National Sports Awards set for January 29

Jan 05, 2023 Sports

By Rawle Toney

Kaieteur News – Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Charles Ramson Jr said the National Sports Awards will return on January 29 at the National Cultural Centre.

Speaking to reporters yesterday at his Ministry’s Main Street office, Minister Ramson said the Awards, last held in May 2019, is an important part of Sports in Guyana, since it allows the Government of Guyana to give recognition to athletes and associations for their outstanding performances.

The National Sports Awards, Ramson highlighted, will be consolidated for the period 2021 – 2022, since 2020 was lost to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s important that people are recognized, and it’s important that everybody that’s involved in sports that they’re recognized. So sports award is something that has existed for a long time, and there’s a reason why it existed for a long time. It always made sense. So we’re happy to be part of the recommencement of the awards, and we expect it to be of a distinct flavour,” Ramson stated.

Ramson hinted that there may be some new categories, adding, “We’ve appointed our new committee, and the committee is going to be a committee that is of high integrity and is a committee of high integrity that everyone would recognize as being qualified and capable to make the appointments and the awards.”

“And we’re very, very happy that they have agreed to be part of the surface of our country in relation to recognizing the sports people and sports in general and development of sports in the country,” Ramson said.

The Sports Awards will culminate a busy weekend for the Ministry of Sport, which will host its second National Sports Conference on Saturday, January 28.

Meanwhile, at the Awards in 2019, Stanton Rose Jr, Guyana’s history-making Senior National Basketball team captain, carved his name into the country’s archives when he was named the Senior Sportsman-of-the-Year.

Rose is the first basketball player in the history of the sport, locally, to be named Sportsman-of-the-Year, and is also the first athlete from Kwakwani to win the prestigious accolade.

He is the youngest player (18 at the time) to ever captain Guyana at the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championship and left the 10-team tournament in Suriname as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) for his sensational performances, which also included a tournament-high 41 points performance that came in Guyana’s 104-102 double overtime win against St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Rose, who led Guyana to an unbeaten run in the championship, totalled 106 points (third overall), led the tournament in steals, totalling 15 at an average of 2.5 per game, was third in points per game (17.7), third in assists per game, eighth in rebounds per game and was the fourth best efficient player.

Chelsea Edghill, who won gold for Guyana in the Under-21 category at the Senior Caribbean Table Tennis Championships in Jamaica in September 2018, walked away with the Senior Sportswoman-of-the-Year award.

COMPLETE RESULTS FOR 2019

Senior Sportsman-of-the-Year: Stanton Rose

Senior Sportswoman-of-the-Year: Chelsea Edghill

Junior Sportsman-of-the-Year: Shomari Wiltshire

Junior Sportswoman-of-the-Year: Priyanna Ramdhani

Sports Association-of-the-Year: GFF

Most Improved Association: GABF

Male Coach-of-the-Year: Junior Hercules

Female Coach-of-the-Year: Shelly Daly-Ramdyhan

Male Sports Official: Franklin Wilson

Female Sports Official: Dr Karen Pilgrim

Female Sports Personality: Mothers in Motor Racing

Sports Personality: Ramesh Sunich

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