Keith Russell made the socially-distant presentation to Mary Watters

Annual awards at Navan AC

Navan Athletic Club hosted the 2020 awards ceremony at Claremont Stadium last week and this year it was in the form of a socially-distant outdoor event.

Seven awards were handed over after a regular training session and the popular winner of the Alana Russell Memorial Trophy for athlete-of-the-year was Marty Watters.

This was the second year that trophy was presented and the inaugural winner was Sonya Tobin.

Keith Russell was on hand to make the socially-distant presentation and duly congratulated Mary Watters on well-deserved recognition for her achievements over the last 12 months.

The other recipients were:

Paul McGee (contribution to coaching metit award); Petula Clarke and Gillian Slator (joint-recipients of volunteer-of-the-year awards); Louise Hand (female athlete-of-the-year); Tom Baker (male athlete-of-the-year); Fiona Guanapala (clubperson-of-the-year).