Jesse Kriel and Ruan Steenkamp honoured as 2018’s best in Blue
Several Springboks and emerging young stars were honoured last week during the Bulls and Blue Bulls annual awards ceremony.
The Blue Bulls Company last week held their 2018 awards ceremony, where players and management were recognized for their contributions in the 80th year of the Bulls and Blue Bulls.
The players, management, board, sponsors, stakeholders and media gathered at Loftus Park in the shadow of Loftus Versfeld to celebrate each other with a fun and light-hearted mood being set by a Mexican Mariachi band and DJ Mac on the turntables.
Jaco Labuschagne has been named as the under-19 player of the year, while promising hooker Johan Grobbelaar won the award as under-21 player of the year.
The stage was set for acknowledging the award winners with RG Snyman and Johan Grobbelaar walking away with the Senior and Junior Most Valuable Player awards respectively.
The two top awards, that of SuperRugby player of the year and Currie Cup player of the year, went to Jesse Kriel and Ruan Steenkamp respectively.
The full awards were as follows:
U19
U19 Forward of the Year: Janko Swanepoel
U19 Back of the Year: Marnus Potgieter
U19 Players’ Player of the Year: Marnus Potgieter
U19 Player of the Year: Jaco Labuschagne
U21
U21 Forward ofthe Year: JC Pretorius
U21 Back of the Year: Wian van Niekerk
U21 Players’ Player of the Year: Johan Grobbelaar
U21 Player of the Year: Johan Grobbelaar
SUPERSPORT RUGBY CHALLENGE
SuperSport Challenge Forward of the Year: Abongile Nonkontwana
SuperSport Challenge Back of the Year: JT Jackson
SuperSport ChallengePlayers’ Player of the Year: JT Jackson
SuperSport Challenge Player of the Year: Earll Douwrie
CURRIE CUP
Currie Cup Forward ofthe Year: Eli Snyman
Currie Cup Back of the Year: Divan Rossouw
Currie Cup Players’ Player of the Year: Ruan Steenkamp
Currie Cup Player of the Year: Ruan Steenkamp
VODACOM SUPER RUGBY
Vodacom Super Rugby Forward of the Year: Lodewyk de Jager
Vodacom Super Rugby Back of the Year: Ivan van Zyl
Vodacom Super Rugby Players’ Player of the Year: Marco van Staden
Vodacom Super Rugby Player of the Year: Jesse Kriel
Vodacom Blue Bulls Junior Most Valuable Player: Johan Grobbelaar
Vodacom Blue Bulls Senior Most Valuable Player: RG Snyman
High Performance Employee of the Year: Xander Janse van Rensburg
High Performance Employee of the Year: Divan Strydom
Vodacom Bulls and Vodacom Blue Bulls Man of the Year: Johnny Kotze
BBCo Employee of the Year: Heilie Brits
PUMA Forever Faster Award: Manie Libbok
ISUZU Phenomenal Flying Forward: Marco van Staden
Vodacom Fans Player of the Year: Handre Pollard
Vodacom Bulls Babe of the Year: Sotira Petrou
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