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18th
Feburary 2010
5 VIE FOR
TOP SPOT
Anthony De Beauville
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clock hands continue ticking away at the hours
before St.Lucia’s top Male athletes are
revealed to the world for the year 2009 at the
Gaiety in Rodney Bay. Five have been shortlisted
for the prestigious male Sportsman of the Year.
The Gala event is again under the patronage
of Her Excellency Governor General Dame Pearlette
Louisy and is scheduled to commence at 7:30pm
on the buzzer.
Shortlisted for this prestigious award is Adrian
Albert from the SLTTA, Kurt Maraj from the SLCA,
Zepherinus Joseph from the SLAA, Julien Brice
from the SLASA and Darren Sammy from the SLNCA.
Interestingly 2009 saw Darren Sammy amassing
a total of 476 runs at an average of 43.27,
and capturing 23 wickets with his medium pace
bowling for the Windward Islands in the West
Indies Cricket Board Regional Senior Cricket
Tournament.
In a knock which emphasized his long recognized
potential, Sammy stroked a scintillating 121
against cricket rivals Barbados; Called up for
duty against Bangladesh after the original squad
of players withdrew their services, Sammy was
appointed vice-captain, and averaged 56.96 with
the bat. He was also one of the leading wicket-takers,
averaging 17.33 runs per wicket.
Sammy went on to represent the West Indies at
the International Cricket Council Twenty20 Champions
Trophy Tournament in South Africa, and was appointed
captain of the Windward Islands Senior Cricket
team.
After winning the first stage of the Independence
Cycling Race, and placing third in the second
stage, this speedster Kurt Maraj, at the Father’s
Day Cycle Race in Grenada placed third in the
Time Trial, second in the Criterium, and third
in the Road Race. At the 2009 Organization of
Eastern Caribbean States Cycling Championships
held in St. Lucia, Maraj crossed the finish
line in fourth place.
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 For
a number of years he has been one of the leading
table tennis players in the region, and in
2009 the exceptionally talented Adrian Albert,
won six gold medals, three silver medals,
and one bronze medal in locally held tournaments;
while regionally, he won one gold medal, one
silver, and one bronze medal at the French
Antilles Tournament.
Julian Brice has been attracting lots of attention
as a rising star in the swimming pool, and
is fast becoming one of the leading sub-regional
swimmers. A Seventeen-year-old student of
the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, and
a member of the Rodney Heights Aquatic Centre
Swim Club, he has firmly established himself
as the 15 – 17 Age Group Division’s
leading male swimmer.
2009 was outstanding afor Brice who established
five Age Group Records, and won thirty-one
gold six silver, and five bronze medals during
participation in the Organization of Eastern
Caribbean States, CARIFTA, and FINA World
Swimming Championships.
With five consecutive Organization of Eastern
Caribbean States half-marathon titles under
his belt, along with a number of creditable
performances over the half-marathon, marathon,
and other distances, Zepherinus Joseph is
undoubtedly the leading long-distance runner
in the region.
Having beaten off the region’s premier
long distance runner, the legendary Pamenos
Ballantyne out of St.Vincent and the Grenadines
at every race in which the two have met in
recent times, Joseph had podium finishes in
every race that he ran in 2009.
Meanwhile , On the night of Saturday 20th
February 2010, those five outstanding athletes
interestingly will stand proud, but only one
of them will cop the prestigious award for
2009 Sportsman of the Year.
Discuss
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