Carol Gianotti named 1993 Quit Sportswoman of the Year

13/11/93

Outstanding international tenpin bowler Carol Gianotti has been named the 1993 Quit Sportswoman of the Year.

Ms Gianotti, who has had an impressive year on the international circuit, beat other elite Western Australian sportswomen Alison Inverarity, Renee Poetschka, Louise Sauvage, Julie Jenkinson and Desly Hill to take out the prestigious award.

Sport and Recreation Minister Norman Moore officiated at the award presentation ceremony last night at the Women's Sport Foundation of WA's annual awards dinner.

Mr Moore said other award winners were:

·       surfrider Melanie Redman - the 1993 Quit Junior Sportswoman of the Year;

·       track and field coach Lyn Foreman - The 1993 Quit Coach of the Year;

·       the University of WA's lightweight rowing four - the 1993 Quit Team of the Year.

Mr Moore said that between October 1992 and April 1993, Ms Gianotti, currently ranked second in the world, had won three major international tournaments in the USA, which was the world centre for tenpin bowling.  She finished in the top three in another four events.

Upon returning to Australia, she won the New South Wales Open and the South Pacific Classic in September, which featured the top bowlers from Australia and Asia.

The 1993 Quit Junior Sportswoman of the Year, Melanie Redman, won from up-and-coming tennis star Siobhan Drake-Brockman and outstanding athlete Rebecca Campbell.

Ms Redman, from Dunsborough, defeated champions from the USA, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia to win the world junior championship in Bali, repeating her victory of 1991.

She finished fourth in the Australian Open championship and was fourth against world-class opponents in the open division of the $130,000 Surfmasters at Margaret River.

The 1993 Quit Coach of the Year, Lyn Foreman, was a former hurdles champion and Sportswoman of the Year and defeated Road Racing coach Jenni Banks and 1992 Quit Coach of the Year, WAIS Gymnastics coach Liz Chetkovich, for the award.  Members of     Ms Foreman's squad won a total of 11 Australian titles and set 15 world junior qualifying times and two national records during the 1992-93 season.

The UWA Lightweight rowing crew woman from the QUIT WAIS Breakers and the State Hockey team which both finished runners-up in the respective national competitions.  Sue Peacock, Merome Hall, Elizabeth Moir and Emma Cross, caused a stunning upset by vanquishing the world champion Victorian crew in April to win the final of the Australian Championships in Queensland.

Mr Moore said the sports in which the award winners participated was evidence of the increasingly wide range of sports in which Western Australian women were now involved.

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