Sheryl Lorene Dawson MNZM (née Lochhead) is a New Zealand netball administrator and coach.

Sheryl Lorene Dawson began playing netball at the age of five at the primary school of Te Puna, a small town situated close to Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island.

She then moved on to coach school netball teams from 1975 to 1997, and act as an administrator in the Bay of Plenty region, from 1975 to 1986.

However, in the same year she was not appointed to the CEO position of the newly restructured Netball Waikato Bay of Plenty Zone, for which she had to reapply, a decision of some controversy that led to the resignation of two board members.

[1][7] In 2019, she was awarded the International Netball Federation (INF) Service Award, joining fellow New Zealanders Lois Muir, Kereyn Smith, Dawn Jones, Anne Taylor, Marjorie Jenden and Ona Coatsworth who had previously received the same honour.