"I probably would not be surfing today if it was not for volunteers. I started competing through Bay Boardriders which is run by parents and members of the surfing community."
Ensor thanked the volunteers for all their hard work and dedication to sport.
"Sport as we know it would not exist without you guys."
Asked about her goals, she said she was aiming for the Olympics.
"Surfing has just been announced as an Olympic sport so I have got my sights on that," she said.
Shalom Broughton, 15, Bae Fountain, 16, and Raiha Ensor, 17 of Mount Maunganui College.
Shalom Broughton, 15, represented New Zealand in the Basketball Under-16 team.
"I would not be here without the time and effort they [volunteers] have put into me."
Recently Broughton trained with Kiwi basketball star Steven Adams at ASB Arena.
"He is my role model," he said.
Fountain, 16, is the youngest player on the 13-man squad recently selected for the NZ senior men's water polo team.
"I have competed against Olympians and have had the chance to just show my all," he said.
He had also been selected in the youth men's team for volleyball and will be going to Florida and America next school holidays to compete.
"Without volunteers I would not have been able to go to the places where I have been, or am going to go. Volunteers are everything to me. The managers, the coaches, they are all doing it voluntarily."
About 100 volunteers attended the Sport Bay of Plenty volunteer breakfast.
Western Bay of Plenty community sport advisor Zane Jensen said he was fortunate to be one of the 41,000 Kiwis employed in the sport and recreation sector.
"I get paid to work in my passion, and that is why I am guessing you guys are here because you love volunteering."
Mr Jensen said across New Zealand there were about 750,000 volunteers.
