14/04/2025
Congratulations to Joshua Buttigieg on being selected to receive a CGNSW athlete grant. 1 of 36, what an honour! 🌟
Congratulations to Briana Walsh for also receiving one!! 🎳
Commonwealth Games NSW is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of the CGNSW Athlete Grant Program. Each recipient will be awarded $1,000. CGNSW CEO Peter Tate said “These 36 young athletes are progressing well and have demonstrated tremendous ability in their respective sport pathways. Like many previous recipients, I’m hopeful quite a few will be selected for Australia in future Commonwealth Games”.
The athletes were nominated by their respective SSOs from their talented pathway programs. Congratulations to the following 36 athletes from 19 different sports:
Tyson Adams - Boxing NSW
Amarlin Altanshagai - Volleyball NSW
Wade Barr - Triathlon NSW
Eve Bryson - Boxing NSW
Annabelle Burrows - Gymnastics NSW
Joshua Buttigieg - Tenpin Bowling NSW
Zara Campbell - Triathlon NSW
Zachary Chan - Diving NSW
Chelsea C***s - Volleyball NSW
Lillian Cormack - Diving NSW
Cooper Crowe - Basketball NSW
Poppi Flanders - Rugby NSW
Ky Garratt - Athletics NSW
Juliana Ghetto - NSW Weightlifting Assn
Armin Gholami - NSW Wrestling Assn
Tru Hagens - Gymnastics NSW
Maja Kecskes - Archery NSW
Archie Kreutzberger - Swimming NSW
Landon Kurniawan - Badminton NSW
Tyson Lee - NSW Weightlifting Assn
Patrick Maye - Cycling NSW
Kate McTaggart - Cricket NSW
Logan Merrick - Archery NSW
Isabel Morgan - Basketball NSW
Mele'ana Ofiu - NSW Wrestling Assn
Jarvis Orr - Rugby NSW
Matilda Percival - Netball NSW
Jade Reynolds - Squash NSW
Caitlin Rose - Cycling NSW
Jayden Sparks - Squash NSW
Annabelle Teague - Bowls NSW
Timothy Thorning - Bowls NSW
Sienna Toohey - Swimming NSW
Brianna Walsh - Tenpin Bowling NSW
Chelsy Wayne - Athletics NSW
Maureen Wijaya - Badminton NSW
This is the 7th edition of the CGNSW Athlete Grants which commenced in 2016. There are now 205 recipients over that period. Nominating criteria requires each athlete to be a resident of NSW and under 20 years of age. Six sports have featured grant winners in each edition – namely badminton, beach volleyball, diving, gymnastics, netball and wrestling.
Another feature of this year’s group is two of the winners replicating their older brothers as previous grant recipients – namely Archie from swimming and Brianna from tenpin bowling.
In 2021 we introduced the Alex Fulcher Award – in honour of the former State Division Life Member and President. Previous winners are cyclist Daniel Barber, basketballer Breanna Fisk and swimmer Oscar Kreutzberger. The selection panel chose one of the 36 above-mentioned athletes to receive an additional $1,000. We are delighted to announce the 2025 Alex Fulcher Award winner is squash player Jade Reynolds from Dubbo. Jade is ranked #2 in her age group in Australia, and already in 2025 has competed internationally in the Scottish and British Junior Opens. CGNSW President Michael O’Mara said “Jade is a worthy winner of the award which epitomises determination, humility, fair play and traditional bush spirit”.
Congratulations to all the wonderful athletes, and thanks to the SSOs for the nominations.
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