{"id":42475,"date":"2014-10-17T22:34:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T20:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2014\/10\/university-of-johannesburgs-annual-sports-awards-gala-winners\/"},"modified":"2014-10-17T22:34:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T20:34:54","slug":"university-of-johannesburgs-annual-sports-awards-gala-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/university-of-johannesburgs-annual-sports-awards-gala-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Johannesburg\u2019s annual sports awards gala winners"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South African hockey player Bernadette Coston won both the Sportswoman of the Year and Student-Athlete of the Year titles at the University of Johannesburg Sports Awards on Thursday night. Photo: Supplied<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Commonwealth Games competitors Zarck Visser and Bernadette Coston racked up the highest sporting honours at the University of Johannesburg’s annual sports awards gala on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Glasgow silver medallist and African long-jump champion Visser leapt to a second straight victory in the Sportsman of the Year category, while South African hockey player Coston scooped both the Sportswoman and Student-Athlete of the Year awards.<\/p>\n

Third-year transport management student Visser beat out the likes of SA hockey players Brandon and Clinton Panther and national high-jump champion Kabelo Kgosiemang to retain his title as standout male athlete.<\/p>\n

The national, student and Varsity Athletics champion is currently ranked seventh in the world with a season’s best leap of 8.31m.<\/p>\n

Coston’s achievements both on and off the field were what set her apart and earned her the double awards.<\/p>\n

With 110 national caps, she was a vital link in the South African team that took gold at the World Cup-qualifying Africa Cup in Kenya and finished second at the Investec Cup in London.<\/p>\n

Coston also represented her country at the Commonwealth Games in Scotland and the Hockey World Cup in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Despite a punishing international schedule, the fifth-year chiropractic student maintained a solid academic performance with a 73 per cent average and 18 distinctions over the course of her studies.<\/p>\n

Master of ceremonies and UJFM sports editor Andrew Hope said the finalists’ achievements were made even more remarkable by the fact that every one was a full-time student.<\/p>\n

“Essentially just to be a nominee requires an exceptional amount of dedication and commitment from these students not only to their sport, but also to their studies and, from that, their future.”<\/p>\n

In the club category for non-students, Coston’s teammate Lilian du Plessis and Commonwealth triple-jump champion Khotso Mokoena took the women’s and men’s awards.<\/p>\n

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South African hockey player Bernadette Coston won both the Sportswoman of the Year and Student-Athlete of the Year titles at the University of Johannesburg Sports Awards on Thursday night. Photo: Supplied Commonwealth Games competitors Zarck Visser and Bernadette Coston racked up the highest sporting honours at the University of Johannesburg’s annual sports awards gala on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[2883,2807,6411,4979,4605,1032,2414],"class_list":{"0":"post-42475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-annual","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-gala","10":"tag-johannesburgs","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-university","13":"tag-winners","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}