Two swimmers, two triathletes, a runner and a gymnast were honoured as outstanding student/athletes when the 13th annual Denton Hurdle Memorial awards were handed out yesterday at Belmont Hotel.

For the first time the award, in honour of the former PE teacher and rugby player, included middle school students -- increasing the number of recipients from four to six.

All six have already made their mark in local sports but were nominated by their respective schools based on several qualities: athletic participation, leadership, role model, sportsmanship, self discipline, dedication to training, determination, cooperation and general attitude in school.

The two primary school winners were triathletes Flora Duffy, of Port Royal School, and Geoffrey Smith, of Warwick Academy Primary. Both were leading triathletes in the 10-year-old division last year and are in the TriHedz team that travels to the President's Choice Triathlon in Guelph, Canada this Friday.

Duffy has competed at the national level in cycling, road running and track and field and has also represented her school in softball and swimming. Smith has also participated in several sports, including duathlon, triathlon, cycling, running, swimming and sailing.

The first ever middle school winners were Kristin Eve, of Dellwood, and Bruno Teixeira, of Warwick Academy.

Eve plays netball and softball, but it is in track and field where she has made her biggest mark. This year she was voted BSSF champion girl at the inter-school sports, and has represented Bermuda under the auspices of the BUT at the Caribbean Union of Teachers track meet in St. Kitt's and Barbados.

Eve is also a member of the Bermuda Pacers, but was unable to travel with the team last weekend to the Russell E. Blunt Meet in North Carolina because of school exams.

Teixeira is a past head boy at Dellwood whose sporting interests include track and field, soccer, cross country, weight training and swimming.

He is a member of `De Boys Day Out Club' which is a community service group which does everything from visiting the sick or injured in hospitals to giving out food to the homeless, cleaning up neighbourhoods and visiting old folks' homes.

Gymnast Laura Murphy and swimmer Stephen Troake completed the winners at senior school level.

Murphy is head girl at Bermuda High School which she has represented in many areas, including track and field, gymnastics, swimming and cross-country. She has represented Bermuda in gymnastics since 1992 and in that year took the allround title at level five in the Vermont State Championships.

This year Murphy has been selected to represent Bermuda at the CAC Games in Venezuela and the Commonwealth Games in Malaysia.

Saltus student Troake is deputy head boy, head of his school house and captain of Harbour Swim Club. Though he has represented Saltus at various sports, including soccer, cricket, track and field, volleyball and swimming, and has captained most sides he has played on, it is in swimming where he has excelled.

He recently qualified for and represented Bermuda at the World Championships in Perth, Australia. At that event he qualified for the upcoming Commonwealth Games and in achieving this goal has set a number of Bermuda swim records.

Troake is very much an allround sportsman, also having represented Bermuda in field hockey in the Caribbean Championships in Barbados in April.