Mr Evans, has received nominations for the Best Federation President in the upcoming 44^th Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) Awards Night slated for Saturday, May 11, 2019, at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC).

He was nominated alongside Charles Osei Assibey, President of Armwrestling Federation in the same category.

Mr Evans, is currently the second vice president of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) and an Executive Board Member of the Badminton Confederation of Africa.

He was also the Chef de Mission for Team Ghana at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires.

Under his short tenure as BAG’s president, the Association has burgeoned to the archetype for its sister Federations.

Prior to his nomination, Mr Evans had guided Ghana’s Badminton team to qualify for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games for the first time since the early 1990’s.

In the same year, BAG collaborated with the Ghana Education Service (GES) to organise the first ever National Schools Championship, as well as other training and support programs for Physical Education (PE) teachers and schools respectively.

BAG offered scholarship for six badminton athletes into various Secondary Schools.

He led the Association to host the Africa Schools Championship for the first time ever in West Africa with more than 76 athletes from 8 countries in attendance.

He also led the Association to host the Global Badminton Tournament for the first time in 44 years, with 18 countries in attendance and 99 individual event players.

He increased the governance structure of the Association with the inauguration of regional association boards in the Brong Ahafo, Eastern, Ashanti and Greater Accra with the aim decentralising governance in the regions.

In an interview with the GNA Sports, Mr Evans said he was happy to have been recognised for his hard work, adding that, the nominations would propel him to do more for the sport.

“I am particularly excited about my nomination for the president of the year, indeed this is my second time I’ve been nominated across all the 43 sporting discipline in Ghana. We are excited as badminton and Ghana and we owe this to all our stakeholders in badminton in the country,” he said.

“We deserve this award and largely because the last 19 months we’ve been able to put forward our development agenda. We believe we deserve this I would also come in from the point of that, we are building our governance structures and maintaining a membership structure which is global in nature".