For the second year in a row, Julien Alfred and Johnson Charles were recognized by the St. Lucian Ministry of Youth Development and Sports as the country’s Senior Sports Personalities of the Year during the 2024 National Sports Awards Ceremony held at the Pavilion in Rodney Bay on Saturday evening.

Alfred enjoyed a phenomenal season last year that firmly etched her place in St. Lucian track and field history forever.

She took home the World Indoor 60m title before capturing Olympic gold and silver in the 100m and 200m, respectively, and finished off her year with a Diamond League title in the 100m.

The 2025 season has already seen the 23-year-old Ciceron native already establish new national records in the 300m short track and 400m short track, signalling her readiness for an even bigger year in 2025.

Alfred was also awarded a $1 million cheque on Saturday that was a reward pledged to her last September by the Government of Saint Lucia.

Charles took home the male honour after a year in which he was one of the top-performing batsmen for the West Indies in the T20 International format.

The 36-year-old also had good showings in franchise cricket around the world, including a starring role as the Saint Lucia Kings won their maiden Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) title.

Table Tennis star DeAndre Calderon took home the junior Sportsman title while the Junior Sportswoman title went to swimmer Fayth Jeffrey.

West Indies Men’s Head Coach Daren Sammy was named Coach of the Year.