour.

Successful recipients, all with either physical and/or intellectual disabilities, have demonstrated outstanding achievements in either sporting or recreational fields that serve as inspiration to other people with disabilities. Their achievements will have been recognised by their peers and may include awards, prizes, media profiles or other forms of accolades. These amazing people will also have an impressive history of being active in the disability space helping and mentoring others to deal with their disability.

There are three awards within the program. Final recipients are offered funds to be directed to disability charities of their choice.

Sir Roden Cutler was awarded the Victoria Cross for most conspicuous and consistent gallantry during WWII.

"Successful recipients serve as inspiration
to other people with disabilities."

The 2023/2024 Sir Roden Cutler Award

In 2023, the Committee identified THREE highly qualified candidates, all of whom deserved to be recognised for their various contributions to their sport, inspiring thousands of others to surmount challenges and give life a go!

Each finalist received a Sir Roden Cutler Award Finalist Medal, as well as a $7,500 grant for sporting and recreational facilities for the sports charity of their choice.

2023/24 Sir Roden Cutler Award winners: Rae Anderson, Bronte Marshall and Koen Jansens

Bronte Marshall started rowing in 2012 when she attended PLC Sydney. She represented PLC in swimming, cross-country running, and rowing competing at IGSSA and All Schools events. In 2017, PLC Sydney nominated Bronte for the Pierre de Coubertin Award, an Australian Olympic Committee award. That same year, Bronte was selected to represent Australia in swimming at the INAS World Swimming Championships in Mexico, where she won gold, silver and bronze medals.

Rae Anderson is a dual Summer and Winter Australian Paralympian PLUS a “Para Matilda”. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Summer Paralympics in athletics and at the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympics in alpine skiing, becoming the seventh Australian Paralympic athlete and only second female to represent Australia at a Summer and Winter Paralympics. A month after Beijing, Rae followed this achievement by being selected in the Australian Para Matildas squad placing Runners Up at the Inaugural Female Football World Cup Salau 2022.

In January 2021, Rae began working as Project Coordinator at Disability Sports Australia. Rae also works for Cerebral Palsy Sporting and Recreation Association in a similar role. companies.

Koen Jansens is Co-Founder & Board Director of Wheelchair Basketball Australia (WBA), working in partnership with Basketball Australia to deliver the National program. Koen’s role in the formation of WBA has had a profound effect on wheelchair basketball opportunities and calibre of competition in Australia.

Amongst Koen’s many personal Wheelchair Basketball Highlights, there are 4 x Paralympian representing the Netherlands from 1992 to 2004.