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Perry and Scott named GDF’s Sportsman & Woman of the year

Nov 26, 2010 Sports

National athletes Rupert Perry and Ashanti Scott were named the Guyana Defense Force (GDF) sportsman and sportswoman of the year 2010 and were duly recognised and honored on Tuesday evening during the GDF’s Novices Bodybuilding Competition held at their Auditorium at Base Camp Ayanganna.
Both Perry and Scott were among many other athletes rewarded for their outstanding performances during the year, locally and regionally.
Perry has dominated local opposition this year establishing himself as the national Under 23 and Open champion in the 100m and 200m. He has conquered every sprinter in Guyana and also represented the GDF at the Hampton Games in Trinidad & Tobago.
Competing at the Joint Services Championship, he established a new record in the 200m of 20.8 seconds and was a member of the record breaking 4x400m relay team.
Middle distance runner Ashanti Scott excelled at all of the competitions she entered in 2010. She was first in the Inter-Unit Cross Country Championship, Inter Service Cross Country and National Cross-Country races.
Scott was crowned Champion athlete at the Inter Unit Championship and also assisted her colleagues to win all the relays at Inter Unit and Inter Service’s meets. She is presently the number two female athlete in the country.
She took the top spot in 3000metres at the Developmental Meet 1 while at Developmental Meet 3 which took place at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground, Linden, she won both the 1500 and 3000 meters races.
Others honored in athletics were Leslain Baird who was set himself apart as the best javelin thrower in Guyana also excelling at the regional level.
He has won every event that he has participated in at the national level. At the Joint Services Meet he copped the champion award and established a new record, he was also a silver medalist at the Hampton Games.
Patrick King another rising star won several 200m and 400m races and also represented the GDF at the Hampton Games in T&T where he was part of the bronze medal 4X400m relay team. He also has the distinction of being the Joint Services champion at 400m also establishing a record.
Boxing
Markember Pierre (Heavyweight) – won the box off for CAC Games; won the National Open championship; won Friday Night Fight’s in the month of September.
Bert Braithwaite (Junior Welterweight) – won the box off for CAC Games; won the deadly encounter at the Princes hotel; won the March and August months Friday Night Fights; won the National Open Championship.
Kerolmool Emanuel (Super Heavyweight) – won GDF Inter Unit Novices championship; won National Intermediate Championship, won National Open Championship.
Eon Bancroft (Welterweight) – won Timehri Warriors Invitation tournament; won Novices Boxing Championship, National Intermediate, National Open Championship and the Friday Night Fights in September.
Body Building
Michael Simon – 1st place National Novices Middleweight; Overall champion National Novices and 4th place at Hugh Ross Classics.
Deon Davis – 1st place Bantamweight division at Hugh Ross Classics and National Seniors; 2nd at National Novices.
Kacia Beaton – 2nd place at National Novices and Senior Physique; 3rd place Hugh Ross Classics.
Football
Eon Phillips, Marlon Benjamin and Telston Mc Kinnon who have all done well for the GDF in the National Super League and with the Golden Jaguars.
Cricket
T. Fraser – played ten (10) matches, scoring 284 runs at an average of 28.4 with a best score of 103 not out.
J. Garraway – played nine (9) matches scoring 215 runs at an average of 23.8. He also took 32 wickets at an average of 13.5 runs per wicket.
Rugby
Maureese Skeet – she was a member of the Guyana National Rugby team for the CAC Rugby Championships and the North American and South American Championships.
Avery Corbin – represented Guyana at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi India.
Best Coach
Terence Poole – as coach of the GDF Boxing team Poole has won the National Novices, National Intermediate and Open Championships. He was also Coach of the Guyana team to the CAC Games in Puerto Rico and Commonwealth Games held in New Delhi India.

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