An­oth­er phe­nom­e­nal per­for­mance from Onel­la Jack-Hill for this sea­son saw her earn the “Most Valu­able Play­er” (MVP) award of the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League for a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year.

The Fire Ser­vice util­i­ty play­er was pre­sent­ed with the top ac­co­lade by T&T Net­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Pres­i­dent Dr Patri­ca Butch­er at the leagues' clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny on Sat­ur­day evening at the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Tacarigua.

“I am elat­ed,” said the soft-spo­ken Jack-Hill, who re­spond­ed sim­i­lar­ly last sea­son when she was ho­n­oured with the same award. “We played as a team, every­one came out and worked hard I must say and we came out vic­to­ri­ous.”

Again the fire of­fi­cer, who was named on the se­nior All-Star team, was one of the key in­gre­di­ents in help­ing Fire sweep all ti­tles in the Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion in­clud­ing the League, Steve Sar­jeant Chal­lenge, Di­vi­sion­al knock­out, Fast5 and Open­ing Day knock­out com­pe­ti­tions.

So too, her Fire and All-Star team­mate Si­mone Mor­gan, who was the MVP for the team in the six-team di­vi­sion. The lead­ing play­ers for the oth­er re­spec­tive teams were Crys­tal-Ann George for De­fence Force, Ayana Rus­sell (Las Lo­mas), Sta­cy Pil­grim (Po­lice), Kielle Con­nel­ly of Po­lice Youth Club (PYC) and Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC) Sparks’ The­ma Moses.

Jack-Hill, a na­tion­al de­fend­er, was busy at the awards cer­e­mo­ny as she was nom­i­nat­ed by her team­mates to col­lect the re­spec­tive tro­phies for her cham­pi­on team but was amazed when her name was specif­i­cal­ly called for a shoot­ing award.

“I was sur­prised by win­ning the in­di­vid­ual shoot­ers’ award and I was very elat­ed,” said a smil­ing Jack-Hill as she showed the plaque with her name writ­ten on the sur­face.

She had the best shoot­ing av­er­age for the sea­son in the Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion with 64.13 per cent, beat­ing out reg­u­lar shoot­ers Aquila Blugh of UTC (63.57) and Po­lice’s Je­selle Navar­ro (63.41).

Jack-Hill’s con­tri­bu­tion helped Fire cop the team’s best shoot­ing av­er­age award and lat­er she made her way back to the pre­sen­ta­tion floor when she col­lect­ed the prize for best cen­tre-court. Col­lect­ing the award for the best de­fen­sive play­er was George.

Af­ter a busy sea­son, Jack-Hill and her fel­low na­tion­al team­mates have no plans of re­lax­ing as their fo­cus re­mains on the up­com­ing Net­ball World Cup in Eng­land.

“Right now train­ing hard as usu­al. We are work­ing on many things with one of the best coach­es Wes­ley ‘Pepe’ Gomes. He has a plan so we are com­ing out to train­ing and work­ing. We have a goal,” said Jack-Hill.

In all, it was an ex­cit­ing sea­son for each play­er in the var­i­ous di­vi­sion and the ad­di­tion of the men’s play­er in the Pre­mier­ship cat­e­go­ry, added val­ue to in­ten­si­ty to the 29th edi­tion of the ASNL, who had Es­mond Forde, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Tu­na­puna and Patrice Charles, Di­rec­tor of Phys­i­cal Ed­u­ca­tion and Sports in the Min­istry of Sports and Youth Af­fairs on hand to present awards .

“The men con­tributed in a big way. They helped in the shoot­ers’ area and the de­fen­sive area,” said Jack-Hill of her team­mates Ronald Phipps, Mar­tinez Hold­er and An­drew John­son.

Her oth­er Fire team­mates were Gar­brel Sel­man, Ayana Ham­let, Jel­lene Richard­son, Fiona Hold­er, Daystar Swift and Sanya Jarvis. They were coached by Joel Young-Strong and their phys­io­ther­a­pist Don­na John en­sured that they were the fittest on the court for each match of the three-month-long com­pe­ti­tion.

In the in­di­vid­ual awards pre­sent­ed in the oth­er di­vi­sions, Bermudez’s Make­da De Fre­itas was the best shoot­er with 80.67 per cent in the Cham­pi­onship cat­e­go­ry. Her team­mate An­teneille Charles was the best cen­tre-court and TSTT’s Chan­tael Per­ry-McEwen was the best de­fend­er.

Tak­ing re­spec­tive ho­n­ours in the Al­ter­na­tive Di­vi­sion were Bermudez’s Nakali­ah Daniel (72.97), Tri­cia Pa­tron (TT Post) and Tami­ah Her­nan­dez of Bermudez.