Team Herald
PANJIM: Margao Shuttlers Club was adjudged the best club of the year 2016-17 with Mapusa Shuttlers emerging runners-up at the annual awards function, organised by Goa Badminton Association, at SRK’s Eco Farm and Resort, Khandepar, Ponda.
Other notable winners in the club category were Panjim Badminton Club (Best PR & tournament coverage), Evening Badminton Group (Best training programme– certification clinic for umpires), Ponda Shuttlers (Best felicitation programme), Margao Shuttlers Club (Best coaching programme–with ex-India international Ritupurna Kulkarni), Antruz Art & Sports Academy (Best taluka tournament) and Mapusa Shuttlers (Best new club).
In the outstanding players awards, Anura Prabhu Desai and Parteek Mahajan won the best women & men player awards while the best doubles players awards were won by Navneet Nasnodkar and Sunny Sawant (men) and Anushka Kuvelkar and Pranjal Chimulkar (women). Anjana Kumari (junior girls) and Aashrun Gautam (junior boys) were adjudged Best Junior Singles players while Best junior doubles players Awards were won by Dhruv Angle and Emilia Silveira.
Avita Bandodkar (women’s) and Vaman Fallary (men’s) were the outstanding winners in the veteran’s age group category awards.
Fair Play awards for best disciplined sports persons were won by Floyd Araujo and Lydia Barreto.
Upcoming player awards were won by Sushil Nayak, Rudra Dukle, Arshia Gautam and Yasmin Sayed.
Anjana Kumari and Manjushri Raut won the best performance at Nationals award. Most enthusiastic player award was won by Arjun Fallary with Hilary Fernandes emerging the enthusiastic player in the senior category.
Dedicated players were won by Shourya Joshi, Tejan Fallary, Yash Kunkolienkar, Parag Chauhan and Darwin Barreto.
Leonel Fernandes won the best manager.
There were special awards for decade or more contributions towards badminton, which were awarded to: Narahar Thakur (Shuttlers Club), Peter Tellis (Ponda Badminton club), Custodio Araujo (Panjim Badminton Club), Richard Vaz (Rich Builders) and Gaurish Dhond (Dhond’s Sports Club).
