Teneil Camp­bell's suc­cess has been as fast-paced as her cy­cling life.

On Sun­day though, she slowed down just enough to cel­e­brate be­ing named the First Cit­i­zens' Sports Foun­da­tion's "Sports­woman of the Year". But just as quick­ly raced back to the time to when her moth­er Eu­phemia Hug­gins, a for­mer na­tion­al net­baller, bas­ket­baller and field ath­lete, copped the pres­ti­gious award.

An achieve­ment which got Hug­gins emo­tion­al on learn­ing that her daugh­ter was recog­nised with the ho­n­our for her hard work, rep­re­sent­ing T&T, as she had done sev­er­al years ago.

"It was a hap­py mo­ment, re­al­ly hap­py mo­ment," said a soft-spo­ken Hug­gins yes­ter­day. "It brought tears to my eyes. Hap­py for her."

In 1989 at the then WIT­CO (West In­di­an To­bac­co Com­pa­ny) Sports Awards, Hug­gins, who is na­tive of Hard­bar­gin in Williamsville, Princes Town, was nom­i­nat­ed in two sport­ing dis­ci­plines, net­ball and track and field and even­tu­al­ly emerged with the na­tion­al award.

Hug­gins was a mem­ber of ath­let­ic club Sim­plex and played net­ball for Trot­ters, Lak­ers and Po­lice and was very suc­cess­ful ei­ther in de­fence or goal-shoot po­si­tions.

Camp­bell' emo­tions over­flowed as well say­ing in a Face­book post: "It is in­deed a thrilling feel­ing for my name to be on the same tro­phy as my moth­er 30 years lat­er!

"An ec­sta­t­ic feel­ing yet al­so heart wrench­ing. This year, the award cer­e­mo­ny was dif­fer­ent. None of our ath­letes was able to dress with el­e­gance and class to at­tend the func­tion nor col­lect their re­spec­tive award.

"In­stead a vir­tu­al show was cre­at­ed to ho­n­our the achieve­ments of T&T’s top ath­letes with­in their sport­ing dis­ci­pline due to the world’s cur­rent pan­dem­ic which we are all fac­ing. We must all re­main healthy, men­tal­ly and phys­i­cal­ly strong in these un­prece­dent­ed times. This too shall pass and then we can con­tin­ue to tack­le and chase our goals.

"To­geth­er We As­pire, To­geth­er We Achieve."

Fit­ting in­spi­ra­tional words from the pre­mier in­ter­na­tion­al cy­clist, who had a sen­sa­tion­al sea­son win­ning gold in the women's Un­der-23 Time Tri­al at the Pan Amer­i­can Road and Track Cham­pi­onships in Pachu­ca de So­to, Mex­i­co in May and dou­ble sil­ver (road race and time tri­al) at the Pan Amer­i­can Games in Li­ma, Pe­ru in Au­gust.

Per­for­mances which saw Camp­bell, who has al­ready qual­i­fied for the 2020 Olympic Games, now post­poned to 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, tak­ing the 2019 T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) "Sports­woman of the Year" award.

"Af­ter win­ning the TTOC award she had said 'I re­al­ly would like to win the First Cit­i­zens' award, to reach to where you have reached," said Hug­gins, who added that she chat­ted a 'lit­tle bit' with her very busy daugh­ter.

The Italy-based UCI Women's Con­ti­nen­tal Team Val­car–Trav­el & Ser­vice cy­clist con­tin­ued in her post, di­rect­ed at her sup­port­ers, say­ing: "Thank you for your con­tin­ued sup­port and con­cerns. I am still healthy, con­trol­ling what I can and act­ing ac­cord­ing­ly.

"Some­times train­ing ses­sions can be men­tal­ly chal­leng­ing as all ac­tiv­i­ties are be­ing done in­doors. How­ev­er, the grind has not stopped, I just added a bit of “ba­con” for the time be­ing."