Time is running out to enter your nominations for the 2018 Conwy Sports Awards.

The awards are designed to recognise and honour the talented sportspeople, clubs, coaches and volunteers in the county.

They serve to recognise the residents, young and old, that show dedication to perform at the highest level or those who work tirelessly to support individuals or clubs week in, week out, through their chosen sport.

Categories open for voting are: junior sportsman and woman; young volunteer; special achievement; senior sportsman and woman; senior sports team and coach; services to sport and event of the year.

The county boasts a number of competitors in numerous sports competing on a national and international stage who have taken out this award previously including work top 20 women's squash player Emily Whitlock, who is from Colwyn Bay.

With nominations coming to a close on Friday attention will soon turn to the awards ceremony, to be held in Venue Cymru on November 23, where Welsh Tarmac Rally Championship (WTC) driver Jade Paveley has been announced as the special guest speaker for the event.

Paverley developed the passion for motorsports when she was 15, taking up go-karting and competing at all the professional outdoor race circuits throughout the UK.

Her final season of karting was behind the wheel of a KZ2 kart which are powered by a 125cc engine providing zero to 60mph in approximately 3.5 seconds and top speeds of over 100mph.

From there she progressed to endurance racing in cars for Mazda Europe and helped to launch the new Mazda MX5 filming in Barcelona with the old and new models.

Paverley switched to rallying shortly afterwards and said uit was there she found her "true niche and passion".

She competes in a 4WD Turbo charged Subaru in the WTC and is leading the junior class, the 4WD category and is third in the overall championship.

You may have seen her recently as she appeared on BBC I Player in a short piece about her career in sport, which led on to a BBC documentary about living in Wales and trying to make it.

Nominations for the 2018 awards can be made at www.conwy.gov.uk/en/Resident/Leisure-sport-and-health/Leisure-Development/Sports-Awards-2018.aspx, with entries closing on Friday, September 21.