The Otago Sports Awards will take place at the Dunedin Town Hall with the best of the province's sporting talent up for the prizes.
The awards, which are sponsored by ASB, will celebrate all the best in Otago sport and look back at what has been a great year for the province on the sporting stage.
The Winter Olympics loom large but performances at last month's Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast are not included as they fell outside the qualifying period.
The period runs from April 1 last year to March 31 this year.
Winter Olympics bronze medallists Nico Porterous and Zoi Sadowski Synnott will line up in the junior categories while Beau James Wells and Adam Hall are contenders in the senior men's category.
The New Zealand snow sports high performance coaching team is also a contender in the coach of the year.
The team of the year award will be hard fought among the Southern Steel netball team, the Stampede ice hockey team and the Southern United futsal team.
The guest speaker at the awards will be double Olympic rowing gold medallist Eric Murray.
Whatever happens, it will be a new winner of the overall sportsperson of the year as Hamish Bond, last year's winner and Murray's former partner, is not nominated. Bond has dominated the awards in recent years with his rowing deeds.
However, he is no longer rowing, and is not attached to any Otago sporting organisation, so is not in the running.
Otago Sports Awards nominees
Sportsman: Neil Wagner (cricket), Beau-James Wells, Adam Hall (snow sports).
Sportswoman: Suzie Bates, Katey Martin (cricket), Annabel Anderson (paddleboarding).
Coach: Mike Hesson (cricket), Ben Adams, NZ high performance park and pipe coaching team (snow sports).
Juniorsportsman: Nico Porteous, Tiarn Collins (snow sports), Vilimoni Koroi (rugby).
Junior sportswoman: Zoi Sadowski Synnott, Alice Robinson (snow sports), Kate Heffernan (cricket, netball).
Official: Chris Gaffaney (cricket) Jono Bredin (rugby, netball), Callum Tanner (roller derby).
Team: Southern United futsal team, Southern Steel netball team, Stampede ice hockey team.
