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18th
Feburary 2010
4 Ladies
vie for top honours
Anthony De Beauville
With
less than fifty hours to go before the master
of Ceremonies on the evening Winston Springer
Jr, says “And the winner is”! Hundreds
of St. Lucians sports enthusiasts will be glued
to their favourite radio station to find out
who will emerge as the Senior Sportswoman for
2009. Like last year the Gala Ceremony will
be held at the Gaiety on Rodney Bay on Saturday
20th February, 2010, under the distinguished
patronage of Her Excellency Governor General
Dame Pearlette Louisy.
The selection committee has narrowed the list
to four making the race for the prestigious
award a very interesting one. For the past five
years the top performers have evoked many emotions
from the sporting public, and this year promises
to be even more competitive.
Sensational world top ranked CAC high jumper
Levern Spencer from the sport of athletics,
CAC gold medalist, Danielle Beaubrun from swimming,
medium fast bowler Maria David from cricket,
and outstanding blocker and hitter Dania Hamilton
from volleyball make up the shortlisted nominees
for the 2009 Sportswoman of the Year category
and are all in with a chance.
Maria David caught the eyes of many cricket
fans when she came onto the scene, bowling with
aggression and captured the attention of the
local cricket authorities. In the 2009 Courts/Laurie
Auguste Women’s Twenty20 Cricket Tournament,
David amassed a total of 115 runs, with a top
score of 57, playing for the Choiseul Ladies’
Cricket Team.
Although her bowling did not have the expected
returns, nonetheless her form with the bat merited
her selection onto the St. Lucia national women
cricket team. In the West Indies Cricket Board
Regional Women’s Tournament in Guyana,
against Barbados she slammed a top score of
42 for St.Lucia which further enhanced her reputation
and the quality of player she is.
Over the years a lot has been disclosed about
this female swimmer, who holds multiple national
age group records, and in 2009, further solidified
her reputation with seven gold and four silver
medals, holding; seven national records, and
qualifying for both the CASCO Games and Commonwealth
Games later this year.
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Olympian, Danielle
Beaubrun, currently a student at the Florida
Gulf Coast University and a member of the
Sea Jays Swim Club, during the many competitions
in 2009, won two gold and a silver medal at
the highly competitive CCCAN Swimming Championships;
the best ever achievement by any St. Lucian
swimmer.
She was the only female high jumper from the
Central America and Caribbean Region to qualify
for the IAAF World Track and Field Championships
in Germany in 2009. Olympian Levern Spencer
is currently ranked the number one female
high jumper in the Caribbean, and amongst
the top twelve female high jumpers in the
world.
Last year she competed in a number of championships,
where she won five gold medals, one silver
medal, and one bronze medal, including a memorable
performance at the CAC Track and Field Championships
in Cuba; successfully soaring over the bar
at 1.91 metres, and setting a new St. Lucia
national record in the process.
Having successfully captained the Le Club
Volleyball Team to championship victory, winning
the Bank of Saint Lucia sponsored Guy Brown
Memorial Volleyball League at which she was
awarded the Best Spiker, Dania Hamilton had
other exploits on her mind.
She captained the St.Lucia Female Volleyball
Team which competed in the World Championship
Qualifiers in the NORCECA region, winning
the Most Valuable Player Award in the process.
With her partner, she won every local beach
volleyball tournament, and qualified for the
CASCO Games beach volleyball tournament in
Puerto Rico.
Discuss
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