Scottish Swimming had its annual awards banquet on Friday night, with Commonwealth Games star Ross Murdoch getting the nation’s signature award.
Murdoch was honored with the Nancy Riach Memorial Medal, given to the athlete who best enhanced or upheld the prestige of Scottish Swimming over the year. Murdoch blasted to a gold medal in the 200 breast at the Commonwealth Games, rattling the world record in front of the home crowd. Between that swim, his 100 breast bronze and double silver medals at the European Championships, Murdoch was one of the top swimmers in all of Great Britain this season.
Hannah Miley was another winner of a major award, taking home the J.Y. Coutts Award for outstanding services to Scottish Swimming. Also honored was Erraid Davies, the 13-year-old who won a bronze medal at Commonwealths in the S9 100 breaststroke as the youngest swimmer in the entire meet. She won the WG Todd Cup, given to the Junior Female Athlete of the Year. Her male counterpart was Duncan Scott, the 17-year-old who was a part of Scotland’s silver medal-winning 4×200 free relay in Glasgow.
The full list of award-winners is below:
Service Provider of the Year: Edinburgh Leisure
Every Child Can Swim Award: Stirling Council/Active Stirling
WG Todd Prize & Cup (Female): Erraid Davies
WG Todd Prize & Cup (Male): Duncan Scott
Senior Water Polo Player: Bojan Donevski
Junior Water Polo Player: Hannah Edwards
John & Margaret Bell Award: Jenny Leeming
Denis Sullivan Memorial Trophy: Mark Deans
Eian Prentice Memorial Trohpy: Scott Deans
Synchronised Swimmer of the Year: Edie Turner
The Jim Anderson Award for Disability Swimmer of the Year: Andrew Mullen
BSCA Coach of the Year: Ben Higson
BSCA Junior Coach of the Year: Elaine Johnston & Steven Tigg
JY Coutts Award: Hannah Miley
Nancy Riach Memorial Medal: Ross Murdoch
Scottish Gas Outstanding Contribution to Swimming Award: Danny McGowan
Now that Will the Scot Groundsman has backed independence with an – AYE or DIE , Ross & Hannah can hope for Scotland to Rio?
I can’t wait to see their uniforms which will surely give Mongolia a run for their money in ‘ never thought of that combo before but well done ‘chaps ‘. Red & Olive tartan kilt & light blue Paisley shirt 10 – winner . Beat that Mongolia & all you Ghenghis horsemen!