Over 200 members of the Basketball Community will gather in the Legends Suite of the Etihad Stadium in Manchester on Saturday evening to celebrate the achievements of the game’s volunteers over the course of the year. Basketball England reintroduced the Annual Volunteer Awards in 2018 which proved extremely popular with the membership and the 2019 programme of awards has built on the success of last year.
Nominations were received in 14 categories, with winners in each category being crowned in each of Basketball England’s ten regions, ensuring that 140 people have had their voluntary service recognised this year, with announcements being made over the summer. All regional winners have been put forward to the national awards, with three nominees selected in each category and invited to attend the Basketball England Annual Volunteer Awards event this weekend, where all the nominees will be treated to dinner and an evening of entertainment, before the winners in each category will be announced and presented with their awards.
The full list of nominees is as follows:
AWARDS |
NOMINEE |
NOMINEE |
NOMINEE |
|
Bev Guymon Inspiring Female |
Siobhan Prior |
Maddy Doyle |
Natalie Feurtado |
|
Media/Photographer of the Year |
Alan Mousley |
Graham Hodges |
Dave Moore |
|
School of the Year |
Ridgeway Academy |
Reddish Vale High School |
Barking Abbey |
|
Teacher of the Year |
Ali Arber |
Russell Smith |
Daniel Hildreth |
|
Community Club of the Year |
Kent Crusaders |
Haringey Sports Development |
Sheffield Hatters |
|
Dave Fisher Children's Coach of the Year |
Philip Hughes |
Steph Johnson |
Kelson Dickson |
|
John Sage Coach of the Year |
Robert Banks |
Jo Wilkinson |
Clare Reed |
|
Statistician of the Year |
Cliff Fullbrook |
Andrea Boreland |
Tracey Grieves Martin |
|
Bill Taylor Table Official of the Year |
Tracey Griffiths |
Lindsay Chapman |
Zane Haidukova |
|
KK Mitchell Young Official of the Year |
Maria Delgado |
Leah Page |
Harvey West |
|
Mary Clark Services to Officiating Award |
Dave Durance & Vera Moses |
Claire Ormandy |
Alison Muir |
|
Steve Lallament Referee of the Year |
David Griffin |
Christopher Chapman |
Roger Murie |
|
Brian Dobson Young Volunteer of the Year |
Natasha Barker |
Dylan Consterdine |
Craig Colley |
|
Harry Errington Volunteer of the Year |
Jenny O'Neill |
Andrea Garland |
Khuram Chowdhry |
“I’d like to congratulate all of the volunteers who received an award at regional level and thank them for their efforts and contribution to the game of basketball. Basketball simply would not exist at a community level without the countless volunteer hours put in week in week out by people in the game and its great that we can recognise a number of people each year for their efforts” said David Butler, Basketball England’s Delivery Director.
“I’d especially like to congratulate those shortlisted for the national awards by our various panels and look forward to welcoming them to Manchester on Saturday evening for what will be an amazing evening and a celebration of some great people from our game.”
In addition to the national volunteer awards, Basketball England will also recognise the long service of a number of volunteers in the game with the Services To Basketball award, presented to recognise long and distinguished service to the game, with nominees having given at least 10 years of service before being considered for nomination.
2019’s recipients of the Services To Basketball award will be Mike Neal, Trevor Pountain, Rick Wooldridge, Andy Harrison-Beaumont, Mike Maddox, David Turner, Chris Bunnett, Danny James, Peter Dyke, Pat Smith and Sheffield Hatters Basketball Club.
Keep up to date with all the news from the 2019 Annual Volunteer Awards as the winners are announced on Saturday night via www.basketballengland.co.uk and @bballengland across our social media channels.
