Lucy Brittain won her singles and doubles matches to help St Cuthbert's College to a clean sweep of titles at the Scarbro Tennis Centre. Photo / Paul Estcourt

Lucy Brittain won her singles and doubles matches to help St Cuthbert's College to a clean sweep of titles at the Scarbro Tennis Centre. Photo / Paul Estcourt

Many of Auckland's young sporting stars have made their mark internationally this year. They are about to go under the microscope again as the judges select the ASB College Sport Young Sportsperson of the Year.

This year's winners - and the field is wide open - will join some of New Zealand's greatest sporting stars who have been recognised at the awards which were first made in 1991 when cricketer Kyle Brown and Beatrice Faumuina, who went on to win a world discus championship, took the overall honours.

Other past winners include Jonah Lomu, Sarah Ulmer, Emily Drumm, Sheryl Scanlan (nee Clarke), Scott Talbot-Cameron, Daniel Slater, Sarah Macky, Valerie Vili, Nathan Richmond, Ryan Archibald, Corney Swanepol, Phyllis Meti, Simon Child and Terenzo Bozzone.

In the 19 years of the awards, many of the rugby category winners have gone on to become All Blacks or sevens stars including Jeremy Stanley, Charles Riechelmann, Pita Alatini, Doug Howlett, Orene Ai'i, Sam Tuitupou and Luke McAlister.

Silver Ferns Scanlan, Maria Tutaia and Paula Griffin have all won netball category awards. Stacey Jones was a league category winner.

Last year's winners were swimmer Daniel Bell (Massey HS) and Anna Green (EGGS). Annalie Longo (EGGS), who won the overall award in 2007, is again among the finalists in the football category this year.

The awards will be presented at the ASB-hosted dinner at Eden Park on November 12.

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Auckland: WBHS, MAGS and AGS appear to hold the upper hand after day one of their Division 1A two-day championship matches although WBHS will need a big first session on Saturday morning if they are to contain St Kentigern.

Batting first, WBHS battled to reach 178 thanks mainly to an unbeaten 73 from Travis Committie. His only real support came from Craig Cachopa (44) as Trent Cooper picked up 3-20.

In reply St Kentigern were 58/3.

Steady rather than spectacular batting got MAGS through to 217 in their first innings against Rangitoto. Only Troy Wood (33) got beyond 30 while Mark Norman spearheaded the Rangitoto attack with 4-40. In losing four wickets for 90, Rangitoto will need to consolidate when the match resumes.

AGS are in control of the match of the round. After dismissing Kings for just 113, AGS quickly raced to 132/3 to bag first innings points. Lachie Fergusson was the best of a well-balanced AGS attack claiming 3-17. He then followed that with an unbeaten 40 to complete a handy double after Jonno Stuchberry had scored a useful 64.