Kempies in line for top school award
The awards will be held under the theme celebrating Today's Stars, Tomorrow's Champions
HOëRSKOOL Kempton Park is one of three finalists in the secondary school of the year category for the revived Gauteng School Sport Awards.
Kempies are up against Prestige College and Rosina Sedibane.
The awards will be held under the theme celebrating Today’s Stars, Tomorrow’s Champions.
The Gauteng School Sport Awards are being reintroduced this year after they were last held in 2002. Moroka Swallows midfield maestro Lerato Chabangu was one of the winners at the last awards.
He went on to play for several PSL teams and has represented the national football team.
Another noteworthy recipient of the award is long jump and triple jump star Khotso Mokoena, who was honoured as Secondary Sports Boy of the Year in 2002. Mokoena went on to win a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing among several other international achievements.
Gauteng Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation MEC, Lebogang Maile, has endorsed the awards as an important mechanism to identify, recognise and honour developing talent and to encourage youth at primary and secondary schools to participate in various sporting codes.
The MEC has pledged to raise the Gauteng School Sport Awards into one of the major events of the year, consistent with the annual celebration of the province’’ sporting excellence in the form of the Gauteng Sport Awards.
The ceremony will take place at Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg on Friday.
