New England Nomad young gun and reigning New England junior athlete of the year Morgan Dunn has added another honour to his collection with being crowned Walcha’s junior sportsperson of the year on Australia Day.
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Dunn won the award alongside Betty Sweeney who won the senior equivalent for her efforts on and off the tennis court.
His dad Neil said Morgan was shocked by the honour.
“He was very surprised and quite honoured to stand up there with people like Mrs Sweeney because she had taught him to play tennis. The other thing that really got to Morgan was the number of people that congratulated him,” he said.
“He said to us afterwards ‘I didn’t know half the people that came up and spoke to me’ so that was something that really got to him as well.
“When I was standing next to him a few people said ‘I have been watching your photos in the paper and you deserve this award.’ He is doing his five kilometre runs in this heat so he is training and wanting to do well.”