The Canadian Tamil Youth Alliance held its first ever Top Talents Awards Gala and Dinner last Friday, June 18. Top Talents was created to recognize and celebrate the achievements of Tamil youth aged 17-30 by recognizing and rewarding talented youth among the community with an award and a $500 bursary. Its aim was to motivate youth to achieve greater success by recognizing and rewarding those youth who have contributed to society and are positive role models for their peers.
So, aren’t you all excited to find out who the Top Talents of this year were? For the next few days, we will be profiling our winners, and we hope their success story motivates and inspires you!
Today we will look at the winner of the CTYA Top Talents Soccer Award.
The Top Talents Soccer Award is presented to an individual who has shown significant achievement in a competitive organized sporting environment while showing commitment, leadership and sportsmanship. Decisions are made based on the applicant’s personal statement and references (if submitted) by a panel of judges. The selection panel is interested in the nominee’s overall success, leadership qualities, determination, and commitment to success.
This year, the CTYA Top Talents Soccer Award was presented to Mr. Janarthan Sadacharalingam.
Janarthan has demonstrated great passion and commitment to soccer. He has played for Canada’s only professional soccer league, the Canadian Soccer League (with the North York Astros), and has competed against national youth soccer teams including the Mexico under 20 National Team, and the Toronto Major League Soccer team. Some of the players from the team he versed, the Mexico Under 20, have gone on to playing professional soccer in the World Cup. He’s also played for the Toronto FC of Major League Soccer. He currently plays for Ryerson University Rams. Despite excelling tremendously in soccer, he is pursuing his Bachelor of Arts at Ryerson University in Geographic Analysis. Janarthan also is deeply committed to nurturing a future generation of soccer players, and exhibits strong leadership though his work as a coach for the Scarborough Rangers Soccer Club, where he coaches youth soccer. He possesses exceptional character, integrity, and is a model athlete and leader among the Canadian Tamil Youth.
“Jana is of exceptional character, integrity and truly is an ambassador of Tamil culture and leadership. Jana is of strong character and is a role model to manyof the young players on our team.” – Dr.Ivan Joseph, Director of Athletics at Ryerson University
“Jana’s soccer techniques and his coaching styles are instrumental for our team to move up in the rankings in the Ontario Soccer Leagues. Jana took a team with a very poor winning record at the lower level in the Central East Soccer League (CESL) to the highest level (first division) in the CESL.” – Gana Ramanathan, Registrar, Scarborough Rangers Soccer Club
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