Ex-Wallaby will be guest at Sports Awards

FORMER Australian Wallaby centre Tim Horan will feature as the guest speaker at this year’s prestigious SP Sports Awards (SPSA) presentation night next Saturday.
A pleased chairman of the SP Sports Awards organising committee Sir John Dawanincura said every year the SPSA aims to bring on board people who have an affinity with the sporting fraternity, with a fresh, funny and inspiring perspective and a message that could be applied not only to sport but all facets of life and he believed Horan fit the bill.
Horan will grace this year’s SP Sports Awards with his presence and will have a great message to impart to his audience from his experiences.
Last year, the awards had Australian criketer Michael Kasprowics, who also spent some time with the Under19 Barramundis, and this year, as part of Horan’s invite under the PNG Sports for Development Initiative under AusAID, the programme is hoping to do something similar with rugby while the former Wallaby will be in the country for two days.
Horan boasts a 10-year of a Test rugby career and was a key member in Australia’s two World Cup victories.
His decade of rugby began as a teenager with his first taste against the All Blacks in 1989, which was an important part of Australia’s 1991 World Cup victory.
He suffered a career threatening injury in 1994 but made a come back through his determination to be on the field and made it for the World Cup in South Africa in 1995.
Horan arrives in Port Moresby next Saturday for the SPSA presentation night; tickets are selling at K250 per person or K2,500 for corporate tables.
For more information, call the Sports Federation on 323 0114.