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Weekend Wrap: Caslick’s outstanding year recognised, mass Aussie Olympians nominated for top 2022 honours

 

Weekend Wrap: Caslick’s outstanding year recognised, mass Aussie Olympians nominated for top 2022 honours

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Charlotte Caslick 2022 World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year

Dual Olympian Charlotte Caslick has been named the best women’s rugby sevens player in the world and is now nominated among other Aussie Olympians for the Australian Institute of Sport’s major awards to highlight the weekend in Olympic sports.

Rugby 7s

Charlotte Caslick has collected World Rugby’s Women’s Sevens Player of the Year award for her amazing 2022 season, in a year which she became co-captain of the Aussie Sevens.

This is the second time in her career she’s earned this achievement, and only the second player ever to do it twice, having picked up the award in 2016 when the team won Olympic gold in Rio.

 

The 27-year-old scored 31 tries and had 27 line breaks, 38 offloads plus 159 carries in the 2022 Series. The individual performance also translated to team wins, as the Aussie women’s Sevens side won the World Champs, Commonwealth Games and World Cup in 2022 – the first team ever to achieve the trifecta.

In the men’s team Nick Malouf and Corey Toole were nominated for World Rugby’s Men’s Sevens Player of the Year, with the award going to Ireland’s Terry Kennedy.

Read more here.

 

Tennis

Olympians Ajla Tomljanovic and Daria Saville have both impressed on the Women’s Tennis Association Tour (WTA) this year, culminating in making the shortlist for the Most Improved Player of the Year and Comeback Player of the Year respectively.

Australia’s highest ranked women’s singles player, Ajla finished 2022 as the world no.33 after making the quarter-finals at Wimbledon and the US Open.

Daria Saville fought back from multiple injury-hampered years to climb into the women’s top 50 singles rankings in 2022.

Athletics, Freestyle Skiing, Golf, Hockey, Skateboarding, Snowboard Halfpipe, Swimming

A wide variety of Olympians and Olympic sports have been put forward for accolades at the AIS Sport Performance Awards (ASPAs), set to be held on Thursday 15 December in Sydney.

Female Athlete of the Year:
Alyssa Healy, Cricket Australia
Charlotte Caslick, Rugby Australia
Jakara Anthony OAM, Olympic Winter Institute of Australia
Jessica Stenson, Athletics Australia
Liz Watson, Netball Australia

Male Athlete of the Year:
Cam Smith, Golf Australia
Kieran Woolley, Skate Australia
Scotty James, Olympic Winter Institute of Australia
Zac Stubblety-Cook, Swimming Australia

Coach of the Year:
Alexander Stewart, Athletics Australia
Brad Dubberley, Wheelchair Rugby/Paralympics Australia
Peter McNiel and Kate Blamey, Olympic Winter Institute of Australia
Tim Walsh, Rugby Australia

Emerging Athlete of the Year:
Donnell Wallam, Netball Australia
Maddison Levi, Rugby Australia
Nina Kennedy, Athletics Australia
Valentino Guseli, Olympic Winter Institute of Australia

High Performance Program of the Year:
Athletics Australia
Olympic Winter Institute of Australia
The Australian Dolphins, Swimming Australia
Wheelchair Rugby, Paralympics Australia

Award for Leadership:
Andrew Faichney, Athletics Australia
Ben Houston, Australian Sailing
Jaime Fernandez, Rowing Australia
Petria Thomas, Commonwealth Games Australia

Team of the Year:
Australian Steelers Wheelchair Rugby Team/Paralympics Australia
Australian Women’s Cricket Team, Cricket Australia
Hockeyroos, Hockey Australia
Women's Rugby 7s, Rugby Australia

Community Engagement Award:
Caitlin Ward, AusCycling
Carol Cooke, AusCycling
Kyle Vander-Kuyp, Athletics Australia
Rhydian Cowley, Athletics Australia

Win Well Award:
Athletics Australia
Golf Australia
Olympic Winter Institute of Australia
Victorian Institute of Sport

Beach Volleyball

Chris McHugh and Paul Burnett have come away from the Asian Championships with silver medals.

They took on Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze pairing Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tipjan from Qatar in the final, going down 16-21 17-21.

The results still keep Australia on top of the Asian Senior Men’s Championship standings on five gold medals, ahead of Indonesia with four gold.

Read more here.

 

Chris and Paul return to Australia with their next competition set to get underway at the Great Ocean Road Beach Volleyfest in Torquay, Victoria from Wednesday 23 November to Sunday 4 December.

Read the Great Ocean Road Beach Volleyfest preview and get your tickets here!