Unsung hero picks up second award Val Hanover Val Hanover accepts BBC Sports Personality of the Year award A Shropshire woman has picked up her second BBC award for her efforts in persuading people with special needs to take up sport. Val Hanover from Oswestry was the BBC Sports Personality of the Years Unsung Hero on Sunday night. The award came a week after she picked up the same title in the fourth BBC Midlands Sports Awards. Ms Hanover has been organising events at the North Shropshire Special Olympics Club since 1978. She is also a committed fund-raiser, having worked with people with learning disabilities since 1964. She accepted her award from England football stars Owen Hargreaves and retired captain Alan Shearer. In her speech to 5,000 people at the National Exhibition Centre, and to millions of television viewers, Ms Hanover told how she was overwhelmed and proud to win her Unsung Hero award. But its not only for me, its for the hundreds of volunteers and athletes with learning disabilities in the Special Olympics who train every week to achieve at their level in sport. And Im very pleased to win it for them, she said.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:26:47 +0000
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