Keshorn Wal­cott, the reign­ing T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) “Sports­man of the Year”, and Leah Bertrand, the “Sports­woman of the Year” award win­ners for 2025 are ex­pect­ed to cop the top awards once more when the 63rd edi­tion of the First Cit­i­zens Sports­man and Sports­woman of the Year 2025 func­tion takes place Sat­urday, at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts, Port-of-Spain.

This year’s theme, Lega­cy Takes Flight, re­flects the foun­da­tion’s com­mit­ment to ho­n­our­ing those whose con­tri­bu­tions to sport con­tin­ue to up­lift and in­spire.

In ad­di­tion to Wal­cott and Bertrand, there are more than 90 nom­i­nees across over 29 sport­ing dis­ci­plines, in­clud­ing cy­clists Nicholas Paul and Te­niel Camp­bell, bad­minton’s Ama­ra Urquhart and Ethan Ram­cha­ran, hock­ey’s Nicholas Siu Butt and Shaquille Daniel, and se­nior men’s na­tion­al foot­baller Kevin Moli­no.

The evening will fea­ture spec­tac­u­lar per­for­mances, com­pelling sto­ry­telling, and the posthu­mous in­duc­tion of dis­tin­guished sport­ing icons in­to the First Cit­i­zens Sports Hall of Fame. View­ers and guests can ex­pect an in­spir­ing show­case that ho­n­ours a lega­cy of ex­cel­lence while chart­ing the path for­ward for fu­ture gen­er­a­tions of ath­letes.

The 2025 World Track and Field Cham­pi­onship javelin cham­pi­on and Bertrand al­so copped their re­spec­tive top awards at the 2025 Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tion (NAAATT) an­nu­al awards cer­e­mo­ny held ear­li­er this year and are ex­pect­ed to make a clean sweep.

Last year was a his­toric, ca­reer-defin­ing year for 32-year-old Wal­cott, who se­cured his first world ti­tle 13 years af­ter his fa­mous Olympic vic­to­ry in Lon­don in 2012, for which he was al­so named First Cit­i­zens Sports­man of the Year award win­ner, win­ning the gold medal in the men’s javelin throw at the World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Tokyo, Japan, with a sea­son-best mark of 88.16 me­tres and was named the most out­stand­ing men’s field ath­lete.

The 23-year-old Bertrand was named the NAAA’s top women’s ath­lete in 2024, along with the Most Out­stand­ing Ath­lete (Women’s Open - Track) for 2025.

Dur­ing the 2025 sea­son, Bertrand broke records at Ohio State Uni­ver­si­ty and re­peat­ed as cham­pi­on, de­fend­ing her women’s 100m na­tion­al ti­tle with a time of 11.04 sec­onds at the NGC/NAAATT Cham­pi­onship in Ju­ly, her third na­tion­al 100m ti­tle in four years.

At the World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships, Bertrand was elim­i­nat­ed in the first round of the 100m, fin­ish­ing fourth in her heat with a time of 11.29 sec­onds, while in the 200m heats, she was sixth in heat four in 23.33 sec­onds.

She al­so placed fourth in the same event at the Con­ti­nen­tal Tour Gold in 11.34 sec­onds.

In the USA at the Na­tion­al Col­le­giate Ath­let­ics As­so­ci­a­tion (NCAA) Out­door Cham­pi­onships, Bertrand had two top-five fin­ish­es, plac­ing fourth in the 200m (22.60 sec­onds) and fifth in the 100m (11.21).

Dur­ing her col­le­giate sea­son, Bertrand al­so es­tab­lished a new school record for Ohio State in the women’s 100m in 10.92 sec­onds, be­com­ing the first woman in the school’s his­to­ry to run a wind-le­gal, sub-11.00 time.

Her high­light of the in­door sea­son was a 7.30-sec­ond clock­ing in the women’s 60m at the Rod Mc­Cravy Memo­r­i­al, plac­ing her in the Top 10 in the world at that time.

The top ju­nior Sports­man of the Year and Sports­woman of the Year, Spe­cial Olympics awards, the Team of the Year, and Hall of Fame in­ductees will al­so be named.

Last year, the win­ners in­clud­ed Jereem Richards (Sports­man) and Kar­ish­ma Ramharack (Sports­woman), Je­lani Nedd (Youth Sports­man) and Makaira Wal­lace (Youth Sports­woman), and the T&T Hock­ey 5’s team (Team of the Year).

2025 Se­nior Nom­i­nees

Sports­man and Sports­woman of the Year:

Aquat­ics: Dy­lan Carter & Zuri Fer­gu­son

Ath­let­ics: Leah Bertrand & Keshorn Wal­cott

Au­to­mo­bile Sports – Drag Rac­ing - Ce­leste Ga­jad­har & Cir­cuit Rac­ing - Frankie Boodram

Bad­minton: Cheque­da De Boulet & Vance Juter­am

Bas­ket­ball: Jil­lisa Brig­gs & Ah­keel Boyd

Box­ing: Jadeon Castil­lano & Tian­na Guy

Ca­noe Sprint: Nicholas Robin­son

Chess: Zara La Fleur & Joshua John­son

Cy­cling: Te­niel Camp­bell & Nicholas Paul

Darts: Karen Ram­cha­ran & James Walk­lin

Field Hock­ey: Shaquille Danielle

Foot­ball: Niki­ta Go­sine & Kevin Moli­no

Golf: Vic­to­ria Seenath & Christo­pher Richards Jr.

Horse Rac­ing: Hillion Khelawan

Ju­do: Late­sha Gill & Kadeem His­lop

Karate: Lei-An­na Valen­tine & Jyri Spicer

Net­ball: Maikea Bram­ble

Para Ath­let­ics: W. Akeem Stew­art

Pow­er­lift­ing: Kezia Hunte & Joseph Mc Don­ald

Ral­ly: Craig Sumair

Rug­by: Tere­si­ta Dil­lon & Jonathan Tay­lor

Sail­ing: Kel­ly Ar­rindell & Ste­fan Stu­ven

Shoot­ing: Si­mone Aboud -Moses & Clif­ford Wright

Mar­tial Arts: Chelsea Win­ter & Dave Samdeo

Squash: Rhea Khan & Chayse Mc Quan

Ta­ble Ten­nis: Chloe Fras­er & Yu­vraaj Dookram

Vol­ley­ball: Chan­non Thomp­son & Ja­reef Miguel

Women’s Crick­et Se­nior Kar­ish­ma Ramharack

2025 First Cit­i­zens Sports Awards

Youth nom­i­nees:

Aquat­ics: Zuri Fer­gu­son & Liam Car­ring­ton

Ath­let­ics: Janae De Gannes & Jaden Marchan

Au­to­mo­bile Sports Kart­ing: Nao­mi Gar­cia& Drift­ing: Jesse Heer­ah

Bad­minton: Ama­ra Urquhart & Ethan Ram­cha­ran

Bas­ket­ball: Melis­sa Pierre & Zachary Julien

Box­ing Youth Makieve Bellille

Ca­noe Sprint Youth Dar­rius Nicholas

Chess: Saman­tha Dol­ly & Kael Samuel Bis­nath

Cy­cling: Kyra Williams & Je­lani Nedd

Field Hock­ey: Mikeshia De Sil­va & Nicholas Siu Butt

Foot­ball: Orielle Mar­tin & Der­rel Gar­cia

Golf: Is­abel­la Ramdeen & Ross Ramkissoon

Ju­do: Ky­la Philbert & Xavier Mil­lette

Karate: Cas­sidy Sam & Lan­don Bat­son

Net­ball Youth Shi­an Lewis

Pow­er­lift­ing: An­to­nio Fran­cis

Rug­by: Alyssa Fields & Je­re­mi­ah Moore

Sail­ing: Sariyah Stoute & Kyle D’Ju­ran

Shoot­ing Sports - Smooth­bore Air Ri­fle: Daniel­la Scott & Raavir Sookraj

Mar­tial Arts: Ma­li­ka Williams & Chris­t­ian Win­ter

Squash: Gia Ghu­ran & Seth Thong

Ta­ble Ten­nis: Ma­lik Gopaul & Chloe Fras­er

Triathlon: Ash­leigh Thomas & Liam D’Abadie

Vol­ley­ball: Sadie Torkar & Michael Bur­kette

Women’s Crick­et: Sama­ra Ram­nath

Spe­cial Olympics Awardees:

Ath­let­ics: Ter­shana Tem­pro

Ath­let­ics: Cadel Cuffy

Bas­ket­ball: Melis­sa Nanan

Bas­ket­ball: Ken­ton Fran­cois

Boc­ce Spe­cial: Kadeem Seaton

Floor­ball: Kayleigh Fi­garo

Foot­ball: Ker­win Rod­ney

Pow­er­lift­ing: Drex­el Joseph

Swim­ming: Trent Bethe