As the deadline for nominations for the 2009 Aviva/Telegraph School Sport Matters Awards draws near, former winners are making their mark on the world stage.
Sam Northeast, captain of Harrow School’s first XI when they won the team of the year award, progresses well at Kent and with England Under 19. He made a cameo appearance for England seniors as twelfth man at The Brit Oval during the last Ashes Test match.
Elsewhere, Alistair Brownlee, 21, looks set to triumph in the International Triathlon Union men’s World Championship Series, with victories in his last four events.
On the cricket field, victorious in the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup, England left-arm spinner Holly Colvin and wicket-keeper batsman Sarah Taylor, both former winners of awards.
Also moving up, Stephanie Twell, 20, a formidable distance runner and thought by many insiders to be the heir apparent to Paula Radcliffe. She goes from strength to strength as a member of the Aviva UK Athletics team. Twell was the winner of the 1,500 metres at the World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 2008, and has been tipped as one to watch, named as one of the “Telegraph Ten for 2012”.
While several Aviva/Daily Telegraph School Sport Matter Awards winners have finished their studies school and moved onto world-class sporting arenas, the awards are designed to recognise dedication, commitment, team-work and the core belief that sport in the school environment, setting a pattern for life, does matter. In other words, the foundation for sporting success is developed at school.
A host of luminaries from British sport will judge the awards, with first to third place awarded in 10 categories, among them Olympic champions Dame Kelly Holmes, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, James Cracknell and Tim Brabants, and world class sportsmen such as Brian Moore, Roger Uttley, and Alan Smith.
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