Emerging talent to be honoured at Denton Hurdle Memorial Awards
Some of Bermuda’s emerging sporting talents will be honoured at the annual Denton Hurdle Memorial Awards tonight.
The awards will be held at Warwick Academy’s Phoebe Purvis Memorial Hall and this year recognises the exceptional performance of 51 primary, middle and senior school athletes.
Each school was asked to nominate a boy and a girl with all submissions then handed over to ten judges in the sporting and/or education field to elect this year’s winners.
“To be nominated for the award, students must display the following qualities: active participation, leadership, sportsmanship, self-discipline, dedication and co-operation,’’ said the organisers in a statement.
“They must demonstrate positive attitudes in school. Nominees should also be good scholar-athletes as well as good role models. Only students in the final year of primary, middle or senior school are eligible for this reward.”
Bermuda women’s football team captain Eva Frazzoni will be the guest speaker at the awards ceremony. She won the middle school girls award in 2012.
Notable past winners include Front Street Mile champion Dage Minors and footballers LeiLanni Nesbeth, Frazzoni, Keunna Dill, Razir Jones, Ahria Simons, and Justin Donawa.
Dame Flora Duffy, Tyler Smith, Cup Match stars Terryn Fray, OJ Pitcher, Oronde Bascome, Greg Maybury and Malachi Jones, tennis player Gavin Manders, college basketball star Erica Woods, and the only three-times winner Taylor Ashley Bean (2004, 2007 and 2011) have also been honoured.
The award was also won by Hurdle’s nephew and former West Indies rugby sevens player Derek Hurdle in 1989 and Derek’s son, Tyler Hurdle, in 2021.
Hurdle was a keen sportsman who attended Warwick Academy, Bermuda College and Dalhousie University. After completing his physical education degree, Denton went on to teach at Warwick Academy. An ardent sportsman who excelled in soccer, cricket and volleyball, Denton’s first love was rugby and he was captain of Teachers Rugby Football Club. He was also a regular member of the Bermuda rugby team before sadly passing away in 1985.
Primary School girls
D’Ani Pitcher – East End Primary
Jasmine Reid-Rubaine – Harrington Sound Primary
Marley Furbert – Elliot Primary
Zy-Asia Simmons – Victor Scott Primary
Phoenix Williams – West Pembroke Primary
Chloe Burgess – Paget Primary
Sukanya Jobson – Purvis Primary
Leydi Raynor – Dalton E Tucker
Amia McCook – West End Primary
Kenzie McCrary – Saltus Grammar School
Devi Samuels – Warwick Academy
Kyra Simmons – Mount Saint Agnes Academy
Elena Bortoli – Somersfield Academy
Harper Franklin – Bermuda High School
Amarriah Vaughans – Francis Patton Primary
Primary School boys
A’Jahni Foggo – Francis Patton Primary
Yusuf Talbot – Harrington Sound Primary
Hasim Ming – Victor Scott Primary
Jaylon Glasford – West Pembroke Primary
Xonti Burch – Paget Primary
Jace Postlethwaite – Purvis Primary
Nahj Richardson – Heron Bay Primary
Adam Barritt – Saltus Grammar School
Silas Corday – Dalton E Tucker Primary
Sami Luber – Warwick Academy
Tayte Browne – Mount Saint Agnes Academy
Cairo Burgess – Somersfield Academy
Middle School girls
Kelise Wade – Sandys Secondary Middle School
Amaris Munya – Warwick Academy
Lashee Jones – Dellwood Middle School
Somers Estwanik – Bermuda High School
Aria Mosquera – Saltus Grammar School
Maria De Sa – Mount Saint Agnes Academy
Zoe Mir – Somersfield Academy
Middle School boys
Amir Brangman-Johnson - Dellwood Middle School
Lucas Frias – Sandys Secondary Middle School
Maximus Lightbourn – The Whitney Institute Middle School
Cameron Adkins – Warwick Academy
Noah Maranzana – Saltus Grammar School
Nathaniel Thomas – Somersfield Academy
Stasio Rayner-Weller – Mount Saint Agnes Academy
Senior School girls
Azari Easton – the Berkeley Institute
Alexia Hurdle – Saltus Grammar School
Shayla Cann – Warwick Academy
Eden Woollery – CedarBridge Academy
Senior School boys
Ben Autmezguine – Saltus Grammar School
J’auza James – The Berkeley Institute
Lucien Penacho – Mount Saint Agnes Academy
Kwame Naylor – Warwick Academy
Kee-Zai Cann – CedarBridge Academy
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