Rachael Thom­spon-King

Can­dice Guerero scooped the big ho­n­ours at the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League's awards cer­e­mo­ny at the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Tacarigua on Wednes­day.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) cen­tre re­ceived the Most Valu­able Play­er (MVP) award for the league and emerged the MVP of her team and was al­so the best cen­tre-court play­er of the Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion. She was named on the se­nior All Star team.

Guerero said that it was re­ward­ing that her team re­peat­ed its clean sweep of all ti­tles in the di­vi­sion in­clud­ing the League, knock­out, Steve Sargeant Chal­lenge and the Fast 5 and that she was sur­prised to cop the top net­baller prize.

"Win­ning the award was a sur­prise. It was re­al­ly un­ex­pect­ed but I ap­pre­ci­ate it. This is not the first time we did a clean sweep so we came in with the same at­ti­tude from last year. We bond­ed, we pulled it to­geth­er when we need­ed to and we pulled it out again," she said.

It's the sec­ond time that Guerero, the na­tion­al cen­tre, has claimed the award, hav­ing picked it up in 2012, the year she led UTT to its first sweep–the league, Fast­net and the open­ing day knock­out com­pe­ti­tions. De­spite her suc­cess­es, the south­ern­er is not sat­is­fied and in­tends to put in more in­di­vid­ual work.

"My plan per­son­al­ly is to get back in­to the gym, build my strength and work on fit­ness oth­er­wise. I've been out of it for a while since re­turn­ing from world tour­na­ment but I'm go­ing to put in the work," Guerero said, look­ing ahead to the rest of the sea­son.

Her team­mate Kali­fa Mc Collin, an­oth­er na­tion­al play­er, had the best in­di­vid­ual shoot­ing av­er­age of 87.45 per cent which helped the Brid­get Adams-coached UTT team walk away with best shoot­ing av­er­age team award. Na­tion­al cap­tain Joelisa Coop­er of Po­lice X was sec­ond best with 77.12 and third was na­tion­al shoot­er/de­fend­er Afeisha Noel with a 76.47 shoot­ing per cent ac­cu­ra­cy.

Mc­Collin was al­so named on the All Star team with Guerero as well as their team­mates Jel­lene Richard­son, Daystar Swift and Kielle Con­nel­ly. The oth­ers in­clude Coop­er, Rhon­da John-Davis, Leslie Ann Bac­quain, al­so of Po­lice X, Fire Ser­vices trio Noel, Onel­la Jack and Aman­da Cameron and Patrice Gor­ing, the lone play­er from Po­lice Y Jack was named the best de­fend­er of the top di­vi­sion.

Ho­n­our Roll

MVP: Can­dice Guerero (UTT)

Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion

League Tro­phy: 1 UTT, 2 Po­lice X, 3 Fire

Steve Sargeant Chal­lenge: UTT

Di­vi­sion­al Knock­out: 1 UTT, 2 Po­lice X

Fast 5: 1 UTT, 2 Fire

Open­ing day knock­out: 1 UTT, 2 Po­lice X

Best cen­tre-court: Can­dice Guerero (UTT)

Best de­fend­er: Onel­la Jack (Fire)

Best shoot­ing av­er­age (Team): UTT

Best shoot­ing av­er­age (In­di­vid­ual)

1 Kali­fa Mc Collin (UTT) – 87.45 per cent

2 Joelisa Coop­er (Po­lice X) – 77.12

3 Afeisha Noel (Fire) – 76.47

MVPs: Can­dice Guerero (UTT), Onel­la Jack (Fire), Rhon­da John-Davis (Po­lice X), Nichelle Hinds (Po­lice Y).

Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion

League Tro­phy: 1 Fire, 2 UTT, 3 Jabloteh

Jean Pierre Chal­lenge: UTT

Di­vi­sion­al Knock­out: 1 Fire, 2 UWI

Fast 5: 1 UTT, 2 Bermudez

Open­ing day knock­out: 1 Fire, 2 De­fence Force

Best cen­tre-court: Kur­tisha Hoyce (Bermudez)

Best de­fend­er: Shaquan­da Greene (UTT)

Best Shoot­ing Av­er­age Team: Bermudez

MVPs: Kur­tisha Hoyce (Bermudez), Haa­jar Nor­eiga (De­fence Force), Ayan­na Pe­ters (Fire), Giselle Hob­son (Jabloteh), Dones­sa Wick­ham (Po­lice), Shaquan­da Greene (UTT), Sh­er­nese Seemu­n­gal (UWI).

Best shoot­ing av­er­age (In­di­vid­ual)

1 In­dra An­der­son (Bermudez) – 78.76 per cent

2 Aquila Blugh (Fire) – 70.68

3 Ker­ne­sha Greenidge – 67.18

Al­ter­na­tive Di­vi­sion

League Tro­phy: 1 TSTT, 2 Pris­ons, 3 Fire

Di­vi­sion­al Knock­out: 1 Pris­ons, 2 Fire

Fast 5: 1 TSTT, 2 Pris­ons

Open­ing day knock­out: 1 TSTT, 2 Fire

Best cen­tre-court: Seana Marie Solomon (Fire)

Best de­fend­er: Al­li­son Young (Pris­ons)

Best Shoot­ing Av­er­age Team: TSTT

Best Shoot­ing Av­er­age (In­di­vid­ual)

1 Chanteal Per­ry (TSTT) – 78.99 per cent

2 Afiya Vin­cent – 66.91

3 Car­la Vic­tor – 66.79

MVPs: Ju­liana Ju­lian (Fire), Gabriel­la Bridge­wa­ter (Po­lice), Al­li­son Young (Pris­ons), Chan­tael Per­ry (TSTT), Shur­nell De­V­er­teuil (USC), Jen­ny Ed­wards (UWI).

Oth­er awards

Most Im­proved: Pris­ons

Most Dis­ci­plined: Jabloteh

Courts Open Knock­out: 1 UTT, 2 Fire

All Star Teams – Se­nior

Kali­fa Mc Collin, Joelisa Coop­er, Afeisha Noel, Patrice Gor­ing, Can­dice Guerero, Rhon­da John-Davis, Leslie Ann Bac­quain, Jel­lene Richard­son, Aman­da Cameron, Onel­la Jack, Daystar Swift, Kielle Con­nel­ly.

Ju­nior

In­dra An­der­son, Aquila Blugh, Chanteal Per­ry, Ker­ne­sha Greenidge, Ayan­na Pe­ters, Dones­sa Wick­ham, Kur­tisha Hoyce, Sh­er­nese Seemu­n­gal, Shaquan­da Greene, Mawiyah Strong, Giselle Hob­son, Al­li­son Young