HAMMERAMA AWARDS


Youri Sedykh Crystal Trophy
For commitment, performance and potential (Female)
Stephanie Fowler Edinburgh AC U17G
4kg pb 43.09m 1st at Scottish Age Group Champs
3kg pb 52.90m. Start of season 44.14m



 
Alan Bertram Trophy
For commitment, performance and potential (Male)
Craig Mullins Moorfoot /Edinburgh AC U20M
6Kg pb 53.18m
5Kg pb 56.23m
Despite not having cage to throw from and no formal coach.

 

Paddy Ryan Memorial Trophy
For consistency of performance throughout the season
Kirsty Costello Kilbarchan AAC U13G
3Kg pb 43.04m All time UK best. Start of season 33.69m.
1st Scottish Schools Champs.
4th Scottish Age Groups u15G
7th English Age Groups u15G



COMMONWEALTH GAMES LEGACY AWARDS
Awarded to athletes who have provided exceptional performances over the season and those athletes who have triumphed over adversity


Girls U13 – Kirsty Costello – Kirsty has had a fantastic season taking her Hammer PB from 33m to 43m  Ranking her No1 UK and taking her Javelin from 24m to 32m ranking her No 3 UK.
Her Javelin throw is a new Scottish Age Group record and her Hammer is not only a Scottish but a British U13 Best.
Coach Karen Costello and Jim Green 
(3kg Hammer)

Girls U13 – Haley Berry -  Haley has had an awesome season taking her Shot best  from 8m+ to 10m+ ranking her No 1 in Scotland and UK . She has taken her Discus from20 to 28m ranking her No1 in Scotland and No 4 Uk.
Donny McLeod and Colin Berry
(1kg Discus)

MenU17 - Andrew Peck – In spite of the fact he has gone up an age group and a weight increase, Andrew has added 8m to his Discus throw this year with a PB of 48.29 ranking him No 1 in Scotland and No 7 UK. Not bad for a first year in the age group. He has also a 2m to his Shot despite an increase of 1kg.
Coach Allison Grey
(1.5kg Discus)

The Womens U17 Hammer has been probably the most competitive of the Throws events this year with 2 regular competitor at the GP meets pushing the standards higher.

Women U17 – Natalie Robbins – Natalie has added 5m to her PB this year taking her PB from 50 to 55m and Ranking No1 in Scotland.
Coach Susan McKelvie
(4kg Hammer)

Women U17 - Stephanie Fowler – Has been chasing Natalie all season taking her PB from  44 to 52m a staggering 8m improvement in one season.
Coach Douglas Cameron
(4kg Hammer)

Women U17 – A special Award for a brave young lady who has overcome serious injury this year to come back when perhaps others wouldn’t and still manage to add 5m to her PB taking her to 48.97m for a seriously limited season.
In March this year she suffered a compound fracture of the arm when the wire snapped on her hammer when training, leaving her with her arm in a cast for 3 months. Despite this setback she began her season on 28 June when lots of youngsters having done the Schools comps were winding down or going on their holidays.

Well Done Heather Fawcett.
Coach Jim Green and Jill Fawcett
(4kg Hammer)


Women U20 Discus – Another special award with yet another tale of woe.
In Spring this year this athlete had surgery for a badly damaged Anterior Cruciate Ligament on her right leg. For those that are not familiar with this it is quite often called the footballers injury. It is the ligament that sabalises the knee.  With a PB of 44.09 as an U17 last season she should have had ambitions to compete at this years European U20 Championships. Instead she was left with her leg in a cast for three months. Again at an age when some athletes might just have decided to quit she fought back through intensive re hab determined to make an appearance before the end of the season. She opened her season in mid August at Aberdeen in the Senior Championships where she finished in Silver medal position behind 8 times Champion Kirsty Law. She went on the following week to Grangemouth where she took the U20 Title.

A great example to our younger athletes Dione Milne.
Coach Colin McCulloch
(1kg Discus)
 

SPECIAL  ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (£50 Voucher)

George Evans.
George had made his targets this season the World Youth Games and the Commonwealth Youth Games. His further aim was to make the Final in both.
 Competing at the first 2 GP meets George gained the Selection standards for both, and went on to secure his Selection  at the English U20 Championships.
In July he competed for Great Britain in the World Youth Championships in Columbia.  He threw an automatic qualifying standard Over 57.5m in the Qualifying rounds. Going into the final Ranked 6 in the World in Discus he threw over 60m in the 2nd round which was good enough to take Bronze Medal.

This weekend he is in Samoa with Team Scotland at the Commonwealth Youth Games the latest news we have is that overnight, George added Silver to the Bronze he collected at the World Youth Games.