Stockport Express

Chance to nominate your sporting heroes

- EMMA CURRY newsdesk@men-news.co.uk @MENnewsdes­k

SPORTS heroes will be honoured in this year’s Stockport Sports Awards.

The annual awards are now open for nomination­s and will calumniate in a ceremony to celebrate the town’s top sporting personalit­ies and volunteers on Friday, September 29, at Houldswort­h Golf Club.

Winners from the event will represent Stockport at the Greater Manchester Sports Awards in November.

The awards, which consist of nine categories in total, will be judged by panel with representa­tives from Sport Stockport (the Sports Council), Life Leisure and the School Sports Partnershi­p.

Finalists in all categories will be invited to the awards winners announced.

John Hargreaves, Sport Stockport chairman, said: “This year’s event promises to be a fantastic celebratio­n of sport in Stockport.

“We have so many individual­s and clubs to be proud of in Stockport and we look forward to recognisin­g their achievemen­ts the night.”

Nomination­s should cover achievemen­ts in the last 12 months (from September 2016 to August 2017) and fall into one of the nine categories available.

The closing date for nomination­s is August 11 and the form is available on the Sport Stockport website - www.sportstock­port.org.uk/cms/ news/article/?id=183.

For a hard copy of the nomination form, call 0161 482 0918 evening, when will be on

 ??  ?? ●●The 2016 Stockport Sports Awards winners
●●The 2016 Stockport Sports Awards winners

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