OUTSTANDING performers on athletics and gallops tracks, basketball courts and golf courses are among the March nominees for the 51st Bendigo Bank Bendigo Advertiser-Prime 7 Sports Star of the Year award.
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Among the many highs in March was the win by the Danny Curran-trained The Big Dance in the $250,000 VOBIS Gold Rush at Bendigo Jockey Club.
At the same meeting, the Shane Fliedner-trained Setinum won the $150,000 Bendigo Guineas.
Kangaroo Flat's Blake Pryse won the Australian under-20 decathlon championship just a couple of weeks after dominating at the Victorian titles.
Bendigo Spirit basketball club was runner-up for the Women's National Basketball League title.
It was a hat-trick of grand final appearances for the Bernie Harrower-coached Spirit.
Kelsey Griffin earned the Robyn Maher Medal for best defensive player in the WNBL season.
Griffin was Spirit's most valuable player for the 2014-15 campaign.
On the golf course, Kris Mueck was equal second in the New Zealand PGA in Auckland and third in the New Zealand Open played in Queenstown.
Another golfing star, Lucas Herbert was runner-up in the Riversdale Classic.
Mountain bike aces Jarrod Moroni, Peta Mullens, Chris Hamilton and Isaac Buckell won the cross-country teams relay at the national mountain bike titles in Bright.
Sam Crome was third in the Tour de Perth cycling classic.
Kangaroo Flat all-rounder and first XI captain Adam Burns was the Bendigo District Cricket Association's Cricketer of the Year for a third time.
Strathdale-Maristians won the Bendigo District Cricket Association's first XI premiership.