Barbados: The thirty ninth annual Nationwide Sports activities Council Award ceremony got here off final week beneath the theme, ‘Creating Id Via Sports activities,’ and a number of other of the island’s main athletes have been recognised for his or her excellent performances in Barbados.
Taking the highest awards for ‘Sports activities Persona Of The Yr’ and ‘The Minister’s Award’ was the island’s prime feminine athlete, Sada Williams, who captured the bronze medal on the World Championships this yr in Budapest.
Within the junior class, 14-year-old Hannah Wilson, who’s now a Ladies’s Fide Grasp after her title was ratified by the Worldwide Chess Federation (FIDE) on the finish of December, received the ‘Junior Excellent Feminine Award’ from a subject of athletes that included swimmer Heidi Stoute, middle-distance runner Ashlyn Simmons, bicycle owner Arielle Greaves, and triathlete and aquathlete Isis Gaskin.
Seven-year-old golf prodigy Ashton O’kola took house the ‘Junior Excellent Male’ Award, in a subject that included Teon Haynes, bicycle owner Daniel Lashley and seashore wrestler Adrian Maynard.
15-year-old St. Michael College scholar Tammaso Layson began his yr in model when he surfed to a silver medal in opposition to essentially the most gifted under-16 junior surfers from North America, Hawaii and the Caribbean on the Rip Curl Gromsearch last on the Palm Springs Surf Membership Wave Pool in sunny California final week.
Browsing in a division with 16 surfers, Layson scored the second-highest wave rating within the occasion when he posted a 9.5 out of 10.
Layson received the qualifying occasion held in New Smyrna, Florida in August 2023 and he now seems to be ahead to a busy aggressive season between novice {and professional} occasions on the Nationwide Scholastic Browsing Affiliation (NSSA) novice and World Surf League (WSL) processional browsing calendars.
Netizens additionally prolonged greetings to the winners and mentioned that their work has garnered the eye of sports activities folks throughout the globe.
Barbados Youngsters Listing mentioned,” There have been some excellent efforts from a lot of our gifted younger folks in 2023 and we want that they proceed to work exhausting, concentrate on their targets and reap much more success in 2024.”
