Take a bow for the National Sports Awards nominees!!

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Last week Thursday, the Swaziland National Sport and Recreation Council (SNSRC) unveiled the list of nominees for the inaugural National Sports Awards 2017. The glitzy affair was held at the Gigi’s Restaurant in Ezulwini where representatives of the National Sports Associations, administrators, athletes, coaches and the media houses were present.

The Swaziland National Sports Awards are the ultimate reward program of sport in Swaziland. The Awards seek to recognise and motivate excellence in sport participation by all sport practitioners.

SELECTION OF NOMINEES

Nomination is guided the National Sports Awards Rulebook. The National Sports Awards are designed in a way that involves contributions from all of the over 25 recognised National Sport Associations and other relevant stakeholders, including the media.

Recognised National Sport Associations are encouraged to host their own respective annual awards whose winners should ideally become nominees of these Awards. Nominations in each category are unlimited in number. However, only the top three nominees for each category are announced prior to the Awards Gala Evening, with the exception of the Lifetime Achievement Award whose winner is announced on the night by the Honourable Minister of Sport, Culture & Youth Affairs. The SNSRC Chairman may from time to time award additional special awards to deserving sports practitioners.

AWARD CATEGORIES

The National Sports Awards carry a total of thirteen categories. These thirteen categories are:

Outstanding Junior Sportsman;

Outstanding Junior Sportswoman;

Outstanding Sportsman;

Outstanding Sportswoman;

Outstanding Sportsman with a Disability;

Outstanding Sportswoman with a Disability;

Outstanding Sports Team;

Outstanding Coach;

Outstanding Sports Administrator;

Outstanding National Sport Association;

Outstanding Sports Journalist;

Sports Star;

Lifetime Achievement Sport Award

2017 NATIONAL SPORTS AWARDS NOMINEES

OUTSTANDING JUNIOR SPORTSMAN

Thandolwethu Motsa – Taekwondo

Mfanawekhaya Dube – Taekwondo

Likhwa Manyatsi – Football

OUTSTANDING JUNIOR SPORTSWOMAN

Carlota Munave – Taekwondo

Robin Young – Swimming

OUTSTANDING SPORTSMAN

Sibusiso Matsenjwa – Athletics

Linda Dlamini – Oyama Kyokushin

Tony Tsabedze – Football

OUTSTANDING SPORTWOMAN

Phumlile Ndzinisa – Athletics

Jabulisile Khathwane – Netball

Carol Preat – Cycling

OUTSTANDING DISABILITY SPORTSMAN

Mcebo Dludlu – Athletics

Qhawe Nzima – Special Olympics

OUTSTANDING DISABILITY SPORTSWOMAN

TBA

OUTSTANDING SPORTS TEAM

Sihlangu Semnikati – Football

Taekwondo National Team 2015 – Taekwondo

MTN Khemani – Cycling

OUTSTANDING SPORTS COACH

Muzi Mabuza – Athletics

Thabo ‘Koki’ Vilakati – Football

William Kelly – Cycling

OUTSTANDING SPORTS ADMINISTRATOR

Phumlani Ndwandwe – Darts

Frederick Mngomezulu – Football

Mbusi Motsa – Cycling

OUSTANDING NATIONAL SPORT ASSOCIATION

National Football Association of Swaziland

Cycling Association of Swaziland

Swaziland National Darts Association

OUSTANDING SPORTS JOURNALIST

Ashmond Ndzima – Times of Swaziland

Ntokozo Magongo – Times of Swaziland

Sibusiso Masilela – Swazi Observer

SPORTS STAR

All Nominees from The Sportsman & Sportswoman Categories. To Be Decided By Public Vote And Announced On The 28th October 2017.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

To Be Announced On 28th October 2017

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