JENNY Worth, from Launceston, who was chosen as the BBC Sports Unsung Hero of 2006 for the South West, is this year's Launceston Rotary Club's Citizen of the Year.
Jenny was invited to the Rotary meeting on the pretence of giving a talk on her work with the youth of the town and at the end of her very interesting talk she was very surprised when in addition to a vote of thanks she was presented with an inscribed salver 'Citizen of the Year 2009'.
Jenny gives an amazing amount of her time to local sporting groups and other community activities.
She has been running junior table tennis for 19 years at Launceston College. Between 15 and 25 children with ages ranging from 10 to 17 turn up every Thursday night. She also runs Lawhitton Badminton Juniors through the winter on Wednesday nights, where the junior turnout varies year on year from 10 to 20 juniors.
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Jenny has been running this for 23 years. For the last 18 years she has run the after school badminton club at Launceston College on Friday evenings. This runs from 3.15pm for approximately 30 secondary school children.
After that Jenny then follows this with the East Cornwall Badminton League, which has teams from Launceston, Liskeard, Camelford and Callington competing. She normally finishes sometime after 9pm.
During the summer Jenny has a quieter time running the Launceston Tennis Club junior section. This takes place on Tuesday and Thursday evenings for between 12 and 25 children aged between 4 and 16-years-old.
Over the last 20 years she has coached and mentored literally hundreds and possibly thousands of local children. She has done all of this on a voluntary basis. Additionally she is the treasurer to the Launceston Community Sports Association and her driving force was the main thrust to obtaining the funding for the new tennis courts that are now a remarkable community facility.
She is also active in the local Methodist Central Hall where she is an organist and she is actively involved with the Launceston Twinning Association.
Launceston Rotary Club's President, Paul Smith, who made the presentation, said: "Jenny Worth is an example to us all and I thank her on behalf of the community and she is a very fitting person to be this year's Launceston's Citizen of the Year."