A VETERAN and two teenagers are the latest monthly winners of the Loddon Herald Sports Star of the Year award.
July’s winner was Inglewood lawn bowler Geoff Wilson for his selection in the Victorian state bowlers arm team – the Armed Vics.
The Victorians subsequently won the national title, with Wilson a part of the winning team for the fifth successive year.
Junior football star Max Beattie from Boort was nominated in August for winning the North Central League’s Jeff ‘Woofa’ Guild Trophy as best and fairest in the Under 17s.
He shared the league award with Charlton’s Sebastian Zagame. In September, the nominee was Bears Lagoon-Serpentine’s 17-year-old netball star Ava Francis, who won the Loddon Valley league’s Rising Star Award as well as finishing second in the competition’s senior best and fairest count.
The inaugural winner of the Loddon Herald award will be named at a special ceremony in December. The latest nominees join Wedderburn footballer Adam Postle (June), Bridgewater netball coach and player Caz Wood (May), Boort croquet player Ian Potter (April), Arnold cricketer Heath Lock (March), Boort Yando cricketer Harry Malone (February), Boort marathon runner Carly Isaac (January), Serpentine junior cricketer Allira James (December), Pyramid Hill motorcross racer Judd Chislett (November) and Inglewood woodchopper John Coffey (October).