The 45-year-old dairy farmer puts countless hours into South Otago rugby and was recognised by being named volunteer of the year at the Otago rugby awards last week.
That also makes him the province's nominee for the same prize at the national awards.
Pringle co-coaches the South Otago High School girls' First XV and boys' Second XV, attending three trainings and two games a week.
Alongside that, he organises the transport for the girls' team and ensures the players get to where they need to be for things such as representative trials.
He is a committee member at the Clutha Valley club, where he used to play as a halfback, is in his third term as chairman for the Otago Rugby Junior Advisory Group and is on the Otago Country board.
In those roles, he oversees junior rugby throughout the province and helps organise the South Island age-grade tournaments, among other things.
Despite being pleased to win the award, he remained as humble as ever in his reaction to it.
''Yeah, definitely [happy]. It's pretty embarrassing though, isn't it? One of probably hundreds in Otago that do it, so that's quite good,'' Pringle said.
He began volunteering 11 years ago, when he started coaching his children during the latter years of his playing career.
''I suppose I just slowly got into it as the kids got older and I started coaching.
''Then moving into a bit of an administrative role, organising and more jobs opened up, I suppose, and someone had to do them.
''Then the rugby union was having a bit of financial trouble a few years ago and they were sort of relying on volunteers.''
All four of his children either had played, or still played, rugby, he said. Isla captained the Otago secondary schools girls' team and was named its most valuable player at the awards night, while Jack was in the Otago Country under-16 team.
Picking out a highlight was difficult, although in recent times it was good to see Jack's under-16 team beat the metropolitan team.
Pringle remained keen to stay involved.
''As the kids get older I'll probably try to watch a bit more of them, but I still want to keep going.''
Tom Franklin was named Otago player of the year and most valuable player at the rugby awards. He joined best back Michael Collins, best forward Sam Anderson-Heather and rookie of the year Jono Ruru from the Mitre 10 Cup team among the awards.
Greer Muir doubled as the Otago Spirit and women's sevens player of the year, while Ben Miller won the men's sevens top award. Slade McDowall was named under-19 and academy player of the year.
