As part of the Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame & Youth Foundation’s 3rd Annual Sports Night awards dinner, the Sports Foundation and Patriot National Bank jointly created a Special Olympics Sports Person of the Year award that is presented annually to a county resident at the Sports Night event.
The first recipient was Trumbull’s Nancy Dennin, a longtime volunteer and Special Olympics board member.
This award goes to the person who consistently works to further the mission of Special Olympics in Fairfield County. Patriot National Bank sponsors the award, which coincides with the Sports Foundation‘s 15 Sports Persons of the Year that are handed out at Sports Night each year to recognize one person in each of the communities the Foundation oversees for having a positive impact on that town’s sports activities.