Today I congratulate Collaroy Cromer Strikers Premier League player Ronan Connolly, whose team was crowned 2025 grand final winners. Ronan has made a huge impact on the Manly Warringah Football Association Premier League competition. So much so that in his first year in the League, Ronan has won the most prestigious award on offer – the 2025 MWFA Premier League player of the Year award. Ronan arrived at the club in 2025 after years of NPL football, including stints with Manly United, and impressed from the very outset. Ronan has proved to be a real leader, an organiser as well as a big driver of the standards, noted by head Coach Ryan Butcher. At only 23, Ronan will be critical in leading that era to more success going forward. Well done Ronan!
Read the Community Recognition Statement in the NSW Hansard, here.