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Sports Woking Awards 2010
The Sport Woking Awards evening seems to grow in popularity from one year to the next and this years awards were no exception. The event had proven to be so popular that it had to move to a much bigger venue the Holiday Inn, Woking where the brand new conference facilities could be enjoyed.
The Sport Woking Awards 2010 provides a fantastic opportunity to recognise and reward talented local sports performers, coaches, volunteers, teams and clubs for their outstanding achievements in the past 12 months. The largest turnout ever of approximately 200 sportspeople for the annual Sport Woking awards presentation applauded many and various achievements in and contributions to sport in the Woking area.
The Young Team of the Year was the Woking Hockey Club U12 squad, for their achievements this season in becoming undefeated Wessex League Division 1 champions and also coming 2nd in the national championships, losing only to Canterbury.
Graham Hoptroff was also awarded for his continuous support and development of Judo and received Surrey Youth Games Team Manager of the Year award. Wokings
Swimming Team were also awarded Surrey Youth Games Team of the Yearawarded for their tremendous efforts during the Games, coming in first place overall by one of the largest point marginsat the competition.
At the other end of the height scale came the Woking Blackhawks Flyers Team of the Year, following their outstanding performance in retaining the Wessex Basketball Division 1 title for the second year running.
One of the top awards of the evening was presented to Eleanor Gatrell for Sports Personality of the Year, who unfortunately couldnt be there in person to collect her award as she is currently representing England at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, an acceptable reason it was felt! She has had a brilliant year retaining her title of South of England Champion and finishing 2nd in the European Championships. She also picked up the The Trotman Trophy awarded each year since 1971 to the person or club felt to have achieved the most overall.
Louis Murphy received the Young Sports Personality of the year award for his great achievements over the last 4 years due to his development from a novice boxer to being number one in Great Britain for his age and weight category.
Alex Hovden was awarded the Disabled Sports Award for his tremendous acheivements in sailing this year and becoming National Champion.
The outstanding contributions made by a wide range of Volunteers and Coaches were also recognised. There were many nominations, from swimming, tennis, cricket, sailing and gymnastics, but Coach of the Year went to Rob Dannatt from Park Tennis for his development of tennis across all age ranges and abilities.
Chris Burton-Brown of Woking Hockey Club was celebrated for his long service, development and organisation of the club as Volunteer of the Year, whilst the Outstanding Services to Sport Award went to Tom Rowley for his 40 years service to Woking Athletic Club. Abdullah Shah picked up Young Volunteer of the Year for his great work in dedicating nearly 100 hours both in and outside of school , volunteering at local school competitions and umpiring for the younger age groups cricket matches at his school.
Liz Morley, PE co-ordinator from The Park School also received an award for Impact and Innovation in School Sport as she works tirelessly planning PE both in school and outside of school so that all students have the opportunity to take part in sport, organising a lot of the activities in her own time.
Finally the Club of the Year went to The Woking Gymnastics Club recognising their enormous efforts in the provision of gymnastics for 8 80 year olds for 1400 participants, from Kindergym to Commonwealth Games representatives.
Congratulations to all winners and nominees who were all well deserving and obviously appreciated for the work that they do for their sports and clubs. A special congratualtions to the following who have been shortlisted and will represent Woking in the prestigious Surrey County Sports Awards on 25 November at Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking:
For details of previous winners please go to Sport Woking Awards 2009
For further information or to be invovled in Sport Woking Awards 2011 please contact Jill Dixon on 01483 743 804 or email jill.dixon@woking.gov.uk