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Sports Awards 2010 Winners Announced - Nov 10

18 November 2010

LIVING SPORT Sports Awards 2010 – Winners Announced

The County’s sporting stars and unsung heroes were rewarded for their achievements at the Sports Awards on Wednesday 17 November at the East of England Showground in Peterborough. Paul Stainton from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire’s Peterborough Breakfast show presenter hosted a glittering evening of Awards organised by LIVING SPORT and supported by the Cambridge News. Record number nominations, representing 31 sports, were received for the ten awards, with all the winners going forward to the BBC East Region awards, competition was stiff. 

Top of the bill was Luke Folwell.  The England Commonwealth Games Record Breaking Gymnast won the Advance Performance Greenwheel Cycles Sports Performer of the Year. Folwell has had an outstanding year, winning five medals, including two gold medals  at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. The Huntingdon gymnasts was given the nod over Runners up Louise Hazel, Commonwealth champion heptathlete, and World number 1’s Neil Robertson (Snooker) and Greg Harlow (Bowls).

Peterborough Regional College Young Sports Performer of the Year went to 15 year old Lewis Hook, a Peterborough ice hockey player,  is captain of the England under 16’s team, has also recently signed a new contract with the Phantoms . Charlotte Cox from Cambridge and Coleridge Athletics Club who followed on from last years success to win 4 gold medals at the World Games for Athletes with Down Syndrome, beat World champion swimmers Harriet Lee and Fran Williamson to the Huntingdonshire Regional College Disabled Sports Performer of the Year title for the 2nd year in a row.

The people behind the performers were also rewarded for their efforts and Anglia Ruskin University Coach of the Year went to Gary Brown from Huntingdonshire Regional College who has led his college team to success this year at the Inaugural National British Colleges Men’s Football Championships. Volunteers were recognised and the Cambridge News Services to Sport Award went to Jill Harrison from Eaton Socon for her years of dedication to Netball.  Jill has played many different and vital roles within the sport, from umpire to administrator. The Sports Leaders UK Young Volunteer of the Year went to Matthew Newton, 14, who has amassed over 300 hours of volunteering with the Peterborough City Rowing Club as well as the City of Peterborough Swimming Club.

The LIVING SPORT Club of the Year went to the Cambridge Triathlon Club who have just recently celebrated their 25th anniversary and have had some outstanding achievements throughout their existence. One such achievement is the successful ‘Triathlon for School’ program where by two coaches deliver sessions in schools. Their Head Coach Tim Williams also took the runners up position in the Anglia Ruskin University Coach of the Year.

The Matthew Warn Power of Sport Award is given to projects who have made a real impact on the local community by addressing the needs of under-represented groups  and demonstrates the ‘power of sport’  to change lives. The Award was presented by special guest gymnasts Louis Smith and Daniel Keatings to the Cambridge City Council’s ‘Forever Active’ Scheme for their work with people aged 50 and over to keep healthy and active across a range of sports.  

Schools were recognised with the Rawlinsons School of the Year, which went to Jack Hunt School, Peterborough; who do tremendous work in and outside curriculum time with a huge range of sports, catering for elite standard pupils by enabling them to train long hours, as well as those pupils who wouldn’t normally participate in sport and who now enjoy getting active.

The latest addition to the awards this year, the Team of the Year sponsored by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, went to the Women’s Junior 14 Quadruple Sculling Team from the Isle of Ely Rowing Club. The girls have seen massive amounts of success throughout the year despite only forming at the beginning of 2010, at both regional and national events including a 4th place finish at the National Schools Regatta.

Rebecca Gilbertson, LIVING SPORT said “The event was a great success and really showed off the calibre of sports performers and good work that goes on in the county, Congratulations to all”

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Notes to Editors

1. We want more people to take part in sport and physical activity and LIVING SPORT’s vision is “active, healthy, successful communities where everyone can play, achieve and enjoy”.  Our aim is to work with a wide range of individuals and organisations involved in sport, bringing them together to form one powerful single voice for sport in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

As part of our role as a champion for sport in the county, LIVING SPORT organises the Annual Sports Awards to celebrate local sporting achievement by sports people, clubs, schools, coaches and volunteers. 

For more information, photographs or interviews please contact Rebecca Gilbertson, Events Coordinator, on 01487 849929 or rebecca.gilbertson@livingsport.co.uk.

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