Thursday 13 December 2007

SOYA attracts sizeable nominations


The 5th edition of the Sports personality Of the Year Awards have attracted at least 500 nominations for the different awards. This edition sees a new category referred to as the Community Hero. The lion's share of the nominations goes to athletics as usual with rugby,volleyball and swimming have some entries here and there. The categories for the awards are as follows;
Sportsman of the Year,
Sportswoman of the Year,
Sports team of the Year-men
Sports team of the Year-women
Most promising sports person-man
Most promising sports person-woman
Special category
Sports Federation/Association.
The event is organised by FineTouch Communications a firm closely associated and founded by Paul Tergat-Kenya's athletics legend. It's sponsored by among others, Safaricom, Nakumatt Supermarkets, CFC Bank, Paul Tergat Foundation to name but a few.
For more details, check www.soyawards.com

2 comments:

Andruid said...

that url isn't working. Though I feel Jepkosgei deserves the sportswoman of the year award

The Figure said...

Thanx Andruid, I don't know what might have happened but keep trying. You can use different Internet browsers. Jepkosgei has been big this year, that's without a doubt. I'd also nominate her( I'll try get my list out before the SOYA Awards proper).
Keep blogging though !