First Citizens Sports Awards on March 17

This ceremony will see the announcement of the 2016 Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year, as well as the Jeffrey Stollmeyer Award (for the top National Governing Bodies) and the Lystra Lewis Award (for the Team/Group of the Year).

In last year’s event, which took place at Queen’s Hall in St Ann’s, Olympic 400m finalist and antional record holder Machel Cedenio and Olympic shot putter Cleopatra Borel captured the respective Sportsman and Sportsman of the Year accolades, while the Trinidad and Tobago Chess Association and the National Association of Athletic Administrations (NAAA) copped the Jeffrey Stollmeyer Awards. The men’s 4x400-metre relay team, which clinched gold at the Pan Am Games in Toronto, Canada, were adjudged winners of the Lystra Lewis Award.