The Junior Team of the Year title was won by the Rotherham Harriers Under 17 Women's Cross Country Team, for their team win this year at the National Cross Country Championships - the second year running that they have won the national title.

The coaches and volunteers who work so hard behind the scenes to make everything happen also had their moment in the limelight, as the most successful were thanked for their efforts. City of Sheffield Athletics Club coach Rob Creasey, and Dearneside Athletics Club coach Trevor Fox, were joint winners in the Coach of the Year category for their work with young athletes and local communities - Rob coaching middle distance running and up and coming track star Abdi Ahmed, and Trevor coaching Pole Vault, and local international athlete Luke Cutts.

Long serving coach, founder and lynchpin of Wombwell and Dearne Amateur Boxing Club Eric Walker, was also recognised for his efforts, winning the Lifetime Achievement Award on the night. Eric works with many young people in the Dearne Valley area to help them get started and progress in boxing and has also coached many successful boxers, representing Yorkshire and the country.

Meanwhile, up and coming coaches and volunteers were also thanked and encouraged in their work, with Vicky Greensil from Sheffield's Concord Netball Club scooping the Young Coach of the Year award for her work both with the netball club and coaching dance, athletics, gymnastics and rounders. Mark Tingle from Barnsley College took the Young Volunteer of the Year title, for his volunteering both with Rugby and with local schoolchildren through the Youth Sport Trust's 2012 project, encouraging more children to get into sport.

With two new categories this year, Business Contribution to Sport and Contribution to Disability Sport, community sport for all ages and abilities shone through. Raleys Solicitors took the Business Contribution to Sport prize, for their sponsorship and investment into Barnsley Football Club's Toby's Terriers project - a scheme which allows hundreds of school children to access quality sports coaching both in and after school.

Joan and Geoffrey Roberts were the shining lights of disability sport in South Yorkshire, and were recognised for their hard work and efforts with the Barnsley Inclusive Fitness Sport and Physical Activity Forum. Joan and Geoffrey have been instrumental in helping the forum secure a hoist for the pool at the Metrodome Leisure Centre, Barnsley, and give up their time tirelessly to promote disability sport and encourage help more disabled people to access sporting opportunities.

'The South Yorkshire Sport and re:play awards showcase the best of sport in South Yorkshire, both at a local community level, encouraging more people to become involved, through to international performers and stars of the future. South Yorkshire has a strong sporting tradition, and this is evident in the high quality of athletes, coaches and volunteers that we have here tonight. We want to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate all those short listed tonight, for their hard work, determination and success over the past year' said Bruce Kelsey, Partnership Director at South Yorkshire Sport.

Trevor Fox, Dearneside Athletics Club
Pictured: Trevor Fox (Dearneside Athletics Club), Lisa Walsh (Video Vision), Rob Creasey (City of Sheffield Athletics Club)

Trevor works at Dearneside School, and helps a lot of children at the school access athletics, in particular the Pole Vault event. Trevor takes the children four times a week in a minibus after school to training locations throughout South Yorkshire, to enable them to train at Pole Vault, and also takes the youngsters to competitions in the minibus at the weekends.

Trevor has more nationally ranked athletes than any other coach in the region, with all his athletes coming out of Dearneside school. Trevor helps the youngsters beyond just coaching - without Trevor encouraging them to take part in the Pole Vault many of them would be at risk of anti-social behaviour

Trevor has given up his own time to coach more youngsters to an elite level than any other athletics coach in the area, including Luke Cutts, who now competes in pole vault at an international level.

Rob Creasey, City of Sheffield Athletics Club
Rob has worked unselfishly with Sheffield's Somalian community, its leaders and youngsters to establish a group of amazing talent based at Don Valley Stadium. Rob's work has paid off this year with two of his squad becoming international gold meddalists: Abdirisak Ahmed and Muktar Mohammed. Rob has overcome the language barriers by learning the language and basing himself in schools at the heart of the Somalian community, gaining trust and many friends along the way. Rob is sympathetic to the needs of his athletes, from providing tents for them to pray at competitions to organising their training around religious festivals - things that not many athletics coaches would ever consider.

As well as the two athletes that have achieved so much, he has a further group of 15 - 20 youngsters that will with no doubt be at the same level within the next couple of years.

Young Coach of the Year, sponsored by Video Vision
Pictured: Lisa Walsh (Video Vision) and Vicky Greensil (Concord Netball Club)

Vicky has been a committed member of Concord Netball Club for the last 6 years. Always willing and available to help coach the younger players within the club, Vicky is enthusiastic, reliable and very able.

Vicky helped to run a coaching fun day in the summer holidays for the club's Under 14 players, and now helps regularly at bridging sessions for young adults. Last year Vicky attained her level 1 coaching award in Netball, and put this to use supporting Concord's club links programme, working with Nether Green Primary school to prepare them for a netball festival.

Apart from Netball, Vicky is involved in a number of other coaching projects including Rounders, Athletics, Dance and Gymnastics. She recently gained her Level 2 Athletics Coach and is a level 1 Gymnastics coach. Vicky uses her qualifications by coaching in a number of different areas, including dance.

Club of the Year, sponsored by Brightstar Creative
Pictured: Darren Pass (Brightstar Creative) with Doncaster Athletics Club

Doncaster Athletics Club have worked hard towards gaining their clubmark standard over the past year, committing time and effort to developing the club and attracting many new members, young and old. The club has also developed a disability athletes section, attracting many local disabled athletes - both established elite competitors and those just starting out.

The club moved to train at the new Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster earlier this year, and have taken the opportunity to use the facilities and work to more than double their member numbers in the past few months alone.

Young Volunteer of the Year
Pictured: Mark Tingle (Barnsley College) and Bruce Kelsey (South Yorkshire Sport)

Selected as a 'Young Ambassador for Sport' as part of the Youth Sport Trust's London 2012 support project, Mark shows exceptional commitment as a performer, leader & volunteer.

Mark relishes his role within the 2012 project, visiting local primary and junior schools to run Olympic and London 2012 workshops, and aims to raise the profile of sport and increase the sporting opportunities for people in and around the Barnsley area.

Mark is a keen and talented rugby player himself and gives up his time to coach U14 and U16 junior rugby squads. He is always the first to volunteer to assist and lead with internal Barnsley College events and has been instrumental in trying to set up a college representative rugby team.

Lifetime Achievement, sponsored by Lakeside IT
Pictured: Eric Walker (Wombwell and Dearne Amateur Boxing Club) and Alex Cooper (Lakeside IT)

Eric is a senior ABA boxing Coach who has over the past 50 years dedicated his life to coaching boxing. He has coached some of the great boxers that Barnsley and Yorkshire has produced. Eric has single-handedly developed Wombwell & Dearne amateur boxing club over the years and still dedicates all his life to the sport he loves. The majority of Eric's work has always been and still continues to be as a volunteer. During this time he has taken boxers all over the country and abroad to compete at the highest level possible to represent his club and sport and more importantly Yorkshire as a whole.

Although Eric coaches many boxers who are at sporting excellence level much of his coaching is focused on grassroots level and the development of young boxers. Whilst working in the gym with boxers of all ages Eric gives his time, effort, enthusiasm and encouragement to coach young people in the community.

Eric delivers sessions in some of the most deprived areas of South Yorkshire, helping to break down the barriers to competing for many members of the community. Many of these participants have gone on further to compete and even becoming champions at local and national level.

Rising to the Challenge, sponsored by the Dreams Project
Pictured: Steve Quin (winner) and Megan Sylvester (Participant in the Dreams Project)

Taking up running only two years ago, Steve has been a huge inspiration to those around him. Running has changed Steve's life, giving him more confidence, and helping him loose weight. From struggling to run the length of a football pitch without stopping in his first session, Steve built up his running through sheer determination and will, and within a few months was running between 10 and 20 miles per week.

Steve has since gone on to complete 3 half marathons, 1 full marathon and countless 10km races, and now helps and leads new groups of runners who struggle with the same challenges he himself faced when starting out not long ago.

Business Contribution to Sport, sponsored by Remember the Name
Pictured: Raleys Solicitors, with Richard Fidler, re:play magazine

Raleys Solicitors have sponsored and invested in the three year Toby's Terriers project in Barnsley, which delivers curriculum and out of school competitive, recreation and social activities for children to take part in, through linking up with Barnsley Football Club's community sports and education trust.

The project has been running for one year, with 20 schools taking part so far, benefiting from high quality physical activity. Schools targeted have been in some of the most deprived areas of Barnsley. Positive feedback has been had from all schools, who have welcomed the scheme as a way of getting children interested in a variety of sports.

Contribution to Disability Sport, sponsored by Montgomery Leisure Services
Pictured: Sue Catton (Montgomery Leisure Services) with Joan and Geoffrey Roberts

Joan, an able bodied volunteer, and Geoffrey, her disabled son, play active roles in a number of disability sports clubs around Barnsley. Both give up their time to volunteer and help organise new activities and groups, and play an active role in promoting disability sport. They are passionate about their sports and volunteering, and committed to increasing sports provision for young adults.

Despite his severe disabilities, Geoffrey is secretary of the Inclusive Fitness Sport and Physical Activity Forum and Joan also works hard to support Geoffrey and help him develop his skills and activities.

Junior Team of the Year, sponsored by the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield
Pictured: Rotherham Harriers Under 17 Women's Cross Country team with Bruce Kelsey (South Yorkshire Sport)

The Rotherham Harriers Under 17 Women's Cross country team have had a spectacular season this year, winning the team competition at the national cross country championships by a huge margin ahead of the second placed Royal Sutton Coldfield team.

This was their second success at the National Championships, as the team also won gold in 2006.

This season the team have also won a team silver medal in the national road relays, and won the Yorkshire Road Race relays.

Members of the team include Jade Allen, Natalie Grant, Jessica Fawcett and Laura Spence, each dedicated Rotherham Harriers who train hard as a team to reach their goals, and who are supported by fellow team members always pushing them on to run faster.

Senior Team of the Year
Pictured: Sheffield Hatters Basketball Club with Councillor Mike Pye (middle of photo)

Sheffield Hatters women's basketball club have had a fantastic year, winning the national cup, national league and national championships. With club training three times a week throughout the season, they have worked hard to become triple title holders, regularly beating teams of foreign professional players to achieve their aim.

The club also boasts a number of players who represent Great Britain, including Katie Crowley, Lisa Hutchinson, Sarah Naylor, Helen Naylor, Millie Watkins and Lauren Lindsay. Sheffield Hatters work hard to develop their own players through a thriving junior and community development programme, and enjoy success thanks to the support of dedicated coaches and volunteers.

Junior Performer of the Year, sponsored by SportsAid Yorkshire and Humber
Pictured: Jessica Ren (Graves Tennis Centre) and Robert Clarke (SportsAid Yorkshire and Humber)

A dedicated and determined young tennis player, In December 2006, Jessica won the 12 and under girls singles at the Junior Orange Bowl International Championships in Florida. Jessica was the first British female to win the event, which is widely regarded as the junior world championships and has been won by players such as Justine Henin, Kim Klijsters and Chris Evert.

Jessica is currently the number one ranked 14 and under girl in Great Britain, and was runner up in the 14 and under national championships in August.

Despite being of only relatively small build she is able to defeat opponents who are much physically stronger by her sheer determination and will to win. She trains tirelessly to work towards her goal of being a professional player and representing her country and the 2012 Olympics.

Senior Performer of the Year, sponsored by B&B Press
Pictured: Jessica Ennis (City of Sheffield Athletics Club) and David Bavington (B&B Press)

Jessica has had a spectacular season this year, cumulating in finishing fourth in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan. Throughout the season, Jessica equalled the British Women's Record in the High Jump 1.95m, became the first British woman ever to win the European Cup Super League for combined events, and broke the British under 23 record for the Heptathlon three times over the year. Jessica managed all this whilst completing her degree in psychology at the University of Sheffield.