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SPORTS STAR OF THE YEAR AWARDS
SAT 9 MARCH 2024 – RACV ROYAL PINES
Rub shoulders with our city’s great sporting champions at the Gold Coast’s Sport Star Awards.
Sports Gold Coast Ltd and Gold Coast Sporting Hall of Fame present the 55th Sport Star Awards. Celebrating the success of elite athletes, grassroots clubs and sports volunteers during 2023.
OUR STORY
SGC was established by a diverse group of community-minded Gold Coast business leaders who are passionate about actively connecting the city’s business and sport economy, in order to help position the city as a leading place to train, administer, and host world-class sporting events.
Inaugural chairman Geoff Smith was a long-time supporter of sport on the Gold Coast before Sports Gold Coast was launched in 2016. The highly respected lawyer had seen local sport at all levels suffer primarily because of poor infrastructure, the lack of a sustainable funding model and an absence of good governance.
Smith believed that a closer relationship between sport and the Gold Coast business community could solve almost all of these problems. Not only would the sporting organisations proposer, but the entire Gold Coast, including the business hub, would be boosted through a successful Gold Coast sporting story.
The primary role of Sports Gold Coast is to act as a conduit between sport and the organisation/s required in each case to help that sport develop. This may include interaction with business, government and/or educational facilities.
Sponsorship dollars is just one form of assistance. Through Sports Gold Coast, local sporting organisations can benefit greatly through interaction with local businesses in areas such as financial structuring, managing online expectations, volunteer/staffing issues, networking and media/communications.
Key to Sports Gold Coast’s structure is its membership. Businesses can become members of Sports Gold Coast through a variety of levels. Each level offering more direct benefits. However all members have the immediate opportunity to connect to the Gold Coast sporting community. Membership offers numerous benefits. Our memberships are an effective way to meet business leaders from around the Gold Coast and provide you with access to some of the most sort after sporting events on the calendar.
LATEST NEWS
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Bond University Joins as Silver Sponsor for the 55th Sports Star of the Year Awards
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Nominations Now Open: 1029 Hot Tomato’s People’s Choice Award
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Rising Young Athletes Compete for Coveted Gold Coast Junior Sports Star of the Year Award
Congratulations to all the nominees for the Gold Coast Bulletin Junior Sports Star of the Year 2023! These young athletes have shown exceptional dedication, talent, and hard work in their respective sports and are truly deserving of this recognition.
Sports Star Awards in pictures
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53rd Gold Coast Sports Star Awards
After an unwanted interruption due to Covid-19 restrictions, 2022 sees the welcome return of The Gold Coast Sports Star Awards dinner, to be held this year at RACV Royal Pines Resort on Friday 8 July. The event is a collaboration between not-for-profit organisation...
Enjoy unique benefits inclusive access to a range of sporting events
NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN
Calling all Photographers
The Gold Coast Sport Photographs of the Year award is your chance to earn recognition for your art.
The Gold Coast Sporting Awards gala dinner will feature the award for the second year in 2024’s event at RACV Royal Pines on 9 March. There will be both an amateur and professional award, but the image must have been taken during the 2023 calendar year.
To enter, first make sure you and your nominated photograph meet the eligibility criteria below, then complete the form and submit your photograph. The judges will advise you in February 2024 if your photograph has been shortlisted for the award. Please note that some submitted images will be published on our website and social media channels to promote the award and the gala dinner.
Attention Sports Tech Developers or Innovators
The Gold Coast Sporting Awards gala dinner will recognise the role technology and innovation play in sport at both the grassroots and elite levels, with the Gold Coast Sport Technology or Innovation Award.
The award is aimed at products and ideas adding tangible, measurable value to sports players, administrators, teams or fans. From broadcast technologies to skill enhancement apps and fan engagement initiatives, technology touches every corner of the sporting sector. Its role in our sporting lives continues to rise as athletes, players, teams, clubs, sporting bodies and supporters seek solutions, data and new ideas to support their work.
There’s everything still to play for
Join Sports Gold Coast and help sport grow in our city
Building meaningful links between sport and business
Sports Gold Coast is a not-for-profit organisation with a simple objective – to connect Gold Coast sport to Gold Coast businesses to contribute to the fabric and identity of our incredible city.
We believe the local business community must play a lead role in shaping the future of the city, ensuring the Gold Coast continues to rank as one of the most liveable cities in the world.
Sport and innovation are the key drivers of a successful future. Sports Gold Coast provides the platform for business owners to work with all levels of government, the education and sport sectors, with the goal of developing sport and sporting projects in the region.
Not only does this create a powerful critical mass that drives the success of our projects, it forms a meaningful business network of like-minded people who are connected around common goals and shared values.
Why join Sports Gold Coast?
Our members are a diverse community network with members from many different backgrounds, sectors and industries. What unites us is an understanding and appreciation of the positive impact sport has on a community, and how it promotes social cohesion, healthy choices and active lifestyles.
Our members have access to an exclusive group of like-minded people across many sectors and industries.
AS A SPORTS GOLD COAST MEMBER YOU ARE PART OF A TEAM STRIVING TO LEAVE A LEGACY BY CONTRIBUTING TO STRATEGIES THAT DELIVER LONG-TERM ECONOMIC BENEFITS.
Geoff Smith, Chair
WHAT WE DO
BUSINESS
By bringing local sport and local business together Sports Gold Coast knows the enormous benefits both can achieve. Many Gold Coast businesses are already supporters of sport, however by being a part of the Sports Gold Coast network these businesses can realise so much more.
PROJECTS
In a very short time span Sports Gold Coast has kicked some impressive goals – from creating the re-born Gold Coast NPLQ soccer club Gold Coast United, taking the annual Gold Coast Sports Star awards to new heights to assisting to bring Big Bash cricket to the Gold Coast. Sports Gold Coast has achieved a lot and has plenty more on the drawing board.
NEWS
Are you a sporting organisation or business that deserves more media coverage. Sports Gold Coast has a growing media platform that can take your story to the entire Gold Coast. Our media team is focussed on all local sport and also highlighting the efforts of people who are succeeding on the sports field, in the boardroom and across both.
GRASSROOTS
We are passionate about supporting our local grassroots clubs and organization to assist in advice, support and raising funds to enable them to continue to grow and be sustainable. With the support of the business community and donations we aim to launch a Sports Community Portal in the near future.
WOMEN IN SPORTS
Promoting Women in Sport is a key agenda for Sports Gold Coast. The development of Women’s sporting teams is an important step in gender diversity across all codes. Through partnering with Grass Roots sporting clubs, and providing awareness to business, Sports Gold Coast has connected support & funding towards promoting Women in Sport on the Gold Coast.
GOLD COAST SPORTS STAR AWARDS PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Active & Healthy Program
Check out the hundreds of free and low-cost activities every week that are fun and suitable for all shapes and sizes.
Venues & Facilities
Offers a variety of excellent facilities for public use. Visit one of our libraries, community, sport or aquatic centres. If you need to book a venue, search for one that meets your needs.
Sport Attraction
Designed to attract national and international sport organisations and businesses to the Gold Coast. It includes a range of incentives, funding and support for sport activities and relocating sport organisations to the city.