AWARDS
?The School Sport Magazine awards are back – as big and broad-ranging as ever before.
Our popular awards will again involve eight different sporting categories, all sponsored by leading sports companies who are offering prizes to the winners.
All the categories are based on achievements during the 2009/10 school year and the winners will be announced in the autumn.
Once again the categories for the state and independent sports schools of the year will be judged on the overall achievements in 25 different sports and more than 100 different competitions throughout the year.
And they will be awarded to the schools which, in our opinion, have achieved success at the highest level in a series of different sports and competitions – not just one.
The independent sports school of the year will again be sponsored by Ram Sports while the state sports school of the year is backed by Mark Harrod Ltd.
The prestigious sports teacher of the year, awarded to the person at your school who you think deserves recognition for outstanding service or commitment above and beyond the norm, and won last year by Gordon Campbell, from Winsley Primary School, near Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, will be sponsored by Crazy Catch, Flicx UK’s innovative catching and fielding aid.
Two other popular categories are the boys and girls school sports teams of the year – awarded to teams who have achieved remarkable results or gained extraordinary national honours?
The boys sports team of the year will be generously sponsored by Huck Nets while the girls sports team of the year is backed by Davies Sports.
Similarly Bishop Sports & Leisure Ltd has agreed to support primary sports school of the year, which last year drew more than 200 entries.
The sporting schoolboy and schoolgirl of the year could be a pupil who has broken all school sporting records, scored an extraordinary number of goals, tries, runs or points for your school team in whatever sport they play, been the matchwinner on the way to a national title or overcome great personal odds just to compete and achieve?
This year Maude Sports has again agreed to sponsor both exciting categories – with the only proviso that we are looking for their achievements while representing the school – not for clubs or sides outside.
Now all we do need are your nominations. You can nominate in one or as many categories as you wish – with a brief resume of why you think the person or team deserves to be recognised so please get writing.
It doesn’t matter if you are a teacher, coach, parent, pupil or administrator – all your nominations are welcome and will be judged by an expert panel.
Email nominations to
info@schoolsportmag.co.uk are
preferred but postal entries are more than welcome.
2009 AWARDS
Coopers Company & Coborn School, from Upminster in Essex, have become the first winners of the State Sports School of the Year in the 2009 School Sport Magazine Awards.
Judges decided that the Essex sports college, who reached the final stages of a host of national competitions, demonstrated “a high-level of achievement at national level in a range of sports, both for boys and girls, and therefore fully deserved the award.”
Coopers were one of eight winners in the annual awards, now in their fifth year, run by School Sport Magazine, published today.
In another new category, Whitgift School from Surrey have become the first winners of the Independent Sports School of the Year.
In a successful year for the school, Whitgift were crowned national boys U16 hockey champions, both indoors and outdoors, U13 Bunbury Cup cricket champions and U13 Rosslyn Park National Schools Rugby Sevens winners.
Primary School Sports Team of the Year were Bengeo Primary School in Hertfordshire who triumphed in the 2009 National Kwik Cricket Tournament at Headingley.
Their victory was all the more remarkable as the team have no cricket square at their school and had never even won their local district competition before.
Winner of the Girls Sports Team of the Year was Maltman’s Green School U11 gymnastic team, from Gerrard’s Cross in Buckinghamshire, who have been unbeaten in artistic schools gymnastics competitions for three years and this year notched up no less than four national titles.
Southend High School for Boys were deserved winners of the Boys Sports Team of the Year for winning the English Schools Cross Country Cup for the second year running with the lowest points total since the competition started in 1984.
Georgia Peel, 15, from Farnborough Hill School in Hampshire, won the sporting schoolgirl of the year award after taking an incredible eight seconds off the 1500m English Schools Athletics Championship record.
In a double triumph for schools athletics, Clovis Asong, 14, from Manchester’s Our Lady’s Catholic Sports College won the sporting schoolboy of the year title after breaking the junior boys 400m record in a time of 48.86s.
Gordon Campbell, from Winsley Primary School, near Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire was named Sports Teacher of the Year.
Phil Tusler, publishing editor of School Sport Magazine, said: "This has been a remarkable year for competitive sport in schools and the awards are a celebration of that.”
“We had hundreds of nominations this year and deciding the winners has been a difficult but very rewarding endeavour.”
Full details and further information about all the award winners can be found in the new edition of School Sport Magazine, published today.
