Advertorial: POSB Everyday Champions 2009

The inau­gural POSB Every­day Cham­pi­ons awards was held on 26th Feb­ru­ary 2009 at St Regis.

Out of over 3,000 nom­i­nees (no, I didn’t nom­i­nate Coach Frank because of res­i­dency issues), 57 were win­ners on the night, and among them was Super Soc­cer Mum Carol Lim, 52, who 10 years ago set up the Elias Park Foot­ball Club.

EPFC is a foot­ball club with the empha­sis on “club”. With most of the sport we watch on tv becom­ing more like enter­tain­ment busi­nesses, it was nice to read about grass­roots move­ments like Carol’s.

Through her efforts, she’s got­ten thou­sands of kids to play, and has even got­ten a train­ing field for them. Now that’s a feat, con­sid­er­ing there aren’t many pub­licly avail­able play­ing fields here in the world’s most urban­ized country.

Another award recip­i­ent who tries to help oth­ers over­come short­com­ings – per­sonal dis­abil­i­ties this time – Jason Chen, 26, believes every­one can “do” sports – and he’s put together Asia’s first drag­onboat team for the visu­ally handicapped.

Pres­i­dent S.R. Nathan graced the event and gave out the awards, and I can’t help but put a clunker here and say Sport Was The Win­ner On The Night.

What’s more, it’s not over yet. You can still log on to singaporesports.sg/posbchampions and vote for Singapore’s favourite POSB Every­day Cham­pion in the fol­low­ing cat­e­gories – Indi­vid­u­als, Coaches and Organisations.

Nine vot­ers will win (will this win­ning ever stop?) $1,000 each, and in addi­tion, the top three POSB Every­day Cham­pi­ons from the Indi­vid­u­als and Coaches cat­e­gory will win $2,000 each, while the top three favourites from the Organ­i­sa­tions cat­e­gory will win $3,000 each.

So, what are you wait­ing for? Go vote for a winner!