Black Stars and Swansea City attacking midfielder Andre Ayew was named the Sports Personality of the Year by the Sports Writers Association of Ghana at their 41st Awards ceremony sponsored by MTN.<\/p>\n
Ayew was awarded for his outstanding performances for the Black Stars in the 2015 AFCON and a very productive debut season for Swansea City in the Barclays Premier League that saw him score 12 times.<\/p>\n
He beat his fellow national team mates Harrison Afful and Asamoah Gyan to the award.<\/p>\n
The Black Queens were the national team of the year for winning gold at the All Africa Games in Congo Brazzaville while their coach Yusif Basigi was the coach of the year.<\/p>\n
Nadia Eke was the athlete of the year and Richard Commey was the boxer of the year.\u00a0Richard Seklorwu picked up the discovery of the year and AshGold captain Eric Opoku was the Premier League star f0r 2015.<\/p>\n
Below is the full list of award winners:<\/strong> –<\/p>\n Source: Citi Sports Desk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Black Stars and Swansea City attacking midfielder Andre Ayew was named the Sports Personality of the Year by the Sports Writers Association of Ghana at their 41st Awards ceremony sponsored by MTN. Ayew was awarded for his outstanding performances for the Black Stars in the 2015 AFCON and a very productive debut season for Swansea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":219886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSpecial Awards to Police Women\u2019s Hockey team (silver medalist, ACC)
\nThe Special Awards to Eben Annang Whyte (development of table tennis)
\nThe Special Awards to Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan (sports philanthropist)
\nSpecial Award to coach David Duncan (For Winning the SWAG Cups three times)
\nLifetime Achievement Award goes to Sophia Okulley (for women\u2019s football development).
\nSpecial Award to Nana Ampomah for his dedication to the course of SWAG over the last 40years
\nDedication and Valour award goes to AsanteKotoko_SC star Stephen Oduro
\nDiscovery of The Year- Richard Seklorwu gold medalist in long jump at the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa.
\nDiscovery of The Year- Richard Seklorwu
\nDiscovery of The Year- Joseph Kuyon (silver medallist, World Children Taekwondo Culture Festival in South Korea)
\nDiscovery of The Year \u2013 Joseph Tindan Kuyon
\nFemale Judoka of The Year- Szandra Szogoli
\nMale Judoka of The Year- Emmanuel Nartey (All Africa Games 60kg bronze medalist)
\nPara-Athlete Award- Patrick Yaw Obeng (1,500 & 800 T54 category bronze medalist @ the AAG)
\nNational Team of The Year- Black Queens (For their gold winning feat @ the AAG)
\nNational Team of The Year- Golden Rackets (George Darko & W. Na-Adjrago- Gold medalist @ the AAG)
\nMale Hockey Player of The Year- Johnny Botsio (Black Sticks & Trustees player)
\nHockey Player of The Year (F) \u2013 Nafisatu Umaru (MVP @ AHC in Zambia, Lge winner with Police)
\nAmateur Boxer of The Year- David Bawa (Heavyweight bronze medalist at the 2015 AAG).
\nAthlete of The Year (Male category) \u2013 John Ampomah (Javelin Silver medalist at AAG, 2 national records).
\nAthlete of The Year (Female category) -Nadia Eke (Triple Jump Bronze medalist at the 2015 AAG, nat record holder).
\nFemale Footballer of The Year \u2013 Portia Boakye
\nCoach of The Year- Yusif Basigi
\nProfessional Boxer of The Year- Richard Commey
\nPremier League Star of The Year 2015 \u2013 Eric Opoku
\nMost Promising Star for 2015 \u2013 Joel Fameyeh.
\nAssociation Chairman of The Year \u2013 Frederick Otu Lartey (TAEKWONDO )
\nTable Tennis Stars of the Year- Felix Lartey, Bernard Joe Sam, Emmanuel Commey, Derrick Abrefa.<\/p>\n