Roneil Walcott
TRINIDAD and Tobago be conscious and discipline superstar Jereem “The Dream” Richards and West Indies cricketer Karishma Ramharack were the massive winners on the First Voters Sports Foundation’s 2024 Sports Awards and 2025 Hall of Status Induction on the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain on January 11, as they claimed the respective Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards.
For Richards, it modified into as soon as his third predominant award in immediate succession, having copped the Nationwide Affiliation of Athletics Administrations male senior Athlete of the Year and the TT Olympic Committee’s Sportsman of the Year awards in the last two weeks.
On the junior stage, TT’s cyclists stole the level to as Junior Tune World Championship double silver medallist Makaira Wallace grabbed the Childhood Sportswoman of the Year award, with Jelani Nedd copping the Childhood Sportsman of the Year award. Each Nedd and Wallace were people of the TT squad which earned eight medals on the 2024 Junior Pan Am Tune Biking Championships, with the veteran riding to silver medals in the lads’s and crew lumber events. Wallace copped three Pan Am medals, along side silver medals in the females’s lumber and 500-metre time trial events. The Lystra Lewis Physique of workers of the Year award went to TT’s hockey 5’s crew, which positioned eighth on the FIH Hockey5s World Cup in Oman last January.
Themed the Vitality of Perseverance, First Voters chairman Anthony Natty old the occasion to praise the athletes for the strength and braveness they’ve shown on the realm stage.
“Within the sporting world, dry spells, doubts and each so incessantly disappointments – yours and ours – are par for the route. But historic past has shown us a long way too time and again that seemingly impossible comebacks can and were made, even when we felt all modified into as soon as lost,” Natty stated throughout his contend with.
He stated stakeholders need to attain collectively for the betterment of the athletes.
“As companions in sport, let us all resolve to name how we can abet sports better and endeavour to persistently elevate out so. But let us also be pretty ample to enjoy that success no longer handiest takes preparation and onerous work, however reasonably incessantly, persistence. In these times, we persevere.”
Richards, who is celebrating his thirty first birthday this day, had a solid season in 2024 and earned qualifying spots for both the 200-metre and 400m events on the Olympics in Paris. The boys’s 400m closing on the Paris Olympics modified into as soon as a bitter-sweet 2nd for Richards, as he smashed the national record to clock 43.78 seconds, however he agonisingly positioned fourth and overlooked a medal.
The 400m gold medallist Quincy Hall (43.40) clocked a non-public handiest, with Matthew Hudson-Smith (43.44) and Mazula Samukonga (43.74) seizing the silver and bronze medals as they both shattered old space records.
Richards purchased the nod earlier than ace swimmer Dylan Carter, hockey superstar Teague Marcano, cyclist Nicholas Paul, Windies standout batsman Nicholas Pooran and paralympic superstar Akeem Stewart who earned a silver medal in the F64 discus match on the Paralympic Games.
Ramharack, a 29-one year-old off-spinner, modified into as soon as a member of the Windies females’s crew which purchased to the semifinal of the ICC T20 Ladies’s World Cup in the UAE.
Ramraharck took 24 wickets across the One-day Worldwide and T20 codecs for the Windies last one year, along side a occupation-handiest return of 4 for 15 versus Pakistan in a T20 in Karachi last April.
The Windies spinner purchased the award earlier than cyclist Teniel Campbell and first-time Olympians Leah Bertrand and Zuri Ferguson.
The First Voters 2025 Hall of Status inductees were be conscious and discipline stalwart Wendell Williams and veteran West Indies leg-spinner Samuel Badree, who gained two Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) T20 World Cups with the regional crew.
First Voters Awards Honour Roll
2024 Sportsman of the Year – Jereem Richards (athletics)
2024 Sportswoman of the Year – Karishma Ramharack (cricket)
2024 Childhood Sportsman of the Year – Jelani Nedd (cycling)
2024 Childhood Sportswoman of the Year – Makaira Wallace (cycling)
Lystra Lewis Award – 2024 Physique of workers of the Year – T&T Hockey 5’s World Cup Physique of workers
First Voters 2025 Hall of Status Inductees – Samuel Badree (cricket) and Wendell Williams (athletics – athlete and coach)
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Trinidad and Tobago be conscious and discipline superstar Jereem “The Dream” Richards and West Indies cricketer Karishma Ramharack were the massive winners on the First Voters Sports Foundation’s 2024 Sports Awards and 2025 Hall of Status Induction on the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain on January 11, as they claimed the respective Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards.
For Richards, it modified into as soon as his third predominant award in immediate succession, having copped the Nationwide Affiliation of Athletics Administrations male senior Athlete of the Year and the TT Olympic Committee’s Sportsman of the Year awards in the last two weeks.
On the junior stage, TT’s cyclists stole the level to as Junior Tune World Championship double silver medallist Makaira Wallace grabbed the Childhood Sportswoman of the Year award, with Jelani Nedd copping the Childhood Sportsman of the Year award. Each Nedd and Wallace were people of the TT squad which earned eight medals on the 2024 Junior Pan Am Tune Biking Championships, with the veteran riding to silver medals in the lads’s and crew lumber events. Wallace copped three Pan Am medals, along side silver medals in the females’s lumber and 500-metre time trial events.
The Lystra Lewis Physique of workers of the Year award went to TT’s hockey 5’s crew, which positioned eighth on the FIH Hockey5s World Cup in Oman last January.
