Har­vard Un­der-19 rug­by cap­tain Joseph Quashie, a Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T stu­dent/ath­lete on schol­ar­ship, and na­tion­al un­der-19 stand­out, is the T&T Rug­by Foot­ball Union (TTR­FU) nom­i­nee for the First Cit­i­zens Youth Sports­man of the Year award. The ath­let­ic 18-year-old for­mer Bel­mont Sec­ondary stu­dent and Har­vard Rug­by Clin­ic grad­u­ate, led his team to the TTR­FU Un­der 19 league ti­tle. He was a main­stay in the Har­vard Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion team and con­tributed sig­nif­i­cant­ly to UTT win­ning the Na­tion­al 7s Rug­by Cham­pi­onship. Har­vard se­nior team cap­tain Wayne Kel­ly, al­so a UTT rug­by schol­ar­ship stu­dent, was named as one of the five TTR­FU Rug­by Play­ers of the Year which al­so in­clud­ed Graeme Alkins, Justin Maclean, Gor­don Dal­giesh, Ki­dane Sil­ver­tone. Na­tion­al play­ers Graeme Alkins and Je­nilee Li­ma­da walked away with the TTR­FU 2009 Play­ers of the Year awards. The TTR­FU's 2009 prize giv­ing func­tion was held at the Trot­ters Sports Lounge on Mar­aval Road, Port-of-Spain on Thurs­day.

Gor­don's fa­ther pass­es on

T&T Rug­by Foot­ball Union (TTR­FU) pres­i­dent Leslie Fi­garo has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences on be­half of the TTR­FU to Row­ell Gor­don, a TTR­FU Youth De­vel­op­ment Of­fi­cer (YDO) and Har­vard Club cham­pi­onship di­vi­sion rug­by team vice cap­tain, on the death of his fa­ther Roland Gor­don. The el­der Gor­don, 57, the chief judge, mu­si­cal di­rec­tor and arranger of the So­ca Monarch com­pe­ti­tion, suc­cumbed to a stroke at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex on Fri­day. He was mu­si­cal di­rec­tor of the Amantes de Par­ran­da parang group as well as the Mal­ick Folk Per­form­ing Group. He was al­so a mu­sic fa­cil­i­ta­tor with the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion. His sud­den ill­ness and sub­se­quent death has shocked the en­ter­tain­ment fra­ter­ni­ty. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to Row­ell and his fam­i­ly. Mr Gor­don's con­tri­bu­tion to cul­ture and en­ter­tain­ment is sig­nif­i­cant. His sud­den pass­ing will leave a void in the cul­tur­al land­scape of T&T. Row­ell has our sup­port dur­ing these dif­fi­cult times," said Fi­garo.