Recognising and celebrating those who made an outstanding contribution to Victorian sport across all levels during the 2022 calendar year, the Victorian Sport Awards (VSAs) is the night of nights for Victoria’s sporting community.
Acknowledging the full spectrum of Victorian sport across metropolitan and regional areas, the VSAs will honour grassroots heroes, high-performance athletes who competed nationally and internationally and everyone in between.
Individual and team athletes, coaches, officials, volunteers, administrators, media personnel and the initiatives that ensured Victorians remained active will all be recognised, with 20 awards to be presented in total.
Of these, 19 awards will be open for nominations via the Vicsport website between Monday 6 February and Friday 3 March, 2023.
Four finalists for each of those 19 awards will then be announced in April before the winners are revealed on Wednesday 7 June at Marvel Stadium.
“The premier event on the Victorian sporting calendar, Vicsport is delighted to once again recognise and celebrate the wonderful achievements of our state’s sport and recreation community through the Victorian Sport Awards,” said Vicsport chair Ritchie Hinton.
“These awards provide an opportunity to honour the grassroots heroes who keep our sport and recreation sector thriving as well as the professional athletes who starred on the world stage in 2022 at events such as the Commonwealth Games and Winter Olympics. I urge all Victorians to submit their nominations to ensure their sport is well represented on the night.”
Categories in the 2022 Victorian Sport Awards are as follows:
• Southern Cross Trophies Coach of the Year
• Gallagher Community Coach of the Year
• Sports Accounting Australia Official of the Year
• etrainu Community Official of the Year
• AFL SportsReady Young Team of the Year
• AED Authority Team of the Year
• My Sport Live Community Sporting Event of the Year
• Love the Game Community Sporting Club of the Year
• GameDay Sports Administrator of the Year – Eunice Gill Award
• Leasexpress Sport Initiative of the Year
• Bunnings Trade Local Government Initiative of the Year
• VALO Volunteer of the Year
• VicHealth Active Recreation Initiative of the Year
• Involve Masters Athlete of the Year
• rebel Young Athlete of the Year
• View Melbourne Outstanding Media Coverage of Sport Award
• Polytan Peter Norman Inclusion Award
• Frank Wilkes Award
• Kitty McEwan Award
• Victorian State Government Outstanding Contribution to Victorian Sport
