Barbara Williams took over as President of the Taupo Netball Association from 1988 - 1991.
1990 Mrs Margaret Barker was presented with a service award for twenty-seven years dedication and involvement to the sport of netball in Taupo. She had umpired senior and junior local games, coached several junior representative teams with success, set, supervised, marked papers, trained umpires and had been a delegate to the Taupo Netball Association.
As Vice-President, Margaret was involved in the allocation and control of netball games each Saturday and was instrumental in establishing 'Kiwi Netball' in Taupo for the first time.
1992 saw the end of the Taupo Netball Umpires Association, which for twenty-two years had been an integral part of the growth of netball in Taupo.
On Thursday 31st March 1994, Taupo was devastated by the tragic news of the death of Mrs Christina Wills. Among those who paid tributes to Chris as she lay at the funeral parlour, was Louisa Wall - "Mrs Wills gave me the confidence to eventually become a fine player in the New Zealand Silver Ferns, as well as become Vice-Captain of the team", she said.
1977 - Mrs Barbara Williams, the first home-grown candidate for this award, was honoured with life membership of the Taupo Netball Association. She had been involved in netball for thirty-three years and had experienced the highs and lows of the code - as a representative player, locally and nationally, a coach of primary girls to senior local level, and national level, President of the Taupo Netball Association, a provincial umpire, a draw steward and New Zealand examiner of netball coaching.
1998-2000 heralded Piri Robinson as President, a very competent Lil Hancock as Administration Manager, some valuable committee members, club delegates and women and men volunteers, who gave up their precious time to help foster netball in Taupo, simply because they loved the game.
Of note during Piri's reign as President, was winning four major awards at the 1999 Sports Awards, and the winning of the Taupo Netball Centre of the Year, in the Netball Waikato Region Awards 2000.
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