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Call For Talented Young Sports People
For immediate release
10 March 2011
Call For Talented Young Sports People
Significant prizes and athlete sponsorship up for grabs as 2011 ASICS Sports Awards launch
The search for New Zealand's most talented young sports people is underway with the launch of the 2011 ASICS Sports Awards, giving year 7 and 8 students the chance to win the ultimate prize - an annual elite athlete sponsorship package.
Students who have achieved outstanding results or who have defied the odds to achieve sporting success intermediate school are eligible to be nominated for the ASICS Sports Award.
The awards will be judged at the end of each school term, across five regions throughout New Zealand, with the term one nominations closing on 15 April. Every term a winner from each region will be announced, with all regional winners then eligible for the supreme award which will be judged and announced at the end of the year.
Regional winners will receive ASICS gear both
for themselves and their schools, while the Supreme 2011
ASICS Sports Award winner will be invited to follow in the
footsteps of the likes of Ross Taylor, Casey Williams and
Isaia Toeava as a sponsored elite ASICS athlete.
The awards, which are now in their second year, were started by ASICS to encourage young New Zealanders to get active and strive to achieve their sporting goals says ASICS' Jenny Holdaway.
"We have chosen to focus on intermediate
level (year 7 and 8 students) as we acknowledge that there
are numerous sporting awards out there for secondary school
students, but very few for intermediate age students, who
are at a crucial stage in terms of setting foundations for
their sporting future," says Ms Holdaway.
Students can be
nominated by their teachers, coaches, parents, peers or
local sporting coordinator or club. Nominations can be made
online at
"We're thrilled to recognise the achievements of our young athletes but we need to receive the all-important nominations to help ensure we're rewarding New Zealand's best young sporting talent," says Ms Holdaway.
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