By Koh Yizhe/Red Sports. Photos by Ng Cheng Cong and REDintern Kelly Kuo.
Red Sports Young Athlete of the Year 2008 Alexandria Wong sharing her experiences with the crowd. (Photo 1 © Ng Cheng Cong/Red Sports)
The first Red Sports Awards Party was held last Saturday, January 31st, 2009 at the Civil Service Club. It was a night to honour the poll winners here on Red Sports in 2008.
A total of 32 athletes from the different sports came to get their tokens of appreciation from adidas and Red Sports.
The winners were all called on stage to collect their prizes from Aleksandar Duric, Singapore’s national footballer.
Red Sports 2008 Young Athletes of the Year, rugger Low Feng Hua and figure skater Alexandria Wong, won themselves a pair of mi adidas custom shoes.
“I’m glad to have finally met the poll winners in person,” said uncle Les. “Before tonight, we were merely an online community but it gladdened my heart to meet everyone in person.”
Uncle Les also hosted Feng Hua and Alexandria on stage and it was interesting to hear about what made them tick, their sporting experiences and what plans they had for the future.
Aleksandar Duric was the final guest of the evening on stage and the naturalised Singaporean striker shared how he became a Singaporean.
Graduating REDinterns of the first REDaction! Internship program were also surprised with a Red Sports mandarin collar shirt with their names embroidered and six of them now join the ranks of the REDCrew.
To top it all off, Jan and the organizing committee surprised guests and uncle Les with a cake to celebrate the second birthday of Red Sports.
To all who came: we appreciate your presence at the very first Red Sports Award Party.
Here's to another great sporting year and another year of Red Sports!
See you next year!
Low Fenghua of Montfort Secondary, the Red Sports Young Athlete of the Year, got interviewed on stage by uncle Les. (Photo 2 © Ng Cheng Cong/Red Sports)
Aleksandar Duric shared about his life and experiences as an Olympian and a professional athlete. (Photo 3 © Kelly Kuo/Red Sports)
“You taking my picture?” HCI basketball players Phua Kaiyi (left) and Athena Tan listening to the on-stage interviews. (Photo 4 © Ng Cheng Cong/Red Sports)
“This picture looks good..” Chung Siyi (right) of Raffles Junior College, who received the highest number of votes in the girls’ hockey poll, shares a lighter moment with her cousin Charmaine Lin, also from RJC. (Photo 5 © Ng Cheng Cong/Red Sports)
Anders Aplin listening on with amusement. Anders was a top vote getter in the A Division football poll. (Photo 6 © Ng Cheng Cong/Red Sports)
“Our site is this small.” Uncle Les giving a speech. It was thankfully quite short. 😉 (Photo 7 © Ng Cheng Cong/Red Sports)
Hwa Chong Institution swept the A Division Girls basketball poll. From left to right: Natascha Phua, Wan Qian Ling, Tan Seow Hwee, Athena Tan and Phua Kaiyi. (Photo 8 © Ng Cheng Cong/Red Sports)
Poll winners from Anglican High taking the chance to get a picture with Aleksandar Duric. From left to right: Jasper Chew, Tan Jun Wei, Chee Khan Liang, Auston Quek, Aleks Duric, Rachel Yam, Chew Shain, Clara Chua. (Sorry, can’t remember all the names! Please let us know in the comments section!) (Photo 9 © Ng Cheng Cong/Red Sports)
Red Sports also celebrated its second birthday. (Photo 10 © Ng Cheng Cong/Red Sports)
“Can I have some cake??” (Photo 11 © Ng Cheng Cong/Red Sports)
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pic of ahs ppl,the first guy is jasper choo and the girl is chew shain
hahaha o..k.. i didn’t expect to see myself there O.o chung siyi’s cousin anw! (:
Thanks Charmaine!
We’ll be putting a page of all the poll winners who showed up. Look out for that.