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Club of the Year Award
Sponsored by Abbeycroft Leisure
2019 Shortlisted Candidates
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I Can Run CIC
Jetts Netball Club
Ipswich Sports Club
Previous Winners
‘10
‘11
‘12
‘13
‘14
‘15
‘16
‘17
‘18
West Suffolk Wheelers & Triathlon Club
Ipswich YM RUFC (Rugby Union)
Stowmarket RUFC (Rugby Union)
Lowestoft & Yarmouth Rugby Club
Felixstowe Hockey Club
Wortham Tennis Club
Ipswich Harriers Athletics Club
Woolpit Cricket Club
Kesgrave Kruisers
This award goes to a Suffolk Club that has worked hard to
encourage members of the community into their sport in
the last year, has encouraged people of all abilities to take
part in sport and physical activity or has made a significant
achievement or an outstanding performance during the year.
This could include specific achievements in any development
area such as increased junior membership, providing
accessible opportunities, development of facilities or has
successfully helped inactive people to get active.
Abbeycroft Leisure is a proud sponsor of the Club of the Year Award.
As a charitable leisure trust, sport is at the centre of what we do and
we are passionate about inspiring a healthier you. We work closely with
the community to provide leisure services across the region and we are
honoured to reward the Club of the Year for Suffolk.
www.acleisure.com
Elena Baltacha Award
Previous Winners
‘14
‘15
‘16
‘17
’18
Michaela & James Gooch (Athletics)
Esther Little (Basketball)
Neil Anthony (Community Sport)
David Swales (Running)
Anna Street (Triathlete)
This special award is given in memory of tennis star Elena
Baltacha. This award recognises outstanding commitment to
sport in the face of adversity and shows the positive outcome
and the difference that sport can make to someone’s life.
Despite being diagnosed with a chronic liver condition as a teenager, Elena went on to win 11 single titles, with her best
Grand Slam finish coming in the third round of Wimbledon in 2002. She also reached the third stage of the Australian
Open in 2005 and 2010. Her highest singles world ranking was 49, which she reached in September 2010. In 2010, along
with her husband Nino, Bally set up the Elena Baltacha Academy of Tennis in Ipswich to give disadvantaged children a
chance to play tennis. The Elena Baltacha Academy of Tennis or EBAT as it came to be known provides very high quality
tennis programmes for both young girls and boys. The academy also works hard to ensure that the many barriers
that stop young children playing tennis are removed. Wherever possible, a wide range of support for players and their
families is provided if they are struggling to start in tennis or move up the performance pathway.
www.elenabaltachafoundation.org
