(Story by Marco Stoovelaar; Photo by Quick Amersfoort)
 No award for Quick Amersfoort softball-team
Nederlands
 AMERSFOORT (Neth.) -
On Wednesday-evening (November 25), the men softball-team of BioSilk Quick Amersfoort was one of three nominees for Sports Team of the Year at the sixth edition of the annual Sport Gala Amersfoort.
This season, Quick Amersfoort finished in fifth place on the European Super Cup-tournament in Prague (Czech Republic).
In the regular season, the team captured the title in the B-Pool of the First Division and with that qualified for the Championship Series against Hoofddorp Pioniers, the champion of the A-Pool.
In that final in October, it was Pioniers that repeated as National Champion.
...The successful men softball-team of BioSilk Quick Amersfoort...
(© Photo: Quick Amersfoort) |
Unfortunately, Quick Amesfoort didn't won the award tonight at the Gala, which was held at Theater De Flint in Amersfoort.
Also nominated were the Amersfoortse Hockeyclub Men's Team and ZPC Amersfoort Swimming Team.
It was the Swimming Team that won the award.
Last year, the women-team of BioSilk Quick Amersfoort was nominated for the Sports Team of the Year Award at the Gala, but also didn't won.
Other winners in Amersfoort tonight were:
Female Athlete of the Year: Veerle Bakker (track & field)
Male Athlete of the Year: Maarten Hurkmans (rowing) (last year, he won the Talent of the Year Award)
Talent of the Year: Jasmijn Bakker (track & field)
Sport Special of the Year: Cees Stolwijk (running & marathon)
Club of the Year: RC Eemland (rugby)
Besides announcing the winners in the above mentioned categories, the Municipality of Amersfoort also honored teams and individual athletes who won a championship-title this year.
The Sport Gala and the honoring of the champions is a mutual initiative of SRO, the Municipality Amersfoort, the Amersfoort Sports Federation, MBO Amersfoort and Businessclub De Amersfoortse Hoogte.
(November 25)
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