Nice image promotion for the double European champion Daniel Habesohn: The SVS Niederösterreich player who has improved exorbitantly since the foundation of the Werner Schlager Academy, reached in the choice to Lower Austria's athletes of the year 2012 the excellent second position.

At a ceremony in the NV-Arena in St. Pölten the young father received in the presence of the Governor of Lower Austria, Erwin Pröll and member of the provincial government of Lower Austria Petra Bohuslav, who is in charge of sports, the award for which he thanked them:

"In the Werner Schlager Academy we find perfect conditions and since the opening in Schwechat we have been working much more professional."

As well the women's team of Champions League finalist SVS STRÖCK received through the nomination to the top 5 teams in the province of Lower Austria a media and sports enhancement.

Great success for disabled athlete Doris Mader:  the wheelchair user won the vote in the disability event.

Among the guests in St. Pölten there were such prominent athletes as skiing Olympic champion Michaela Dorfmeister, the former number 10 of the tennis world rankings Barbara Paulus, the former world champion cyclist Franz Stocher and snowboarder Benjamin Karl.