Malcolm Marx claims three 2017 SA Rugby Awards
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Springbok hooker Malcolm Marx was rewarded with three awards following a sublime season in 2017, including being named the SA Rugby Player of the Year.
The 23-year-old star from the Lions was also named the SA Rugby Young Player (U23) and Super Rugby Player of the Year for 2017.
Marx, who retained the Young Player of the Year award he won in 2016, is the first player since Ashwin Willemse in 2003 to win the prestigious SA Rugby Player and Young Player of the Year Awards in the same season.
Recently-capped Springbok Warrick Gelant, who also represented the Blitzboks and Junior Springboks earlier in his career, was the Currie Cup Premier Division Player of the Year, and the Down Touch Griffons’ Jaun Kotze won the accolade for the First Division.
Craig Barry from Western Province, who is currently playing for the Cheetahs in the PRO14, was named Supersport Challenge Player of the Year, and Babalwa Latsha, also from WP, won the Women’s Achiever of the Year award.
All the winners are:
SA Rugby Player of the Year: Malcolm Marx
Other nominees: Eben Etzebeth, Siya Kolisi, Jaco Kriel, Jan Serfontein
SA Rugby Young Player of the Year: Malcolm Marx
Other nominees: Curwin Bosch, Jean-Luc du Preez, Warrick Gelant, Damian Willemse
Team of the Year: Springbok Sevens
Other nominees: Lions, Western Province
Coach of the Year: Neil Powell
Other nominees: Johan Ackermann, John Dobson
Springbok Sevens Player of the Year: Rosko Specman
Other nominees: Chris Dry, Werner Kok
Junior Springbok Player of the Year: Juarno Augustus
Other nominees: Curwin Bosch, Damian Willemse
Super Rugby Player of the Tournament: Malcolm Marx (Lions)
Other nominees: Jaco Kriel, Franco Mostert (both Lions)
Currie Cup Premier Division Player of the Year: Warrick Gelant (Vodacom Blue Bulls)
Other nominees: Nizaam Carr, Robert du Preez (both DHL Western Province)
Currie Cup First Division Player of the Year: Jaun Kotze (Down Touch Griffons)
Other nominees: Tertius Maarman (Down Touch Griffons), Jeandré Rudolph (Leopards)
SuperSport Rugby Challenge Player of the Year: Craig Barry (Western Province)
Other nominees: Enver Brandt (Griquas), Shaun Reynolds (Golden Lions XV)
Craven Week Player of the Tournament
Sanele Nohamba (KwaZulu-Natal)
Referee of the Year
Jaco Peyper
Women’s Achiever of the Year
Babalwa Latsha (Western Province)
