Sports Recognition Awards - Monday 2nd December

The hunt is now on to find the area's next big sporting stars to follow in the footsteps of local sport heroes, Rebecca Adlington, Ollie Hynd, Sam Hynd, Charlotte Henshaw, Ben & Tom Birchall, Elliot Clogg and the many others who have represented the area nationally and internationally winning world titles and Commonwealth and Olympic medals.

The Armchair Club, with the support of More Leisure Community Trust and the News Journal is asking for nominations for this year’s Sports Recognition Awards.

The deadline for nominations is 5.00pm on Friday 1st November, so please submit your nominations asap!

The awards are intended to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements by sportspeople from throughout the community between 1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024. Nominations are invited for ten categories:

Junior team of the year

Junior sportsperson of the year

Junior Sports Leader of the year

Junior disabled sportsperson of the year

Club of the year

Disabled sportsperson of the year

Sportsperson of the year

Coach of the year

Team of the year

Volunteer of the year (this also includes referees, officials, administrators etc.)

Further information and a nomination form to download are available here or by calling the Armchair Club on 01623 707017. Nominations are only being accepted by e-mail with a scanned or photographed application form and must include a photograph of the nominee, and preferably a 30/45 second video of the nominee in sporting action. Again, to repeat, postal applications are not being accepted.

https://www.armchairclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SportsRecognitionAwards-NomineeForm2024.pdf

Nominees must either live (or have lived) or pursue their sport within the districts of Ashfield & Mansfield.

Host or Publisher Stewart Rickersey