Gippstar Awards Night
The 62nd Annual Gippstar Awards were held on Thursday 29th September at the Morwell Bowling Club.
The Gippstar Awards have a long and proud history and recognise high level sporting achievement by talented Gippslander’s across a variety of different sporting pursuits.
There were 24 awards received by the successful nominees for the monthly awards from July 2021-June 2022 in both Open and Junior categories. The overall winner for the Annual Open Award was Cohen Wade from Stratford, for his sport of Modern Pentathlon / Tetrathlon. The Annual Junior Award winner was Kayla Wilson from Churchill, for her sport of Swimming.
Each year Gippstar has four additional awards.
The annual awards are:
- Gippstar Team of the Year: Given to a Gippsland Team based on their performance over the Gippstar year.
- This was awarded to Moe under 13 Blue Netball Squad team
- Gippstar Club of the Year: Given to a Gippsland club based on their club achievements over the Gippstar year.
- This was awarded to Seaspray SLSC
- Gippstar Special Achiever Award: Provided for outstanding service to sport over a significant period of years.
- This was awarded to Chris Brew from Lang Lang for his service at Lang Lang Football Club
- Gippstar Gippsland Champion: To receive this award the athlete must have commenced their sporting career with a Gippsland Club and/or Association, and continued to achieve in their sport outside of the Gippsland area, whilst maintaining family connections in Gippsland.
- This was awarded to Jack White – Basketball
Congratulations to all the award recipients.
We would like to thank the 6 Gippsland Shires, Bass Coast Shire Council, Baw Baw Shire Council, East Gippsland Shire Council, Latrobe City Shire Council, South Gippsland Shire Council and Wellington Shire Council, for their continued support of the GSA and the Gippstar awards