Singer-the Sunday Times Schoolboy Ruggerite of the Year 2017 Gala awards ceremony on 25 Jan.

The awards ceremony of the Singer-the Sunday Times Schoolboy Ruggerite of the Year 2017 will take place on 25 January at the Bishops’ College Auditorium, Colombo, when the winners of the Singer Schools Rugby League 2017 will also be honoured.    

The spotlight will be on the Singer-the Sunday Times Schoolboy Ruggerite of the Year 2017, the Singer-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Ruggerite of the Year 2017 and the Singer-the Sunday Times Most Popular School Rugby Team of the Year 2017. 

Apart from the awards to teams for outstanding performances, there will be two individual awards based solely on performances during the 2017 school rugby season, which will be for the Best Try Scorer of the Year and Best Place Kicker of the Year. 

As many are already aware, Aabid Cader and his team ‘S. Thomas’ College, are the official winners of the Singer-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Ruggerite of the Year 2017 and the Most Popular Rugby Team of Year 2017 competitions respectively. Both Cader and S. Thomas’ received almost 18,000 votes and won by healthy margins of close to 13,000 after a vigorous voting campaign.  Singer Sri Lanka will present championship trophies and certificates to the winning teams of each category - the divisions I, II and III - at the awards ceremony. These awards include the championship and runners-up trophies of the Cup, Plate, Bowl and Shield categories of Division I. 

In addition, the round I winner of the division I segments ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ will be recognised. Also the championship and runners-up trophies in the Cup and Plate segments of Divisions II and III will be awarded in addition to the Round I winners of segments ‘A’ and ‘B’ of both divisions. Each registered player will be presented with a certificate of participation for his contribution as a player of the Singer Schools Rugby League Championship 2017. Singer Sri Lanka has made plans to include the award presentation of the winners of their program with the Sunday Times at the official awards ceremony. 

The Most Popular Schoolboy Ruggerite of the Year competition was facilitated by Wijeya Newspapers publishing coupons for 15 weeks from 23 April 2017 in their publications, the Sunday Times, Daily Mirror, Daily Lankadeepa and Ada newspapers. The campaign had a promising start and an exciting culmination in which the interest of rugby-loving readers was amply evident.