Swimmer, Dylan Carter and Shanntol Ince and table-tennis ace Jasher De Gannes are expected to walk away with the top boys' and girls" individual awards when the First Citizens Sports Foundation stages its second 2013 Youth Awards at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Wrightson Road, Port-of-Spain, from 6.30 pm today.
The trio are listed as this country's best performer at the junior level for 2013 and head the list of 38 nominees (19 boys, 19 girls) 24 sporting disciplines.
Last month, Carter and De Gannes copped the Junior boys and girls athlete awards respectively, at the Spirit of Sport Awards (SOSA) Nomination Ceremony at Queen's Hall, St Ann's.
Carter, who joined the University of Southern California swim team this month won silver at the Dubai FINA Junior World Swimming Championships in the 50m butterfly event in August.
Prior to attending USC, he used the fall 2013 semester to train with Davie Nadadores head coach Alex Pussieldi and also at home in T&T with Franz Huggins.
The Tobago-based De Gannes won precious silverware at an international event, winning bronze in the girls Under-13 singles category at the Latin America U-13 and U-11 Table Tennis Championships in Guatemala after dominating at the Caribbean Cadet and Junior Championship level as well.
At the 55th Senior Caribbean Regional Table-Tennis Federation Championship held in St Lucia, last year, 12-year-old De Gannes was part of the senior women's team which also included France-based Rheann Chung, Aleena Edwards and Linda Partap-Boodan which won the women's team crown.
She also won women's doubles silver with Chung in St Lucia.
The other major contender among the girls' is paralympic swimmer, Shanntol Ince who earned four swimming gold medals at the Youth Para Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina following victories in the women's S9 400 metres freestyle, 100 metres backstroke, 100 metres butterfly and 100 metres backstroke.
First Citizens Youth Athlete of the Year award nominees
Athletics
Boys: Johnathan Farinha
Girls: Jeminise Parris
Badminton:
Boys: Leon Cassie
Girls: Jada Renales
Chess:
Boys: Joshua Johnson
Cricket:
Boys: Jeremy Solozano
Cycling
Boys: Justin Roberts:
Girls: Kieanna Lester
Hockey
Boys: Tariq Marcano
Girls: Amie Olton ariq Marcano
Football
Boys: Shannon Gomez
Girls: Zoey Swift
Golf
Boys: Sachin Kumar
Girls: Christina Ferreira
Gymnastics:
Girls: Marisa Dick
Judo:
Boys: Xavier Jones
Kayaking:
Boys: Sherlon Pierre
Karate
Boys: Keiden Joseph
Girls: Karate Kate Gordon
Netball
Girls: Aniecia Baptiste
Paralympic–Swimming (Female)
Girls: Shanntol Ince
Rugby:
Boys: Shakeel Dyte
Girls: Rugby Marika Mendez
Sailing:
Girls: Kelly Ann Arrindell
Squash:
Boys: Mandela Patrick
Girls: Charlotte Knaggs
Surfing:
Boys: Jyiell Lewis
Swimming
Boys: Dylan Carter
Girls: Kristin Julien
Table Tennis
Boys: Arun Roopnarine
Girls: Jasher De Gannes
Taekwondo:
Girls: Chelsea Mofford
Tennis
Boys: Nabeel Mohammed
Girls: Emma Davis
Triathlon
Boys: Joshua Ho
Girls: Renee Chin Lee
Volleyball
Boys: Nicholas Prescott
Girls: Zahra Collins
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