LOCAL Sporting Heroes Honoured At Inverclyde Awards Event
MORE than 200 local sports players, their supporters plus officials and sponsors gathered in Greenock Town Hall to applaud the finalists and winners of Inverclyde’s sports awards.
The event was compered expertly once again by Jean Johansson of BBC’s The One Show and Mike McLean from Your Radio.
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The atmosphere was electric, helped by a stunning performance from local band Reely Jiggered, and talks from Scottish Commonwealth Games hockey player Kareena Cuthbert about the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast of Australia, and Scottish Director of UK Chaplaincy Mark Fleming, who gave an entertaining account of his time at Partick Thistle as their chaplain.
The evening rounded off with a special Legend Award given to Douglas Rae OBE for his services to golf and to football.
Commenting on behalf of the organisers, Chris Jewell said: “Once again this was a great occasion for local sports people of all ages and there was a lot of excitement on the night. The achievements mentioned about so many Inverclyde athletes both locally and nationally reminded everyone of just how much real sporting talent there is in Inverclyde. We are grateful to our sponsors and colleagues who enable us to make this event possible and the proceeds from the evening will be used to provide grants to aspiring local athletes in their quests to get into national, Commonwealth and Olympic teams.”
Winners:
Coach Of The Year – sponsored by the Oak Mall Shopping Centre
Laura Williamson – Football
Disabled Sports Personality Of The Year — sponsored by VA Business Solutions
Kyle Brotherton – Swimming and Wheelchair Athletics
School Team Of The Year -– sponsored by Inverclyde Council
Notre Dame High — Second Year Netball
Team Of The Year -– sponsored by Riverside Inverclyde
Morton in the Community Ladies’ First Team – Football
Junior Sports Personality Of The Year -– sponsored by Inverclyde Leisure
Rhys McCole – Boxing
Adult volunteer of the year, Stephen McLoone, left, and young volunteer of the year Andrew Hemphill, right
Young Volunteer Of The Year -– sponsored by sportscotland
Andrew Hemphill –- Swimming
Adult Volunteer Of The Year -– sponsored by Specsavers, Greenock
Stephen McLoone –- Athletics
Club Of The Year -– sponsored by Ogilvie Homes
Port Glasgow Otters – Swimming
Stuart Rafferty picked up the award for Lewis Morgan who was not well.
Senior Sports Personality Of The Year -– sponsored by West College Scotland
Lewis Morgan – Football
| Inverclyde Sports Personality Awards
Photos by Bradley Shankster
