Wimmera Regional Sports Assembly
  

WIMMERA SPORTS STAR AWARD - MARCH 2009

Alethea Sedgman wins the Dags Quality Screen Printing and Hip Pocket Workwear Sports Star Of The Month Award for March 2009

Alethea Sedgman

Wendy Mitchell of Dags Quality Screenprinting and Hip Pocket Workwear congratulates March Sports Star of the Month Alethea Sedgman. Joel Ladlow, the DAGS Screenprinting and Hip Pocket Workwear Sports Star of the Month Award for July 2008.

Photograph generously provided by the Wimmera Mail Times

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Photograph courtesy of the Wimmera Mail Times

Standout young shooter Alethea Sedgman from the Horsham Smallbore Club is the first finalist in the 2009 Horsham Sports and Community Club Sports Star of the Year Award.  Fifteen year old, Alethea will receive an embroidered Sports Star of the Year jacket courtesy of DAGS Quality Screen Printing and voucher from Hip Pocket Workwear for having been the successful March monthly winner. 

Alethea has only been involved in smallbore shooting for two years but in this short time has recorded some outstanding results as well as impressing state and national coaches with her abilities.  Competing in events for air, prone and sport rifle, Alethea has proved her prowess by taking out events locally and at Shepparton, Nurmurkah and the Australian International Shooting’s Youth Olympics in Sydney last year. 

This year she has recorded victories in the 2009 Victorian State Championships, the Auscup National Competition and the Target Rifle Australia National Championships in the sub junior division.  Latest results from the Nationals place her as the Australian Sub Junior Champion for the 50m Prone rifle, the 50m 3 Position 20 Sport Rifle and the 10m air rifle and the bronze medallist in the Open Women’s Air Rifle.

Her results have prompted the national coaches to offer her additional training and assistance which she has taken up and while still aged in the sub-junior category it is obvious that Alethea has the potential to achieve significant placings in open divisions.  She has a real focus on her sport and would love to shoot for her country at the Olympics if the opportunity should present itself.  With a strong work ethic and commitment, Alethea is in a position to continue the domination that the Wimmera has in the shooting disciplines.

Also nominated in the award for March was young Sarina Quick.  Sarina, already a veteran equestrian rider at only eleven years of age, has achieved a great deal winning the Barastoc Champion Shetland of the Year.  She has also had victories as the Reserve Champion at the Victorian Arabian Championships and the Arabian Feature Show and has, according to her coach Donna White, the determination and skill to make it to the top level in her sport.

Monthly winners are eligible to win the $1,000 Sports Star Scholarship and trophy at the 2010 Horsham Sports and Community Club’s Sports Star presentations.  If you know of someone who is doing well at their sport and deserves some recognition, why not nominate them in the DAGS Screen Printing and Hip Pocket Workwear Sports Star of the Month. 

All nominees in the monthly award will be presented with certificates signed by the Minister for Sport and Recreation, James Merlino, and the monthly winner receives (aside from the jacket and voucher), a free ticket to the annual presentation and a specially struck medallion from Wimmera Trophies and Gifts.

Nominations are welcome at any time and nomination forms are available from the Sports Assembly 5382 4599 or click here to download individual nomination form   
A reminder that the Special Category awards (teams, coaches, veterans etc)  are welcome at any time and will be presented alongside the Horsham Sports and Community Club Sports Star of the Year next February.  [download Specific Category Nomination Form]

 

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