Shiv Chanderpaul, Nicolette Fernandes head Sports Awards list

Feb 23, 2013 Sports

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Guyana’s International Squash player, Nicolette Fernandes was yet again awarded the ‘Sportswoman of the Year’ award for 2012, while West Indies batsman, Shivnarine Chanderpaul owned the award again in the ‘Sportsman of the Year’ category yesterday when the panel deliberated and voted.
Powerlifter, Dawn McCammon–Barker, the 2011 Sportswoman of the Year, won the runner-up 2012 award in that category, while Winston Stoby of Powerlifting fame captured the male runner-up award in the senior category.
Described as “exciting and outstanding” in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Press Release, table tennis player, Chelsea Edghill won the ‘Junior Sportswoman of the Year’ award for a second time.
Badminton player, Priyana Ramdhani, and Squash player, Mary Fung-a-Fat was adjudged joint runner-up winners. Ramdhani won the 2011 ‘Junior Sportswoman’ award.
Cyclist, Paul DeNobrega, described as “a young and promising junior cyclist who lit up the tracks nationally and in the Caribbean” won the 2012 Junior Sportsman of the Year award with Powerlifting’s Gumendra Shewdas taking the runner-up award.
In other awards,
Most Improved Association: The Guyana Squash Association.
Special Award for Person with Disability: Gibran Hussein Sarfaraz (Table Tennis).
Female Sports Official: Stephanie Gomes–Fraser (Swimming).
Male Sports Official: Peter Abdool, President of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control.

Sports Coach: Carl Ince (Squash).
Sports Team: Guyana Junior Squash Team.
Sports Journalist Photographer: Orlando Charles (Stabroek News).
Sports Journalist Non Print: Avenash Ramzan (Channel 28)
Sports Journalist Print: Calvin Roberts (Chronicle).
Sports Association: The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation.
The Panel comprised: Conrad Plummer, Cecil Kennard, Frank DeAbreau, Steve Ninvalle, Neil Kumar, Sonia Roberts, Sharda Veeren Chand, Carlton Joao, representative of Chronicle, representative of NCN and representative of Guyana Times.

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