The Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) Sports­man of the Year, the reign­ing World Cham­pi­on Keshorn Wal­cott, to­geth­er with field ath­lete Tyra Git­tens-Spotville, and sprint­ers Jereem Richards and Leah shared the top ho­n­ours when the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tion (NAAATT) held its an­nu­al awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Con­fer­ence Room at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Tacarigua on Sat­ur­day.

​The 2025 sea­son was a his­toric, ca­reer-defin­ing year for 32-year-old Wal­cott, who se­cured his first world ti­tle 13 years af­ter his fa­mous Olympic vic­to­ry in Lon­don in 2012. It reached its peak on Sep­tem­ber 18, when he won the gold medal in the men’s javelin throw at the World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Tokyo, Japan, with a sea­son-best mark of 88.16 me­tres and was named the most out­stand­ing men’s field ath­lete.

Wal­cott was named a Sport Am­bas­sador for T&T in Sep­tem­ber and al­so copped the same award in 2024.

Leah Bertrand, 23, the TTOC ‘Sports­woman of the Year 2025’, who was dubbed the NAAA’s top fe­male ath­lete in 2024, was the Most Out­stand­ing Ath­lete (Women’s Open - Track) for 2025.

Bertrand’s sea­son was marked by break­ing pro­gramme records at Ohio State Uni­ver­si­ty and suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ing her na­tion­al ti­tle at the NAAATT Cham­pi­onship in Ju­ly. At the Na­tion­al Col­le­giate Ath­let­ics As­so­ci­a­tion (NCAA) Out­door Cham­pi­onships, she se­cured two top-five fin­ish­es, plac­ing fourth in the 200m (22.60 sec­onds) and fifth in the 100m (11.21).

She al­so set a pro­gramme record for Ohio State in the 100 m with a time of 10.92 sec­onds, be­com­ing the first woman in the school’s his­to­ry to run a wind-le­gal, sub-11.00 time. Bertrand re­tained her 100 m na­tion­al crown, win­ning with a time of 11.04 sec­onds, which marked her third na­tion­al 100 m ti­tle in four years. In­ter­na­tion­al­ly, she al­so com­pet­ed at the World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Tokyo in both the 100 m and 200 m events.

Mean­while, Richards of Abi­lene Wild­cats was named the Most Out­stand­ing Ath­lete (Men Open - Track) for his new na­tion­al record run of 43.72 sec­onds to se­cure the sil­ver medal in the fi­nal at the World Cham­pi­onships in Japan in Sep­tem­ber. Run­ning in lane two, he was sec­ond be­hind Botswana’s Bu­sang Ke­bi­nat­shipi, who won with a world-lead­ing time of 43.53 sec­onds, and ahead of Byapo Ndori, al­so of Botswana, who was third with 44.20 sec­onds.

He al­so had good show­ing at the Grand Slam meet­ing in April and May.

At the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Kingston, Ja­maica on April 5, Richads fin­ished sec­ond in the men’s 200-me­tre in 20.81 sec­onds, and on April 4, in the men’s 400m event, Richards placed sixth in a time of 45.35. Bai­ley copped first place in the 400m in 44.34, with Hud­son-Smith (44.65) and Nor­wood (44.70) fin­ish­ing sec­ond and third re­spec­tive­ly im­prov­ing his po­si­tion for a grand pay­day in the event.

Git­tens-Spotville’s leap of 6.64 me­tres in the long jump event at the fifth North Amer­i­can, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (NACAC) Cham­pi­onships at Freeport Sta­di­um in Grand Ba­hamas se­cured the bronze medal. In a jump-off to de­cide who would claim sil­ver, their sec­ond-best jumps were mea­sured against each oth­er, with Puer­to Ri­co’s Alys­beth Fe­lix’s 6.58-me­tre ef­fort eclips­ing Git­tens-Spotville’s 6.52 me­tres.