The 2017 PSA Annual Awards was an awards ceremony, recognizing the sports athletes, personalities, organizations and NSAs for the year 2016. It was organized by the Philippine Sportswriters Association, the Philippines' oldest media organization, founded in 1949, with members composed of sports section editors, sportswriters and sports columnists from major national broadsheets, tabloids and online sports news portals. The PSA is currently headed by Riera Mallari, sports editor of the ''

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''. The awards night took place at the Le Pavillon,

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on February 13, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. ( UTC +08). The awards night was hosted by veteran sports broadcaster

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and

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head Patricia Bermudez-Hizon with Carla Lizardo and Steph Ongkiko as the co-hosts.

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Chairman William "Butch" Ramirez and

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President Jose "Peping" Cojuangco, Jr. and other top sports officials were invited to the event.

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silver medalist

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of Weightlifting has named as the

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. She was unanimously chosen by the members of the PSA and beat two other names in the organization's shortlist for the coveted award, Janelle Mae Frayna of Chess and Sen.

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of boxing. Diaz, who is first Female athlete to win the Athlete of the Year award since 2012 will lead the 91 awardees of the event.

Honor roll

Main awards

The following are the list of main awards of the event.

Major awardees

These are the major awardees of the event. Sorted in alphabetical order.

Citations

Milo Junior Athletes of the Year

Tony Siddayao Awards for Under-17 athletes

The awards was given to young and exceptional athletes aged 17 and below, and was named after Siddayao, the former sports section editor of

in the 1980s.

Posthumous awards

The award were given to Philippine sports personalities who passed away in 2016. They will give a trophy and a one-minute of silence for all honorees. *Emy Arcilla (PBA television coverage analyst) *

Gilbert Bulawan Gilbert Domingo Bulawan (August 25, 1986 – July 3, 2016) was a Filipino professional basketball player who played for the Meralco Bolts, Barako Bull Energy Cola and Blackwater Elite of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He was drafte ...

(

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basketball player) *Benjie Castro ( Sports Radio 918 broadcaster and voice-over talent) *

Filomeno Codiñera Filomeno Codiñera Jr. (March 25, 1939 – October 25, 2016), also known as Boy Codiñera, was a Filipino baseball and softball player. He has represented both the men's Philippines men's national softball team, national softball and Philippines na ...

(Filipino baseball and softball player; 2016 PSA lifetime achievement awardee) * Virgilio "Baby" Dalupan (Filipino basketball head coach; known as "The Maestro") *

Cecil Hechanova Cecil G. Hechanova (1932/1933 – March 22, 2016) was the founding chairman of the Philippine Sports Commission from the creation of the government's sports agency in 1990 up until 1992. Career He was the non-playing captain of the Philippine nati ...

(

chairman, 1990-1992) * Carlos "Caloy" Loyzaga (Philippines' national men's basketball team player; two-time Olympian) *Rogie Maglinas (

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football player) *Jonas Mariano (former La Salle basketball player) *

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(veteran sports broadcaster and columnist) * Mariano "Tom" Ong (Filipino sports shooter; two time Olympian) *Hermie Rivera (Boxing analyst and manager)

References

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