BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - THE local football team, which has been on the up in the FIFA Football Rankings, was nominated for the Caribbean Association of Sports Journalists’ (CASJA) Men’s Team of the Year Award.
The Bahamas-based CASJA has nominated the Sugar Boys along with several other outstanding team performances, including the Bahamas’ 4X400m Men Relay team and the Jamaican 4X100m Men Relay team.
The Sugar Boys steadily progressed up the rankings and currently sit at 74th in the latest numbers, despite a recent defeat at the feet of French Guiana.
St. Kitts and Nevis can however continue its upward trend if the team defeats Haiti and Estonia later this month at Warner Park.
Meanwhile, Usain Bolt and Elaine Thompson have also been nominated for Male and Female Sports Personalities of the Year Awards.
Antiguan and West Indies pace bowler Alzarri Joseph has been nominated for the Male Rising Star and Junior Sportsman of the Year titles, while former West Indies U-19 World Cup winning captain and Guyana middle-order batsman, Shimron Hetmyer is also in the running for the Rising Star Award.
The third annual CASJA Award will be held on Friday (Nov. 18).
Full listen of CASJA nominees:
Sportsman of the Year
1. Usain Bolt (JAM) – Athletics
2. Machel Cedenio (T&T) – Athletics
3. Mijain Lopez (CUB) – Athletics
4. Omar McLeod (JAM) – Athletics
5. Wes Morgan (JAM) – Football
6. Marlon Samuels (JAM) – Cricket
Sportswoman of the Year
1. Alia Atkinson (JAM) – Swimming
2. Deandra Dottin (BAR) – Cricket
3. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) – Athletics
4. Akela Jones (BAR) – Athletics
5. Shaunae Miller (BAH) – Athletics
6. Elaine Thompson (JAM) – Athletics
Junior Sportsman of the Year
1. Akeem Bloomfield (JAM) – Athletics
2. Akani Hislop (T&T) – Athletics
3. Jaheel Hyde (JAM) – Athletics
4. Alzarri Joseph (A/B) – Cricket
5. Lazaro Martinez (CUB) – Athletics
6. Anderson Peters (GRN) – Athletics
7. Luis Enrique Zayas (CUB) – Athletics
Junior Sportswoman of the Year
1. Rushelle Burton (JAM) – Athletics
2. Tiffany James (JAM) – Athletics
3. Hayley Matthews (BAR) – Cricket
4. Khalifa St Fort (T&T) – Athletics
5. Sada Williams (BAR) – Athletics
Team of the Year – Male
1. Bahamas 4x400m – Athletics
2. Jamaica 4x100m – Athletics
3. Jamaica 4x400m – Athletics
4. St. Kitts & Nevis – Football
5. West Indies Men’s Twenty20 – Cricket
6. West Indies U-19 – Cricket
Team of the Year – Female
1. Jamaica 4x100m – Athletics
2. Jamaica 4x400m – Athletics
3. Jamaica 4x400m Junior – Athletics
4. West Indies Women – Cricket
Rising Star – Male
1. Akeem Bloomfield (JAM) – Athletics
2. Mario Burke (BAR) – Athletics
3. Machel Cedenio (T&T) – Athletics
4. Shimron Hetmyer (GUY) – Cricket
5. Buddy Hield (BAH) – Basketball
6. Jaheel Hyde (JAM) – Athletics
7. Alzarri Joseph (A/B) – Cricket
8. Anderson Peters (GRN) – Athletics
Rising Star – Female
1. Shericka Jackson (JAM) – Athletics
2. Michelle-Lee Ahye (T&T) – Athletics
3. Nyoshia Cain (T&T) – Paralympics
4. Yanis David (GLP/FRA) – Athletics
5. Khalifa St Fort (T&T) – Athletics
6. Hayley Matthews (BAR) – Cricket
