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BBC East Sports Awards 2009 Winners Announced

The County’s top sporting stars were rewarded for their achievements at BBC East Sports Awards 2009 Ceremony at Tattersalls in Newmarket last night. Cambridgeshire’s performers were nominated for the regional accolade after being successful at LIVING SPORT county awards.

Top of the bill was Charlotte Edwards. The England women’s cricket captain, originally from Pidley, was presented with the Sports Performer of the Year award by badminton star Gail Emms. Edwards has had an outstanding year, winning both the 20-20 and 50-over World Cups as well as the Ashes in Australia.

Disabled Sports Performer went to Charlotte Cox from Cambridge and Coleridge Athletics Club who won national events in the 100 and 200m and topped her season with one gold and two silver medals at this summer’s Special Olympics GB.

World Water-Ski Racing Champion Kim Lumley presented the Young Volunteer of the Year accolade to Paris Rose-Brixey, 18, who has amassed over 200 hours of volunteering with Cambridgeshire Football Association and Waterbeach Colts as well as Fudoshin Karate club and Hill’s Road Table Tennis Club.

20 year old Daniel Keatings, from Huntingdon Gymnastics club, was rewarded with the regional award for Outstanding Sporting Achievement. He won a silver medal at the recent World Championships, after winning a silver medal in the all around competition and a further Bronze medal at the European Championships back in April.

Keatings produced a flawless display on the pommel horse at the ceremony with fellow club member Louis Smith, while Huntingdon’s female star Marissa King performed a superb floor routine.

Three other LIVING SPORT Awards winners made it to the final three for the BBC Regional Awards were; Cambridge Canagaroos as Club of the Year, Hinchingbrooke School for School of the Year and Paul Hall as Coach of the Year.

Cambridge Cangaroos Trampoling club have opened two new satellite sites at Coleridge and Cottenham to complement their Sawston base to cater for the huge increase in membership to 150 active members, with 40 members regularly competing and emerging on the national scene under the guidance of Head Coach Tony Fagelman.

Hinchingbrooke School 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 and be away from school, as well as those pupils who wouldn’t normal participate in sport and who now enjoy getting active.

Paul Hall heads up the hugely successful Huntingdon Gymnastics Club, home of Olympic gymnasts Smith, Keatings and King. The Club also had 3 young stars at the European Youth Olympics this year. Paul Hall and his team of coaches have a club going places on the international stage but also bursting at the seams with recreational gymnasts.

At another award ceremony Sam Buck, 25, from Cambridge Dive team was a winner at the Sportscoach UK national awards for Young Coach of the Year. Sam was the winner of the county Coach of the Year award last month after leading his divers to success at all levels this year from Novice to National Elite level. Sam is recognised nationally as one of our leading young coaches.

Simon Fairhall, Chief Executive of LIVING SPORT, said, ‘It is tremendous to have athletes from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough recognized at regional level. It gives me great pleasure to congratulate all the winners on their outstanding achievements’

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