20 athletes including 3 awarded for 2011 outstanding performances

Apr 29, 2012 Sports

Police Progressive Youth Club Annual Award Ceremony…

By Juanita Hooper
Under the theme ‘Bridging the gap between sports and education for a brighter future’, thirty athletes from the Police Progressive Youth Club were rewarded for their outstanding athletic and scholastic performances through the year 2011 last Friday evening at the Police Sports Club, Eve Leary.
President of Club, Pauline Massay, who took up the position last March (2011), in her report at the ceremony stated that club started the year on a high and maintained that high throughout the reporting fiscal year.
Listing the events the club participated in, Massay reported that club won 286 medals from the 17 events which included the Inter Services Athletic Championship, which were held from the start of the athletic season to the conclusion, “The club participated in every event held in the year 2011 from the Athletics Association of Guyana National Cross Country to the South American 10km within the period members won some 286 medals from the 17 events held which included the Inter Services Athletics Championship.”
The President revealed that several of the athletes represented Guyana at the International Level at various meets such as the NACAC Cross Country (Trinidad and Tobago), Inter Guiana Games (Suriname), Commonwealth Youth Games (Isles of Mann England) and the ALBA Games in Venezuela in which Winston George, AAG Senior Male Athlete of Year, was rewarded as the ‘Man of the Year’ qualified for the Olympics in the 400m in a time of 45.86 seconds.
Crowning the club’s performance for the year, Natasha Alder was named as the AAG Female Athlete of the year for the second consecutive time with Neisa Alleyne, the runner-up Female Athlete and Lyndon Wilson coach of PPYC, the Coach of the year for a second consecutive time.
She further added that the club is the winner of the National under-23 Championship and the President & Jeffords Classic, two of the major events of the Athletic Association of Guyana.
Massay, who disclosed that the Club holds Mathematics and English classes for both Primary and Secondary students of club of Wednesday and Fridays, expressed heartfelt gratitude to individuals that contributed towards the success of the club during the 2011-2012 period. “Of course our achievements were supported by the Guyana Police Force, the AAG via Colin Boyce, Coaches Lyndon Wilson (1st Vice President of the Club) and Mark Scott, Secretary Leota Bobb and the general factotum, the business community.
Deputy Permanent Secretary within the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, Steve Ninvalle, in his feature address challenged the AAG to initiate an athletic archive of previous Guyanese athletes to aid in the development of Track and Field, “This will only be for the better development of the athletes and also the wider development of the sport.”
President of the AAG, Colin Boyce, in his brief remarks stressed on the athletes being disciplined as it’s the key in becoming a better athlete.
Boyce also referred to George as one of the most discipline athletes the club has produce since it existence.
The awardees are as follow:
Natasha Alder: Senior Female Athlete of the Year and Overall Winner
Winston George: Senior Male Athlete of the Year and Overall Winner
Juanita Hooper: Most improved Senior Female Field event athlete; Most outstanding Secondary Student of the Year
Kevin Tucker: Most Outstanding Territory Student of the Year
Roseamon Solomon: Most Outstanding Primary Student of the Year
Julio Sinclair: Most Improved Senior Male Field event athlete of the Year
Tiffany Carto: Most Outstanding Junior Female athlete of the Year
Tevin Garraway: Most Outstanding Junior Male athlete of the Year
Marcia Isaacs: Most Improved Junior Female Field event athlete of the Year
Clarence Greene: Most Improved Junior Male Field event athlete; Most Discipline Male athlete of the Year
Tracy Moses: Coaches Award for Most Dedicated Female Athlete of the Year
Calvin Thomas: Coaches Award for Most Dedicated Male Athlete of the Year
Alexis Williams: Most Discipline Female Athlete of the Year
Alita Moore: Most Improved Junior Female athlete of the Year
Janelle Jonas: Most Improved Senior Female Athlete of the Year
Leota Bobb: Female Sport Personality of the Year
David Haywood: Male Sport Personality of the Year
Special Awards were given to the Parris Gym and Ms. Paula Alexander (Physiotherapist).

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