By Brad Brown
Citizen Staff

Even with competition season at a bit of a standstill, Paige Lawrence of Kennedy of Rudi Swiegers, now of Moosomin, may be able to add one more honour to their trophy case before the month is out.

Lawrence and Swiegers have once again been nominated for Sask Sport’s athlete of the month award, this time for January 2008.

The pairs duo was previously nominated for the October award after placing fourth at an international Grand Prix event in Germany.

This nomination comes on the heels of a silver medal finish in the junior pairs event at the 2008 BMO Canadian Figure Skating Championships, held in Vancouver from Jan. 16-20. Lawrence and Swiegers finished just .06 points shy of taking home the gold.

As a result, they were also named alternates for the Junior World Figure Skating Championships to be held in Bulgaria starting Feb. 25.

After being runners-up in their last nomination, Swiegers and Lawrence will be up this time against boxer Stuart Twardzik of Big River. Twardzik recently won the gold medal at the Canadian National Cadet and Junior Boxing Championships in the 75-kilogram open category and will compete as a member of Team Canada at an international competition in England in April.