Chris Phillips

Chris was the Asst. Captain of the Renegades Under 18s team in 2009 that took gold at Nationals! He provided good leadership to the team on the floor and served his team well all season with his outstanding defense. Being 185cm tall gives Chris awesome reach as a defenseman and will probably contribute greatly to a long term successful future in Inline Hockey and possibly in Ice Hockey as well.

Chris has been playing Inline Hockey for 10 years, almost the entire time that Renegades have existed. He joined with his brother Nick in 1999 in the Under 10s grade, coached by Mike Slade at that time. From about 2002, Chris had decided that Inline Hockey was going to be his #1 sport (he also plays cricket). He attended a camp coordinated by Renegades and run by Travis Dillabough who came from Albany, New York, to lead the camp and this camp proved to be a major turning point for Chris and his Inline Hockey

He started his representative hockey playing on the Lower North Island Region Under 12s team, coached by Mark Drummond and, since then, has gone on to play for New Zealand on the 14 and Under team at the Oceania Championships 2 years ago in Adelaide, South Australia. This year (2010) he is representing New Zealand at the Oceanias in New Plymouth playing in the 18's grade.

Jason Tanirau

Jason was the Captain of our successful Under 10s and 12s teams (3rd at the National Champs in 2007, 2008 and 2009).

His cousin Kyle was playing Inline Hockey with Renegades in 2006. With permission from Moana (Jason's mother), he went to a training session to try it out. It was the end of the season so Jason played only a few times but he had so much fun he wanted to keep playing!! He has now played for Renegades for 4 very successful years. He wishes he had a rink at his house so he could play hockey all day.

Jason was honoured in 2008 and 2009 to be selected to play on the Lower North Region Under 12s team at the Inter-Regional Championships held on Labour Day weekend.

Nick Thom

Nick is currently the Captain of the Renegades Premier Men's team. He started playing Inline/Roller Hockey about 10 years ago, before the Renegades Club existed. A Canadian player, temporarily in the Hutt Valley, was instrumental in setting up what was then the Upper Hutt Jets. They started off playing on tennis courts with a ball. After a couple of years, the Rimutaka "Renegades" Club was born and became affiliated with the New Zealand Inline Hockey Association. Another couple of years went by before they moved, with the Upper Hutt Roller Skating Club, into their current leased and small premises on Goodshed Road in Upper Hutt.

Nick is a former National Inline Speed Skating Champion and that ability has definitely helped him become a very good player. Nick has never been interested in playing representative hockey (at a Regional or National level)- until this year (2010) where he will be playing Masters grade for NZ at the Oceanias. His biggest highlights came, firstly, when the Men's team won the Queens Birthday weekend tournament hosted by the New Plymouth Ravens as it was the first big win for a Renegades Senior team. The second highlight was being part of the team to win the National Senior Men's title in 2006 and that was the first time a Renegades Men's team had even qualified for the National Championships.

Nick is now 32 and still enjoying hockey in the Senior Men's ranks.
In his other life, he is a Police Officer.

Shelley Grace

Shelley is the Captain of the Renegades Senior Women's team - 2009 National Champions! At age 28, Shelley has matured in the sport over the past 4 to 5 years to become a regular appointee to the National Women's team. Her first introduction to any kind of hockey was watching NHL (National Hockey League) ice hockey games, from North America, on local TV. Inspired by what she saw, it was off to The Warehouse for a pair of cheap skates and the rest has become history. Shelley played her first "pick up" hockey with the Wainuiomata Wildcats.

She was skating with a group from Lane Street in Upper Hutt when the Rimutaka "Renegades" Club was formed. Shelley played her first organised hockey with the Capital Penguins Club In Wellington. When she was attending Massey University in Palmerston North (2000-2003), she played for the Massey Titans and for the Manawatu Dragons.

In 2004 she returned to the Hutt Valley and the Rimutaka Renegades, becoming the focus for the creation of the Renegades first Women's team. Recently Shelley was awarded Sports Woman of the Year from Ngati Tuwharetoa Maori Sports Awards.