Lauren, Jasmine, Valentino and Alex Win NSW Sport Awards

Four NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS) scholarship holders have won top honours at the 2022 NSW Champions of Sport Ceremony gala dinner at the International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour.

World champion and para triathlete Lauren Parker was crowned Athlete of the Year with a Disability for a third time having won the award in 2018 and 2019, while Jasmine Greenwood was named Young Athlete of the Year with a Disability. 16 year old Valentino Guseli won Young Athlete of the Year and Alex Stewart, coach of world champion high jumper Eleanor Patterson, was voted Coach of the Year.

Lauren, who remains the world’s top ranked para triathlete, demonstrated her dominance enjoying world championship success in both short course and long course distances. She also became the first para athlete in history to hold simultaneous world championship titles in both world triathlon and Ironman triathlon events.

At just 18 years of age, Jasmine was selected onto the Australian Team to compete at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships held in Portugal in June and the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham in August.

At the World Para Swimming Championships, Jasmine won a silver and two bronze medals and then claimed gold in the women’s 200m individual medley (SM10 Class) at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

Sport NSW Chairperson, Chris Hall, congratulated all winners and finalists saying they brought great credit to themselves, to their sport, and to the state.

“NSW is the premier state for sport in Australia and our brilliant winners and finalists are beacons of inspiration for aspiring athletes, coaches, officials, and administrators. We pay tribute to our winners and wish them every success in the years to come,” he said.

The full list of Award winners are: