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13th
Feburary 2010
Three Junior
Sportswomen Shortlisted For Top National Awards
Anthony De Beauville
 With
exactly one week to go the nation’s attention
has switched to the 2009 National Sports Awards
that will be hosted at the Gaiety on Rodney
Bay under the distinguished patronage of Her
Excellency Governor General Dame Pearlette Cleopatra
Louisy. The prestigious event is scheduled for
Saturday 20th February 2010.
The front runners for the top categories have
been shortlisted, from the list of nominees
submitted by the 15 National Sports Associations
that met the deadline date of Thursday 21st
January.
It makes an interesting four categories of fifteen
shortlisted nominees, with a number of the athletes
having been in the national sports awards spotlight
in the past. Amongst the fifteen nominees are
three junior women whom the selection committee
has narrowed the list to; making the race for
the prestigious award an interesting one.
The three nominees are Siona Huxley representing
Swimming, Sandisha Antoine from Athletics, and
Julia d’ Auvergne from the sport of Tennis.
Standing just above 6‘ tall Sonia Huxley
has been a force to be reckoned with locally
from the time she began swimming competitively;
Her development continued to make upward leaps,
and this sixteen-year-old a member of the Rodney
Heights Aquatic Club, established her reputation
as one of St. Lucia’s leading female swimmers
in 2009.
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A student of The International
School, she set four National Records, along
with three 15 – 17 Age Group Records.
In Regional Competitions, Huxley amassed fifteen
gold, five silver, and four bronze medals,
and in the process, set five OECS Records.
Competing at the international level, she
re-wrote the National Record books in establishing
new marks in the 50 and 100 metre backstroke
events, respectively; and is the only St.
Lucian to have qualified for the 2010 Youth
Olympic Games in Singapore.
Certainly a Tennis star in the making, Julia
d’ Auvergne, a student of the St. Joseph’s
Convent and a member of the Marcelle Tennis
Academy, is now the number one ranked Under-13
female tennis player in the Caribbean.
The sixteen-year-old tennis player participated
in numerous tournaments locally and regionally,
not just making her country proud, but leaving
an indelible mark on all who saw her play.
Her goal is to compete for St. Lucia, irrespective
of residing in Martinique. Eighteen-year-old
Sandisha Antoine has been consistent in her
performances, winning three gold, and three
silver medals in regional competitions in
the triple-jump event.
At the 38th Junior Carifta Track and Field
Championships held in St. Lucia in 2009, Sandisha
cleared 12.91 metres to win gold, setting
a new national female triple jump record in
the process. She followed this up with a fourth
place finish at the Pan American Junior Championships
which was held in the Twin Republic of Trinidad
and Tobago.
Discuss
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