The hunt is now on to find Mansfield’s next big sporting stars to follow in the footsteps of local sport heroes, Rebecca Adlington, Ollie Hynd, Sam Hynd, Charlotte Henshaw, Ben & Tom Birchall, Elliot Clogg and the many others who have represented Mansfield nationally and internationally winning world titles and Commonwealth and Olympic medals.
The Armchair Club, with the support of More Leisure Community Trust and the News Journal is asking for nominations for this year’s Mansfield Sports Recognition Awards.
The deadline for nominations is 5.00pm on Monday 3rd November, so please submit your nominations asap!
The awards are intended to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements by sportspeople from throughout the community between 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025. Nominations are invited for ten categories:
Junior team of the year
Junior sportsperson of the year
Junior Sports Leader of the year
Junior disabled sportsperson of the year
Club of the year
Disabled sportsperson of the year
Sportsperson of the year
Coach of the year
Team of the year
Volunteer of the year (this also includes referees, officials, administrators etc.)
Further information and a nomination form to download are available here or by calling the Armchair Club on 01623 707017. In view of continuing concerns around Covid19 nominations are only being accepted by e-mail with a scanned or photographed application form and must include a photograph of the nominee, and preferably a 45 second video of the nominee in sporting action. Again, to repeat, postal applications are not being accepted.
https://www.armchairclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SportsRecognitionAwards-NomineeForm2025-1.pdf
Nominees must either live (or have lived) or pursue their sport within the District of Mansfield.
