Fabian Monge is Fairfield Advance’s Junior Sports Star of the Year, Chloe Tate Inspiration Award winner
The Fairfield Advance’s 2019 Junior Sports Star of the Year and Inspiration Award winner has been revealed at a gala dinner in Sydney.
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You could draw a line connecting a young boy watching soccer with his family to earning a scholarship as a star player at Western Sydney Wanderers.
Fabian Monge started playing football when he was just four years old. Now 17, he wakes up at the crack of dawn five days a week to train before heading to school at Bossley Park.
The midfielder has already amassed a collection of accolades and has been named a star player of Western Sydney Wanderers. For Fabian, football is not a game; it's a way of life.
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Fabian’s stellar achievements have seen him take out the Fairfield Advance’s 2019 Junior Sports Star of the Year award.
Fabian and Inspiration Award winner Chloe Tate were honoured as the Fairfield Advance award winners at the 2019 Local Sports Stars awards, sponsored by Featherdale Wildlife Park, Bankstown Sports Club and Northern Beaches Hospital, and held at Bankstown Sports Club on Wednesday night.
Chloe Tate's gymnastic dreams came to a halt when the 11-year-old suffered a permanent spinal injury last year. She had been training for three years and already competed in two State Championships. Some weeks she'd train so much she'd have to cram her school work in at lunch.
Whereas her injury, a spinal fracture and a 4mm slipped disc, would've stopped other people, it barely slowed her down. She did the physiotherapy, acupuncture and a specialty routine to recover. Then earlier this year, she competed in the 2019 Metro State Trials.
Bouncing back is a lesson a lot of people don't learn until adulthood, but Chloe's lived it before becoming a teen.
“I’m a bit overwhelmed, I wasn’t really expecting to win,” Chloe said.
“The thing I love the most about gymnastics is my floor routine and expressing myself.”
Each of our Junior Sport publication winners and Inspiration Award winners received $300 and a medal.
Joshua O’Connell (Inner West Courier) was crowned overall Junior Sports Star winner on the night after breaking the world 800m record for 11-year-old’s in April.
Swimmer John Dimech-O’Connell (Macarthur Chronicle) won the overall Inspiration Award and the under 14s Gosford City Rebels girls basketball team (Central Coast Express Advocate) the overall team award.
The overall Service to Sport winner was Chung Dang (Canterbury-Bankstown Express).
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