Gauteng Sport and Recreation on Gauteng School Sport Awards

Tomorrow’s stars shine at School Sport Awards

Johannesburg based Troyeville Primary School tasted the most success at the revived Gauteng School Sport Awards last Friday (21 February 2014), scooping three awards in different categories as the event to honour tomorrow’s champions made a return after an 11 year hiatus, last held in 2002.

The awards, which have been themed Celebrating Today’s Stars, Tomorrow’s Champions, were held at Birchwood Hotel in Ekurhuleni. Troyeville Primary’s Volleyball team walked off with the honour of Team of the Year after an excellent season in 2013, and also produced 2 individual winners in Nkosinathi Moyo (Coach of the Year) and Dalane Dube (Primary School Male Athlete of the Year).

Gauteng Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation MEC, Lebogang Maile, has said he is pleased with the strides being made to move school sport forward despite the challenges. Maile has long endorsed the reintroduction of the awards as an important feat in ensuring that school sport is once again structured as the breeding ground of tomorrow’s champions.

Maile also added: “Part of our plan is to ensure that we mobilise all sectors of society to develop infrastructure for sport and avail resources for sustainable programmes like the running of leagues, provision of equipment and attire for athletes as well as ensuring that we have adequately skilled officials and leaders to run our school sport.”

The award winners in all categories were announced as follows: 

The Gauteng School Sport Awards are organised in partnership with the Gauteng Department of Education.

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